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Articles 8421 through 8520 of 20587:
- Bankers Make A Beeline For Rail Bhavan (Times of India, Sidhartha Kanungo, May 02, 2006)
The healthy growth of the Railways balancesheet, under railway minister Lalu Prasad, is getting noticed.
- Gujarat Violence Invites Advisory (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
A Vadodara Municipal Corporation drive to free the city of encroachments left four people dead and over a dozen injured when police fired to disperse a mob.
- Suicide Attempt After Claim By ‘Second Wife’ (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 02, 2006)
The home of K Surynarayana at Malkajgiri here was drowned tonight in a sea of sorrow as his body was flown in even as his widow Manjula lay unconscious in a hospital after a suicide attempt by consuming phenyl.
- Kasula Suryanarayana's Body Brought Home (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
High drama precedes the arrival of the body from Afghanistan
- Mahajan Develops Respiratory Problem (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
A worrying development and an immediate cause for concern, say doctors
- Oil And The Tenuous Global Balance (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, May 02, 2006)
High and rising oil prices have stoked dormant fears of a global economic shock comparable to those experienced in the 1970s.
- Headquarters Of Crpf Attacked (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
Militants attacked Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) battalion headquarters in the city here this afternoon. Elsewhere in Jammu and Kashmir, a Pakistani infiltrator was among three persons killed while four other intruders were arrested since last night
- These Killer Drugs (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 02, 2006)
During raid on medical stores in Rawalpindi, Health team sealed a store which was keeping expired medicines. In a similar move the other day, authorities found expired medicines in a hospital in Karachi and ordered their destruction.
- Wife Of Indian Slain By Taliban Attempts Suicide (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
The grief-stricken wife of an Indian engineer beheaded by the Taliban attempted to commit suicide by drinking a bottle of insecticide on Monday, relatives said.
- The Elixir Of Life (Hindu, G. S. GANESH PRASAD, May 02, 2006)
Sustainable development and resource management for drinking, domestic, irrigation and industrial purposes have acquired an important position in the overall water resource programme of India.
- Pro-Taliban Leader Injured Near Tank (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
Gunmen ambushed a pickup truck carrying prominent tribal militant Asmatullah Shaheen on a road in near Tank in South Waziristan on Sunday, seriously wounding him and his two bodyguards, police and a militant said.
- Koirala Sworn-In As Nepal Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
Veteran Nepali Congress leader Girija Prasad Koirala was today sworn-in as the Prime Minister of the Himalayan Kingdom by King Gyanendra.
- What’S Up, Docs? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 01, 2006)
If HRD Minister Arjun Singh has it his way, the number of seats available to general category students at the post-graduate level in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences will shrink from 33 of the total 50 seats to 19.
- Protecting Privilege (Times of India, RAJA SEKHAR VUNDRU , May 01, 2006)
On January 2, 1981, The Times of India, Ahmedabad, reported that medical students of B J Medical College, Ahmedabad, launched an agitation against reserved seats for scheduled caste candidates.
- Arjun: Up To Manmohan To Decide (Hindu, Special Correspondent, Hindu, May 01, 2006)
Sibal's remarks on reservation for OBCs
To appeal to medical students to call off stir
Says Centre is dedicated to CMP
- China's New Push On The African Continent (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, May 01, 2006)
Hu Jintao's three-nation Africa tour to Morocco, Nigeria, and Kenya might have received only a sliver of the international limelight his much-heralded visit to the United States generated a week earlier, but in China itself...
- Pro-Taliban Leader Injured Near Tank (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
Gunmen ambushed a pickup truck carrying prominent tribal militant Asmatullah Shaheen on a road in near Tank in South Waziristan on Sunday, seriously wounding him and his two bodyguards, police and a militant said.
- Maoists Urged To Come For Talks (Hindu, Ameet Dhakal, May 01, 2006)
Koirala appeals to global community to support Nepal in rehabilitation, reconstruction
- Collage Of Dances (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , May 01, 2006)
The World Dance Day celebrations at Alliance was a vibrant coming together of Indian dance forms from Kathak to Somana Kunita
- Government Service By Doctors (Daily Excelsior, Ratandeep Kaur, May 01, 2006)
Every time the Government tends to think long term and bring about far reaching changes which would change the health scenario and awareness levels as well as enhance the health delivery system, it is put to confusion resulting in half hearted steps...
