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Articles 6821 through 6920 of 20587:
- Too Early To Celebrate In Iraq (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Jun 12, 2006)
The Bush Administration may rejoice in the death of Zarqawi, but there is no indication that its nightmare of stabilising Iraq will be over soon------ The dramatic killing of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an American air-strike is being . .
- Coalition Or Arm-Twisting? (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jun 12, 2006)
The tragedy for the Mahajan family continues as Mr Rahul Mahajan is in custody and his father's secretary Bibek Maitra is dead.
- Pirated Vcds Back With A Bang (Hindu, S. Vijay Kumar, Jun 12, 2006)
"In many places, they are delivered at doorstep within minutes of sending an SMS"
Those in the piracy racket do not take the risk of smuggling VCDs of movies from foreign countries
It has also become easy to download movies from websites, the . . .
- Upa Plans Information Campaigns In Rural India (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Jun 12, 2006)
The flagship programmes of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre would be brought to the doorsteps of people across the country through public information campaigns (PICs).
- India Declared Free From Rinderpest Virus (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Jun 12, 2006)
India has been declared as free from the dreaded rinderpest infection – a fatal viral disease that hits domestic cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goat and some breeds of pigs.
- Are Our Narcotics Laws Effective? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 12, 2006)
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS), is the product of well considered international conventions to which India is a signatory.
- Foreign Trade: The Unfinished Agenda (Deccan Herald, Sachin Chaturvedi, Jun 12, 2006)
It’s time India took a policy position with regard to precautionary measures for GM products
- Tribals An Unwilling Wall (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Jun 12, 2006)
The Independent Initiative’s visit to Dantewada in Chhattisgarh has thrown up more questions than answers.
- Karat And Stick (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Jun 12, 2006)
Rich kids and Brinda Karat don’t know this: she’s their champion
- Time To Ask, And Answer, A Few Questions (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jun 12, 2006)
Amar Singh’s decision to question the spending habits of the Congress leadership is causing much amusement among ordinary tax paying Indians. The timing is perfect.
- Secularism Under Attack (Times of India, Gurpreet Mahajan, Jun 12, 2006)
There has been a spectacular increase in the number of institutions seeking minority status in the recent past.
- Qaida Threatens To Step Up Attacks In Iraq (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2006)
Al-Qaida in Iraq vowed on Sunday to carry out large-scale attacks that would "shake the enemy" after the killing of its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but did not name a successor.
- Money Back (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 12, 2006)
Thirty years ago from the mid-1970s onwards and up to the early 1990s China saw a surge in foreign remittances made by its significant expat population, leading to the country's rapid economic growth. At the time India lagged way behind, with its own . .
- Try And Heal (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 12, 2006)
One cannot tell when he is going to be healed,
so do not try to set an
exact time limit.
Faith, not time, will
determine when the cure will be effected.
Paramahansa Yogananda
- Remote Control (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 12, 2006)
Societies and social norms change, as do — or should — laws. Unfortunately, the Government of India doesn’t seem to think so.
- Proposal For Aids Shelter To Be Submitted To State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2006)
Project in association with New York-based VoA to extend counselling, education, nutritional support, medical services
The move aims at preparing the afflicted to fight the stigma
Housing, food and medical services will be provided to . . .
- Freebie At The Cost Of Exchequer (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jun 12, 2006)
The Railways Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, has announced introduction of high speed passenger trains on the lines of bullet trains in Japan.
- Terrorists' New-Found Soft Target (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Jun 12, 2006)
Terrorists in Kashmir have put the softest of soft target in their cross-hairs- tourists who have traveled thousands of miles to soak in the beauty of Chinar-lined lakes and snow-capped Pir Panjal- frustrated by the waning local support and huge . . .
- Three Guantanamo Prisoners Commit Suicide (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2006)
Three inmates of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, apparently committed suicide, the US Southern Command announced.
