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Articles 621 through 720 of 20587:
- Wheels Drop Off, Train Rushes On (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Oct 31, 2006)
The front two wheels had fallen off, the coach was swaying dangerously, and yet the superfast train from Howrah hurtled at 100 km an hour towards a rail bridge.
- Fight The Hidden Enemy (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Oct 31, 2006)
Terrorists should be denied the facility of civil justice. Instead, they should be tried as war criminals, says Prafull Goradia.
- Anger Erupts (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Led by BJP, traders fight pitched battles with police
More than 50,000 traders from across the Capital fought pitched battles with police on Monday afternoon as they laid siege to the Delhi Vidhan Sabha on the first day of the 10-day session.
- Decline Of Trust In The United States (Dawn, Sebastian Mallaby, Oct 31, 2006)
In 1995 Francis Fukuyama came out with a book called “Trust,” in which he argued that a society’s capacity for cooperation underpins its prosperity.
- Bomb Blast, Attacks Leave 80 Dead In Iraq (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Eighty people were killed or found dead in Iraq on Monday, including 33 victims of a bomb attack on labourers lined up to find a day’s work in Baghdad’s predominantly Shia district of Sadr City.
- Palming Off Grease (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
`No Oil Cooking' by Sanjeev Kapoor.
- 82 Die As Missiles Rain On Bajaur: Pakistan Owns Up To Strike; Locals . . . (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Eighty-two people were killed, 12 teenagers among them, in an air strike at a religious seminary in Damadola in the Bajaur tribal region on Monday morning.
- For An Independent Foreign Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
The U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice's whistle stop tour of Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and Moscow last weekend offered a glimpse of the acute limits to American power in the post-Cold War period.
- An Investment In Our Collective Future (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2006)
We must act today if we are to prevent calamity tomorrow.
- Prize For The Big Man (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Oct 30, 2006)
It is very unlikely that Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh, re-elected last month to a third term with a 67 per cent majority, will ever win the Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership.
- When News Value Overrides Reader Sensitivities (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2006)
Has the publication of visuals come under your scanner at any point of time after your taking over as the Readers' Editor, asked Vasudevan Sundaram of Secunderabad a few months ago. It has, and it continues to.
- Get Rocked In The Cradle (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
What happened to the universe post-Big Bang? When did planet earth come into existence? When did humankind first walk upright? Do we all have a common ancestry? How did the environment influence human evolution? And how is man affecting the . . .
- Blood Test Kit Scam: Thousands In Bengal Face Health Risk (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Oct 30, 2006)
Has West Bengal been struck by a lethal hand of a fraud who did not hesitate to ruin the lives several innocents including children? In a shocking discovery, more than a lakh blood test kits supplied to 75 state-run and private blood banks . . .
- Scholarships For Pakistani Students (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2006)
India with its English-based education system is attractive for its other Anglophile neighbours. New Delhi could use this advantage to create goodwill.
- Ode To The Sun In Stone (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Nandini nair takes a look at a fine architectural example on the outskirts of Ahmedabad
- Poison As Prescription (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 30, 2006)
It was the ancient Fifties. A venerable academic used to preside over the School of Economics and Sociology of the University of Bombay at its magnificent Churchgate campus.
- Jilted Lover Behind Pm ‘Killer’ Mail (Telegraph, JOHN MARY, Oct 30, 2006)
A jilted lover sent threatening emails against the Pri-me Minister and President to teach the girl a lesson by falsely attributing the messages to her, Kerala police said today.
- Delivery Huts (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 30, 2006)
Some states, it seems, are finally adopting people-friendly measures to bring down maternal and child mortality rates.
- Safe Sex: Beggars Can Be Choosers (Statesman, Manoj Chaurasia, Oct 30, 2006)
The state welfare department has come up with an idea for the government anti-AIDS campaign that, arguably, has the potential to make begging look like a viable career option for unemployed graduates and undergraduates across the country.
