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Articles 15621 through 15720 of 20587:
- "Science Without Conscience Is Worse Than No Science" (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Sep 12, 2005)
Jacques Diouf,Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, has strong views on the issue of genetically modified organisms. In an interview, he says we need to put in place an internationally agreed regulatory framework.
- A New Un Goal (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
Women’s activist and rights-based organisations are waiting for the forthcoming high-level summit of the UN General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
- Arms At The Cost Of Development (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Sep 12, 2005)
India went on an arms buying spree last year neglecting public health and other human development goals
- 'We Shouldn't Tamper With Art' (Deccan Herald, Mysore V Subramanya, Sep 12, 2005)
Whenever we talk of Bharathanatyam, it is natural that Vyjayanthimala Bali’s name crops up. She was only five years old when she danced before the Pope!
- Pitching For Fiscal Prudence (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 12, 2005)
The RBI's latest Annual Report yields a wealth of data and is rich in analyses. It stresses that maintaining macroeconomic and financial stability would depend critically on policies relating to oil prices, diversification of agriculture and improvement i
- Musharraf For A "Way Forward" (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 12, 2005)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he expected to discuss with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a "way forward" towards the resolution of Kashmir.
The two leaders are scheduled to meet
- Denmark's Success Formula: No Fairy Tale (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Sep 12, 2005)
ON THE 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, my wife and I drove over to the quaint island of Fiona in Denmark, where Odense is located. It was here that the famous story-teller was born
- Give Them Back The Childhood They Have Lost (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 12, 2005)
The unfortunate engineering and medical students who took their own lives recently would possibly have thrived in other disciplines.
- Allies In The Left Front Force Buddhadev To Go Slow (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Sep 11, 2005)
Chief Minister M Buddhadev Bhattacharjee’s dream of pushing ahead with his programme of building an industrial township and a health city under a Special Economic Zone
- Mimic The Tiger (Hindu, G.S. PAUL , Sep 11, 2005)
Pulikkali is perhaps the only folk art that involves painting of the body on such a large scale.
- Foundation Of Love (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
Abandoned children, unwed mothers, mentally ill have all found a home in the Mother and Child Foundation in Pynkulam.
- Hands Off (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
A woman gets assaulted every half an hour. But why are women silent about this issue?
- Want Better Hdi Ranking? Get A New Hrd Ministry (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 11, 2005)
On the day that the UN Human Development Index revealed last week that even Bangladesh was doing better than India in human development
- Hands Off (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
SELDOM do people hold those robbed responsible for getting robbed, or those murdered responsible for getting murdered.
- Trivialising The Aggressor (Hindu, MITA KAPUR, Sep 11, 2005)
It is a mystery, but society has to wake up to the gross inaccuracy of the term "eve teasing".
- Medical Malpractice (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 11, 2005)
THE RECENT Supreme Court ruling that doctors cannot be prosecuted as criminal offenders unless there is compelling evidence strips the common man of a fundamental human right offered by our Constitution while providing insulation to the medical profession
- Perfecting The Past (Telegraph, GITHA HARIHARAN, Sep 11, 2005)
The present is always a difficult place to live in. Given the all-too-obvious imperfections of the present we have to make do with, it’s always instructive to see how much some people crave a perfect past.
- Five Soldiers Killed In Ambush (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Sep 11, 2005)
Five soldiers from the Rashtriya Rifles were killed and seven others injured when militants ambushed their convoy near Awantipore on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway. The condition of the injured jawans is stated to be stable.
- War In The Parivar (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Sep 11, 2005)
As the Bharatiya Janata Party prepares to hold its National Executive meeting in Chennai next week, dissonance within the organisation over questions of ideology, leadership and politics is clearly visible.
- Winning The Big Fight (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2005)
In their weaker bodies lie stronger desires. In their limitations lies their greatest strength. L Subramani profiles the success stories of some 'disabled' people who broke their shackles by sheer determination and the power of their dreams.
