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Articles 10921 through 11020 of 20587:
- First Among Equals (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 15, 2006)
The odd man out Raoji Bandodkar
The fourth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas ended only recently.
- Cartoon Anger Turns To Violence (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2006)
* Thousands protest nationwide
* Punjab Assembly, private businesses burnt in Lahore, fires could not be put out till late at night
* Telenor shops and hoardings attacked
* Two shot by security guards
* Students storm Diplomatic Enclave
- Killer Kissers (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 15, 2006)
So our grandmothers were right to insist that we don’t go unchaperoned during our nights out at the movies with the boy(s) next door. For one, the neighbourhood would talk (and they did).
- Carrying Out New Responsibilities (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 15, 2006)
Extracts from the ILO’s regional high-level tripartite meeting on the Role of Labour Inspections in Combating Child Labour, Harare, 2001
- A New Theme At Davos (Dawn, Sartaj Aziz, Feb 15, 2006)
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the beautiful Swiss ski resort of Davos, in the last week of January each year, has become a unique international event.
- Health Foods — Targeting The New Age Disorders (Business Line, V. V. Ravi Kumar, Feb 15, 2006)
New age Indian patients comprise a growing niche segment which marketers have been quick to tap into with customised health-food products.
- Queen Betty And Two Kings (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 15, 2006)
Back in 1948, a couple of young women called Bettye Goldstein and Coretta Scott both attended the convention of the Progressive Party in Philadelphia. The organization, which lived up to its name but proved to be spectacularly unsuccessful in . . .
- Budget Must Focus On Growth With Equity (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Feb 15, 2006)
The major challenge before the Finance Minister is not only to initiate measures to sustain and accelerate the growth momentum of the economy but also to ensure that overall economic growth is accompanied by greater equity.
- Unions Around World To Protest Iran's Treatment Of Bus Workers (Washington Post, Nora Boustany, Feb 15, 2006)
While the international community is locking horns with Iran over its plan to push ahead with uranium enrichment -- a potential first step toward making nuclear weapons -- a separate global confrontation is gathering steam over labor practices under . . .
- Torture In Iraq (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 14, 2006)
Millions of people the world over have seen the video showing British soldiers beating and kicking young Iraqi boys, while a corporal watched and encouraged them.
- ‘Al-Qaeda Sympathiser’ Dr Khawaja Gunned Down (News International, Sajjad Shafiq Butt, Feb 14, 2006)
Renowned gastroenterologist and a philanthropist, Dr Ahmad Javed Khawaja, whom personnel of the US and the Pakistani intelligence agencies had grilled for his alleged sympathies with al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters some four years ago, was gunned down . . .
- Opium Country (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Feb 14, 2006)
Any avid reader of this newspaper will notice a disturbing regular occurrence. Hardly a week passes without the report of seizure of opium in one corner or the other of the State.
- Ousted Nepali Prime Minister Released From Prison (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
Jailed former Nepali prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was freed from prison on Monday after the Supreme Court dissolved the controversial anti-graft panel which jailed him, a relative and party officials said.
- Supreme Court Orders New Panel For "Toxic" Ship (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new panel be set up to investigate whether a "toxic" French warship should be let into India to be broken for scrap, after a committee failed to make a firm recommendation.
- Form Committee On Clemenceau: Sc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to suggest four to five names of retired navy personnel having experience in manufacture and breaking of ships to give opinion on the controversial French ship Clemenceau.
- Musharraf Backs Iran Gas Pipeline: Us Asked To Help On Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that he supported plans to build a gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and India, despite opposition from the United States.
- Mr Blunderbuss (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
The report that American Vice-President (simply 'Vice' to his boss and the inner circle of the administration) Dick
- Numbered Out (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 14, 2006)
Trust is as important to national statistics as is the ability to count right. The Union health ministry seems to have failed on both counts.
- The Campaign Against Leprosy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 14, 2006)
Bringing the prevalence of leprosy down to less than one case per 10,000 population, the goal set by the World Health Organisation, is a significant milestone for India.
- Steeling For A Takeover (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 14, 2006)
The final verdict on the $23 billion hostile bid by Mittal Steel for taking over Arcelor is not expected to be known until June but even in the early days following its announcement (on January 26) . . .
