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Articles 4321 through 4420 of 20587:
- Whither Cuba After Castro? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Aug 03, 2006)
The hospitalisation of Fidel Castro, the world’s longest serving political leader, has provoked sharply contradictory reactions from those expecting fundamental changes once the Cuban leader has passed on.
- Chemical Weapons Used By Israelis? (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The Israeli military may have used chemical weapons against civilians in last Sunday’s deadly bombardment of an apartment block in the southern Lebanese city of Qana, a senior local Lebanese medic has told Adnkronos International (AKI).
- Bicentenary Of Vellore Revolt (Frontline, S. Viswanathan, Aug 03, 2006)
The bicentenary of the Vellore Revolt kindles memories of the first challenge to the British empire in India.
- Domestic Slaves (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Aug 03, 2006)
Child domestic workers are victims of various forms of abuse but the government is yet to come up with a law to protect their rights.
- Just Deserts (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 02, 2006)
The West Bengal government has formally inked one of the biggest infrastructure deals in the country with Indonesia's Salim Group.
- No Purges Please (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 02, 2006)
Scattered reports have come in of harassment of Indians in Nepal by Maoists. The ministry of external affairs has not taken a public position so far, but it must act before such complaints become a deluge.
- Challenges Of Consumerism (News International, Tayyeba Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
In today's technological boom, where inventions consistently outdo one another, it is difficult to keep pace.
- Rs 37m Spent On Luxury Cars In Women’S Development Project (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The Sindh government has spent Rs 37 million on luxury cars as part of an Asian Development Bank-funded project for the development of four “women friendly districts” in interior Sindh.
- Prince’S Ordeal, And Mine (Tribune, K. Rajbir Deswal, Aug 02, 2006)
Prince’s ordeal in a 60-foot hole reminded me of a “similar” experience that I went through.
- ‘I Want The Govt To Give Us Suo Motu Powers’ (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Aug 02, 2006)
My target is corruption. Beyond that I have no target...but it may develop in due course. I may have enemies, some people may think I’m targeting them. But if I’m doing something wrong, I’m answerable. I’m prepared to face the consequences.
- Nri In Search Of Her Father (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Thirty-six years may seem like a long time to wait for someone. But Freda Sarita has been waiting for her father since 1970, from the day he went missing hours before his wife’s funeral.
- Govt Bans Employing Children Below 14 (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
You have exactly 70 days to find a domestic help who is above 14 in case your current help is younger. For, the government on Tuesday banned from October 10 the employment of children as domestic servants or in the hospitality sector, including . . .
- Signals From G8 (Frontline, Vladimir Radyuhin , Aug 02, 2006)
The G8 summit proves that the West needs Russia more than Russia, with its vast oil reserves and booming economy, needs the West.
- 7 Kids Die As School Bus Falls Into Canal (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Seven children were killed and five others went missing when a school bus carrying 25 of them fell into a canal today.
- 6 Schoolchildren Die As Bus Falls Into Canal (Tribune, Raman Mohan, Aug 02, 2006)
Bali Kutubpur (Sonepat), August 1
Six schoolchildren were killed and two injured seriously when a school bus plunged into Old Western Jamuna Canal here this morning. As many as 21 children survived the mishap.
- Banish The Thought (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2006)
The United Progressive Alliance government’s proposal for restoring executive powers in the matter of appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and the high courts will cut into the independence of the judiciary.
- Jem Strikes Twice, Kills Four Crpf, Bsf Jawans (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Militants of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) struck twice killing four security personnel in Srinagar when the Legislative Assembly and Council sessions were on.
- Aliens On Home Turf (Telegraph, Nilosree Biswas, Aug 02, 2006)
The colonial rulers had decided to create a promenade parallel to the Hooghly during the raj.
- Bill Gates' Charitable Pretensions (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 02, 2006)
Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world but also the biggest philanthropist.
- Sri Lanka Rebels Attack Army Camps Near Eastern Port (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Aug 02, 2006)
Sri Lanka's army and Tamil Tigers battled with mortars and artillery on Wednesday after rebels attacked three eastern military camps, a day after suicide bombers tried to sink a troop transport ship with 850 aboard.
