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Articles 10421 through 10520 of 20587:
- For Chidambaram's Balancing Act (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Feb 27, 2006)
The challenge is to get resources flowing through reform policies that do not raise the hackles of the Left or the Opposition even while ensuring growth with equity.
- Indian Officials Test 90,000 People For Bird Flu Symptoms (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
* Fears of virus’ spread to humans ease as 95 people suspected of infection test negative
* Chicken slaughter in Gujarat almost complete
- Looking Beyond The Budget (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
India has made enormous progress in the last 15 years, but there is a lot of ground to be covered in areas of infrastructure and investment.
- Pre-Budget Musings (Telegraph, Dipankar Dasgupta, Feb 27, 2006)
P. Chidambaram occupies the enviable chair of the finance minister of India, but is entrusted with the world’s most unenviable task, that of delivering a budget on February 28 that will promise prosperity for each and every member of the 100-crore . . .
- China Orders Pollution Crackdown (Tribune, Ching-Ching Ni, Feb 27, 2006)
Turning a blind eye to environmental degradation could now cost Chinese officials their jobs, state media announced Tuesday. However, environmentalists raised concerns about enforcement of the new regulations.
- ‘India Doesn’T Need Us Help To Become World Power’ (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Feb 27, 2006)
Mr Richard Celeste served as the U.S. Ambassador in New Delhi at the time of President Bill Clinton’s visit to India in March, 2000. The trip, the first by a U.S. President in over two decades, marked an upswing in U.S.-India relations.
- Mysteries Of Budget-Making (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Feb 27, 2006)
While Budget analysts concentrate mainly on the tax proposals, they would do well to linger a while on other aspects, such as the composition of resources raised, including extra budgetary resources of PSUs. Indeed, given the months . . .
- Bush And India’S Insecurity (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Feb 27, 2006)
The permanent threat from Pakistan is unlikely to feature in the “detailed and substantive” talks with Bush
- On Prime Time, Be Fair To The Fowl (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Feb 27, 2006)
: bird flu and cricket receive the same coverage on TV news. Not surprised? Know what President Bush doesn’t?
- Here, It’S Bjp-Congress Vs Naxalites (Indian Express, Vivek Deshpande, Feb 27, 2006)
In the last six months, scores have been killed in the war between Naxalites and the government-backed tribal army, Salva Judum, in South Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. But it never made it to national headlines or political debates because . . .
- Just A Nano-Second, Mr President (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 27, 2006)
Beyond nuclear energy, India and the US must widen the scope of cooperation in science and technology to agriculture and health, says AMIT MITRA
- Bird Flu: Let Not Fear Make Us Headless Chickens (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Feb 25, 2006)
Scare is so much the style of government in Britain that its absence is a genuine, and very welcome, surprise.
- Marked By Grace (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Sense prevails in Assam controversy
Assam Governor Lt-Gen (retd) Ajai Singh and Gauhati University authorities deserve to be complimented for the cordial manner in which they settled the “standoff” over the award of grace marks.
- All Human Samples Negative For Bird Flu, Scare Tapering Off: Govt (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Government today said all human samples tested for suspected bird flu proved negative and the scare set off by the outbreak of the dreaded disease in Navapur was tapering off.
- India’S ‘Supercops’ In Firing Line Over Mob Links (Daily Times, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 25, 2006)
Many people supported the ‘supercops’ because snuffing out the bad guys, most felt, was better than putting them through a failing justice system where witnesses could be manipulated and cases drag on for years
- Indian Railways—on The Route To Reform? (The Financial Express, S SRIRAMAN, Feb 25, 2006)
The railways in India have been positioned for quite some time at a junction from which only one path could be said to have the potential to move the organisation towards success.
- More Human Blood Samples To Be Tested (Statesman, SANJAY SINGH, Feb 25, 2006)
Even as the government claims that there are no human cases of bird flu, many human blood samples were collected in Navapur today. Health ministry officials here said this was being done to ensure that the virus does not spread to other areas.
- A Mix Of Old Recipe With A New Repast (The Economic Times, Raghu Dayal , Feb 25, 2006)
The rail budget 2006-07 presented in the Lok Sabha by Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav reflected the usual subservience of economics to politics. Claimed as a “revolutionary” budget, Mr Lalu Prasad rode high on the new-found euphoria on the . . .
- Sbi Lines Up $100 Million Foreign Buys (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
The bank is also mulling a mega Tier 2 bond issue in June-July 2006 to support credit growth. As part of its global expansion plans, the State Bank of India (SBI) is targeting a $100 million acquisition overseas.
