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Articles 12021 through 12120 of 20587:
- Special Measures Helped Ttdc Earn Rs. 8.6 Crore Profit (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
32nd edition of the Tourism and Industrial Exhibition opens
- Scientists Must Play Leading Role In Pura Project, Says Kalam (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Jan 06, 2006)
They must provide scientific, technological leadership
Says the community can help set up 100 PURA centres
Must comprise village knowledge centres, agri-clinics, tele-education, water treatment plants
- Laloo Throws Weight Behind Yoga Guru (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Laloo’s comments came a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav backed the spiritual leader. Demonstrations by the guru’s followers against the communists were also reported from several places around the country.
- Serving Womankind Through Yoga (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Bharathi Prabhu attends the anniversary of the ladies batch at Jayarama Seva Mandali, where 40 women learn yoga everyday under Mala G Rao to improve the quality of their lives.
- Fighting Inferiority Complex With Yoga (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
With the regular practise of pranayama and meditation, one can build self-confidence and get rid of inferiority complex, assures Dr R Nagarathna.
- Working Miracles Through A Keyhole (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Initially frowned upon, laparoscopic surgery is now widely used in cancer-related surgeries due to its many advantages, writes Dr Rajsekhar Nayak.
- Halfway House In Loom Town (Indian Express, Sunita Arora, Jan 06, 2006)
India’s textile and apparel exports grew by up to 15 per cent in the first post-quota year. With a few pragmatic reforms, it could be much more, says Sunita Arora
- Turning On Genes To Treat Diseases (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
However, there are concerns on account of insects becoming resistant to the Bt toxin and of a foreign gene being consistently present in the cotton plant.
- Kalam Gives Tips To Farmers (Deccan Herald, K Jayalakshmi, Jan 06, 2006)
“My theatre of action, Pokhran is beautiful to me.” It was President A P J Abdul Kalam at his candid best at the 93rd Science Congress answering a query from a farmer in faraway Rajasthan.
- Who Are The Unions Serving? (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Jan 06, 2006)
During a rare moment of lucidity, trade union leader Gurudas Dasgupta had acknowledged in a television programme that the Indian labour leaders hadn’t always paid much attention to telling workers about the value of productivity.
- Latin America’S Two Left Wings (Indian Express, JORGE CASTANEDA, Jan 06, 2006)
Don’t confuse those leaders who spring from a communist or socialist past with those who trace their roots to old-fashioned populism, says JORGE CASTANEDA
- Stability In The Changing Environment (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 06, 2006)
Recent developments in India and outside have redefined financial stability to mean more than just the avoidance of crises and posed new challenges to the central banks in framing macro-economic policies.
- Rs. 642 Crores For Health Centres (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Health and Family Welfare Minister N. Cheluvaraya Swamy said on Thursday that a Rs. 642-crore project for improving primary and community health centres will be launched next month.
- Kalam Launches `Kidney Care Project' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
Says it is time adequate attention is paid to the healthcare sector
Calls for solution to kidney transplant through stem cell research
Stresses the need to create awareness about cadaver kidney transplant
- Delhi Police On Alert (Hindu, Devesh K. Pandey , Jan 05, 2006)
Police Commissioner given inputs on presence of militants
Army HQ, Golf Course among likely targets
Groups operating from the Kashmir valley considered a real threat
Bangladesh-based militants found more inclined towards "fidayeen" attacks
- Ramdev Medicines Did Carry Animal, Human Traces: Govt (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Samples of medicines allegedly prepared by yoga guru Ramdev did test positive for animal and human contents, Union Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said today.
- Handle With Care (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 05, 2006)
The state must tackle dispossession humanely
The violent attempt by tribals in Orissa to stop the Tata Steel factory from coming up on their land is a reminder of the need for state governments to handle these matters humanely and efficiently.
- Why Not Check Out Barney? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 05, 2006)
The latest US opinion polls reveal that First Lady Laura Bush has a much higher favourability rating than her spouse.
- Haryana Plans To Beat Major It Hubs' (The Economic Times, Raja Awasthi, Jan 05, 2006)
‘An accountant by training, a lawyer by profession, an academic by choice and a politician per se, Haryana cabinet’s youngest member Randeep Singh Surjewala wears many hats. Having been the longest-serving president of Indian Youth Congress, . . .
- Nothing Ultra About It! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 05, 2006)
State-owned Power Finance Corporation’s (PFC) plans to invite rate-based bids for ultra-mega power projects are based on a flimsy premise. That, by getting statutory clearances and securing domestic fuel supply, developers will flock to the power market.