- 11 Taliban, Three Afghan Cops Killed (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Afghan troops killed 11 Taliban militants in separate raids while insurgents ambushed and shot dead three policemen across volatile southern Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.
- Boom Time For Medicare (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Apr 30, 2006)
As medical tourism looks set to expand further, India must make use of the opportunity while ensuring that it does not create a health divide.
India's tertiary healthcare sector is on the road to global fame.
- A Different Pain (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 30, 2006)
Pretending to be pregnant is one thing, being pregnant is another. Women have used the ruse of pregnancy for a variety of purposes, from smuggling rice on the trains of Bengal to killing the enemy with explosives strapped about their midriffs . . .
- Nepali Cong Activist Dies At Aiims (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Pradhyumna Kharka, 32 , a Nepali Congress activist who suffered bullet injuries during a pro-democracy demonstration in Nepal, succumbed to his bullet injuries at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Saturday.
- Extremist Positions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 30, 2006)
In Kerala, militant fundamentalism is now hogging the inviting political space that the two coalition fronts have kept open, for a legitimacy that it never managed to have before.
- Facts Still Incomplete And No One Knows Why (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Apr 30, 2006)
The way television channels have hyped the attack on Pramod Mahajan and his subsequent hospitalization for two days… crossed the limits of sanity.
- Voices From Nepal (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Apr 30, 2006)
Nepal is one of those unrecorded stories that only emerge when there is a crisis.
- Aiadmk-Mdmk Alliance Will Ensure Welfare Of State: Vaiko (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Criticises CPI(M) leaders for personalised attacks
- Mine Blast Kills 7 Soldiers In Nepal (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 30, 2006)
Even as Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala pledged to declare a ceasefire and begin peace talks with the Maoists and the rebels called a ceasefire, seven soldiers of the Royal Nepalese Army were killed in a mine blast in western Nepal on Saturday,
- We Will Help Farmers And Jobless Youth: Sharad (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Apr 30, 2006)
Sharad Yadav’s election as Janata Dal (United) President has been a subject of controversy within and outside the party. A seasoned politician who was first elected to the fifth Lok Sabha in 1974 at the age of 25, Yadav has before him the gigantic . . .
- Pramod In Ot, Praveen Asks For Car (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Pramod Mahajan today went under the scalpel for the third time to clear possible infections in his abdomen, but doctors continued to describe the BJP leader’s condition as “critical”.
- Affirmative Action Not At The Pvt Sector’S Cost (Deccan Herald, Anant R Koppar, Apr 30, 2006)
"In Malaysia of 1970s, locals were given education and brought on par with Chinese & Indian immigrants"
- Sbi Hikes Lending, Deposit Rates (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Home loans dearer; Punjab National Bank, OBC, Union Bank raise PLR
- Who Cares For Myanmar? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 30, 2006)
Last month, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran spoke at a well-attended lecture organised in Washington by the Heritage Foundation. The Foreign Secretary was in the US capital to meet Bush Administration officials before the crucial vote in the US . . .
- Pramod Takes Third Surgery Well, Stable (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan underwent a surgery to wash his abdominal cavity and clear infection, on the eighth day of his admission to the PD Hinduja Hospital here on Saturday.
- Maoist Fear Grips Vaishali (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Sudden terror has gripped Bihar’s Vaishali district in the aftermath of last night’s Maoist raids at Jandaha town, barely 60 km from the state capital.
- Mothers Of Nepal Vanquish A Killer Of Children (New York Times, Celia W Dugger, Apr 30, 2006)
As dusk descended on this medieval walled city and its dirt lanes filled with horses cantering home from the mountains, the piercing voice of a woman could be heard over the pounding hooves.
- Sops For Extremists (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 30, 2006)
Extraordinary problems call for extraordinary solutions. That is why the largesse offered by the Jharkhand government to extremists who surrender may not appear all that bizarre.
- Beyond Pragmatism (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 30, 2006)
Defendin himself against critics who accuse him of having sold out to the US, General Musharraf has defended his role in the ongoing War on Terror, saying he is fighting it not on Washington’s behest but because this suits the country’s interests.
- J&k Producing 500 Doctors Every Year (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Apr 30, 2006)
In the last decade or so, the number of MBBS graduates that India produces every year has multiplied by several thousands and the number is going up each day.
