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Articles 10821 through 10920 of 20008:
- Festive Spillover (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 06, 2006)
Almost all of Delhi’s newspapers on Thursday carried reports of a problem common in almost all major urban centres of the country
- Scientists Must Play Leading Role In Pura Project, Says Kalam (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They must provide scientific, technological leadership
Says the community can help set up 100 PURA centres
Must comprise village knowledge centres, agri-clinics, tele-education, water treatment plants
- A Little Bit Of Modesty, Perhaps (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 06, 2006)
It’s heartening to hear that the country’s proposed tsunami warning system will be in place soon and will be based on state-of-the-art technology.
- Address The Issues (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 06, 2006)
Tribals must be given compensation and rehabilitated
- Kalam Gives Tips To Farmers (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 06, 2006)
“My theatre of action, Pokhran is beautiful to me.” It was President A P J Abdul Kalam at his candid best at the 93rd Science Congress answering a query from a farmer in faraway Rajasthan.
- Watergate Of India: Jaya (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalitha on Thursday likened the tapping of Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh’s telephone to the Watergate scandal in the United States which led to the resignation . . .
- Tourism Looking Up In Alappuzha This Season (Hindu, A. Harikumar, Jan 06, 2006)
`Visitors number more than that during the entire previous season'
Tourism in the district, blessed with backwaters, seems to be prospering this season, which began in November.
- Environmentalists To Demand Options For Kiocl Workers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
`Government should strictly follow Supreme Court order on mining'
Committee to monitor rehabilitation sought
Plea to drop proposals that threaten river systems
- Stability In The Changing Environment (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2006)
Recent developments in India and outside have redefined financial stability to mean more than just the avoidance of crises and posed new challenges to the central banks in framing macro-economic policies.
- Disallow Hazardous Waste Imports? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 06, 2006)
Ship recycler is one of the most important stakeholders of shipping industry. Once ship loses its economic life, it has got to be recycled by any country. If India does not do it, it will go to any other ship recycling country like Bangladesh, . . .
- The Saint - Solider (Daily Excelsior, Inder jeet S. Prince, Jan 05, 2006)
Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj's birth anniversary is being celebrated with religious joy and fervour.
- Safta Comes Into Force (Daily Excelsior, Pallab Bhattacharya, Jan 05, 2006)
With the onset of new year, the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) was set into motion.
- Centre Stalling Desalination Plant Project: Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Accuses Union Environment Minister A. Raja of "surreptitiously blocking" it
- A Monumental Mockery Of Heritage And History (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, Jan 05, 2006)
The High Court may have issued orders for demolishing illegal structures across the Capital, but the newly expanded Village Bistro at Hauz Khas Village,
- For A Second Farm Revolution (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2006)
Shall we consider it a good New Year augury that at the recent Indian Science Congress, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, called for a second Green Revolution and urged scientists to work towards it?
- Valley Seethes In Time Of Snow (Telegraph, MUKHTAR AHMAD, Jan 05, 2006)
Kashmiris may be used to their homes being searched, but the recent raids were still rather unusual. What the government was looking for were not insurgents but electric heaters and water boilers.
- India Is Not For Dumping (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2006)
France must keep its asbestos to itself
Developing countries have long been the victims of the “not in my backyard” syndrome, and nowhere is this more clear that in the ship-decommissioning business.
- Living Anachronisms (Tribune, G.S. Aujla, Jan 05, 2006)
I am often struck by the spectacle of a new species of humankind — the living anachronisms. They are a visual falsity, an optic illusion whatever you may choose to call them.
- Ensuring A Successful Doha Round (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
Reports from the Hong Kong Ministerial reflect an uneasy last minute compromise reached to keep the door open for carrying forward the Doha Development Round to a possible successful conclusion within the year.
- Clause And Effect: The New Corporate Order (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Jan 05, 2006)
The debate on whether the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) would extend the deadline for listed companies to implement the revised clause 49 of the Listing Agreement is, thankfully, over. Sebi has rightly stuck to its guns.
- Efficiency Has Become The Hallmark Of Our Governance: Ghulam Nabi Azad (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief MinisterGhulam Nabi Azadcompleted two months in office on January 2 after taking over from Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. In an interview, Mr. Azad spells out his agenda for the next two years — focus on development, and giving a clean,...