- Who Could’Ve Heard A .22? (Indian Express, K. P. S. GILL , Feb 25, 2006)
Now that Delhi High Court, taking suo motu notice, has sought from the police the details in the Jessica Lall case, there’s finally some reason for hope: will there be a second shot at justice in a case in which all the nine accused have been . . .
- A Spineless Nation (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Feb 25, 2006)
No book I have read depressed me more than B N Tandon's PMO, Diary II The Emergency (Konark).
- Bird Flu: Field Squad Constituted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
A district-level field squad has been constituted to deal with any emergency arising out of the bird flu threat. The squad, comprising health inspectors from the Health Department and livestock inspectors from the Animal Husbandry Department, . . .
- Bird Flu: Last Human Sample Tests Negative (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Feb 25, 2006)
The last human sample at the Pune-based National Institute of Virology has tested negative for human avian influenza.
- Lalu’S In Business (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 25, 2006)
As railways take competition back to low-cost airlines, a major turnaround is . . .
- 2 Samples Test Positive For Bird Flu In Surat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Two chicken samples were tested positive for bird flu in Surat on Friday. The samples were taken on February 13, according to a private news channel.
- Pulling Its Weight For The Economy (Business Line, Raghu Dayal , Feb 25, 2006)
While the Rail Budget acknowledges that in a competitive market success comes not by raising tariffs, but raising the quality of services and reducing costs, it is silent on how to sustain freight and passenger traffic levels.
- Six Waves Of The Same Feather (Indian Express, S.S. Vasan , Feb 25, 2006)
S.S. Vasan takes the jargon out of the latest research on bird flu and says it may be too soon to begin panicking
- We Saw Bird Flu Coming... (Indian Express, HARINDER S. SIKKA, Feb 25, 2006)
So why were we so poorly prepared for it?
The irony about the bird flu is that we all saw it coming. But, as usual, when it came to implementation, we did nothing.
- Ap University On Bush List (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
US President George Bush is likely to visit the prestigious Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University and the Indian School of Business at Gacchibowli, during his four-hour visit to Hyderabad on March 3.
- Political Mileage Of Cartoons’ Issue (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 25, 2006)
There are several reasons to believe in the governmental claims that the Opposition is out to take political advantage of the issue of blasphemous caricatures published by some Western newspapers. The Opposition has spurned invitation of the . . .
- Bird Flu: Is Bmp Lab Equipped To Test Samples? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
BMP officials wonder how samples can be analysed in an ill-equipped laboratory
- Left Parties Threaten To Vote Against Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Decry tilt towards privatisation
Move to shift freight corridor stops criticised
Concession for farmers welcomed
Seek provision for purchase of rolling stock
- Visakhapatnam Bypoll: Ec Officials Hold Enquiry (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Sequel to complaints of irregularities during electioneering
Election Commission of India's Observer S.K. Mendiratta and Secretary Tapash Kumar on Friday went round several areas of the Visakhapatnam-I Assembly constituency to look . . .
- Changes In Laura Bush's Programme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Pitched by the Prime Minister’s Office as a major initiative to fulfill Kashmiri aspirations and speed up the peace process, the J-K roundtable in New Delhi tomorrow has been reduced to an all-party meeting with the separatist leadership deciding to stay
- State Aims To Achieve 8 To 10 P.C. Growth Rate (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Kumaraswamy to head panel to implement Kalam's action plan
The Janata Dal (Secular)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government on Friday sought to drive home the point that its focus is on development at a faster pace.
- Bird Flu Situation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
A committee on Friday reviewed the bird flu situation, even as two more persons were admitted to a Navapur hospital. With this, 14 persons are under observation.
- All Human Samples Test Negative For Bird Flu (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Feb 25, 2006)
No case of H5N1 transmission from birds to humans, says Union Health Ministry
House-to house surveillance
Health status of cullers being monitored
- Bird Flu Scare Over N-E (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 25, 2006)
Northeast Indian states have sounded maximum alert in the wake of bird flu outbreak while the poultry market has been affected by the avian influenza scare with sale of chickens and eggs declining drastically over the past few days.
- Uganda’S Lurking Tyrant (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 25, 2006)
Uganda was for so long a bleeding gash in the heart of Africa that the turnaround engineered by President Yoweri Museveni over the last two decades seems almost a miracle.
- Expectations High For U.S.-India Ties (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Feb 25, 2006)
President George W. Bush heads to India with grand visions of partnership with the world's biggest democracy, but some experts say such high expectations could lead to disappointment or even a backlash.
- Authorities Clean Up Navapur After Bird Flu, Three Go Home (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 25, 2006)
Veterinary workers began cleaning up chicken farms and disinfecting homes in the bird flu-hit town of Navapur on Friday, as fears of human infections receded and three previously quarantined people were allowed home.