- Wooing Gilgit (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 05, 2006)
What is the pre-requisite to peace and stability in the part of Jammu and Kashmir which Pakistan directly administers in the name of the Northern Areas?
- Vajpayee's Equivocation (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jan 05, 2006)
A temple to Ram at Ayodhya might have eluded Lal Krishna Advani while he headed the party, but in his last days as president he caught a glimpse of the Ramayan through the mouth of Atal Behari Vajpayee.
- Value To Rural Markets (Telegraph, Alok K. Chattopadhyay, Jan 05, 2006)
When the regulation regime came into effect, the Agriculture Produce Market Committees in India geared up to the change. West Bengal, with its rich manpower, can easily lead the way in rural development enterprises, provided there is a political . . .
- Where It Hurts The Most (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 05, 2006)
Extracts from the World Drug Report 2005, published by the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime.
- Accountability Commission? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 05, 2006)
Immediately after assuming the office, the Chief Minister promised a clean administration.
- For A Second Farm Revolution (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 05, 2006)
Shall we consider it a good New Year augury that at the recent Indian Science Congress, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, called for a second Green Revolution and urged scientists to work towards it?
- Valley Seethes In Time Of Snow (Telegraph, MUKHTAR AHMAD, Jan 05, 2006)
Kashmiris may be used to their homes being searched, but the recent raids were still rather unusual. What the government was looking for were not insurgents but electric heaters and water boilers.
- Uphold Righteousness (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
The entire creation is sustained by Dharma and human beings have a moral responsibility to uphold righteousness for the sake of the welfare of the entire world.
- Yogi Or Charlatan? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 05, 2006)
Charges against swami must be thoroughly
Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat of the CPM has levelled extremely serious allegations against yoga exponent Swami Ramdev. She claims that she has received a letter from the Health and Family Welfare Ministry ...
- Representing The People (Tribune, P.P. Rao, Jan 05, 2006)
The quality of democracy gets reflected in the character and calibre of the elected representatives of the people. Parliament has recently expelled 11 of its members belonging to different political parties for accepting bribes in the cash-for-query scam.
- Ensuring A Successful Doha Round (The Financial Express, RAJIV KUMAR, Jan 05, 2006)
Reports from the Hong Kong Ministerial reflect an uneasy last minute compromise reached to keep the door open for carrying forward the Doha Development Round to a possible successful conclusion within the year.
- Extraordinary Folly Of U.K.'S New Opium War (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Jan 05, 2006)
In the next few weeks, an army of 3,400 British troops expects to be deployed to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. This is nearly half the number deployed in Iraq.
- Solving Middle East Crisis - Iv (Greater Kashmir, MUHAMMAD JUNAID, Jan 05, 2006)
The ultimate solution of the Palestine-Israel conflict, as Hamas too has realised, lies in the two-state solution along the 1967 Green Line, with minor transfer of land here and there, comments
MUHAMMAD JUNAID
- Hassan-Shravanabelagola Rail Line To Be Commissioned Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Railways to run three trains every day between the two points
Special train from Kolkata to reach Shravanabelagola on February 18
Revanna wants at least five trains between Hassan and Shravanabelagola
- Works Being Hastened In Shravanabelagola (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Dharam Singh expresses satisfaction over the progress
KSRTC to set up four temporary bus stands
600 buses to be run to Shravanabelagola
Health centres upgraded
Work on improving rural roads progressing
- Lanka Orders Probe Into ‘Execution-Style’ Deaths (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Sri Lanka on Wednesday ordered a probe into the deaths of five youths the military said were killed when a grenade they were carrying exploded, after truce monitors found they had been shot in the head execution-style.
- Bjp Goes After Indian Communists On Ramdev Row (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Joining issues with CPM leader Brinda Karat on the Baba Ramdev controversy, BJP on Wednesday charged her with making a ‘motivated attempt to hurt the faith of Indians in yoga and Ayurveda’.
- Tsunami: Pm Promises Speedy Rehabilitation (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
On the second day of his visit, the prime minister interacted with the tribal chiefs of Car Nicobar island and also laid the foundation stone for a school hostel and a sports complex.
- Disease In Quake Areas (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 05, 2006)
The death of 35 children from pneumonia in the past week in Azad Kashmir is a grim reminder of the worsening weather conditions in the quake-hit zone, especially in high-altitude villages where sub-zero temperatures and heavy snowfall have rendered . . .
