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Articles 3321 through 3420 of 20587:
- Subsidising Ills (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 23, 2006)
It is not a good idea for business to masquerade as philanthropy. Both the state and promoters of multi-speciality hospitals need to come to terms with this fact.
- Govt Gives Colas A Clean Chit, Slams Cse Report (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
The government on Tuesday gave a clean chit to beleaguered soft drink giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss told Parliament that an expert committee, set up by his ministry, found no evidence of high levels of pesticides in . . .
- Flag Flutters Uncertainly (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Aug 23, 2006)
Four months after Nepal's third revolution, nothing has changed. But nothing is the same, either.
- Governance And Local Government (News International, IMTIAZ GUL, Aug 23, 2006)
August 13 was another rainy day in Karachi, another experience of submerged roads and streets. And yet more power outages forcing the people of Qayyumabad and several other areas near Defence out onto the streets in protest.
- Gender Bias In Schools (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 23, 2006)
In the research on gender bias in schools of Pakistan, I found limited, but relevant information about Pakistan. A point to note here is that I could not find as much literature on Pakistan, as I had envisioned.
- Battling The Hiv Scourge (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 23, 2006)
A recent World Bank study estimates that about 60 per cent of the 5.5-6 million people in South Asia infected with HIV/AIDS live in India. With its concerns on the potential huge economic cost in terms of economic growth, the review provides a basis . . .
- Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Be "Dangerous", Says Us (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
The White House warned Tuesday that a nuclear-armed Iran would be "dangerous" to the world but declined to assess Tehran's reply to a offer to end the standoff over its atomic programmes.
- Why Is The Mma Hurting Over Human Rights? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 23, 2006)
The clerical alliance called the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) put on its most aggressive — almost violent — show of strength in the National Assembly when the human rights bill, defensively called the Protection of Women Bill, to amend . . .
- Code Of Responsibility In Governance (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Aug 23, 2006)
Report rightly seeks to fix responsibility on both.
Politicians and civil servants are the two eyes of the government. Each complements the other and both are equally vital for an effective parliamentary democracy. The Administrative Reforms . . .
- Parliament Allows One-Dish Wedding Meals (News International, Asim Yasin, Aug 23, 2006)
In a rare show of unity in the parliamentary history of the country, the opposition and the government joined hands on Tuesday in both the Houses of parliament separately to give approval to a bill that allows one-dish wedding meal.
- Death Of A Poet (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 23, 2006)
But the regime remains unforgiving
Bengali literature has received a big blow with the death of Bangladesh’s poet laureate Shamshur Rahman.
- Cse Report Wrong: Health Min (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
In a report that could provide some relief to soft drink MNCs Pepsi and Coke, an official experts committee punched holes in the report of the Centre for Science and Environment on pesticides in colas that led to total or partial ban on their sales in som
- Public Service Law (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, Aug 23, 2006)
The much berated civil services could do with greater support from the legislature and judiciary in order to be more effective
- India Plans Intact: Coke, Pepsi (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
In a day of swift developments on the cola controversy on Tuesday, the Union government gave a clean chit to the cola manufacturers over pesticide residues in their products, even as The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo India Holdings re-iterated their . .
- Pak Man Shot Dead In Mumbai Encounter (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
A suspected terrorist was arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police at Wadala TT while his associate was killed in an exchange of fire at Antop Hill in Mumbai early on Tuesday morning.
- Dying Shisham And Kikar Trees Worrying (Tribune, Ambika Sharma, Aug 23, 2006)
The large-scale mortality of kikar and shisham trees has become a cause of concern for the foresters in Punjab. Young and mature plants have been affected alike with shisham facing mortality ranging from 61 to 82 per cent while kikar has suffered . . .
- Differences Persist Between Bajaj Brothers (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Differences still persists between Rahul Bajaj, his brother Shishir Bajaj and others on the issue of transfer of shares for finalising the split of the Bajaj group, the Company Law Board has been informed by the lawyers.
- A Village Of Hope Comes Alive In Tsunami Land (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
It is called Nambikainallur, 'a village of hope' that several hundred tsunami victims got this week-almost two years after their homes were washed away by the Dec 26, 2004 killer waves in southern India.
- Actual Hiv Numbers By Year-End (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
The country will know the actual prevalence and number of HIV-infected people by the end of this year.
