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Articles 11921 through 12020 of 20587:
- Four Militants Killed In Manipur Encounter (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Four Naga militants were killed in an encounter with Central Paramilitary Forces at Kalapahar area in Senapati district of Manipur, official sources said in Imphal.
- Central Institutions And Regional Disparity (Business Line, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 09, 2006)
There is a need for educational institutes of national repute in backward States such as Orissa to bridge regional disparity and trigger local development.
- Food For Thought (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 09, 2006)
AT FIRST GLANCE, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs' decision to hike the issue price of foodgrains and reduce the quantity available for the poor above the poverty line would appear to be a welcome example of rational governance;
- Wings To Fly (Greater Kashmir, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 09, 2006)
It has always been a fascination for humans to fly. History being testimony to the various attempts at different times to marvel this human endeavour, right from hot air balloons to modern day state of the art flying machines.
- One Hurt In Sri Lankan Navy Firing (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Jayalalithaa asks Centre to lodge strong protest with the island nation's government
- The Confirmation: Female Foeticide In India Crossed 1 Cr In 20 Yrs (Hindu, PALLAVA BAGLA, Jan 09, 2006)
The first-ever systematic scientific study on female foeticide by an Indo-Canadian team in India presents a shocking picture.
- Pawar Rules Out Third Front (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Jan 09, 2006)
NCP to contest polls only in alliance with other parties
With just 7 MPs, the NCP cannot consider forming a third front
Denies small parties like NCP were pressuring the UPA Government
- 1 Militant Killed In Doda (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
One militant of HUJI outfit was killed in an encounter in Doda district on Saturday night.
- Karur Bridge Work: Karunanidhi Contests Cb-Cid Claim (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
"Build, Operate and Transfer concept was mooted only by AIADMK Government"
- Public Transport For Livable Cities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advocacy of appropriate, efficient, and affordable public transport for Indian cities is a heartening sign that initiatives for sustainable urban transport will at last get some high-level policy support.
- Left Front Seeks A Massive Mandate (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
No alternative to the Front, says Buddhadeb
Opposition's attempt to forge alliance "an unprincipled exercise"
Industrialisation to be top priority if voted back to power
- More Care Needed (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 09, 2006)
Anaesthesia can often be more dangerous than the scalpel
- What The Budget Must Tackle (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Jan 09, 2006)
To mobilise resources for infrastructure, the best thing to do is to cut subsidies in the oil sector.
- Mobile Operators Set To Target Vast Rural Market (Hindu, Ramnath Subbu, Jan 09, 2006)
The subscriber base continues to grow aggressively after touching 75 m in 2005
With more new connections long distance traffic is likely to start migrating to mobile networks.
- Chief Ministers Make A Pitch To Attract Investments From Nris (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Gujarat will now like to compete with China and Japan, says Narendra Modi
- Things Are Still Messy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 09, 2006)
IT only seems appropriate to examine the progress made in the quake-hit areas as three months have now passed since many of the northern areas of the country were devastated on October 8.
- Malik Returns From Abroad (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 09, 2006)
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik held talks with various European and American leaders about the prospects of resolving Kashmir dispute during his foreign visit.
- Wasted Rules (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 09, 2006)
India’s general awareness levels are rather low, whether the subject be history or health.
- Relief Workers Complain Of Harassment By Militants (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 09, 2006)
The outbreak of an epidemic is feared in the relief camps of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which was rattled by a killer quake in October last year, with a reported 25 per cent increase in lung and liver diseases, says a prominent Karachi-based news magazine
- Pranayamarx (Indian Express, SANDIPAN DEB, Jan 09, 2006)
Ramdev fans willing to eat crushed bones; CPM fighting for vegetarians. What next?
- Parliament Under Cloud (Daily Excelsior, Sunil Gatade, Jan 09, 2006)
It was black December for In-dian Parliament as its worst nightmare came true for the largest democracy in the world.
- Last Of Gang Of Four, Yao Wenyuan, Dies In Obscurity. It Remains An Uncomfortable Subject For China (Indian Express, Ching-Ching Ni, Jan 09, 2006)
Yao Wenyuan, the last living member of the Gang of Four blamed for the chaos and political extremism of China’s decade-long Cultural Revolution, has died, state media reported on Friday.
