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Articles 4521 through 4620 of 9735:
- Tdp Seeks Release Of Scholarship Amount (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
Don't hike fee for students of private engineering colleges, says CPI(M)
Government has no role in fee hike, says Higher Education Minister P. Koteswara Rao
TRS member call for review of out-of-turn promotions to police involved in anti-naxal operatio
- 'Advani Will Never Regain Confidence Of Hindus' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
Accusing BJP leader LK Advani of betraying Hindus when he was in power, the VHP on Friday said he would never regain the confidence of the people for the "betrayal."
- Unesco Backs South Asia Foundation's Work On Regional Cooperation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
The Director General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, opened on Friday the annual meeting of the South Asia Foundation at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
- Harvest Of Hate (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 18, 2006)
For Hindu fundamentalist politicians and their Islamist doppelgangers, the jehad has offered an opportunity to make political gains from violence.
- There Will Be More Wahida Prizms And Munafs (Deccan Herald, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Mar 17, 2006)
Today, a new class of enlightened and liberal Muslims is emerging and the stereotype is fading out
- The Flip Side Of Culture (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 17, 2006)
Ever thought of culture as a consumer issue? I didn’t either, till I saw this report from a health activist circulated on a listserve in the wake of the recent bird flu scare.
- Good Sense Prevails (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 17, 2006)
No religion teaches killings
- Hindu Leaders Meet Kalam, Patil (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
Seek CBI probe into Varanasi blasts
- New Voices (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
Varanasi, after the blasts, is becoming the city for a new kind of hope for India. For sectarian terror not to destroy unstoppably the very fabric of a diverse society, two things must happen simultaneously.
- Already Too Late? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Mar 17, 2006)
The left seems to have tied itself up in knots
- Wildlife, Myths And Legends (Daily Excelsior, Dr Pragya Khanna, Mar 17, 2006)
Ancient Indian religious texts clearly express the view that man is an intrinsic part of his environment.
- Hard Laws Of Change (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 17, 2006)
It was a very positive statement which Sonia Gandhi made, rather forcefully, that certain rules and norms pertaining to witnesses and the recording of evidence need to be scrutinized and rectified to make for fair jurisprudence.
- Hitler... Yes Or No? (Tribune, R. Vatsyayan, Mar 17, 2006)
Democracy, though called a government of the people, by the people and for the people, has many dimensions in our country.
- History And Legend (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 17, 2006)
Every place on earth blends reality and imagination, history and legend.
- Hurdles Ahead (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Mar 17, 2006)
Now that Washington has accepted India's Separation Plan, the next hurdles are Congress and the NSG.
- Parliamentary Privilege (Statesman, Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy, Mar 17, 2006)
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee’s spat with the Supreme Court has acquired ominous overtones. A barrister of long standing, he fired his first salvo at the Court for “overstepping” its limits when it overthrew the action of the Governor of . . .
- A Working Paper On Kashmir (Frontline, A.J. Philip, Mar 17, 2006)
A prior India-Pakistan accord must provide a basis for a dialogue with Kashmiris.
A prior India-Pakistan accord must provide a basis for a dialogue with Kashmiris.
- `History Is The Short Trudge From Adam To Atom' (Business Line, D. Murali , Mar 17, 2006)
Atoms `have stories to tell that span billions of years, linking us with the entire cosmos'
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.'
- Reforms, Bose Need To Initiate (Daily Excelsior, Dr R R Dubey, Mar 17, 2006)
&K Board of School Education is an important institute of the State. It is headed by the Chairman at State level. However, for the entire functioning of Divisional level offices, the Secretary Board of School Education along with abundant . . .
- A Needless Provocation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 17, 2006)
While Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert apparently authorised the raid on the Jericho jail to shore up his political fortunes, the United States and the United Kingdom have to share much of the blame for the violence that flared up subsequently.
- Dead Al-Qaeda Chief Threatens Us (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
The late head of the Saudi branch of the Al-Qaeda terror network, killed in February, has warned the Americans to leave the Arab peninsula and threatened Saudi officials, in a video aired on-line.
- Communion With God (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
The lives of saints and mystics who lived in communion with God exemplify that only they were conscious of the raison d'être of human existence because even though the vast majority of people seem to lead productive lives they are blind to their . . .
- Growing Threat Of Maoist Violence (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Mar 17, 2006)
The recent hijacking of a passenger train in Latehar, Jharkhand, and the attacks on tribals in Chhattisgarh and Bihar point to the naxalites upping the ante. So much so that the death toll in naxalite violence has begun to rival that in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Five New Democracy Activists Held On Charge Of Extorting Money (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2006)
Two toy pistols, three cellphones and a scooter recovered
- Has America Lost Its Way In Afghanistan? (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Mar 17, 2006)
The stark reality is that there isn't any political process anymore in Afghanistan. The American strategy of taming the Taliban or engineering defections from its ranks is a shambles.
