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Articles 10721 through 10820 of 20587:
- Indian Town Reels As Bird Flu Hits (British Broadcasting Corporation, Monica Chadha, Feb 20, 2006)
Navapur is a tiny, underdeveloped town in the Indian state of Maharashtra that has got little attention for its many problems.
- Kashmir Separatists May Not Attend Pm's Roundtable (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
None of the 20-odd Kashmiri separatist leaders, who had been formally or informally invited by the Centre, is likely to attend Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's roundtable conference on Jammu and Kashmir on February 25 next. Indications are . . .
- Disgruntled Group (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The CM and his deputy need to take all their MLAs along
In the first round of Cabinet expansion, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has inducted 20 ministers — nine from his party and 11 from the BJP.
- Empowerment Of Women (Daily Excelsior, Angela Gadroo, Feb 20, 2006)
Ancient Vedas, Sastras, Aranyakas, Upanishads etc vehemently opposed any type of gender discrimination or differences due to caste, colour and nationality and highlighted the cardinal principle that all human beings are equal.
- Anti-Flu Steps Take Wing (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Addressing reporters after holding a meeting with senior officials from various government departments, CM Kumarswamy said Karnataka was 100 per cent free from any instances of bird flu.
- Uk’S Ban On Smoking (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 20, 2006)
Parliament, so often maligned and so often ignorantly, has done itself and the nation proud by banning smoking in England. This week’s Commons debate was informed and articulate. It was also, in the end, irresistible and emphatic.
- Bird Flu Could Hobble Africa’S Aids Fight (Indian Express, ANDREW QUINN, Feb 20, 2006)
Bird flu poses a major threat to Africa’s fight against its AIDS epidemic, challenging overburdened healthcare systems and stretching economies already hit by the impact of HIV, the UN’s AIDS Chief said.
- Kalam For Starting Ug Programmes At Iisc. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
President sets a 10-point agenda to make the institute a top research destination
- A Touch Of Anarchy (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Feb 20, 2006)
A Week ago, I expressed in this space the apprehension that injection of violence in the protests against the blasphemous cartoons that raised their ugly head in Denmark and spread rapidly like a contagion to several other European countries . . .
- Govt Says No Case Of Human Bird Flu (Reuters, Surojit Gupta, Feb 20, 2006)
The government said on Sunday it had found no case of human avian influenza after preliminary tests on a dead farmer earlier suspected to have been the country's first human victim of the disease.
- No Human Affected By Bird Flu: Centre (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Feb 20, 2006)
Culling operations begin in Maharashtra, Gujarat
Outbreak localised; situation under control
Rapid response teams pressed into service
Dead birds being buried immediately
Vaccines rushed to Maharashtra, Gujarat
- Nine Lakh Chickens Culled, Samples Of 95 People Sent For Tests (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Using protective masks and gloves, health officials today began culling nine lakh chickens, a day after the outbreak of the dreaded bird flu in Navapur where two human cases of the disease were isolated and blood samples of 95 people were sent . . .
- Chickens Again (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 20, 2006)
It is now time for India to be menaced by chickens. With more than 30,000 poultry dying of the avian influenza in northern Maharashtra, it has become crucial to work out the right combination of prompt action, keeping the public properly informed and ....
- On These Same Tracks, In 1971 (Indian Express, M.L. KHANNA, Feb 20, 2006)
As a train once again speeds between Munabao and Khokrapar, M.L. KHANNA remembers a vastly different episode from that war
- Bird Flu: Lethal And Spreading Fast (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Feb 20, 2006)
The Government's efforts to check the spread of the H5N1 virus, first noticed at Nandurbar, Maharashtra, may not suffice.
- The Dangers And Some Dos And Don'ts (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Feb 20, 2006)
The H5N1 virus primarily affects birds. "The virus does not easily cross from birds to infect humans," observes the World Health Organisation in its fact sheet on avian influenza. "Despite the infection of tens of millions of poultry over . . .
- Build Brand Iisc: Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The promotion of ‘brand IISc’ through the creation of Centres of Excellence in multiple locations in the country and abroad is the presidential call to the country’s premier science research institute – Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
- An Advice Well Taken (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 20, 2006)
Nearly a year after the commencement of the Phase I clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine candidate in Pune, a similar trial on another vaccine candidate was initiated recently in Chennai by the Government of India and the International AIDS . . .
