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Articles 7621 through 7720 of 20587:
- Pak ‘Chicken Cabinet’ Meets (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 26, 2006)
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz presided over a unique Cabinet meeting at which ministers feasted on a variety of chicken dishes to send across the message that eating it was safe.
- Mystery Of Pakistan's Cloistered Scientist (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
The large house in a plush district of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, that was once his home is now his prison.
- Manmohan Singh Tells Security Forces To Be Firm But Humane (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, May 25, 2006)
Message to personnel deployed in Jammu and Kashmir
Presides over a comprehensive review of the Unified Command
Reviews progress of reconstruction plan announced by him in 2004
Calls for a thrust in power and road sectors
Directs sanction . . .
- Q&a: 'There's Lack Of Knowledge About Muslims In Uk' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 25, 2006)
Lahore-born Rabia Malik works as Minority Ethnic Services consultant in a National Health Service clinic in London. A trained social psychologist, she also works on cultural and religious therapeutic interventions. Rabia spoke to Narayani Ganesh when . .
- Let's Build A Prosperous J&k: Manmohan (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, May 25, 2006)
Government reviewing cases of all detainees, including those who crossed over after violating laws
- Quake-Hit Kashmiris Face Poor Crop, Bad Diet (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Kashmiri villager Jamal Din Chaudry lost his dairy cow and his bullocks in last year's earthquake, and now can only count his blessings as he prepares to sow maize on the terraced mountainside.
- Israel Must Halt Crisis Among Palestinians (Hindu, Jonathan Freedland, May 25, 2006)
If Israelis won't deal with Hamas, they could end up facing a more radical alternative: Islamic Jihad or even Al-Qaeda.
- Left Scores A Win (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 25, 2006)
With the UPA-Left Coordination Committee having announced its decision to impose 27 per cent OBC quota from June 2007 on all specialist educational institutions run by the Union Government, the "reservation controversy" has more or less been settled.
- Aiims Faculty To Go On Mass Casual Leave Today (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
The AIIMS Faculty Association has decided to go on mass casual leave on Thursday to support the anti-quota agitation by medicos, but without disrupting the healthcare services.
- Dragging The Feet On Disarmament (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, May 25, 2006)
Sharp differences marked the debate among countries over the scope of FMCT
- Telecom-Specific Special Economic Zones Planned (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
To triple the subscriber base in another four years
50 crore phones by 2010
Emphasis on rural areas
Move for Internet connections to school
- About Clarity, Care And Consistency (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 25, 2006)
What is the relationship between facts and passion? How do eccentric opinions and conduct damage purposeful action, asks Vinayshil Gautam.
- 'Indian Values Have Strong Influence On Israel' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Indian philosophy and values have had a profound influence on Israelis, the manifestations of which are the recent political developments in the Jewish state, according to speakers at a panel discussion on India.
- Rock Star On An African Mission (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 25, 2006)
Bono, who is on a visit to Africa, is trying to revive trade so that communities can become self-reliant.
- Cpm For Smaller Quota In Bengal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Bengal will have an Other Backward Classes quota in higher education, but it’s likely to be less than 27 per cent, the CPM said today.
- Bird Flu: Human To Human Jump Under Scan (Indian Express, DONALD G MCNEIL JR, May 25, 2006)
Reacting to the death on Monday of an Indonesian man, the World Health Organisation said yesterday that the case appeared to be the first example of the avian flu jumping from human to human to human.
- The Tangle Over The Tiger And His Lair (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 25, 2006)
It’s not as big a controversy as others facing the Prime Minister but it’s set off a storm in conservationist circles.
- Developers For Integrated Townships To Be Finalised Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
HUDA issues tender notice inviting expression of interest
L&T among those who have submitted tender documents
Only one project for one developer or consortium
- Cash-Less In Gaza (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 25, 2006)
From this distance, the Palestinians look to be in dire straits — even by their wretched standards. A people who have plunged the depths of misery seem set to sink even lower.
