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Articles 10721 through 10820 of 20008:
- Magical No More (The Week, Kavitha Muralidharan, Jan 08, 2006)
We, Chennaiites, got our first taste of torrential downpour on October 27. Since then, life has been in an on-off mode. Friends and I were caught off guard most days, when we set out for work placing our trust in the sun that shone brightly . . .
- Project To Conserve Water Wins Them A National Berth (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Rural students' project selected for National Science Congress
Getting entry into National Science Congress and winning the appreciation of the evaluators for the project done by students from a rural area is no mean achievement.
- Telangana: Manmohan For New Investment? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Is a solution political or administrative, asks Prime Minister
- Tigers Sink Lanka Navy Patrol Boat (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide squad sank a patrol boat off Sri Lanka’s east coast today and 13 of the 15 crew are missing, feared dead, the navy said.
- New Job Scheme Path-Breaking: Raghuvansh (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Jan 08, 2006)
Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has started the new year by announcing the date of the launch of the ambitious National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme.
- 15 Sailors Killed In Sri Lanka (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Fifteen Sri Lankan sailors were killed today when suspected Tamil Tigers blew up a naval gunboat in a pre-dawn suicide attack that caused the biggest military loss of life in a single incident since the Norwegian-arranged truce went into effect . . .
- Taking Too Many Medicines Is Risky (Tribune, Dr N.N. Wig, Jan 08, 2006)
Paradoxically, people’s health has never been so good as it is today. The scourge of small pox has been eradicated. Polio is on its way out. Most common communicable diseases are far better controlled than before. People are living much longer.
- Suspected Rebels Attack Sri Lanka Navy, 13 Feared Dead (Reuters, Ranga Sirilal, Jan 08, 2006)
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide squad sank a patrol boat off Sri Lanka's east coast on Saturday and 13 of the 15 crew are missing, feared dead, the navy said.
- Grab The Judge (The Week, Tapash Ganguly, Jan 08, 2006)
Fundamentalists in Bangladesh are trying to take over the judicial system
- Tslushnami Of Human Rights (The Week, Kavitha Muralidharan, Jan 08, 2006)
What a year has wrought in Tamil Nadu and Kerala—the good, the bad and the ugly...
- Treachery In The High Seas (The Week, K.P. Narayana Kumar, Jan 08, 2006)
Bereaved families worried about Indian sailors disappearing in foreign seas
- This Rumpus Over The Dam (Dawn, M.P. Bhandara, Jan 08, 2006)
I happen to be in the ranks of the ordinary citizenry that is baffled by the passionate rhetoric on the passions aroused by the current debate on new large water reservoirs. Needless to say, when tongues lash one another, the flickering candle of . . .
- Conserving A Priceless Heritage (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
People should be aware of the value of the Ambarnath Shivalaya in Maharashtra and help beautify it, Dr Kumud Kanitkar, winner of the Justice K T Telang Fellowship in Indology, tells Vimla Patil.
- Lankan Navy Gunboat Blown Up, Toll 15 (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels today blew up a Sri Lankan navy gunboat in a daring suicide attack killing five sailors, with ten others missing and presumed dead, the defence ministry said.
- Tap For Excellence (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 08, 2006)
Right now we are in the midst of a controversy triggered by the tapping of telephone of a politician active in the country's most populous State of Uttar Pradesh.
- Old Order Gives Way (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The year just begun is likely to see a radical change in the political equations between the country’s principal parties broadly divided into two: the Hindu Right-wing and others.
- Fdi And The Future Of Farmers (Hindu, N. Bala Ganesan, Jan 08, 2006)
The farm sector, taken as a whole, has no sustainable, long-term prospect of increasing its revenue
- French Defend Toxic Ship, Got Wto To Ban Asbestos Import (Indian Express, CP Bhambhri, Jan 08, 2006)
Canada which exports 90% of its asbestos to India was stopped by WTO from sending it to France, because France didn’t . . .
- Priority Action For 2006 (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
With the New Year festivities behind us there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the Government. Some of these must include the following:
- India’S Killing Fields (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The first politician I met in 2006 was Sharad Pawar. It was a fortuitous meeting because this column now has a new cause. Agriculture.