- More Surveys On Minorities At Sonia Behest: Dasmunshi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
In a new dimension to the ongoing debate on the headcount of minorities in the Army, the government has been working on identical survey on the minority community in other sectors as telecom, power, health and education following a categorical . . .
- Killer Kick (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 20, 2006)
Three people have died after consuming illicit liquor at a bar and restaurant in Swatantrapalya in Bangalore. Twenty others – two of whom are critical – have been taken ill and have been admitted in hospital.
- Nationwide Alert On Bird Flu (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Vaccines rushed to affected areas
In a multi-pronged drive to contain the spread of the deadly “N5H1” virus of bird flu detected in the tribal Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, the Centre has sounded a countrywide alert to keep a close watch on poultry
- Bird Flu Threat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 20, 2006)
The bird flu, which had been raging in several countries since 2003, has finally reached India.
- Full Alert In District Against Avian Flu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Migratory water fowls are carriers of all influenza
The district Health authorities and the Animal Husbandry Department have gone on full alert following reports confirming the detection of avian influenza in poultry farms in Maharashtra.
- Danger Of Bird Flu (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 20, 2006)
Global health authorities are once again sounding the alarm bell as Africa records its first cases of avian flu. Some days ago, Nigeria, followed by Egypt, became a victim of the H5N1 virus strain.
- Shed Aids Stigma, Advises Clinton (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 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.
- Bird Flu Blues (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Feb 20, 2006)
What is surprising is not that bird flu has finally hit India but that we managed to escape for so long.
- Time For A Moratorium (Dawn, Aitzaz Ahsan, Feb 20, 2006)
The sense of outrage over the cartoons (which none had seen) was over-powering and all-pervasive as I entered the National Assembly Hall on February 13.
- Samples To Be Sent To Who (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The clinical samples of bird flu virus in humans, if found positive, would be sent for re-confirmation to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Reference Laboratory in Hong Kong, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said here on Sunday
- Row Mars Visakha-I Bypoll (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Congress MLA attacked allegedly by TDP men; counting put off
A nearly peaceful polling was marred by a controversy over brandishing a revolver at a polling station, allegedly by an MLA, turning the situation tense near the Old Post Office . . .
- State Bans Entry Of Poultry From Maharashtra (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Vaccines worth Rs. 50 lakhs sought from the Centre
High-level committee to be set up to monitor the situation round-the-clock
Health officials directed to stock medicines
Officials told to provide details on the situation at eight bird sanctuaries
- Indian Style Of Cooking Kills Bird Flu Virus (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Feb 20, 2006)
It can't survive Indian summer
Virus sensitive to common disinfectants
Need to dispose of culled birds
Report sighting dead birds to authorities
- Nine Lakh Chicken To Be Culled In Nandurbar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Strains of avian flu virus traced in six chicken
49 out of 56 poultry farms in Nandurbar closed
Poultry farms in 10-km radius under surveillance
Monitoring posts set up at entry points to Mumbai
- Modernising The Village Economy (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 20, 2006)
The fruits of economic development fall where educated people live, not where they work. Hence, if we want to enrich villages, we should induce the educated to live there. But for this to happen we need to install reliable means of social services and ...
- Flu Soldiers Cull & Scan (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Feb 20, 2006)
At ground zero of India’s first outbreak of avian flu, rapid response teams today began a farm-to-farm mass slaughter of chickens and a house-to-house surveillance of people.
- Chicken Sales Drop Over Bird Flu Scare (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The bird flu scare left the poultry industry in Andhra Pradesh in a state of shock as the sale of chicken fell drastically by 50 per cent resulting in a loss of Rs. 3 crores on Sunday alone.
- Human-Made Disasters Have More Impact On People: Health Care Expert (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Natural disaster victims stoically bore losses
Human-made disasters are causing much more severe impact on the people than the natural ones. The victims are so shaken out of their wits that it would be difficult for them to get over the trauma . . .
- Steps Taken To Curb Bird Flu: Anbumani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The Government has taken adequate measures to control the spread of bird flu, which has infected poultry in Nandurbar district in Maharashtra, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anbumani Ramadoss said here on Sunday.
- Stress From Partner’S Condition (Tribune, Thomas H. Maugh II, Feb 20, 2006)
The elderly really can die of a broken heart not only when their spouses die, but even when they are hospitalized. But the problem reflects increased stress more than romantic loss, according to the first large study to examine the phenomenon.
- Bird Flu Claims One Life (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Gujarat is on high alert with cases of bird flu reported in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, bordering the southern part of the state.