- Jammu Lakes (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 12, 2006)
An article in this newspaper recently makes a thought-provoking reading. It refers to the fact that little has actually been achieved to suitably preserve a few lakes of the Jammu region.
- Entire Nation With People Of J&k: Sumitra (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2006)
Assuring the people of Jammu and Kashmir that entire nation is with them in their fight against the terrorism, the senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former Minister, Sumitra Mahajan said her Party is ready to pay any sacrifice to . . .
- Zarqawi Wounded, Beaten To Death? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 12, 2006)
The witness identified as Mohammed Ahmed told the Washington Post and AP Television News that he saw American soldiers beating an injured man who looked like Zarqawi until blood flowed from his nose.
- Concern Over Global Increase In Diabetes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2006)
The number of people around the world suffering from diabetes has skyrocketed in the last two decades, from 30 million to 230 million...
- Jammu: 1 Killed, 31 Injured In Grenade Attack (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
Three grenade explosions took place in the winter capital of Jammu on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring 31 others.
- 20 Militants Killed In Waziristan Raid (Daily Times, Zakir Hassnain, Jun 11, 2006)
Foreigners reported to be among killed militants
- The Future: Productivity And Sustainability (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jun 11, 2006)
There is a need to focus on improving factor productivity, R&D and environmental concerns
- Needed, Sterner Governance System For Ngos (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jun 11, 2006)
This will ensure transparency and accountability of NGOs and check misuse of trust reposed in them
- Indonesia: Quake And Politics (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, Jun 11, 2006)
Indonesia has hardly gone off the international community's natural disaster monitors since the horrific Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.
- One Flew Over The Issues' Nest (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 11, 2006)
What makes our media the devil's advocate? What makes it soft towards terrorists and critical towards its own security forces? The answer lies in the Lib-Left . . .
- Rising Tide Of Terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 11, 2006)
For long India has been under the self-delusion that Pakistan would stop cross-border terrorism and that we should continue to negotiate and treat our neighbour with kid gloves.
- Gastro Outbreak (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 11, 2006)
The latest outbreak of gastroenteritis in various parts of the country has once again brought into focus the hard fact that millions of people's lives are at risk because of lack of access to clean drinking water.
- Blog Me On (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Jun 11, 2006)
The only way to challenge the bias and arrogance of the liberal media elite is by using the power of words and the force of technology against it.
- The Upsc Challenge (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
Coaching centres in Delhi, which have a creditable record, attract civil services aspirants from across the country.
- Distance Redeems (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 11, 2006)
Does undesirable activity become acceptable if conducted at some distance?
- Losing Security Over Agricultural Resources (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Jun 11, 2006)
The seeds Act 2004, has not received much public attention, despite the impact it will have on the lives of 726 million Indian farmers and the billion Indians who consume what these farmers produce.
- ‘Quota’ Stir And Medico ‘ Unrest’ (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Jun 11, 2006)
At the time of independence in 1947, the founding fathers of Indian Constitution could have never imagined that the provision of reservation in jobs and education for the downtrodden and underprivileged which they had proposed with the avowed . . .
- Zarqawi Was Alive When Iraqi Police Got To Him (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for more than three years the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, briefly survived the US air strike on his safe house north of Baghdad, and was still alive and speaking when Iraqi police reached the scene on Wednesday afternoon.
- Merit Can’T Be Compromised At Any Cost (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , Jun 11, 2006)
How hasty can the Central Government become is exemplified by its reaction to the reservation issue by the doctors.
- The Quota Divide (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 11, 2006)
The reservation of seats in higher educational institutions has again opened up the quota divide.
- My Kingdom For Some Powder (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 11, 2006)
Euripides may well have lived at 7 Safdarjung Road. Because nothing short of a Greek tragedy unfolded there with amazing alacrity.
- Rbi’S Move Not Needed (The Financial Express, Ashima Goyal, Jun 11, 2006)
The RBI had given a miss to its string of rate increases in April. This, combined with the statement that the neutral rate was expected to be achieved in 2006, implied the market need not factor in rising inte- rest rates.
