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Articles 12921 through 13020 of 20587:
- Fiscal Foozle (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 10, 2005)
In accord with such crucial sectors as health and education, fiscal management now emerges as a significant failing of the West Bengal government.
- Good Bye Teacher (Greater Kashmir, Dr Bashir Ahmad Khan, Dec 10, 2005)
It’s good you bid them a farewell and remember the contributions of those who have taught you, Dr Bashir Ahmad Khan writes
- International Meet On Cancer Treatment Starts Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Focus on emerging technologies for control of the disease
- The Man In The Middle (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Dec 10, 2005)
Nehru was an intelligent man who led an interesting life in most interesting times. And he could write.
- Rhetorics And Reality Of Human Rights (Daily Excelsior, Jagjit Singh, Dec 10, 2005)
''Instruments of political oppression still threaten many thousands of people. The number believed to be incarcerated without a fair trial is quite high in some countries. In many cases oppressive states use the police and military to repress people . . .
- Can We Stay The Course On Urban Reforms? (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Dec 10, 2005)
Just before the Prime Minister left for Moscow, he launched the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The Prime Minister's speech outlined the challenges of urban planning and highlighted the unresolved issues, not all of which have been . . .
- Buddhadeb Calls For Land Reforms Across India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Second International Congress on Kerala Studies begins in Thiruvananthapuram
- From Brand To Service (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Indian Airlines (IA) is only the latest in a string of public sector companies to go in for a brand revamp. Wednesday’s announcement of a new name—Indian
- Bjp Should Turn Mirror Inward (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2005)
Fresh from a morale-boosting victory in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party has returned to its favourite legislative pastime — disrupting House proceedings, staging noisy walkouts, and forcing adjournments.
- Iraq Invasion Was A Bandit Act: Harold Pinter (Tribune, Ciar Byrne, Dec 10, 2005)
Harold Pinter was not able to deliver his Nobel literature laureate’s lecture in person in Stockholm on Thursday (Dec 7), but his pre-recorded speech was a characteristically impassioned critique of the Anglo-American decision to go to war in Iraq.
- Slow And Steady (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 10, 2005)
The Indian space technology has progressed successfully focusing on spin-offs
- Indo-Us Relations On A New Level: Rocca (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Terming the Indo-US ties as being on a “new level”, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Ms Christina Rocca, said a landmark nuclear agreement between the two countries was “well in train,” brushing aside the notion that Washington was “moving
- Freedom Foundation Gets Swiss Aid For Aids Care (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Freedom Foundation, Bangalore, has received a grant of Rs. 49.5 crores to be spent over five years, from the Geneva-based Global Trust Fund for treating persons with HIV/AIDS.
- Gates In India: Making A Difference (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
In an exclusive interview,BillandMelinda Gatesshare their thoughts on their commitments to furthering health equity in India withJaya Shreedhar. Excerpts:
- Apollo Likely To Buy Out Samudra Hospital (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The Apollo Hospitals board will meet on Monday to consider acquisition of a hospital.
- In Chennai, Gates Impressed By Amma’S It And Hiv Initiatives (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
If Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran failed to whiz through Chennai’s rain-battered IT corridor with Bill Gates, then Chief Minister Miss J Jayalalithaa ‘‘thoroughly impressed’’ the Microsoft chief with her IT and AIDS initiatives in the state and . . .
- Gates To A New Social Landscape (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Dec 10, 2005)
Days before Bill Gates arrived in India, his itinerary was attached with a release from his Foundation on the next tranche of funds for healthcare in India. The last time, it was 200 million dollars for HIV programmes, this time it is for vaccines.
- One Medical College Gets Mci Nod (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
start new medical colleges during 2005-06, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has recommended permission for one......
- Just See, Before It Catches You (Greater Kashmir, DR. K K PANDEY, Dec 10, 2005)
If your skin changes colours in cold winter mornings as dangerously as this, you are suffering from Raynaud’s disease, cautions Dr. K K Pandey
- Boom By The Brahmaputra (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Dec 10, 2005)
Travelling through Assam, Ashok Malik experiences an enormous pent-up consumer energy, just waiting to blow out the shortage economy
- Makkah Declaration (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 10, 2005)
Unlike the declarations issued in the past by Islamic summit conferences, the joint communique released by the summit at Makkah on Thursday is focussed on a reform of the Muslim world.