- Human Flu Infection Alarm (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Limited human-to-human transmission of bird flu might have occurred in an Indonesian family and health experts are tracing anyone who might have had contact with them, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
- Mind After Knee-Jerk (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 25, 2006)
So the political class has spoken. The 27% OBC quota in Central institutions is now only a couple of months and a Bill away—a Bill to which no one in Parliament will object.
- Quota Protesters Fire Without Gun (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Striking medical students today scrambled to intensify their agitation against quotas without any clear-cut plan of action as it began to dawn on them that their campaign needed better coordination and more public support.
- Pm Suggests 5 Point Programme To Build A New Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Talking tough, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asserted that attempts by "some elements" within Jammu and Kashmir to disrupt peace process would be firmly thwarted and proposed focus on a five-point programme to build a new Kashmir.
- System Failure (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 25, 2006)
The UPA’s decision to extend reservations for OBCs to centrally funded institutions of higher learning is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.
- New Measures For Students At Delhi University (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, May 25, 2006)
As students gear up to brave the summer heat and prepare themselves for the frantic scramble for seats in colleges, Delhi University is going all out to reach out to potential students.
- Government To Be Expanded On May 29 (Hindu, S.Nadarajan, May 25, 2006)
Names finalised in consultation with AICC
Former CM V. Vaithilingam will become a Minister
Yanam to be represented in Cabinet for first time
Union Territory normally has a six-member Ministry
- One Out Of Two (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 25, 2006)
A study conducted by a leading private hospital in New Delhi has come up with the startling revelation that only 52 per cent of adult India (40-70 years) is healthy.
- Quotacadabra (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 25, 2006)
The UPA-Left decision on the OBC quota in higher education admissions is deplorable.
- Reservations: The Shortcut To Nowhere (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, May 25, 2006)
Move from sharing a declining pie to increasing the pie’s size and to accountability for services
- Aids: Focus On Drug Abuse (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Urging an immediate linking of drug-use monitoring system with HIV surveillance mechanism, a UN agency said on Wednesday that any intervention on drug abuse in the North-East of India should take the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in this region into . . .
- Hungry Children Waste Away In India’S Economic Boom (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Four-year-old Kamini Tumda lies in a hospital bed writhing in agony as a nurse gently washes her, removing flakes of tender skin that hang from her body.
- Ethiopians Vow To Fight Malnutrition (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 25, 2006)
Amira Usman held listless, two-year-old Dita, in her arms as flies buzzed around his eyes, just days after she brought him to a clinic for severe malnutrition in this desolate stretch of eastern Ethiopia’s highlands.
- Osama Tape Says Moussaoui Innocent (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 25, 2006)
Excerpts of comments purportedly by terror leader Osama bin Laden in an audio tape posted on the Internet.
- Mystery Of May (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 25, 2006)
Normally the month of May is considered very significant for the Kashmir region. It is during this period that most of the tourists start coming in.
- Brand Buddha~i (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 25, 2006)
“I am a communist”, said the West Bengal chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on more than one occasion recently.
- Pm Enters Third Year In Office (Daily Excelsior, Atul, May 25, 2006)
Manmohan Singh has entered his third year in office as Prime Minister of India amidst an ominous sign of student unrest all over the country, triggered ostensibly by the controversy over reservations for other backward classes (OBCs) in higher institutes
- Maintenance Of The Power System (Daily Excelsior, Vikram Gour, May 25, 2006)
Recently when a 50 MVA, 132/33 KV power transformer got damaged at Grid station Janipura during a thunder storm in Jammu plunging half of the north western area of the city into darkness.
- Market, Quotas Poop The Party (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , May 25, 2006)
If it was baptism by fire for the gentleman-politician, Dr Manmohan Singh, in May 2004, when as dramatically as unexpectedly he was anointed Prime Minister by the Congress chief, Ms Sonia Gandhi, it was nothing short of a tumultuous second . . .
- Ere’S More To Affirmative Action (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 24, 2006)
Quite remarkably, the quota debate proceeds as if Jawaharlal Nehru University does not exist. It is one central institution of higher learning where the admission policy has consciously tried, since the seventies, to enhance representation of the . . .