- Kashmiri Women Lift The Veil In Silent Awakening (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Aug 02, 2006)
Twenty-five-year-old Saima Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has shunned the veil and set out to discuss dating in a region where cinemas showing Bollywood romances are hard to find and beauty parlours scorned upon.
- Israeli Commandos Snatch Hizbollah Members In Raid (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Israeli commandos snatched at least three Hizbollah members from a stronghold deep inside Lebanon on Wednesday, in a raid Lebanese security sources said killed at least seven civilians.
- China Launches Drug To Treat Lung Cancer (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
A new Chinese drug, which is claimed to be more effective than chemotherapy for treating lung cancer, has been launched in the domestic market, researchers said.
- Israel’S New Plan: Push Hizbollah Out Of Backyard Before The World Steps In (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 02, 2006)
Less than a mile from the Israel-Lebanon border, the fog begins to lift on Israeli intentions as ground troops pour in to start what is a “clean up” of the Hizbollah from the area between the border and the Litani river, 20-25 km into Lebanese territory.
- Ten Lebanese Killed During Israeli Raid On Baalbek (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
An Israeli raid involving heavy air strikes and a helicopter-borne commando raid killed at least ten people in the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, witnesses said on
Wednesday.
- Hospitals In Lebanon Ill-Prepared For Long War (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 02, 2006)
Supplies of saline water and glucose are beginning to run out "The last thing I remember was that an explosion had hurled me high in the air after which I fell heavily to the ground"
- Institute Of Mental Health To Be Modernised With Rs. 3-Cr. Fund (Hindu, T. Lalith Singh, Aug 02, 2006)
Rs. 3-crore provided for the purpose under National Mental Health Programme
- Rs. 13 Crore Released To Contain Chikungunya (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The disease is prevalent in 236 villages in Hassan
- Bush Fundamentalism Is Courting Disaster (Hindu, Karen Armstrong, Aug 02, 2006)
Affinity with the Christian Right has led to banning stem cell research and turning a blind eye to civilian deaths in Lebanon.
- Find Your Own Voice (Deccan Herald, Amrit Sadhana, Aug 02, 2006)
When you say, “I don’t like red colour,” or “I don’t like dancing,” are you sure ‘you’ who don’t like red or dancing?
- Grim Situation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2006)
Karnataka must evacuate people from low-lying areas.
- Rwanda Striving For A High-Tech Future (Hindu, Xan Rice, Aug 02, 2006)
If successful, the percentage of Rwanda's workforce involved in farming will drop from 90 per cent to 50 per cent in 15 years
- U.S.' Latest Plans On Cuba (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The latest U.S. scheme for Cuba has classified sections that are believed to contain plans of attack and assassination.
- Skewed Approach (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Aug 02, 2006)
The Planning Commission's blueprint for the Eleventh Plan reflects the reformer's mindset.
- European Muslims & Crimes Within (Frontline, RAFIA ZAKARIA, Aug 02, 2006)
European Muslims remain silent on horrific crimes within the community citing fear of fuelling Islamophobia as the reason.
- Intelligence And Effort (Telegraph, André Béteille, Aug 02, 2006)
The government’s recent move to expand numerical quotas in the Central universities and institutions for teaching and research in engineering, management and medicine in favour of the other backward classes has led to much acrimony and some . . .
- Castro Steps Aside Temporarily (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, has temporarily handed over his presidential powers to his brother Raul after having surgery to stop gastrointestinal bleeding.
- U.P. Cabinet Nod For Taking Metro Rail To Ghaziabad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Two stoppages in Ghaziabad -- one at Kaushambi and the other at Vaishali
- Six Children Dead As Bus Plunges Into Sonepat Canal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
22 children have been miraculously rescued by villagers, police and Army divers; two of the rescued admitted to hospital
- A Critique Of The Private Sector In Pakistan (News International, Mosharraf Zaidi, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan's favourite past-time is dissecting and criticising the government.
- Did Wild Birds Bring Avian Flu To India? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 02, 2006)
A "smoking gun" that could convincingly pin the blame on wild birds is lacking. Even at the global level, unravelling the role of wild birds in the spread of H5N1 is not proving easy.
