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Articles 7521 through 7620 of 20587:
- Indian Cos Turn Global Turnaround Specialists (Business Line, Neha Kaushik, May 28, 2006)
Take acquisition route to US, EU markets
- A Life Of Service (Hindu, ANDREW WYATT, May 28, 2006)
Akkamma Devi was the first woman graduate from the Badaga community .
- Pakistanis Try Confronting Shame Of Honour Killing (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Ayesha Baloch was dragged to a field, her brother-in-law held the 18-year-old down, her husband sat astride her legs and slit her upper lip and nostril with a knife.
- Quake Kills 3,000 In Indonesia (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
A powerful earthquake flattened homes and hotels in central Indonesia early Saturday as people slept, killing at least 2,900 and injuring thousands more in the nation’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
- The ‘Charter Of Democracy’ (Dawn, Anwar Syed, May 28, 2006)
The “charter of democracy” that Ms Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif issued on May 15, 2006, is noteworthy both for what it does say and that which it omits.
- Petrol, Diesel Price Hike Next Week: Deora (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
The Union Government is likely to decide on an increase in petrol and diesel prices next week, said Mr Murli Deora, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas.
- Left Sweep Poet In Disguise (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, May 28, 2006)
The Left Front wins for the seventh consecutive time, with a whopping three-fourths majority, in West Bengal.
- My Seat, Mai Baap (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 28, 2006)
Most people of my generation got their first exposure to the complexities of national politics through the dark phase of the Emergency.
- Inside A Magical Rainforest (Hindu, S. RAMAKRISHNA, May 28, 2006)
The Thattekad Bird Sanctuary, once described by Salim Ali as "the richest bird habitat in peninsular India", lives up to its reputation.
Hornbill Camp is a great, working case study of low-impact eco-tourism in India.
- Growth Rate Myth (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 28, 2006)
The Congress should understand that faceless economic growth will not provide jobs to the
- History — A Neglected Subject (Daily Excelsior, Raj Kumar, May 28, 2006)
History is an important branch of social science to be taught to the students at the school level.
- Unwieldly Peace (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, May 28, 2006)
High-level U.S. intervention has enabled the signing of a peace agreement on Darfur, which will be difficult to enforce.
- Nationalising Natural Resources (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, May 28, 2006)
Bolivia takes major steps towards reclaiming its natural resources by nationalising its hydrocarbon sector.
- Clear Choice In Kerala A Cannon's Tale (Frontline, R Krishnakumar, May 28, 2006)
Kerala votes against the neoliberal agenda of the Congress-led front, which is backed by sectarian interests.
- Doctors On Unauthorised Leave To Be Dismissed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Officials told to prepare a list of doctors who are on unauthorised leave
Government initiates steps to recruit 500 doctors
Funds released to tackle chikungunya disease
- Bending Communism Like Buddha In The Citadel Of Marxism (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, May 28, 2006)
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya has unleashed a virtual revolution in the Marxist citadel.
- In Search Of A Sustainable Lifestyle (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Prasanna’s Desi Jeevana Paddati is both a critique of modern lifestyle and an attempt to evolve an alternative, sustainable lifestyle, writes Ramesh Mysore.
- 3,500 Killed In Indonesian Quake (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Epicentre near Yogyakarta; temblor may trigger eruption of Mount Merapi
- Don't Sit In Judgment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Reassessing current assessment procedures will help students more.
- Revitalise Extension Services: Pm (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
`Bureaucratic hurdles coming in the way of restructuring the system'
- Widening Agitation (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 28, 2006)
After the Satyendra Dubey and Jessica Lal murders, the government of the day is again in danger of failing to recognise the depth of public anger over increased reservations.
