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Articles 6321 through 6420 of 20587:
- Balochistan Budget (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 22, 2006)
As expected, Balochistan has unveiled a deficit budget for the fourth year running.
- Solving The Tax Muddle Is Key (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 22, 2006)
The conventional wisdom was that the Chinese SEZ model could not be replicated in a democracy like India.
- Courage Under Fire (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 22, 2006)
As befitting an officer and gentleman, the Army’s vice-chief of staff has finally apologised for the remarks attributed to him about women in the Army.
- Death Of A Soldier (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 22, 2006)
Sir, ~ Lieutenant Sushmita Chakraborty’s suicide reveals that even 60 years after independence, all is not well in the army ~ not even for women. Brigadier KK Chopra of the Northern Command is reported to have told a press conference that “she had . . .
- Focus On Urban Renewal: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Municipal administration should be freed from the cancer of corruption, land mafia
- Michael Carter To Meet Karunanidhi (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, Jun 22, 2006)
World Bank India chief to discuss five ongoing schemes and two upcoming projects
Bank expected to fund two new schemes
Too many funding sources for rural water supply project
- Apex Court Orders Fresh Medical Counselling (Hindu, Siddharth Narrain , Jun 22, 2006)
CBSE granted permission to cancel merit list and submit a revised one to DGHS
DGHS ordered to conduct counselling from June 26
Exams conducted for admission to 15 p.c. of total seats
- 150 Die In Indonesian Floods (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Jakarta rushes aid to the affected Sulawesi island
- Palestine In Crisis (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 22, 2006)
Palestine is embroiled in a very serious and most dangerous crisis since its people rightly or wrongly elected the radical party Hamas ousting Fatah for the first time since the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) set foot on the Israeli . . .
- Four Soldiers Die As ’copter Crashes Near Ba (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Pakistan Army aviation helicopter crashed in a dam near here early on Wednesday due to a technical problem killing four soldiers and injuring three others.
- Minister Fires Letter Salvo In Aiims Row (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss today put off a meeting with the faculty and students of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, but asked institute director P. Venugopal to explain why he made their spat public.
- The Puzzle Of India’S Growth Rate (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 22, 2006)
The post-1991 economic reforms in India has been ridden with quite a few crises.
- Cure With A Prayer (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 22, 2006)
Ask the pastor at Ukhrul if the rising prevalence of AIDS and drug use is worrisome, and he says it is.
- Middle India Under Siege (Tribune, B.G.Verghese, Jun 21, 2006)
Middle India is under siege along a long-neglected, exploited, underserved, ill-governed, poorly connected poverty belt of forest and hill country covering contiguous areas in nine states “from Pashupati to Tirupati”.
- Upper Caste Regression (Pioneer, N Jamal Ansari, Jun 21, 2006)
Much has been written in favour of and against reservation for OBCs. As the debate is moving from emotional expressions to activism, some very important issues concerning the policy have been overlooked.
- Police Grill Senior Apollo Doctors In Mahajan Case (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Delhi police today grilled senior doctors of Apollo hospital for nearly nine hours in connection with the high-profile Rahul Mahajan drug abuse case and it was all set to question the hospital top brass tomorrow.
- Price Of Reforms (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Jun 21, 2006)
The UPA government's consistent violation of the Common Minimum Programme attracts a stiff warning from the Left parties.
- The China Poser (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Jun 21, 2006)
The Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee is all gung-ho after his six day China visit. Mr. Mukherjee signed an agreement for more joint military exercises with the PLA; and at a press conference rebutted the assertion . . .
- Vice-Chief Says Sorry, Ends Gender Row In Army (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Seeking to put an end to the controversy generated by his "misconstrued" remarks about women officers in the force, Army vice-chief Lt-General S Pattabhiraman on Tuesday apologised if his statement, "as reported" in a section of the media, had hurt . . .
- Sahil Being Taken To Mumbai (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
A court in Delhi today granted the Mumbai police two day’s transit remand for taking Sahil Zaroo, co-accused in the Rahul Mahajan drug abuse case, to the metropolis in connection with a theft and criminal assault case there.
