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Articles 14521 through 14620 of 20008:
- Farmers Against Order To Reduce Alamatti Water Level (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 03, 2005)
Members of farmers' associations in Bijapur district on Friday protested against the Centre's directive to the Karnataka Government to bring down the water level in the Alamatti Dam to 509.1 m as against the full reservoir level of 519.6 m.
- Plan To Convert Waste Into Petrol (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 03, 2005)
With Pondicherry generating a high volume of plastic waste, the government owned Pondicherry Agro Services and Industries Corporation (PASIC) has hit upon a plan to generate petrol from the waste.
- Australian Companies Keen On Investing In India, Says High Commissioner (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
Bilateral cooperation in tourism, education and services sector possible, he says
- After Bus, It Is Trucks (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 03, 2005)
Next round of dialogue in New Delhi in January next
- Oasis In A Tinderbox (Deccan Herald, U B GITHA, Sep 03, 2005)
A small stretch of road in 31st Cross, Tilaknagar is a perfect example of communal harmony in these times of strife.
- Performance The Key Word’ (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 03, 2005)
Eliminating corruption and providing citizen-centric administration by ensuring accountability at all levels right from political executive officials to officials at the local level are necessary in the country, says former Karnataka Chief Minister M Veer
- Great Potential In State (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Sep 03, 2005)
Karnataka can become a truly advanced state by harnessing its natural resources and scientific manpower
- Anger Management (Deccan Herald, Vinita, Sep 03, 2005)
It is a wonder how a shop where the customer is ignored and ill-treated, manages to survive
- How Bureaucrats Resist All Good Initiatives (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Sep 03, 2005)
As someone who believes India’s biggest problem is not poverty but governance I seize any opportunity to discover why despite our technological and considerable other achievements our fair and wondrous land remains deprived of good governance. So, last we
- "Focus Has To Be On Development At Wto" (Hindu, Sushma Ramchandran, Sep 03, 2005)
Oxfam chiefBarbara Stockingsays the global development agency will work with countries such as India to ensure that current trade negotiations at the World Trade Organisation are fair. In an interview, she commends India's tackling of tsunami relief....
- The Lessons Of Evolution (Greater Kashmir, AIJAZ A NAJAR, Sep 03, 2005)
Is evolution an experiment gone wrong or we need to make it a success by doing what Nature demands from us, writes
- Hooda Announces Relief Package For Gohana Victims (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2005)
The Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday announced compensation for the affected families whose houses had been damaged in the violence at Gohana near Sonepat.
- Ajk Psc Announces Results Of Mdg Exams (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 03, 2005)
Mirpur (AJK) —Azad Jammu Kashmir Public Service Commission (PSC) has announced the names of the successful candidates appeared in the written examination and interview test for seven posts of Assistant Commissioner (B-17) of management group, six posts...
- Workshop On Rain-Water Harvesting In Davangere (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
Copious rainfall after three years of drought has created a wave optimism in the district.
- Lic Enters Its Golden Jubilee Year (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 03, 2005)
The Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, established in 1956, entered the golden jubilee year, on Thursday.
- Nod For 97 Projects On Renewable Energy (Indian Express, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 03, 2005)
As many as 97 projects in the area of renewable energy with a total investment of Rs 7,600 crore have been approved by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in the last one year, according to Union Minister A Raja.
- Stop Sethu Dredging, Says Jayalalithaa (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday demanded an immediate halt to the dredging work on Sethusamudram project as the livelihood resources of the fishing community were being badly hit besides changing the entire deep sea environment.
- Entertainment Farms For Tourists (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 03, 2005)
AT the reins of a team of Clydesdales, Craig Underwood posed for photos with a posse of suburbanites and city slickers before taking them on a wagon ride around his farm in Ventura County, Calif.
- Sangh Files Plea For Dismissal Of Pil On Ayodhya (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
The PIL sought trial as per the chargesheet filed by CBI in 1993 and to quash the one filed in 2003 dropping conspiracy charges against Advani.