- Once America’S Conservatives Dictated Agenda To The Republicans. Now They Have An Identity Crisis (Indian Express, DAVID BROOKS, Dec 10, 2005)
Conservatives are in power in the US but out of sorts. Fifty years after the founding of the modern right, conservatives hold just about every important government job, yet the conservative agenda has stalled. Federal spending has surged.
- Probe Ram Naik's "Business" Delegation Too (Pioneer, CP Bhambhri, Dec 10, 2005)
The Volcker Commission of Inquiry was instituted by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to investigate into the irregularities, if any, during the implementation of the UN "Oil-for-Food" programme in Iraq.
- Whose Development? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 10, 2005)
US hip-hop group Flipsyde's single Someday is a runaway hit and has been chosen as the anthem for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In India as part of the VH1 Hip-Hop Hustle tour, the band's singer and guitarist Steve Knight speaks to Manoj Nair:
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- Killer Earthquake (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Dec 10, 2005)
Lessons of the earthquake in Kashmir, worst in over a century, are both positive and negative. The shock of that intensity was perhaps needed to make Kashmiri speaking people of the state really conscious of the existence and plight of socially and . . .
- Economics Of Ipr (Pioneer, BC Dutta, Dec 10, 2005)
The idea of protection for Intellectual Property Rights emanated from the Uruguay Round of talks, which also gave birth to World Trade Organisation. The concept behind intellectual property rights is that the individual, who by the dint of his . . .
- Why Is There So Much Smoking In Movies? (Hindu, Peter Bradshaw, Dec 09, 2005)
CAN YOU imagine Humphrey Bogart chewing gum instead of smoking in The African Queen? Or Clint Eastwood rolling up his poncho to slap on a nicotine patch? Or how about Gandalf in Lord of the Rings putting away his pipe and taking up sudoku?
- Harold Pinter Assaults U.S. Foreign Policy (Hindu, Michael Billington, Dec 09, 2005)
Shades of Samuel Beckett as the ailing playwright delivers powerful Nobel lecture.
- Iraq Bus Blast Claims 30 Lives (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
U.S. soldier killed in attack on convoy
- Cpi(m) Meet, A Search For Positive Governance Agenda (Hindu, C. Gouridasan Nair, Dec 09, 2005)
Meet a follow-up on 1994 Kerala studies congress
- Russian Overture (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 09, 2005)
The "Special Relationship" between India and Russia is based wholly on the ties that blossomed during the Cold War, when the Kremlin responded to New Delhi's overtures to further its larger geo-political interests.
- India To Import 1.5 Million Doses Of Vaccine That Protects Poultry From Bird Flu (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India will import 1.5 million doses of a vaccine that protects poultry from bird flu as a precaution, even though no cases of the deadly disease have yet been detected in the country, an official said.
- Building Bridges (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 09, 2005)
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates’ visit to India is in part an outcome of the process of globalisation, and, in part, recognition of India’s role in the process, particularly in the key IT sector.
- Bird Flu Wary Asia On Guard Against Migratory Birds (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Dec 09, 2005)
Forest guard Bhola Abrar Khan peers through binoculars scanning the skies for migratory birds that descend on one of India's biggest bird sanctuaries each winter.
- Bangladesh Bleeds Again, 7 Dead (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
At least six persons, including a suspected suicide attacker, were killed and dozens others injured as two bomb explosions rocked the northern Bangladeshi town of Netrokona today, police and witnesses said.
- Garbage Menace Grips Jammu (Daily Excelsior, G L Khajuria, Dec 09, 2005)
The problem of growing garbage in Jammu city is highlighted in regular columns of dailies, weeklies and other print media.
- Curable Disease (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 09, 2005)
Off and on one comes across weird reports of the men in uniform killing their colleagues or officers before taking their own lives. Some times they just kill themselves leaving others wonder why they have taken the fatal step.
- Move On (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Dec 09, 2005)
Only recently State Vigilance Commissioner Ashok Bhan had let it be known that his department was in possession of a "watch list" of officers who had amassed wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income.
- Wahhabi Islam: A M I Snomer (Greater Kashmir, Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal, Dec 09, 2005)
A rebel with acause, amission and amessage - V
Dr. Sheikh Muhammad Iqbal writes about the contribution of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab who rose in revolt against the socio-religious corruption prevalent during his times everywhere in Ottoman provinc
- Not Up To Scratch (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 09, 2005)
Gurudas right to attack education mafia
- Spotlight On Petrol Pricing (Deccan Herald, B V SHENOY, Dec 09, 2005)
The consumer should be able to buy petrol at a cost not inflated by unfair taxes on top of rising crude oil prices
- World May Miss Child Development Goal By 30 Years - U.N. (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Dec 09, 2005)
The U.N. Children's Fund said on Thursday the world would miss by 30 years the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of cutting child deaths by two-thirds unless nations stepped up efforts to reduce mortality.
