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Articles 5721 through 5820 of 20587:
- Capt Seeks One-Time Debt Relief (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, Jul 04, 2006)
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today called on Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Dr Montek Singh Ahuluwalia and urged him to bail out farmers from indebtedness by recommending a financial package.
- Bhajan Lal’S Resignation Accepted (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Jul 04, 2006)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today accepted Mr Bhajan Lal’s resignation from the presidentship of the Haryana PCC, a move which could intensify the simmering infighting in the state unit.
- Can't Count The Dead (Times of India, Usha Rai, Jul 04, 2006)
The recent UNAIDS report which estimates 4,00,000 AIDS deaths in the country in 2005 is not only shocking, but questionable.
- Army Jawan Thrown Off Train In Bihar (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
An Army jawan, Sunil Dutt, has been thrown off the running Mahananda Express by four drunken criminals near Bihia railway station between Danapur and Mughalsarai sections of the East Central Railway.
- A Hilarious Narrative (Hindu, C. G. Rishikesh, Jul 04, 2006)
`Crazy' Mohan; Kizhakku Pathippagam, 16, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore, Chennai-600004. Rs. 80.
- Evaluating The State Of Basic Services (Hindu, P. K. Doraiswamy, Jul 04, 2006)
A path-breaking study in assessing the quality of India's important public services
- Travel Pack For Students Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Parry Travels, part of the Murugappa Group, has launched a students' travel pack, which comprises all travel-related items like airfare, medical insurance and foreign exchange.
- 593 Chikungunya Cases In Uttara Kannada (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
District Health Officer P.M. Mohan has said that 593 persons are suspected to have been affected by chikungunya in Sirsi, Siddapur, Yellapur, Haliyal and Mundgod taluks of Uttara Kannada district.
- Upa Govt Taking Steps To Contain Inflation: Sonia (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Assuring concrete steps by the UPA government to contain inflation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said efforts are on to ensure that poor people are not hit by rising prices of essential commodities.
- Simply Scandalous (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 04, 2006)
THINGS could not have gone more horribly wrong. Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, smarting under last year’s embarrassment of the leakage of the paper for the Pre-Medical Entrance Test, outsourced the job of setting, printing and distributing . .
- Military And Media (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Jul 04, 2006)
Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt-Gen S. Pattabhiraman has apologized for his published comment on women in the Army even after it was put out officially that his remarks had been torn out of context by a reporter.
- South Korea Scientist Says He Was Duped By Juniors (Reuters, Jack Kim, Jul 04, 2006)
Disgraced stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk testified on Tuesday saying he was duped by junior researchers into publishing bad data but South Korean prosecutors at the trial sought to prove he was guilty of fraud.
- Developers Vs Generic Manufacturers — Innovators Need A Booster Dose (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jul 04, 2006)
Innovations are key in the pharma and agro-chemicals sectors, and innovators must have the chance to recoup R&D and product stewardship costs.
- A Clash Of Civilizations (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Jul 04, 2006)
The Pew Research Center, a Washington think-tank, is about six years old.
- Beijing Is Not Far From Delhi (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 04, 2006)
There’s nothing like Sri Lanka to concentrate the mind when it comes to a discussion on terrorism. Last week, even as the German NGO, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, was hosting a conference on the state . . .
- Us Army Not Sure If Iran Blitz Will Work (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Bombing raids against Iran would not be successful and will fail to destroy the country’s nuclear programme as there was a lack of reliable intelligence, senior officials have warned the Bush Administration.
- Poultry Team For West Asia To Allay Bird Flu Fears (Business Line, G. Gurumurthy, Jul 04, 2006)
To press for lifting of import ban on poultry products
To put in perspective on the disease-free status of the farms in the South, especially Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
A detailed video presentation will also be made to show that products from the . . .
- Jawan Is Thrown Off Train In Bihar (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
In yet another horrific incident on a train in Bihar, a group of drunken young men believed to be petty criminals threw an Indian Army jawan going home on leave out of a running train in Bhojpur district on Sunday night.