- Foundation Of Love (Hindu, PREMA MANMADHAN , Sep 11, 2005)
Abandoned children, unwed mothers, mentally ill have all found a home in the Mother and Child Foundation in Pynkulam
- Mimic The Tiger (Hindu, G.S. PAUL , Sep 11, 2005)
Pulikkali is perhaps the only folk art that involves painting of the body on such a large scale.
- Winning The Big Fight (Deccan Herald, Srivasta Krishna, Sep 11, 2005)
In their weaker bodies lie stronger desires. In their limitations lies their greatest strength. L Subramani profiles the success stories of some 'disabled' people who broke their shackles by sheer determination and the power of their dreams.
- Starvation Deaths And Sonia’S Antics (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 10, 2005)
A chief minister in whose state children die of hunger should not just be forced to resign but should be tried for criminal negligence
- A Linked Future (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Sep 10, 2005)
Alice Hardgrove’s scholarly work on Marwaris cites European Jews and the Chinese of Indonesia.
- Threats To Life (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 10, 2005)
There is another killer in our midst comparable to the dreaded HIV-AIDS.
- Poised To Grow (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 10, 2005)
While the outcome of the just-concluded Sixth India-European Union (EU) summit signals that the two sides are poised to enter a phase of enhanced engagement, whether they will follow up the positive words with action remains to be seen.
- Wishful Facts (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
In a TV poll conducted hours before Sania Mirza’s fourth round match against Maria Sharapova in the US Open, a full 82 per cent of those taking part in the poll predicted a Mirza victory. In another poll, 55 per cent felt Sharapova would be under greater
- Mad Girl In A Little Dress (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 10, 2005)
It is not news when a woman is locked up by her family.
- Jointly With Eu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 10, 2005)
THE Joint Action Plan (JAP) for an “Indo-EU Strategic Partnership” adopted by India and the EU is wide-ranging, and has been described by the parties themselves as an “ambitious” document.
- Communists And Corruption (Business Standard, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 10, 2005)
Once or twice a year, I find it profitable to accept invitations to speak to college students. The boys are eager to impress the girls, and ask some very good questions.
- Going Into Relationships (Business Line, R. Anand, Sep 10, 2005)
R. Anand discusses the issue of employer-employee links in the fringe benefit tax regime
- Euphoria Tempered By Caution (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 10, 2005)
The rise of the premier stock exchange indices has been spectacular recently.
- Ulfa Names Group For Talks (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Sep 09, 2005)
The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) on Thursday named a nine-member People's Consultative Group to prepare the ground for direct talks with the Centre.
- Tardy Progress (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 09, 2005)
The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2005, which has ranked India 127th among 177 countries on the human development index (HDI), should serve as a harsh reminder that the country has a long way to go.
- Mumbai After The Rain: Piecemeal Policies (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 09, 2005)
Mumbai might have survived the floods but the challenge that people in the city now face is the deluge of piecemeal policymaking.
- Beware! Don’T Be Your Own Doctor -I (Greater Kashmir, NAQSHAB AFRA, Sep 09, 2005)
Self medication and drug abuse is also one of the mental health related problems and all sections of every society is prone to it.
- Hands Across The Sea (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 09, 2005)
HARROWING images from the disaster created by Hurricane Katrina along America’s Gulf coast have been beamed round the world and generated offers of help from likely and more unlikely quarters.
- Bangla Lessons For Hindi Belt (Hindu, Jairam Ramesh, Sep 09, 2005)
THE UNITED Nations Development Programme's annual Human Development Report for 2005 has just been released.
- Centre Reviewing Distortions In Fbt (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2005)
The Union Government on Thursday said it was reviewing inconsistencies in the fringe benefit tax (FBT)
- 10 Million Face Food Crisis In Africa (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Sep 09, 2005)
Up to 10 million persons in southern Africa face severe food shortages brought on by drought and HIV/AIDS because wealthy nations are failing to heed the lessons of Niger's crisis, a British-based aid group warned on Thursday.
