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Articles 10621 through 10720 of 20587:
- Not Chicken Feed (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 22, 2006)
India is the third largest producer of food in the world. According to a FICCI report, we produce over 91 million tonnes of milk (highest in the world), 150 million tonnes of fruits and vegetables (second largest), have 485 million livestock (largest), ..
- French Perfume (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 22, 2006)
Make it last long
France has long pushed for a relaxation of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) guidelines to facilitate supply of nuclear fuel and technology to India.
- Curious Confession (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 22, 2006)
Pranab fuels confusion in party ranks
It does Pranab Mukherjee no credit to confess before the assembly election that his party organisation is weak and needs to be revamped “through this self-realisation’’.
- Sonia Backs Centre On Iran, N-Deal With Usa (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
Mrs Sonia Gandhi today endorsed the Manmohan Singh government’s stand on two contentious issues – Iran nuclear programme and Indo-US nuclear deal – over which her Left allies have been up in arms against the government.
- Show-Cause Notice Issued (Hindu, Meena Menon, Feb 22, 2006)
A show-cause notice was issued on February 16 to the Pune-based Venkateshwara Hatcheries, which supplies layers and eggs to poultry farms in the Navapur region that reported bird flu incidence.
- Reality Check (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Feb 22, 2006)
Prompt action is key to reining costs of bird flu
It’s been only two days since the government first confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in parts of Maharashtra, but the economic costs are already beginning to be felt.
- Unsaid Goodbyes (Tribune, Jangveer Singh, Feb 22, 2006)
It was the morning paper which brought back the memories. Business Standard had Subir Roy talking about the goodbyes being made by Bob Hoekstra of Philips.
- The Budget Story: Now And Then (Business Line, B. S. Rathor, Feb 22, 2006)
The increasing transparency in the entire Budget-making process has taken the sting out of live TV debates and self-styled moderators posing as economic experts who are finding it difficult to script a `Budget climax'.
- Tata Tea Weighs China Greenfield Project (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
The company is looking at a global canvas and is considering options for acquisitions.
- People-To-People Contact With India: Spread Of Aids A Matter Of Concern For Pakistan (Daily Times, Ali Waqar, Feb 22, 2006)
The spread of HIV/AIDS has become a matter of concern for Pakistan because of the people-to-people contact between India and Pakistan, since India is one of the largest countries in the world with the disease, said reporters at a workshop . . .
- Armed Forces, Railways Drop Chicken From Menu (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
The Railways has decided to take off chicken and egg dishes from its menu and has banned chicken and eggs in any form on trains and stations. Instructions to this effect have been issued to all zonal railways and to IRTC.
- 8 More Bird Flu Suspects Surface (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
The Centre on Tuesday scrambled to stem the spiralling panic over bird flu instructing ministries not to fuel the concern.
- Chicken Figure Throws Up A Mystery (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
Maharashtra is grappling with the mystery of missing chickens.
From the declared 9 lakh birds to be culled, the number has overnight shrunk to just over 2 lakh.
- Colds, Cough Trigger Scare In Bird Flu-Hit India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
Hundreds of people with cold and cough were turning up at medical camps in bird flu-hit areas of western India on Tuesday as authorities said culling of poultry would continue for at least one more day.
- Pakistan Bans Poultry Imports From India, Iran (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
Pakistan has imposed a ban on imports of poultry products and live birds from India, Iran and France due to the bird flu scare in those countries, Online news agency reported.
- Collateral Damage In War On Quails (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Feb 22, 2006)
At least it is out in the open. Everyone now knows what the vice-president of the United States enjoys doing for rest and recreation. He likes to shoot defenceless little birds. And sometimes, just sometimes.
- Green Imperialism (Hindu, N. R. Krishnan , Feb 21, 2006)
Other side of the `deep ecology' movement
- Culling Teams Run Into Defiant Farm Owners, Sena Gives It Communal Twist (Indian Express, Anuradha Nagaraj, Feb 21, 2006)
Officials trying to contain the bird flu virus in Navapur faced their first wall of resistance this morning. The owner of Khalil Poultry farm refused to let the official culling team into his premises, claiming that his 27,000 birds were virus-free.
- France To Double Trade With India In Five Years (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Investment support to infrastructure, urban planning
Hailing India as "one of the world's main engines of growth,'' French President Jacques Chirac announced on Monday that the two countries had decided to double their trade in the next five years . . .