- Quota Gone Mad (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 04, 2006)
Doss cares a toss for the PM ---- The free-for-all that the UPA Government has become known for, was apparent yet again when, on Sunday, July 2, a self-anointed social justice convention in Delhi demanded the Manmohan Singh Governnment immediately . . .
- India’S Ailing Public Health Services (The Financial Express, ILA PATNAIK, Jul 04, 2006)
In the absence of accountability, our health outcomes are worse than those of many Asian countries.
- Bop Scenario (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 04, 2006)
Slippage in current account checked
- One Palestinian Killed, Two Injured In Israeli Air Strike In Gaza (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
One Palestinian was Killed and Two others were wounded Tuesday, one seriously, in an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya Tuesday, medical sources said.
- Pm For World Efforts To End Poverty (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Underscoring the pivotal role of the United Nations in advancing global development agenda, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Monday said the world today has a rare “collective capacity” to end hunger and poverty and realize the promise of universal . . .
- Bill Gates, Ngos And The Role Of The State (News International, Ethan Casey, Jul 04, 2006)
In mid-June, Bill Gates announced that over the next two years he will be handing over many of his duties at Microsoft Corporation to two other executives and moving into a part-time role with the company, in order to devote most of his attention . . .
- Afghanistan: 20 Militants Killed In Coalition Ambush (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
US soldiers killed 20 militants who ambushed a military convoy in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said on Monday.
- Easy Packs For Doctors (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Jul 04, 2006)
A World Bank study says half the doctors in Government medical centres prescribe treatments that are harmful ---- It is easy to become a medico with a super speciality in South India.
- Death, Destruction In Palestine (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 04, 2006)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered the Army to intensify action in the Gaza Strip as his country’s war-planes and gunship helicopters struck at the heart of the Palestinian government on Sunday hitting the Gaza office of Hamas Prime . . .
- Rescuing The Doha Round (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Jul 04, 2006)
In the last week’s column, I suggested that time may be running out for the Doha round of trade discussions to be concluded with an agreement that would satisfy the developing world.
- Passports For Health Care (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 04, 2006)
Under a new federal law that took effect on Saturday, poor Americans are required to produce proof of citizenship to be eligible for Medicaid.
- New Russia’S New Rich Class (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Jul 04, 2006)
Moscow seems shamefaced about summer. Thirty degrees centigrade in the forenoon of last Wednesday is 40 degrees higher than during my last visit in December. Moscow then was a grey world flecked with snow white. The wind screamed at the fur hat and . . .
- The Only State Muslims Have Embraced Is Denial (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
British Muslims must share responsibility for confronting and destroying the cancer in their midst. Both Muslims (56 per cent) and non-Muslims (49 per cent) feel that the Government is not doing enough to combat extremism in the Muslim community.
- Haniyeh Says Attack Will Not Break People’S Will (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Gaza City–Israeli aircraft sent missiles tearing through the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday in an unmistakable message to his ruling Hamas group to free an Israeli soldier.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal & Its Dark Shadows (Pakistan Observer, Rizwan Ghani, Jul 03, 2006)
Within 24 hours of US Foreign Relations Committee’s backing for the deal which now awaits voting from full Senate and House of Representatives, reportedly Indian PM had to dash to Maharashtra to have firsthand view of debt crisis that has resulted . . .
- More Package Than Relief? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 03, 2006)
How does one ensure Dr Manmohan Singh won’t be going down again to Vidarbha, relief package in hand, in July 2007? This isn’t cynicism: after all, the state legislature had been convulsed by the same issue —desperate farmers committing suicide—seven . . .
- Transforming The Art Of Giving Productively (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jul 03, 2006)
The Gates-Buffet twin decisions to walk away from wealth have lessons beyond the money.
- Revenue Growth And Social Imperatives (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 03, 2006)
The Rs690 billion tax revenue target set for the last financial year is stated to have been exceeded by Rs10.3 billion, indicating a long-term trend in revenue growth.
- Of A Boss And Her Able Aide (OutLook, Khushwant Singh, Jul 03, 2006)
A tale of two Gujarati women who made it their mission to rescue women abducted during Partition.
