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Articles 15121 through 15220 of 20587:
- Frenchman, Two Americans Share Nobel Chemistry Prize (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2005)
Stockholm, Sweden: France's Yves Chauvin and Americans Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock won the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discoveries that let industry develop drugs and plastics more efficiently and with less hazardous waste.
- Action Replay (Deccan Herald, Shiva Shankar M Rao, Oct 05, 2005)
A reunion after forty years evokes strong emotions and happiness in the young hearts of fifty-year-olds
- Hindus, Muslims Unite In Bali Amid Attacks Warning (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
A big contingent of Australian police officers and a police counter-terrorism unit from Japan has landed in the island to help in the investigation
- India, Pakistan Vow Sincere Effort On Kashmir (Reuters, ZEESHAN HAIDER , Oct 05, 2005)
Foreign ministers of nuclear-armed Pakistan and India said on Tuesday they would try to reach agreement on a disputed Himalayan glacier before January but announced no progress on their core difference over Kashmir.
- India To Maintain Seven Per Cent Growth In Fy-06: S&p (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
International rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) today said India would maintain seven per cent GDP growth rate during the current fiscal but expressed concerns over the high fiscal deficit on account of mounting public services improvement.
- Podcasting And The Making Of A Sandwich (Business Line, Johnny Iyer, Oct 05, 2005)
Whether you are all of 10 years or a sprightly eighty-one, you can do MP3. For a relative pittance or a princely sum, you can get the MP3 player of your choice. Be hip with an iPod or flip with a Creative.
- Agriculture Knows No Caste (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 05, 2005)
Politicians who are nothing but politicians are capable of limitless skullduggery.
- India Inc`s Debt Fancy To Prove Costly (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
Indian corporates have borrowed more to finance expansions in the last two years, despite robust cash flow generation.
- Cancer Patient Wins Right To Life-Saving Treatment (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 05, 2005)
Maxine Frith in London
- Microbes In Cow’S Milk Enhance Plant Growth’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
To the many nutritional and mythological benefits of cow’s milk, scientists at Lucknow’s National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) have added one more use.
- Power Regulation: Remedy Worse Than The Malady? (Hindu, Sudha Mahalingam, Oct 05, 2005)
It is nobody's case that the existing power regulatory regime is satisfactory. But is installing private sector-friendly regulators the answer?
- Isolate Extremists (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
By targeting tourist areas, ultras have sent a strong message
- Left On The Defensive, Says Investors Cannot Ignore India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
With Indian industry feeling strongly that last Thursday's nationwide strike had dented the country's image as an investment destination, the Left parties said such shutdowns would not affect economic growth, much less scare investors away.
- Growth With Equity (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 05, 2005)
The role of equity in the development process is the central theme of the recently released World Development Report 2006.
- Rapes And Civil Code (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 05, 2005)
A common civil code is desirable but it cannot be the Hindu code. It should have the support of all communities
- Scientist Who Poisoned Himself To Prove His Ulcer Theory (Tribune, Steve Connor, Oct 05, 2005)
The discovery that bacteria rather than stress cause stomach ulcers and that antibiotics can cure the condition has won this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
- Like The Widow Of Zarephath (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Oct 05, 2005)
Within seconds of my mother-in-law’s death, I got the news on my cellphone. Seventeen years ago, such a message reached me via California when the caller failed to get me on the trunk line from Kerala.
- Relevance Of Integral Humanism To World (Daily Excelsior, Jagmohan , Oct 05, 2005)
If we subject the contemporary world- the world that has come into being after World War II-- to close scrutiny, we will find that it is full of complexities and contradictions.
- We Are Pushing For Decontrol' — Ms Rajshree Pathy, President, Indian Sugar Mills Association (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 05, 2005)
With the sugar year having begun, on October 1, the industry is quite optimistic about a likely turnaround in its fortunes.
- Controlling Thalassaemia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 05, 2005)
The government seems least concerned about the growing incidence of thalassaemia, a genetic blood disorder afflicting nearly 10 million people in the country.