- Nato Denies Acquiring Land In Kashmir (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The NATO has denied allegations by certain quarters that it had been acquiring land somewhere in the Azad Kashmir territory to set up bases.
- India, 15 Other Asian Countries Agree On Combatting Bird Flu (Press Trust of India, Anil K Jospeh, Dec 09, 2005)
India and 15 other Asian countries have agreed to exchange information, develop new vaccines and enhance investment in their joint efforts to control the spread of bird flu wrecking havoc in the region.
- Launching Edusat In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Dr Renu Nanda, Dec 09, 2005)
Due to globalisation, the world is going through rapid changes where national boundaries of production and distribution and the quality of life are giving way to global trends and standards.
- `Three Firms Have Taken Up Hiv, Aids Scheme In Goa' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
In all, 18 companies have launched the programme in the country
Nine more are framing work place intervention policies
UB to publish HIV, AIDS message on its labels
- Hubris Of The Humanities (Indian Express, Nicholas D. Kristof, Dec 09, 2005)
The best argument against “intelligent design” has always been humanity itself. At a time when only 40 per cent of Americans believe in evolution, and only 13 per cent know what a molecule is, we’re an argument at best for “mediocre design”.
- Health Department Takes Exception To Study (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
A survey which is said to have been conducted by a team of researchers from Delhi University's Anthropology department among schoolchildren in the Amboori and Neyyar Dam tribal belt in the district last week has irked the authorities,
- Bangladesh Suicide Bombers Kill 8 (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Two suicide bombs killed at least eight people in Bangladesh and wounded more than 50 on Thursday in the latest in a series of deadly blasts blamed on militants seeking Islamic rule in the country.
- Caring Hands Accepting Bribe? (Tribune, Kailashnath Sud, Dec 09, 2005)
A sting operation at the Medical Council of India’s Delhi office amply explained corruption in medicine. The caring hands were seen accepting bribes to set up medical colleges in the country as also registering student doctors with bribes of lakhs.
- Bitter Medicine Beneath The Sugar-Coated Diplomacy (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2005)
FRESH on the home-page of the WTO (www.wto.org) is the December 6 decision on changes to the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). It informs that cheaper generic versions of patented medicines . . .
- After Delhi, Gates Rocks Chennai (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
After a Wednesday filled with business events, Thursday saw the world’s richest man devote time for charity work and social visits.
- Wrong Remedy (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 08, 2005)
Hike FDI limit, don’t lower capital requirement
- Rejuvenating Agriculture (Tribune, P.S. Rangi, Dec 08, 2005)
Agriculture continues to be the dominant sector of the economy. The population pressure on agriculture continues to remain almost the same. More than two-third of the population still depends on agriculture and about 60 per cent get direct employment . .
- Crimes, Chew'd, Swallow'd And Digested, Appear Before Us (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 08, 2005)
KING Lear says, "Tremble, thou wretch, that hast within thee undivulged crimes." In Hamlet, one comes across, "Feats, so crimeful and so capital in nature." And in King Richard II, the Bard writes about "These accusations and these grievous crimes...
- Audit Routines, Gas Pipes, Chickens And Lawyers (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 08, 2005)
"JUST as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison that one may find at the tip of one's tongue, so it is impossible for one dealing with government funds not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth."
- Set Uniform Standards (The Financial Express, SV MONY, Dec 08, 2005)
It is not known what is the source of a report that the minimum capital for a stand-alone health insurer recommended by the Irda panel was Rs 25 crore. As I understood from the deliberations at a recent conference, the recommendation was in . . .
- Mining Polluted Hampi Temples’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Mining activities at Sandur and Hospet have led to severe dust pollution in the Centrally-protected Parvathi and Kartikeya temples and in the State-protected Jambunatheshwara temple at Hampi.
- Red Ribbon Express For Aids Campaign (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
One of the five special trains set to journey to various destinations across the country in the name of Red Ribbon Express for AIDS campaign would be reaching East Godavari district during January, according to N.S. Manoranjan, Youth Coordinator Nehru Yuv
- Concern Over Child Labour (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
Two months after the earthquake, concern is being expressed about the future of children in the affected areas. Unicef is rightly worried that child labour is likely to increase in this scenario.
