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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 20587:
- Ganesh Idols Immersed Amid Heavy Security (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
Several companies of the State Reserve Police and the Rapid Action Force called in .
- Towards Synergy In Energy (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 06, 2006)
India’s energy policies adopted so far have fostered inefficiencies in the production and use of energy. We pay the highest prices for energy, in purchasing power parity terms.
- Hasten Slowly (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 06, 2006)
The President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, while inaugurating the 150th anniversary celebrations of the University of Madras on September 4 at Chennai, came up with two innovative ideas that are meant to provide a strong underpinning to the knowledge . . .
- Keep This Pace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 06, 2006)
The concerned staff of the public health engineering department deserves the gratitude of dwellers of the old city especially. It has mitigated the effect of a severe drinking water crisis that unexpectedly emerged on Monday.
- Taxation: A Hungry Monster? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 06, 2006)
Public-private participation, a compelling model, is unfailingly being repeated across sectors, whether it is healthcare or education. The government, however, cannot renounce its obligation in these sectors.
- Nda Watches Jharkhand Slipping Away, Cong Waiting (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Battling dissidence for months, the BJP’s coalition government in Jharkhand was tottering today after four ministers resigned and reduced the Arjun Munda government to a minority. This prompted the Opposition UPA to step up moves to oust the government.
- Landing In A Mess (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Sep 06, 2006)
The year 2006 (or 2007) is significant in the history of human civilisation, because that’s when the world’s urban population will exceed the world’s rural population for the first time. Of course, levels of urbanisation vary widely, ranging . . .
- Grecian Impressions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Wander through enchanted, poppy-animated landscapes of Greece, steeped in myth, culture and history.
- Slowing Us Housing Market Is Bad News (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 06, 2006)
Trend GDP growth in India has accelerated from around 5 per cent in the 1980s to 6.5-7 per cent. India has not graduated to 8 per cent trend growth. The band around the trend, of business cycle fluctuations, is around 2.5 percentage points up or down . .
- Reliance Comm Launches Falcon Submarine Cable (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Reliance Communications Ltd, top-ranked CDMA-mobile services carrier, inaugurated an undersea cable on Tuesday aimed at providing cheaper bandwidth to retail and commercial users.
- Americans Not Eating Enough Fruits, Veggies (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
The US Government recently bumped up its recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption, and a new study suggests it's very likely Americans aren't keeping up.
- Oops! Ramadoss Plea May Not Stand Legal Test (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Sep 06, 2006)
The main thrust of Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' defence before the Election Commission on a disqualification petition for holding an office of profit as president of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) governing body may not . . .
- Mid-Term Evaluation Of Upa (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Sep 06, 2006)
Government has performed miserably on almost all fronts, the most glaring of them being its inability to tackle terrorism and crime, says Bulbul Roy Mishra.
- Lebanon Blast Kills 4, Hurts Senior Officer (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
A roadside bomb blast killed four bodyguards of a senior Lebanese intelligence officer, who was among four other people wounded in the attack near Sidon on Tuesday, police said.
- India's Downtrodden Disabled Find Power In The Law (Reuters, Daniel Sorid , Sep 06, 2006)
When disabled Hindu worshippers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu were blocked from entering temples with their wheelchairs and crutches, Meenakshi Balasubramanian knew she had the law on her side.
- Tourist Inflow Picks Up At Udhagamandalam (Hindu, D. Radhakrishnan, Sep 06, 2006)
Government Botanical Gardens, Rose Garden and Boat house teeming with visitors .
- Raje Provoked Bjp Men To Disturb Sonia Visit: Gehlot (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot has accused Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of provoking her party workers to create a scene during Congress president Sonia Gandhi's visit to flood-affected areas in Barmer district.
- Sonia Gandhi To Visit Kadapa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will visit Kadapa and Brahmamgari Matham on September 27.
- Grain Of Truth (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 06, 2006)
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar's sympathy for biscuit makers is not misplaced, but he should not lose sight of larger issues.
- Jessica Case: Chandigarh Doctor Surrenders (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Chandigarh-based doctor J.S. Bedi, charged with issuing fake medical certificate to Vikas Gill, one of the accused in the Jessica Lall murder case, surrendered before a Delhi Court today.