- Gene Junction (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 21, 2006)
Looks like genes could be destiny after all. Following years of scientific wrangling over the nature versus nurture controversy the genetic component appears to be getting strongly established - at least as a durable force of predisposition.
- Biotech Brinjal (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had a rather unusual bunch of visitors last week - Greenpeace protesters dressed up as sheep and cattle, who camped outside his office.
- One Lakh Aids Patients To Get Art Drugs (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The government will roll out ART (anti-retroviral therapy) drugs for one lakh AIDS patients by July 15. Speaking to The Tribune on the eve of a three-day consultation with the Indian Network for People Living with HIV AIDS, the NACO Director- . . .
- Women In Uniform (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 21, 2006)
It was inevitable that a massive dose of “gender”, and some sensation, would attach itself to Lieutenant Sushmita Charkraborty shooting herself.
- Clinical Trial Safeguards Urged (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Concerned over the ethical standards of medical research undertaken in the country, experts have said safeguards needed to be put in place to protect human volunteers, especially the poor, from being exploited in clinical trials.
- Eyewitness With Police, For Police, Always (Pioneer, Vijaita Singh, Jun 21, 2006)
With you, for you, always. At least that's what Ashish Bali, one of the key witnesses in the Neha Kakkar case, believes when it comes to rescuing the Delhi Police.
- Wheat Imports And Food Security (Frontline, M.S. Swaminathan, Jun 21, 2006)
The need of the hour is a National Food Security Board.
- Omega 3 Case Is Made But There Is Just Not Enough (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jun 21, 2006)
The more it is tested, the more compelling the hypothesis becomes. Dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyspraxia, and other neurological problems seem to be associated with a deficiency of Omega 3 fatty acids, especially in the . .
- A World In The Thrall Of Violence (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 21, 2006)
Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal... are all caught in violence that shows no signs of abating. Ironically, the more powerful a few nations become and the more power their leaders wield in geo-politics, the more unsafe they are making the world . . .
- Bid To Evolve Consensus To Exempt Tourism, It Sectors From Hartals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Government to consider giving stickers for vehicles used by tourists
Programme to train tourist guides on the anvil
Strength of the police force to be increased
Transfer of police officials as per norms
- Seeds And Protests (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Jun 21, 2006)
The UPA government's decision to allow field trials in GM food crops may have human and economic costs.
- Spare A Thought For The Urban Poor (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 21, 2006)
The World Urban Forum that got underway in Vancouver on Monday comes at a time when the world is on the brink of historic demographic changes.
- The Inbuilt Volatility In Financial Markets... (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Jun 21, 2006)
And why our own approach to risk and regulation aids the systemic distortions
- Vice-Chief Apologises (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
In a bid to douse the controversy ignited by his observations in the wake of Lieutenant Sushmita Chakraborty’s suicide, the Vice-Chief of the Army Staff today issued a personal clarification and apology saying he had a “personal commitment and . . .
- Targetting Migrant Workers (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 21, 2006)
Sixteen agricultural workers of Nepali origin are the latest victims of terror.
- Indians Tail Monkey Man In Search Of Healing Powers (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Thousands of people are flocking to an impoverished village in West Bengal to worship a man they believe possesses divine powers because he climbs up trees in seconds, gobbles up bananas and has a "tail".
- Higher Interest Rates Unlikely To Halt India Inc Growth Story (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The recent spate of interest rate hikes is unlikely to leave any major hole on the balance sheets of India Inc, as the sensitivity of corporate earnings to interest rates has declined over the years, country's leading private banking major HDFC Bank . . .
- Food At Stake (Frontline, Brinda Karat, Jun 21, 2006)
The new proposals of the Department of Food and Public Distribution constitute an assault on the right to food.
- The False Credo Of Narcissism (The Economic Times, VITHAL C NADKARNI, Jun 21, 2006)
In his book Psychology as Religion:
- Kidding Along In Karnataka (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 21, 2006)
The state syllabus in India’s Silicon Valley of Karnataka will, from now on, strive to develop more thoughtful children in school. Kids from class one to class nine will be asked to make daily entries in their diaries, and will even be given marks . . .
