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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- That French Feel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
The French Tourist Office in India is celebrating “French Connection 2007” in full swing these days. As part of it, it is working towards publicising Rhone Alps as an ideal vacation spot for the Indian globetrotters.
- Globalisation:new Challenges (Deccan Herald, MARIO SOARES, Oct 29, 2007)
Recent developments show, the world is now on the way to a multi-polar arrangement.
- Offering Pain Relief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Living without pain is a basic human right but not many with grave illnesses like cancer have access to inexpensive palliative medication. Palliative care is today a distinct discipline and the benefits of oral morphine for pain relief . . . . .
- Jharkhand Shuts Down In Protest, Maoists Kill 5 More (Pioneer, Nityanand Shukla, Oct 29, 2007)
The dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Democratic) on Sunday, to protest the killing of 18 civilians including son of former Chief Minister Babulal Marandi by Maoists, evoked good response in the State.
- Blood Flows, Hole In Mamata ‘Bullet’ (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Four men died overnight in the continuing land war in Nandigram, where a visiting Mamata Banerjee and her supporters held up an empty .303 cartridge as proof that a bullet was fired at her convoy.
- Ltte’S Growing Air Power (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Oct 29, 2007)
Sri Lankan soldiers carry the coffin of an officer who was among the servicemen killed in the LTTE’s air attacks on a military air base.
- You Must Pay To Live (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 29, 2007)
Downloading pirated songs from the internet is cool. Dying from counterfeit medicine is not. But the pirates and the slack law enforcement that give you the first also give you the second.
- Black, White And Coloured News (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 29, 2007)
A new study finds that White women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women.
- Let Development Do The Job (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 29, 2007)
The Supreme Court’s criticism of the government decision to do away with the earlier two-child limit in extending maternity benefits to below poverty line (BPL) mothers is yet another display of the higher judiciary’s propensity to over-reach its . . . .
- Low Cost Treatment In India Attracts Britons (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
India has emerged as the most popular destination for medical treatment among British patients. A survey ranks India at the top for its cheap and quality medical care.
- Goodbye, Nathan (New Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Oct 29, 2007)
It is not so clear how we should read this new book by Philip Roth, the best novelist writing in English today and by every indication a novelist inhabiting an extended period of extraordinary brilliance.
- Korea Calling (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
When a work assignment led me to Korea, I was quick to do my research.
- Walking Keeps (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
It's no surprise that regular exercise, particularly brisk walking, can lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes, but did you know it may reduce the risk of catching common cold too?
Yes, researchers in the United States . . . . .
- A Day In The Prison (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
It was our third visit to San Francisco. I was determined not to miss the visit to Alcatraz, which had somehow eluded us the first two times.
- Should Us Fix History? (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 29, 2007)
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives (lower house), on October 10, bravely passed a resolution that, among other things, a systematic campaign had been undertaken to kill Armenians in Turkey between . . . . .
- Do Or Die (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
WE are living beyond our means and courting environmental, economic and human disaster.
- Stunting The Sme (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Currently, we are in the throes of self-doubt concerning the booming stock exchange and the soaring rupee caused by a flood of foreign investors.
- Arrangements For Haj Pilgrims Reviewed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
A total of 8,130 pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir are scheduled to perform the annual Haj this year.
- Mufti Hails Defence Minister’S Announcement (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed here today hailed defence minister A. K. Antony’s announcement on security forces on internal security duty vacating all school buildings and hospitals in the state by November 30.
- Nine Killed In Fresh Nandigram Violence (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Oct 29, 2007)
Three gunshots were fired at Mamata Banerjee’s vehicle while she was proceeding to Nandigram village around 3 pm today.
- Mobs Ransacking Hospitals, Attacking Staff (Tribune, Dinesh Manhotra, Oct 29, 2007)
As incidents of ransacking of hospitals and attacks on doctors by mobs have been increasing in Doda and adjoining areas, doctors of this mountainous belt have demanded security in hospital premises.
- Make The Govt Work (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 29, 2007)
After the elevation of Rahul Gandhi as general secretary of the Congress party, there has been considerable media speculation on when he may join or lead the government.