- Indo-Pak Cbms For Starting Truck Service For Trade (Tribune, V. Mohan Narayan, Sep 03, 2005)
Setting the stage for the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf in New York on September 14, India and Pakistan today announced a slew of measures to promote people-to-people contacts, including starting a truck serv
- Whither Crop Diversification? (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
It is disappointing that the alarming deceleration in farm growth over the last eight years has not evoked any strong response from the policymakers, beyond pious statements.
- Need For God's Grace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 03, 2005)
It is necessary to invoke divine grace for achieving success in any undertaking because man can only make all possible efforts and apply his skill and acumen.
- Last Words On The Raj (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Sep 03, 2005)
“A historian must make do with such ideas as he has, but he might always try to send them out in better shape.”
- Turmoil In Israel (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
The Middle East is passing through an extraordinary moment in history; a momentous development seems headed to be followed by a phase of political uncertainty.
- For A Coherent Regional Policy (Dawn, Javid Husain, Sep 03, 2005)
IN my last article on the state of Pakistan-US relations, I emphasized the need for Pakistan to adopt a coherent regional policy as the central element of our overall foreign policy. I would now venture to add that since the end of the Cold War, the absen
- Katrina’S Blow (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 03, 2005)
THE worst-case scenario, or something close to it, has befallen southern Louisiana and its Gulf Coast neighbours, Alabama and Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina’s howling, lethal force has dealt an immense blow to the region, exacting a shattering price in tr
- Halt Sethu Canal Dredging Work, Says Jaya (Deccan Herald, DH news, Sep 03, 2005)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha on Friday called for a halt to the on-going dredging work for the Sethusamudram project, involving deepening of the Palk Straits to enable ships from India’s west coast to reach eastern ports via the Bay of Bengal w
- Wakf Board’S Order (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 03, 2005)
The Wakf Board’s decision of banning political speeches at religious places has been taken with a pinch of salt in the Valley.
- Talks Offer Completes First Cycle: Mirwaiz (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
Kotli—The budding Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), has described the offer of talks to his collective political forum the APHC, as an opportunity of completing the first cycle of Kashmir talks he first
- Politics In Shangri-La (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 03, 2005)
n more ways than one Leh district across the mighty Himalayas is our Shangri-la, the expression chosen by English author James Hilton to describe the setting (a fictional land of peace and perpetual youth supposedly in the mountains of Tibet) of the Lost
- Serpent Of Corruption (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
For the third time during this week we are constrained to comment in these columns on a subject related to the Army.
- Oil At $70 Needs Rapid Responses (Indian Express, S NARAYAN, Sep 03, 2005)
Expectations are that high prices of crude will not go away. The average oil prices paid by India have risen from US$ 28 in 2003-04 to around US$ 51 per barrel in April-June ’05.
- Rs. 2 Crores For Flood Relief In Udupi District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 03, 2005)
The Rs. 21,000-crore ONGC project will be implemented in Mangalore, says Deputy Chief Minister
- Us Removes Certain License Controls For Exports And Re-Exports Of American Nuclear-Related Items To India (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Sep 02, 2005)
Based on a bilateral pact signed recently, US has removed certain restrictions on the commercial use of nuclear energy in India.
- Retail Fdi: Just Do It (Indian Express, Nandan Nilekani, Sep 02, 2005)
In the early nineties an unusual window of opportunity opened up for India.
- Tn Politics Hotting Up (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 02, 2005)
Although Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu are still eight months away, the opposition DMK party is ramping up its preparations and competitive politics as was seen at its recent Vellore zonal conference.
- Experts Warn Of Environmental Disaster (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
As the City administrators intensified their campaign against plastic by taking more stringent measures including seizure of the environmentally-hazardous plastic products from shops, this website’s newspapersought to know from the experts on what exactly
- Zoo Deaths: One Whole Year And Cops Have No Clue (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Who killed four animals at the Mysore zoo last year? The investigators are in no hurry to find out.
- Loss Of Wetlands Spelling Disaster (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2005)
The worst has happened in New Orleans and not everyone is surprised.
- Our Focus Has Always Been Designing For India' — Mr Arvind Mathew, Managing Director And President, Ford India (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Sep 02, 2005)
Mr Arvind Mathew has taken over as Managing Director and President of Ford India at a time when the company is preparing to launch a premium mid-size car.