- Rs 59.7 Bn Balochistan Deficit Budget (Pakistan Observer, Ghulam Tahir, Jun 21, 2006)
Syed Ehsan Shah, Provincial Finance Minister Tuesday presented deficit budget for the fiscal year 2006-2007, of Rs. 59.700 billion against the anticipated receipts of Rs 48 billion 730 million showing deficit of Rs 11 billion.
- India And Pakistan Discuss Bird Flu Control (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 21, 2006)
India and Pakistan discussed joint steps to control bird flu and polio on Tuesday as they seek to cooperate in tackling regional health care concerns, the Associated Press reported.
- Bjp To Support Independent Candidate (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Pondicherry: President of the Pondicherry state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) R. Kesavalu said here on Tuesday that the party would support the Independent candidate and former Health Minister of Pondicherry, V. Pethaperumal who is . . .
- Reality Dawns (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jun 21, 2006)
After gaining nearly 1,200 points from its low in three trading sessions till Monday, the markets saw some selling on Tuesday as the Sensex fell 175 points.
- More Poverty Or Less? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2006)
Not surprisingly, the figures cited by the government for people living below the poverty line have come to be widely questioned.
- Who Are The Poor? (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2006)
The author is secretary general, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi
- Education For The New Economy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 21, 2006)
When he flipped the switch on the assembly line in 1913, it’s unlikely Henry Ford set out to change the world; his goal was to build cars faster, cheaper.
- A Dream Come True For Beedi Workers Of Solapur (Hindu, Meena Menon, Jun 21, 2006)
Manmohan Singh to inaugurate housing project on July 2, to benefit 10,000 women
Project financed by State, Central governments and beedi workers
Women took part in designing homes and made some changes
- `Ignorance About Hiv Affecting Women' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Health services should be more adolescent-friendly to help reduce the severity of HIV/AIDS in Bellary district, R.V. Hanumayya, District Health Officer, has said.
- Vice-Chief Of Army Apologises (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Four days after his remarks on women officers stirred a hornet's nest, Vice-Chief of the Army Lt Gen S Pattabhiraman on Tuesday tendered an apology saying he had "personal commitment and healthy respect towards the role of lady officers in Army".
- Us Forces Kill 15 Suspected Insurgents In Iraq Raids (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
US forces hunting insurgents linked to Al-Qaeda in Iraq killed 15 gunmen in simultaneous raids north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military said in a statement.
- Sick Of Politics (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 21, 2006)
There is something very skewed with a State’s political reasoning when a minister finds it more important to announce the setting up of an expert . . .
- Senior Apollo Doctors Questioned By Police (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Police today questioned three senior doctors of the Apollo Hospital, including its medical director, in connection with the alleged fudging of medical reports of Rahul Mahajan when he was admitted there early this month with symptoms of drug overdose.
- For The Love Of It (Deccan Herald, DILIP RATHNAKAR, Jun 21, 2006)
Age or limitations do not deter one from doing something he is passionate about
- Karzai Urges More ‘Human Concern’ From China (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Beijing has been criticised for mistreating minorities and maintaining friendly relations with regimes in Sudan and Myanmar
- Costly Affair (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2006)
Marriages may be made in heaven, but their packaging, thankfully, is left for mortals to accomplish.
- Indisposed Gogoi Backs Out Of Talks (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Battling a health problem ever since he returned from an overseas trip, chief minister Tarun Gogoi has excused himself from the third round of talks between Delhi and the Ulfa-constituted People’s Consultative Group (PCG) on Thursday.
- Minor Arrested On Rape Charges In New Delhi (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
A teenager was arrested on Tuesday on charges of raping a minor girl and sodomising another in an East-Delhi area, police said.
- 35 Killed In Rain Related Incidents In Maharashtra (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Thirty-five persons have been killed and seven injured in rain related incidents in Maharashtra during the last three days, official sources said on Tuesday.
- Sorry If My Remarks Hurt Women: Army Vice-Chief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
"I have no hesitation in tendering apology," says Lt. Gen. Pattabhiraman
"I have a healthy respect for lady officers in the Army"
"The lady officers have contributed a lot"
- Tourism, It May Be Exempted From Hartals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Kodiyeri says Government trying to evolve consensus on the issue
- Reclaiming The Public Imagination (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 21, 2006)
Disquieting impressions are gaining ground. If these are not corrected, Manmohan Singh might be inviting dangerous challenges, not just to himself but to the interests of the Indian state.