- Case Registered Against Fahad's Relative (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
She had housed the suspected militant and his father
- Sezs As ‘Gated Cities’ (Tribune, M.G. Devasahayam, Oct 30, 2006)
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are in the midst of a raging national debate. The Union Ministry of Commerce, in their policy paper, describes SEZs thus: “A designated duty free enclave to be treated as foreign territory for trade operations and duties . .
- One More District (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 30, 2006)
The decision to make Barnala a district is financially ruinous without any corresponding administrative gains for citizens or any tangible improvement in governance.
- Lanka-Ltte Peace Talks Fail (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 30, 2006)
Amid mutual recriminations and intransigent positions, the Geneva peace talks between the Sri Lankan government and LTTE rebels failed on Sunday, with the two sides bitterly accusing each other of...
- Rbi May Have To Walk A Tight Rope (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Reserve Bank Governor, Y V Reddy, is likely to do a tight rope walk while reviewing the monetary policy on Tuesday, with a view to contain inflation and ensure adequate credit flow to sustain high economic growth.
- Jilted Love Led To Pm Email Threat (Asian Age, K. Venugopal , Oct 30, 2006)
After a nail-biting 48 hours, the Kerala police on Saturday night arrested Akbar Raj, 26, a native of Cherthala, for sending an email to top police officers in the state threatening to kill Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President A.P. J. Abdul Kalam.
- Japan Must Do More To Accept, Aid Refugees: U.S. Ngo Reps (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
The government's support for refugees has made considerable progress compared with the 1990s, but it must do more and assist those who have already been granted asylum, according to the International Rescue . . .
- Swaziland Abuzz About Aids (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
This tiny kingdom's new anti-AIDS campaign arrived without warning one day in July, featuring a slogan both unusually explicit and dripping with implied accusations: Makhwapheni Uyabulala.
- Gulf Investors Urged To Cash In On India Boom (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Bahraini and other Gulf investors should make use of India's ideal investment climate, said a top Indian government official.
- 'The Grameen Bank Won It' (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
'We (Bangladesh) have taken many things from the world, now we have given something to the world, a model to build a poverty-free society.'
- Mexican Federal Police, Backed By Army, Retake City (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Federal forces moved to take back this picturesque tourist town one cobblestone street at a time on Sunday, bashing through barricades and pushing back activists who had seized the downtown five months ago in an increasingly ugly dispute with the . . .
- Higher Growth Is Vulnerable (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Oct 30, 2006)
High economic growth in Pakistan is more vulnerable than in China or India as it has few cushions or reserves to finance external shocks, says the World Bank.
- Who To Launch 3rd Edition Of Guidelines On Safe Wastewater Use (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
The World Health Organisation’s Centre for Environmental Health Activities (CEHA) will launch the third edition of its “Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater” at a regional workshop opening in Amman today.
- Digital Natives Versus Immigrants (Deccan Herald, John Naughton , Oct 30, 2006)
Multi-tasking-Today’s youngsters are technologically savvy in cyberspace which makes them feel at home at the workplace
- Brain Death Transplant Law Hits Milestone After Nine Years On The Books (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
A man was pronounced brain dead over the weekend at a hospital in Kawasaki, the 50th case in Japan since the Organ Transplant Law went into effect in October 1997, the Japan Organ Transplant Network said.
- Federal Police Step In Over Mexico Unrest (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Five months after leftist protesters occupied the center of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, President Vicente Fox sent federal security forces this weekend to resolve a deadly conflict that has stained the image of a town famed for its colonial facades . . .
- U.S. Is Said To Fail In Tracking Arms Shipped To Iraqis (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
The American military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces and has failed to provide spare parts, maintenance personnel or even repair manuals for most of the weapons given to the Iraqis, a . . .
- Jr East, Kokuro Strike Blanket Deal (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
East Japan Railway Co. and the National Railway Workers' Union known as Kokuro have devised a blanket reconciliation agreement to end their long-standing labor disputes, sources said Sunday.
- Woman Killed, 3 Hurt In Blasts (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
One woman was killed and three others injured in two separate blasts in the state whereas security forces seized 10 kg of explosives and other ammunition since last night, official sources said today.
