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Articles 15321 through 15420 of 20008:
- British Minister Exposes Rift With Us On Global Warming (New Zealand Herald, Colin Brown , Jun 22, 2005)
LONDON/MOSCOW - The British government is deeply disappointed that US President George Bush has not made a greater commitment to tackling climate change before the G8 summit, its Environment Secretary has disclosed.
- New Zealand's Climate Change Challenge Increases (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The latest forecast of net greenhouse gas emissions for 2008-12 shows New Zealand will miss its Kyoto target unless further action is taken, according to a government minister.
- Australia: Regional Profile (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
History: Australia is the world's smallest continent but the sixth largest country.
- Details Of First Cross-Kashmir Peace Bus Run (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Peace Bridge, India/Pakistan border - The first bus service from Indian Kashmir to Pakistani Kashmir in more than half a century is due to begin on Thursday, giving a big boost to the peace process between the nuclear-armed powers.
- Glaciers Shrinking By 10-15m A Year (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The shrinking of Himalayan glaciers could cause widespread flooding in China,
- Kyoto Protocol Target Impossible, Says South Korea (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
SEOUL - It will be impossible for emerging industrial powers such as China and South Korea ever to comply with the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, South Korea's Environment Minister says.
- G7 Frets About Oil, China’S Forex Peg (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers met on Saturday to discuss two of the global economic concerns over which they have least control -- high oil prices and China’s fixed currency peg.
- Pepsico Profit Up On Price Hikes, Overseas Growth (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
PepsiCo Inc, the world's No 2 soft drink company, said on Thursday quarterly profit rose 13 per cent on strength in its international business and price increases in North America on its Tropicana juice drinks and the concentrate it sells to bottlers.
- Tsunami Carried Bronze Buddha 1000km Across Ocean (New Zealand Herald, Jan McGirk , Jun 22, 2005)
In mid-December a little bronze-eyed idol, like so many in rural Myanmar (Burma),
- India And Pakistan Agree To Boost Trade, Trust (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
India and Pakistan agreed in "positive and businesslike" talks on Sunday to boost trade and trust to bolster peace efforts between the wary nuclear-armed neighbours.
- Iraq’S Continuing Travails (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Jun 22, 2005)
Speaking in his weekly radio broadcast US President George Bush said on Saturday that pulling out of Iraq now is not an option.
- Caterpillar Group Boycotted For Selling Bulldozers To Israel (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
From boots to baseball caps, the Caterpillar fashion range is marketed as upmarket outdoors wear for label-conscious youth.
- Meanwhile, Our Energy Consumption Keeps On Going Up (New Zealand Herald, Chris de Freitas, Jun 22, 2005)
The Kyoto Protocol, an icon of the global environmental movement, is finally taking legal effect after years of controversy since it was agreed in 1997.
- China Frees Tibetan Monk (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China has freed Tibetan monk Tashi Phuntsog but a United States-based human rights watchdog said almost three years of imprisonment had left him seriously ill and urged the authorities to provide for his medical treatment.
- Scientists To Re-Measure Everest Amid Concerns It May Be Shrinking (New Zealand Herald, Michael McCarthy, Jun 22, 2005)
Only recently, it got bigger. Now, it may be shrinking. What on earth is happening to Mount Everest?
- Insight Into Indonesia (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Clifford, Jun 22, 2005)
A sadfact reinforced by the Boxing Day tsunami is that our awareness of other cultures is often limited to their presence in world media headlines in times of strife.
- No Museums On Mall Road (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jun 22, 2005)
Standing atop the Mahanavami Dibba, a massive table with a commanding view of Hampi that evokes,
- Did Whale Beaching Foretell Disaster? (New Zealand Herald, Michael McCarthy, Jun 22, 2005)
On the internet it is already a spreading legend: did the mass stranding and deaths of whales and dolphins on an Australian beach signal the advent of the earthquake that caused the Boxing Day tsunami?
- High-Tech Pirates Take On Much Bigger Prey (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
Piracy in Southeast Asia has sometimes been seen as an exotic nuisance. Not any more.