- Will Seat Hike Resolve Quota Tangle? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 24, 2006)
The periodic eruption among students, often resulting in avoidable violence and self immolations, is caused by the second-most explosive issue that continues to rock our polity.
- Conspiracy Of Silence (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 24, 2006)
Anyone who has read the series of news reports this newspaper has run on the findings from the National Sample Survey’s 1999-2000 round will agree there is no case for reservations of the sort being contemplated today, either in private sector jobs . . .
- The Froth, Storm And The Calm (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, May 24, 2006)
Many macroeconomic variables are somewhat in turmoil, and each sudden change in value adds to the systematic risk.
- Call Them To Heel, Doc (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 24, 2006)
Ministers need to learn collective responsibility
- Don't Panic (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
For those who were here to play short-term momentum, the game is pretty much over and done with.
- Stirring Up Hornests’ Nest (Hindu, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, May 24, 2006)
Instead of uprooting casteism, reservations should not become a bane for the society
- Round Table, And The Road Home? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 24, 2006)
Two families of top Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operatives hope that the second round table on Kashmir will help their loved ones return home.
- Disaster At Ctc (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 24, 2006)
The minister can’t shirk responsibility
Having made it to the ministry with the support of his mentor and still more important with portfolios intact, Subhas Chakraborty is said to have received the loudest applause as he walked . . .
- Stock Market Turmoil Spoils The Upa Party (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , May 24, 2006)
More than the external and extraneous factors, the role of the regulatory agencies assumes importance.
- Medicos Continue Agitation; Walk-In Interviews Disrupted (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
As the medicos' strike against the government's reservation proposal entered the 13th day today, agitating medicos took up the task of trying to thwart the recruitment drive launched by the government to replace them in the strike-affected hospitals.
- It's A Dog's Life For Mongrels (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 24, 2006)
Last week, I met a woman who came out of her way to tell me that she felt terrible grief and anxiety that the polar bears were going to be extinct soon. And hippopotamuses, she added.
- The Seven-Year Itch (Dawn, Mahir Ali, May 24, 2006)
IT may have been possible to attach slightly more credibility to the so-called charter of democracy signed in London last week by Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif had the two of them attempted a degree of criticism.
- Pyrrhic Celebrations? (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 24, 2006)
The UPA Government enters third year weighed down by worries over the stock market and reservations.
- New Iraqi Government (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 24, 2006)
Now that an Iraqi “national unity government” is finally in place, one hopes it will be able to make its presence felt, given the “tough man” image of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
- Hungry Children Waste Away In India's Economic Boom (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, May 24, 2006)
Four-year-old Kamini Tumda lies in a hospital bed writhing in agony as a nurse gently washes her, removing flakes of tender skin that hang from her body.
- ‘Instead Of A Vital Link In A Solution, Nkc Became Part Of The Problem’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 24, 2006)
Yogendra Yadav responds to Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s letter of resignation on Monday from the National Knowledge Commission
- Pm Lets Down Peers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 24, 2006)
They are neither politicians nor MPs and their resignations will not destabilise the UPA Government in any way. Yet, the departure of Mr Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Mr Andre Beteille from the National Knowledge Commission is a distressing signal for . . .
- The Afghan Challenge (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, May 24, 2006)
Afghanistan may be a distant nightmare for most people, but right now it is engaged in a grim battle for survival as a development-oriented democratic entity in the face of the Taliban-type terrorism onslaught.
- Punjab’S Farmer Must Think Smart (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, May 24, 2006)
Farming is “time-pass”, he had said. It has been two years since Malkit Singh of Lehal Kalan village in the Sangrur district of Punjab said this to me but his words still gnaw.