- And For Amar Singh, A Tip: Next Time Use Carrier Pigeons (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Jan 08, 2006)
You had to live in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard...—‘1984’ by George Orwell
- Ancient City Modern Hues (Deccan Herald, Soumya Sitaraman, Jan 08, 2006)
What’s in a name? Plenty, it seems, if the impassioned debate surrounding the renaming of Bangalore as Bengaluru is anything to go by. Soumya Sitaraman looks back on a time when the city was, indeed, called Bengaluru.
- Suspected Ltte Suicide Squad Attacks Lankan Navy; 13 Feared Dead (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide squad sank a patrol boat off Sri Lanka's east coast on Saturday and 13 of the 15 crew are missing, feared dead, the navy said.
- Pm’S Left Hook (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Jan 08, 2006)
The Left saw another side to the usually soft-spoken Manmohan Singh when it made an issue over the joint Indo-US air force exercise in Kalaikunda, West Bengal, last November.
- Self-Rule, Demilitarization Only Cbms : Mirwaiz (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
‘Anything under Indian constitution not acceptable’
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday drew a clear line between autonomy within Indian constitution and the idea of self-rule. On his arrival in New Delhi from about a weeklong visit to Pakistan and . . .
- And Quiet Flows The Narmada (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jan 08, 2006)
What does the future hold for the Narmada Bachao Andolan?
- Jayalalithaa Opposes Reservoir Across Palar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
In a letter to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, she says bid to withhold flows is a breach of inter-State accord
- Problem Will Be In India, Not In France, Says Technopure (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 07, 2006)
No response by Indian companies on how exactly the remaining waste will be removed
- Women Lead Fight Against ‘Honour Killings’ (Tribune, Paul Valley, Jan 07, 2006)
These are some of the things that can get a woman killed: wearing make-up; going to the cinema; chewing gum; drinking water in the street; chatting to a male neighbour; talking on the phone;
- Check List: Things To Do During The Year (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jan 07, 2006)
With the New Year festivities happily behind us, there is need for real action. The Prime Minister has over the last few weeks articulated some priorities of the government. Some of these must include the following:
- French Ship Must Not Enter India (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jan 07, 2006)
Officials of French firm depose before committee
The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee on Hazardous Wastes Management on Friday decided that the French warship, Clemenceau, should not enter India. This recommendation would be sent to the court . . .
- Elitist Orientation Of The Economy (Dawn, Ishrat Husain, Jan 07, 2006)
Several observers have asked me to update the latest assessment of my thesis propounded in the book Pakistan: the economy of an elitist state. They are interested in exploring the question whether or not the policies and programmes pursued during . . .
- Pakistan, India And Kashmiris Have To Show Flexibility : Pm (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz on Thursday called for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute through flexibility, commitment and magnanimity, to achieve a durable peace in South Asia.
- Do Genes Score Over Merit In Economic Future? (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 07, 2006)
The belief that education, and not environment, is key to moulding a person may be have to be revised, says D. Murali, quoting from Unequal Chances. In another revelation, Rajesh Jain writes in Chains that Liberate, that there seems to be . . .
- Cit To Host Seminar On Environmental Protection (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Conference papers to be available on icstep2006.com
Over 250 delegates from India and abroad will to attend a three-day conference on environmental protection to be organised at Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), from January 7 to 9.
- Media Attention On Clemenceau (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 07, 2006)
The Committee's decision generated huge media attention in France. For many ordinary French persons, the Clemenceau has come to symbolise the high handed manner in which developed nations tend to act towards countries of the south.
- Ltte Testing The Waters In Tamil Nadu? (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 07, 2006)
There appears to be a renewed pro-Eelam campaign by some parties in Tamil Nadu. Why now?
- Africa's Only Woman Head Of State (Hindu, Cameron Duodu, Jan 07, 2006)
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will have an impact well beyond her own country.
- Indian Supreme Court Panel Says Decommissioned French Warship Not Welcome (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
A decommissioned French warship heading to a shipbreaking yard in India is not welcome in the country's waters and France has violated international agreements in sending it to India, a monitoring panel of India's Supreme Court said Friday.
- Science For The People (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
IF the 93rd session of the Indian Science Congress, under way in Hyderabad, was to have been any different from previous meets, it should have thrown up some concrete suggestions for improving rural India.
- Row Over Ship (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2006)
Should the government permit hazardous ship-breaking?
There has been much discussion over the health hazards posed by the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau.
- Old Order Gives Way (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
The year just begun is likely to see a radical change in the political equations between the country’s principal parties broadly divided into two: the Hindu Right-wing and others.
