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Articles 7821 through 7920 of 20587:
- Government Not Doing Enough To Fight Hiv (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2006)
Period from May 20-26 to be observed as Global AIDS Week of Action
Government flouted promises made in 2001
Silent protests will be organised in 7 districts
Public meetings, street theatre planned
- Going Bananas (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 20, 2006)
A very important food crop might go extinct
- Iran-U.S. Tussle Fuels Anxieties In Oil Heartland (Hindu, Atul Aneja , May 20, 2006)
While their dependence on the U.S. is extensive, the GCC countries are in no position to adopt a confrontational posturevis-à-visIran.
- Anti-Quota Stir: Students Join Medicos' Rally In Delhi (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2006)
The anti-quota agitation by the medicos further intensified on Saturday with students, parents and medical faculty taking out a massive protest march in the national capital.
- "Even In A Running Race, The Handicapped Are Given Concessions" (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, May 20, 2006)
Thanks to Tamil Nadu's longstanding reservation policies, the backward and the most backward classes have progressed a good deal in education and jobs. "What is wrong if we desire that the situation that prevails in Tamil Nadu should be there all . . .
- Heat Waves Turn Giant Killers (Deccan Herald, JANARDHAN ROYE, May 20, 2006)
Heat wave deaths are the result of natural forces but that does not prevent government agencies from taking preventive steps.
- Anti-Quota Stir Intensifies, Students Take Out Rally (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2006)
The anti-quota agitation by the medicos further intensified on Saturday with students, parents and medical faculty taking out a massive protest march in the national capital.
- Bringing About Parity (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , May 20, 2006)
The Finance Act, 2006 has given mutual funds a boost
Exemption to MFs from dividend distribution tax, and to unit-holders from long-term capital gains tax, will result in a shift in the investment pattern of balanced funds.
- The Haitian Miracle? (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, May 20, 2006)
This spring’s presidential election in Haiti sadly re-enforced the country’s blighted reputation.
- Unreserved Judgement (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
Human Resources Minister Arjun Singh’s decision to press for reservations in higher education was condemned by most newspapers across the country.
- Economic Growth Best Medicine For The Ill (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 19, 2006)
If India is to improve the health of its people, policies promoting growth will have to take precedence
- The Risks And Rewards Of Corruption (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, May 19, 2006)
Raise risk and lower rewards by making it harder for the corrupt to enjoy the fruits of their perfidy
- A Brave New Left On The Horizon? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , May 19, 2006)
Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee riding the crest of a popular tsunami is raring to go, even if it means breaking loose from the stalwarts of the Left living in the past. The chances of a schism within the CPI(M) are very real with Mr Bhattacharjee . . .
- Pakistan’S Economy A Success Story: Us (Pakistan Observer, Dr Jassim Taqui, May 19, 2006)
The United States is working through a three-pronged strategy to help the seven countries of South Asia — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka — become more free, stable and prosperous, Assistant Secretary of . . .
- Registration Of 250 Doctors Cancelled In U.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
The registration of more than 250 medical practitioners in western Uttar Pradesh has been cancelled by the Indian Medical Board (IMB) as the institutions from which they got diplomas were found to be unauthorised.
- A Dutch Story For Our Times (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, May 19, 2006)
The Name Ayaan Hirsi Ali may not ring a bell in India, but in Britain and indeed across Europe she became a bit of a celebrity for her relentless attacks on Islam and Muslim immigrants whom she blamed for social tensions in the Netherlands, . . .
- Minister To Seek Rs. 70 Crore For Rural Roads Around Bangalore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
R. Ashok attends performance review meeting of Bangalore Urban Zilla Panchayat
- Feroze Khan Put On Pakistan "Black List" (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, May 19, 2006)
Pakistan has put the veteran Bollywood actor, Feroze Khan on "black list," following his reported controversial remarks at a function in Lahore last month on the occasion of the premiere of his brother Akbar Khan's film Taj Mahal.
- Demands A Re-Think Of Policy Calculus (Business Line, M. R. Venkatesh, May 19, 2006)
After the South-East Asian contagion, stability has been held to be sine qua non for growth, especially in developing countries. In the context of the debate on convertibility, perhaps India needs to re-work the policy calculus: Accumulate res erves, ....