- It Felt, Smelt Like Home (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 30, 2006)
Let’s go to Commercial Street!, my mother would call. The words would set off a ripple of excitement when I was a little girl when my mother would tell me she wanted to get me something new to wear.
- At Gallaudet, Trustees Relent On Leadership (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Surrendering to months of widening and unrelenting protests by students, faculty, alumni and advocates, the board of trustees of Gallaudet University, the nation’s premier university for the deaf, abandoned its choice of the institution’s next president.
- Easy Come Easy Go (Deccan Herald, PRASENJIT CHOWDHURY, Oct 29, 2006)
This book of short stories is told in a simple style which also reflects the simplicity of its protagonists.
- Have A Memorable Trip (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
Some sensible planning can go a long way in making it a memorable trip .
- Palming Off Grease (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
Cook healthy, eat healthy to stay healthy
- Washing Off Grease (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
Cook healthy, eat healthy to stay healthy
- For A Memorable Trip (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
If you are a senior citizen or are travelling with older people, some sensible planning can go a long way in making it a memorable trip for them.
- A Night In The Jungle (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
Nature and some great hospitality make Casa Deep Woods an ideal weekend retreat
- The Snow Man (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
At one level one should feel happy that an embattled writer such as Orhan Pamuk, fighting the fundamentalist forces in his country should get the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature.
- Now Coming To India: A Muslim Woman Comic (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 29, 2006)
A controversial stand-up Muslim woman comedian, criticised by her community for her jokes about hijab and Muslim fundamentalism, is to make her first-ever visit to India next month at the invitation of the British Council.
- Wanna See The Bridge Again? (New Indian Express, CP Bhambhri, Oct 29, 2006)
We were winding up for the day after the last news bulletin when the MTV channel in Sri Lanka commenced its next segment, classic movies.
- Search Spurs Sadr City Battles (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
U.S. and Iraqi forces returned to Sadr City on Friday to search the Shiite Muslim slum for a missing U.S. soldier, occasionally engaging in gun battles with members of local militias during their hunt.
- Did India Deport Its Own To Pakistan? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
You deport foreigners living illegally in your country. You don't deport your own citizens to a neighbouring country with whom your ties have been strained.
- Dr Congo Leader To Accept Results (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
DR Congo leader to accept results
President Kabila secured 45% support in the first round
President Joseph Kabila has told the BBC he will accept the result of the run-off election in the Democratic Republic of Congo "without question".
- Tackling The Polio Crisis (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 28, 2006)
India faces the risk of poliomyelitis making a large-scale comeback. So far this year 416 cases have been recorded in nine States, representing 26 per cent of the global total.
- Partners In Ending Wildlife Crime (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Oct 28, 2006)
Britain is looking to strengthen bilateral ties with India to check the menace.
- In Land Of Many Wars, A Forgotten Conflict (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Ali Hamid Ahmed used to be the elder of a village full of green fields and thousands of goats.
- Face Off (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 28, 2006)
The procedure is complicated and could go either way.
- Terror Module Busted In Mysore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
In a major breakthrough in the investigations into Pakistan-instigated terrorism, a special team of the Mysore City police nabbed two extremists after a shootout on the outer ring road in Vijayanagar police station limits in Mysore in the . . .
- Robert Fisk: Mystery Of Israel's Secret Uranium Bomb (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
- Bush Seizes On Gay Marriage (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
President George Bush is seizing on a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling this week offering full marriage rights to gays and lesbians in hopes of galvanising the dispirited conservative base of the Republican Party just 10 days from crucial mid-term . . .
- U.S. Urged To Begin 'Talking To Enemies' (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Ever since President George W. Bush proclaimed there to be an "axis of evil" in 2002, pundits, diplomats and politicians have urged him to talk to its members.
- End Of An Era As Ghulam Ishaq Khan Laid To Rest (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: Former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan died here Friday morning at the age of 91. He was suffering from Pneumonia for the past three months.