- Congo's Jungle Terrorists Disband (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 03, 2006)
One of Africa's most-feared militias has crumbled and now faces the wrath of the population it terrorised. The mayi-mayi, warrior-mystics who have ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo for 10 years, are surrendering in droves.
- Strengthening A Valuable Scheme (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 03, 2006)
The decision of the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to recommend raising of the monthly wage ceiling for coverage under the ESI scheme from Rs.7,500 to Rs.10,000, though welcome, is also an occasion to ponder over the serious problems . . .
- Indians' Sonic Map Impresses Gates (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Jul 03, 2006)
The design will improve the quality of life of the visually impaired
- Projects Worth Rs. 3,000 Crore For Salem's `Vision Progress' (Hindu, R. Ilangovan, Jul 03, 2006)
Blueprint focuses on creation of infrastructure facilities
Salem Steel Plant Rs. 1,553 crore
National Highways Rs. 935 crore
Railway expansion Rs. 379 crore
Government Hospital Rs. 120 crore
- The Uses Of Rhetoric (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 03, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research.
- Slums Are Cities Of The Future (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 03, 2006)
Even if income poverty is not so acute in urban slums as in some rural areas in India, everyone living in a slum suffers acute deprivation of water and sanitation. Then there is the fear of being forced to move at any time.
- A Journey To Remember Across China (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 03, 2006)
The feeling of being part of history in the making forms a common bond among the passengers of the Beijing-Lhasa train.
- Like A Totally Blossomed Flower (Deccan Herald, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Jul 03, 2006)
Only a healthy bud can blossom. In the same way, only a healthy being can succeed.
- Can Genes Explain Rising Obesity? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
contrary to conventional wisdom, the obesity epidemic is not restricted to people in Western countries who eat bad diets and are not very active......
- Climate Change Can Wait, Health Can't (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
With $50bn, we could make the planet a better place but money spent on global warming would be wasted.....
- 4 Infiltrators Killed In Gulmarg Sector (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
At least six residential houses were gutted and a soldier got killed in a fierce gunbattle between militants and security forces at Gamroo village in Bandipore area of Baramulla district even as a group of . . .
- Israel Pressures Hamas With Sixth Night Of Gaza Raids (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Israel carried out a sixth night of air raids on the Gaza Strip early Monday, a day after it warned it would use all its power to free a soldier captured by militants a week ago.
- Baba Farid Varsity Vc Admits To Paper Leak (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
The leaked question paper of the Punjab Pre-medical Entrance Test was an exact copy of the original.
- Palestinian Officials To Be Prosecuted: Peres (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said on Sunday that his country would prosecute Palestinian government officials captured in connection with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.
- Cautious Approach To Medical Tourism Advocated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Medical fraternity lays stress on monitoring quality of treatment
- Putting Private Equity To Work In India (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 03, 2006)
Buyout firms that can exercise the disciplines of building ties and bet on the right human capital will reap the rewards of a market where east and west are meeting for mutual benefit.
- Travel Pack For Students Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Parry Travels, part of the Murugappa Group, has launched a students' travel pack, which comprises all travel-related items like airfare, medical insurance and foreign exchange.
- Sustaining The Pace Of Services-Led Growth (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 03, 2006)
A coherent integrated services policy, in line with the agricultural and industrial policies, needs to be developed.
- `No Salary Release Order At Aiims': Superintendent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
"There is no question about the resident doctors being paid for the strike period"
He clarified that the Institute Director's order "only pertains to the completion of the scheduled academic term of the residents''
- Government Seeks Options To Make Probe Effective (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
CBI investigation in Kiliroor sex scandal case
- A Sumptuous Buffet (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 03, 2006)
Warren Buffet’s decision to donate 85% of his personal wealth, around $38 billion, to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a landmark event in the history of philanthropy and shows the best of capitalism .
- Tarry, The Tortoise Way (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jul 03, 2006)
The hard infrastructure available in our solemn socialistic republic is quite simply pathetic. To call it medieval would be an insult to the middle ages.
