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Articles 10221 through 10320 of 20587:
- Address Gender Dimensions Of Health, Medical Colleges, Teachers Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Over 9,000 students receive degrees at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences convocation Over 9,000 students receive degrees at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences convocation
- Laura Bush All For Empowerment Of Women (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Sees need to educate the girl child
The US First Lady interacts with women's activists
Calls for efforts to strike gender balance in politics
Insists on imparting entrepreneurial skills to women
- His Parting Words: With Power, Responsibility (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Mar 04, 2006)
Let’s work together to expand circle of prosperity, advance freedom,’ says democracy is most potent weapon in war against terror
- Can Cheaper Cars Move Faster? (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Mar 04, 2006)
The car may appear to be more affordable now. However, restrictions on its use such as congestion charging, costlier parking, and reduced right of way in favour of buses, pedestrians, and cyclists may be inevitable.
- On A Good Wicket (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 04, 2006)
Probably the most important beneficial consequence of the revenue buoyancy has been in the area of fiscal consolidation as enunciated by the Fiscal Responsibility and the Budgetary Management (FRBM) Act. The Act, passed in 2003, seeks to rein ...
- Riding The Anti-Bush Wave (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Mar 04, 2006)
The start of a new Parliament session in Delhi once meant road blocks, dharnas, rallies, water cannons, lathi-charges and marches. But things have been pretty peaceful in the Capital over the last decade or so.
- Jharkhand: Three Cops Killed In Naxal Attacks (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Mar 04, 2006)
Three policemen were killed this evening in two seperate incidents of Naxalite violence in Bokaro district of Jharkhand.
- Arroyo Ends Emergency In Philippines, Risks Remain (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ended a week-long state of emergency in the Philippines today, as widely expected, after her security chiefs said the threat from coup plotters had receded.
- Vice President Shekhawat Admitted To Aiims (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, suffering from viral fever for the past two days, was on Friday admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
- India Has Arrived: Bush (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Mar 04, 2006)
Mr George W. Bush today wooed India like no other US President had ever done before and admitted that he had been “dazzled” by India.
- Three Killed In Anti-Bush Violence In Lucknow (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Curfew clamped in two areas of the city after protest turns into communal clashes
Protesters force closure of shops
10 units of PAC deployed
Bank of Baroda building set on fire
- India In Neocon Embrace? (News International, Praful Bidwai, Mar 04, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights
activist based in Delhi
- The Annual Sop Opera (The Week, Nivedita Mukherjee, Mar 04, 2006)
The Union Budget tastes more like that well-brewed morning cup of coffee. It comes branded, too—either as outcome budget or dream budget—and has an international flavour to suit foreign investors. It is laced with sops, and is strong or light, . . .
- Grabbing A Great Opportunity (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Mar 04, 2006)
IN the run-up to President Bush’s South Asian trip, a lot of energy and effort has gone into discussing the key objectives of his visit. In his interviews to the electronic media President Bush has laid great emphasis on strengthening US-Pakistan ties tha
- Dangers Of Used Syringes (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 04, 2006)
HEALTH authorities have noted that the use of recycled syringes is responsible for 90 per cent of hepatitis B and C cases in the country.
- Lalu Rules Out Privatisation Of Railways (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Railway minister Mr Lalu Prasad today ruled out privatisation of Railways, besides the entry of multinational companies in the railway transport sector in the country.
- Bird Flu In India (Frontline, Anupama Katakam, Mar 04, 2006)
Avian influenza hits India and claims 30,000 chickens in Maharashtra in its first strike.
- Ratan Tata Silent On Idea Tussle (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Tata group chief Ratan Tata, on Friday, maintained silence on the ongoing tussle with the Birla group on their GSM joint venture Idea. Mr Tata declined to take any questions
- Howard Says Policy Prohibits Indian Uranium Sales (Reuters, Richard Pullin, Mar 04, 2006)
Australia welcomed a nuclear deal between India and the United States, but would not sell uranium to India under current policy, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday.
- The Blunted Strike Weapon (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Mar 04, 2006)
The Left affiliatedwtrade unions will perhaps do well to mull over their age-old strategies now that the airport workers strike that they had engineered in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata had brought only egg on their face.
- Slums Around Us (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 04, 2006)
Slums are generally known as congested areas with narrow alleys having no passage for emergency vehicles like ambulances and fire brigades. These have heaps of garbage.
