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Articles 2321 through 2420 of 9735:
- Iskcon, It Majors Top Terror Hit List (Deccan Herald, Bala Chauhan, Jul 13, 2006)
According to highly placed sources in the Central intelligence agencies, the prime target of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) – the most active Pakistan-based terrorist outfit in India – in Bangalore is likely to be Iskcon followed by the two . . .
- Ancient Theatres Face ‘New’ Threats (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2006)
Over the centuries, they withstood the forces of wind, water and earthquakes. Today, Greece’s two main ancient theatres face new threats: high heels and chewing gum.
- Teacher Target (Daily Excelsior, Ramesh Pandita and Meenakshi Koul, Jul 13, 2006)
Teaching profession has everywhere and always received the corroboration of being the noblest profession in the world and the most revered one in every era, especially in context to Indian . . .
- Blame Your Temper Not The Gods (The Economic Times, VITHAL C NADKARNI, Jul 12, 2006)
Now that grand finale has been played, and the golden trophy won, a few random thoughts: Zidane, the French captain was smiling while untangling himself from the Italian defender Materazzi. Then something snapped.
- Defending Humanity’S Larder (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 12, 2006)
The earth will need to feed an additional 1.5 billion people by 2050
- Spiritual Journey (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
A great book has the capacity to transform a person, provided one is able to get into the stride of it. Then by a gradual process, there is a possibility of the person getting influenced by the values the book upholds.
- On My Own Trip (Indian Express, SUNANDA MEHTA, Jul 12, 2006)
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone — The Dhammapada
- Satellite Model Presented To Dharmasthala Temple (Hindu, Raviprasad Kamila, Jul 12, 2006)
This time too, a few scientists offered prayers before the launch
- Zizou, Don’T Tell Us What Made You Mad (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 12, 2006)
Long years ago I had a coaster which stated an eternal truth. It simply said ‘‘Use your head—it is the little things that count’’. Somewhere along the way the coaster disappeared. Did it reach Zidane without an explanatory note?
- Anger Destroys Reason (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
Delusion arises from anger. The mind is
bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is
bewildered. One falls down when reasoning
is destroyed.
Bhagavad Gita
- Facing Extinction (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 12, 2006)
Despite being home to one of the most celebrated sanctuaries, Uttaranchal's efforts to protect wildlife are proving inadequate, says Hiranmay Karlekar.
- Guruspeak (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
Do not to others
what ye do not wish
Done to yourself; and wish for others too
What ye desire and long for, for yourself This is the whole of dharma heed it well.
Veda Vyasa,
The Mahabharata
- Do Aur Do Paanch (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
The suggestion of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) to make mathematics and English optional so that they do not count for promotion in secondary school would be music to many an ear. The recommendation is not baseless.
- Saga Of Shame (Times of India, Manju Vaish, Jul 12, 2006)
The ugly brouhaha of the unceremonious sacking of AIIMS director, Dr P Venugopal, took me back a couple of years when Yanni performed in Agra with a moonlit Taj as a backdrop. The American team was meticulous in its attention to the smallest . . .
- One Year On And What Has Changed? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 12, 2006)
One year ago, between 9am and 10am on July 7, 2005 four suicide bombers detonated their deadly bombs on a packed London transport system. 52 people lost their lives.
- Insights From Spirituality (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, Jul 12, 2006)
We condition our minds to crave for pleasure in order to shun pain.
- Seeing The Forest In Spite Of The Trees (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Jul 11, 2006)
The silly news is that there has been a terrible controversy sparked by the claim of a Kannada actress that she had at one time entered the sanctum sanctorum of Sabarimala temple 20 years ago and even touched the presiding deity.
- An Unacceptable Defence (Hindu, K. N. Panikkar, Jul 11, 2006)
An attempt by Narasimha Rao to absolve himself and his Government of the responsibility for failing to prevent what admittedly was a colossal tragedy
- Ascent Of The Anti-Hindus (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jul 11, 2006)
Barely a month after his visit to New Delhi for support in rebuilding his Maoist-ravaged country, Nepal's appointed interim Prime Minister GP Koirala has delivered his unhappy nation into the hands of its . . .