- Norwegian Pm’S Call (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 08, 2005)
NORWAY’S Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has appealed to the international community to come forward with more aid for rehabilitation and reconstruction of areas devasted by the October 8 earthquake. At a joint Press conference . . .
- Measles Outbreak (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
The news of an outbreak of measles in a camp for survivors of the Oct 8 earthquake was only to be expected considering the inadequate preparations made to protect the homeless against the cold and diseases that inevitably arise from poor immunity and ....
- Galvanizing The Muslim Countries (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Dec 08, 2005)
An extraordinary summit of the 36-year-old Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is being held in Makkah at the invitation of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to define the Ummah’s response to the multiple challenges it faces internally and externally.
- Improving Life In Urban India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2005)
Cities are supposed to be a leading engine of India's economic growth. But their chronic problems, including their crumbling infrastructure, deficient governance, and, most importantly, the appalling health and social indicators of the poor, . . .
- Centre Clears 850-Cr. Health Sector Project Under Dfid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Funds likely to be released over a period of five years
- "Polio, People And Peace Our Focus" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Rotary International chief makes a case for increasing membership
- Voice In The Wilderness (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Negative signals at Mamata rally
There have been starvation deaths in West Bengal and some districts are particularly hard-hit by poverty and distress, made worse by the fact that the Left Front government has politicised the BPL lists.
- Privatisation Plans (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2005)
Don’t Disinvest, Reinvest
In his interview to The McKinsey Quarterly Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed helplessness at not being able to proceed with disinvestment of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and other public sector undertakings (PSUs) . .
- Party Must End (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2005)
When will we learn something better?
- A Taste Called Strawberry (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 08, 2005)
It has got taste, use, beauty and more. In J&K the fruit is grown in a small scale as it doesn’t last longer Syed Mudasir Shafi writes on the history, botany and agronomy of a fruit called strawberry
- 12 Charred To Death In Delhi (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
At least 12 persons, including four women, were killed and four others seriously injured in a fire which ravaged a four- storeyed garments factory in the congested Vishwas Nagar area of East Delhi, today.
- Let A Thousand Children Bloom (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 08, 2005)
The slow and limited international response to the HIV/ AIDS crisis has contributed directly to the deepening of global health inequalities.
- Poverty And Inflation (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Dec 08, 2005)
Pakistan's economic future is bright despite the setback caused by the October 8 earthquake, says a senior IMF official. In saying that he rhymes with the optimistic predictions of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, which have made intense
- Us Classes Now In Indian Colleges (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Next time you may not have to fly to the US to have a Harvard professor lecturing you. You could well be sitting in your college in India. Fifteen leading American universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Texas, Illinois and California, . . .
- Who Cares About The Litigant? (Indian Express, Fali S. Nariman, Dec 08, 2005)
The statement of the chief justice of India about there being 27 million pending cases has set off alarm bells. First, about what society expects from lawyers and from judges, and next, about the so-far-neglected plight of litigants.
- A Letter To Mr Gates (Indian Express, Ravi Agarwal, Dec 08, 2005)
Bill Gates has joined the illustrious list of American businessmen philanthropists, from Rockefeller to Ford. With over 200 million USD to be given for the health sector alone and an expected over 1 billion USD investments in India, . . .
- Day After Clash, Sena Mouthpiece Targets Students From Bihar (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
A day after the Shiv Sena hijacked the J J Hospital issue of Maharashtrian medical students being beaten up by students from Bihar, the party has warned them of dire consequences.
- Bill Gates Vows To ‘Crack’ Vaccine Gap (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Dec 08, 2005)
With 27 million children missing out on immunisation in their first year and 1.4 million dying of vaccine-preventable diseases by the age of 5, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates insisted on “cracking the historic gap between the development of the vaccine ...
- Manmohan Calls For Strong Health Set-Up (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Dec 08, 2005)
A decentralised need-based mechanism which does not work top downwards and a strengthened public health system is Manmohan Singh’s prescription for India’s ailing immunisation programme.
- An Indian Faces Medieval Punishment In Saudi Arabia. What Kind Of Country Is It? (Indian Express, Shriya Anand, Dec 08, 2005)
The central institution of Saudi Arabian government is the monarchy. The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that the Holy Qur’an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari’a).
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