- Price Of Mental Disorientation (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Oct 05, 2005)
October 2 was observed as mental health day (instead of October 10 on account of Ramazan). As in previous years, the Pakistan Association for Mental Health (PAMH) used the occasion to create awareness about an important area of human health.
- Not Good Enough (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Oct 05, 2005)
Why do most products with the ‘Made in India’ label continue to be so shoddy and unreliable? asks Bhaskar Ghose The author is former secretary, ministry of information and broadcasting
- India, Pakistan Take A Step Forward On Siachen (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 05, 2005)
They will strive to arrive at a "common understanding" on demilitarisation of the glacier before talks in January
Sir Creek: joint survey to be undertaken
- Reliance Life Ties Up With Otsuka (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2005)
Pact with Japanese firm on new drug development.
- Qatar To Invest In Pakistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 05, 2005)
A prominent Qatari entrepreneur Shaikh Ali bin Abdullah Thani al-Thani has expressed keen interest of his group to make investment in the financial services sector of Pakistan.
- Frequently Asked Questions About Fasting -I (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 05, 2005)
The holy month has dawned and we have some patients who ask should they fast or not, Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili has the answers for them
- Bali Ii (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 04, 2005)
Alomost three years later, terrorists have struck at Bali again, causing nearly 150 casualties, 26 of them fatal.
- Heat That Eats Life (Greater Kashmir, FAISAL BARKAT DAR, Oct 04, 2005)
Water, plants and animals form our environment. Their balance signifies the health of our surroundings. If we disturb any of these the, changes are bound to affect us one way or the other.
- Down But Not Out? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
Amidst news that the HIV virus may be weakening, come reports of anti-viral activity of compounds derived from natural sources.
- Sebi Drops Plan For Central Listing Body (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
The market watch-dog’s move to put in place a system to ensure only quality companies got listed did not take off as the Centre felt it was not necessary.
- Smoking Ban: I&b Takes On Health Ministry (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
The Health Ministry may have agreed to defer banning of smoking scenes in movies till January 1,
- Nobel Medicine Prize For Australian Scientists (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
Australian research duo Barry J Marshall and J Robin Warren were on Monday awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their breakthrough research on how to treat stomach ulcers, the Nobel jury said.
- Safer Travel (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 04, 2005)
Overcrowding in buses should strictly not be allowed
- Reclaiming The Commons (Deccan Herald, Mark Sommer, Oct 04, 2005)
The private sector and the state should both work towards collective welfare by sustaining the common resources
- Nonstop Menace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 04, 2005)
Why don't we learn from accidents that have a certain degree of frequency in our higher reaches particularly in Rajouri, Poonch and Doda districts? The reasons for these tragic occurrences are only too well known: rash driving, dilapidated vehicles . . .
- Inspiring Biography Of A Scientist (Hindu, AMBIKA ANANTH, Oct 04, 2005)
YELLAPRAGADA SUBBAROW: Puranapanda Ranganath — Tr. in Telugu; Pub. by Alakananda Prachuranalu, publication wing of Ashok Book Centre, Opp. Maria Stella College, Vijayawada-520008. Rs. 60.
- Managing Disasters (Tribune, Maj Gen (retd) Himmat Singh Gill, Oct 04, 2005)
During the last few weeks, hurricanes Rita and Katrina have critically subdued the coast lines of New Orleans and Texas, and left in their wake considerable damage to life and property, besides questions about the whole viability and efficacy of the US...
- 'Celebrate Wildlife Week As Festival' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
“Pilikula Nisargadhama must indeed be developed but at the same time the fundamental rights of people living in the nearby areas must also be retained.
- India, Pakistan Sign Two Pacts But Progress Slow (Reuters, ZEESHAN HAIDER , Oct 04, 2005)
India and Pakistan signed two agreements on security cooperation on Monday as their foreign ministers discussed a tentative peace process, although progress on their core dispute over Kashmir was likely to take more time.
- Mysore Tourism Website Launched (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
The Dasara executive commitee on Monday launched the Dasara helpline and a website ‘www.mysoretourism.org’ to provide information to tourists on places and events.
