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Articles 13621 through 13720 of 20587:
- A Word For Volunteers- Ii (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
Dr. Nazir Ahmad Gilkar sums up the orientation-cum refresher course for NSS programme officers held in the University of Kashmir
- Deathly Quiet (Telegraph, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 26, 2005)
There are some secrets that everybody knows. And everybody connives at pretending ignorance.
- Crisis Of System (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Nov 26, 2005)
That the outcome of Bihar elections will be known by the time you get to read this-that is unless Bihari politicians, aided and abetted by the man for all seasons, Governor Buta Singh do not have another trick or two up their sleeves.
- Silent Village (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Nov 26, 2005)
is good that myth has given way to science in Dhadkai village of remote Gandoh tehsil in Doda district.
- 'Salem Beaten Up’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
Lawyers defending extradited gang leader Abu Salem on Friday moved a designated TADA court alleging that he was beaten up at Bhoiwada lock-up during interrogation and demanded that his statement should be recorded by the court.
- 145 Feared Dead As Floods Wash Away 2 Buses (Hindu, G. Srinivasan , Nov 26, 2005)
No let-up in rain in Tamil Nadu
At Perumalkoil, two km from Pattukottai in Thanjavur district, 80 persons in a private bus were swept away
More than 65 persons in a State Corporation bus were killed at Sanaveli near Thiruvadanai in Ramanathapuram distr
- Kalam On Kashmir Visit From Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will embark upon a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, beginning Saturday.
- Apollo Hospitals' Net Up (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise has reported a 20 per cent growth in net profit to Rs. 30.90 crore for the half-year ended September 30, 2005 from Rs. 25.70 crore in the year-ago period.
- Room For Improvement In Israel-India Relations: Danieli (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
Israel sees enough scope in further improving the already strong bilateral relations between India, Israeli Ambassador to India David Danieli said on Friday.
- Diabetes Institute Planning To Expand Its Activities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
Thrust on public health aspect of disease
- Overall Situation In Bihar "Grim", Cmp For Governance: Nitish (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 26, 2005)
Terming as +extremely grim+ the situation of the state, including the law and order and finances, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said a common minimum programme would be finalised within a week to ensure +good governance+ and accelerate the pace . . .
- Why Deny Education To The Have-Nots? (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Nov 26, 2005)
The prospects are grim and the portent is a national education policy promotive of colonisation.
- Restoration Of Bihar's Fortunes (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 26, 2005)
The electoral outcome in Bihar has surprised pundits and destroyed many a myth, but it is far from novel in the message the people have sought to communicate.
- Remarks Caused Spontaneous Combustion (Pioneer, T Thirumavalavan, Nov 26, 2005)
Neither the Dalit Panthers of India nor the Tamil Protection Movement is participating in the protests against actor Kushboo; nor have they instigated the protests, which are purely spontaneous.
- News: Shape Of Things To Come (Daily Excelsior, Vijay Satokar, Nov 25, 2005)
Wires reaching the news to media establishments and even individual on wireless gadgets, newspaper going paperless using the cyber space and offering interactive games, puzzles in addition to news and, television channels on your mobile phones
- Mutual Death-Lock (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 25, 2005)
The antelope, part of the tiger’s food chain, helps sustain the big cat. Yet efforts to prevent the killing of one antelope could actually contribute to curbing the slaughter of the jungle’s threatened monarch.
- Together We Can, Together We Must (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Nov 25, 2005)
Parents are no more and children feel a void. Children are not there and parents feel deprived. Who will pull us out of the social chaos we are steeped in, laments Oscia Jabeen
Let us understand that the present moment calls urgently for a good deed.
- Kalam Arriving On Nov 26 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam will arrive here on a two-day visit to quake-hit areas of Uri and Tangdhar in Jammu and Kashmir on November 26, official sources said today.
- Dubious Distinction (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 25, 2005)
Govt agencies and NGOs must control the spread of AIDS
- Car Bomb Blast Kills 30 Near Baghdad (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
A car bomb blew up outside a hospital where Iraqi police were gathered in a town south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 31 people and wounding more than 20 others, doctors, police and witnesses said.
- Kalam Arriving On Saturday (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam will arrive here on a two-day visit to quake-hit areas of Uri and Tangdhar on November 26, official sources said today.
President Kalam was earlier scheduled to visit the earthquake affected areas in the state on November 10
- Straight Out Of Bihar (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Nov 25, 2005)
Finally, Lalu Prasad is no longer the supremo of Bihar. The former chief minister is a great communicator, has a certain kind of charisma and a turn of phrase that goes across the footlights with ease, but has, over the years, . . .