- India’S Road To Intelligent Urbanism (Indian Express, Sujatha Byravan, Oct 29, 2007)
With the recent spate of flyover constructions in Chennai, pedestrians and bicyclists have been swept out of the main thoroughfares as if they don’t even exist.
- Healthcare For All (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
THE health of the nation may be dismal but the health of around 18 parliamentarians and government officials is stable thanks to the prime minister using his discretionary powers and lifting the ban on certain public officials’ medical treatment abroad.
- Food Security Concerns (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race…levelling the population with the food of the world.”
- Academia And The Energy Sector (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
OVER the last couple of decades, the global energy scenario has been substantially transformed.
- Quit Iraq: Us Protesters (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
At the rallies, leaders spoke against military intervention in Iran besides chiding the Bush administration on its international policies which, they contended, were raising tensions across the globe.
- 10 Rebels Slain In Sri Lanka (Deccan Herald, P KARUNAKHARAN , Oct 29, 2007)
The Sri Lankan Government on Sunday claimed that at least ten Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in two separate clashes with the troops manning the forward defences in Wanni and Jaffna.
- For That French Feel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
The French Tourist Office in India is celebrating “French Connection 2007” in full swing these days. As part of the celebrations, it is working towards publicising Rhone Alps as an ideal vacation spot for the Indian globetrotters.
- Mirroring A Democracy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
- Maoists Meet Their Match In Cops (Telegraph, Nishit Dholabhai, Oct 27, 2007)
In a way, Maoists have succeeded in their design: the “enemy” is drawing into Naxalite territory.
- You're Not Special (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 27, 2007)
Three cheers to the Delhi high court. By observing that our politicians are not "national assets" and cause great inconvenience to the public every time they step out of their houses — led by pilot cars and tagged by a bunch of gun-toting. . .
- Pollution Threatens Beijing Olympics (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Children and the elderly in Beijing were advised to stay indoors as thick smog choked the city on Friday, a day after the top Olympic official warned pollution could disrupt next year's Games.
- Queen And Us (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 27, 2007)
This week a member of the Order of the Elephant came to visit the land of the elephants. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who belongs to this distinguished Order, is in India.
- Reforming? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2007)
The claim, at first, was that restrictions on participatory notes (PNs) were motivated by a desire to reduce capital flows. But the government quickly recanted and sang another tune.
- 1984: The Dow Story (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2007)
The Union Carbide Bhopal gas leak of December 3, 1984, was the largest industrial disaster in terms of its human costs. Between 40,000 and 50,000 people died due to the tragedy, and another 40,000 to 600,000 reportedly suffered adverse health . . . .
- Human Race Will Split Into Two By 3000 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The report suggests that the future of man would be a story of the good, the bad and the ugly...
- I-T Raids On Bjp Reddys,sriramulu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
In a massive crackdown, sleuths of the Income Tax department on Friday raided the residences and business establishments of several mining magnates including those of BJP MP G Karunakara Reddy, his brother and MLC G Janardhan Reddy and former . . . .
- Need For Self-Effort (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
There is a saying that if a person attains Self-realisation generations of his lineage before and after him become blessed. It is logical to doubt how this can be possible as ignorance, which is the cause of bondage, afflicts every individual. . .
- Cancel Admissions To Indore Medical College: Panel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The Madhya Pradesh Admission and Fee Regulatory Commission for Professional Institutes on Friday recommended cancellation of admission of 150 MBBS students to a private college at Indore for flouting norms.
- Washington’S Cuba Detour (Dawn, Tariq Ali, Oct 27, 2007)
BOGGED down in Iraq and Afghanistan, obsessed with Iran’s rise as a regional power (a direct result of the wars in the aforementioned countries) the US State Department has woken up to the fact that South America is in turmoil.
- The Swat Carnage (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
THE anachronistic idea which Fata represents — that the tribal area is beyond the jurisdiction of Pakistani laws — is expanding instead of shrinking.
- Transplanting Life (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
THE newly promulgated Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Ordinance 2007 is being hailed by doctors and the civil society as a promising step to give hope of life to end-stage kidney-failure patients.