- Processed Language’ & Mideast Conflict (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Feb 25, 2006)
IT was dawn and Ramazan’s second Friday, exactly 12 years ago today, when a Jewish terrorist, Baruch Goldstein entered the tomb of Patriarch Abraham — Masjid-i-Ibrahimi to Muslims — and opened fire on the believers as they prostrated themselves in prayer.
- Threat Of Bird Flu (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 25, 2006)
With both India and Iran reporting cases of bird flu, there is every reason for the government to prepare for a potential outbreak in the country.
- Handwara Killings (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 25, 2006)
The widespread anger and anguish caused by the killing of four young persons in the politically conscious Handwara in the north of the Valley is quite understandable.
- Egg, Chicken Fair In Tn To Dispel Bird Flu Fears (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 25, 2006)
A free egg and chicken cuisine fair is being organised on Friday at Namakkal, Tamil Nadu's largest centre of poultry farming, in a bid to reassure that the state was "bird flu free".
- Economic Revival In Punjab (Tribune, Capt Amarinder Singh, Feb 25, 2006)
In the last four years our government’s single-minded focus on economic revitalisation has started showing results. Recent economic indicators prove that the state’s economy is moving towards a phase of high economic growth.
- ‘Bird-Brained’ In Bikaner (Tribune, Chetna Keer Banerjee, Feb 25, 2006)
With bird flu in the air and stories in the media flying faster than the avians, birdwatching has overnight turned into a national pastime. Our cricket-crazed countrymen are suddenly more busy counting the number of roosters falling, . . .
- Kashmiris Take To The Streets: Indian Army Kills Four Boys (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Feb 24, 2006)
The residents of the Kashmir Valley took to streets on Thursday against the alleged killing of four Kashmiris by Indian soldiers.
- India Clamps Down On Flu Town, Most Tests Negative (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Indian authorities virtually cut off traffic through a western town on Thursday as 11 out 12 people quarantined following a bird flu outbreak in chickens tested negative for the virus, officials said.
- Will Budget Hit Bull's Eye? (Business Line, SUDHIR H. KAPADIA, Feb 24, 2006)
With the economy on a roll and the stock and real-estate markets on a high, 8 per cent growth seems more possible now. The Finance Minister's task in the Budget will be to maintain the growth rate without a corresponding increase in the inflation rate.
- From Lalu’S Railways Into Railways Incorporated (The Financial Express, R.C. Acharya, Feb 24, 2006)
The buoyant economy has undoubtedly been kind to the railways, with record passenger and freight earnings.
- Avian Influenza: Work On Vaccines Is Never Over . . . (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 24, 2006)
If deadly diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria and measles have, for the most part, become distant memories, much of the credit goes to vaccines — medical miracles that many take for granted.
- Kazhagams Gear Up For The Clash (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 24, 2006)
In the run-up to Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, what contours will the alliances take?
- Union Budget: How Fm Should Raise Resources (Tribune, P.K. Vasudeva, Feb 24, 2006)
Finance Minister P. Chidambram is presenting the Budget for 2006-07 at a time when the economy is booming and this fiscal’s projected GDP growth is about 8 per cent.
- Manuscript Provides Cure For Measles (Hindu, Ramesh Susarla, Feb 24, 2006)
Survey team finds 28 palm leaf documents with inscriptions in Telugu and Sanskrit
Two of the manuscripts were collected from a librarian in Narsaraopet
One of them details the method of preparing ayurvedic medicine for several diseases
- Cabinet Clears Plan To Set Up Technical Varsity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Institutions and courses directly run by the universities to remain under respective varsities
- Maternity For Hire (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 24, 2006)
After becoming the hub for medical tourism, India is entering another new domain. It is emerging as a preferred destination for surrogate mothers. Childless NRIs are flocking to India to rent a womb.
- China Orders Pollution Crackdown (Tribune, Ching-Ching Ni, Feb 24, 2006)
Turning a blind eye to environmental degradation could now cost Chinese officials their jobs, state media announced Tuesday. However, environmentalists raised concerns about enforcement of the new regulations.
- Experts Rule Out Human-To-Human Transmission Of Bird Flu (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Feb 24, 2006)
Top microbiologists and experts today assured a poultry-scared nation that human to human transmission of bird flu virus has not been established anywhere in the world and there is therefore no cause for panic.
- Pm Upbeat On Economy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today set the road map for the Budget and the forthcoming visit of US President George W. Bush by stating that annual financial statement will tackle the issue of indebtedness of small farmers and the country’s . . .
