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Articles 2821 through 2920 of 20587:
- Pondy Assembly Speaker All Praise For Members (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Before adjourning the budget session of the Pondicherry Assembly on Friday (September 1), the Speaker, R. Radhakrishnan, was all praise for members for maintaining decorum during the entire session.
- Sez Approval Burst On State (Telegraph, S.P.S. PANNU, Sep 04, 2006)
In the middle of a raging controversy over the rush to set up special economic zones (SEZs), it has come to light that as many as 11 such projects in Bengal have already received formal central approval and six more have been cleared in principle.
- Pak: 6 Hurt In Blast, Rebels Bomb Gas Pipeline (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Six people were wounded in a grenade attack while insurgents bombed a gas pipeline in southwestern Pakistan as unrest continued over the killing of a rebel chieftain, police said.
- Last Survivor Of Jfk Assassination Dies (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Nellie Connally, the former Texas First Fady who was riding in President John F Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said.
- Shelter For The Urban Poor (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 04, 2006)
The Supreme Court order to remove all the slums from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and other metropolitan cities does not seem to be realistic.
- Govt Deputes Ministers In Flood Hit Areas, (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four persons including three members of a family were killed and two others were injured when their houses collapsed due to landslides triggered by heavy rains in Jammu region while the Government today sounded an alert on flood threat with Chenab . . .
- Punjab Polls: Manmohan To Be Congress Trump Card (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Sep 04, 2006)
With Chief Minister Amrinder Singh battling against five years of anti-incumbency, the Congress plans to project Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "pride of Punjab" to turn the electoral tide.
- Terror Spreading To New Areas, Rise In Infiltration: Centre (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 04, 2006)
Ahead of the Tuesday conclave of Chief Ministers on internal security, the Centre has presented a grim picture by admitting that cross-border terrorism has spread to the hinterland and infiltration, in comparison to the same period last year, has trebled.
- 6 Dead As Flood, Snowfall Hits J-K (Indian Express, MIR EHSAN, Sep 04, 2006)
Kashmir is facing its worst ever flood crisis in two decades with hundreds of villages and even parts of Srinagar completely marooned after three days of incessant rains.
- Anomie In Ujjain (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sep 04, 2006)
Those who remember bloody episodes of student politics across Indian universities during the 1970s and 1980s may be forgiven for thinking that the gruesome killing of Prof Sabharwal in Ujjain is not so much a marker of a new crisis of . . .
- Education Is Forgotten (Deccan Herald, K Sundara Raj, Sep 04, 2006)
‘Are we throwing our young minds to the unscrupulous wolves that the ruling classes are in a corrupt world? These are the issues that need to be addressed by teachers.’
- Public Health, Why Now? (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Sep 04, 2006)
The Govt’s public health initiatives seem to favour the MNCs more than the people.
- Focus On Medical, Heritage Tourism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Private investment in tourism sector to be encouraged
- Children From Villages Shine At Knowledge Festival (Hindu, Meera Srinivasan, Sep 04, 2006)
NGO Aid India organised the two-day event
- Paisa Wise, Rupee Foolish (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Sep 04, 2006)
Belying its attractive title and the optimistic media headlines it has generated, the report on Fuller Capital Account Convertibility largely endorses what the RBI is already doing.
- Towards Full Convertibility (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Sep 04, 2006)
The report does not speak about the advantages of full convertibility but suggests streamlining of it.
- Sense In Decisions (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 04, 2006)
We had occasion this week, while speaking of the huge time and cost lags in state sector projects, to regret that so little attention is given to administrative reforms.
- Better Safe Than Sorry (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Sep 04, 2006)
It's déjà vu on the much-awaited report on ‘Fuller (not full) Capital Account Convertibility’, or the Tarapore Committee, Mark II, report. Sure, the road map is a little longer — five years instead of three in the last report — and some of the . . .
- Al-Qaeda No 2 In Iraq Captured (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Baghdad announced the arrest of Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s deputy leader on Sunday, accusing him of masterminding an attack on a revered Shia shrine that triggered a brutal wave of sectarian killings.
- Cong Chief Has Lunch With ‘Commoner’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Ms Sonia Gandhi broke her “Ice Maiden” image at the Kumara Krupa Guest House and invited a commoner to have lunch with her.