- Echoes Of Silence (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 11, 2006)
Over coffee, my friend shares newsy tidbits about common friends. Occasionally, she describes how tough juggling work and home is.
- The Rahul Mahajan Story: There Was Some Method In The Madness (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Jun 11, 2006)
The Rahul Mahajan story: There was some method in the madness
- Why This Village In Tamil Nadu Will Be Rooting For A Referee (Indian Express, JAYA MENON, Jun 11, 2006)
Kavalkaranpatty stumps even the most fertile mind: green patches are rare, only hardy maize grows here during the brief monsoon, and the soil is bare and dry the rest of the year.
- The Last Of The Pharaonic Sculptors (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
Ancient Egypt's art of carving now rests on the shoulders of one man.
- Be Liberal, Fix The Drug Problem (Business Standard, Devangshu Datta, Jun 11, 2006)
In that long-distant time when I was a teenager and petrol retailed at Rs 1.67 per litre, we held our evening addas in D N Mitra Square.
- A Leading Institution With Global Standards (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
Kamban Engineering College of Jeeva Educational Trust was founded by Thiru.
- Uncle Pravin 'Concerned' About Rahul (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2006)
Pravin Mahajan, accused of killing elder brother and BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, is "concerned" about his nephew Rahul's arrest in a narcotics case and has inquired about his condition, Pravin's lawyer said on Saturday.
- Set The Seedball Rolling (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Jun 11, 2006)
Five million seedballs churned out in the hands of people who care for the environment. Five million seedballs that will then be dispersed in the dry areas of the state. Five million plants (or a few lesser) that will rise from the denuded land . . .
- Zarqawi Betrayed By Al-Qaida Network (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jun 10, 2006)
Al-qaida terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq with a $25 million bounty on his head, was eventually betrayed by senior leaders of his network.
- Ragged Rainbow (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 10, 2006)
Last Friday, London police raided a family home in the heavily South Asian-populated East End. The massive pre-dawn raid was undertaken with 300 officers and after months of surveillance.
- Infosys Awards The Young Achievers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Among the winners are an artist, a writer and a potential inventor
The young achievers got to spend time with N.R. Narayana Murthy
A 11-year-old from Chennai won a prize in Global Children's Art Competition in Oslo
- Forest Officials Face Jumbo Problems (Hindu, V.S. Palaniappan, Jun 10, 2006)
Forest officials in Coimbatore had a hectic day at Mettuppalayam on Friday.
- Tackling Aids: A Missed Opportunity? (Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston, Jun 10, 2006)
The United Nations General Assembly Special Session has let go of a great chance to ensure gains in the fight against the pandemic.
- Death Of A Terrorlord (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 10, 2006)
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had the highest profile among the militants fighting the United States-led occupation of Iraq.
- Mantri To Stars: Say No To Soft Drinks (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
After pushing to banish smoking from the silver screen, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss wants to take the fizz away from actors and sportsmen.
- Day-Long Curfew In Baghdad (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jun 10, 2006)
Fear of reprisal to Al-Zarqawi's killing
- Infosys Honours Young Achievers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Among the winners are an artist, a writer and a potential inventor
- Health Department Criticised For Failing To Contain Chikungunya (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Funds were sanctioned to purchase fogging machines and medicines'
Workshop on how to treat and check the spread of chikungunya organised
Need for educating people in rural areas on ways to contain the disease stressed
- Houses Of Six Officials Raided; Assets Worth Rs. 69 Crore Found (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
The raids were conducted in Bangalore city, Bangalore Rural, Dharwad and Mangalore
- Committee Recommends Appointment Of An Observer To Monitor Counselling (Hindu, B.S. Ramesh , Jun 10, 2006)
New set of guidelines for counselling in admission to professional colleges ready
- Kidnap Rumour Sparks Tension In City (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Tension prevailed in Tilaknagar, adjoining Jayanagar, here on Friday afternoon as rumours spread that two girls were kidnapped and one of them was found in a severely injured condition.