- In The Name Of Equality And Freedom (Hindu, RUMINA SETHI, Feb 21, 2006)
Feminist critique of the march of globalisation and the resultant shrinking of democratic possibilities
- Being Happy Is Natural (Tribune, Anurag, Feb 21, 2006)
In this universe man is the only animal who works for a living. Rest of the species just loaf. Yet (s)he is not happy. He runs from pillar to post in search of happiness which remains elusive.
- Spread Of Bird Flu (Deccan Herald, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Feb 21, 2006)
The first reports of bird flu that cropped up in recent days in widely separated countries – India, Egypt and France – highlighted the disease’s accelerating spread to new territories.
- Tasks Before Chidambaram (Tribune, Janak Raj Gupta, Feb 21, 2006)
MR P. Chidambaram, Union Finance Minister, is capable of taking innovative and non-conventional fiscal measures to rejuvenate the economy. Credit goes to him for implementing a uniform VAT in a federal set-up like ours where states and the Centre . . .
- Bird Flu: Myths And Realities (Tribune, Terri Judd, Feb 21, 2006)
How did this start and where is it going? H5N1, the current lethal strain, emerged in mid-2003 in South-east Asia, where most of the human deaths have occurred. H5N1 is considered to be endemic among birds in parts of Indonesia, Vietnam, . . .
- Shed Aids Stigma, Advises Clinton (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Former US President Mr Bill Clinton today appreciated the Centre’s “aggressive” approach to counter HIV/AIDS but said that the stigma attached to those infected with the virus was still preventing people from coming forward for tests.
- ‘Mncs Exploiting Bird Flu’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
With bird flu coming to India, the poultry industry today claimed there was no scientific evidence of bird flu and accused multi-national companies of trying to cash in on the panic situation.
- As Bird Flu Fear Takes Wing, Govt Holds Back Tamiflu (Hindustan Times, Sanchita Sharma, Feb 21, 2006)
Even as the fear of avian influenza is gripping the entire nation, the Government has begun culling of birds to contain the spread of the virus.
- People Chicken Out, Bird Falls Foul Of The Menu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Though there has been a consistent avian flu surveillance programme for south India centred in Bangalore since January 2004, the recent outbreak in Maharashtra has affected sales and the cost of poultry products marginally.
- Blow To State As Goa Stops Entry Of Poultry (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
With concern for its Rs 1,500-crore tourism industry uppermost on the agenda, Goa has sealed its borders to poultry from outside the state. The worst hit will be the suppliers from Karnataka who send in 70 per cent of poultry and 80 per cent of eggs.
- Tamil Nadu Issues Flu Red Alert (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The Tamil Nadu government has issued a red alert following the outbreak of bird flu in Maharashtra and set up check-posts in borders with neighbouring states to prevent entry of poultry and poultry feeds from Maharashtra, according to officials.
- Culling To End By Today: M’Rashtra (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Feb 21, 2006)
The culling of about eight lakh chickens in 16 poultry farms at Nawapur, from where the first instance of bird flue among the hens was reported on Sunday sparking a nationwide alarm, will be completed by Tuesday evening, . . .
- State Denies Flu Outbreak (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The State government on Monday ruled out bird flu as the cause for the death of chicken in a poultry farms in Shimoga.
- Failing The Flu Test (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 21, 2006)
Has the deadly bird flu virus, H5N1, really made inroads into the poultry farms of India?
- Lessons From Beyond The Himalayas (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Feb 21, 2006)
India could learn from the way China handled the outbreak of bird flu.
- Government Bans Retail Sale Of Tamiflu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The Centre has banned the sale of Tamiflu (only drug effective in treating bird flu in human beings) in retail outlets three days after avian influenza struck Navapur in Maharashtra. So far no human case has been reported in the country.
- Bird Flu (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 21, 2006)
The govt must contain the spread of the disease quickly
The govt must contain the spread of the disease quicklyNearly 50,000 birds are estimated to have died in Maharastra of the dreaded H5N1 virus, or bird flu.
- Herbal Cure For Disease? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Unani experts on Monday prescribed herbal treatment for effective prevention and cure of bird flu.
- Detention Of Consignments Hits Namakkal Poultry Farmers Hard (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
They hope Government will sort out the issue before expiry of shelf life of eggs "As they do not obtain a letter of credit for export, any return of goods will ruin them. They face an uncertain future and are at an enormous risk."