- The Forgotten Aam Aadmi (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 06, 2006)
When this government came to power the one thing I liked about its Common Minimum Programme was the promise of reforms with a ‘‘human face’’.
- Taking Off (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 06, 2006)
Although Delhi didn't quite succeed as a world-class metropolis, its airport could do so in a few years from now — as an international state-of-the-art aerotropolis, the high-tech 21st century term coined for cities built around air travel hubs.
- Waziristan Taliban Sign Peace Deal With Government (Daily Times, Iqbal Khattak, Sep 06, 2006)
Militants agree not to launch cross-border raids, shelter foreigners
Govt to remove checkpoints, free prisoners and return weapons.
- Mumbai Blast Accused Undergoes Narco- Analysis Test (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) on Tuesday completed the narco-analysis test on one of the two suspects involved the Mumbai blasts.
- Mrts Tarnaka-Hi-Tec City Route Realigned (Hindu, V. Geetanath, Sep 06, 2006)
Greenlands-Punjagutta-Banjara Hills-Jubilee Hills route to be avoided
Line 3 of about 21 kilometres realigned
Line 1 is Miyapur-Chaitanyapuri and Line 2 is Secunderabad-Falaknuma.
- Leader Of Banned Manipur Outfit Held (Hindu, V.S. Palaniappan, Sep 06, 2006)
General secretary of the UNLF was in Coimbatore for medical treatment.
- Telangana: A Three-Decade Old Battle For Justice (Deccan Herald, R Akhileshwari , Sep 06, 2006)
The issue of statehood for Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh came into national focus last week when two Union ministers of Telangana Rashtra Samiti, K Chandrashekhar Rao and A Narendra, resigned from the UPA Government accusing the Congress of . . .
- Three Test Positive For Chikungunya Viral Fever (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Sep 06, 2006)
It's a viral disease transmitted to humans by carrier mosquitoes A large number of people have been infected in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala .
- Teens Often Skip Condoms: Study (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Many teenagers and young adults fail to use condoms consistently, regardless of whether they have sex with a serious or a "casual" partner, a new study suggests.
- Magnificence Restored (Hindu, S. MUTHIAH , Sep 06, 2006)
How Chennai's Senate House, a beautiful landmark building in the Indo-Saracenic style, was restored to its original glory.
- A Politician With Old World Charm (Tribune, Nandana Reddy, Sep 06, 2006)
Only a few people in one’s life leave an indelible mark, like a dye on fabric. M. S. Appa Rao, or MS to friends even 40 years younger, was one such.
- State Teachers Demand More (Deccan Herald, Shruba Mukherjee , Sep 06, 2006)
Complaining of government apathy towards them, the national award-winning teachers from Karnataka have urged the State Government to give them a better deal in terms of increments, promotions and medical benefits.
- Ball With The Wild (Indian Express, JAY MAZOOMDAAR, Sep 06, 2006)
Dinkum bloke. The moment the news of the crocodile hunter’s death flashed on the ticker, I remembered a group of ragtag Australians I’d met at Corbett.
- Soul Food (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 06, 2006)
Walking meditation is like eating. With each step, we nourish our body and our spirit. When we walk with anxiety and sorrow, it is a kind of junk food. The food of walking meditation should be of a higher quality. Just walk slowly and enjoy a . . .
- Demolishing Myths (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 06, 2006)
As bulldozers continue to undo the damage that the MCD-sponsored urban mushroom patches have created over the years, ingenious methods are being used to avoid Armageddon.
- Harsh Choice (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2006)
Looked at perversely, Ms Sonali Das, who killed her newborn daughter with her mother’s help in a small town of West Bengal, was exercising a choice.
- Kalam Advocates Functional Autonomy For Varsities (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today praised the University of Madras for building a virtual university system in the country and urged the Tamil Nadu Government to integrate all other universities in the state to be part of this pioneering initiative.
- Not All Offices-Of-Profit Safe: Salim, Jairam And Ramadoss Wait For Ok (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Sep 05, 2006)
Despite changes in the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, the office-of-profit controversy is not quite over. Because not all posts, held by those against whom disqualification petitions are pending, have been exempted.