- Times And Choices Of Gudiya (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Jan 09, 2006)
The name is Gudiya. Looks rather like one too. On television the doll-like face stared back in vacant silence.
- Chidambaram For Early Action On Rural Credit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
NABARD asked to make detailed presentation to States
Focus on revival of short-term credit structure Three-pronged programme to provide financial assistance Small and marginal farmers to benefit
- Manmohan Hands Over Oci Cards (Hindu, Y. Mallikarjun, Jan 08, 2006)
It is a big honour to be given the Overseas Citizen of India card: Nivruti Rai
- Lives Of The Powerful (Greater Kashmir, Dr Syed Amir, Jan 08, 2006)
They record their events for us to read them, writes Dr Syed Amir
More than 150 years ago, the Scottish historian and essayist, Thomas Carlyle, in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship noted that “the history of the world is but the biography . . .
- Neither Blood, Nor Flesh, But Spirit Matters (Greater Kashmir, Fahad Rasool, Jan 08, 2006)
Fahad Rasool writes about the significance of Qurbani
Since the dawn of humanity sacrifice was the most popular system of approach to God in all societies.
- 2 Kashmiri Pilgrims Killed In Makkah Building Collapse (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
The death toll on Saturday from Thursday’s building collapse in this holy city reached 76, including two Hajj pilgrims from Kashmir.
- ‘I’Ve No Ego In Meeting People. If I Can Meet Leaders Of Other Parties, Why Not My Own?’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
I’ve no ego in meeting people. If I can meet leaders of other parties, why not my own?’
- Mou Signed To Improve Primary Health Sector (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Ministry's agreement with American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
- Telangana: Manmohan For New Investment? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Is a solution political or administrative, asks Prime Minister
- Higher Education In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Parkash Parihar, Jan 08, 2006)
The history of higher education in Jammu and Kashmir can be traced back to 1904 when two colleges were established- Prince of Wales College in Jammu now GGM Science College and SP College in Srinagar.
- After Kisan-Speak, Pm, Rajnath Must Walk The Talk (Indian Express, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , Jan 08, 2006)
Those who wish to see India emerge as a developed nation in a holistic sense—prosperous, harmonious, egalitarian and culturally vibrant—know very well the critical importance of two large but long-neglected sections of our economy:
- India Must Bring Down High Fiscal Deficit - Pm (Reuters, Reuters, Jan 08, 2006)
India's fiscal deficit remains unacceptably high and must be brought down, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a business conference on Saturday.
- Taking Too Many Medicines Is Risky (Tribune, Dr N.N. Wig, Jan 08, 2006)
Paradoxically, people’s health has never been so good as it is today. The scourge of small pox has been eradicated. Polio is on its way out. Most common communicable diseases are far better controlled than before. People are living much longer.
- ‘Cpm Not Against Indian Medicine’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Senior CPI-M leader, Mrs Brinda Karat today said attempts were being made to deflect attention from the core issue of violation of labour laws in Baba Ramdev’s ayurveda pharmacy.
- We Are Not Against Ayurveda: Brinda Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
"My objection was only to violation of labour laws and Drugs and Cosmetics Act"
Human and animal bones were used to prepare medicines, say some workers of Baba Ramdev's Divya Pharmacy
- Religious Leaders Strengthen Resolve To Intervene In Aids Prevention (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2006)
Faith-based organisations needed at district level: former Chief Election Commissioner
- Grab The Judge (The Week, Tapash Ganguly, Jan 08, 2006)
Fundamentalists in Bangladesh are trying to take over the judicial system
- Tslushnami Of Human Rights (The Week, Kavitha Muralidharan, Jan 08, 2006)
What a year has wrought in Tamil Nadu and Kerala—the good, the bad and the ugly...
- Old Order Gives Way (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
The year just begun is likely to see a radical change in the political equations between the country’s principal parties broadly divided into two: the Hindu Right-wing and others.
- A Little Admission (Hindustan Times, Karan Thapar, Jan 08, 2006)
In the last few weeks, I’ve had occasion to recall a conversation with my old friend Praveen Anand. “Medicine,” he’d declare, “is the most honourable profession in the world”. As an aspiring journalist I’d disagree. He would smile indulgently.