- Iran's Secrecy Widens Gap In Nuclear Intelligence (New York Times, WILLIAM J BROAD, May 19, 2006)
South of Tehran, the desert gives way to barbed wire, antiaircraft guns and a maze of buildings, two of them cavernous underground halls roughly half the size of the Pentagon.
- Cast(e)ing A Shadow (Pioneer, BC Dutta, May 19, 2006)
Despite domestic disturbances and terrorist violence in different parts of the country, India has retained its steady economic growth; it is being reckoned as an emerging global power. The World Bank considers India an "Asian giant".
- Govt Initiates Talks With Striking Medicos (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
Facing mounting protests, government today began formal talks with striking medicos assuring them that the seats in the general category will not not come down due to reservation as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plans to begin consultations . . .
- Waiting For The Son-Rise (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, May 19, 2006)
Last May, at the completion of his one year in office, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave himself six marks on a scale of 10.
- Iran Pulls Curtain On Atom Sites (International Herald Tribune, WILLIAM J BROAD, May 19, 2006)
Due south of Tehran, the desert gives way to barbed wire, anti-aircraft guns and a maze of buildings, two of them cavernous underground halls.
- State Reserve Police Deployed (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
Personnel of the State Reserve Police were deployed in Dabhoi town of this district today following recovery of bodies of two Muslim children from inside a car, police said.
- All Help In Creating More Seats, Says Fm (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
As the government began an intense exercise to crack the quota conundrum, finance minister P Chidambaram promised financial resources would not come in the way of increasing educational infrastructure so that existing number of "general" category . . .
- Two Tourists From Kerala Killed As Tree Falls On Their Vehicle (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
Heavy rain accompanied by gusty wind wreaks havoc in Mysore
The incident occurred when the 10-member team was heading towards Kozhikode
Three were admitted to the K.R. Hospital
Several trees were uprooted; power supply and traffic disrupted . . .
- Polio Drops To Be Given To Over 95,000 Children (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2006)
A total of 766 centres including 735 in rural areas to be set up
- Manmohan Outlines Package Of Measures To Revive Country's . . . (Hindu, Sushma Ramchandran, May 19, 2006)
Measures include improving credit availability, reducing interest rates on loans
The sector, providing 6.5 million jobs, is the second largest employer after agriculture
Experts panel to map out financial status of industry proposed
- Medicos To Continue Stir (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, May 18, 2006)
With their demand for setting up an “independent, non-political committee” to study the reservation policy not yet met, students protesting against quotas have decided to continue their indefinite hunger strike.
- Rot In The System: What People Feel (Deccan Herald, TRILOCHAN SASTRY, May 18, 2006)
Every aspect of the electoral system needs drastic changes
- Hunger Strike Will Continue: Medicos (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
`False assurances will not help'
Strike to continue until a non-political commission is put in place
Protesters burn termination notices sent to striking doctors
Pro-Reservation Front criticises police for ill-treating its supporters
Strike . . .
- For & Against: Quota Voices Get Shriller (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Anti-quota protests by medical students and doctors across the country continued on Wednesday even as Union HRD minister Arjun Singh told Parliament that "the Centre would take an appropriate decision... without diluting its commitment to raise . . .
- Sonia Blesses Quota Balancing (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Expressing her views on the quota controversy for the first time, Congress president Sonia Gandhi indicated that extension of OBC reservations to central educational institutions would go hand in hand with an increase in seats for general category . . .
- 3 Dead, 38 Hurt As Bus Rolls Into Gorge (Tribune, Kuldeep Chauhan, May 18, 2006)
In a major accident, three persons were killed and 38 injured, three of them seriously, when the private bus in which they were travelling failed to negotiate a turn near the Jarol Telephone Exchange, near Sundernagar on the Chandigarh-Manali . . .
- Reconciling Competing Interests (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 18, 2006)
The anti-reservation stir that has spread across a few cities would seem to have as its ingredients hype and knee-jerk opposition mixed with some elements of genuine concern.
- Hamas Puts Forces Into Gaza (International Herald Tribune, Greg Myre, May 18, 2006)
The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Wednesday deployed a new security force in a move that directly challenges the authority of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who last month vetoed the creation of the security service.
- Jessica Case Accused Declared Offender (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Court permits Delhi police to attach property of Vikas Gill and try for his extradition
- Parliamentary Democracy: Image & Reality (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 18, 2006)
It speaks of the sorry state of our democracy that those in office attach little importance to the organs of government that represent the people.