- Pollution, Aerosols, And The Climate (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Sep 04, 2006)
Aerosols in the atmosphere are not invariably a bad thing. But those released by pollution may alter the climate adversely.
- Controlling Growth Of Disparity (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 04, 2006)
In an FAQ on curbing variance, rich-poor, urban-rural, P. V. INDIRESAN suggests certain rule-based controls instead of the current ad hoc solutions that are neither transparent nor have in-built checks and balances.
- Fears Of `Extreme' Tb Strain (Hindu, Robin McKie, Sep 04, 2006)
New drug-resistant infection is a "nightmare," say health experts.
- Us Military Confronts Shiite Militia In Iraq (News International, Peter Symonds, Sep 02, 2006)
Two days of fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah is one more sign that the US military is preparing for a bloody showdown with the militia forces of Shiite cleric Moqtada . . .
- A Roof Of Their Own, At Last For Bidi Workers (Hindu, Meena Menon, Sep 02, 2006)
Our dreams are fulfilled... and to us it's more beautiful than heaven. It is our Taj Mahal: beneficiary
Largest housing project for women workers in Asia
Each worker will get a single-storey 255 sq. ft. house
Anti-tobacco laws have reduced . . .
- Petitions Against Manmohan And Over 40 Mps To Be Closed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
They are infructuous after passage of office of profit Bill
Chidambaram, Somnath among those who will benefit from the move
Petition against Anbumani to be dealt with separately.
- Good Governance (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 02, 2006)
The remarks made by Dr Ishrat Husain, chairman of an official commission on government reforms, in a speech made at the recent launch of the Human Development in South Asia (2005) Report that a qualitative change in governance would help solve . . .
- Spread Of Gastroenteritis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 02, 2006)
Waterborne diseases, particularly gastroenteritis, are cutting a swathe of misery across Sindh, with children and the elderly being the worst affected.
- The State(s) Of Employment (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 02, 2006)
In a year since the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREG) was passed by the Parliament, it is petty politics rather than corruption that is posing the biggest hurdle to the scheme’s successful functioning.
- Needed, A Policy For Human Capital (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Sep 02, 2006)
Prime Minster Manmohan Singh recently stressed the need to convert people into national assets while releasing a report on Person-to-Person Advocacy with parliamentarians on population issues.
- Empty Swagat (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 02, 2006)
We invite the world to visit us — to explore and experience Incredible India — without first ensuring adequate hospitality for those who take our invitation seriously.
- Care Delayed Is Care Denied (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2006)
Nirmal Sandhu visits Patiala’s Rajindra Hospital, where animals stray into the emergency ward and a shortage of space, staff and equipment can result in fatal delays in treatment.
- Reap What You Sow (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2006)
Prem Kumar, son of my Dahi Bhalla friend, the late Kishen Lall, founder-proprietor of Hotel Rajdoot, is a very fat man.
- Flights To Leh Being Increased To Promote Tourism: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Trying to put the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir on the international tourism map, the State Government is taking slew of measures to develop the connectivity and infrastructure to the untapped scenic region of mountain passes.
- Why You Shouldn't Look For Superhumans In Avatars (Times of India, Sri Sri Ravishankar, Sep 02, 2006)
Life is incomplete without union with God. It is quite natural that a matured mind and a receptive heart strive for this union.
- Cops Busy With Ganpati, Pravin Trial Waits (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The murder trial against Pravin Mahajan was expected to start in a sessions court on Friday but was adjourned to September 8 instead after the police pleaded its inability to produce Pravin in court. Special public prosecutor Srikant Bhat . . .
- Bugti Kin Shuns Coffin Burial (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
In what is being seen as yet another insult to the Bugti tribe in Balochistan, the burial of its slain leader, Akbar Khan Bugti, was done in secrecy at a cemetery at Dera Bugti, the ancestral town of the tribe, by the Pakistan Army.
- Bomb Attacks In Baghdad Kill 64 (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
A barrage of coordinated bomb and rocket attacks across eastern Baghdad neighbourhoods killed at least 64 people and wounded more than 200 within about half an hour, the police said on Friday.
- Police Provide Additional Security To Eyewitness (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Security for Komal Singh Sengar, an eyewitness to the death of professor H S Sabharwal following violence in college elections here, was enhanced on Friday in view of threat perceptions, a senior police officer said.