- Up & Down In Down South (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, May 28, 2006)
Amma’s got a lot done so why’s she worried? Is there a gleam behind those famous Karunanidhi goggles? What’s Kalam doing atop a building? Looking for answers from a limo
- Over 3,000 Killed In Indonesia Quake (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
6.2-magnitude earthquake leaves up to 12,500 injured and 200,000 displaced
* President Yudhoyono orders dispatching of troops to area
- Committee To Study Report On Paramedical Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
First meeting next week; recommendations of task force to be studied Recommendations were made by a task force recently
Recommendations
Withhold approval for new colleges for three years
Limit intake in each nursing college to 60 each
- Doctors Asked To Gain Confidence Of People (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
Calls for uninterrupted power supply to Rajiv Institute of Medical Sciences
Collector suggests deputing of a senior officer to supervise each speciality
Promises posting of sanitation staff at RIMS Hospital
Police asked to set up outpost at the . .
- In Absolute Silence: A Protest Against Lack Of Treatment For Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 28, 2006)
CD4 count testing centres in all districts demanded
Nutritious food sought through PDS
Anti-retroviral therapy through PHCs sought
- Sometimes, The Small Screen Misses The Big Picture (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, May 28, 2006)
I have never wished any of my editors on their birthdays. I haven’t the foggiest when their birthdays are.
- Improving Panchayati Raj Institutions (Tribune, Mahi Pal, May 28, 2006)
The conclusion that emerged from a workshop of elected representatives of Panchayats who belong to the Scheduled Castes, organised by HIRD, was that due to the prevailing stranglehold of the caste structure in rural society, neither respect for . . .
- ‘Fixing’ The Other (Telegraph, Malavika Karlekar, May 28, 2006)
Following the serial blasts at Varanasi on March 7, video footage of a marriage ceremony in progress at the Sankat Mochan temple proved to be invaluable — and not to the shell-shocked family alone.
- Living Wisely (Deccan Herald, Swami Sukhabodhananda, May 27, 2006)
The wise way to live is to plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively and persistently pursue. Life’s heaviest burden is one’s fight with life.
- Galbraith And India (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 27, 2006)
John Kenneth Galbraith was, if not the most influential, certainly the most imposing of all American ambassadors to India.
- God Fails The Laboratory Test (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, May 27, 2006)
Daniel Dennett is Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University (US). He looks every inch a philosopher:
- Better Use A Simple Code (Deccan Herald, Mark Lawson, May 27, 2006)
The Da Vinci Code is intentionally incredible, so why do we need a health warning?
- The Bsp's Amazing Journey (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, May 27, 2006)
That today sections of upper castes seem to prefer the BSP to the BJP speaks to the long distance travelled by Mayawati's party.
- Anti-Quota Stir: Arjun Singh Meets Pm (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh had a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday, ahead of his parleys with the striking medicos opposing OBC quota in central educational institutions.
- Taliban In Control Of Wild Waziristan (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
When the Pakistan army’s frontline in its war on terrorism moved elsewhere and the Taliban took control of his hometown, Baidar decided it was time to leave.
- Medicos Meet Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
Despite the Prime Minister’s assurance of no punitive action and protection of their interests, due to the mounting pressure to call off the stir from various quarters, protesting medicos, showing circumspection, have begun parleys to decide whether . . .
- Drive Against Fake Drugs (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 27, 2006)
A three-month campaign against counterfeit and substandard medicines, launched by the Punjab government in April, is beginning to yield results.
- Pm Fails To End Medicos’ Strike (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
The first direct talks between the striking medicos and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night failed. Into the 15th day of their protest, the students and the doctors decided to continue the stir, which has thrown basic health services out . . .
- Caste Doesn’T Matter (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, May 27, 2006)
Nearly everyone I spoke to said issues of caste did not interest them and what they were interested in was improving their lives and ensuring that their children lived even better..
- Don't Worry, Manmohan Tells Students (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, May 27, 2006)
But medicos to continue stir
- Quota Row: Striking Medicos Get Dollar Boost From Nris (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
The government may not be in the mood to give in to their demands, but the rich and influential NRI alumni community of AIIMS, IITs and other institutions have opened their purse strings in support of students protesting against the quotas.