- Citu Set To Form India's First Union For It, Bpo Workers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
Left-affiliated central union CITU announced that it has taken the initiative to establish the country's first union in the IT and BPO sector to address the grievances of over five lakh workers, not governed by labour laws so far, . . .
- Viewing Health As An Inalienable Right (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 04, 2005)
The idea of a right to health should foreground policy debates on health care.
- Economy To Grow By 7.3 Percent: Cii (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
India's economy will expand by a robust 7.3 percent in the current fiscal on the back of strong prospects of farm production and buoyant industrial and services sector performance, said a study report on Sunday.
- Punish The Guilty (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 03, 2005)
Shiny edifices of corruption are so omnipresent that one does not have to go too far looking for them.
- Is Science A New Religion? (Deccan Herald, B M Hegde, Oct 03, 2005)
In a thought provoking book, The New Paradigm, John Bockris, an internationally renowned chemist, writes that western science is a new religion trying to sell itself to the world.
- Enriching Is The Best Anti-Poverty Strategy (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 03, 2005)
Such slogans as Garibi Hatao may win votes, but only Amiri Banao can bring prosperity to people — poverty alleviation produces a blinkered view as it concentrates attention on the poor to the exclusion of others.
- Ensuring India’S Competitiveness In Offshoring (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
To maintain its competitive edge in the outsourcing market, India needs to focus on issues like education, infrastructure development and higher value-added IT services, write Diana Farrell, Noshir Kaka and Sascha Sturze in The McKinsey Quarterly, . . .
- Medicine Award To Open Nobel List (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
Prize ceremony in Sweden on December 10
- Restoring The Balance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
The global economy, according to the International Monetary Fund's recently released World Economic Outlook, presents a highly paradoxical picture.
- Where’S Organ Donation Law? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2005)
One wishes that our lawmakers would come out with the real reason behind their hesitation to debate and enact an organ transplant bill that has been lying with the Senate since 1992.
- India Expands Access Offer Under Gats (Hindu, ABHIJIT ROY, Oct 03, 2005)
The revised list includes four new sectors; with success in service exports there is now more confidence while conducting trade negotiations
India has offered extensive commitments in a number of new sectors/sub-sectors.
- Post-Poll Deadlock In Germany (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Oct 03, 2005)
One invariably thinks of Germany as a country of clever, industrious people, great classical composers and manufacturers of the world’s finest motor cars.
- Getting The Priorities Right (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2005)
Every now and then, government officials issue a flurry of statements on various development projects being launched for the development of the Northern Areas.
- The Case For An Aeronautics Commission (Hindu, M.R. Srinivasan, Oct 03, 2005)
With the civil aviation sector growing rapidly, an aeronautics commission should be set up for an integrated approach to policy planning and implementation
- Gender Bias In A Patriarchal Society (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Oct 03, 2005)
Much has been written and said about President Musharraf’s reported remarks to the Washington Post during his recent visit to the US that there are some in Pakistan who think that women who get raped do so in order to get visas to western countries or ...
- Metropolitan Lifestyle More Disease-Prone (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Oct 03, 2005)
If you want to live longer and healthier opt for rural environment, says survey
Higher incidence of diabetes, heart ailments among men
Women suffer from anaemia and low density of bones
Women, men show high levels of vitamin D deficiency
- The Crisis Of State Government Debt (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Oct 03, 2005)
The Central Government has taken it upon itself to extend the terms of reference of Twelfth Finance Commissions to cover issues of fiscal sustainability of State Governments.
- Peace Process On Firm Footing (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Oct 03, 2005)
A recent day-long conference of representatives from different walks of life like lawyers, businessmen and social activists from both the Pakistan and Indian sides of Jammu and Kashmir brought a refreshing air to blow away the dark forebodings of the New
- India In New Peace Moves Ahead Of Pakistan Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
India said on Friday it would make it easier for Pakistanis to get visas and proposed that the two countries swap prisoners faster, days ahead of peace talks between their foreign ministers.
