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Articles 16821 through 16920 of 20587:
- Victory Day 40 Years Ago (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, May 09, 2005)
NEARLY eight months before the Soviet-sponsored India-Pakistan talks at Tashkent, where he had suddenly died, Lal Bahadur Shastri had paid an official visit to the Soviet Union in mid-May 1965.
- Path-Breaking Verdict (Hindu, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 09, 2005)
The SC has done right by making companies pay penalties for their criminal offences
- Help The Poor Help Themselves (International Herald Tribune, Kirsty Hughes , May 09, 2005)
While India's growth makes it an economic and political player to watch in the next decades, the country remains desperately poor. Almost a quarter of India's 1.1 billion people live on less than $1 a day; 700 million more live on less than $2 a day.
- Wake-Up Call Renewed (Deccan Herald, M S Ramamurthy , May 08, 2005)
The final product gives fine glimpses of the personality as well as the path enunciated by the Swamiji. Paranjape goes behind the scenes to dig up the slip-ups.
- Blessed With The Gift Of The Gab (Deccan Herald, Veena Bharati, May 08, 2005)
writes about theatre veteran Hirannaiah whose son ‘Master Hirannaiah’ is keeping the memory of his father alive by staging his plays, as part of Hirannaiah’s birth centenary.
- Renal Patients Left To Suffer (Tribune, Ruchika M. Khanna, May 07, 2005)
IT is a strange scientific paradox. Great advancements have been made in the science of nephrology,
- Wait Until Light (Telegraph, Satrujit Banerjee, May 07, 2005)
Despite the encouraging statistics relating to its growth, West Bengal’s future continues to look bleak, writes Satrujit Banerjee . . .
- After Societies Collapse, Only Ruins Remain For Tourists (Business Line, D. Murali , May 07, 2005)
Jared Diamonds s : Collapse from Penguin is an unusual bestseller. The author is a professor of geography, in his third career after teaching physiology and ecology, and the book is on "How societies choose to fail or survive".
- New Models Required (Deccan Herald, ABRAHAM M GEORGE, May 07, 2005)
Poverty alleviation programmes do not require more money, but what they need is good governance
- On The Outer Fringes (Business Line, S. Srinath, May 07, 2005)
All items covered by FBT will be affected either by VAT or service tax, which cannot be treated as input tax. In such a case, if no benefit is given for deducting VAT or service tax on these items covered by FBT, it would be tantamount to double taxation.
- Flight Into Controversy (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 07, 2005)
A working visit or a sponsored holiday? An entitlement or an inducement? An independent inquiry or a supposedly high-minded exercise compromised?
- 'We Will Focus On Life-Style Diseases' (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 07, 2005)
WHO is facing new challenges as the world’s two-biggest countries, India and China, develop their economies and prosper.
- Not Quite Blaring (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 07, 2005)
The message of a general election manifests itself in strange ways. In the early hours of Friday, Mr Tony Blair became the first person to lead the British Labour Party to a third consecutive election victory.
- A Serious Drug Problem (Hindu, Paul Krugman, May 07, 2005)
The 2003 Medicare bill is an object lesson in how special interests hold America's health care system hostage.
- The Unselfish Gene (Hindu, Johnjoe McFadden , May 07, 2005)
The new biology is reasserting the primacy of the whole organism — the individual — over the behaviour of isolated genes.
- Voters Teach Labour The Iraq Lesson (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 07, 2005)
As expected, fear of the Conservative Party trumped anger against the Iraq war in the British general election to give the Labour Party an unprecedented third term in office.
- When Will Tony Blair Step Down? (Hindu, Jackie Ashley , May 06, 2005)
The British Labour Party cannot afford to erode its base in the country any further.
- No Mercy For The Rapist (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 06, 2005)
The life sentence awarded to the ward boy for rape of a nurse in Delhi’s Shanti Mukand Hospital would be welcomed, and not only by the victim and women’s activists but every citizen of the nation.