- Slain Mp Teacher’S Son Plans Web Fight For Justice (Asian Age, Sudhir K. Singh, Sep 02, 2006)
Slain Ujjain professor Harbhajan Singh Sabharwal’s son Himangshu Sabharwal has decided to set up a website to ensure that his father’s alleged "killers" — the two members of the Akhil Bharatiya . . .
- No Room For Complacency (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Sep 02, 2006)
It is hard to believe, but investors seem to have been too eager to cast aside the warning of a correction and the global equity market has not adequately reflected crucial risks.
- Wrong Choices (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 02, 2006)
Enabling environment versus paternalism
- Why Alienate If You Can Garner Support (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
By promoting racial profiling, Governments are planting seeds of more terrorist modules. They are only alienating a whole mass of people who would only be glad to participate in the war against terrorism
- Let's Pursue Gross National Happiness (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 02, 2006)
Is the US, the world’s most industrialised nation, and the most powerful, happy? Or is hermit kingdom, Bhutan, happy and prosperous? Economists often use GDP as a short-hand for the well-being of a nation.
- Unilateral Us Sanctions On Iran? (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Sep 02, 2006)
The passing of the August 31 deadline for Iran to comply with the Security Council resolution calling upon it to end its programme of uranium enrichment has obliged the US to decide on its future strategy vis-a-vis Tehran.
- Retired Sbi Employee, Was Awaiting His Fourth Grandchild (Indian Express, LEKHA AGARWAL, Sep 02, 2006)
Living at his elder daughter Prabha’s house in Goregaon as his wife Lakshmi was away, Krishnan used the opportunity to do what he loved doing — spoil his grandchildren, nine-year-old Akshay and five-year-old twins Abhishek and Ashwin.
- Artist Ahmed Saeed Nagi Passes Away (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Ahmed Saeed Nagi, known as the official artist of the freedom movement, passed away on Friday night in the Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi. He was 90. He is survived by three sons and a daughter.
- Flip Flop (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 02, 2006)
It has been a flip flop of sorts on the helmet rule for two-wheelers in Karnataka with the government continuing to give confusing signals.
- Pakistan In Crisis (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Sep 02, 2006)
The killing of Bugti has provided a martyr for the Baluch nationalism. The movement will only intensify.
- Role Of A Powerful Medium (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 02, 2006)
Let me begin by saying that in my view television in India has played an important and beneficial role.
- Gokula-Curie Centre Of Oncology Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Gokula-Curie Centre of Oncology, a joint venture of Health Care Global Enterprises Limited (HCG), a leader in oncology care, and M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital (MSRMH), a multi-speciality referral hospital, was formally launched here on Wednesday.
- The Only Disability In Life Is A Bad Attitude (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 02, 2006)
"No promotion shall be denied to a person merely on the ground of his disability... "
- Tourism Boost For Hyderabad, The `Hub' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
State and city showcased at the `India Travel Congress'; Southern Splendour, a reality soon: Minister
- Aids Awareness Campaign Yields Positive Results: Collector (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
District Collector I. S. Sri Naresh said that the awareness campaign launched on HIV/AIDS through AASHA-I and II and the supply of condoms has been yielding positive results in the district.
- Kailash-Mansarovar Pilgrimage Route To Be Made Motorable (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Pilgrimage to Kailash-Mansarovar that now takes several days of walking through mountainous terrain is all set to change with the Centre approving a proposal to construct a road in Uttaranchal.
- Making Cities Energy Efficient (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2006)
Cities everywhere are trying to renew themselves in ways that will make them more accessible to people. In a world that is warming abnormally, many cities are keen to cut wasteful energy consumption because that leads to increased greenhouse gas . . .
- Four Terrorists Among Eight Killed In J&k (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Four terrorists, including three Pakistan nationals, and three security personnel were among eight people killed in Jammu and Kashmir since Wednesday evening, an official spokesman said on Thursday.
- Some Progress, Some Stagnation (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 02, 2006)
From the preliminary data of the third National Family Health Survey emerges a mixed picture.
- Spreading Awareness Of Aids On A Cycle (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Somen Debnath, 23, of Sunderban Village in West Bengal, has been cycling his way to eliminate the world of AIDS by 2020. Mr. Debnath, on his way to Kannur, reached Kozhikode on Monday.