- `Standard' Lag In Accounting For Financial Instruments (Business Line, K. C. Chakrabarty, Jan 05, 2006)
K. C. Chakrabarty on accounting practices in bank treasury operations
- Second Green Revolution (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2006)
Scientists have to lend a helping hand
The Prime Minister’s call to scientists, while addressing the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad on Tuesday, to play a role in creating rural jobs and making technologies affordable to small farmers . . .
- Don’T Exhibit Power, Provide It (Greater Kashmir, Er. Ghulam Rasool Dar, Jan 05, 2006)
There is a way we can cope up with the growing problem of electricity, provided we see professionalism and dedication from those who matter. Let Kashmiris not suffer anymore as they have been suffering for so long, writes Er. Ghulam Rasool Dar (Eddi)
- Now And Again-Settling Down (Statesman, ISHWAR PATI, Jan 05, 2006)
At a time when many are keen to migrate to “happening” places like big cities or even abroad, my father decided to go back and settle in his native place, a small town in the back of beyond.
- Development Plan Sought For Rr District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
It is backward in all spheres: CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member P. Madhu
Government urged to formulate special five-year plans
Fab city and petrochemical complex projects sought
The district is agriculturally the most backward
- Hassan-Shravanabelagola Rail Line To Be Commissioned Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Railways to run three trains every day between the two points
Special train from Kolkata to reach Shravanabelagola on February 18
Revanna wants at least five trains between Hassan and Shravanabelagola
- Works Being Hastened In Shravanabelagola (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Dharam Singh expresses satisfaction over the progress
KSRTC to set up four temporary bus stands
600 buses to be run to Shravanabelagola
Health centres upgraded
Work on improving rural roads progressing
- Moving Forward In Space (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2006)
In all probability, this will be the year the Indian Space Research Organisation completes ground testing of the indigenous cryogenic stage. ISRO will then be in a position to fly the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) . . .
- Sebi The Santa (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 05, 2006)
Sebi’s recent move will make stock markets healthier
The Securities and Exchanges Board of India (Sebi) has given a New Year’s gift to investors in the stock markets.
- Economic Prospects In 2006 (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jan 05, 2006)
The government in Pakistan faces the new year with a plate full of problems and overflowing. A few of the problems are of its own making or mismanaged by it, and some being the result of external developments like the domestic impact of high world . . .
- For A ‘Community Of Interests’ (Dawn, Syed Mohibullah Shah, Jan 05, 2006)
Why are shareholders, the only stakeholders in enterprises, entitled to sit on the board of directors of a company? Executives and professionals, labourers and lenders, vendors, distributors and others make very valuable contributions but none is . . .
- More Thefts, Please (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 05, 2006)
It’s good that Ms Nilofer Bakhtiar, adviser to the PM, has been robbed of her cellphone.
- Reaching Science To The Farm (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2006)
From the podium at the Indian Science Congress, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for a second Green Revolution to follow the one that three decades ago turned the country from an abject importer of foodgrain to a self-sufficient producer.
- Anna University To Undertake 3d Radar Terrain Mapping Of Coastline (Indian Express, V AYYAPPAN, Jan 05, 2006)
Institute of Remote Sensing (IRS) of Anna University will carry out Airbourne Radar Terrain Mapping along the coastline stretching from Nagapattinam to Nellore to facilitate disaster mitigation.
- In 2006, Watch This Space... (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Jan 05, 2006)
The year 2006 is likely to see a radical change in India’s foreign policy posture and status.
- Mission To Watch (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 05, 2006)
Since December 3 last year our Capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar are part of a seven-year long Rs one lakh crore nationwide programme to raise urban infrastructure. Known as the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) it covers 63 ....
- Pdd Fails To Restore Power In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Making a mockery of their tall claims and assurances to Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here yesterday, Power Development Department (PDD) authorities have failed to restore electricity to the winter-hit Kashmir valley.
- Ramachandran Divested Of Pollution Control (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
In protest, he keeps away from Cabinet meeting: Sujanapal sworn in Minister
- No Let Up (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2006)
Terrorism’s pan-Indian footprint demands a pan-Indian security strategy
- The Green Card (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 05, 2006)
In an economy heady with its success in information technology, it is easy to forget that industrially advanced regions like California or countries like France are also leading agricultural producers.