- India To Study French Levy To Support Anti-Aids Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
New Delhi, Paris reaffirm commitment to fight terrorism
India on Monday told France that it "would study" the modalities of the levy Paris imposed on air tickets as part of an international effort to support developing countries in their campaign . . .
- Cabinet Approval For Vision 2010 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Detailed project to be placed in Assembly today
- 10,000 Cr. For Irrigation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Rs. 996-crore deficit budget presented; two-thirds share for non-plan expenditure
- Pakistan, Sri Lanka Issue Bird Flu Alerts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan and Sri Lanka have issued bird flu alerts in view of H5N1 virus' appearance in India.
- Culling Of Birds To End Today (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Feb 21, 2006)
Retail sale of Tamiflu to be banned
Ministry to buy Tamiflu from pharma companies, supply to hospitals
Disposal, clean-up, disinfecting operations in progress
- Anger At Mass Slaughter Of Birds (Hindu, Meena Menon, Feb 21, 2006)
Poultry farmers in Navapur scoff at the Rs. 40 offered as compensation for every bird killed "I can understand killing the birds if they are diseased but there is nothing here."
- Sri Lanka Bans Poultry Imports From India (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Feb 21, 2006)
Sri Lanka on Monday banned the import of poultry products from India until further notice.
- Rs. 10,000 Crore Allocation For Andhra Pradesh Irrigation Sector (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Finance Minister Rosaiah presents Rs. 996-crore deficit State Budget in Assembly
- Rooting Bird Flu Out Of India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 21, 2006)
The stakes cannot be higher. According to a statement made in the Rajya Sabha on Monday by the Union Health Minister, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, "the test reports of some samples from affected poultry [in Navapur taluk in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra
- United In Bird Flu, Paris And Delhi Sign Agreement (Telegraph, Poornima Joshi, Feb 21, 2006)
If the bird flu doesn’t kill the Indian poultry business, the establishment
- Call For Enforcing Safety Measures In Poultry Farms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Mayor organises discussion on avian flu threat
Disease investigation experts have highlighted the need for strict surveillance and enforcement of basic safety measures in poultry farms to prevent an outbreak of avian influenza in the city.
- Maoists In Nepal Switch Strategy As War Drags On (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
He controls a large part of western Nepal, and is in charge of roads, power, irrigation, schools and health care.
- Chinese In Vijayawada (Indian Express, Anita Anand, Feb 21, 2006)
In the south-central region of the Indian Railways, with headquarters in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, an innovative experiment is capturing the imagination of the Chinese.
- Don’T Chicken Out (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 21, 2006)
There’s a difference between prevention and panic. Bird flu response must remember that
- Bird Flu Begins To Bite; Neighbours Shut Doors (Times of India, Byas Anand, Feb 21, 2006)
It isn’t chicken feed. Bird flu is beginning to hurt as the Rs 28,000-crore poultry industry is turning out to be the first big casualty of the avian flu virus scare now spreading across the country.
- Pawar: Avian Flu Confined To Navapur Taluk (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
strategic action has been initiated
Migratory birds could have caused infection
Medicines rushed
Industry will be protected
- 80 Per Cent Of Birds Culled (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Not a single chicken has come out of Navapur, says animal husbandry secretary
Remaining 1.25 lakh birds to be culled by Tuesday
Officials confirmed it is avian flu
Birds not infected also to be killed
- Daya Nayak Surrenders (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
One month after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) raided his house and revealed details of disproportionate assets, "encounter specialist" Daya Nayak and co-accused Rajendra Padte surrendered before the Session's Court here on Monday.
- Bird Flu Likely To Burst Out Again And Again - Study (Reuters, Maggie Fox, Feb 21, 2006)
Bird flu is likely to cross over into people again and again if it ever even once acquires the ability to pass from human to human, experts predicted on Monday.
- Slow Pace Of Culling Chickens, No Fresh Human Case (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Inadequate infrastructure and refusal by contract workers to work in stink today slowed the pace of culling of chickens in this bird flu hit area of Maharashtra even as health officials carried out door-to-door check looking for people . . .
- India Quarantines Six As Bird Flu Spreads Faster (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 21, 2006)
India began a door-to-door search for anyone with fever on Monday, quarantining six people in hospital as authorities scrambled to contain the country's first outbreak of bird flu.