- Israel Hits Palestine Pm Office (Deccan Herald, Greg Myre, Jul 03, 2006)
An Israeli aircraft fired missiles into the offices of the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza City early Sunday, the highest profile target yet in Israel’s escalating campaign to pressure the Palestinians for the release of an Israeli soldier.....
- Fiction To Fact (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
Hawking has sounded alarm on genetic engineering
- Growing Intolerance (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Jul 03, 2006)
Such actions as the Forest Gate incident, will drive a wedge between Britain and its Asian immigrants...
- Connecting Rural India (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
Co-ops are ideal bases to connect rural areas, as they foster economic activity
- Israel Steps Up Raids In Bid To Free Soldier (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Israeli aircraft intensified their attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza early Monday, a day after Israel's prime minister ordered his military to do whatever necessary to pressure militants to free an Israeli soldier captured a week ago.
- Learning From The Left Parties (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jul 03, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said that the BJP should learn from the Left Parties how to secure people's mandate repeatedly.
- Caring For Kashmir's Dead Is Soul-Destroying (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Jul 03, 2006)
They are the men who care for Kashmir's dead, but the work is slowly killing them.
- Just A Bit Of Security (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 03, 2006)
Every Government has a midlife crisis as well as a sell-by date. The trick is to ensure that the latter does not precede the former.
- Death Of A Toddler (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 03, 2006)
Viral disorders and ministerial posturing
One of the more surprising features of the seventh Left Front ministry has been the retention of Dr Surya Kanta Mishra ~ maybe a good doctor, maybe a party heavyweight, but a pathetic failure as health minister.
- Law, Justice And J&k~ii (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Jul 03, 2006)
The invaders failed to take Srinagar solely because they lost their military purpose while indulging in the Rape of Baramula.
- Merit Lies In Equal Opportunity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 03, 2006)
Breaking open the unstated reservation for the upper-caste is the only way to advance the nation's backward castes/communities — S Simhadri
- ‘Dr Death’ Regrets Doing What He Did (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 03, 2006)
Jack Kevorkian, known as “Dr Death”, who claims to have assisted more than 130 suicides of terminally sick patients, now regrets what he did and says he should have instead concentrated his efforts on working for a legislation legalising euthanasia.
- A Tiger’S Tears (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Jul 03, 2006)
If a tiger can shed crocodile tears, a super Tiger has done it. Anton Balasingham, described as the chief negotiator on behalf of the Tamil secessionists in Sri Lanka, is obviously skilled in the art of saying one thing and meaning another.
- Two Us Execs In Chennai Probed By Police (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
An American couple, both of them top executives of a US-based payroll processing and HR outsourcing company, have been restrained by the Chennai police from leaving the city following a complaint accusing them of stealing high-value business process . . .
- V.P. Singh For Referendum On Quota (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI and SUNNY SEBASTIAN , Jul 03, 2006)
Withdraw concessions to private sector if it does not implement policy: Raja
Media criticised for "hyping" agitation by students
Government should withdraw concessions to private sector: Raja
Government urged to declare 2006 as `Year of Social . . .
- President Kalam Begins Three-Day Visit To Orissa (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam arrived here this evening on a three-day visit to Orissa.
- Naco Defends Hiv Estimation Process (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Ever since the Global Report on HIV was released by UNAIDS earlier this month, there has been much controversy on the NACO versus UNAIDS HIV/AIDS estimation figures for 2005.
- Aam Aadmi Who? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 02, 2006)
The Congress better clarify who this person is if its government means to get its policies right
- A Rambling Read (Hindu, Sonya Dutta Choudhury, Jul 02, 2006)
What Mahasweta Devi's Salt did to dramatise the plight of the landless peasant, this complicated cast of characters fails to achieve.
- The Root Of The Real Inequality Problem (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 02, 2006)
Linguistic diversity in itself is not sufficient rationalisation for wide use of a non-native language in schools and colleges
- Poverty, Deprivation And Rural Indebtedness (Times of India, Humra Quraishi, Jul 02, 2006)
Here we are crying hoarse, tamatars are out of our grasp, but as attention gets focused to the Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, horror stories tell us of what deprivation and stark poverty can do to the human being.
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