- Sebi The Santa (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 05, 2006)
Sebi’s recent move will make stock markets healthier
The Securities and Exchanges Board of India (Sebi) has given a New Year’s gift to investors in the stock markets.
- Economic Prospects In 2006 (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jan 05, 2006)
The government in Pakistan faces the new year with a plate full of problems and overflowing. A few of the problems are of its own making or mismanaged by it, and some being the result of external developments like the domestic impact of high world . . .
- More Thefts, Please (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 05, 2006)
It’s good that Ms Nilofer Bakhtiar, adviser to the PM, has been robbed of her cellphone.
- Reaching Science To The Farm (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 05, 2006)
From the podium at the Indian Science Congress, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for a second Green Revolution to follow the one that three decades ago turned the country from an abject importer of foodgrain to a self-sufficient producer.
- Koreans Lost A National Hero In The Stem-Cell Scandal. But Their Scientists Still Lead The Way In Biotech Research (Indian Express, B.J. LEE, Jan 05, 2006)
The world’s stem-cell hub at Seoul National University Hospital seemed like the epicentre of global biotechnology when it was dedicated last October. The new lab was built chiefly to house Hwang Woo Suk, South Korea’s stem-cell-research pioneer, . . .
- Karzai Makes Landmark Visit To Turkey (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Afghan rebuilding to top discussions between Karzai and Turkish dignitaries
- A New Year, A New World (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 05, 2006)
Today 110 million of the world’s children will not go to school. The vast majority are girls. Half of Africa’s children will never finish primary schooling.
- In 2006, Watch This Space... (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Jan 05, 2006)
The year 2006 is likely to see a radical change in India’s foreign policy posture and status.
- Pdd Fails To Restore Power In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Making a mockery of their tall claims and assurances to Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here yesterday, Power Development Department (PDD) authorities have failed to restore electricity to the winter-hit Kashmir valley.
- Ramachandran Divested Of Pollution Control (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
In protest, he keeps away from Cabinet meeting: Sujanapal sworn in Minister
- The Aged And The Younger Generation (Deccan Herald, Sharada Prahladrao , Jan 05, 2006)
It’s our turn to help elders who watched us take the first steps
There is no doubt about this — India is graying. While growing population and limited resources are a matter of global concern, there is yet another problem emerging out of it.
- ‘Samples Contain Animal Parts’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Ramdev Pharmacy Health Minister Ramadoss says no idea about manufacturers
- Bangladesh Releases Meghalaya Forest Officials (Indian Express, TILAK RAI, Jan 05, 2006)
After a month in captivity in Sylhet jail, three Meghalaya forest officials were released by Bangladesh Rifles last evening and were handed over to the Border Security Force at the Dawki outpost.
- Tigers Say 5 Shot Dead By Lankan Troops (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
ri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday accused troops of shooting dead five Tamil students in the restive northeastern port town of Trincomalee.
- Another Corrupt Indian Politician Caught On Camera Red Handed (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
A senior Bihar minister in the Nitish Kumar government, which came to power on the anti-corruption plank, is in the eye of a storm,
- Indian Police And Tribals Fight In Kalinga Nagar, India, While Indian Oligarchs Win And Politicians Sit Tight With Their Inflated Wallet (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Jan 04, 2006)
It is a sad story, What happened in Kalinga Nagar, Orissa, India should have never happened.
- Pm Unveils 7-Point Package For Second Green Revolution (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today unveiled a seven-point package to bring about second green revolution and promote integrated rural development to enhance productivity and bridge the rural-urban divide.
- Brain Drain — Oxymoron In A Global Workforce (Business Line, Alok Ray, Jan 04, 2006)
Should we bother about brain drain when the flow is moving in all directions in today's global economy, wonders Alok Ray, and cites the increasing movement to India of quite a few established professionals from countries such as the US to take up jobs,...
- Services Restored Partially In Major Towns In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jan 04, 2006)
Pulled up by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on account of "let's-see-when-a-crisis-hits" mindset, authorities today succeeded in restoration of services in parts of this Capital city and some major towns in the snow-hit Kashmir valley.
- Light Inwards (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 04, 2006)
And a simulated concern for the vote-bank
With barely five months to go for elections, the CPI-M seems anxious to make amends for its shortcomings over the past five years.
- Medical Truth Is Stranger Than Tv Fiction (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 04, 2006)
Tamil serials being what they are, not too many eyebrows were raised when the female villain Pooja in a Jaya TV prime-time presentation titled Kalki queued up for free food at a temple. And Pooja was a villainess-turned-CEO-turned mendicant!