- Popularity Of The Gita (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
The Bhagavad Gita is an important scriptural authority for the three schools of Vedanta— Advaita, Visishtadvaita and Dvaita. Hence the commentaries on it are profuse.
- Survey On Muslims: Pmo Clarifies (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
Data being sought from all departments and agencies, not just the armed forces It is part of the assignment to prepare a report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community
- A Budding Relationship Between U.S. And India (US News & World Report, Thomas Omestad, Feb 14, 2006)
Through a period of foreign policy upheaval dominated by the Bush administration's war on terrorism, a major shift in U.S. policy with enduring consequences has received far less public attention in America: Washington's embrace of New Delhi and . . .
- A Line That Has Sundered Lives And Hearts (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Feb 14, 2006)
The quake, some hoped, would dissolve the LoC; four months on, that hope seems illusory
- Promoting Medical Tourism (Hindu, Shyama Rajagopal, Feb 14, 2006)
Awareness needed for tourists to take Ayurveda seriously
Only few tourists know that Ayurveda is not just massage spas but a full-fledged medical treatment system.
- `Somehow' Management (Business Line, A. B. Sivakumar, Feb 14, 2006)
There is this dangerous and, often valueless trait in human beings to "somehow" achieve something. While politicians somehow aspire to make as much money as possible, most youngsters somehow want to make it big in double quick time, and virtually . . .
- Kashmir Ripe For Resolution: President (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf Monday emphasized that Pakistan and India must seize the opportunity for addressing the longstanding Kashmir dispute, which he said was “absolutely ripe for a resolution.”
- Indian Sc Seeks Information On French Ship (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 14, 2006)
India’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered that a new panel of experts determine the exact contents of an asbestos-laden French warship before ruling whether it can be broken up in India.
- Bird Flu Reaches Western Europe (Hindu, John Hooper, Feb 13, 2006)
Tests on swans found dead in Italy and Greece confirm presence of the virus
- Fudge Blot On Claim Of Leprosy Control (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Feb 13, 2006)
Leprosy programme managers have juggled patients’ statistics and stopped looking for new patients to declare that India has eliminated leprosy, medical experts have alleged.
- Missing Forever (Deccan Herald, Meera Seshadri, Feb 13, 2006)
While we take our possessions for granted, we hanker after things we don’t have.....
- Population Control Projects Ineffective, Says Report (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
Population control projects in India have not produced desired results as they placed an “overwhelming responsibility” of family planning in the hands of women without actually equipping them to take decisions or.....
- Tax Exemptions Likely (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
The salaried class may not get any income tax relief by way of changes in rates, but some burden is likely to be taken off their shoulders, as the coming Budget may allow tax exemptions for their investments in mutual funds and fixed bank deposits.
- U.N. To Help Quake-Hit Pakistan Despite Cartoon Row (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
The United Nations said on Sunday it would continue to help survivors of October's deadly earthquake in Pakistan despite security concerns triggered by anti-Western protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
- First Amritsar-Nankana Bus To Run From 24th (Daily Times, Ali Waqar, Feb 13, 2006)
Following the successful trial runs of the Nankana-Amritsar bus by both India and Pakistan, the fourth transport link between Pakistan and India will formally commence with the inaugural Nankana-Amritsar bus due to arrive from India on February 24.
- Slash Tax To Spur India Inc: Ficci (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
Pointing out that direct tax burden on India Inc stands at over 40 per cent and indirect tax incidence on consumers at over 30-44 per cent, industry chamber Ficci has demanded reduction in tax rates in the upcoming budget to make corporates . . .
- Music Greats Step Forward For Indian Music Academy (Indian Express, AMETA BAL, Feb 13, 2006)
When maestros like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Gangubhai Hangal, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Kishen Maharaj and Lata Mangeshkar come together for a cause, it is a success in the making.
- U.S. Plans Devastating Bombing Of Iran's Nuclear Sites: British Paper (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Feb 13, 2006)
Preparations are more than contingency military assessment, says report
Raids will be backed by submarine ballistic missile attacks
U.S. Central Command and Strategic Command planners identifying targets
- Us Strike At Iran Possible (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 13, 2006)
The United States is drawing up plans for bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a ‘‘last resort’’ to block Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, a media report said today.