- How Aids Saps The Economy (Business Line, P. Srivatsan, May 06, 2005)
HIV/AIDS is estimated to have affected 5 million persons in India. What are the economic consequences of the disease?
- April Was Not For Fools (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 06, 2005)
After having shone for a while, India is now set to become incredible. The Central tourism minister, Ms Renuka Chowdhury, is now full of ideas about her “Incredible India” campaign to bring tourists into the country.
- Elaborate Weddings (Hindu, Lucy Mangan, May 05, 2005)
Why do weddings have to be so elaborate?
- End Consumption, Nurture Savings (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, May 05, 2005)
It is time to move away from a consumption-driven economy to a savings-nurturing society.
- University Politics Are Vicious Precisely (Business Line, D. Murali , May 05, 2005)
AFTER Tuesday's news that the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India got a sharp rebuke from the Government for lending the ICAI name to a new university,
- Farm Prosperity The Key (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , May 05, 2005)
Bartering food self-sufficiency for industrialisation will only worsen the poverty situation in the two countries
- Cosseted By The Cauvery (Deccan Herald, Marianne de Nazareth, May 05, 2005)
A weekend in Coorg in an airconditioned tent is the perfect getaway for the stressed City dweller.
- Safe Roads And Sane Cities (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 05, 2005)
If an illustration were needed to demonstrate that John Galbraith's famous characterisation of India as a "functioning anarchy" still applies, it would be the roads and traffic.
- Three Words Still Mean Divorce (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 05, 2005)
There have been hundreds of unresolved murders of journalists in their line of duty around the world in the last decade. Here are details of a few of the instances, as compiled by the World Association of Newspapers to mark World Press Freedom Day, May 3:
- Iraq's Deepening Sectarianism (Hindu, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, May 04, 2005)
Two years ago Shia and Sunni lived happily alongside each other. Now they are divided by fear and hatred.
- Yale, India, And The Failure Of The `Global University' (Hindu, Ajay Gandhi, May 04, 2005)
Yale, through its historical amnesia about its roots in colonialism and slavery, its unethical investment policies and demeaning work culture, abrogates the responsibility it claims to bear as a global university.
- The New Taxes And Compliance Questions (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 04, 2005)
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has addressed the obvious glitches in the two controversial tax proposals of the latest budget — the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT)
- A Mixed Blessing (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 04, 2005)
He swears he has always played by the book. And that’s why businessman-turned-film producer Jagdish Sodha finds himself in a spot
- Don’T Ignore Farmers (Tribune, S.K. Mann , May 04, 2005)
Farming is a sum total of harsh realities coupled with weather uncertainties. In addition,
- Science And The Tower Of Babel (Deccan Herald, B M Hegde, May 04, 2005)
Science has created a language barrier between the various sub-specialists, that they don’t talk anymore
- Time To Bell The Cat (Telegraph, Shomita Mukherjee, May 04, 2005)
The hue and cry over Sariska just touches the tip of the iceberg. The CBI has said that tiger census figures so far have been grossly exaggerated.
- Politics Minus Value (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, May 03, 2005)
The Congress as the leader in the UPA coalition, killing itself and its inmates by non-stop backbiting and betrayal, is encouraging the bureaucrats to run amuck and mislead as well as misgovern. . .
- Epf Mismatch (Business Line, S. Venu , May 03, 2005)
Responsible global capitalism is a system comprising individuals, private commercial corporations, NGOs, governments and supranational agencies
- Of Lost Childhood (Hindu, Geeta Ramaseshan , May 03, 2005)
Despite the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 that prohibits marriages below the age of 18 in the case of girls and 21 in the case of boys the
- `We Will Turn Zero-Debt By 2005-06 End' (Business Line, Nithya Subramanian , May 03, 2005)
I do not think Max India has any business to have debt, as it is the holding company. By the end of 2005-2006, we will become a zero-debt company.