- Bird Flu Is Also About Security (Indian Express, Ajey Lele, Feb 24, 2006)
The bird flu outbreak in India has revealed that we are a “risk society”, the phrase made popular by noted German sociologist, Dr Ulrich Beck. For the last few months the H5N1 virus was infecting various countries and it was only . . .
- Lovebirds At The Lake (Tribune, G.S. Aujla, Feb 24, 2006)
The creators of the beautiful artificial lake at Chandigarh perhaps knew that they were also making an ideal habitat for birds. Leave aside the exotic pintails, teals and mallards who camp here annually on their peripatetic march, it provides . . .
- Budget To Focus On Small Farmers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
No hasty decision on FDI in retail sector, says Manmohan Singh
More credit to farmers at lower cost
Prices under check
- The Journey Continues (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Indian Railways (IR) is in good financial health. Its earnings were up by 15 per cent between April 2005 and January 2006 over the same period in the previous year — from Rs 38,037 crore to Rs 43,799 crore.
- Bird Flu: 94 Samples Test Negative (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
``Entry restriction unnecessary''
More sophisticated testing kits to be got
Additional Tamiflu, protection equipment for Maharashtra
Culling in Gujarat and Maharashtra complete
- Proper Care (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
If the whole world was rattled when avian flu started crossing the species barrier in 2003, it should not be surprising that India stumbled a little.
- Of Gags And Licences (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Feb 24, 2006)
On February 21, a court in Austria sentenced the British “historian”, David Irving, to three years’ imprisonment for denying the Nazi Holocaust against Jews in a speech made to a neo-Nazi meeting as far back as 1989.
- New Doubts About Devices (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 24, 2006)
For decades, pharmaceutical companies in the US have lavished gifts on doctors, including meals, sports tickets and extravagant trips billed as “educational seminars.”
- Security Men Injured In Blasts, 2 Maoist Leaders Arrested In Nepal (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Four security personnel were injured in landmine explosions triggered by Maoists in eastern Nepal even as two local rebel leaders were arrested from a hospital in the capital Kathmandu.
- India Was Alert After Birdflu Cases In Other Nations: Icar (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
A Delta Airlines Boeing 767 flight on the Rome-Chennai-Rome sector "landed under full emergency conditions" at Chennai airport after the pilot reported "some problems with the wing flaps," this morning, airport sources said.
- Sri Lanka Govt, Rebels Reaffirm Truce, To Meet Again (Reuters, Stephanie Nebehay, Feb 24, 2006)
Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels renewed a commitment to a four-year ceasefire on Thursday and agreed to meet again in an effort to ensure the country did not return to civil war.
- India's "Supercops" In Firing Line Over Mob Links (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 24, 2006)
For eight years, Daya Nayak killed with impunity - sometimes with his pistol but often with an AK-47 automatic rifle - as he bumped off people suspected to be gangsters or involved in acts of terrorism in Mumbai.
- Culling Over, Authorities Clean Up Navapur (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 24, 2006)
Veterinary workers began cleaning up chicken farms and disinfecting homes in Navapur town on Friday after culling hundreds of thousands of chickens hit by bird flu, officials said.
- Landmine Blast In Kathmandu Injures Four (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Four security personnel have been injured in landmine blasts triggered by Maoists in eastern Nepal.
- Gun At Our Temple (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 24, 2006)
CBI isn’t autonomous, that’s no surprise. Will Bofors, Ayodhya see closure, there’s little hope
- Zoonooses & The Risky Cabbage (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Feb 24, 2006)
If you thought news about the bird flu scare is only of relevance to non-vegetarians, think again, because this issue symbolises a much larger one about lifestyles and the pursuit of corporate profits at the expense of human health.
- Nothing Religious (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
There is nothing religious about certain pronouncements being made by a few selfprofessed leaders of Muslims. First, we had an Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Qureshi announcing a cash reward of Rs 51 crores to the person beheading the . . .
- Tn: Delta Plane Makes Emergency Landing (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
A Delta Airlines Boeing 767 flight on the Rome-Chennai-Rome sector "landed under full emergency conditions" at Chennai airport after the pilot reported "some problems with the wing flaps," this morning, airport sources said.
- Spice It Up (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 24, 2006)
The common curry could keep the doctor away
As Indians make a beeline to the nearest McDonalds and Pizza Huts, perhaps we stand to lose more than our sense of taste. We may be throwing away a naturally healthy way of living.
- Lanka-Tiger Talks Make Little Headway (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Feb 24, 2006)
The two-day talks between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended on Thursday, made little headway as the two warring sides only further hardened their positions on the ceasefire agreement signed in 2002, diplomats said.
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