- Pm Meet Triggers Rethink (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
Medical students spearheading the protest against the proposed 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes tonight began discussing whether it was time to call off their 13-day strike that has paralysed health services.
- Taxpayer's Money: Pm Credits Sonia (Pioneer, Sanjay K Jha, May 27, 2006)
Alarmed by the attempt of political rivals to run away with the credit for National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the Congress leadership on Friday asked its cadres to expose this falsehood.
- Talks With Pm Fail, Medicos Continue Stir (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
A meeting of striking doctors with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday did not yield any solution in the ongoing impasse over reservation.
- We Require An Institutional Approach (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, May 27, 2006)
A report informs us that an MNA of the Patriots group and the vice-chancellor of Government College University Faisalabad had an altercation in which the two gentlemen, both with the prefix “Dr” appended to their names, exchanged the choicest . . .
- Unicef On Malnutrition In Children (Frontline, T.K. RAJALAKSHMI, May 27, 2006)
A unicef report says that South Asia has the largest number of underweight children below the age of five.
- Investment Hotspot (Frontline, Purnima S. Tripathi, May 27, 2006)
In a short span of time, the State has projected for itself an investor-friendly image.
- No Mutation Of Bird Flu Virus: Who (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
In the face of rising concern over possible human-to-human transmission of the deadly bird flu virus among members of a family in Indonesia, the United Nations heath agency has sought to assure the public that potentially dangerous mutation of virus . . .
- A Democrat Of Democrats (Daily Excelsior, R K Bhatnagar, May 27, 2006)
41 years ago, independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru breathed his last, this day on May 27, 1964.
- Pm Reassures Striking Students Over Quotas (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met medical students striking against the government's decision to increase college quotas for lower castes on Thursday and urged them to call off their action.
- Medicos Hold Talks With Pm, Continue Strike (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 27, 2006)
The anti-reservation medicos today held their first direct talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and decided to continue their strike.
- Why Some Things Never Change At All (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, May 26, 2006)
The more ‘‘advanced’’ our lifestyles become, the greater is the need to widen our awareness of different aspects of our routine — the medicines we swallow, the packaged foods we buy, the menu changes we opt for in order to feel more ‘‘westernised’’.
- Indonesia: Bird Flu Deaths Alarm Who (Hindu, Sarah Boseley, May 26, 2006)
Spread from one human to another
- Besieged By Problems But Secure (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 26, 2006)
On its second anniversary, the United Progressive Alliance Government is every bit the regime under siege, with trouble on all fronts — worrying volatility in a market believed to be healthily ascendant, mounting anti-quota protests, resignation . . .
- Foreign Troops In East Timor (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
The inexperienced and cash-strapped government of the world’s newest independent nation has been struggling to cope with clashes initially sparked by the sacking of around half the army.
- One Step Forward Takes You Backwards (Deccan Herald, SUJATA RAJPAL, May 26, 2006)
If one generation gets reservation, then there should be equal and fair competition.
- After Pm's Departure, Blast In Bus Kills 3 Tourists In Valley (Pioneer, Khursheed Wani, May 26, 2006)
An IED blast inside a tourist bus left three persons-a woman and two children-dead and eight others wounded at Batpora village in outskirts of Srinagar on Thursday evening, minutes after the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew back to Delhi after . . .
- Glossing Over Facts (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 26, 2006)
In Wroclaw town in western Poland, a publisher goes on trial this week on charges of printing and distributing 3,000 copies of Adolf Hitler's rambling autobiography Mein Kampf. If convicted, he could be jailed for three years.
- Nepal Will See Red Soon (Pioneer, Surya Narayan Saxena, May 26, 2006)
The revived Parliament or the Pratinidhi Sabha of Nepal owes its rebirth to Maoists and now is a puppet in their hands.