- The Aiims I Know (Indian Express, C P Bhambhri, Sep 01, 2006)
Health Minister of India Anbumani Ramadoss recently launched a tirade against the management and functioning of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
- Women’S Quota Bill In Next Session: Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Expressing hope that a legislation to reserve seats for women in Parliament can be brought forward in the Winter Session, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, however, was quick to point out that legislative and administrative initiatives to . . .
- Ngos Unhappy With Green Ministry Over Change In Regulation (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Environmental NGOs in Delhi are not very happy with the Ministry of Environment and Forests over the proposed changes in the environmental clearance regulations required by new constructions throughout the country.
- Angry Kya? It May Harm Your Lungs (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Lung power normally declines as a person ages but being angry and hostile can speed up the process, researchers said on Thursday.
- Potholes To Roadblocks: A Smooth Transition In Mumbai (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Sep 01, 2006)
There’s a pothole near our house, about the size of a shallow grave. Like everyone else in Mumbai, we have learnt to negotiate it with cautious sangfroid, shaving carefully along the rim, yet pretending not to notice it at all.
- Dealing With Tainted Mps (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 01, 2006)
Dedicated leaders who framed the Constitution gave us a sovereign, democratic republic enabling every citizen of the country to uphold the noble ideas that inspired our national struggle for freedom.
- More Nicotine In Marlboros (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The level of nicotine that smokers typically consume per cigarette has risen 10 per cent in the past six years, making it harder to quit and easier to be addicted, according to a report released by the Massachusetts Department of Health on Tuesday.
- As If In A Bad Dream (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 01, 2006)
Is India in the throes of a nightmare? Is the horror we witness day in and day out for real or is it a mirage? Whatever it is, one thing is for sure, it is unacceptable.
- They Need Aid! (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 01, 2006)
About our ‘well informed’ MPs
While the two Bills (Clinton and Gates) recently wowed audiences at the XVI International AIDS Conference at Toronto with their passionate involvement in dealing with the world’s most dreaded and fast mutating . . .
- Women's Reservation Bill In Next Session : Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said he hoped that a bill aimed at providing reservation for women in Parliament and State legislatures would be introduced in Parliament in its next session.
- J&k Needs Balanced, Equitable Development (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
The relevance of 'Development' as an instrument of change particularly to build on peace dividends is widely recognized.
- Sri Lankans Flee Horror For Poverty, Safety In India (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Sep 01, 2006)
Fisherman Chinnathambi Ravikumar was returning home from a fishing trip when a sea-battle broke out between the Sri Lankan navy and Tamil Tiger rebels.
- Supreme Court Asks Why Govt Missed 2005 Aids Drug Target (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The Supreme Court asked the government on Thursday to explain why it had failed to meet its target of providing free drugs for 100,000 HIV-positive people by 2005 and on what basis it delayed the objective by two years.
- Healthy Societies May Not Be God Given (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Sep 01, 2006)
Religious leaders belonging to different religions actually have one thing in common (besides of course their belief in God) and that is, they think atheists are a corrupting influence on society.
- Rbi Worried Too (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 01, 2006)
The RBI Annual Report reflects its commitment to the Finance Ministry view on sops for SEZs and aspects of fiscal prudence.
- Students To Continue Stir Against Quota (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Five of the 40 junior doctors and engineering students fasting in hospitals and colleges in Kolkata, Durgapur and Siliguri, respectively, since August 26 against the new reservation policy fell sick seriously today.
- Eleventh Plan Ignores Food And Nutrition Insecurity (Hindu, Madhura Swaminathan, Sep 01, 2006)
The Plan must have a goal of providing food security to all Indians. The public distribution system must be strengthened and made universal.
- Terror In Twilight (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 01, 2006)
Is the Hizbul Mujahideen preparing to come to the negotiating table?
- Law Commission For Witness Protection Programme (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Sep 01, 2006)
To prevent them from turning hostile under threat from the accused
- Cauvery Water For 100 More Slums (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
BWSSB gearing up to meet water supply needs of `Greater Bangalore'
- Stalemate In West Asia (Pioneer, Rai Singh, Sep 01, 2006)
The 33-day armed conflict in Lebanon that has been described as a "war" is now over.
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