- The Rahul Mahajan Story: There Was Some Method In The Madness (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Jun 10, 2006)
In the 24X7 hours between my last column and this, 24x7 TV news gave an appreciably better account of itself over the Rahul Mahajan story.
- Morality On A Slippery Slope (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 10, 2006)
Some in climbing circles bemoan what they perceive to be a diminished moral code caused, in part, by overcrowding and by commercial outfitters adopting a summit-or-bust attitude to justify the high fees they charge clients who, in some . . .
- Management Quota Cannot Overlook Merit: Up (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Extending state policy to the ‘other quota’, the Uttar Pradesh Government has directed all private educational institutes to ensure that merit should be the sole criterion for availing admissions under the management quota.
- Shape Of Things To Come (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jun 10, 2006)
The day results of elections in five states were announced I went on a fortnight’s vacation from column writing.
- Usa Approves Cervical Cancer Vaccine (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 10, 2006)
For the first time, women will have a vaccine to protect themselves from cervical cancer as the USA has approved the sale of Gardasil produced by American pharmaceutical giant Merck.
- Defence Spending And Development (Dawn, Vaseem Jafarey, Jun 10, 2006)
Lately, there have been references to the link between development and defence.
- After Long Night In Jail, Morning Jolt (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
After a rough first night in his shared prison cell, Rahul Mahajan today learnt he must spend at least another four days in Tihar jail with a magistrate deferring his bail plea till June 13.
- Source Deep Inside Al Qaeda Betrayed Zarqawi (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Muhammad Ismael, a 40- year-old Iraqi taxi driver, was standing outside his home in the tiny village of Hibhib on Wednesday evening when something unusual caught his eye.
- Iraq And A Wall Of Silence (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Jun 10, 2006)
American journalists are callously silent on the civilian casualties of the war in Iraq.
- Even In Drug Crime, Police Protect Their Own (Pioneer, Neeraj Chauhan, Jun 10, 2006)
While the Delhi Police has overzealously gone after Rahul Mahajan, it has shown helplessness in tracking down Siddharth Nath, son of a serving IPS officer who is alleged to be the kingpin of the coke trade in the Capital.
- Damming Spree In China (Frontline, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jun 10, 2006)
The main dam of the Three Gorges reservoir was completed in May, ahead of schedule, and China is planning another massive dam, also on the Yangtze.
- Hamas To Renew Its Attacks On Israel (International Herald Tribune, STEVEN ERLANGER, Jun 10, 2006)
Israeli shells hit a crowded beach in northern Gaza on Friday, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a family of five and two women, and wounding more than 30 others, according to Palestinian journalists and medical personnel.
- Be Liberal, Fix The Drug Problem (Business Standard, Devangshu Datta, Jun 10, 2006)
In that long-distant time when I was a teenager and petrol retailed at Rs 1.67 per litre, we held our evening addas in D N Mitra Square.
- Rbi’S Move Not Needed (The Financial Express, Ashima Goyal, Jun 10, 2006)
The RBI had given a miss to its string of rate increases in April.
- Needed, Sterner Governance System For Ngos (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jun 10, 2006)
This will ensure transparency and accountability of NGOs and check misuse of trust reposed in them
- The Future: Productivity And Sustainability (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Jun 10, 2006)
There is a need to focus on improving factor productivity, R&D and environmental concerns
- Time To Redraw `The Wealth Maps' (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 10, 2006)
There is a future for wealth, assure Alvin and Heidi Toffler in Revolutionary Wealth, promising countless opportunities for entrepreneurs. Riding on that wealth revolution is India, the subject of Aaron Chaze's An Investor's Guide to the Next . . .
- Tihar Gives Rahul Sleepless Nights (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 10, 2006)
Rahul Mahajan will have to spent four more days in Delhi's Tihar jail with a local court on New Delhi deferring its orders on his bail plea till June 13.
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