- Centre Blames Assam For Malaria Deaths (Statesman, SANJAY SINGH, Apr 30, 2006)
As Assam reels under a virtual malaria epidemic, with 77 deaths already reported, the Centre has accused the state government of a lackadaisical approach and failure to utilise a consignment of mosquito nets it had dispatched in 2001.
- Koirala To Be Sworn-In As Nepal Pm Tomorrow (Press Trust of India, Shirish B Pradhan, Apr 30, 2006)
Nepal's Prime Minister-designate Girija Prasad Koirala will be sworn-in tomorrow following the postponement of the oath-taking ceremony due to his ill health.
- Australian Wheat In The Dock (Hindu, N. Ravi Kumar, Apr 30, 2006)
Even before the half-a-lakh tonne cargo of Australian wheat could be unloaded at the Chennai port, a controversy has rocked the first consignment of import.
- Top Naxal Among Those Killed In Encounter (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Hostile terrain delays shifting of bodies
Anantapur District Committee Member among those dead
Combing operations intensified in forests
Police set up roadblocks in Kadapa district
- Al-Qaeda Claims Karachi Us Consulate Bombing Responsibility (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Seven people were injured in a collision between a coaster and dumper near Pakistan Steel Mills Sunday morning here.
- The Man Of The Season (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
V.S. Achuthanandan has caught the imagination of the public in a way few leaders have, says C. Gouridasan Nair
- Kalam Calls For Evolving 'Enlightened Citizenry' Round The Globe (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam has called for the evolution of an enlightened citizenry round the globe, with the introduction of moral value system in education and by making religion graduate into a universal spiritual force.
- Cpm Activist Killed In J&k (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Militants killed a CPM activist and injured three others, including a sarpanch, while the security forces arrested a Jaish ultra along with 40 kg of explosives in Jammu and Kashmir overnight, official sources said.
- Ball Bearings (Tribune, Ranjiv Dalal, Apr 29, 2006)
Iremember walking to our primary school with other children of the colony everyday with bags loaded on our backs. Often we’d come across an old man sitting on a bench clutching his knees.
- Aids Awareness: Unicef Project Focuses On Youth (Hindu, Anasuya Menon, Apr 29, 2006)
Aims at training them as peer educators
- Won't Allow Vat: Mulayam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
No also to allowing foreign firms to open outlets without safeguards
- Nepal House Starts, Koirala Yet To Be Pm (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
The first meeting of the reinstated House of Representatives statrted in Singha Durbar on Friday.
- New Nepal Commits To Maoist Talks (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Apr 29, 2006)
The new government of Nepal has committed itself to holding a dialogue with the Maoists, declare a ceasefire and move towards a Constituent Assembly.
- The French Connection (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 29, 2006)
THE launch in Paris of the Pak-France Committee at a meeting between Industries, Production and Special Initiatives Minister Jehangir Tareen and MEDEF, an association of 700,000 French-based . . .
- Jayati Ghosh: Protecting Foreign Investors (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Apr 29, 2006)
Bilateral investment treaties have become potential weapons of multinational companies against developing country governments and societies.
- Who Cares For Myanmar? (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Apr 29, 2006)
Last month, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran spoke at a well-attended lecture organised in Washington by the Heritage Foundation.
- What Affirmative Action Can Be All About (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Apr 29, 2006)
Corporates should make affirmative policy a part of their recruitment and outsourcing strategy
- Refined Future (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 29, 2006)
The numbers from Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) show its strategy of betting big on the refining business is with an eye to the future. RIL’s refining business, in fact, has been the key reason for its robust performance during Q4FY06, when it . . .
- Markets Are Essential, So Is Regulation (Tribune, Johann Hari, Apr 29, 2006)
The first has been conducted in the United States over the past 25 years, increasingly setting corporations free from regulation and safeguards. The second experiment has been conducted in Argentina over the past five years, and lies at the opposite . . .
- Human Development Indices Differ Considerably For All-India, Sts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Study carried out by Institute of Human Development
Loss of productive sources the main reason
HDI represents three dimensions - economy, education, health
- Nine Naxals Killed In Kadapa Forests (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Women among the dead in the biggest anti-naxal offensive in Kadapa district
Some naxalites have fled the scene of encounter
Major offensive planned in YSR's native district
Bodies of the encounter victims yet to be identified
Arms, ammunition and
- Tamil Nadu Jananayaka Congress Candidate Found Dead In Karur (Hindu, L. Renganathan , Apr 29, 2006)
Election process in the constituency will continue: Collector
- Human Trafficking Racket (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 29, 2006)
FEDERAL Investigation Agency (FIA) has approached Interpol for the arrest of Maj (Rtd) Ajmal, former Swiss Visa Assistant and an important name in human trafficking racket, unveiled by Asher Frances, main culprit in Swiss Visa Scandal. Meanwhile,
- The Solution Is Not Quota (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 29, 2006)
Let me begin with an ordinary, everyday Indian story. It is the story of a little boy called Lakshay who, at the age of three, needed admission in a Delhi kindergarten.