- Doctors Float Parallel Organisation To Ima (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
A maha rally will be organised in the capital on June 4 by medicos supporting reservation
- `Luxury On Train' To Cover Mysore, Hassan, Hampi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
It will become operational from March next
The train will have its trial run in January or February next
The Integral Coach Factory in Chennai is designing the coaches
The cost of the project is estimated at Rs. 32 crore
- Tide Has Turned In This Village (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 24, 2006)
There are 1400 girls to 1000 boys in this Punjab village of Lakhanpal
- Dwindling Self-Esteem: The West's Undoing (Deccan Herald, Stuart Jeffries, May 24, 2006)
There are two books entitled Suicide of the West. One was written 42 years ago and, unfortunately, its thesis proved disastrously wrong. The other is just out and hopefully will be equally misbegotten.
- Agriculture Cannot Wait (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, May 24, 2006)
The Indian tragedy of extensive poverty and deprivation persisting under conditions of impressive progress in the industrial and services sectors will continue so long as we refuse to place faces before figures.
- `Luxury On Train' To Be Ready Next Year In Karnataka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
Modelled on the `Palace on Wheels,' it will cover 2000 km in the State
- Politics Of Sympathy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 24, 2006)
The lack of concern shown by ministers to the doctors’ strike betrays a moral bankruptcy
- Passing Weapons (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2006)
Sometimes, when I find myself at another well-informed Delhi dinner party, I wonder who the audience for Westminster Gleanings in Calcutta can be.
- The Appalling State Of Indian Muslims (Hindu, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, May 24, 2006)
Muslims in India are falling behind in every conceivable growth indicator
- To Be Or Not (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2006)
A second wedding anniversary is traditionally associated with paper. Mr Manmohan Singh might well want to link the second anniversary of his government with something even more fragile than paper.
- Bhopal's Legacy (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was the CEO of Union Carbide on December 3, 1984, when an explosion at the . . .
- In Iran's Ambition, Israel's Dark Cloud (Washington Post, Nora Boustany, May 24, 2006)
D avid Landau , editor in chief of the Israeli daily Haaretz, said Monday that Israel hoped to link its need for a stronger defense against the Iranian nuclear threat to its stated willingness to pull out of more occupied Palestinian land.
- Docs' Strike Continues As Talks Fail (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The government on Monday failed to persuade medicos to end their strike against quotas in central educational institutions.
- Ima Pune Chapter To Observe One-Day Strike On May 25 (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Around 2,500 general practioners and consultants, registered with the Indian Medical Association (Pune Chapter), would observe a day's strike on May 25 to protest against the Centre's proposal for OBC quotas in institutes of higher learning.
- A Martyr's Death (Times of India, Krishna Bose, May 23, 2006)
On my first visit to Taipei 27 years ago, I went looking for the historic sites related to the last days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. I walked into the old, one-storey, red-brick building of Nanmon Hospital.
- Sensex Shocks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 23, 2006)
The volatile swings that have characterised the movement of the stock market over the last few days continued on Monday, but even the pessimists would not have expected the 1100 point fall that took the Sensex below the five digit mark.
- Quota Talks Stuck On Review Cry (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Medical students protesting against quotas today told the Union health secretary that a review of the policy by an expert committee should be done and made public before any step is taken to increase reserved seats for Other Backward Classes.
- Tyranny Of The Smug (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, May 23, 2006)
Why not reserve us all? Why not provide education, health, drinking water and electricity to all, regardless of caste and class? Why this game of dividing us all in an attempt to continue exploiting India?
- Beyond Sound And Fury (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 23, 2006)
In recent polemics, reservation has been projected primarily as an issue of caste conflict.
- Bandage On A Cancer (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 23, 2006)
Taking a stand is thorny, more so, when one is ‘rebelling’ against one’s own community.
- And Now Govt Faces Pro-Quota Ultimatum (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Having failed to quell the anti-reservation movement with their assurance of fair play, the government now faces an additional predicament, a three-month deadline by the pro-reservationists to implement the 27 per cent quota for OBCs.
- Upa’S Birthday Gift: Petrol, Diesel Price Hike Soon (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Strongly indicating an increase in the price of petrol and diesel as “we cannot continue to subsidise energy consumption on this scale” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh categorically said here tonight that his UPA government had significantly . . .
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