- Alang Awaits Its Hazardous Diet (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Jan 05, 2006)
India must take a lead in cleaning up its ship-breaking industry, says Sonu Jain
- Some Green Light (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2006)
That second green revolution, Prime Minister, needs crucial changes in policy
- Info On Indian, Afghan Water Plans Sought (The Nation, DILSHAD AZEEM, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan Commission for Indus Waters (PCIW) has recommended to the government to take steps for getting accurate and timely intelligence information about Afghanistan and India’s water storage plans to avoid complications and prepare counter strategies,..
- Govt Writ To Be Restored In Balochistan: Musharraf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The writ of the government would be restored where challenged, declared President Gen Pervez Musharraf, while addressing the 94th Corps Commanders Conference here Tuesday.
- Pm Unveils 7-Point Package For Second Green Revolution (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today unveiled a seven-point package to bring about second green revolution and promote integrated rural development to enhance productivity and bridge the rural-urban divide.
- Services Restored Partially In Major Towns In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jan 04, 2006)
Pulled up by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on account of "let's-see-when-a-crisis-hits" mindset, authorities today succeeded in restoration of services in parts of this Capital city and some major towns in the snow-hit Kashmir valley.
- Baluchistan On The Boil (Tribune, Gen V.P. Malik (retd), Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistan’s largest province, Baluchistan, is again on the boil. Two rocket firing incidents took place in early December, 2005.
- Stick To The Knitting (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 04, 2006)
The petroleum ministry’s move to seek the intervention of the Prime Minister’s energy committee on ONGC’s business strategy is a telling commentary on the deteriorating relationship between the ministry and the oil major.
- Time To Convert Concepts To Reality (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Jan 04, 2006)
The draft report on integrated energy policy fails on key issues; ministries still think within . . .
- Greenpeace Members Held After "Toxic" Ship Protest (Reuters, Reuters, Jan 04, 2006)
Police detained around a dozen Greenpeace activists in New Delhi on Tuesday during a protest over the planned scrapping in an Indian yard of a French aircraft carrier they said contains tonnes of highly toxic material.
- The Health Of Nations: Seeking A Way Forward (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jan 04, 2006)
There's a clamour for `public-private' partnerships in the sphere of Indian health care. But there is very little that is public left in the sector.
- A Good Book? What's That? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 04, 2006)
An undercover media investigation reveals a shocking lack of literary appreciation among some of Britain's famous publishers and agents.
- Heavy Snowfall And Rain In The Hills (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The 320-km Hindustan-Tibet road and the 13,050-foot high Rohtang Pass closed to vehicular traffic
- Iit Soldier & Terror On Centre Stage (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Jan 04, 2006)
They came to find scientific solutions to poverty, but all the voices rose in anger against a common threat — terrorism.
- Tunnel Vision (Telegraph, Arkadev Chatterjea, Jan 04, 2006)
Contrary to the trend abroad, students in India’s top business schools seem overly concerned with job placements, writes Arkadev Chatterjea The author is professor of finance, IIM Calcutta, and visiting fellow, Cornell Higher Education Research . . .
- We Have A Dream (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 04, 2006)
Amid all hopelessness, there is a ray of hope. Kashmir is a subject to be studied not in isolation, but in a comprehensive politico-historical context.
- Pm Seeks A Second Green Revolution (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said the nation needs a second Green Revolution as the technologies and strategies unleashed by the first Green Revolution have run their course.
- Call To Promote Tourism In Kanyakumari District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
"North Indian tourists confine themselves to temple circuit"
Kanyakumari district has been bestowed with whatever a tourist looks for and has a good scope to pull in more domestic and foreign tourists, said Kanyakumari Collector Sunil Paliwal.
- `Complete Works At Shravanabelagola By January 20' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Dharam Singh promises additional funds to make the event memorable
Principal Secretary Ramaswamy to oversee works
Senior police official to supervise security measures
- Iran To Resume N-Fuel Research (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Iran announced on Tuesday that it would resume atomic fuel research and development next week, raising the spectre of a fresh showdown with the West suspecting Tehran wants nuclear technology to build bombs.