- Can Bihar Rise From The Ashes? Determined Political Push Is Crucial (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Nov 25, 2005)
The new government that takes over in Bihar must make up for the time the State has lost — and pushed to the bottom of the table in many a parameter — by building up a fast, reliable, instant, effective network for delivery of services and . . .
- Secure Solutions (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Nov 25, 2005)
There’s no doubt that if the UPA government’s “most ambitious social security programme in the world,”
- Caring For Animals (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
Seven weeks after the earthquake, little thought has been given to a significant number of animals that too have been affected.
- An Integrated Disaster Management Plan (Dawn, Naeem Sadiq, Nov 25, 2005)
If Karachi were to be hit by an earthquake similar to the one experienced on October 8 in Kashmir and parts of the NWFP, it could result in the death of three to five million people and the city being pushed back on the time-line by some 100 odd years.
- Making Hillout Of Mole (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 25, 2005)
The Sangla Hill blasphemous incident and its ramifications is regrettably being blown out of proportion afresh by the BBC in the context of Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams’ visit to Islamabad in order to tarnish Pakistan’s image.
- A Bionic Eye From The Armed Forces (Hindu, Dennis Marcus Mathew, Nov 25, 2005)
The armed forces are not merely into protecting the nation. Its medical services wing is pioneering medical technologies.
- Rajapakse For Consensus On Peace Process (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Nov 25, 2005)
Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse, will "immediately invite party leaders and parties represented in Parliament" as the initial step in its peace process, Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said on Thursday
- Outbreak Of Diarrhoeal Disease In Coastal Areas (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
Two cases of cholera confirmed
22 cases of acute diarrhoeal disease reported in two days Cases reported from Pozhiyoor and Poovar Public health measures stepped up
- A Word For Volunteers - I (Greater Kashmir, Dr. Nazir Ahmad Gilkar, Nov 25, 2005)
Dr. Nazir Ahmad Gilkar sums up the orientation-cum refresher course for NSS programme officers held in the University of Kashmir
- Government To Consider Ragging Victim's Plea (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
The Government will soon take a decision on whether the nursing student who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her seniors at the School of Medical Education in Kottayam be granted admission in Thiruvananthapuram Medical College.
- Defy Taliban (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 25, 2005)
The savage murder of Ramankutty Maniappan provides yet another proof that the Taliban are no more than an army of warped, bloodthirsty killers who would stop at nothing. It also reminds the civilised world that it has a responsibility to eradicate ....
- Interview - India Faces Tense Winter Due To Bird Flu - Minister (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Nov 25, 2005)
India faces a tense winter as fears of a bird flu outbreak grow with the arrival of thousands of migratory birds from nearby Asian countries hit by the avian influenza, the health minister said on Thursday.
- No Need Of Goodwill Hunting (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Nov 25, 2005)
Bihar finally has a leader who begins his political innings on a clean slate, says Kalyani Shankar
- Set Up New Federation For Uttara Kannada, Say Milk Producers; More Join Fast (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
Two fasting directors of the representative union taken to hospital
Some milk producers want Uttara Kannada to be brought under Dakshina Kannada Milk Federation
Parisara Samrakshana Kendra has extended support to demand
- Delhi Blasts Case (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
Delhi Police have arrested a man in Srinagar in connection with the October 29 serial blasts here, reports PTI from New Delhi. Ghulam Ahmed Khan, who was picked up from Srinagar by a team of the Delhi Police Special Cell on Thursday, . . .
- Waiting For Regulatory Legislation In Education (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Nov 25, 2005)
Will the Private Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Bill, 2005 be passed in the winter session of Parliament?
- Eu Challenge For New German Chancellor (Hindu, Michael Naumann, Nov 25, 2005)
Angela Merkel's greatest challenge will be to rekindle Europe's spirit.
- Mission 2007: Every Village A Knowledge Centre (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, Nov 25, 2005)
Convergence and synergy among the numerous on-going as well as emerging programmes is needed to provide knowledge connectivity to every village of India by August 15, 2007. While the green revolution helped improve the productivity and production of rice,
- ‘A Light Piercing The Darkness’ (Indian Express, C V Aravind, Nov 25, 2005)
The sad demise of the pioneer of mass eye surgery in India, Padma Bhushan Dr M.C. Modi, is certain to be mourned not just by the medical fraternity of the country but by the lakhs of patients who have had their sight restored by the good doctor
- Riders On The Storm (Indian Express, SATBIR SILAS, Nov 25, 2005)
News of the killing of Ramankutty Maniyappan, an official of the Border Roads Organisation, revives the feeling of insecurity I felt whenever on the road in Afghanistan.