- French Defend Toxic Ship, Got Wto To Ban Asbestos Import (Indian Express, CP Bhambhri, Jan 08, 2006)
Canada which exports 90% of its asbestos to India was stopped by WTO from sending it to France, because France didn’t . . .
- Proposal To Monitor Ias Officers (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Jan 08, 2006)
It is interesting. The suggestion has come from no less a person than the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who is himself a former bureaucrat. Mr Singh is strongly in favour of introducing a monitoring system to assess the performance . . .
- Ancient City Modern Hues (Deccan Herald, Soumya Sitaraman, Jan 08, 2006)
What’s in a name? Plenty, it seems, if the impassioned debate surrounding the renaming of Bangalore as Bengaluru is anything to go by. Soumya Sitaraman looks back on a time when the city was, indeed, called Bengaluru.
- Women In Novels (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Jan 08, 2006)
Although the subject matter merits study, poor language and errors mar the book.
- High Expectations From Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Hindu, S. Nagesh Kumar, Jan 07, 2006)
Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the mega event today
- Women Lead Fight Against ‘Honour Killings’ (Tribune, Paul Valley, Jan 07, 2006)
These are some of the things that can get a woman killed: wearing make-up; going to the cinema; chewing gum; drinking water in the street; chatting to a male neighbour; talking on the phone;
- Incursions Of Hindutva (Times of India, HARSH MANDER, Jan 07, 2006)
Tribals in the forested interiors of India today face a grave, new threat. Already dispossessed of land and forest, grappling with debt, hunger, exploitation and bondage, the tribals now face incursions of radical Hindutva, . . .
- Medical Proscription (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 07, 2006)
If there is one fact more shocking than the skeletons, literally speaking, in Ramdev's cupboard, it is this: Ayurvedic, Unani and Siddha medicines are not subject to regulation.
- Sharon Undergoes Emergency Surgery (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 07, 2006)
Doctors fear irreversible brain damage to the Israeli Prime Minister
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's condition appeared to have deteriorated, as he had to undergo another emergency operation after a scan revealed fresh bleeding in his brain.
- Elitist Orientation Of The Economy (Dawn, Ishrat Husain, Jan 07, 2006)
Several observers have asked me to update the latest assessment of my thesis propounded in the book Pakistan: the economy of an elitist state. They are interested in exploring the question whether or not the policies and programmes pursued during . . .
- Do Genes Score Over Merit In Economic Future? (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 07, 2006)
The belief that education, and not environment, is key to moulding a person may be have to be revised, says D. Murali, quoting from Unequal Chances. In another revelation, Rajesh Jain writes in Chains that Liberate, that there seems to be . . .
- Celebrating Triplicane's Historical Significance (Hindu, R. Sujatha, Jan 07, 2006)
"Tiruvallikeni Tiruvizha" is to be inaugurated at 4 p.m. on Saturday
A fair to celebrate one of Chennai's oldest settlements, also known for its massive temple,is beginning on Saturday.
- Africa's Only Woman Head Of State (Hindu, Cameron Duodu, Jan 07, 2006)
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will have an impact well beyond her own country.
- Despite The Obituaries, Newspapers Refuse To Die (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Jan 07, 2006)
Newspapers have shown they can grasp each new technology and bend it to their will.
- India's Wealth And Squalor (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jan 07, 2006)
The international media have covered the upswing of the Indian and Chinese economies. It is suggested that the Chinese economy would overtake Japan's currently the second largest, by 2016 and would be as big as that of the United States of America . . .
- Row Over Ship (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 07, 2006)
Should the government permit hazardous ship-breaking?
There has been much discussion over the health hazards posed by the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau.
- Manmohan To Inaugurate Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Hindustan Times, Arvind Padmanabhan , Jan 07, 2006)
The three-day Pravasi Bhartiya Divas begins on Saturday in Hyderabad amid tight security.
- Why Are They Running Scared Of Ideology? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 07, 2006)
Increasingly, ideology is portrayed as something to be despaired of — a hang-up, and a hindrance to progress in a world in search of quick fixes. But pragmatism without a political vision seldom works in the long run.
- Old Order Gives Way (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
The year just begun is likely to see a radical change in the political equations between the country’s principal parties broadly divided into two: the Hindu Right-wing and others.
