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Articles 3121 through 3220 of 20587:
- Delhi To Have 36 New Hospitals Before 2010 (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
In the run-up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Delhi government has decided to construct 36 hospitals.
- Apollo Ownership Battle In Sri Lanka Gets Murky (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The Colombo Stock Exchange has sought clarifications from the Sri Lankan unit of Apollo on the tax incentives enjoyed by the company amid a deepening hostile takeover battle over the hospital.
- Copying Script To Success (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Aug 28, 2006)
The unabashed and blatant use of unfair means, both during examinations and in marking, is a shocking reminder of the fact that our educational and examination system has decayed.
- Time To Rethink Policies (News International, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 28, 2006)
The dramatic return last week of the Northwest Airlines flight from the German airspace to Amsterdam’s Schipol airport, because a multiple ‘terrorist threat’ on board targeting 12 Indian nationals — all of them Muslim — has given a new dimension to . . .
- Is There Life After Cbms? (Pakistan Observer, Khalid Saleem, Aug 28, 2006)
Has the peace process been dealt a death blow by the stand-off engendered in the wake of Mumbai blasts? Are the two sides at all interested in reviving the moves towards a meaningful peace?
- No Creamy Layer In Quota Bill (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Avoiding the contentious issue of “creamy layer”, the Centre on Friday tabled the Bill that provides for the implementation of 27% quota for other backward classes (OBC) in a “staggered manner” over a period of three years from the next academic . . .
- Global Experience Has Lessons To Offer (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 28, 2006)
A section of telecom operators have reportedly offered to pay compensation to defence services for vacation of spectrum.
- Govt Must Invest For More Jobs: Cpm (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Concerned over declining employment rate, CPM has asked the UPA government to make a ‘paradigm shift’ in its policy prescription for economic reforms by infusing higher doses of public investment to increase job opportunities and purchasing power . . .
- Ec To Send Common Opinion To Kalam On Office-Of-Profit Issue (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Ten days after President A P J Abdul Kalam gave his assent to a Bill seeking to exempt certain posts from inviting disqualification for being ‘offices of profit’, the election commission (EC) has said it would send a common opinion to him on a . . .
- Freeing Insurance (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 28, 2006)
Some call it a risk, while others consider it a progressive step, but the fact is that the Indian general insurance industry will finally be fully liberalised (detariffed, in legal jargon) from January 2007.
- Pakistan Struggles To Identify Taliban (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, Aug 28, 2006)
Imadad Ullah isn't afraid to talk about being a Taliban student, even after two of his friends walked away when the topic came up. They might have good reason: Mr. Ullah says that Taliban members are arrested every day in this region.
- Forty-Seven Die In Water Tank Accident In Rajasthan (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Forty-seven people were killed and 30 injured on Sunday when a water storage tank they were sitting on collapsed in Rajasthan, a government official said.
- Nda’S Divestment Drive ‘Flawed’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Friday pulled up the previous NDA government for undervaluation of a number of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), including BALCO and VSNL, while carrying out the exercise of divestment.
- Wake Up To The Maoist Menace (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 26, 2006)
Some years ago when Sir Vidya Naipaul came to India to research on a new book he was planning to write, he asked me what I knew about the Naxalite movement. “Not much,” I admitted. “It started a long time ago in Naxalbari and had a leader named Kanu Sanya
- Memories Of Mother Teresa (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2006)
"One of the miracles that occurred over the years," Mother Teresa once told me, "is that no one is allowed to die on streets; someone, somewhere brings the person to us." A biographer's tribute on her 96th birth anniversary.
- Directed Banking (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Finance Ministry and the RBI will continue to revel in their two-in-one role while reducing the public stakeholders to ball boys.
- The World Of Those On The Move (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The greatest percentage increase in the unauthorised immigrant population to the US between 2000 and 2005 was from India reveals World Migration 2005: Costs and Benefits of International Migration. International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Progra
- Cag Pulls Up Nda Regime On Disinvestments Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Many instances of global advisers making conservative assumptions
Delaying crucial decisions affecting their financial health
- Bankex, Small-Cap Indices Post Major Gains (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Markets opened on a strong note on Friday and remained firm throughout the day.