- Remembering Them On Press Freedom Day (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 03, 2005)
There have been hundreds of unresolved murders of journalists in their line of duty around the world in the last decade.
- Small Steps (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 03, 2005)
The model nikahnama is a step forward, but there is need to go further . . .
- Crying Need (Deccan Herald, HEERA NAWAZ, May 03, 2005)
Not only does crying make one less weak, it can also make one positively strong
- Patent Law : Whither The Incentive To Innovate (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , May 03, 2005)
There can be no better way of safeguarding national interest than creating an environment in which innovations can happen.
- Who Owns Groundwater? (Hindu, T. N. Narasimhan, May 03, 2005)
Water should be held in public trust for the benefit of society at large.
- A Gut Punch To The Middle (Hindu, Paul Krugman, May 03, 2005)
BY NOW, every journalist should know that you have to carefully check out any scheme coming from the White House.
- Globalisation Requires Local Citizenship Behaviour Too (Business Line, C. Gopinath , May 02, 2005)
As local communities in developing countries rush to attract factories to their neighbourhoods in the name of globalisation. . . ,
- Two’S Company (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, May 02, 2005)
THE friends in one’s life are divided into two categories. First, there are those that spring from one’s environment; with whom you have in common the things you do. They pass in and out of your life.
- Bandung To Jakarta: Afro-Asian Solidarity (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, May 02, 2005)
To make the nation's apex legislature totally dysfunctional is a remedy infinitely worse than the disease it is supposed to cure.
- A Notable Step Forward On Vat (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 02, 2005)
The agreement reached by 21 States, which have adopted the value added tax (VAT) regime in place of State sales tax,
- Armed Security Or Human Security? (Deccan Herald, Sylvia Borren, May 02, 2005)
The Millennium Development Goals can be met if we approach them in a rights-based and gender-based way
- Little Beyond Platitudes (Business Line, Editorial, The Hindu, May 02, 2005)
BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Junichiro Koizumi's maiden visit to India has not broken any new ground in any direction.
- Aid, Rewards Or Returns? (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 02, 2005)
Aid programmes provide lucrative careers to bureaucrats and benefits to the organisers but offer little to the poor. It would be better to have a system of performance-based rewards
- George And The Judge (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 02, 2005)
IT is a maxim that Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion. If this is the yardstick, Justice S.N. Phukan, who headed the Tehelka enquiry commission, has a lot to explain himself.
- Incredible India (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, May 01, 2005)
INDIA is a destination of truly enormous proportions. Encapsulating all its attractions in a single volume, and in what its publishers call as a "
- Through The Viewfinder (Hindu, r kRITHIKA, May 01, 2005)
Wildlife, feature films, current affairs, Alphonse Roy's camera has panned them all. A freewheeling chat with the ace cinematographer
- Ray Of Hope For Ray Fans (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, May 01, 2005)
speaks with Pam Cullen, who has closely associated with Indira Gandhi and Satyajit Ray, and even runs an organisation in memory of the film-maker genius.
- The Fleeting Moment (Hindu, PARTHA CHATTERJEE , May 01, 2005)
Amit Chaudhuri, in his poetry and fiction, celebrates the ordinary.
- Versatile Pioneer (Hindu, SELINE AUGUSTINE, May 01, 2005)
Through this biography Sita Anantha Raman reclaims a humanist space for Madhaviah,
- The Magnetism Of Pranic Healing (Deccan Herald, Sushma Mohan, May 01, 2005)
Whether it opens up spiritual experiences, reduces stress, improves interpersonal relationships or awakens the hidden potential in one, Pranic healing could just be what you need, writes Sushma Mohan.
- Towards Speedy Justice (Tribune, Santokh Singh Sahi, May 01, 2005)
It is a pity that India has failed in its constitutional guarantee of ensuring speedy, accessible and accountable justice to its citizens.