- Bird Flu Spreads, India Tests Dozens Of People (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
India said it was testing dozens of people for bird flu on Sunday.
- French President Arrives In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
* Seeks to boost trade and hold nuclear talks with Delhi
French President Jacques Chirac arrived in India on Sunday for a whistle-stop visit aimed at bolstering trade and civilian nuclear cooperation with the emerging economic powerhouse.
- Help, Before Fear Takes Wing (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Feb 20, 2006)
Loss to life from a disease is typically computed on the basis of mortality rates. By that reckoning avian influenza, with rates up to 90-100 per cent, would be as deadly as it gets, right?
- India Tests For H5n1, France Urges "Eat Chicken" (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 20, 2006)
India was testing dozens of people for bird flu on Sunday, while France sought to ease consumer fears after its first avian case of the H5N1 virus by urging people to eat chicken.
- Safety Guides (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 20, 2006)
The decision on whether to allow asbestos-laden Clemenceau to be broken down in Alang, Gujarat, is no longer ours to take.
- Don't Peg Ties On N-Deal, Says Clinton (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
On a visit to India, former US President Bill Clinton warned against pegging the ties between the two countries on the nuclear deal alone.
- Sky Goes Green: Airlines Drop Chicken From Platter (Hindustan Times, Chanchal Pal Chauhan, Feb 20, 2006)
Within a day of bird flu striking India, airlines — both international and domestic — have grounded chicken.
- Nepal Bans Indian Poultry Products On Bird Flu Fears (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Nepal's royalist government banned imports of poultry from India after its neighbour reported its first confirmed outbreak of bird flu, an official said on Monday.
- Clinton Group, India To Train Nurses In Aids Care (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and the Indian government announced on Sunday a joint plan to train nurses in AIDS care in a country which has the world's second-largest number of HIV/AIDS cases.
- Call For Action Across E.U. Against Bird Flu (Hindu, Luke Harding , Feb 20, 2006)
British Ministers are expected to come under pressure to take more drastic measures to combat bird flu this week, in the wake of a suspected case in France which officials said "increases the likelihood" the disease will reach the U.K.
- Bird Flu: Maharashtra Culls 50,000 Chickens (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
The Maharashtra government on Sunday culled 50,000 chickens following confirmation of India's first avian flu case in the state even as officials remained on high alert to prevent the spread of the disease.
- . . . And Cuts For Russia (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Feb 20, 2006)
As we've said above, it is good news that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is planning to spend $75 million on aid to Iranian democrats and Farsi-language broadcasters.
- The Elusive Goal Of Energy Security (Indian Express, N K Singh, Feb 19, 2006)
Energy issues are in sharp focus. The State of the Union address by President George Bush, preceded by former US president Bill Clinton’s remarks in Davos are being interpreted as America’s growing unease with both the economics and . . .
- Why Not Also Revise Mbbs Curriculum? (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Feb 19, 2006)
If the Govt of India has undertaken a gigantic exercise to revise the syllabi and modify the teaching curriculum at the NCERT level and to some extent also at the nonvocational graduation level, why can't a similar exercise be carried . . .
- 'Karunanidhi Is Chief Of Dpa. He Will Be Chief Minister When We Win Elections’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
‘Karunanidhi is chief of DPA. He will be chief minister when we win elections’
- Take Moderates Along In Balochistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 19, 2006)
Law enforcing agencies appear to have made some progress in action against troublemakers, terrorists and saboteurs in Balochistan. A number of Ferari camps have been destroyed in several areas while authorities are expressing their resolve . . .
- Mr Cm, End Graft, Strengthen Panchayats (Deccan Herald, Benjamin Fernandez, Feb 19, 2006)
What should be the new Chief Minister priorities? This was our question to readers last week and we were flooded with responses. We published a few letters last week. This week we publish those, mostly from outside Bangalore, on the government’s . . .
- U.S. Wants Iraq Held Together, Says Clinton (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
`India must help in preserving democracy'
- The Newer Left (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 19, 2006)
More reformist signals for the election
Prior to the assembly election in 2001, the CPI-M had signalled a change by getting Jyoti Basu to step down in favour of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
- Fresh Light On T. Rex (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 19, 2006)
Medical scanners have enabled scientists to gain deeper insights into the soft body parts that are key to understanding the behaviour and movements of dinosaurs, Professor Lawrence Witner of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine said.