- Hcl Infosystems: On Slippery Pitch (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Aug 26, 2006)
Pressure of low margins and uncertainty on the Nokia front do not suggest much upside for HCL Infosystems.
- Rights & Justice Must Go Together (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
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- Quota Bill Tabled, No Mention Of Creamy Layer (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh on Friday introduced the controversial quota Bill in the Lok Sabha, to provide for 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions...
- Flying In The Time Of Fear (Hindustan Times, Sanchita Sharma, Aug 26, 2006)
If you put aside having to place your passport and tickets in a ziploc bag and then take off your shoes and jacket for security checks, you might just discover the lighter side of travel in the shadow of terror.
- Bombay Rayon Gains On Sez Buzz (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Bombay Rayon Fashions Ltd has seen a 27-per cent gain month-on-month on the BSE.
- The Differently-Abled And An Indifferent Taxman (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The case of Kirti M. Kothari that came up before the Bombay High Court recently was different. On one side was `a disabled person suffering from polio, whereby his left arm was affected,' and on the other was the taxman, humanism-challenged.
- Cag Raps Nda Govt On Disinvestment Deals (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Comptroller and Auditor General on Friday came down heavily on the previous NDA Government for "undervaluing" a number of Public Sector Undertakings including Balco and VSNL.
- New Development Projects (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
THE Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has approved 30 development projects estimated to cost Rs130 billion. The first priority has been given to infrastructure development with a hefty share of Rs81.7 billion for 15 . . .
- No Solution In Sight (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Aug 26, 2006)
The Centre for Science and Environment, under the leadership and guidance of Sunita Narain, has moved the ‘controversy’ from the recommendations of the task force intended to create a blueprint to save the great Indian Tiger in the wild, to the fight agai
- Introspect And Reform (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Aug 26, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh might consider his speech at the recent conference of Muslim ulemas in New Delhi as "bold".
- Vande Mataram Must Be Optional (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Vande Mataram has off and on been a bone of contention. As the composition of this song is approaching its centenary year and with the Government planning its commemoration, it is threatening to rip society along religious lines.
- Letters To The Editor (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Sir, ~ I had an opportunity to meet West Bengal’s health minister, Surya Kanta Mishra, when he was in Toronto from 12 to 19 August to attend the world AIDS conference.
- Social Security And The State (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The government had constituted a National Commission on Enterprises in the unorganised/informal sector.
- Lic Organises Seminar (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
A seminar on Group Insurance Products was organised by the Pension & Group Schemes (P&GS) Unit of the Life Insurance Corporation of India at Rail Head Complex here today.
- Who Urges Control Over Alcohol Use, Patient Safety (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Consumption of alcohol in Southeast Asia, including predominantly Muslim countries, has nearly doubled in the last decade, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
- Scientists Propose Sharing Genetic Data On Birdflu (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Leading scientists called yesterday for the establishment of a global consortium to share genetic data from bird flu cases, deemed vital for tracking mutations and developing a vaccine against a human pandemic.
- Lg Life Sciences Launch 'Venofer' For Kolkata Market (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
LG Life Sciences India Pvt Ltd has launched "Venofer"--the intravenous iron therapy for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemia--in the Kolkata market.
- Storm In A Cola Bottle» (Hindustan Times, BARUN MITRA, Aug 26, 2006)
It is said that when history repeats itself, it usually ends in a farce. Tragically, the farce is behind the façade in the present rerun of the debate over pesticide in your soft drink bottle.
- Cag Takes Nda To Task On Disinvestment (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) today criticised the previous NDA Government for undervaluation of a number of PSUs, including Balco and VSNL, where equity was disinvested.
- Stem Cell Research Without Killing Embryo (Tribune, Steve Connor, Aug 26, 2006)
Scientists from a private biotechnology company in America are claiming a breakthrough that could overcome the principal moral and ethical objections to using human embryonic stem cells for treating a range of incurable conditions, from heart disease...
- Pharma Firms Can Reap $2b From Aids, Tb (Times of India, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 26, 2006)
The global emergence and resurgence of epidemics such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is expected to translate into a $2 billion opportunity for Indian generic players, particularly early movers such as Cipla, Aurobindo and Lupin.