- Govt Double Negatives Mukherjee Report (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, May 18, 2006)
The Congress-led UPA Government has decided to let the mystery surrounding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose endure for another day.
- The Taste Is Sour (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 18, 2006)
Just after completion of the Assembly elections, the tax paying public has received a shock as a result of a recent circular issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) calling upon them to explain their views on the removal or continuance of . . .
- Doctors Block Roads In India Caste Quota Protests (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Doctors and medical students blocked roads and skipped work across large parts of India on Wednesday as protests spread against a controversial government move to reserve more college seats for lower castes.
- Reservations: Let Down By Weak Data (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, May 18, 2006)
The Government's move to introduce reservation in the private sector may have the lofty aim of enhancing social justice. But it is unfortunate that policy formulations with such far-reaching implications are to be based on such a meagre and suspect . . .
- Protests And Excesses (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 18, 2006)
Even as the anti-reservation movement is spreading with students of IIMs and IITs joining the striking doctors, the conduct of the police in Mumbai, New Delhi and elsewhere, too, towards the peaceful protestors has come in for sharp and justifiable . . .
- Pak Rape Victim Fights For Justice (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 18, 2006)
After Mukhtaran Mai, another Pakistani rape victim has highlighted the plight of her country’s women at the international foray where she urged President Pervez Musharraf to appoint an independent commission of inquiry comprising lawyers and human . . .
- Blackboard Bungle (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 18, 2006)
Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.
- Balochis Attack Pak Nukes (OutLook, B. Raman , May 18, 2006)
Here's something to worry about for the doomsday prophets - Pakistani nukes are being eyed not just by the jihadis or the Americans but by the Balochis too - in qualitatively different ways, of course.
- Science Completes Book Of Life I (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Scientists have reached a landmark point in one of the world’s most important scientific projects by sequencing the last chromosome in the Human Genome, the so-called “book of life”.
- Ministers Panel To Study Quota Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
It will take into account the interests of all sections
Arjun Singh reiterates Government's commitment to reservation
Says there is no difference of opinion on the issue
- Left Front Ministry To Be Sworn In Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Seventeen new faces inducted
33 Ministers have Cabinet rank
More than 1/3rd of ministry comprises new faces
Self Help Group and Self Employment is new department
- Notice To 600 Striking Doctors (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
They have been given 24 hours to reply
Advertisements for fresh recruitments in a couple of days
Mandatory one-month notice waived
Action follows PIL petition in High Court
- Capital Mess (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 18, 2006)
If the term wasn’t so ironic when applied to a city like Delhi, the governmental authorities seem to be leading its citizens up the garden path.
- Get Rid Of Anxiety (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
All success in the world... is the result of
indomitable spirit.
So don't be anxious,
just develop a 'can-do'
attitude. Nothing
is impossible.
- Q&a: 'To Be A Good Charity Is To Be Sustainable' (Times of India, ARCHANA JAHAGIRDAR, May 18, 2006)
From being in the travel business to philanthropy, that's the trajectory of Christel DeHaan's life.
- Quota From This Academic Session Unlikely (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
The implementation of reservation in higher education from this academic session appears unlikely with the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today constituting a four-member ministerial team to study the issue as nationwide protests on the issue . . .
- Patil Assures Safer Transportation Of Villagers From Doda (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Describing today’s grenade attack by terrorists on a group of protestors at Doda as "serious", Home Minister Shivraj Patil said the Government would "qualitatively upgrade" security apparatus in the area, including beefing Village Defence Committees . . .
- A Missing Link In Quota Debate (Hindu, Lakshmi B. Ghosh , May 18, 2006)
They are usually the loudest crusaders of student causes. And yet if there has been a missing link in the debate surrounding the burning issue of reservation over the past couple of weeks, it has been the near stoic silence of student outfits on . . .
- Mysore An Ideal Destination For Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2006)
Mysore started in 1963 is a full-fledged Arts, Science and Commerce college for women affiliated to the University of Mysore.
- Iron Man At The Helm (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 17, 2006)
From leader of innumerable agitations to head of government. With the Polit Bureau, the State Secretariat, and the State Committee of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) endorsing him as the next Chief Minister of Kerala, V.S. Achuthanandan needs . . .