- The Blunted Strike Weapon (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Mar 04, 2006)
The Left affiliatedwtrade unions will perhaps do well to mull over their age-old strategies now that the airport workers strike that they had engineered in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata had brought only egg on their face.
- Bush Gets A Glimpse Of Rural India (Hindu, S. Nagesh Kumar, Mar 04, 2006)
US President has interaction with farm scientists, SHG women and young entrepreneurs
- Blood On His Hands (Times of India, Peter Singer, Mar 03, 2006)
In August 2001, George Bush told Americans that he worried about a culture that devalues life, and that he believed that, as US president, he has an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.
- Kalam’S Main Course: We Share Us Vision For Future (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
The people of India share the American vision for a better future and would partner the US for making India a modern, developed nation, President APJ Abdul Kalam said this evening in his address welcoming President George W Bush and the US . . .
- Leader Editorial: Blood On His Hands (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 03, 2006)
In August 2001, George Bush told Americans that he worried about a culture that devalues life, and that he believed that, as US president, he has an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.
- Pak: Blast Kills American Diplomat, 4 Others Near Us Consulate (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
In an audacious attack just two days before President George W Bush's visit to Pakistan, a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat, killing him and four others outside the highly guarded US Consulate here
- India, Us Must Fight Terrorism Everywhere: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Contending that New Delhi sought a neighbourhood of peace and prosperity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India and the US must fight terrorism wherever it exists as it threatens democracy everywhere.
- Indian Un Soldier Dies After Evacuation Delayed Due To Ban (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Mar 03, 2006)
An Indian peacekeeper with the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea has died of a cardiac arrest after what has been described by the UN as an "unnecessary long medical evacuation" due to an Eritrean ban on UN helicopter flights.
- India, Us Clinch 'Historic' Nuclear Deal (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
India today agreed to open 14 of its 22 nuclear reactors to international safeguards under a last-minute deal clinched after intense discussions between the visiting US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Bush Donates $7m For Joint Aids Fund (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
With a contribution of $7 million from President George W Bush, establishment of an Indo-US corporate fund for HIV/AIDS was announced here today. President Bush and PM Manmohan Singh also agreed to a five-year collaboration . . .
- Do Our Thinkers Value Freedom? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Mar 03, 2006)
The ice-cold response from Indian historians and freedom of expressionwallahs to the ban on James Laine's book The Epic of Shivaji shines a mirror on how easy it is to grandstand on the Danish cartoons' contrToversy while ignoring our own dark underbelly
- President Kalam Toasts India-Us Ties (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
It was an evening of celebration of "a new era" in India-US camaraderie at the elegantly lit Rashtrapati Bhavan as President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Thursday proposed a toast to US President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
- Karachi Blast Kills Us Diplomat (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Bush Visit Bomber with explosive-laden car strikes outside American consulate
- Chidambaram Overcautious (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Mar 03, 2006)
There is a danger in trying to please a lot of people simultaneously. You might end up spreading the happiness so thinly that no one is overjoyed. On the contrary, everyone feels a little dissatisfied.
- Water Shortage (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 03, 2006)
Though there was a reasonably good rainfall in Karnataka during the last monsoon, 7,000 to 8,000 villages in the State are likely to face scarcity of drinking water this summer.
- When Politics Defeats Science (Tribune, Susan F. Wood, Mar 03, 2006)
Since my resignation six months ago as assistant commissioner of women’s health at the Food and Drug Administration, I have been traveling around the country meeting with men and women, fellow scientists and health care professionals.
- Budget Over, India's Reforms To Resume After Polls (Reuters, Surojit Gupta and Charlotte Cooper, Mar 03, 2006)
India's coalition government steered clear of tackling economic reforms opposed by its communist allies in this week's 2006/07 budget, preferring to hold fire until state elections are over in May, analysts say.
- Us Diplomat Killed In Karachi Blast (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Terror struck Pakistan two days before President George W. Bush's visit, when two near-simultaneous blasts, including a suspected suicide car bomb, ripped through a parking lot near the US Consulate here today killing at least four persons, . . .
- Students Unions Protest In Tripura Against Bush Visit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
While the Student Federation of India (SFI) organised rallies and demonstration throughout the state from Wednesday, SUCI and AIDSO called for strike in educational institutions.
- Three Priorities For St. Petersburg Summit Of G8 (Hindu, Vladimir V. Putin, Mar 03, 2006)
Global energy security, combating infectious diseases, including bird flu, and education are the three priorities Russia has proposed for the G8.