- Flight Of Talent Hits Patient Care (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 26, 2006)
Syed Nooruzzaman visits Rohtak’s Pt B.D. Sharma PGIMS hospital and finds that a promised transition into a ‘centre for excellence’ is not happening . . .
- Quota Bill In Lok Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Somnath Chatterjee refers it to Standing Committee
The aim is to provide 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in Central educational institutions: Creamy layer included
The policy will not be extended to minority institutions.
- ‘Indian Forces Shot Across Loc, Injured Woman’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Pakistan Army claimed on Friday that Indian forces had fired across the heavily fortified Line of Control (LoC) into Azad Kashmir, injuring a woman on Friday.
- The Undiminished Popularity Of A.Q. Khan (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Aug 25, 2006)
For the people of Pakistan, neither the charges against the scientist nor his own confession matter. The belief that he single-handedly made the bomb is widespread.
- Threat Remains (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 25, 2006)
It is unfortunate that there is no encouraging news yet for New Delhi from across the Line of Control.
- Aiadmk Mla Alleges Corruption In Medical College Construction (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
AIADMK MLA seeks details about the cost of the project
- Israeli Soldiers Move Into Gaza Town (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Israeli forces crossed into the Gaza Strip early Thursday in a raid that captured a local Hamas militant leader and left his brother dead near a Gaza border town, Palestinians witnesses and officials said.
- Thrifty China, Spendthrift America (The Financial Express, ROBERT J SHILLER, Aug 25, 2006)
The difference in the two countries’ savings rate must be a major reason why China’s annual economic growth rate is much higher. Differences in life experiences explain much of this.
- States Gain On Service Taxes (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 25, 2006)
The finance ministry’s move to allow states to tax services is a move in the right direction and it will give state revenues more buoyancy.
- In Nepal, Gay’S The Way... (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Aug 25, 2006)
“Anil Mahaju and Diya Kashyap will tie the knot on Saturday, 26th August 2006, in Kathmandu,” said the invitation.
- Quota Protesters Lathicharged (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Aug. 24: Medicos and students today staged rallies and went on strike in different parts of the country, with police resorting to lathi-charges and using water canons to disperse protestors in Kolkata and Delhi.
- A State In Search Of Industries (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2006)
Industrial regeneration is now the buzzword in West Bengal. Ratan Tata called on Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on 18 May soon after he was sworn in as the Chief Minister to propose a Rs 1,000-crore investment in a small car project.
- Students Clash With Police Over Quota Bill (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Violent clashes broke out between students and police in the Indian capital on Thursday as protests flared over a government move to reserve more university seats for students from lower Hindu castes.
- Israeli Soldiers Move Into Southern Gaza Strip (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Israeli soldiers crossed into the Gaza Strip early on Thursday in a raid that captured a local Hamas militant leader and left his brother dead near the southern Gaza border town of Abasan, Palestinians witnesses and officials said.
- Islamophobia Of Muslims (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 25, 2006)
Two unidentified men on a motorcycle on Wednesday shot the editor of the Islamic journal, Ishraq, in front of the office of Al Mawrid Research Institute run by the country’s top Islamic scholar, Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, in Model Town Extension, Lahore.
- Karnataka Cabinet Approves New Industrial Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
It will be launched on August 29 and will be in force till 2011
- Haircut: Sgpc Seeks Saudi Action (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) today urged the Saudi Arabian authorities to probe racial hatred against Sikhs in the kingdom and the pressure being exerted on a doctor to "shave off his hair and take off his turban."
- Kk Among Two Top Hm Ultras Killed In Doda (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Security forces and police gunned down two top militants of Hizbul Mujahideen outfit including an ‘area commander’ belonging to the minority community at Kalihand, about 18 kms from Doda in early hours of this morning.
- No Smoking In French Restaurants? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 25, 2006)
The French government is planning to ban smoking in all restaurants, some bars and almost all other “public’’ places from the New Year.
- Degeneration Of Modern Nations Into Tribalism (Hindu, Hywel Williams, Aug 25, 2006)
Colonial interference and Europe's failure to absorb minorities has led to a global decay of the state.
- Cpi Seeks Ban On 'Pesti' Colas (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Even as the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya government is defending cola companies, the CPI, a constituent of the Left Front, on Thursday sought a ban on Coca-Cola and Pepsi under the Food Adulteration Act.