- Suspected Rebels Attack S.Lanka Navy, 13 Missing (Reuters, Ranga Sirilal, Jan 07, 2006)
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked and sank a small naval boat off Sri Lanka's east coast early on Saturday and 13 of the 15 crew were missing, the navy said, amid growing fears of a return to civil war.
- French Ship Not Welcome Here: Sc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Decommissioned French aircraft-carrier ‘Clemenceau’, on its way to Gujarat carrying hazardous wastes, is not welcome to enter Indian waters, the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on hazardous waste management said here on Friday.
- Water Scarcity? Blame It On Population Explosion (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Water is not getting scarce. It is the demographic growth that is skewing the scenario. From a 1.6 billion in 1900 to 6 billion in 2000, the population growth has resulted in a doubling of the rate of water withdrawal.
- Another Revolution (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2006)
The second Green Revolution will require sustainable technology
Four decades after the first Green Revolution that changed India from a starving nation to one of the world’s leading agricultural nations, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, . . .
- French Ship: Sc Panel Says You Can’T Dock Until You Come Clean (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
Taking a tough stand on the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, the Supreme Court monitoring committee on hazardous waste management today said that the ship should not be allowed within 200 km of India’s exclusive economic zone . . .
- Shanghai Surprise: The Last Merchant-Ivory Film Has Glamour But No Guts (Indian Express, DAVID ANSEN, Jan 07, 2006)
It would be nice to report that the final collaboration between James Ivory and his late producing partner, Ismail Merchant, ranked with their best work, such as the luminous Howards End and A Room With a View. Though The White Countess, from an original
- A Ship We Can Refuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2006)
It is heartening that the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee has responded firmly and with sensitivity to the despatch of the French Navy's decommissioned aircraft carrier, Georges Clemenceau, to India for dismantling.
- Those Blessed With Gene-Sharkmen, Matters, Memories (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jan 07, 2006)
A news item I read in one of the Delhi papers the other day describes how a little striped fish had helped scientists to solve one of the biggest mysteries in biology- which genes were responsible for differences in human skin, eye and hair colour.
- All Parties Are To Blame (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 07, 2006)
Action against terrorists should not have led to torture and killing of innocents, and humiliation of all Kashmiris
- Query On Inquiry (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 07, 2006)
Some years ago Justice R.S. Sarkaria was approached for his reaction to the delay in the implementation of his voluminous report on the Centre-State relations.
- Decision On French Ship’S Entry After January 20 (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jan 07, 2006)
The Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on Hazardous Waste, which met in Mumbai today, restrained the French warship Clemenceau from entering within the 200-km exclusive economic zone of India till January 20 after the company assigned . . .
- Jobs And Sops (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 07, 2006)
Basu becomes source of embarrassment
How Jyoti Basu could use a rally organised by the coordination committee of state government employees to announce a “cabinet decision’’ to recruit 40,000 people in various departments of the government and . . .
- Indian Navy Commissions Asia’S First Unmanned Craft Squadron (Indian Express, Shiv Aroor, Jan 07, 2006)
The Navy’s long-term vision for a coastline dotted with squadrons of unmanned spy planes kicked off today, with the commissioning of its first unit-INAS 342-in Kochi, thus becoming the first Navy in Asia to raise an exclusive squadron for unmanned aerial.
- Alleged Tapping Of Telephone: Jayalalithaa Comes Out In Support Of Amar Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Says "shocking act" infringes constitutional rights; wants UPA Government to take responsibility
Chief Minister says nation reminded of Watergate scandal
"Incident has shaken basic structure of our great democracy"
- Cbi To Investigate Tiger Poaching In Ranthambhore Reserve (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Government today said it would ask the CBI to investigate tiger poaching cases in the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve of Rajasthan.
- Let's Aim High (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 06, 2006)
That the Dal Lake, the fabled showpiece of the Summer Capital, has partially frozen at this juncture should not come as a surprise. Many among us have seen jeeps being driven around on the ice-covered water body during winter in the past.
- Keeping Pace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 06, 2006)
Not very long ago Katra at the foothills of Vaishno Devi was virtually a sleepy town.
- Punjab’S View On Dams Shows Nationalism’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Thursday Punjab’s view on big dams reflected nationalism, and it had always negated regionalism and provincialism, hoping that all reservations on water reservoirs would be removed.
- Return Of The Natives (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 06, 2006)
The question of Pandit return looms large over the larger Kashmir dispute.