- Cda’S Failure To Manage Its Sewers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
NOT much functions in Pakistan’s capital, not even its sewers. Years of neglected maintenance and upgrading means that human excreta fails to reach the treatment plant.
- Amarmani’S Jail Shift Leads To Clash (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The shifting of former UP minister and MLA Mr Amarmani Tripathi and other convicts in the Madhumita Shukla murder case from Dehradun Jail today led to a bloody clash between jail staff and media persons.
- Environment The Third Teacher (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 27, 2007)
During World War II, a future Nobel laureate as a starving, homeless four-year-old is forced to survive on the streets of Italy. The kid, Mario Capecchi, and his band of urchins eventually land up in a hospital, where the . . . . .
- Terrorists On The Prowl In Mumbai? (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Mumbai should rise in gratitude to a cabbie who alerted Mumbai police about four suspected terrorists ~ three men and a burqa-clad woman ~ who used his taxi to scan the city under suspicious circumstances on 22 and 23 October as part. . .
- Taxi Driver Raises Mumbai Terror Alert (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Mumbai police today sounded a red alert and released sketches (in pictures) of three suspects, who could be suicide bombers or part of a larger terror cell planning a strike in the city, after a taxi driver raised the alarm.
- Humans Put Humanity In Grave Danger (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Oct 27, 2007)
Humans are devouring the Earth’s natural resources in a manner that threatens humanity’s very survival, a UN report said today, predicting land and water shortages, deaths from pollution and disease, and extinction of species.
- In Bpos, The Stress Is Over Accent (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
A new study has found that a large number of youngsters working in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) units are in favour of joining UNITES, a non-political trade union for BPO employees. And the reasons are not hard to find.
- Man Dies Of Suspected Starvation In Gk-Ii (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
In yet another incident of death due to lack of care and concern for the old and sick in the Capital, a 44-year-old man died of malnutrition in the Greater Kailash area of South Delhi.
- Sino-India Border: Beijing Favours Mutual Concessions, Adjustments (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
China on Thursday for the first time publicly said “mutual concessions and adjustments” were a must to reach an early deal on the vexed boundary issue with India for which the two governments have set up a Working Group to prepare a framework agreement.
- 22 Killed In Suicide Attack In Pakistan (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
At least 22 people were killed and 34 injured when a suicide bomber blew up a truck carrying security personnel and ammunition in the Swat region of Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province on Thursday.
- Bird Flu Hits Vietnam Village Near Chinese Border (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Bird flu has killed poultry in a Vietnamese village on the Chinese border, the third outbreak of the highly infectious virus in the country this month, Hanoi's Aninal Health Department said.
- Family Against Woman (Indian Express, Indira Jaising, Oct 26, 2007)
October 26 marks the first anniversary of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. The law was conceived as a civil law as distinct from the existing criminal law: Section 498A IPC. It was often said that criminal law had no space for . . . .
- ‘Nuclear Medicine Plays Vital Role In Early Diagnosis, Deciding Treatment’ (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Nuclear medicine plays a significant role in the early diagnosis of diseases. It is wrong to associate nuclear medicine with only cancer, as it helps in diagnosing problems in the heart, brain, kidney, thyroid gland and also gastro-intestinal bleeds.
- Civic Body Gets Rs.1 Crore For Maternity Scheme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The Corporation has been allotted Rs. one crore for distribution as cash assistance to beneficiaries under the Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy Maternity Assistance Scheme.
- Ltte Bases Destroyed (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 26, 2007)
The Air Force on Thursday claimed to have raided two bases of the LTTE including a centre in the north where the “Black Tigers,” the suicide squad of the Tigers, are trained.
- Comed-K May Go By Last Year’S Formula (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Without a Government in place to negotiate, the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMED-K) is likely to go by last year’s consensus formula for fee structure and sharing of the postgraduate medical and . . . .
- California Fires: Bush Visits (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Crews found two burned bodies in a gutted house, authorities said on Thursday, and flames drew perilously close to thousands of homes in Southern California's firestorm hours before a visit by President George W Bush.