- A `Lip-Package' For Farmers? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 23, 2006)
Farmers all over the country, particularly those from Vidarbha and other regions with high incidence of suicides, were hoping that the Prime Minister, in his Independence Day speech, would try and explain what had gone wrong with his package and . . .
- Seats Of Strife (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2006)
Nowhere do the pitfalls of ‘social justice’ make themselves as sharply felt in India as in the case of quotas in higher education. Yet this is also the sphere where the most definitive thinking and action are almost entirely politically or . . .
- Top Pakistani Militant Arrested In Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
The Army today claimed to have achieved a major breakthrough in the Mumbai serial blast case by arresting a top Pakistani militant from South Kashmir early this morning.
- Double Shift System Has Yielded Good Results: Cm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the double shift system introduced for working of the engineers and other staff to execute developmental works in the State has started yielding good results.
- The Promise Of Genetic Engineering (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 23, 2006)
When humanity acquires new knowledge our likelihood of survival increases and our appreciation of the universe become enriched. Even if the new knowledge brings certain hazards, neither the fear of abuse nor the fear of divine retribution deters . . .
- Rainfed Area Management (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 22, 2006)
Soil is next to water for sustenance of living being on earth. Thus harnessing of natural resources like soil and water are utmost necessary not only to meet up the demands of food, fodder, fibre and fuel for the ever growing population of the . . .
- Malaysia Pushes To Speed Up Asean Single Market (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Southeast Asia nations should speed up plans to create a single market by 2015 -- five years ahead of target -- or risk losing its appeal to foreign investors, Malaysia's prime minister said on Tuesday.
- Fratricidal Wars (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 22, 2006)
Not very long ago we had in these columns highlighted the occurrence of suicides in uniformed forces. Indeed, it is an unhealthy feature.
- The Paradigm Of (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 22, 2006)
The term geo-politics came into vogue with the consolidation of colonial empires and imperialist expansion in Europe. Conquests and wars in Eurasia and Latin America, indeed across the world in the 18th and 19th centuries, resulted in the use of . . .
- Cabinet Clears University Quota Bill (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The cabinet approved on Monday a draft law to boost the number of university places for lower caste candidates to nearly 50 percent.
- July-August In Memory (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Aug 22, 2006)
We forget some freedom fighters who never figured in any history book, but played an important role in our struggle for independence
- Obc Quota Bill Gets Cabinet Nod (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Union Cabinet on Monday night cleared a Bill providing 27 per cent reservation for other backward classes (OBCs) in Government-aided institutions of higher education from the next academic year without creamy layer concept.
- Aids Control Priorities (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 22, 2006)
A new study reported in this newspaper indicates that the present estimate of 5.2 million people living with HIV in India is an overestimate, and that the actual number may be closer to 3.5 million.
- Minority Wail Reaches Pm (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Drawing a parallel with the trauma of Sikhs in the eighties, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told Muslims that he understands their “suffering” and asserted that there is “no need to equate terrorism and terrorists with any one community”.
- Dull Dogma Doesn’T A Syllabus Make (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 22, 2006)
It would be a shame if the parliamentary furore over NCERT textbooks provides yet another occasion for a display of anti-intellectualism and partisan crossfire.
- Mass Hysteria (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 22, 2006)
Miracles are born of blind faith and insecurity.
- 59 Years: A Sense Of Insecurity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 22, 2006)
If you look at the list of people arrested after the train bombings in Mumbai you will see the names of doctors, teachers and software engineers. What further proof do we need of radicalisation of our own Muslims?
- A Peru Link To A Roman Numeral In India? (Deccan Herald, Harsh Kabra, Aug 22, 2006)
A feature on a hillock in Kutch district, Gujarat, has got archaeologists excited about a possible link to signs found in Peru.
- Pm Has His Way, Quota Bill Cleared, Aided And Staggered (Indian Express, Shubhajit Roy, Aug 22, 2006)
Bill will be introduced this session and likely to go to Standing Committee, the one on unaided institutions goes back to HRD
- Where Does The Buck Stop? (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Aug 22, 2006)
Despite poverty, India has emerged as a world leader. The PM’s expression of helplessness is not understandable.
- Loud And Clear (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 22, 2006)
Finally, Manmohan Singh has asserted himself and his position on the nuclear deal with America.