- Japan Must Do More To Accept, Aid Refugees: U.S. Ngo Reps (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The government's support for refugees has made considerable progress compared with the 1990s, but it must do more and assist those who have already been granted asylum, according to the International Rescue Committee, a major U.S. nongovernmental . . .
- Mistaken Liberals (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 28, 2006)
have been living in the eastern United States this fall, at a time when the botched invasion of Iraq dominates the public discourse. I am based in a (mostly liberal) university, where defenders of the war-makers — George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, . ..
- Disaster Alert System Launched (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
With an aim to prevent loss of lives in disasters like the December 2004 tsunami, Indian scientists have developed an alert system which would disseminate warnings to people in local languages, Hindi and English in the form of text and voice messages . .
- The Swinging 60s (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 28, 2006)
One has often marvelled at the many grey-haired gentlemen and gentlewomen, with their day-job days behind them, who are still willing to work.
- Nepal Talks Await Pm’S Return (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The fresh round of peace talks between Nepal government and the Maoists will begin soon after Prime Minister Mr Girija Prasad Koirala returns to Kathmandu tomorrow after celebrating Diwali with his family.
- Cm Gives Clean Chit To Health Dept (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, gave a clean chit to the state Health Department but an inquiry conducted by the police detected the involvement of a senior IAS official, five Health Department employees and a middle man in the . . .
- Gov's Campaign Donor Pleads Guilty To Fraud (Chicago Sun Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
A millionaire businessman who funneled thousands of dollars into Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign fund pleaded guilty to using his position on two state boards in a plot to get payoffs and kickbacks.
- Kerala's Killer Fever (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 28, 2006)
The recent outbreak of chikungunya - or was the deadly fever caused by a new exotic bug yet to be identified?
- Keep Out Creamy Layer (Tribune, Ranjit Singh Ghuman, Oct 28, 2006)
The social and economic upliftment of the backward classes and castes is the moral, social, political and constitutional responsibility of the State. But the question which every conscious citizen of the Indian Republic should ask is: To what . . .
- Support To Kashmiris Will Continue: Aziz (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has assured that Pakistan would continue to support the oppressed Kashmiris in their struggle for their legitimate rights.
- Dvac Raids Houses Of Former Ministers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Nearly 40 places searched in connection with graft cases
- 16 Killed In Rohri Accident (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
At least 16 people, including eight women and four children, perished and 50 others received injuries, as a result of an accident near Rohri bypass at the National Highway, on Thursday afternoon.
- Virtual Reality (Times of India, Gautam Bhatia, Oct 28, 2006)
Take the four-lane bypass near Moradabad that will one day merge with the Grand Quadrilateral a stretch of tar that curves and caresses the ground like any American expressway.
- Farmers Urge Government To Take Action Against Polluters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Kalingarayan Farmers Association has urged the Government to take action against polluters who discharge untreated effluents into the Kalingarayan canal.
- Let It Go All (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 27, 2006)
Examinations are a necessary, if not an essential, part of education. But the Joint Entrance Examinations for studying medicine and engineering in West Bengal had come to embody an irremediable functionalism in the state’s higher education system.
- Backpedaling On The Life Cycle (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2006)
What if we turned the life cycle upside down? I am sitting in the office of Laura L. Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and we’re exploring ideas for a new chronological agenda that would be more appropriate for a life span . . .
- Annan’S Goal Of “A Larger Freedom” (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Oct 27, 2006)
Kofi Annan became Secretary-General of the UN in 1997, placing administrative reform high on his agenda.
- Growth For All (Times of India, Maxine Olson, Oct 27, 2006)
Sixty years is an important landmark for anyone — for nations and institutions it is a time to take stock. As India enters its 60th year, development remains a crucial economic and social objective.
- China Inks Airbus Deal To Get French Weapons (Times of India, SAIBAL DASGUPTA, Oct 27, 2006)
Communist China has once again demonstrated its ability to use cash to buy goodwill from different nations in the world.
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