- Helmets Best Way To Prevent Fatal Head Injuries (Deccan Herald, Dr Naresh Shetty , May 01, 2005)
Road accidents are the leading cause of deaths in India. After New Delhi, Bangalore has the highest accident rate and the figure is rising rapidly thanks to the increase in the number of vehicles in the City. Add to this bad roads, indisciplined and drunk
- ‘Jung’Le Book (Deccan Herald, Rosalind Ezhil K , May 01, 2005)
A collection of the author’s memorable experiences in the land of rhinos and bisons.
- Afghans On U.S. Project Shot Dead (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2005)
Man claiming to have abducted Italian aid worker in Afghanistan issues death threat
- Cabinet Approves New Map Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2005)
Defence and open series to be released
Though as a rule the use of maps is governed by a system of registration, there will now be no such requirement for maps up to a scale of 1:1 million.
- Rain-Flap In Heaven (Deccan Herald, RAJEN HARSHE, Apr 30, 2005)
India has a stake in protecting the political stability of Sudan, to safeguard its oil investments
- Do Not Go Gentle (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 30, 2005)
It is sometimes better to die than to have nothing to look forward to. If geriatric suicide is on the rise in urban India, then the logic behind a great many of them is surely born out of this feeling of desolation . . .
- Where Left Meets Right (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Apr 30, 2005)
Earlier this year, I was at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, where I had been asked to give an after-dinner talk to the students.
- The Maharaja Grows (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Apr 29, 2005)
Ironically, economic prosperity and higher literacy levels seem to lead to mass slaughter of the girl child in India
- Power To The Chosen Few (Telegraph, Maja Daruwala & Navaz Kotwal, Apr 29, 2005)
As a public service unit supported by taxpayers, the Gujarat Electricity Board is obliged to act fairly and do little else but supply efficiently a commodity essential to life and livelihood. Yet it doesn’t seem keen on doing its duty, at least to . . .
- The Death Of The Opposition (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 29, 2005)
The conservation of forests in catchment areas is important to curb the ongoing water crisis in the country, says PANDURANG HEGDE.
- Overboard (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 29, 2005)
It is always interesting to see how authorities react to embarrassment. A gastro-enteritis infection that was detected first last Friday had affected 1500 people by Monday in Garulia in North 24 Parganas district.
- Exits Need To Be Fixed Up (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Apr 28, 2005)
Mohan R. Lavi on the need to make winding up schemes less painful.
- Snuffed Out (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 28, 2005)
The reason for the custodial death should be ascertained
- Power Of Public-Private Partnerships (Business Line, R. Srinivasan, Apr 28, 2005)
Given the externalities, high risks and low rates of return, infrastructure financing cannot be left solely to the private sector.
- Ozone Layer Most Fragile On Record (Deccan Herald, Paul Brown, Apr 28, 2005)
Research by Cambridge University has dashed hopes that the ozone layer is on the mend.
- Science Not Getting Its Due (Tribune, Dhirendra Sharma, Apr 28, 2005)
The post-modern life is now without divine intervention. All human enterprises are now directly or indirectly based on some scientific ideas.
- Suicide Epidemic Among Farmers (Deccan Herald, R AKHILESHWARI, Apr 28, 2005)
Crop failures, rising health costs and daughters’ marriages have pushed farmers to the brink
- Ethics And Plagiarism (Hindu, Lewis Wolpert, Apr 27, 2005)
There is no moral justification for banning research using embryonic stem cells. It offers great hope to all those suffering from a wide variety of illnesses.
- Can The U.N., Member States Enlarge Security? (Hindu, Anita Inder Singh, Apr 27, 2005)
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has set out a roadmap for the future.
- The Oblivious Right (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 26, 2005)
Bush and team appear out of touch with the U.S. public.
- Beyond Benchmarking (Business Line, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 26, 2005)
A recent advertisement claiming exceptional water-saving properties of a popular detergent brings into focus the need to look at locally relevant, Third World innovation with new eyes.
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