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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 9735:
- 'Canada's Justice System Has Failed Us' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Major flaws in Canada's criminal justice system were revealed by the bombing of an Air-India airliner in 1985 that killed 329 people, the judge heading an official inquiry into the attack said on Wednesday as the inquiry opened.
- Road To Nowhere (Frontline, Ravi Sharma , Jun 22, 2006)
Land acquisition controversies stall the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Project.
- Malaysia Hindus Want Shrines Saved (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Minority Hindus staged a peaceful protest today to appeal to Malaysia’s king to halt the demolition of temples and shrines by local authorities.
- Triggering The Right Growth Impulses (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jun 22, 2006)
Estimating potential output is helpful for both policymakers and the markets. Though difficult to arrive at, especially in an interdependent world where uncertainties are far too many, it should be pursued, says A. VASUDEVAN.
- Because Derivatives Are Merely Contracts, Just About Anything . . . (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Derivatives are emerging as a big worry for bankers, alerted H. A. Daruwalla, CMD of Central Bank of India, when speaking in Kolkata a few days ago.
- Canada Opens Full Inquiry Into Air India Bombing (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Major flaws in Canada's criminal justice system were revealed by the bombing of an Air India airliner in 1985 that killed 329 people, the judge heading an official inquiry into the attack said on Wednesday as the inquiry opened.
- Hate Lessons In Saudi, Pak Textbooks (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jun 22, 2006)
Even as the so-called war on terror continues with little success and the fool hardy attempts by the US to transport ‘democracy’ to reluctant shores make the Americans even less liked in the Muslim world, one of the main worries in the West remains . . .
- Himalayan Challenge (Tribune, Shastri Ramachandaran, Jun 22, 2006)
For a nascent democracy that was being repressively trampled under by a Canute-like king, Nepal has risen with remarkable resolve to march ahead for consolidating the gains of the struggle for popular rule.
- Infinite Creativity Of The Cosmic Sound (Times of India, M N KUNDU, Jun 22, 2006)
The first manifestation of the infinite Spirit was through the creative sound or the cosmic sound vibration and the closest utterable human approximation to the creative sound is Om.
- This Pilgrimage Knows No Regress (Indian Express, Jagmohan , Jun 22, 2006)
A fierce controversy is raging at present over the formation of the Ice Shivalingam in the Holy Cave of Amarnath in the Himalayas.
- Training Swayamsevaks (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2006)
No membership rolls are kept by the RSS and insiders often complain of dwindling attendance at the “shakhas”.
- Bsnl Customer Service Centre In Anaimalai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Coimbatore, has opened a customer service centre in Anaimalai at door number 46, Sethumadai Road near Masaniamman Temple entrance arch.
- Chidambaram For Increased Credit Flow From Bihar Banks (Hindu, K. BALCHAND, Jun 22, 2006)
Commercial banks criticised for lax functioning
Banks instructed to revise target for disbursement of Kisan Credit Card
No special package for State
- Pay Homage To Catalonia (Hindu, Simon Jenkins, Jun 22, 2006)
The vote for devolution in Spain reveals a mature attitude to democracy.
- Progress Of Bhakti (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
That Bhakti and Jnana are indispensable for salvation is stressed in the scriptures.
- Relevance Of Mahabharata (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jun 22, 2006)
A time of transition for a nation is a time of normlessness, which the French social philosopher Emile Durkheim called a time of anomie.
- Death Of A Soldier (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 22, 2006)
Sir, ~ Lieutenant Sushmita Chakraborty’s suicide reveals that even 60 years after independence, all is not well in the army ~ not even for women. Brigadier KK Chopra of the Northern Command is reported to have told a press conference that “she had . . .
- Middle India Under Siege (Tribune, B.G.Verghese, Jun 21, 2006)
Middle India is under siege along a long-neglected, exploited, underserved, ill-governed, poorly connected poverty belt of forest and hill country covering contiguous areas in nine states “from Pashupati to Tirupati”.
- Peace Is Elusive In Jammu & Kashmir (Pioneer, Ghazanfar Butt, Jun 21, 2006)
Pakistan must not talk about the rights of Kashmiris till it gives those in its control in PoK basic human dignity, says Ghazanfur Butt.