- India To Count Its Vanishing Vultures (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
MADRAS, India - India will launch a census of its vultures, a group of ornithologists said on Sunday, as the birds are vanishing rapidly due to a mystery virus and shrinking nesting sites.
- Un Seeks Climate 'Roadmap' Beyond Kyoto (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
BONN, Germany - The world should work out a roadmap this year for extending the UN Kyoto protocol on global warming beyond 2012 . . .
- Fishermen Flee As Tall Waves Hit South Indian Coast (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Tiruvananthapuram, India - Thousands of fishermen fled their coastal homes in southern India late on Friday after the level of sea water rose, reviving memories of the December 26 tsunami that killed 227,000 people around the Indian ocean.
- Counterview: Appropriate Idea For India's Financial Capital (Times of India, ARCHANA JAHAGIRDAR, Jun 22, 2005)
The finance minister's suggestion that Mumbai needs a CEO has, as expected, created a storm. Shorn of political theatre there is merit in the suggestion. Mumbai is a unique city with unique problems.
- The Leader Article: The Faceless Female Worker: Why Women Toil For Free In Food-For-Work Programme (Times of India, Brinda Karat, Jun 22, 2005)
In a remote village in Rajgarh block of Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh, before the outbreak of dawn,
- India Says 114 Tigers Killed By Poachers In 99-03 (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Poachers have killed at least 114 tigers in India between 1999 and 2003, the country’s environment ministry said yesterday, as debate raged over how to protect the endangered big cats.
- Royal Tyranny Creates Threat Beyond Nepal (New Zealand Herald, GWYNNE DYER, Jun 22, 2005)
Most countries got rid of their kings in the end, and the rest took away most of their powers,
- Waste Treatment Plants Around Lakes Likely (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Agencies working on plan to prevent pollution of water bodies
- Amid The New, China Seeks Out The Old (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 22, 2005)
The success of Xintiandi in Shanghai has fuelled demands for the preservation of historic buildings across China.
- China, India To Change International Politics (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
How will the geopolitical map of the world be shaped by 2020?
- Private Aid Opportunities (Japan Times, DOUG BANDOW, Jun 22, 2005)
NIAS ISLAND, Indonesia -- The flotsam of disaster was everywhere: trash, bricks, splintered wood, household effects, clothes, debris.
- The Speaking Tree: The Basic Nature Of Trees Is To Give Spontaneously (Times of India, P VENKATESH, Jun 22, 2005)
Once, an old man was planting mango saplings in his garden. His wife asked him not to exert himself, as he was not going to be around to relish the mangoes from these saplings.
- No Rain, But `Snow' And Water Parks (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 22, 2005)
Water-starved Vidharbha has a growing number of water parks and amusement centres.
- Blair Expects Global Warming Plan At G8 Summit (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Grice, Jun 22, 2005)
Leaders of the G8 richest nations will agree a plan for global action to tackle climate change at next month's summit at Gleneagles, Tony Blair has predicted.
- Energy Investors Fear A Blackout -- Bs, I (New Zealand Herald, Chris Daniels , Jun 22, 2005)
Power blackouts caused by a lack of investment and Government regulation have emerged as major concerns in a global survey of energy companies and investors.
- Bigger The City, The Bigger The Disaster (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
For the first time in human history, more people will soon live in cities than do not. Urbanisation is intensifying as greater numbers of people, especially in Asia, leave the countryside in search of jobs, better living standards and wider opportunities.
- Open Water Fisheries Over-Exploited (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, Jun 22, 2005)
Dr Modadugu Vijay Gupta, the sixth Indian World Food Laureate, is the first fisheries scientist to win the prestigious prize.
- Just How Moral Are The Moral Police? (Deccan Herald, R AKHILESHWARI, Jun 22, 2005)
When it comes to love in India, even the neighbourhood watchman turns into a moral policeman. The concept of privacy is not understood.
- 500-Year-Old Guide To Good Health (Hindu, Lucy Atkins, Jun 22, 2005)
TheTacuinum Sanitatiscontains a mix of good sense and utter nonsense.