- Kalam Raises A Toast To Indo-Us Ties (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
It was an evening of celebration of “a new era” in India-US camaraderie at the elegantly-lit Rashtrapati Bhavan as President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday proposed a toast to US President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
- Bird Flu In India (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Mar 03, 2006)
The deadly bird flu- H5NI avian influenza -- has hit the Indian shores, with Navapur, a backward tribal area in North Maharashtra, becoming the first in the country to report confirmed cases of the dreaded epidemic.
- India, U.S. Reaffirm Commitment To Expand Ties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush express satisfaction with progress in advancing strategic partnership.
- India, U.S. Pledge To Combat Aids (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Corporates of both nations to be involved
Bush contributes $7 million towards the India-U.S. Corporate Fund
Fund to be managed by GIVE Foundation and ICICI Bank
- Terrorists Will Not Prevent Me From Going To Pakistan: Bush (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
"India, Pakistan have historic opportunity to work for lasting peace''
``India, U.S. committed to promoting democracy worldwide"
Need to share intelligence on terrorism stressed
- Us, India Seal Nuclear Deal (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
US President George W Bush got a victory on Thursday on his first visit to India, securing a landmark nuclear energy agreement that he said could help ease energy prices.
- India To Open 14 Nuclear Reactors To (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
India today agreed to open 14 of its 22 nuclear reactors to international safeguards under a last-minute deal clinched after intense discussions between the visiting US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
- Taliban Take Control Of Govt Buildings In Miramshah (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Tension gripped the North Waziristan agency on Thursday as Taliban took over government buildings, occupied the area’s telephone exchange and patrolled the streets of the tribal agency’s regional headquarters.
- Karachi Hit By Terror Attack, Four Killed: Us Diplomat Among Dead, 54 Injured (Dawn, Arman Sabir, Mar 03, 2006)
Four people, including an American diplomat, were killed and 54 others wounded when an explosive-laden car rammed into the diplomat’s vehicle yards away from the US consulate-general here on Thursday.
- Us Diplomat, 3 Others Killed In Karachi Attack (Daily Times, Abbas Naqvi, Mar 03, 2006)
* Sherpao says govt has proof of foreign involvement
* 2 rockets land near Gadap
* Bush says attack won’t stop him from visiting Pakistan
- Mca-21: E-Governance In Action, And How (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Mar 03, 2006)
February 18, 2006 will go down as a landmark day in the history of corporate governance in India. On this day, the MCA-21 project portal (www.mca21.gov.in) was launched in Coimbatore.
- Lacking Ambition On Long-Term Growth (The Financial Express, Nagesh Kumar, Mar 03, 2006)
Mr Chidambaram’s Budget has generally been seen as a goody-goody one that has delivered to the different segments of society and has not adversely affected any particular one.
- Four Years After Fall Of Taliban, Leader's Power Barely Extends Beyond The Capital (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
Standing behind George Bush inside his Kabul palace yesterday, Hamid Karzai radiated the trappings of a powerful president: a confident smile, massed security guards and the legitimacy bestowed by the 2004 election in which he won 55% of the vote.
- Protest Against Bush’S Visit (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
A wordy duel between the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Parkash Singh Badal, marked the passing of the Motion of Thanks on the Governor’s Address in the Punjab Assembly today.
- Budget Placed In Assembly (Tribune, Ambarish Dutta, Mar 02, 2006)
After more than a decade, the Bihar Assembly today witnessed the presentation of a full-fledged Budget and Finance Bill for 2006-07 for necessary approval by the House
- Why Pm Went To Receive Bush (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Mar 02, 2006)
Disregarding the strong anti-Bush protests, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh broke away from protocol to go to Indira Gandhi International Airport and receive US president George W. Bush on Wednesday evening.
- Social Problems Of Aged Gujjars (Daily Excelsior, Simi Kandara, Mar 02, 2006)
Ageing is unequivocally a universal and irreversible process. The process of ageing obviously affects every type of social group and indeed every type of social relationship in all societies.