- Rapacious Raj (Tribune, Johann Hari, Jun 21, 2006)
Britain is still a nation locked in denial. If you point out basic facts about the British Empire - that the British deliberately adopted policies that caused as many as 29 million Indians to starve to death in the late nineteenth century, say — you . .
- Journey Gone Wrong (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jun 21, 2006)
When Bangladesh was liberated with generous Indian help, it was a beacon of secularism; today, it's a hotbed of hate and intolerance
- Nepal To Go On Arms Shopping Spree (Asian Age, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jun 21, 2006)
Nepal’s Army is ready for a massive arms shopping spree just a month after finance minister Ram Sharan Mahat condemned the hike in Army expenditure under King Gyanendra and pledged to slash security allotments in the Budget as well as cancel . . .
- Trade Winds (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2006)
Revisiting old ties is sometimes a good way of forging new ones.
- Tight Vigil In Kamakhya Temple (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Close circuit cameras have been placed in vantage points as security remains the prime concern for police and the management committee of Kamakhya temple, the shakti shrine where devotees from various parts of the country have started trooping . . .
- Bid To Evolve Consensus To Exempt Tourism, It Sectors From Hartals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Government to consider giving stickers for vehicles used by tourists
Programme to train tourist guides on the anvil
Strength of the police force to be increased
Transfer of police officials as per norms
- Indian Plan To Dam Northeast Rivers Stirs Critics (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 21, 2006)
Ambitious plans to build dams and hydro power projects throughout the hills of the remote northeast have trodden on some sensitive toes in the troubled region.
- Hallmark Of Devotion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
If the Supreme Being incarnates from time to time to protect Dharma and destroy those who transgress its code, preceptors have been responsible for propagating Dharma through their explanations and interpretations of the recondite Vedas that assert . . .
- Sentiments And Sensibilities (Deccan Herald, Archbishop Bernard Moras, Jun 21, 2006)
You find some people are touchy about some things and would fight tooth and nail to preserve their self-identity, which they see, somehow threatened by the other. We somehow feel that we should condemn such an attitude.
- Waxing Eloquent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Waxes and pigments and the amalgam make for art too
- Utilise New Tourism Scheme, Local Bodies Told (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Collector C.Vijayaraj Kumar holds meeting with officials
- Sonia Flags Off Poonch-Rawalakot Bus Service (Daily Excelsior, Dinesh Manhotra, Jun 21, 2006)
The ‘invisible line of sorrow’- which has kept thousands of souls away from their family members and relatives for the last 58 years, today turned into a ‘road of happiness’ for these divided families as this link is going to end their long separation.
- Indian Delegation Crosses Into Sikkim Via Nathu La (Hindustan Times, CP Bhambhri, Jun 21, 2006)
For the first time after its closure following the Indo-China war of 1962, the Nathu La border was used by a delegation of Indian officials coming back from Lhasa to cross over into Sikkim on Tuesday.
- Tourism, It May Be Exempted From Hartals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Kodiyeri says Government trying to evolve consensus on the issue
- Kashmir-American Conference On July 20 (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jun 21, 2006)
The Kashmiri-American Council will hold its annual conference on Kashmir on July 20 in Washington.
- How To End A Nightmare (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2006)
The image of a resurgent Bengal is incompatible with the mindset of its political leadership and the functioning of its slothful administrative machinery, writes A.K. Chatterjee
- Cm's Photo In Sanctum Sanctorum Removed (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
The police today removed a portrait of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi kept by a temple priest behind the idol of Lord Krishna in the sanctum sanctorum for daily worship.
- Nepal Peace Deal Ignites Fresh Debate Over King's Role (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 20, 2006)
In the heat of Nepal's pro-democracy protests, in a swirl of smoke from burning tyres, demonstrators hung a rat from electricity wires and dangled a banner from its body declaring that King Gyanendra was dead.
- Indian Plan To Dam Northeast Rivers Stirs Critics (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 20, 2006)
Ambitious plans to build dams and hydro power projects throughout the hills of the remote northeast have trodden on some sensitive toes in the troubled region.