- Body Of `Soldier Of Peace' Brought To Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 25, 2005)
Maniappan given military honours of the kind reserved for Kargil martyrs
Government did not act promptly: Kerala MPs
All possible efforts were made: E. Ahmed
Manmohan to make statement in Parliament on Friday
- Growing Wealth Gap In Blair's Britain (Hindu, Jonathan Freedland, Nov 25, 2005)
If you want to be deeply unfashionable, just read on. If you want to enter terrain so wildly out of date that mere mention of it has become taboo, then you have come to the right place.
- A Mess Called Water Reforms (Times of India, Amit Bhaduri, Nov 25, 2005)
Few would disagree that the water system in Delhi is in a mess. Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is a diseased organisation. It provides neither clean nor adequate water to the taxpayers and yet spends a good deal of public money
- Scientist Who Made Home Pregnancy Test Possible (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Nov 25, 2005)
Eminent American scientists gathered at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, recently, to pay tributes to Prof Om P. Bahl, who died earlier in the year, and recall his contribution to biological sciences.
- Crocker Wants Kashmiris In Kashmir Talks (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2005)
The US ambassador to Pakistan has called for the inclusion of the Kashmiris in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
- A Strong Rope Is Lifeline For Quake-Hit (Tribune, John M. Glionna, Nov 24, 2005)
Dressed in a white turban and flowing blue robe, Amraz Khan climbed into a small steel basket suspended 400 feet above the Jhelum River. As the basket swung in a stiff wind, he and another passenger pulled on a rope for a nail-biting ride to the river’s f
- Nurse Shortage Sets Off A Bidding War (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 24, 2005)
Competition to hire nurses in California is so intense that some headhunters routinely make cold calls to nursing stations at rival hospitals, desperate for recruits.
- Us Auto Industry: History Already? (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Nov 24, 2005)
IT WAS once the unquestioned wisdom of business. "What was good for General Motors was good for America".
- Indian Medicines For Kilinochchi Hospital (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Nov 24, 2005)
India on Wednesday donated "urgently required medicines" to Sri Lanka for use at a hospital in Kilinochchi district.
- Deepen The Faith By Opening Up To God (The Economic Times, John Powell, Nov 24, 2005)
Modern psychology, in a massive effort to release men from destructive, subconsciously repressed emotions is trying through all sorts of therapeutic methods of sensitivity to put men in touch with their true feelings.
- Why Doesn’T The Upa Strategise? (The Financial Express, P VAIDYANATHAN IYER, Nov 24, 2005)
The star-studded Cabinet’s reformist credentials may be impeccable, but it has failed to deliver
- Why Reservations (Tribune, G.S.Bhargava, Nov 24, 2005)
Dr Ambedkar did not want the constitutional safeguards, as “reservations” were known, to last more than a decade of operation of the Constitution, as it was originally provided.
- Misconceptions About Modes Of Hiv Transmission (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2005)
Even some health workers are not fully aware about the exact way HIV is transmitted, a recent workshop showed.
- Congo Virus Death (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 24, 2005)
The tragic death of a young Karachi Civil Hospital doctor, Yusra Khalil, on Monday,
- Animal Husbandry Officials Say No Reports Of Bird Flu In Thrissur District (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2005)
The Animal Husbandry Department (AHD) officials have clarified that there is no report of bird flu from anywhere in the district so far.
- Support The Creative Self-Empowered (Hindu, Rajeev Sethi, Nov 24, 2005)
Helping the talented poor cope with the new global markets will bring more meaning to our education, and help us pay back the debt for our hugely privileged and subsidised training. Citizens must support and express solidarity with what is increasingly be
- Worth Going The Extra Mile To Cut Travel Costs (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Nov 24, 2005)
PEOPLE travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering, said Saint A
- The Economics Of Natural Disasters (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Nov 24, 2005)
INDIA HAS been visited by natural disasters quite frequently in recent times — the latest being the earthquake in the Kashmir region that affected thousands of people, and the floods in different States over the last three months.
- Angel From Across The Wall (Indian Express, Doreen Beierlein, Nov 24, 2005)
Will Merkel turn out an Iron Lady of German politics, leading the country out of economic and social crises to a better future?