- Back To School For Some, To First Principles For Others (Indian Express, Partha J Shah, Mar 02, 2006)
Back to school for some, to first principles for others
- Stringent Steps To Tackle Naxal Menace Will Continue: Raman Singh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
No point inviting Maoists for peace talks, says the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
- Two Private Desalination Plants On The Anvil (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Mar 02, 2006)
Projects to be set up to meet the water requirements of CPCL, Port Trust
CPCL, Port Trust to set up the plants
To use seawater for desalination purposes
- Farming Needed A Boost (Deccan Herald, S. L. Rao, Mar 02, 2006)
The FM has let go an opportunity to give a fillip to the economy that wouldn’t have raised the hackles of the Reds
- Higher Social Spend (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 02, 2006)
Keeping in tune with its focus on spurring growth the General Budget 2006-07 has made a determined effort to accelerate the pace of development in crucial social sectors.
- Pm Breaks Protocol To Greet Bush (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
US President George W Bush arrived in the capital on Wednesday night on his first visit to the country to engage the Manmohan Singh government to take forward the Indo-US strategic engagement initiative set in motion by the Clinton-Vajpayee duo six years
- Call Centre, Transcription, Erp Services Become Costlier (Hindu, Shanthi Kannan, Mar 02, 2006)
Service tax coverage comes into force
Support services of business comes under service tax
Internet telephony also included
Levy will reduce the margins for the outsourcer
Nascent domestic market will be hit
- India's 'Impeccable' N-Record (News International, A S Muhammad, Mar 02, 2006)
The Indo-US Joint Statement of July 18 said India was a responsible state strongly committed to the prevention of WMD proliferation, and should therefore acquire the same benefits and advantages as other such states.
- Encouraging Economic Indicators (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the overall poverty in the country has declined by 6.7 per cent, unemployment rate for the current year has gone down by 6.8 per cent and GDP is expected to grow by 6.5 to 7 per cent during . . .
- Quantum Jump In India’S Military Budget (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
India has raised its military budget for the year 2006-07 by 7.2 per cent to Rs 890 billion envisaging massive upgradation and moderanisation of its armed forces. India’s million plus Army, the world’s fourth largest, is thus getting the lion’s . . .
- Deve Gowda Leads Anti-Bush Protest (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
JD(S) MPs to participate in Left parties' protests in Delhi today
The former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda, on Wednesday led a demonstration by the Janata Dal (Secular) here against the visit of U.S. President George Bush and ...
- Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists (The Economic Times, Raghuram Rajan, Mar 02, 2006)
For the political foundations of free markets to become stronger, society has to become more cognisant of how much it owes them.
- Bird Flu Precautions (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 02, 2006)
THE fact that the government has sent virus samples from affected poultry farms in the NWFP to London for confirmation of the deadly H5N1 influenza strain shows just how little prepared it is to deal with a large-scale outbreak of avian flu at home.
- How To Lose Friends (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 02, 2006)
Among many other things, the president’s job description requires him to keep abreast of economic and political developments around the world; respond to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina;
- Now Vision 2030 (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Mar 02, 2006)
After trying with large visions in small areas, we are now opting for a grand vision 2030. In fact the National Economic Council approved the vision in principle in May last year and is to be taken up more seriously and in detail now.
- Initiatives Well Sown (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 02, 2006)
The Budget moves are sure to go a long way in strengthening farm and related activities.
- Comfort For Markets With Political Stability (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Mar 02, 2006)
The finance minister has taken advantage of strong economic growth and the economy’s healthy state to bring the fisc back on track for achieving FRBM targets.
- Manmohan Singh Frisked For Bush (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who received US President George Bush at the airport in breach of protocol, was reportedly frisked by American agents when he was allowed to approach the president.
- Bihar Gets A Budget, Finally (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 02, 2006)
After over a decade, a full-fledged budget — setting out its top priorities for the state — and a finance Bill was presented in the Bihar Assembly today in a clear shift from the earlier trend of Vote-on-Account that nearly became a practice...
- Chicken’S Neck (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 02, 2006)
Irresponsible naivete in place of action
So far, so merciful. The bird flu scare, we are assured, is abating and the establishment must be feeling relieved that not a single person has been afflicted.
- No New Taxes In Budget (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 01, 2006)
Proposing no changes in corporate and personal income taxes and levying no new taxes, the Union Budget for 2006-07 made small cars and aerated drinks cheaper, raised service tax to 12 per cent and widened it to include 15 more items . . .
- Govt Vows More For Poor, Budget Banks On Growth (Reuters, Unni Krishnan, Mar 01, 2006)
The government pledged on Tuesday to boost spending on health, education and rural infrastructure to help the poor, unveiling an annual budget designed to foster growth and rein in the country's federal deficit.
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