- Captain Killed In Valley Encounter, Four Skeletons Found Near Loc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Four army personnel, including a Captain, and eight militants were among 13 persons killed in Jammu and Kashmir since last night, officials said today.
- More Equal Than Others (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
At our airports now there is a separate check-in counter for 'Parliamentarians', ostensibly to make life easier for 'ordinary' passengers.
- Medical Student In Icu After Ragging In Pune (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
A student of the prestigious B.J. Medical College here was hospitalised due to a renal problem following alleged ragging, prompting the college authorities to suspend a senior student on Monday on the basis of a report submitted by a committee . . .
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 05, 2006)
Check-up, not check-in, is the new buzzword at ITDC’s flagship Hotel Ashok. The PSU’s chairman and managing director, Parvez Devan, has done something no hotel in India has thought of: tie-ups that would enable the hotel to provide its guests . . .
- Australia's "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin Dies (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian naturalist who won worldwide acclaim, was killed by a stingray barb through the chest on Monday while diving off Australia's northeast coast, emergency officials and witnesses said.
- Inquiry Report Blames Greed For Kumbakonam School Fire (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
A mixture of avarice, dishonesty and a blatant disregard of safety standards caused a devastating fire in a school in Kumbakonam two years ago in which 94 young children died, an inquiry commission found.
- Food Poisoning Sickens Over 200 Students In China (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
More than 200 students from a primary school in southwest China were hospitalised for food poisoning during the weekend, the official Xinhua news agency said today.
- Heart Experts Warn On Safety Of Drug-Coated Stents (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Drug-coated stents -- tiny, wire-mesh tubes used to prop open diseased arteries -- may increase the risk of potentially fatal blood clots, researchers said.
- What Fails Us From Becoming Good Teachers (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Vishiesh Verma, Sep 05, 2006)
At the time when the very edifice of the profession of university and college teaching is caught in the eye of the storm, adrift and tossed like a toy, one can't help reminicening over the question, "What fails us from becoming good teachers?"
- Centre Sanctions Rs 89 Cr Relief For Flood Hit J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Centre today reviewed the flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan and assured all possible assistance including financial and logistic support, to the affected States.
- Alienated Baloch (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Sep 05, 2006)
During an interview with an enterprising Pakistani journalist in March 2006, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, the most popular tribal leader of Balochistan, said: “Now our options are clear: resist and die, or die without resisting.
- Expand The Net (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 05, 2006)
Well begun, but less than half done. That is how one can sum up laudable initiatives by UTI Mutual Fund to extend its reach to the unorganised sector.
- On Teachers’ Day, Let’S Draw Up Some New Timetables (Indian Express, Kanti Bajpai, Sep 05, 2006)
On this special day, let’s ask ourselves: why does teaching not attract more talent? We proclaim great respect for teachers.
- 'Crocodile Hunter' Dead (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter", was killed on Monday by a stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
- Iconic Steve Irwin Dies In Action (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Australian crocodile hunter killed in `freak' stingray attack off the Queensland coast.
- Kalam Lauds Indian Bank’S Success Turnaround (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday hailed the turnaround of the Indian Bank from near bankruptcy to become one of the best performing banks in just 10 years, saying that this achievement must be a lesson that is taught in management schools in . . .
- Diplomacy And Development (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Sep 05, 2006)
Exploration of the symbiotic relationship between economic policy and foreign policy .
- Relevance Of Nonalignment (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Sep 05, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh will be attending the 14th Nonaligned Summit in Havana on September 15 and 16.
- Give Varsities Autonomy: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Urges State government to integrate all varsities under the virtual university system
Wants high bandwidth made free
Recalls his university days.
- Brain-Mapping Tests Done On Two Mumbai Blasts Suspects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Two suspects in the recent Mumbai blasts underwent brain-mapping tests in the Forensic Science Laboratory here on Monday.
- Jd (U) To Launch Agitation Against Sezs (Hindu, CP Bhambhri, Sep 05, 2006)
The Janata Dal (United) on Monday criticised the Centre for promoting tax-free Special Economic Zones (SEZs) by selling off fertile agriculture land to big industrial houses and demanded that the activity be stopped immediately as it would . . .