- How Long Do We Live In Denial? (Indian Express, Pooja Bhatt, Nov 24, 2005)
We keep saying the West is obsessed with sex. The fact is that we in India are equally obsessed with it. But we also have a schizophrenic attitude to it.
- Stem Cell Pioneer Faces Battle Over Ethics Charges (Indian Express, Jon Herskovitz, Nov 24, 2005)
Everything seemed so bright for pioneering South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk just a few weeks ago after two major breakthroughs this year.
- The Buck Stops With It (Pioneer, Vinayshil Gautam, Nov 24, 2005)
One of the many paradoxes of life is that no 'new' experience is ever all that new
- Lure Of Un Funds Drives Ngo To 'Rescue' Kids (Pioneer, Sidharth Mishra, Nov 24, 2005)
This could well be described as the fate of children rescued from a cage and incarcerated in a pigeonhole.
- Coping With Clutter (Pioneer, Mohinder Singh, Nov 24, 2005)
If you haven't touched it, worn it, sat on it, smelled it or kissed it in the last two years, then get rid of it," counsels an American Clutter Clinic.
- Too Little, Too Late (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 24, 2005)
The two UN reports, released this week by UNAIDS and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (UNFAO), do not reflect the enthusiastic rhetoric leaders pledge at summit after summit to improve the state of the world’s under-privileged.
- Right Sex (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 24, 2005)
Ignorance about the way sex works can hardly be the incitement behind rape. But, taken to its logical limit, the public interest litigation brought before the Supreme Court recently would seem to imply just that.
- Way Out Of Danger (Telegraph, Amaresh Bagchi, Nov 24, 2005)
The obvious course to get out of fiscal stress is to cut expenditures or raise more revenue or both.
- Garbage Collection As Business (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 24, 2005)
Bangalore has been an urban experimental theatre for more than just IT hubs and chilled-out pubs.
- Pakistan & Aids Epidemic (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 23, 2005)
A UN Report ‘AIDS Epidemic Update 2005’ released in New Delhi ahead of World AIDS day on December 1, warns that Pakistan and Indonesia are on the brink of major epidemic urging them to speed up their response to avoid it. The report cites risky behaviour,
- Ilo Moots Work Place Norms For It, Bpo Sectors (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Nov 23, 2005)
The ILO specialist lamented that while risks triggered by degradation of indoor environment were pronounced in the case of sectors such as mining, metals, foundries and agriculture, buildings, which may appear fancy from outside, could also fail to protec
- Data Protection — A Win-Win For All Stakeholders (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Nov 23, 2005)
With data protection in place, we will not only avoid all the pitfalls of the present regulatory environment, but also reap a host of potential benefits for the economy and society. It will be a win-win for all.
- The Looming Demographic Deficit Crisis (Business Line, P. Nagarajan, Nov 23, 2005)
CHANGE, at varying intensity in different time-frames, is a fundamental aspect of human population all over the world. Demography is the study of populations, their size, composition, spatial distribution, and the interconnected causes and consequences of
- Indians, Pakistanis Join Hands For Common Cause (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Nov 23, 2005)
MEMBERS of the US Congress were pleasantly surprised recently by rare visits from Indian and Pakistani Americans working together for a common cause.
- Friendly Neighbourhood Pharmacist (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 23, 2005)
Urban India would love having a dawai dukaanwala like him but the US probably needs him more!
- Unhealthy Practice (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Nov 23, 2005)
The government is considering the imposition of a 1 per cent cess on all direct taxes to fund its health sector commitments under the Common Minimum Programme (CMP).
- When Women Are Worst Sufferers (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Nov 23, 2005)
FOUR days after the devastating earthquake in Azad Kashmir and the NWFP, the UNFPA released its annual report, State of the World Population 2005, which focused on gender equality. The earthquake was a compelling pointer to the drastic implications of a h
- Saarc: Action Is Primary (Dawn, Muhammad Zamir, Nov 23, 2005)
THE 13th Saarc summit has come and gone. We have had a week of extraordinary security, lots of meetings at various levels, and as expected, a declaration reaffirming various steps that are expected to lead towards greater South Asian unity.
- Molecular Imaging And Nano-Technology Used To Understand The Extraterrestrial Origin Of Terminal Diseases – Cancer, Avian Flu, Hiv … (India Daily, India Daily Technology Team, Nov 23, 2005)
Terminal diseases that have no cure, no effective vaccine – what is the original source? What triggered it in the first place? What really happens when an endemic like Avian Flu starts and spreads all over the world?
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