- Nature, Nurture: Supreme Power Of Prakriti (Times of India, SHANTANU NAGARKATTI, Jun 20, 2006)
The inner temperament determined by nature, and the quality of work developed by nurture, define a man. The physical and mental characteristics of an individual are supreme; they determine his interactions with the world, overriding all other . . .
- Nepal Supreme Court To Review Sobhraj Case (Hindu, Ameet Dhakal, Jun 20, 2006)
Says lower courts did not adequately investigate murder charges against him
- Musharraf Says Pak Wants To Be Treated At Par With India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Although the Indo-US nuclear deal was a bilateral arrangement, Pakistan would not like anyone to ‘‘treat it differently’’ from India as it ‘‘has the same status,’’ President Pervez Musharraf has said.
- Letting The Jungle Crumble (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 20, 2006)
The UPA’s political compulsions to enact the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005, couldn’t have been more clear.
- Recruitment Of Teachers `Done Transparently' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Candidates will be given choice in postings: Minister
- Green Alarm In Nilgiris; Sc Panel Finds Evidence (Indian Express, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Jun 20, 2006)
The lush green canopy on the Nilgiris in Nilambur, a bio-diversity hotspot on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, was the starting point of environmental litigation in India. In 1996, it was on a petition by TN Godavarman Thirumulpad, a descendant of the . . .
- A Second Peace Bus For Kashmir Today (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jun 20, 2006)
All is set for the launch of a second trans-Kashmir bus service between the border towns of Poonch on the Indian side and Rawalakote in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir tomorrow.
- A ‘Save Lahore’ Initiative (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 19, 2006)
It is heartening to note that a group of prominent citizens and a number of civil society organisations have joined hands to form a ‘Lahore Bachao’ (save Lahore) committee.
- The Poverty Of Thought (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 19, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf and his civilian sidekicks want to “re-brand” Pakistan.
- Poverty Lurks In The Shadows Of Indian Economic Boom (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jun 19, 2006)
“The obstacles hampering India’s progress, poor infrastructure, weak government, searing inequality, corruption and crime-converge in Bombay,” according to a cover story in Time magazine’s new issue.
- They Also Serve Who Stand And Wait (The Economic Times, K VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Jun 19, 2006)
A poignant story concerns two boys who grew up together.
- Gandhara Name Proposed For Pak Airport (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Pakistan may name a new airport to be built in the capital after Gandhara, the ancient province known as the cradle of Buddhism in the sub-continent, apparently seeking to shed its image as a hardline Islamic country.
- Work Is Reward In Itself (Pioneer, Ajit Bishnoi, Jun 19, 2006)
One whose happiness is inherent, who is peaceful and works without contemplating the result alone is a true . . .
- Israel To Launch Tauvexii Aboard India's Gsat-4 By 2007 (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Israel is likely to launch its 18.2 million USD-worth TauvexII scientific telescope for astronomical research of the galaxies aboard India's GSAT-4 satellite by mid next year.
- Pak Denies Reports Of Temple Demolition In Lahore (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Pakistan today dismissed as "baseless" and "factually incorrect" reports claiming that the Krishna Mandir in Lahore has been demolished.
- Kathmandu Experiment (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 19, 2006)
The Nepal government’s decision to dissolve the country’s Parliament and form an interim government with the Maoists is the best news to come out of the Himalayan nation in some years.
- China, India Agree To Reopen Historic Trade Route (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
China and India have agreed to reopen border trade at the historic Nathu-la pass after more than 40 years, a symbol of rapprochement between Asian giants who fought a Himalayan war in 1962.
- From Nepal, New Hope (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 19, 2006)
The interim government in Kathmandu must work for the permanent end to Maoist violence
- Code That Protects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna states that when standards of Dharma fall, He would incarnate to re-establish its primacy and protect the virtuous and saintly.
- Marie Antoinette: Martyr Or Saint? (Deccan Herald, ELAINE SCIOLINO, Jun 19, 2006)
France is a republic, but it still takes the story of its royals very seriously, especially if the story happens to be retold by an American.
- Qaeda Plot: Gas Attack On Ny Metro (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 19, 2006)
Al-Qaeda had planned to release a deadly poison gas on the New York metro in 2003 and was only 45 days away from carrying out the attack when Osama Bin Laden’s deputy called off the operation.