- Kalabagh: The Question Of Alternatives (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, Jan 06, 2006)
The rush to build the Kalabagh dam is taking General Musharraf and many of his supporters, including some born-again superpatriots, to heights of irrationality.
- Pak- Nepal Nexus (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Jan 06, 2006)
It should have been expected that sooner or later both China and Pakistan would want to fish in the troubled waters in Nepal and, sure enough, Beijing has already delivered truckloads of weapons for the Royal Nepal Army and Pakistan is preparing . . .
- Governance And Water Crises In Delhi (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Jan 06, 2006)
Delhi’s continuing water crisis stems from the absence of accountability between its governing authorities, and between them and consumers. Its water shortage is man-made. Delhi has between 150 and 250 litres per capita daily, as much as . . .
- Us Lawyers Seek Faster Green Card Processing (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 06, 2006)
American lawyers are seeking faster processing of Green Cards by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for thousands of immigrants, including several Indian Americans who have been approved as legal permanent residents.
- President Kalam's Stress On Conserving Water Bodies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
First Citizen holds interaction with farmers and children
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has stressed on the need for conserving water bodies as part of drought mitigation measures, and asked farmers in dry land areas to cultivate jatropha.
- City Flights (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 06, 2006)
Mumbai figured fifth and Delhi ninth in the top 10 most populated cities of the world list in a 2001 UN study.
- Sensible Power Capacity Addition, Please (The Financial Express, Ravi Uppal, Jan 06, 2006)
Few, if any, would disagree about the state of the Indian power sector today! We have an installed capacity of less than 150,000 mw (including captive) and among the lowest per capita consumption in the world (around 500 units compared with a . . .
- Trade And Social Concerns (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Jan 06, 2006)
There were 6,000 negotiators, 3,000 registered business and NGO lobbyists, and some 5,000 stakeholder-protesters from 149 countries at the WTO’s recent Hong Kong ministerial.
- Why Home Prices Are High (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jan 06, 2006)
By inferring that the overall value of housing has lost touch with economic reality, Prof Paul Krugman sees homes as separate from the overall savings and investment market. But G. Ramachandran and V. Sankar think that the market for h omes . . .
- Will Gold Go To Godowns? (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 06, 2006)
In paragraph 91 of his Budget speech on February 28, 2005, the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, spoke of `Gold Units'. He said, "Ten years ago we embarked on the process of ensuring that gold inflows are through the official channels alone.
- Pakistan, India And Kashmiris Have To Show Flexibility : Pm (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Jan 06, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz on Thursday called for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute through flexibility, commitment and magnanimity, to achieve a durable peace in South Asia.
- Bang-On! (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Finance minister P Chidambaram has set at rest any doubts about India’s openness to foreign capital.
- Abb India Bags Rs 430cr Ongc Order (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
To provide system to integrate the oil major's assets.
ABB India has bagged a Rs 430-crore turnkey order from the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), under which it will provide an enterprise-wide supervisory control and data acquisition ...
- Divide Punjab Into Three (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Jan 06, 2006)
Kalabagh may be a great project and urgently needed but it has widened the gulf of mistrust between the smaller provinces and Punjab. The dam is being seen as a grand Punjabi conspiracy and no amount of technical patter emerging from Islamabad seems to ..
- Removal Of Sindh’S Fears Govt’S Duty, Says Punjab Cm (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said removing Sindh’s "apprehensions and objections", pertaining to the Kalabagh dam is the government’s duty.
- Chandigarh Needs Bulldozer Too (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Jan 06, 2006)
Even as politicians cry hoarse over the demolition of illegal structures in New Delhi, the Punjab government has recently and quietly condoned irregular constructions in the periphery of Chandigarh.
- Can’T Change Our Tory (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 06, 2006)
There's a frisson in the British media ever since David Cameron arrived on the scene. Cameron is fresh-faced and, at 39, the new leader of the Conservative party travels light. He is relatively unburdened by the cynicisms and disbeliefs . . .
- India Begins Count Of Tigers (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jan 06, 2006)
Armed with radio collars and high-tech cameras, hundreds of wildlife experts fanned out across a vast mangrove in India's east on Thursday as part of the world's largest census of the endangered tiger.
- 3-D Films At Science & Technology Museum (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
A 3-D movie theatre, the first of its kind in the State, has started functioning on the Science & Technology Museum campus here on Thursday.
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