- `Annabhishekam' At Shirdi Sai Temple Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
`Annabhishekam' (ritualistic rice pouring) will be performed at the Shirdi Sai Baba Spiritual Centre at Seethammadhara here on the occasion of Guru Purnima on Tuesday.
- Bending Over Backward (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Jul 11, 2006)
Pseudo-secularism has plumbed such depths in the country that nobody questions giving special rights to minority educational institutions ----
- Exposition Of Spiritual Matters (Hindu, C. S. Ramakrishnan, Jul 11, 2006)
The matter for these books has been culled from the pages of `Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam', the spiritual monthly published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai. The volumes cover 1991-1994 and 1995-1998 respectively.
- Our Land, Their Industry (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 11, 2006)
The indebtedness of Indian farmers rose substantially in the 1990s following the tendency of successive governments to market reforms and the opening up of the economy to foreign investors.
- Bmtc Employee Arrested On Charges Of Cheating (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
He did not deposit money collected after selling monthly passes
- Manmohan Firm On Bulletproofing Ayodhya Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Delegation plans to pressure Government to reverse the decision
"Construction will give legitimacy to existing temple"
BJP comes down on demand
Supreme Court directive will be adhered to
- Acts That Do Not Bind (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
For a soul, attaining enlightenment is the highest goal and it is human birth that enables the soul to understand its true nature.
- A Great Composer And Polymath (Hindu, Sulochana Pattabhi Raman, Jul 11, 2006)
The history of Carnatic music would have been written differently if the musical compositions of Tallapaka Annamacharya had come to light about 200 years . . .
- Request Against Shield Around Ayodhya Declined (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
The BJP on Monday attacked the campaign mounted by muslim organisations to force the Centre to drop its plans, to fortify the area around the make-shift temple in Ayodhya, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refused to re-visit the proposal.
- Philosopher, Pioneer, Poet: Raja Rao (1908-2006) (Business Standard, Nilanjana S Roy, Jul 11, 2006)
“Sainthood is an inconvenient thing,” Raja Rao wrote of Mahatma Gandhi. The essay was published in The Meaning of India in 1996, but Raja Rao’s meditations on sainthood were of much older vintage.
- Guruspeak (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 11, 2006)
Do not to others
what ye do not wish
Done to yourself; and wish for others too
What ye desire and long for, for yourself This is the whole of dharma heed it well.
Veda Vyasa,
The Mahabharata
- Hampi Monuments Off Endangered List (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Unesco's World Heritage Committee on Monday decided to remove a group of monuments in Hampi and Cologne’s famed cathedral from a list of endangered sites after conditions there had improved.
- Saga Of Shame (Times of India, Manju Vaish, Jul 11, 2006)
The ugly brouhaha of the unceremonious sacking of AIIMS director, Dr P Venugopal, took me back a couple of years when Yanni performed in Agra with a moonlit Taj as a backdrop.
- Pak Spending $30m On Restoring Temple (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
This is perhaps for the first time in the history of Pakistan that the government is spending close to $30 million for the restoration of a Hindu temple. India is believed to have chipped in $3 million for the project.
- From The Blurb (Hindu, HARSHA DEHEJIA, Jul 10, 2006)
The sacred in the Indian tradition is more an experience than a concept and goes much beyond the narrow confines of an organised temple or even a shrine...
- The Reoccupation Of Gaza (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 10, 2006)
There is arguably no modern state that more shamelessly employs the propaganda technique of the Big Lie than Israel. Since July 6, Israel has been deploying its military forces in an operation to reoccupy Northern Gaza, killing dozens of . . .
- Poverty In Pakistan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 10, 2006)
Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one. Inherent in the term “poverty”, when applied to human beings, is the notion of a life situation that should not exist. It is not only lack of roti, kapra aur makan—food, cloth and shelter.
- Civil Society And Culture (News International, Prof Khwaja Masud, Jul 10, 2006)
The notion of a civil society has been developed by such thinkers as Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau and most notably by Hegel in his lectures on the philosophy of law.
- Beyond Nathu-La (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 10, 2006)
Does India have a road map? ---- Tibetans had more than one reason to celebrate last week: The day the Dalai Lama turned 71, Nathu-la, or Pass of the Listening Ear which once upon a time was the access route to the Forbidden Land, was re-opened . . .