- Wb Tells State To Buck Up On Development Projects (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The World Bank has asked the State government to expedite the ongoing development projects and commended the economic reforms undertaken in the State.
- Sustainable Growth (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 21, 2005)
There should be planned growth of satellite towns
- The View From Pakistan (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 21, 2005)
The controversy over opposition leader L.K. Advani’s praise of Mohammed Ali Jinnah has had an adverse fallout in Pakistan.
- Elections For Bolivia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2005)
FOR the second time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the South American nation of Bolivia.
- The Spell Of Kuntala (Deccan Herald, G. Srinivas Rao, Jun 21, 2005)
Not even the wild animals around could hinder us from drinking in the beauty of Kuntala
- Central Asia — A Region Destabilised (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Jun 21, 2005)
Just what is the U.S. mission in Afghanistan? The "war on terror" is providing a timeless, seamless context for geopolitics
- Through The Prism Of Human Collectivity (Dawn, Huck Gutman, Jun 21, 2005)
William Wordsworth tells us that it is only in retrospect that one can sort out what has been most significant, most telling, in our experience.
- To Stand Alone As Creator (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 21, 2005)
The Reliance empire has finally been divided with the elder brother inheriting and holding the “flagship”.
- Petro Subsidies: Flawed Basis (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Jun 21, 2005)
The Government has raised the prices of petrol and diesel, while kerosene and LPG have been spared.
- The Business Of Business (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Jun 21, 2005)
The theory of corporate social responsibility is essential for the success of businesses in the long term
- Can Doctors Do Business? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2005)
AS American medicine becomes more “managed” and doctors complain they can hardly make ends meet, young Indian physicians in the US are choosing entrepreneurship that gives them more freedom and could if successful, bring in greater profits.
- Between Hope And Fear (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jun 21, 2005)
FOR some, globalisation has become a battle cry; for others, it is the banner of the future in the brave new world of the 21st century.
- Bail For Pataudi In Blackbuck Poaching Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2005)
Magistrate says he was threatened, told not to grant plea Animal welfare organisations, Bishnois allege that police are "going slow" in the case
- Cauvery Water For Western Parts Of City (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2005)
Pumping was suspended following reports of red worms in water
- Jawans Reach Out To People In Ladakh (Tribune, Tsewang Rigzin, Jun 21, 2005)
The deployment of the Army for the last five decades in Ladakh has gone through several stages, and the Army has touched every aspect of Ladakh’s life, economy, employment and the environment.
- Inter-State Rows Affecting Irrigation Projects: Kharge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Minister unhappy over quality of work on TLBC
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Storage level in Tungabhadra reservoir decreases by 30 tmcft
Government plans balancing reservoirs to compensa
- Heritage Sites Set To Regain Lost Sheen (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Jun 20, 2005)
CHENNAI: Nearly a hundred heritage sites in the State, languishing for years, look set to regain their lost sheen, thanks to a Rs. 40 crores cash injection for their renovation.
- A Matter Of Great Relief (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2005)
It might have been just a difference in outlook, temperament, and style that elsewhere would have made for a family quarrel and remained unnoticed
- The Eu Link With India (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jun 20, 2005)
The battles witnessed in the EU may crop up in India too as the gap between the so-called super performers widens.
- Melghat Tiger Project: Villagers To File Pil On Rehabilitation (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
The people of Churni, Vairat and Pastalai want to be rehabilitated in a place where the soil quality is good and water is available.
- Furrowing The Black Gold Amidst Sand And Clay (Deccan Herald, Justin Blum, Jun 20, 2005)
Major companies faced with tougher prospects for developing big new oil fields around the world are sinking billions of dollars into projects to wring oil out of deposits of petroleum buried amid sand and clay.
- Globalising Wisdom (Deccan Herald, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Jun 20, 2005)
There is strength in peace. There is strength in calmness. There is strength in love, but it goes unnoticed.