- A Ship We Can Refuse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 07, 2006)
It is heartening that the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee has responded firmly and with sensitivity to the despatch of the French Navy's decommissioned aircraft carrier, Georges Clemenceau, to India for dismantling.
- Lights Out In Power Ministry (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Jan 07, 2006)
Despite the hype and expectations, the ministry of power continues to hold back progressive initiatives of successive Central governments.
- Desperate Steps Push Edge Of Medical Knowledge (Indian Express, LAWRENCE K ALTMAN, Jan 07, 2006)
In an attempt to save the life of PM Ariel Sharon of Israel, doctors in Jerusalem operated twice on his brain for a total of nine hours on Thursday, then put him into an anesthesia-induced coma and connected him to a mechanical respirator.
- Powerless Pdd (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 07, 2006)
Last month when the power development department (PDD) conducted raids to recover heaters and boilers from the people, one was forced to believe that the PDD meant business this time.
- As The Others See Us (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Jan 07, 2006)
After the Mitrokhin and Volcker disclosures and seeing clips of Members of Parliament accepting bribes to put questions in Parliament, the question uppermost in our minds is how do these blighters face members of their own family and friends?
- Return Of The Natives (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 06, 2006)
The question of Pandit return looms large over the larger Kashmir dispute.
- Kalabagh: The Question Of Alternatives (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, Jan 06, 2006)
The rush to build the Kalabagh dam is taking General Musharraf and many of his supporters, including some born-again superpatriots, to heights of irrationality.
- Amu Not A Minority Institution: Hc (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Upholds striking down of 50 pc quota
The Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court today upheld with some modifications its last year’s single-judge Bench judgment terming as ‘unconstitutional the granting of minority status to the . . .
- Healthy Concession (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 06, 2006)
State accepts reality on teacher-doctors
It was a matter of time before the West Bengal government accepted the reality on private practice by doctors teaching in medical colleges.
- City Flights (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 06, 2006)
Mumbai figured fifth and Delhi ninth in the top 10 most populated cities of the world list in a 2001 UN study.
- Ramdev's Supporters Arrested (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
They gathered outside the CPI(M) office in Delhi and raised slogans against Brinda Karat
20 supporters of Swamy Ramdev arrested; one person injured
Protest is handiwork of RSS, VHP hoodlums, says CPI (M)
- Prakash Karat Rejects Ramdev's Charges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
"CPI(M) in the forefront of opposing multi-national corporations" "The economic growth was good but it had benefited only a few making them wealthier"
- Railways: A Derailed Social Service (Business Line, V. Kumaraswamy, Jan 06, 2006)
In the last few years our leaders have been loathe to raise rail fares. `Railways is a social service' and `poor need protection' are the common excuses given by successive Railway Ministers for their refusal to recover cost-inflation.
- Trade And Social Concerns (Dawn, Najma Sadeque, Jan 06, 2006)
There were 6,000 negotiators, 3,000 registered business and NGO lobbyists, and some 5,000 stakeholder-protesters from 149 countries at the WTO’s recent Hong Kong ministerial.
- No Music For Ex-Smokers (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 06, 2006)
The anti-smoking lobby could soon protest holding of concerts in the country. Why?
- Tormenting The Tormented (The Economic Times, ARVIND KALA, Jan 06, 2006)
If You jump off a building and die, your family faces police questioning. If you jump and survive, you face a one-year prison term. Suicide attempters in the west are given emergency medical treatment and escorted back to their families
- Stem Cell Research In India — Still In The Embryonic Stage (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Jan 06, 2006)
Given the huge disease burden and the need for organs, affordable diagnostics and therapies, the promise that stem cells offer needs to be exploited to the fullest.
- Sharon's Deputy Takes Over As Acting Prime Minister (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 06, 2006)
Premier's ailment likely to generate a power vacuum in Israel
Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has become acting Prime Minister following Ariel Sharon's illness, and has already held a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
- India Begins Count Of Tigers (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jan 06, 2006)
Armed with radio collars and high-tech cameras, hundreds of wildlife experts fanned out across a vast mangrove in India's east on Thursday as part of the world's largest census of the endangered tiger.
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