- Nnf Launches `Battle Against The Feeding Bottle Campaign' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The programme is to create awareness about ill-effects of bottle-feeding
- Kolkata Gets Bangalored (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Aug 02, 2006)
Residents of Kolkata beware! The city they so treasure and which has undergone a rejuvenation in recent years shows early signs of being afflicted by the Bangalore disease.
- Fiscal Finances Unravel (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 02, 2006)
Surging expenditures disrupt fiscal correction
- Carnage In Qana (Tribune, Robert Fisk, Aug 02, 2006)
They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. “Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana,” was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy’s body lay.
- Bomb Attacks On Iraqi Forces Kill 43 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Bombs killed at least 43 persons on Tuesday, including 23 Iraqi soldiers, in the latest blow to the new government’s efforts to inspire confidence in the country’s security forces.
- Ban On Child Help At Home (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Aug 02, 2006)
The Centre has finally outlawed an inescapable home truth 21st century India has learnt to live with: child labour in houses and dhabas.
- Ltte, Navy Clash Again (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a government troop ship and killed fourteen sailors today, a pro-rebel website said, as Sri Lanka’s military pounded rebel positions in an attempt to seize control of a key reservoir from the guerrillas and restore water . . .
- Israel's Terror (Frontline, AIJAZ AHMAD, Aug 02, 2006)
The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a "New Middle East".
- Summer Of Shelling (Frontline, Atul Aneja , Aug 02, 2006)
From the war zone in Lebanon, an account of the distress and the relief effort.
- In 'Liberated' Iraq (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The country is sliding into a civil war, but this reality is overlooked by the U.S. despite heavy casualties in sectarian violence.
- Lessons Of A Failed Intervention (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
On a midsummer’s day 50 years ago, the new president of Egypt was scheduled to make a speech in Alexandria.
- 8 Killed In Clashes Between Terrorists, Security Personnel (Pioneer, Khursheed Wani, Aug 02, 2006)
Amid tight security arrangements in Srinagar for the ongoing Assembly session, militants of the Jaish-e-Muhammad outfit struck at Dalgate and Karan Nagar areas killing four security personnel.
- Lebanon Facing Acute Fuel Crisis: Un (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Lebanon has only two or three days of fuel left and the United Nations is working urgently to persuade Israel to give safe passage to supply ships, UN officials said.
- Lebanon’S Hour Of Agony (Dawn, Robert Fisk, Aug 01, 2006)
To Sidon. Ed Cody has found a cool, 120-mile-an-hour driver called Hassan — he has a black Mercedes which I nickname “Death Car” (because that will be the fate of anyone who gets in our way) and we zip down the coast road and turn east into the . . .
- Fall In Eden (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 01, 2006)
Despite what the numbers clearly demonstrate, there may not be any victors in the aftermath of the elections held in the Cricket Association of Bengal. Of course, there can be no doubt that Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya has scored a personal triumph . . .
- Tragic Or Comic? (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 01, 2006)
Life in India is like a tragicomic farce, where corruption and all the horrors of bad living blend easily with helpless, nervous laughter because there is nothing anyone can do to alleviate wrong and replace it with integrity and dignity.
- Picture Of Indifference And Neglect (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 01, 2006)
I am in Tamenglong, up in the hills in Manipur. An idyllic setting.
- Israel Rejects End-War Calls, Us Hopeful (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Israel rejected mounting international pressure today to end its 20-day-old war against Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, but Washington said a ceasefire could be achieved this week.
- Four Pak Infiltrators Killed; 12 Surrender (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Four heavily armed Pakistani infiltrators were killed and 10 people, including seven Amarnath pilgrims wounded while 12 militants surrendered before security forces in Kashmir valley during the past 24 hours.
- Nda Misled J&k On Aiims: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) misled the nation during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule over the construction of 12 medical institutes in different parts of the country.
- Force-Feeding Mallika To Gujarat Won't Do (Pioneer, Navin Upadhyay, Aug 01, 2006)
The Centre and the Gujarat Government are headed for a major confrontation on the Planning Commission's controversial decision to allot a Rs 10 crore pilot project to noted dancer Mallika Sarabhai for making a series of Gujarat-centric documentaries . . .