- Us Senator For Probe On Blackwater (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
US Senator John Kerry vowed on Thursday to press for further investigation of the tax practices of Blackwater USA, the private security firm already under scrutiny over killings of Iraqi civilians.
- Bird Flu: India To Host Summit In Dec (Hindu, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 26, 2007)
India wants to ensure that there is better benefit-sharing framework in the development of a vaccine for the threat posed by Avian influenza, say senior government officials.
- Senior Mdmk Leader Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Senior MDMK leader Nanjil Sampath was arrested early this morning at Batlakundu near Dindigu for allegedly making 'defamatory remarks' against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and minister for Revenue and Prisons, I Periyasamy.
- Lic Launches Group Insurance Product (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Life Insurance Corporation of India, (LIC) on Thursday, launched a new group insurance product, ‘Group critical illness rider,’ targeted primarily at employer-employee groups who have taken group insurance products earlier or are planning. . .
- Plan To Push Computer Use (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The U.S. public and private sectors have joined to promote the use of computer technology in development around the world, especially in economic growth, governance, education and youth employment.
- “Time To Strengthen Indo-Finnish Trade Ties” (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
It is time to strengthen Indo-Finnish business partnership as it offers a favourable economic and political alignment, a dynamic momentum in bilateral trade and investment, better air connectivity and positive investor relations . . . .
- Eu's Blue Card To Lure Talents (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The European Union is planning a 'blue card' to lure highly skilled migrants by offering financial and housing benefits, and cutting red tape.
- 30 Killed In Pak Blast (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
A blast tore through a security forces vehicle in restive northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 30 people and wounding dozens more.
- Deranged System (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 26, 2007)
THE Supreme Court’s directive on the immediate release of all mentally ill undertrials languishing for years in various mental asylums is most welcome.
- Breach Of Trust (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 26, 2007)
CENTRAL Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has rightly taken cognisance of the alleged misuse of funds meant for the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund by the Coal India Limited (CIL).
- Pakistan Blasts Remain A Whodunit (Hindustan Times, KAMAL SIDDIQI, Oct 26, 2007)
As investigations into the horrific bomb blasts that greeted the homecoming of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto still make little headway, many uncomfortable questions are being asked.
- Army Parades Dead Tigers Naked (Asian Age, R. Bhagwan Singh, Oct 26, 2007)
The LTTE has petitioned to the United Nations, by emails, accusing the Sri Lankan military of abusing the conventions relating to the treatment of the war-dead by parading the naked bodies of the 21 Black Tiger cadres killed during the . . . .
- Newborn’S Death Sparks Protest In Kishtwar (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Two days after a hospital in Bhaderwah was ransacked by an irate mob, residents of Kishtwar today staged a dharna to protest against the death of a newborn child allegedly due to negligence of doctors.
- Suicide Strike On Pak Army (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
A suspected suicide bomber killed 21 Pakistanis in an attack on an army convoy on Thursday in the northwest, where a Taliban-style movement has taken root.
- Children Of The Apocalypse (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 26, 2007)
In Paradise Lost, Book IV, when Satan views the created universe for the first time, he finds among the living creatures “Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,/ God-like erect…”
- Pm To Review Welfare Schemes, Reform Process (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting tomorrow with Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and top officials to finalise measures to give a push to the flagship programmes of his 41-month-old government.
- 16 Pakistan Soldiers Killed In Ambush (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 26, 2007)
At least 16 paramilitaries were killed on Thursday when an explosion ripped their truck in Mingora in the Swat district of the North West Frontier Province, a day after the Pakistan army deployed 2,500 additional troops in the area for . . . .
- Pm To Discuss Upa's Flagship Schemes (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
With the political crisis paralysing the functioning of the Government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will preside over a high level meeting of the officials to finalise a strategy for expediting implementation of the UPA's flagship schemes within. . .
- The Future Of Indian Forests (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 26, 2007)
Communities with real power and even greater responsibility are the only hope.
- Q&a: 'N-Deal Will Widen The Base Of Indo-Us Relations' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Phillips Talbot worked as India correspondent for Chicago Daily News before partition and in the early years after freedom. His recent book, An American Witness to India's Partition, is primarily a collection of his reports.
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