- Bird Flu Warning (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 09, 2005)
During the winter of 2004, the scare created over the bird flu menace had caused huge losses not only to the Rs 30,000-crore Indian poultry industry, the fourth largest in the world, but also to the entire downstream food chain.
- Can We Improve Public Service Delivery? (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Sep 09, 2005)
India has a functioning democracy and several institutions and practices ensure checks and balances and a modicum of governance. Yet, every government feels handicapped in delivering on its promises.
- An Indictment (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 09, 2005)
While India can draw some comfort from the fact that its score on the Human Development Index has gone up from 0.595 to 0.602 and its ranking has not slipped since last year, the fact that its position remains at 127 of 177 countries is distressing.
- If America Couldn't Protect, Who Can? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Sep 09, 2005)
Hurricane Katrina has achieved the near-impossible in Indian politics: it has united America-lovers and America-baiters.
- Hope Runs Through It (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 09, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran separately visited Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan last week making it the most hectic week for regional diplomacy in recent years.
- India, Uk Agree On Economic Ties — Pacts On Air Service, Oil, Gas Signed (Business Line, Our Bureau, Business line, Sep 09, 2005)
INDIA and the UK on Thursday agreed to cooperate on a wide range of economic issues including civilian nuclear energy and the hydrocarbon sector.
- Brutal Figures (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 09, 2005)
It will take India another hundred years to become part of the developed world.
- Missing Commitment:state Hospitals Need To Get Priorities Right (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 09, 2005)
While Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee proceeds with his industrialisation programme, health remains one of the weakest sectors of the Left Front government.
- Common Values (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 09, 2005)
The summit between India and the European Union has paved the way for much closer cooperation between the two in the future.
- India: Neighbour’S Envy, Owner’S Pride (The Economic Times, Ratna Bhushan, Sep 08, 2005)
Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the $36-billion advertising giant WPP, is hungry for acquisitions in India.
- No Child’S World (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2005)
Cruelty to children is not shocking in India; it is quite routine. If poverty is the reason behind the vast army of child labourers, cruelty cannot be put down to poverty or wealth.
- Home Is Where The Law Is (Indian Express, Indira Jaising, Sep 08, 2005)
When the common minimum programme was first drafted, it had no mention of women’s issues.
- India: A Mixed Record (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2005)
These are extracts from the United Nations Human Development Report 2005 released on September 7
- Economist Pm Invokes Keynes To Court Fdi (Statesman, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 08, 2005)
Torn between the compulsions of coalition politics and the EU’s demand for an even more open economy, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today stuck to India’s commitment to pursuing economic reforms initiated in the early 1990s.
- India-Eu Pledge To Double Trade In 3 Years (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
India and European Union — world’s largest trading block comprising of 25 countries — today announced their commitment to double bilateral trade from the present level of Euro 34 billion to Euro 70 billion in the next three years, while setting up a high-
- The Petro Pain (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
THE only consolation about the latest oil price rise is that it may well be the last in this fiscal ending March, 2006.
- Bill To Control Ngos (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 08, 2005)
THERE are NGOs and NGOs. Some of them are doing a commendable job, fighting for the rights of those who have never known whether they have any right in the polity or any future.
- ‘Water For All’ Plan (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2005)
Not more than 30 per cent of the country’s population would get purified water to be supplied under a grand “Water For All” programme costing Rs 6.5 billion, by the year 2007, official documents reveal.
- A Balanced Scorecard For India (The Economic Times, Arun Maira, Sep 08, 2005)
Good cartoonists and good writers can make piercing comments with just a few strokes of their brushes and pens.
- Eu Moves Worrying Govt (The Financial Express, Reuters, Sep 08, 2005)
European Union anti-dumping actions against Indian products are a major concern for New Delhi, which feels they are neither rational nor fair, Trade Minister Kamal Nath said on Wednesday.
- Weathering All Sorts Of Storms (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 07, 2005)
The mullahs, as usual, are missing the point. As a matter of principle, there isn’t necessarily any harm in Pakistan and Israel talking to each other, or even in establishing diplomatic relations, de facto or otherwise.