- Globalisation: It Shows The Way (Tribune, Navraj Goyal, Oct 02, 2005)
The process of globalisation and the role played by the World Trade Organisation are widely misunderstood and misrepresented, says the much-awaited report, The Future of WTO,
- South Asia: Greater Scope For Regional Cooperation (Tribune, Parmjit Kaur Gill, Oct 02, 2005)
THE emergence of regionalism and regionalisation in Europe paved the way for regional cooperation in other parts of the world.
- India In New Peace Moves Ahead Of Pakistan Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
India said on Friday it would make it easier for Pakistanis to get visas and proposed that the two countries swap prisoners faster, days ahead of peace talks between their foreign ministers.
- Putting Disaster (Daily Excelsior, Kuldeep Singh Chatwal, Oct 02, 2005)
Tsunami catastrophe last December, unprecedented floods in Mumbai, Gujarat and several other parts of the country, which have taken a heavy toll of human lives,
- In Love With The Many Moods Of The Monsoon (Hindu, Prachi Pinglay, Oct 02, 2005)
The monsoon is a special source of inspiration for Alexander Frater who has followed its course in India.
- First Impressions (Hindu, Suchitra Behal, Oct 02, 2005)
Sadak Chhaap, Meher Pestonji, Penguin, Rs. 250.
- See The Difference (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
In England we have a bed manager to see and manage a single bed.
- Hinduism And Gandhi (Statesman, Jagmohan , Oct 02, 2005)
To follow a shallow and superficial secularism is one of the worst sins that the false prophets of contemporary India are committing
- Crushing Rise In Pol Prices (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 02, 2005)
Prices of motor gasoline, HOBC, light diesel and kerosene oil have been raised from 7 to 12 per cent. According to an announcement by the OIL Committee Advisory Committee’s subcommittee, prices of petrol have been increased by Rs 3.68 to Rs 56.29 per lit.
- Create Awareness About Dreadful Flu (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 02, 2005)
DR David Nabarro of the World Health Organisation has warned that a new influenza pandemic can come any time and claim millions of lives unless urgent steps are taken to address the threat. Nabarro told a Press conference in New York that the flu pandemic
- Reconciliation Is Need Of The Hour (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 02, 2005)
The outcome of the Algerian referendum must be a source of immense satisfaction and pride for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
- Curbing Drug Trade (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 02, 2005)
The news that the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) recovered 75 kilos of heroin from 20 foreign drug traffickers in just about two weeks in Peshawar underlines the seriousness of the problem.
- The Magic Of Breathing Music (Greater Kashmir, BASHEER SHAH, Oct 02, 2005)
Back home, I am sure I missed something extraordinary. You may agree with me that, we in general (for quite some time now) are immune to, or should we say attuned to ‘ordinary’ and as some one rightly said that we don’t even try to rise above the . . .
- Vaccine Developed For Blue Tongue Disease (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
"Private industries should produce such vaccines"
- Lessons From Disasters (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Oct 01, 2005)
Decision making has to take into account even low probability events, which cause enormous human suffering.
- New Phase Of Me Conflict (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 01, 2005)
Three Palestinian fighters including the local leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades were shot dead by Israeli troops in the northern West Bank early Thursday.
- Chidambaram Optimistic About Achieving 7 To 8 Per Cent Growth (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
Chidambaram enthused by 8.1 p.c. GDP growth
Industry grew by 9.7 per cent
Services sector logged 9.8 per cent
Farm sector registered two per cent growth
Goal is to maintain 7 p.c. and aim at 8 p.c.
- By Law, Tobacco Be Gone! (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 01, 2005)
Jawaharlal Nehru smoked a cigarette after every meal. Jinnah was a chain smoker. Winston Churchill had a cigar in his mouth most of the time.
- Lic Plans Golden Jubilee Run On October 2 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
In connection with the golden jubilee celebrations of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the South Central Zone of LIC is organising a LIC Golden Jubilee Run here on October 2.
- Increase Outsourcing In Defence Production: Pranab (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said India should outsource more defence production, including support services to the private sector, to enable the forces to concentrate on their core activities.
- Convergence And Divergence Of Growth (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 01, 2005)
ECONOMICS is hardly a thriller. But Elhanan Helpman's The Mystery of Economic Growth, from Academic Foundation
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