- Quota Bill Rolls, Clash Brews (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
A fresh confrontation over quotas looked set to unfold with the cabinet tonight clearing a bill to introduce 27 per cent reservation for students in aided higher education institutions.
- Plight Of Punjab’S Farmers (Tribune, Sucha Singh Gill, Aug 22, 2006)
Punjab is one of the most deserving states for a package to distressed farmers. It has been brought out by the 55th round of the NSS that Punjab farmers are third at the all-India level in terms of percentage of farmers under debt.
- Egypt Train Crash Kills 51 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Fiftyone persons were killed today when two trains travelling on the same track collided in northern Egypt in the country’s deadliest rail crash in four years.
- Vaccine Pricks Hole In Health Delivery (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Aug 22, 2006)
The use of Chinese-made vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) in Indian children without prior safety tests in India amid concerns among scientists has exposed the lack of science-based decision-making in public health, medical experts have said.
- Port Development Will Not Permit Any Real Estate Activity: Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
"Detailed assessment made on resources and scope of project"
- Release Of Docs’ Salaries: Centre Pulled Up (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Supreme Court today came down heavily on the Union Government for taking its order on payment of salary to the AIIMS doctors for the period of the anti-quota strike to the Cabinet for approval and Health Ministry for trying to add some words to it.
- I Have Proof Of Cm’S Corruption: Sukhbir (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP Sukhbir Badal today claimed that he had concrete proof of corruption against Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, which would be revealed in the coming months, adding that the SAD would take immediate legal action against . . .
- Doctors To Go On Strike In Andhra Pradesh From Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Sequel to attack on medical officer at hospital in Vizag
- Manmohan Meets Youth From J&k (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The three-day cultural exchange festival of young men and women from Jammu and Kashmir organised by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) concluded here on Monday.
- Quota Issue: Divisive Responses In North & South India (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, Aug 22, 2006)
Sometimes, divisive issues invite divided responses. At other times, responses like strikes and protests tend to make issues seem divisive, even when they are not.
- Another `Natwar Lal' Held For Cheating (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
An old man allegedly involved in over 100 cases of cheating, forgery and fraud, has been arrested by the Special Staff of the North-West Delhi police in connection with car thefts.
- Medicos Plan March Today (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Students of five leading medical colleges in the Capital will conduct a flag march from Jantar Mantar to Janpath tomorrow in protest against the Union Cabinet’s decision to clear the OBC quota in government-aided elite institutions.
- Q&a: 'True-Blue Customer Focus Is Inevitable For Growth' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 22, 2006)
Cognizant maintains a billion-dollar run rate. It's the fastest-growing IT services company in India. The first quarter January-March 2006 saw its revenue grow by 57 per cent and net profit by 67 per cent.
- No Quotas, Please (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 22, 2006)
The proposed system of caste-based reservations is not the correct approach to solving the problems of socio-economic inequity.
- Religion As Currency (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Aug 22, 2006)
Archbishop Mar Varkey Vithayathil recently startled India's intellectual elite with his call for more babies to arrest the decline of Kerala's Catholic community.
- ‘So Long As The Shehnai Is With Me, What Need Do I Have For Anything Else?’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 22, 2006)
Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan passed away in Benaras on Monday. He was our greatest exponent of the shehnai. Just over a year ago, on August 6, 2005, the maestro had spoken to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk . . .
- Quota For Creamy Layer: Cabinet Clears Phased Rollout (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Union Cabinet on Monday cleared the Bill proposing to reserve 27% seats in all educational institutions, barring specialised ones, run and aided by Central government after quota hawks stubbed out the suggestion to keep the rich and affluent . . .
- Ustad Bismillah Khan Dies, Aged 90 (Hindu, Atiq Khan, Aug 22, 2006)
``He gave a new meaning to shehnai and did not go abroad in search of greener pastures'' .
- Engaging With Beteille (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
This selection of 50 short essays is a sequel to Beteille's Chronicles of Our Times, a similar collection of newspaper contributions published some years ago.
- Congressional Rebuke (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 22, 2006)
The latest congressional report should provide food for thought for those who are running America’s war on terror.
- Indian Cabinet Clears University Quota Bill (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Indian cabinet approved on Monday a draft law to boost the number of university places for lower caste candidates to nearly 50 percent.