- The Leader Article: Such A Rewarding Partnership (Times of India, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 20, 2005)
On June 18, the warring Ambani siblings announced the settlement of their much-publicised dispute over the ownership and control of a vast industrial empire.
- Missing The Woods (Indian Express, Parth J Shah, Jun 20, 2005)
Tigers versus Tribals: this is how the debate on the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005, has been framed. If you are for tigers, you shouldn’t recognise forest rights of tribals.
- Nuclear Power Is Not Cheap (Indian Express, K.N. REDDY , Jun 20, 2005)
Though nuclear power currently constitutes only about 3 per cent of the country’s generating capacity,
- Beach Safety (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2005)
With the onset of summer, Karachi’s beaches are once again thronged by thousands of visitors at a time when the sea is particularly choppy because of the approach of the monsoon season.
- Politics Of Partition (Tribune, K. Subramanyam, Jun 20, 2005)
There is a belated debate on the responsibility for the partition of India and the role played by Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
- Will The No Vote Mean The Breaking Up Of Europe? (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Jun 20, 2005)
I was at dinner in Jean Luc Jeanroy's farmhouse in Seguret, one of the most beautiful villages of France at the foot of Dentelles de Montmirail in the Rhone Valley on May 29.
- Decline In Quality Of Life (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Jun 20, 2005)
There are five national themes that are mauled in the national press on a regular basis — human rights, intolerance, education, corruption and the increasing militarization of civil society.
- Reinventing The Bjp (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 20, 2005)
Indian politics is in flux. The United Progressive Alliance is an alliance of unlikely bedmates, formed to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party out of government. It cannot last.
- The Donors And Darfur (Telegraph, Editorial, Washington Post, Jun 20, 2005)
The United Nations is getting ready to appeal for more money for Darfur, the western Sudanese province that's been targeted with genocide. The reason is simple:
- Hooda’S Blunder (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2005)
Only recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken against giving free power to farmers.
- Musharraf Sees Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jun 20, 2005)
India, Pakistan can overcome obstacles on Kashmir
- Protecting The Tiger (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jun 20, 2005)
CAN the tiger be resurrected in Sariska? Theoretically, yes it can be! Sariska is an established tiger habitat.
- Displaced, Deceived And Driven To Despair (Pioneer, Ramesh C Nayak, Jun 19, 2005)
Orissa is rich in minerals, water and forest resources. In an estimate by the Directorate of Geology, the state's share in the national major mineral reserves was: Chromites (98.39 per cent), nickel (91.84 per cent), bauxite (59.53 per cent), ...
- 'Development' Not For Tribes (Pioneer, Joseph Marianus Kujur , Jun 19, 2005)
Land is life for the tribal. Take his land and you have taken away his life. This old saying has proven to be true in the districts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Kalahandi, Jharsuguda, Raygada and Mayurbhanj in the mineral-rich state of Orissa.
- Strategic Importance Of Kargil-Skardu Road For India (Tribune, David Devadas, Jun 19, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s proposal to open a road between Kargil and Skardu has immense strategic significance.
- Normal Monsoon, Says Weatherman (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jun 19, 2005)
With the country so very dependent on monsoon rains, the India Meteorology Department (IMD) attains an all-important status in the beginning of summer every year with its forecast of the monsoon hitting the headlines in newspapers.
- Closed Window To The East (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Jun 19, 2005)
Lately, India has taken the lead; it has been vociferous in supporting a principle shared by most men of goodwill on this planet: The ideal of democracy.
- Energizing The Oic (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Jun 19, 2005)
PakistaniI spokesmen have been urging the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to do more to energize the global Muslim community (1.2 billion persons). Let us see if it is well situated to perform such a role.
- Elections For Bolivia (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 19, 2005)
FOR THE SECOND time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the poor South American nation of Bolivia. President Carlos Mesa, who tried to settle paralyzing political conflicts through a referendum and accords with Congress,
- Coastal Drilling (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 19, 2005)
WHATEVER LOFTY words may be uttered about our nation's energy policy as the Senate debates its energy bill over the next few weeks, it is virtually certain that when the debate gets into details, parochial interests will take over
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