- All Doors Open To Murli Deora (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Feb 12, 2006)
Murli Deora or Murli Bhai, as he is known to his countless friends and admirers, has been a “friend of friends.”
- Aids Detection Centre At Nellore Hospital Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
Minister of State for Health and FamilyWelfare Panabaka Lakshmi has said that an AIDS detection centre will be set up at the Government Maternity Hospital, Nellore, on Saturday.
- Fire Safety Norms Observed More In Breach (Hindu, V. Geetanath, Feb 12, 2006)
Many structures get clearance though norms violation is evident
Three additional floors are regularised in a building in Ameerpet
Setback relaxations for two high-rise apartment blocks range between 3.5 metres and 6.4 meters on all sides
- Tn Farmers Smile Again (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
On the tsunami-hit coast of Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu, farmers are in a mood for some revelry again. On Friday, . . .
- Scrap Mplads And Strengthen Decentralisation (Tribune, Mahi Pal, Feb 12, 2006)
The MPs’ Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) needs to be examined from the perspective of decentralisation efforts in the country.
- The First Gandhian Intellectuals (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Feb 12, 2006)
But only two of them would go so far as to call themselves that.
- A New Survey Of Child Labourers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
The Rajasthan Government will complete a survey of child labourers under the National Child Labour Project by February 28 to facilitate timely implementation of various schemes for their rescue and rehabilitation.
- Punish Those Behind Custodial Death, Sonia Tells Pranab (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Feb 12, 2006)
Death toll in Kakopathar police firing goes up to eight
Farmer's widow to get job; Army to take care of children
Security situation in Assam has improved much: Sonia
Party workers urged to ensure the poor are registered under the employment scheme
- Left Demands Increased Budget Outlay Of Rs. 52,800 Crore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
Say agriculture, revival of sick public enterprises need additional allocation
- To Sting Or Not To Sting (Hindu, POOJA GAUTAM, Feb 12, 2006)
A Journalist once said: "News is something someone somewhere does not want to be published — all the rest is advertisement." That may be considered a far-fetched definition in today's media world, which considers advertisements the lifeblood . . .
- Lords Out Of Time (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 12, 2006)
Rituals are often bits of history surviving as habit. They are enacted almost unthinkingly, but on reflection, might be seen as embodying attitudes or relations that have been carried forward, in some form, into the present.
- Maoists Set Terms To Free Itc Men (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
A week after they abducted three senior officials of ITC’s subsidiary in Nepal in an audacious broad daylight kidnap, the Maoist guerrillas have set terms for freeing the men....
- The Secret Route (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Feb 12, 2006)
The growing involvement of U.S.-based emissaries with no real base in the Kashmir Valley in closed-door meetings with the Indian establishment raises concern.
- G8 Powers Warn Of Pandemic As Bird Flu Spread (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 12, 2006)
The Group of Eight industrial powers have warned of the risk of a bird flu pandemic, just hours before news broke that the deadly H5N1 virus had spread to
Italy, Greece and Bulgaria.
- Dimensions Of Child Abuse (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Feb 12, 2006)
Nothing can be more dishonest or harmful to our future generations than underplaying an issue such as the abuse of children.
- Free Speech Not Absolute (Dawn, Agha Shahi, Feb 12, 2006)
The European newspapers which have printed the outrageous cartoons demonizing the Holy Prophet (PBUH) of Islam have given the deepest possible offence to more than a billion of his followers across the world.
- Car Bomb In Baghdad Kills Eleven (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
A car bomb exploded in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 38, doctors at al-Yarmuk hospital said.
- The Coming Budget (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Feb 11, 2006)
When Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram gets up in the Lok Sabha to present the third budget of the UPA government on the last day of February, many would be wondering what face of the Harvard-educated lawyer-turned-politician would be revealed.
- Fat Is Not Too Much Of An Evil (Tribune, Rob Stein, Feb 11, 2006)
Low-fat diets do not protect women against heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer or colon cancer, a major study has found, contradicting what had once been promoted as one of the cornerstones of a healthy lifestyle.
- Higher Prices, Lower Wages (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Feb 11, 2006)
Sugar prices in Pakistan are very high now because of high world prices, says Jehangir Tareen, minister for industries, production and special initiatives.