- Defence Planning (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 19, 2006)
An unprecedented situation is being faced by Indian people at the dawn of 21st century.
- Poojary Sure Of Jd(s)-Bjp Coalition’S Safe Delivery (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Though members of the JD (S) and BJP may have concern about the future of the coalition government in the wake of the difference over BMIC project, senior Congress leader and MP Janardhana Poojary is optimistic that the government will complete . . .
- Popular Culture-I (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 19, 2006)
Adhering To The Dictates Of Market Globalism
- Pak Cries Wolf Over 'Encounters' With Militants (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Jun 19, 2006)
The issue of alleged human rights violations by security forces is a favourite subject of Pakistan.
- Automated Passport Checking Likely (Deccan Herald, N Madhuprasad, Jun 19, 2006)
With the number of international fake passport cases increasing in Bangalore, immigration authorities at Bangalore Airport suggest automated verification counters at the airport to curb the fake documents.....
- India, China Talks To Reopen Nathu La Border Trade Begin (Pioneer, PTI, Jun 19, 2006)
India and China on Sunday kicked off negotiations in Tibetan capital Lhasa on the modalities for reopening the strategic Nathula border trade point which has remained closed for over 44 years.
- Party Grounds (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 19, 2006)
In announcing a new land allotment policy for political parties to build offices in Delhi, the Union Government has messed up a good idea by imposing irrational criteria. Acting on a Supreme Court directive to get political parties, national and . . .
- City Union Bank Eyes Rs.10,000-Crore Mark (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
Raises Rs. 3,500 crore in deposits, Rs. 2,600 crore in advances More than 105 branches have joined Core Banking Network, covering about 90 per cent of the business
- What Women Want (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, Jun 19, 2006)
More than reservation, Indian women need equal opportunities in educational and professional fields for their collective . . .
- Now, Call A Spade A Spade (Pioneer, Abhay K Upadhyay, Jun 18, 2006)
Manmohan Singh would do well to reconsider his fetish for peace with Pakistan -----
- Asian Moot Agrees To Curb Terror, Drugs (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
The Asian security summit that brought together the regional leaders China and Russia and 16 other nations ended on Saturday with a call to increase cooperation to fight terrorism, separatism and drug trafficking.
- Nepal Govt, Maoists Power Deal Welcomed (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
A landmark deal between Nepal’s authorities and Maoist rebels, which will see parliament dissolved and power shared in a new interim government, was hailed in the troubled Himalayan kingdom on Saturday.
- Pakistan’S Active Engagement With C’Wealth L (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Secretary-General Commonwealth Donald McKinnon has praised Pakistan’s active engagement with the 54-member organisation, saying that he wants the country to stay in it.
- Over The Top (News International, Masood Hasan, Jun 18, 2006)
The wonderful thing about pulling off a scam in Pakistan is that everything and everyone works for you and thus there are no hurdles.
- The Antigua Connection (Hindu, V. Gangadhar, Jun 18, 2006)
Was there a link between "warri" and pallankuzhi and how did the game reach distant Antigua?
- Mobile Conservation Laboratory Inaugurated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
It is aimed at conserving the rare manuscripts at Kodi Math
- Publishing History (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Jun 18, 2006)
Ravi Dayal changed the publishing landscape of India in the 1970s and 80s.
Dayal possessed an almost unique combination of great intelligence and greater charm.
- Ethics And The Economist (Hindu, SHASHI THAROOR, Jun 18, 2006)
A profound moral sense is never absent in the works of Amartya Sen.
- A Dream Takes Shape (Hindu, Prachi Pinglay, Jun 18, 2006)
Amisha Jedhe is finally fulfilling her brother's dream of building a peace park on the Indo-Pak border.
- Rae Bareli Being Starved Of Power, Says Sonia (Deccan Herald, Puja Awasthi, Jun 18, 2006)
Erratic power supply, dry canals and administrative apathy. The Rae Bareli electorate has received these for being faithful to the Gandhi-Nehru family for close to three decades.
- Desert Symphony (Hindu, MITA KAPUR, Jun 18, 2006)
Regal and majestic, the past comes luxuriously alive in Deogarh
jungle lore and terrace dinners bring the Garh of "devs" alive. What stays in the mind is the warmth and caring.
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