- Economic Policy: Mid-Term Report (Business Standard, Shankar Acharya, Aug 22, 2006)
In a few weeks the UPA government will reach the mid-point of its five-year term.
- Hc Refuses To Stay Kerala Ban On Coke & Pepsi (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Kerala High Court on Monday refused to stay the state government-imposed ban on production and sale of Coke and Pepsi. The HC declined the plea for an interim stay, saying it was yet to hear the government’s argument.
- Rationale Of Management (Business Line, R. Devarajan, Aug 22, 2006)
The 20th century triggered some of the most significant innovations, the kind of which the world had not seen before. Antibiotics and vaccines have more than doubled the human life span.
- Mr Murthy`s Next Innings (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 22, 2006)
If N R Narayana Murthy had simply led and built such an extraordinarily successful company as Infosys Technologies then that itself would have been enough to put his name in the history books.
- The Worsening Law & Order Situation (Dawn, Sajjad Ali Shah, Aug 22, 2006)
ON August 11, 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the first president of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, in his address to the members informed them that their assembly had dual functions of writing a constitution and making laws to . . .
- Sc Seeks Reason For Delay In Docs’ Salary (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Monday sought an explanation from the Centre within two weeks over the delay in releasing the salaries of doctors, who went on strike protesting the new reservation policy of the Government.
- Rs. 2.50-Lakh Ex Gratia For Flood Victims' Kin (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
YSR announces additional compensation of Rs. one lakh in House
Chief Minister pats officials for good work
Appeals to members to rise above party loyalties
State does well in preventing outbreak of epidemics.
- Women's Health (Hindu, ALI ASGHAR, Aug 22, 2006)
In this publication the author, who has chosen to launch her career by contemplating on a subject of significant medical and social relevance, draws attention to such aspects of women's health, which are individually crucial for them though they . . .
- Yes Minister (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 22, 2006)
He has proven to be a true bureaucrat, adept at making himself indispensable to the minister. Brought to the ministry of tourism during the BJP-led NDA rule as joint secretary, he was considered a favourite of the then minister Jagmohan.
- Centralised Bank Of India (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Aug 21, 2006)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is out of touch with a modernising India. Its decision not to accept Naina Lal Kidwai as the CEO of HSBC because she happened to be on the board of Nestle, has only confirmed this fact.
- End Of An Era: Ustad Bismillah Khan Passes Away (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan died of cardiac arrest in the wee hours on Monday.
- The Jaish Connection (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 21, 2006)
The revelation about the link between Rashid Rauf, a key suspect in the conspiracy to blow up passenger planes taking . . .
- 59 Years: A Sense Of Insecurity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 21, 2006)
If you look at the list of people arrested after the train bombings in Mumbai you will see the names of doctors, teachers and software engineers. What further proof do we need of radicalisation of our own Muslims?
- Fasting Or Feasting, The Choice Is Yours (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 21, 2006)
Fasting has long been considered an integral part of Jainism. It plays an important role in a monk's code of conduct. Many Jains fast on a regular basis, especially during Paryushan. Fasting destroys negative karma, helps us to come to terms with . . .
- Colombo Claims 100 Tigers Killed In Latest Jaffna Battle (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 21, 2006)
Civilians reeling under shortage of food and medical supplies
- A Conventional Approach Still (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Aug 21, 2006)
The Eleventh Plan Approach Paper has been accused of departing from conventional wisdom. But it has not departed enough. The critical issues it lists are all chronic sores that innovation, not conventional wisdom, can solve. But the Approach has no . . .
- Congress, Dmk Alliance To Continue For Panchayat Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
The parties will work closely at the national and State levels: Moily
Karunanidhi praised for administrative skills
Moily advises Congress workers to strengthen party.
- A Peru Link To A Roman Numeral In India? (Deccan Herald, Harsh Kabra, Aug 21, 2006)
A feature on a hillock in Kutch district, Gujarat, has got archaeologists excited about a possible link to signs found in Peru.
- India Inc Approves Of 1991 Economic Reforms: Cii (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2006)
A survey conducted by industry body CII revealed that India Inc admitted initiatives taken by the Government in 1991 proved beneficial for the country, although a lot more needed to be done in sectors such as power.
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