- Jaded India Takes Deep Breath, Tunes In For Salvation (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jul 10, 2006)
Early one summer morning in the holy town of Haridwar, on the banks of the sacred Ganges, about 500 people sit on mats facing their saffron-clad Hindu guru, following his every word.
- Getting Ready For Poll Battle (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jul 10, 2006)
With the UP assembly elections due anytime next year, political parties are getting ready to win the prized ‘trophy’ in that politically vital state.
- Kandadevi Car Festival Stage-Managed: Dalits (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
"Only 25 Dalits were allowed to pull the car"
"Besides detaining 13 leading activists, police laid siege to several Dalit villages"
"Those who wanted to participate in the festival could not break the police cordon"
- Kandadevi Festival Peaceful (Hindu, S. Vijay Kumar, Jul 10, 2006)
Good representation from all communities; Dalits allowed to pull the car
- C-Dac Offers Diploma In Software Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C- DAC) Hyderabad is inviting applications for its entrance test for admission to diploma in system software and development course of 22 weeks' duration.
- Nathu-La Pass Between India And China Reopened (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 10, 2006)
It is no mean feat to thaw a relationship that was frozen for 44 long years. Every year the media would report that the Nathu-la Pass was going to be reopened.
- Nathu-La Pass Between India And China Reopened (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 10, 2006)
It is no mean feat to thaw a relationship that was frozen for 44 long years. Every year the media would report that the Nathu-la Pass was going to be reopened. Now that the overland route has opened, India and China can affirm their joint potential . . .
- Monsoon Magic (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
George Oommen paints to reawaken the feeling the image brought when he first saw it. Once the feeling returns, the painting is over.
His works are impressionistic in their fidelity to colour and light.
- Core Of Karma Yoga (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
In the path of spiritual realisation, the options of Karma, Bhakti and Jnana are offered as paths that are to be pursued with sincerity and determination.
- Awaken The Sleeping Buddha Within (Times of India, M N KUNDU, Jul 10, 2006)
When the Buddha announced his impending exit from the sphere of mortality, his dear disciple Ananda burst into tears. "Lord, you have been the polestar of our spiritual path so far.
- Scriptures Lead Rituals (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 10, 2006)
‘The question of who should be allowed into the sanctum and who shouldn’t depends on the traditions of a shrine.’ — R Ganesh
- Dharma Of Money (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Jul 10, 2006)
What is harder — to create wealth or to give it away? The desire for wealth is really a desire to get into the flow of what Sri Aurobindo defined as the Money Force.
- Men Design The Rules (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Jul 10, 2006)
‘The Sabarimala temple entry controversy is yet another instance of men deciding things for women.’ — Sakuntala Narasimhan
- Dangerous Dilution (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 10, 2006)
The National Commission for Minority Education Institutions (NCMEI) has suggested that passing in English and mathematics should not be compulsory for promotion in secondary school.
- Find `Happiness' In Bangkok (Hindu, JANARDHAN ROYE, Jul 10, 2006)
Away from its crowds and chaotic traffic, Bangkok can be surprisingly charming.
- Police Warn Of More Terror Strikes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2006)
One year after four young British Muslims blew themselves up on London’s transport system, killing 52 people and wounding 700, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair described the threat faced by Britain as “grim”.
- Verdant Delhi (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 08, 2006)
By using Pradip Krishen's book, you will find you have become an amateur botanist.
- Congress: Perform Or Perish (Business Standard, Surjit S Bhalla, Jul 08, 2006)
The only escape for the Congress, from the end of the long rope it finds itself in, is to allow its two leaders to function.
- Tribal Rights And Wrongs (Deccan Herald, B G Verghese, Jul 08, 2006)
Conservation must lead to integration not exclusion. There is no dichotomy between tribes and wildlife
- After Nathu La, India Faces Chinese Challenge In Bhutan (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 08, 2006)
As it regains access to the Tibetan markets by throwing open Nathu La pass after 44 years, India is being compelled to cope with an important downside. It is the emerging Chinese challenge to India’s special relationship with Bhutan.
- Elementary Steps (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2006)
Examining the challenges and recent initiatives in providing universal elementary education.