- Floods Damage Water Treatment Plant (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Households in the old city here will get drinking water supply on alternate days now as the biggest water treatment plant at Sitlee, near Nagrota, has been badly damaged due to floods in the Tawi.
- Off To Australia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
You want to make your honeymoon truly special. You are looking for an exclusive lodge in the countryside, or the stillness of the rainforest, or a beachfront bungalow within view of the ocean. Believe it or not, it is possible and Australia has to . . .
- China Seeks To Roll Back The Sands (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Sep 05, 2006)
The livelihoods of 400 million people are threatened by the spread of the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts.
- Kalam Asks Indian Bank To Set Higher Growth Targets (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Promote business through enterprising youth and continue financing SHGs'
- Kumaraswamy’S Home Jahgir Gets All The Goodies (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
When Mr H D Deve Gowda was the prime minister, his political opponents used to dub him the “Prime Minister of Holenarasipur” for the kind of attention he used to devote to his home constituency, even while presiding over the Dilli darbar.
- Drug Therapy Centre Opened For Hiv Positives (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Now HIV and AIDS patients need not go to other places for Anti Retro Viral drug therapy as treatment for the diseases is being provided and drugs are being supplied free of cost at the government general hospital, according to Collector M. Subrahmanyam.
- Sociological Perspective Of Public Health (Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston, Sep 05, 2006)
Two related books examining the sociology and history of disease, and public health
- Meteorite Fall: N-Plant’S Brush With Catastrophe (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The meteorite fall reported from Kanvarpura village near Rawatbhata last week, was a narrow escape for the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS).
- State In Top 5 Of Hiv-Infected List (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
For every 1,000 people in Karnataka, 16 are affected by HIV/AIDS, 30 per cent of whom fall between the age group of 15 - 25 years.
- Death Traps Galore (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 04, 2006)
Five-year-old Prince of Kurukshetra was lucky to have come out alive from the 60-ft hellhole into which he happened to fall. Ravi, a four-year-old from Chandigarh, met with a different fate.
- New Roadmap For Free Float (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 04, 2006)
The latest convertibility nostrums are more appropriate given the strong economy, the healthy forex reserves, and a well-geared financial system.
- Pakistani, Indian Pilgrims Slain In Iraq (Reuters, Ross Colvin, Sep 04, 2006)
Fourteen Pakistani and Indian Shi'ite pilgrims were abducted and killed in Iraq's western desert, police said on Saturday, victims of sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shi'ites that threatens civil war.
- Floods Leave 1.5 Mln Homeless In Orissa; Alert In Kashmir (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Flooding triggered by monsoon rains in the past few days has left 1.5 million people homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in Orissa, officials said on Sunday.
- How We Deny Sectarianism And Then Pay For It (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 04, 2006)
Eleven Pakistani pilgrims to Karbala have been brutally murdered by sectarian thugs in Iraq.
- Creamy Layer Matters (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Sep 04, 2006)
Though the Moily Oversight Committee on OBC reservations appears to be split on the issue of what to do with the “creamy layer”, or the well-to-do amongst the OBCs, the government is likely to stick to its decision to allow the . . .
- Bugti’S Killing: Apc Demands Judicial Probe (Dawn, Ashraf Mumtaz, Sep 04, 2006)
Leaders of the main opposition alliances, the MMA and ARD, and senior lawyers on Sunday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to set up a judicial commission to look into the Kohlu tragedy.
- Floods Leave 1.5 Million Indians Homeless (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Flooding triggered by monsoon rains in the past few days has left 1.5 million people homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Sunday.
- Iraqi Forces Arrest ‘Al Qaeda Number Two’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four US soldiers killed
Mortar attack kills 6 in Baghdad
- Now In Reverse Gear (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 04, 2006)
It is an indication of how far the country has moved from a reform mindset that, in one sector after another, anti-reform measures get mooted and even accepted, with little or no protest.
- From Dariya To Nullah (Tribune, R. Vatsyayan, Sep 04, 2006)
Most of the ancient civilisations grew on the banks of rivers. Even today millions of people all over the world live near the rivers and depend upon them for their survival.
- Legal Support (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2006)
Old age gives rise to possibly the quietest and most invisible form of helplessness in modern urban society.
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