- Army Medics (Deccan Herald, M N Batra, Sep 07, 2005)
Army medics are the unsung heroes of any battle, taking good care of thousands of servicemen.
- Interfering Government (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 07, 2005)
The govt’s proposed legislation to control every bit of help the NGOs get from outside is an unkind cut.
- A Mare’S Tale (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Sep 07, 2005)
KASUALI is a small, pine-laden hill-station within six hours’ car journey from Delhi. The Louis Pasteur Institute, making life-saving drugs and antidotes for snakebites, which was established more than a hundred years ago, has made the place famous.
- Red Terror (Statesman, JR MUKHERJEE, Sep 07, 2005)
The Naxalite uprising in 1971 failed primarily because it was divided and was not wholly prepared.
- And Still Bob Geldof Remains Silent (Hindu, George Monbiot, Sep 07, 2005)
By hailing the failure of the G8 summit as a success, he has betrayed the poor of Africa.
- Bias In Education (Tribune, V. KRISHNA ANANTH , Sep 07, 2005)
THE verdict by the Supreme Court granting absolute control to managements of engineering and medical colleges in the private sector on admissions has raised a lot of debate.
- America's Shame: The Aftermath Of Katrina (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Sep 07, 2005)
A tale of systematic neglect, administrative incompetence, market-driven environmental destruction, and desperate poverty is unfolding in Louisiana.
- First-Ever Livestock Export To Pak (Tribune, Varinder Walia, Sep 07, 2005)
After having been stranded for several hours at this joint check-post, the first-ever livestock cargo (162 goats and 172 sheep) was exported to Pakistan through the land route here today. A large number of Pakistani mediapersons were awaiting across the b
- Fdi And Land Use (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Sep 07, 2005)
The CPI(M) in West Bengal is working to allay fears about creating a special economic zone.
- Trapped In Abusive Relationships (Tribune, Jan Schakowsky, Sep 07, 2005)
MY husband and his family gave me two choices: Abort the baby or return to India... I was already almost six months pregnant... My husband called me several days after my son was born and threatened that if I pursued child support, he would have me deport
- India-E.U. Summit Begins Today (Hindu, Diplomatic Correspondent, Hindu, Sep 07, 2005)
Detailed action plan, political declaration to be issued
- 100 Years Ago Today September 7, 1905 (Editorial Note) (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 07, 2005)
The Corporation of Calcutta at their meeting yesterday, resolved, after much discussion, to send a message to the Viceroy expressing the regret of the Commissioners at the circumstances which have led to his resignation and tendering their cordial gratitu
- 'Let India's It Men Roam Free' (The Financial Express, Special Correspondent, The Financial Express, Sep 07, 2005)
India's government urged the European Union to increase investment in the country and make it easier for Indians to work in Europe in a bid to boost trade.
- Morally Repugnant (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Sep 07, 2005)
There is absolutely no justification for the United Progressive Alliance government’s puzzling decision to donate five million dollars of Indian public money for relief activity in America’s southern states, which have been hit by Hurricane Katrina.
- Credit Cultured (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 07, 2005)
With finance minister P Chidambaram launching the country’s first dedicated rating agency for small companies, a concept under active policy discussion for the past five years finally gets concretised.
- Go After Low-Hanging Fruit (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 07, 2005)
Will the sixth India-EU summit that begins in Delhi today live up to expectations? As our largest (25% of the total) trading partner and biggest source (13.5%) of foreign direct investment (FDI), the European Union (EU) occupies a place of special importa
- Just Define It (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 07, 2005)
Why is there a health minister in a state like West Bengal or Uttar Pradesh? Malaria, arsenic-poisoning, and now dengue and Japanese encephalitis — each of these diseases, some of them epidemics, are the special achievements of these important personages,
- Taking The Strategic Partnership Forward (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 07, 2005)
The EU top brass begins talks with Indian leaders led by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi today to boost bilateral relations
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