- The Overseas Class (Deccan Herald, Richard C Paddock, Apr 29, 2006)
They nurse the sick in California, drive fuel trucks in Iraq, sail cargo ships through the Panama Canal and cruise ships through the Gulf of Alaska. They pour sake for Japanese salarymen and raise the children of Saudi businessmen.
- How Individuals Can Help Overcome Terrorism (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 29, 2006)
Terrorism is a menace. Often, terrorists do not seek solutions but look to destruction as their aim and achievement. The terrorist community has gone to the extent of running terro-rist training camps and acquiring stealth hardware to create maximum . . .
- Extremist Positions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 29, 2006)
In Kerala, militant fundamentalism is now hogging the inviting political space that the two coalition fronts have kept open, for a legitimacy that it never managed to have before. But no one is complaining, not when few Malayalis can tell — or care . . .
- Facts Still Incomplete And No One Knows Why (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Apr 29, 2006)
“The way television channels have hyped the attack on Pramod Mahajan and his subsequent hospitalization for two days… crossed the limits of sanity.
- Count The Votes For Democracy (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 29, 2006)
The outcome of the by-elections in Jammu and Kashmir proves that the hardy plant of democracy survives despite the jehadi challenge.
- Get A Life, Kaavya (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 29, 2006)
If there is anything worse than being identified as a cheat, it is attempting to rationalise sharp practice by taking recourse to psycho-babble.
- Nepal Parliament Reconvenes After Four Years (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Nepal’s Parliament reconvened on Friday for the first time in four years, with legislators proposing a ceasefire with the country’s Maoist rebels and elections to a constitutional assembly.
- Change In Nepal (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Apr 29, 2006)
Within a matter of days, if not hours, Nepal has emerged out of an unprecedented crisis to knock at the doors of a kind of opportunity it has never had before. It is not certain yet that it will be able to sustain the chance till its fruition.
- Mahajan To Undergo "Minor Surgical Procedure" (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, whose condition remains "critical", would undergo a "minor surgical procedure" today.
- Koirala To Be Sworn-In As Nepal Pm Tomorrow (Press Trust of India, Shirish B Pradhan, Apr 29, 2006)
Nepal's Prime Minister-designate Girija Prasad Koirala will be sworn-in tomorrow following the postponement of the oath-taking ceremony due to his ill health.
- Nepal Parliament Reopens, Ailing Pm-Designate Absent (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Apr 29, 2006)
Nepal's parliament opened on Friday for the first time in four years, but the country's 84-year-old prime minister-designate was too ill to attend the opening or his swearing-in ceremony.
- Pm For Poll Fund Reforms (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, believes that corruption in Indian public life has greatly reduced after dismantling of licence permit raj and taxation reforms, but it cannot disappear altogether unless there are reforms in financing of elections.
- Nepal’S Revived Parliament Meets (Tribune, Shirish D. Pradhan, Apr 29, 2006)
Nepal today took first step towards multi-party democracy with its Parliament holding its first meeting in four years, but Prime Minister-designate, Mr Girija Prasad Koirala, could not attend it due to ill health.
- Quota Quarrel: Sharad Demands Manmohan Sack Sibal (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
While supporting UPA government's move to provide reservation for weaker sections in private jobs and in institutes of higher learning, the newly elected Janata D (U) President Sharad Yadav on Friday demanded dismissal of Science and Technology . . .
- Nepal's Parliament Reconvened; Maoists Wooed For Dialogue (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Nepal's Parliament was reconvened on Friday for the first time in four years, and legislators proposed a cease-fire with Maoist rebels and elections to a constitutional assembly.
- A Rest Day Finally (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 28, 2006)
The 146-year-old step taken by the Punjab police to grant a fortnightly rest day to all ranks up to SP is gratifying, as it redresses the genuine grievances of the policemen expected to be 24 hours on their toes.
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