- Made In China — Indian Doctors (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, May 17, 2006)
Hundreds of students from India are now studying medicine in Chinese universities.
- Beyond The Dismal Science (Deccan Herald, HAZEL HENDERSON, May 17, 2006)
There is the need to deconstruct money systems and encourage local real world alternatives
- Bad Omens For The Economy (Business Standard, Subir Roy, May 17, 2006)
The economic outlook for India has just turned a little negative.
- 'It's A Lie That Cpi-M Is Anti-Reform' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
On Sunday, the Communist Party of India-Marxist leader V S Achuthanandan, who is the new chief minister of Kerala, landed at Thiruvananthapuram airport to a rousing welcome.
- Citibank Forays Into Small Business Space (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
To add 12,000 more clients in the space; relationship managers to provide advisory services
One-stop treasure chest will be offered through PowerAccess
Will embark on a new approach to serve clients
- Maharashtra Politicians Join Quota Issue (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
While politicians opposed to increasing quotas for Other Backward Castes in educational institutions have been careful about avoiding the spotlight, those on the other side of the divide are now out on the streets in the support of quota.
- “Love Of Country Begins With Love Of Family” (Tribune, Andrew Osborn , May 17, 2006)
President Vladimir Putin has promised cash bonuses to Russian women who give birth to two children or more in order to reverse what he says is the gravest problem facing contemporary Russia: a declining population.
- 'What More Do The Upper Castes Want?' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Dr Udit Raj (formerly Ram Raj) is the chairman of the All-India Confederation of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Federations.
- U.S.-Japan Security Overhaul Gives Tokyo Bigger Role (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
A plan to tighten U.S.-Japan military ties while streamlining American forces in Japan will embed Tokyo more firmly in Washington's global strategy and set the stage for Japan to play a bigger role in the alliance.
- Hailstorm Damages Fruit, Vegetable Crops (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Several areas of Himachal were lashed by a severe storm followed by hail and rain, disrupting life.
- Major Reshuffle Of Bureaucrats In Tamil Nadu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Shaktikanta Das is new Industries Secretary; V.K. Subburaj replaces Sheela Rani Chunkath as Health Secretary
- Centre Committed To Reservation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
But options under study, Arjun tells students
Increasing seats, including economically backward sections under consideration
Arjun Singh assures comprehensive roadmap
Somnath asks students to withdraw protest and wait for decision
- Anti-Reservation Stir Intensifies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Pro-quota groups also take to the streets, court arrest
Delhi Government issued notices to junior doctors
MBBS students in Madhya Pradesh tonsured their heads
Those in Orissa pulled rickshaws to protest
- Morales, The Poor, And Oil Firms (Hindu, George Monbiot, May 17, 2006)
The outery over Bolivia's renationalisation and the slience over Chad's betrays hypocrisy.
- Ttd Approves 50-Room Choultry For Sri Veeranjenaya Temple In Gandi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Promises to develop Annamacharya's hometown, Tallapaka
50-room choultry, kalyana mandapam sanctioned for Penchalakona
TTD has spent Rs. 40 lakhs on development of Tallapaka so far
Plans to take over temple at Vontimitta objected to by ASI
- The Imf’S America Problem (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 17, 2006)
The IMF’s meeting this spring was lauded as a breakthrough, with officials given a new mandate for “surveillance” of the trade imbalances that contribute significantly to global instability.
- Kashmiris Must Make Yet Another Choice (Pioneer, Ghazanfar Butt, May 17, 2006)
Talks of demilitarisation of Siachen ought to be directly linked to the end of terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir, says Ghazanfur Butt
- Pm’S 2-Day Kashmir Visit From May 24 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit the Kashmir valley for two days from May 24.
- No Hope Of Third Front (Daily Excelsior, Atul, May 17, 2006)
When in the late 1980s the then Defence Minister V. P. Singh launched his Jan Morcha after falling out with his prime minister,
- It’S Healthy Being Supermom (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 17, 2006)
The women’s movement made sure that they became more independent — financially. But what it couldn’t take away from them was their maternal instinct, and their home-making skills.
- Unicef Seeks Funds For Displaced Children In Uganda (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2006)
Facing a funding shortfall of close to 70 per cent for its operations in Uganda, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has appealed for more than USD 36 million to aid nearly a million youngsters displaced in the strife-torn country.
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