- Shopping For Health Care (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 11, 2006)
President Bush spoke eloquently last week about the need for health care reform, but his concrete proposals are not unlike his plan for Social Security last year — modest steps that affect individuals but don’t address the broader problem.
- 37 Die In Two Hangu Blasts, Violence (Dawn, Abdul Saboor Khan, Feb 11, 2006)
Death toll on Friday rose to 37 and the number of injured to 91 in two days of sectarian violence in Hangu, NWFP.
- Left, Govt Clash On Economic Policy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
The Left parties today differed sharply with the government leaders on economic policy issues, but doled out an agenda to the UPA regime on how to handle its expenditures and revenues, including higher resources for the National Rural Employment Programme
- Sharks, Dolphins And Joy (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 11, 2006)
Governance has often been a visionary affair for the chief minister of West Bengal. And his visions for Calcutta have been especially grand.
- Pakistan Bans Import Of Medicines From Denmark (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Feb 11, 2006)
Pakistan on Friday said it has decided to impose ban on import of medicines from the countries including Denmark which published blasphemous cartoons hurting the sentiments of Muslims.
- Sops For Government Staff, Farmers, Weaker Sections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Kerala Budget proposes additional resource mobilisation
The final Budget of the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government in Kerala, presented in the State Assembly by Finance Minister Vakkom Purushothaman on Friday, proposes additional . . .
- Aids Control Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Prevention of parent-to-child transmission
Tamil Nadu AIDS control society's "Prevention of parent-to- child transmission programme" through non-governmental organisations has evoked a good response in Kanyakumari, one of the districts . . .
- Incentives For Government Staff, Farmers And Weaker Sections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Kerala Budget proposes additional resource mobilisation of just Rs.17.34 crores
- Ysr Blames Tdp For Lack Of Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
Accuses former regime of discriminating against sections of people
- An Uneven Battle Against Aids (Hindu, R. Sujatha, Feb 11, 2006)
Doctors continue to fear infection; the infected worry about bleak future
- Spineless Nation (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Feb 11, 2006)
No book has depressed me more than B.N. Tandon’s PMO Diary II: The Emergency (Konark).
- Bottoms Up! : The Crime Rate’S Down (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 11, 2006)
That the call “Time, Gentlemen please” no longer triggers off drunken violence is yet another pointer to the adverse impact of restrictive regimes.
- Devil’S Luck: Railways Running Strong (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 11, 2006)
Give the devil its due. If railway ministers have to take the rap for accidents and so on then surely they are entitled to take some occasional credit for a success story or two.
- The Battle Over A Warship Continues (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Feb 11, 2006)
Opposition is growing in France to the Government's efforts to get theClemenceaudismantled in India.
- Beware: Division Can Be A Chain Reaction (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2006)
Communal tensions in Ladakh and Jammu must be quickly addressed, says Muzamil Jaleel
- Utterly Disgusting (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 11, 2006)
Till today an idea first mooted by Socrates continues to move the world. It says that the rightly trained mind would turn towards virtue. This principle has formed the cornerstone of formal education.
- Pakistan, 2005 (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 11, 2006)
Day in, day out Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, his Prime Minister and other ministers talk of "demilitarisation" and "self-rule" in Jammu and Kashmir. What is the scenario like under their very noses?
- Jobs For Rural People (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Feb 10, 2006)
Since the early 1970s, there are signs of a major diversi-fication of economic activity away from agriculture in favour of non-agricultural sector. The share of non-agricultural sector in the "usual status" employment of the male work force . . .
- Cpi (M) Discusses Poll Strategy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
Polit Bureau meeting begins in Kolkata, Surjeet unable to attend
- India-Us Accord On Civilian Nuclear Uses (Daily Excelsior, O.P. Sabherwal, Feb 10, 2006)
The India-US nuclear accord, agreed in principle last July, is to promote civilian nuclear power and other peaceful nuclear applications by India.
- When The State Took Flight (Indian Express, Nandan Nilekani, Feb 10, 2006)
In their sweeping book on the 20th century, The Commanding Heights, Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw trace how the world has seesawed between the state and markets at different times due to various circumstances and based on the dominant . . .
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