- Bird Flu Ruled Out In Death Of Indian Man (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Indian health officials said Sunday laboratory tests had shown that a man earlier suspected to have died of bird flu was in fact killed by bacterial infection.
- 27,000 Poultry Birds Died In Last 15 Days (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
India has two months' stock of vaccine imported from Europe
Poultry farms where the deaths took place are all located in a single taluka
Ring vaccine to be administered to farms within three to 10 km radius
- E-Governance Initiative Of Company Affairs Ministry Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
"A major step forward in creating a healthy business eco-system for companies"
- Clinton Lauds Cipla For Manufacturing Anti-Aids Drugs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
The Clinton Foundation had been in partnership with it for contractual supplies
Says stigma, inability to universalise testing major impediments in treatment
About 6.2 million need medicines, but only 1-1.5 million actually get them
- Bihar Won't Change... (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Feb 19, 2006)
Nitish Kumar at best might be a good joke between bad serials
A Lot of people feel that now that we have got rid of Lalu, suddenly everything is going to be all right with Bihar. I say no Nitish or any other Kumar can change Bihar.
- Importance Of Guru (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 19, 2006)
It is a commentary on our times that the meaning and connotation of as pious a word as Guru has undergone a change. It is interpreted to mean as if one is clever and adept at unscrupulous ways of the world.
- Bird Flu Strikes India, Eight Hospitalised (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Avian influenza has struck India. After the Maharashtra government on Saturday confirmed that the recent deaths of chickens in Nandurbar and Dhule districts of North Maharashtra were caused by bird flu, eight people were reportedly admitted . . .
- Chickens With H5n1, Now In India! (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
India is testing 12 people for bird flu after reporting its first outbreak of the virulent H5N1 strain in chickens on a farm in the western state of Maharashtra, officials said Saturday.
- 3 M Target For Anti-Aids Drive (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Just four years after he set up his HIV/AIDS initiative, former US president Bill Clinton is making anti-retroviral treatment available to 50 per cent of the 6.2 million people in the developing world who need the anti-AIDS drugs.
- Bird Flu Alert Sounded In J&k, 10 Days Ban (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
In the first outbreak of bird flu in India, eight people were today admitted to a hospital with suspected deadly Avian virus after 50,000 birds had died in Nandurbar and Dhule district of Maharashtra.
- Is Love Really In The Air? (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Feb 19, 2006)
In middle-class families, the young still don't have much of a choice when it comes to choosing their life partners.
- Bird Flu Has Landed (Indian Express, Reshma Patil, Feb 19, 2006)
8 samples from maharashtra farm test positive • 8 lakh birds to be culled today • no human cases, samples of 3 kids, one woman being tested • no national alert yet
- Brush With Bird Flu (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Feb 19, 2006)
The deadly avian influenza H5N1 virus has surfaced in India among poultry in a corner of northern Maharashtra, where it has killed over 30,000 chickens in the past 10 days, officials announced today.
- Bird Flu Hits India (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Feb 19, 2006)
Specialists rushed to Maharashtra
H5N2 vaccine for birds and `tamiflu' tablets for humans kept ready
No case of human infection so far
- Getting Curiouser (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Feb 19, 2006)
Helios & Matheson’s (H&M) $19 million cash deal to acquire vMoksha, which had sent its share price soaring past Rs 225 last year, is getting curiouser.
- India Begin Culling Chickens After Discovery Of Bird Flu (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 19, 2006)
Indian health workers and farmers began culling chickens Sunday, a day after the country reported its first outbreak of bird flu among poultry, officials said.
- Moving Ahead With Safta (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 18, 2006)
Paksitana's Recent Ratification of the South Asian Free Trade Area agreement constitutes a big leap forward for the SAARC exercise.
- A Friend & A Global Player (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Feb 18, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf is scheduled to pay an official visit to China in the next few days.
- Bilateral Barometer (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 18, 2006)
Seafarers have always kept an eye on the “glass” to check if the weather was closing in. In recent years the fate of fisherfolk seeking a livelihood off the Gujarat coastline has become an accurate index of the health of Indo-Pak relations.
- Karnataka Ministry Expanded (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 18, 2006)
The Kumaaraswamy - led JDS-BJP coalition ministry was today expanded with the induction of 18 ministers.
- Aiadmk, Dic(k) Clinch Alliance For Kerala Elections (Indian Express, KN ARUN, Feb 18, 2006)
The Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) (DIC-K) led by former Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran and the AIADMK on Friday formally clinched an alliance to face the forthcoming Assembly elections in Kerala.
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