- No Reason Why Who Should Exclude Taiwan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 26, 2006)
Taiwan's continuing exclusion from WHO is regrettable because it is one of the leading international contributors of medical aid, says Cheng Wen-tsang.
- Health Services Paralysed Across The Nation (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
The anti-reservation protests reached a crescendo on Thursday as striking doctors in private and public hospitals across the country paralysed health services.
- Karnataka Gears Up To Face Doctors' Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
The Karnataka Government has made alternative arrangements and drafted doctors serving in primary health centres, taluk hospitals and district health offices to attend to outpatients and emergencies in view of the strike call given by All-India . . .
- Seats Of Power (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 26, 2006)
The principle of dividing to integrate is a risky one. There is no other way to describe the United Progressive Alliance government’s decision to implement 27 per cent reservations for other backward classes in institutions of higher education.
- Tough Brothel Law Threatens India's Hiv Programme (Reuters, Jonathan Allen, May 26, 2006)
Plans to toughen India's laws to prevent human trafficking could drive prostitutes underground and jeopardise HIV-prevention in a country suffering the world's second-highest caseload, health officials said on Thursday.
- Privatise Affirmative Action (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , May 26, 2006)
Our great government has decided that since they cannot improve primary and secondary education, they will have quotas in higher education both in elite government institutions (IITs, IIMs, etc) and in private institutions (except those run . . .
- Catching Up With Four-Year-Olds (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 26, 2006)
Proposition 82, which would fund preschool education for all California 4-year-olds, has inspired debate about the role of the state in early childhood development.
- Vip Treatment In Temples Abolished (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
Best tribute to Palanivel Rajan: Karunanidhi; MLAs hail former Minister's services
- Narcotics And Empire (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
The book tells the story of the origins of a dominant section of the Indian capitalist class and the rise of the city of Bombay.
- Doctors In Jamnagar Hospital Heed Kalam's Plea, Call Off Strike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
The resident doctors in the Guru Govind Singh Hospital in Jamnagar on Thursday called off their two-day-old strike in protest against the reservation policy in response to the appeal by President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, but their counterparts in . . .
- `We Are Happy But Not Complacent' (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, May 26, 2006)
I am extremely happy that we have got a two-thirds majority, with more votes and more seats.
- Dubious Record (Frontline, HIMANSHU UPADHYAYA, May 26, 2006)
The Sardar Sarovar project, plagued by problems from the start, continues to be mismanaged at the expense of the people.
- Kalam, Pm Urge Students To Stop Stir (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today again urged the students protesting the additional quotas in education institutions to call off their strike.
- Golden Heritage Of Myanmar (Frontline, Anupama Katakam, May 26, 2006)
Myanmar, though one of the most backward countries of the region, is incredibly beautiful and the people are exceptionally warm.
- Improving Human Capital — A Role For Corporate India (Business Line, Sumit K. Majumdar, May 26, 2006)
Instead of lamenting the negative consequences of quotas, industry captains must plough back some of their wealth to endow engineering and medical colleges so that students from poorer sections can study without forking out absurdly high fees.
- Medicos Turn Down Kalam’S Appeal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
The President’s appeal to medicos to call off their fast, like the Prime Minister’s before him, has met the same response.
- Dawn Of Wisdom (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 26, 2006)
Mamata Banerjee has many miles to travel before she begins to convince voters there is an alternative to the Left Front.
- Rangers At Hospitals? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 26, 2006)
That two Karachi hospitals want Rangers to be deployed on their premises to prevent any mishandling of hospital staff by patients shows society’s increasing reliance on force for solving problems.
- Israel Threatens To Draw Its Own Border (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, May 26, 2006)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday acknowledged Palestinians' "national aspirations" and extended his hand in peace to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
- Brand Buddha~ii (Statesman, Pradip Bose, May 26, 2006)
West Bengal communists can certainly learn a lesson or two from China on how to attract foreign investment, which in itself has nothing to do with communism.
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