- Poonch Bus Can Revive Shared Heritage (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Jul 08, 2006)
The unprecedented euphoria in Poonch on the inaugural bus service to Rawalakote on the other side of the LOC is a measure of the popular enthusiasm and expectations from opening up the first bus route in the Jammu region to the other side.
- Bon Bibi In Sunderbans (Tribune, G.K. Gupta, Jul 08, 2006)
Septuagenarian Balai Das I met in the Sunderbans years ago had a sordid story to tell.
- The Koran And Muslims (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Jul 08, 2006)
Intellectual stagnation in the Muslim world long preceded revivalism and its hideous offshoot, fundamentalism.
- 'You Won't Beat Britain' (Times of India, RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL, Jul 08, 2006)
An entire nation, including the Wimbledon tennis courts, fell silent at mid-day as modern, multi-cultural Britain marked remembrance day . . .
- Looking At All The Levels (Deccan Herald, Swami Sukhabodhananda, Jul 08, 2006)
The word cosmos comes from the word cosmology, which means order. Mystics consider the universe as an expression of order.
- Air Deccan Launches Flight To Tirupati (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2006)
It will be a boon for devotees, says company official
- Rs. 50 Lakh To Be Granted To Bhavani Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2006)
A sum of Rs. 50 lakh will be granted to Bhavani Sangameswarar Temple for infrastructure development, said the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister, K.R. Periyakaruppan, here on Thursday evening.
- Rs.10-Crore Plan To Develop Meenakshi Temple (Hindu, S. Vijay Kumar, Jul 08, 2006)
District administration, Corporation and TNEB join hands for largest ever exercise to retain its architectural splendour
- Troops Face Rocket Attacks In Waziristan (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2006)
Security forces came under rocket attacks at several places in South Waziristan on Thursday, witnesses and officials said on Friday.
- How To Help Neighbours (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 07, 2006)
The political turmoil in Timor Leste, which has led to the ouster of its Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and plans for national elections for a new government, may not be exactly hot news to Indians, but it underlies a growing debate about intervention . . .
- Cm Invites Leela To Build Hotel In Hampi (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Jul 07, 2006)
Mr Kumaraswamy held a discussion with the Leela Palace and Resorts Chairman C P Krishnan Nair in Mumbai on his way to Dubai for an investors’ meet recently.
- Wrong Sum (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 07, 2006)
In India, callousness can go on parading as concern. And it is deeply disturbing when children’s education is the object of this hypocrisy.
- Deconstruct, Then Panic (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jul 07, 2006)
Anno Domini 2001 is ancient times, and yet not so ancient. Early in that year, an official committee, worried over stocks of foodgrains lying with the . . .
- Find The Other Wealth (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 07, 2006)
Look around and you will find several rich people who are not really happy. Yet, you will find many poor people who radiate happiness wherever they go.
- Saddam In Show Trial (Frontline, Atul Aneja , Jul 07, 2006)
Impartiality of the Saddam Hussein trial is increasingly questioned because of the active behind-the-scenes role of the United States.
- Breach Of Spiritual Privilege (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Jul 07, 2006)
Recent controversies surrounding Hindu rituals underscore priestly monopoly, which had once done the religion in, says Anuradha Dutt
- Temple Tantrums (Times of India, Rajeev Dhavan , Jul 07, 2006)
The Sabarimala controversy tests India's dual secular guarantee of religious freedom and social justice for all. Every citizen has the right to profess, practice, propagate and manage one's own affairs in matters of religion including the myriad of . . .
- Betting On Action To Beat The Odds (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Jul 07, 2006)
The Bhagwad Gita and the principles of yoga have been going hoarse telling men and women to set their hearts upon their work, but never on its reward.
- Doorbells Can Be Different (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 07, 2006)
When is a knock not just a knock? When it is a Jacob Jensen knock! Danish designer Jacob Jensen has moved on from timepieces, jewellery and eyewear.
- People First (Tribune, B.G. Verghese for and Sanjay Sangvai , Jul 07, 2006)
India’s 80 million tribal population, the largest in the world, is also India’s most exploited and disadvantaged community.
- Government Puts Disinvestment Process On Hold (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 07, 2006)
Manmohan Singh gives in to DMK demand
DMK threatened to walk out of Government
Congress invokes coalition dharma
A compromise to stay in power: BJP
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