- Greenpeace Members Held After "Toxic" Ship Protest (Reuters, Reuters, Jan 04, 2006)
Police detained around a dozen Greenpeace activists in New Delhi on Tuesday during a protest over the planned scrapping in an Indian yard of a French aircraft carrier they said contains tonnes of highly toxic material.
- Many Pak Quake Survivors Grapple With Trauma (Reuters, Suzanna Koster, Jan 04, 2006)
Pakistani earthquake survivor Shameen Akhtar orders her husband every day to dig up their three daughters.
- Saga Of Gudiya (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 04, 2006)
The girl who was caught in a man’s world
GUDIYA died of gynaecological problems in a Delhi hospital on Monday. Most people would blame destiny for what has happened to her. Marriage was thrust upon her when she should have been studying.
- The Health Of Nations: Seeking A Way Forward (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jan 04, 2006)
There's a clamour for `public-private' partnerships in the sphere of Indian health care. But there is very little that is public left in the sector.
- Combating Africa's Number One Killer (Hindu, Jon Snow, Jan 04, 2006)
The numbers are impossible to digest. Three million people a year die from the disease, most sufferers contract it two or three times a year and, whenever they do, are so struck down that they can neither work nor tend to their families for . . .
- Tunnel Vision (Telegraph, Arkadev Chatterjea, Jan 04, 2006)
Contrary to the trend abroad, students in India’s top business schools seem overly concerned with job placements, writes Arkadev Chatterjea The author is professor of finance, IIM Calcutta, and visiting fellow, Cornell Higher Education Research . . .
- Create Disaster Management Cell (Daily Excelsior, Rajesh Khajuria, Jan 04, 2006)
One year after the Tsunami, it is difficult to say whether the world has learnt its lessons. The Tsunami of Dec 26 last year was one of the worst disasters in recorded history and killed - official figures - 223,492 people, besides rendering nearly . . .
- Pm Seeks A Second Green Revolution (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said the nation needs a second Green Revolution as the technologies and strategies unleashed by the first Green Revolution have run their course.
- Superfluous Medical Research (Tribune, David Brown, Jan 04, 2006)
In medical research, nobody is convinced by a single experiment. A finding has to be reproducible to be believable. Only if different scientists in different places do the same study and get the same outcomes can physicians have confidence the . . .
- Trees Planted At Bio-Park (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
The B.V.K. College, in association with the Dolphin Nature Conservation Society and R.C.D. Government Hospital, organised a tree plantation programme at the bio-diversity park at the hospital premises on Monday.
- Lost Capital (Indian Express, Gautam Bhatia, Jan 04, 2006)
Delhi’s future has been left to bureaucrats and developers. That’s the snag
- Rs 4.02 Crore To Boost Storage Capacity Of Dams In Cuddalore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
Cuddalore to get Rs. 15 crore under Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana in 2005-06
Main focus of RSVY will be on improving irrigation sources
Provisions made for solid waste management, education
- By The Pricking Of Thumbs (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 04, 2006)
Extracts from the World Drug Report 2005, published by the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime
- The Rule Of Lawlessness (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jan 04, 2006)
Politicians who have several illegal activities have been opposing the Delhi demolitions
- Protests Against French Ship’S Journey To India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2006)
As the Clemenceau, the decommisioned French military ship, starts its journey from France to India for dismantling at Alang in Gujarat, Greenpeace activists demonstrated outside the French Embassy here today before being detained by the police.
- Classroom Of The Future (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 04, 2006)
Sebastian Mallaby went to Vellore and found evidence of India’s ‘educational take-off’
- Should India Demand Farm Subsidy Cuts By Developed Nations? (Business Line, G. Chandrashekhar, Jan 04, 2006)
In none of the four major world commodities would India stand to benefit substantially even if developed economies eliminated subsidies. Subsidy-induced low prices would be in our consumers' interest. But more important is to make Indian agriculture . . .
- Everything On The House (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
Public accounts committees of the National Assembly and the four provincial assemblies do good work by keeping an eye on government expenditure. But the trouble is that when they sit down for the purpose, the cases that come up to them are nearly . . .
- A Glimmer Of Hope In The Distance (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 04, 2006)
Every hour of the day, the sun sets in some part of the world. But at the very same time, it rises somewhere else.
- Redefining Nam’S Role (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Jan 04, 2006)
The numerical strength of both G-77 and NAM (non-aligned movement) has been a major factor in decision-making at the UN and in all conferences held under the auspices of the UN system.
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