- Accountability In Clinical Trials (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 01, 2006)
In a bid to meet a long felt need for more transparency and order in the way human clinical trials are conducted, the Indian Council of Medical Research has decided to start a registry by the beginning of next year.
- My Driver's Son (Times of India, Anand Kurian, Aug 01, 2006)
My driver's eldest son is eight years old. That sentence doesn't tell the full story. It is true that he is eight years old and that he is the eldest of the three children in the house but he is not quite my driver's son.
- Doctors Or Butchers? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 01, 2006)
Doctors are supposed to give life and hope to patients. Nobody can even imagine that they can also maim completely healthy persons on demand, so that the latter could use their amputated bodies to gain sympathy and beg for alms.
- West Asia Biggest Test For Upa Government (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 01, 2006)
Developments in West Asia are proving to be the biggest test of Indian foreign policy in recent times as New Delhi finds itself under increasing pressure to review its strategic ties with Israel.
- Women In Uniform (Tribune, G.S. Bedi, Aug 01, 2006)
Women have been inducted into the Indian armed forces since 1992-93 only as short service commissioned officers.
- Hezbollah Breach Resumes Israeli Action (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Israeli planes hit targets in southern Lebanon today after Hezbollah guerrillas blasted an Israeli tank and injured three Israeli soldiers, breaking a brief respite in 20 days of fighting.
- Education Panacea Of All Evils: Dua (Tribune, Amarjit Thind, Aug 01, 2006)
The people of the country seem to have lost the will to assert themselves by consciously choosing to accept the ills plaguing our society. Instead of taking steps to contain corruption and increasing criminalisation in politics, the masses are . . .
- Death By Mercy (Times of India, C P SURENDRAN, Aug 01, 2006)
It's not good to see your father dying. My father passed away recently. He was suffering from Alzheimer's. The last time he recognised me as his son was some four years ago.
- India-Us Nuclear Deal — Good Intentions, Bad Bargain (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 01, 2006)
In their anxiety to secure the country's energy security, India's leaders seem to have convinced themselves that the nuclear deal is in the best interest of the country. Yet, the impression is unavoidable that the Government has been taking too many . . .
- Serial Blasts: Prosecution Counsel Examines Many Witnesses (Hindu, V.S. Palaniappan, Aug 01, 2006)
Says minor discrepancies in deposition of witnesses will not affect case
- Kashmiri Women Lift The Veil In Silent Awakening (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Aug 01, 2006)
Twenty-five-year-old Saima Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has shunned the veil and set out to discuss dating in a region where cinemas showing Bollywood romances are hard to find and beauty parlours scorned upon.
- Recipe For Renewal (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Aug 01, 2006)
Some senior Congress leaders have privately urged Ms. Sonia Gandhi to 'review the Congress ideology and policy'.
- Education For Women: Role Of Open Universities (Daily Excelsior, Ram Rattan Sharma, Aug 01, 2006)
The twentieth century will be known for the movements and consolidation of the agenda of human rights and democracy.
- Nepal Maoists Are Hounding Out Indians (Times of India, Himanshi Dhawan, Aug 01, 2006)
Indians are being hounded out of Nepal by the Maoists. Death threats, 24-hour deadlines for leaving with bag and baggage have been received by Indian hospitality sector employees and businessmen, creating a sense of deep fear in the community.
- Israel Rules Out Early Ceasefire (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 01, 2006)
Israel ruled out an early ceasefire as it resumed air strikes across the Lebanese border on Monday.
- Cadbury Under Attack For Contamination In The Uk (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Cadbury India’s parent firm is set to announce on Wednesday a significant fall in profits for the half year ended June 2006 following contamination of its chocolate bars in the UK.
- Stanley Medical College Doctors To Train Peers In Biomedical Waste . . . (Hindu, R. Sujatha, Aug 01, 2006)
The Dean will be the head for all government medical colleges
- Train From China (Indian Express, K Srinivasan, Aug 01, 2006)
Yana Banerjee-Bey, in ‘Tibet on the train to the future’ (Bywords, IE, July 14), writes about how Tibetans’ traditional way of life can only change for the better, thanks to the new train that links Tibet to mainland China.
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