- Telangana Row: Trs Chief Ends Hunger Strike (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao ended his fast at the Jantar Mantar here on Thursday night after two days of the protest on the statehood issue.
- Anti-Quota Stir: 200 Held (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
More than 200 students were detained here on Thursday while protesting against the UPA government’s decision to introduce 27 per cent quota for the OBCs in government-aided and elite educational institutions.
- Quota Stir: Docs To Increase The Dose (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The medical fraternity’s confrontation with the government over the 27% reservation for the other backward classes (OBCs) in centrally-funded educational institutions appeared to be intensifying with the resident doctors of the All India Institute . . .
- No Progress In City Serial Blasts Probe (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai police said on Thursday that there was no headway in investigations into the July 11 serial blasts. The ATS released the sketch of an unclaimed body found in one of the blast sites to establish its identification.
- Price Of War Is Too High (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Aug 25, 2006)
Beirut-Larnaca: Siroco, a stately French warship dressed in grey, sails smoothly, silently into Beirut's nearly deserted harbour, flanked by her escort the anti-submarine frigate Montcalm.
- The Biggest Internal Security Challenge (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Aug 25, 2006)
Stringent measures like confiscation of assets can stop corruption from spreading.
- Police Crack Down On Prostitution In Agra (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
More and more girls, some still infants, are being groomed to become prostitutes in the Taj Mahal city of Agra. But the police are determined to end it all.
- Uti Employee, Died Of Injuries 11 Days After The Blasts (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
He had recently installed an AC in his flat at Borivali and wanted his mother to come over. Over a month has passed since Sanjay died of injuries in the 7/11 blasts but Rajarshi still regrets that she couldn’t keep his last wish.
- State Prisoners To Get Lessons On Aids (Deccan Herald, Bala Chauhan, Aug 25, 2006)
The State Prisons department has approached the Karnataka Society for AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) for helping them in spreading HIV / AIDS awareness among the prisoners.
- Chamatkar: India’S Miracle Worker (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Aug 25, 2006)
Mumbai’s Meethi is the most speciously named river in geological history.
- On Quotas, Hasten Slowly (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 25, 2006)
The cabinet’s nod to the bill on OBC reservations in institutions of higher education has revived the spectre of 1990. The high emotive potential of the issue should have induced caution.
- Eve Of Quota Bill, Protestors Hit Streets Again (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
At least 20 people were injured in a pitched battle between anti-reservationists and policemen during a massive demonstration when the former forcibly attempted to enter the information centre to submit a memorandum to the Rajasthan Governor . . .
- Afghans In Quetta For Treatment: Icrc (Dawn, Saleem Shahid, Aug 25, 2006)
People wounded in clashes in Afghanistan were seeking medical treatment in Pakistan through the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC).
- India To Continue Nuclear Tests (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 25, 2006)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that his country will not forfeit its right to carry out future nuclear tests despite civilian nuclear deal with the United States.
- Challenges To Islam (Dawn, S.G. Jilanee, Aug 25, 2006)
An attempt is made here to touch upon some of the serious challenges exclusive to Islam. The first point that irks humans about religion, per se, is that religion tries to control and guide human conduct.
- The War In Lebanon (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Aug 25, 2006)
Doubtless the cease-fire in Lebanon is extremely fragile. The UN’s unambiguous condemnation of Israel’s commando raid on a Hezollah stronghold inside southern Lebanon as a “violation” of the Security Council’s unanimous resolution 1701 has not . . .
- Quota For Lower Castes Irks Indian Students (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Violent clashes broke out between students and police in the Indian capital on Thursday as protests flared over a government move to reserve more university seats for students from lower Hindu castes.
- Indian Students Clash With Police Over Quota Bill (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
Violent clashes broke out between students and police in the Indian capital on Thursday as protests flared over a government move to reserve more university seats for students from lower Hindu castes.
- Us Says Raid Killed 7 Al Qaeda Operatives, Police Say Locals Targeted (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2006)
US and Afghan forces killed seven suspected Al Qaeda operatives in a pre-dawn raid on Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said. But police said local families meeting to resolve a dispute were targeted.
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