- Will An Indian Be The Next U.N. Chief? (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jun 21, 2006)
In nominating Shashi Tharoor as its candidate for the top U.N. job, India is taking a gamble. The payoff in terms of international visibility is potentially high while the cost of defeat is low, but only if the game is played properly.
- Army Commander Says Waziristan Under Control (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jun 21, 2006)
The Pakistan Army has put militants in Waziristan “on the defensive” and the situation in the Waziristan tribal areas has “cooled down tremendously”, Commander 11 Corps Lt Gen Mohammed Hamid Khan has said. Others disagree.
- Bill Gatess Long Farewell (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 20, 2006)
The announcement that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is slowly withdrawing from the daily running of the company did not come as a surprise.
- Cure For The Instant Killer (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Jun 20, 2006)
If Government is serious about eliminating drugs, its agencies must not give any quarters to the ring of peddlers, says Bulbul Roy Mishra
- How To End A Nightmare (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2006)
The image of a resurgent Bengal is incompatible with the mindset of its political leadership and the functioning of its slothful administrative machinery, writes A.K. Chatterjee
- Panel To Study Aiims Functioning (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Jun 20, 2006)
Solution shortly, says Anbumani
Decision taken after Anbumani met Manmohan
Panel will also recommend steps to strengthen AIIMS
- Agri-Health Synergy (Business Standard, Surinder Sud, Jun 20, 2006)
Closer ties between the agriculture and health sectors can be highly rewarding. It’s time we reorient related public policies.
- Search For Efficiency — A War For Workable Workers, This! (Business Line, Alok Ray, Jun 20, 2006)
Adding new skills may not necessarily improve the lot of the job seekers.
In a dynamic economy, as new industries come up and old ones phase out, there will be retrenchment. But there is no cause for concern, as with a little bit of retraining . . .
- Good Is Bad (Times of India, Manjul Bajaj, Jun 20, 2006)
It was our first morning in Goa. We were at the fag end of a perfect breakfast. The husband was smoking peaceably while I watched the rain pour down in huge torrents from the safety of our partially open, beach-front restaurant.
- The Case Of The Two-In-One Author (Business Standard, Nilanjana S Roy, Jun 20, 2006)
It took two writers to create three interesting bylines. Kalpana Swaminathan is a surgeon working in Bombay. She is also the author of several books.
- Pakistan-India Commission Meets Today (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
-day working group meeting of Pakistan-India Joint Commission on health and IT and communications will commence here on Tuesday.
- Marginalised, Indian Women Face Growing Aids Threat (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jun 20, 2006)
AIDS experts in India are targeting a new group in their campaign to raise HIV awareness - married women.
- Norway Opens Arctic Vault For Seeds (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 20, 2006)
It sounds like something from a science fiction film ~ a doomsday vault, dug into a frozen mountainside deep in an Arctic island’s permafrost that will serve as a Noah’s Ark for world seeds in case of a global catastrophe.
- Fire-Fighting Funds (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 20, 2006)
It did not require a parliamentary committee to conclude that fire-fighting services across the country are far below international standards..
- Science Of Teaching (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 20, 2006)
About 70 per cent of India's population lives in rural or semi-urban India. More than 15 million of our population are between the ages of 17 and 18, but only a fraction of them are educated enough to earn a decent living. Educating and empowering . . .
- Army Continues Fire-Fighting On Gender Bias (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
The Army today continued its fire-fighting exercise in the wake of reported remarks of its Vice-Chief, Lt Gen S. Pattabhiraman, that forces could do without women and insisted today that there was no gender bias in the forces while pointing out . . .
- In The Force (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2006)
There is no inquiry that can do complete justice to the dead. The ‘reasons’ why Susmita Chakraborthy allegedly chose to end her own life will never be known.
- Ethics Of Eating (Times of India, Peter Singer, Jun 20, 2006)
Global meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020. Yet in Europe and North America, there is growing concern about the ethics of the way meat and eggs are produced.
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