- Woman Begins By Resisting A Man's Advances And Ends By Blocking His Retreat (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 02, 2005)
There was an old woman tossed in a basket. Seventeen times as high as the moon; but where she was going no mortal could tell, for under her arm she carried a broom.
- Parliament's Monsoon Meeting — A Session Not Rained Out (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 02, 2005)
The monsoon session of Parliament has just ended, and happily quite some business was done this time unlike earlier sittings, which were stalled by an acrimonious opposition.
- Judiciary And Legislature — Confrontation Or Co-Operation? (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Sep 02, 2005)
The framers of the Constitution considered it undesirable to give unfettered powers to the Legislature. Judicial review was set as a check. Yet, far from the Judiciary indulging in making or restating the law, it is the Legislature that has often been....
- Power In The Wind (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
With Over 1,100 MW of capacity added in 2004-05 — a 45 per cent growth over the previous year
- A Balanced Scorecard (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2005)
On the face of it, there is nothing substantially new in the Reserve Bank of India's Annual Report 2004-05 on the state of the economy. The annual report has the dual role of reviewing the macro economy and discussing the working of the central bank. ..
- Climate Change Adds To Africa's Woes (Hindu, John Madeley, Sep 02, 2005)
Climate change has been identified as the latest addition to Africa's difficulties.
- Elections: Don't Expect Too Much (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Sep 02, 2005)
As the international political year begins anew, the democratic election season has arrived with a vengeance.
- The New Vietnam At Sixty (Hindu, Tran Trong Khanh, Sep 02, 2005)
A victim of war, Vietnam looks beyond the past and forward to the future. It has adapted strategically and sensibly to the changing environment. A constructive member of the comity of nations, it is integrating proactively with the world economy.
- Energy Security And The Search For New Options (Hindu, M.R. Srinivasan, Sep 02, 2005)
Efforts have to be stepped up to leverage emerging technologies to tap new and existing sources of energy better.
- Lic Rajahmundry Division Aims At 20,000 New `Bima Gold' Policies Before March 31 Next (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Customer contact programme, Bima rallies to be held in all branches from September 5
Policy for persons in age group of 14 to 63 years
It has auto cover, accident benefit of Rs.50 lakhs
The division sets a target of 3,33,333 policies
- Houses For Sc, St Members In Areas Affected By Tsunami (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
People in Kesavanpalayam, Vanagiri and Kavaratheru to be benefited The SC and ST community people in Kesavanpalayam in Sirkazhi taluk, Vanagiri near Poompuhar and Kavaratheru near Nagapattinam to get permanent houses
- Looters Strike After Nature’S Havoc (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Sep 02, 2005)
In the wake of a hurricane, the US is having to cope with one of the worst disasters in its recent history.
- Status Of Women In Islam (Dawn, Bilal Ahmed Malik, Sep 02, 2005)
The status of women in society is neither a new issue nor is it a fully settled one.
- Tragedy In Iraq (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Fear psychosis was one of the principal causes of the tragedy on the bridge on the Tigris
- Inmates Take To Computers (Hindu, Vidyashree Amaresh, Sep 02, 2005)
For Nirmal Louis, an inmate convicted for life, the computers installed by the Intel Technology on the prison premises has come as exciting news; the former desktop printer is glad to continue working with ``Adobe Photoshop.''
- Centre Urged To Direct Kerala To Raise Dam Storage Level (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2005)
Farmers in five districts losing 10.55 tmcft of water every year
- State Of Relations With The Us (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Sep 02, 2005)
Much has been written on the significance of Manmohan Singh’s July visit to the US and on the likely impact of the defence agreements signed in the context of Pakistan’s security environment.
- Japan Likely To Fund Modernisation Of Rivers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Rs. 5,600 crores earmarked for irrigation projects in State
- A New Mother's Agony (Deccan Herald, Celia W Dugger, Sep 01, 2005)
Just as the painful ordeal of childbirth finally ended and Nesam Velankanni waited for a nurse to lay her squalling newborn on her chest, the maternity hospital’s ritual of extortion began.