- Bird Flu Mutating, Risk To Humans No Bigger - Who (Reuters, Richard Waddington, Feb 21, 2006)
Mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus are seemingly making it more deadly in chickens and more resistant in the environment but without yet increasing the threat to humans, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.
- Mr Lalu Prasad And His Horses (Business Line, R. C. Acharya, Feb 21, 2006)
"If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick," announced sagely Mr Lalu Prasad, who as the Minister for Railways is responsible for the efficient and safe working of this behemoth, which employs 1.7 million people.
- Pak, Lanka, Nepal, Some Gulf Nations Ban Indian Poultry Import (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal and some Gulf countries today banned the import of poultry and its products from India in the wake of outbreak of the deadly bird flu in Maharashtra.
- Nepal Bans Import Of Poultry From India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Nepal has banned import of poultry and poultry products from India and activated all quarantine posts along the Indo-Nepal border after India reported its first outbreak of bird flu.
- Restrictions On Import Of Poultry (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Poultry stock, eggs to be allowed only through designated check-posts
- Govt Bans Livestock From India, France And Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The government has decided to ban the import of poultry and live birds from India, Iran and France where cases of bird flu have been reported.
- A Sorry Example Up There (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Feb 21, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh — a state that elects the single largest number of members of parliament and equally the state that represents corruption and criminality in the public space. This region was once synonymous with culture,
- Virus Shuts Out Indian Poultry (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bahrain and UAE today banned poultry imports from India after reports of the first confirmed outbreak of bird flu in Maharashtra.
- Cage The Confusion (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 21, 2006)
The Maharashtra Government's response to the reported bird flu incident could easily be a case of locking the stables after the horses have bolted.
- Sedative Replaces Bird Stranglers (Telegraph, Satish Nandgaonkar, Feb 21, 2006)
As the government continued culling chickens today, going beyond the promised 3-km radius from Navapur, upset farm owners demanded that fresh blood samples be taken to find out if the infection was indeed the avian flu.
- Fowl Threat (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 21, 2006)
Could the large-scale killing of chickens in bird flu affected areas of Maharashtra and Gujarat claim the lives of those very workers engaged in the ghastly task?
- Bird Flu Spreads Across India (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India began a door-to-door search for people with fever on Monday, quarantining six people in hospital as authorities scrambled to contain the country’s first outbreak of bird flu.
- Indian Tortoise And Chinese Hare (Daily Times, Kenneth Rogoff, Feb 21, 2006)
In caste-bound India perhaps only one in five people is integrated into the global economy. For every call centre employee, there are many more people still eking out a subsistence living on the land
- Poultry Imports From India, Iran, France Banned (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
Pakistan has banned all imports of poultry and live birds from India, Iran and France after the countries reported cases of H5N1 bird flu, officials said on Monday.
- Be Careful (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 21, 2006)
There is only one lesson for us in this State from Maharashtra. We should remain on our toes. Let's get the bird flu out of sight as and when it strikes before it consumes us.
- Neighbours Ban Poultry Import From India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
India’s neighbouring countries — Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka — and the Gulf countries have banned the import of poultry and poultry products from India in the wake of reports of outbreak of bird flu there.
- Pandemic Preparedness (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 21, 2006)
The arrival of avian flu in Africa means that the bird epidemic is officially out of control. None of the methods used against it so far — mass vaccination of poultry flocks in China, mass bird slaughter across Southeast Asia . . .
- Target Practice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 21, 2006)
Dick Cheney hits a Harry
With a President - George Bush – known for shooting from the lip, it would be no surprise if the US Vice President – Dick Cheney - was prone to shooting from the hip. So when Mr Cheney went hunting quail . . .
- Flu Calls For Political Leadership (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 21, 2006)
Nature, fate and institutional failure have conspired to trigger off the severe avian flu outbreak in the Nandurbar district of Maharashtra. And while little could have been done to check the lethal workings of the first two, . . .
- Three Babies Quarantined For Bird Flu (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 21, 2006)
The Maharashtra Government today quarantined three babies for suspected bird flu in Nandurbar district, health officials said here today. The cases were detected after the authorities undertook a door-to-door survey for suspected bird flu cases . . .
- Bitter Harvests Of Zionism (Dawn, Paul Oestreicher, Feb 21, 2006)
The chief rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, is right. His reaction to the Anglican synod’s call for sanctions against Israel is understandable. Hatred of Judaism — now commonly called anti-Semitism — is a virus that has infected Christendom for two millennia.
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