- Trees Planted At Bio-Park (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The B.V.K. College, in association with the Dolphin Nature Conservation Society and R.C.D. Government Hospital, organised a tree plantation programme at the bio-diversity park at the hospital premises on Monday.
- Lost Capital (Indian Express, Gautam Bhatia, Jan 04, 2006)
Delhi’s future has been left to bureaucrats and developers. That’s the snag
- Expedite Construction Of Permanent Houses For Tsunami-Hit: Collector (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Says Government norms strictly adhered to; quality ensured
NGOs doing their best to provide basic amenities
450 houses already handed over to tsunami victims
Collector inspects construction of orphanage
- Rs 4.02 Crore To Boost Storage Capacity Of Dams In Cuddalore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Cuddalore to get Rs. 15 crore under Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana in 2005-06
Main focus of RSVY will be on improving irrigation sources
Provisions made for solid waste management, education
- Intelligence Failure: What And Why? (Deccan Herald, Prem Mahadevan, Jan 04, 2006)
Intelligence alone is not the answer, owing to its limitations that need to be accepted
- Tehran To Resume Nuclear Fuel Research (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Says research work will start in cooperation and coordination with the IAEA
- Matter Of Pride (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 04, 2006)
Karnataka has a good panchayat system but needs to check graft and plug loopholes
- The Rule Of Lawlessness (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 04, 2006)
Politicians who have several illegal activities have been opposing the Delhi demolitions
- Protests Against French Ship’S Journey To India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
As the Clemenceau, the decommisioned French military ship, starts its journey from France to India for dismantling at Alang in Gujarat, Greenpeace activists demonstrated outside the French Embassy here today before being detained by the police.
- Govt Promises To Come Clean On Tiger Density (Indian Express, JAY MAZOOMDAAR, Jan 04, 2006)
The Centre has promised to go public with a realistic tiger population once the national census is over next August. The process starts on January 16 with field data collection. All tiger states are scheduled to complete ground survey by February.
- The End Of Journalism? Not At All (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jan 04, 2006)
The debate on new journalism, to which sting operations are a recent addition, runs the risk of being divided along generational lines, between the fuddy-duddies and the harbingers of a new dawn.
- Green Revolution Ii Must: Pm (Deccan Herald, R Akhileshwari , Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called upon scientists to usher in a Second Green Revolution that would “forever end the divide between Bharat and India” and one that would increase rural incomes, agricultural productivity and the quality of rural life.
- Work For Second Green Revolution, Manmohan Singh Tells Scientists (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 04, 2006)
Focus should be on dryland agriculture; address needs of small farmers
- Truth About The Abbasi Report (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jan 04, 2006)
Three months after the chairman of the Technical Committee on Water Resources (TCWR), Mr A.N.G. Abbasi, had presented his report to the president and the prime minister, the Kalabagh dam issue has burst on the scene in a big way.
- Should India Demand Farm Subsidy Cuts By Developed Nations? (Business Line, G. Chandrashekhar, Jan 04, 2006)
In none of the four major world commodities would India stand to benefit substantially even if developed economies eliminated subsidies. Subsidy-induced low prices would be in our consumers' interest. But more important is to make Indian agriculture . . .
- `Export' The Discrimination (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 04, 2006)
It was only to be expected. An exporter association has voiced strong views on the lack of tax concessions for exporters from the Domestic Tariff Area that are currently available for units operating in the Special Economic Zones.
- Sena Default Lines (Daily Excelsior, J N Raina, Jan 04, 2006)
It was inevitable. The 'cub' has finally severed ties with the 'Tiger'. Firebrand Raj Thackeray, a prototype of his uncle, Bal Thackeray, has ultimately detached himself from his mentor, though belatedly, because of simmering differences with his cousin,
- Involve Community In Providing Education (Daily Excelsior, S K Kakroo, Jan 04, 2006)
In our country, the vision of education was contained in article 45 of the constitution, which states, "the state shall endeavor to provide within a period of ten years from the commencement of this constitution for free and compulsory education . . .
- Manmohan Outlines His Vision Of A Rural India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
A modern agrarian, industrial and services economy co-existing side by side
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