- A Landscape That Need Be Loved And Taken Care Of -Ii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Sep 01, 2005)
We need to join hands and save our beautiful environs from getting spoiled, writes M G Hassan Mukhtar writes on the people, water and architecture of Kashmir
- Mines Of Misery (Tribune, CP Bhambri, Sep 01, 2005)
IT is a shame that as many as 114 persons, including women and children, were working as “bonded labourers” in Charkhi Dadri subdivision of Bhiwani district, Haryana.
- Managing Wastelands (Daily Excelsior, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 01, 2005)
Over the years, the forests have been over exploited in many a ways at all levels much for human greed than his needs result being rueful and dismal.
- In Shanghai Just Go With The Flow (Tribune, Denis Horgan, Sep 01, 2005)
For noise, for energy, for crowds, for bustle, for a 24-karat explosion of commerce and construction, Shanghai seems to be taking itself to a whole, unearthly new level of boomtown extravagance. The sense here — for native or visitor, packed together....
- Posco Incorporates Indian Subsidiary (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Korean steel major POSCO on Wednesday announced incorporation of its Indian subsidiary -- POSCO-India Pvt Ltd -- with the Registrar of Companies, Orissa. POSCO-India has started functioning from its Fortune Tower office here, the company informed.
- Inside Story (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
The Reserve Bank of India’s Annual Report for 2004-05 does not say anything unexpected,
- Heed The Signs Of The Changing Times (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 01, 2005)
Most of the arguments against the Salim group’s investment plans are banal, and prevent the real issues of agricultural and industrial stagnation from coming to the fore, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- Posco Sets Up Indian Subsidiary In Orissa (Deccan Herald, Cuckoo Paul, Sep 01, 2005)
Following its plan and commitment to set up an Indian company by August 2005, POSCO, the fifth largest steel company in the world, has incorporated its Indian subsidiary POSCO-India Private Limited with the Registrar of Companies, Orissa.
- Searching For The Right Formula For Success (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Sep 01, 2005)
Despite all the talk about pursuing the public-private partnership (PPP) route to implementing infrastructure projects, neither the Central nor the State Governments have been able to come up with a viable formula to encourage investment.
- Cabinet Gives Clearance For Two Major Projects On Bot Basis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Vizhinjam terminal and Kochi metro rail projects set to take off soon
- Jayalalithaa Calls For Law To Provide Quota (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Sep 01, 2005)
"Apex court ruling calls for introspection"
- Bharti Project Puts Gaur Government In A Dilemma (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
Panch-J project becomes a bone of contention in Madhya Pradesh
- Soaring Oil Prices (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
It seems that there is no end to the volatility in the oil prices in the international market. The prices surged to fresh historic peaks on Tuesday on supply concerns, amid uncertainty over the extent of damage to US production facilities caused by ....
- Good News For Prisoners (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 01, 2005)
It is heartening to know that as they move towards a detente, India and Pakistan are adopting a more humane approach to issues that were previously treated only in their politico-legal context.
- Keeping Check On Inflation (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Sep 01, 2005)
AS Shaukat Aziz completes his first year as prime minister he finds persistent inflation and large scale unemployment among his major problems.
- Carbon Trading No Solution (Dawn, Darryl D Monte, Sep 01, 2005)
SO the cat’s out of the bag: one reason why China and India were invited to the G8 summit in Scotland recently was not the recognition that they (especially India) had become major economic players on the world market but that President Bush was roping
- Rs. 11.31 Crores Allotted Under Sgry (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2005)
SHG members to be trained in physiotherapy, homoeopathy
- The Ultimate Reality (Deccan Herald, S Radhakrishnan, Aug 31, 2005)
The Upanishads affirm the reality of a Supreme Brahman, one without a second, without attributes or determinations, who is identical with the deepest self of man.
- The Questions Demand Answers-I (Greater Kashmir, ATHAR IDREES, Aug 31, 2005)
Who are we? Where are we heading towards and why? I hope some Frankenstein will answer my questions,
- Nail This Fraud (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2005)
Civilisation travels with roads is an old adage. It is also well known that it does so with all its good and bad effects.
- A Landscape That Need Be Loved And Taken Care Of -I (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 31, 2005)
We need to join hands and save our beautiful environs from getting spoiled, writes M G Hassan Mukhtar writes on the people, water and architecture of Kashmir
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