- Overseas Response For University Lecturer Posts (Hindu, Shastry V Mallady, Mar 17, 2006)
80 applications have been received from countries like Japan and the United States of America
- Ageing Queen Of The Adriatic (Frontline, Sudha Mahalingam, Mar 16, 2006)
WHEN was the last time you were in a city without road traffic? Not encountering a single car, bus or truck is perhaps the most appealing aspect of Venice for the jaded city-dweller hoping for a getaway from petrol fumes for a few days.
- Give Ambedkar His Due (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Mar 16, 2006)
Ambedkar is not accorded the importance he should be despite his efforts to liberate the oppressed
- Educating Teachers (Deccan Herald, Vatsala Vedantam, Mar 16, 2006)
The new government in Karnataka – like all new governments – plans to revise its school education policies. Its motivation – the overall deterioration in classrooms leading to high dropout rates.
- Blast Shadow Lifts From Varanasi, People Play Holi (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
The shadow of fear following the twin blasts of March 7 lifted completely today from this pilgrimage city as people danced, sang and painted the town in festive colours on the occasion of Holi amidst tight security.
- Ltte Raising Funds For "Final War" (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Mar 16, 2006)
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had launched an "aggressive and systematic fundraising campaign" from expatriate Sri Lankan Tamils in the west to fund a "final war" with the . . .
- Extremism Of The Mosque (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 16, 2006)
Speaking to a delegation of traders, politicians, exporters and lawyers in Faisalabad on Tuesday, President Pervez Musharraf said that “some khateebs were creating disharmony among the people for their vested interests”. Since government agencies . . .
- Himalaya Car Rally Sets Off (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
Federal Tourism Minister Ghazi Ghulab Jamal on Wednesday inaugurated the Himalaya car rally consisting of 18 vintage cars from 1936 to 1970.
- Advani Yatra Steers Clear Of Polls, Blasts (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Mar 16, 2006)
Rattled by the criticism from within and outside against the proposed ‘‘Rashtriya Ekta Yatras’’ announced by him last week, LK Advani is belatedly trying to delink the yatras from both the upcoming elections in five states as well as the Varanasi blasts.
- Illegal Constructions Choking Historic Mehrauli (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, Mar 16, 2006)
`Jahaz Mahal', a ASI protected monument, becomes yet another victim of crass commercialisation in the area
- Ahead Of Holi, Security Stepped Up In Varanasi (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
The district administration has beefed up security in the temple city and deployed additional forces around religious places and vital installations ahead of Holi celebrations on Wednesday, official sources said on Tuesday.
- Crying Out For Water (Hindu, John Vidal, Mar 16, 2006)
largest metropolis, with more than 20 million people, is sinking. Mexico City is built on an ancient lake that has been drained of water, and now the underground aquifers are collapsing
- The Journey Within (Hindu, CR Jayachandran, Mar 16, 2006)
All systems of Indian philosophy excepting the materialists (Charvaka) accept liberation from bondage (Mukti, Moksha) as the goal of human birth.
- ‘The Children’S Book Market In India Is Very Dull’ (Deccan Herald, Utpal Borpujari, Mar 16, 2006)
Madhavi Sonawala started Butterfly Books – an organisation that attempts to bring good reading material for children – about five years ago after she could not find many good books, educational games and hobby ideas for her five-year-old daughter.
- Who Wants To Be A Superpower? (Hindu, DHIRAJ NAYYAR, Mar 16, 2006)
India needs to be a super-empowerer of the less powerful, both countries and peoples, and not a superpower in the shade of an even bigger one.
- "Judges Don't Protect Other Judges" (Hindu, Mukund Padmanabhan, Mar 15, 2006)
Sir Igor Judge, President of the Queen's Bench Division, England and Wales, on judicial accountability, independence, and efficiency.
- Commute To Another World (Deccan Herald, Barbara Demick, Mar 15, 2006)
It takes barely an hour to drive from downtown Seoul to the other side of the demilitarised zone, but the culture shock is such that you might as well be commuting to the moon......
- Yatra To Change Course Of National Politics: Advani (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The BJP parliamentary party on Tuesday endorsed the controversial ‘national integration yatra’ of Leader of Opposition L K Advani, who declared that “it would change the course of national politics”.
- Mystical Experience (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Spiritual experience is a one-to-one communion with God and hence even the great sages who were fortunate to have this experience did not generally speak about it.
- Advani "Thought Of" Rath Yatra Before Varanasi Blasts (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Mar 15, 2006)
Dasmunsi: It is meant for dividing the country
The `yatras' will have the same political effect as his Ayodhya rath yatra in 1989, says Advani
"Minorityism is contributi
- You Don’T Have To Pay The Bill (Deccan Herald, Swami Nithyananda, Mar 15, 2006)
Nitti Mudaliar went to a restaurant and ordered one each of everything on the menu. He ate everything. He ordered for some dessert and coffee. He was soon ready to leave.....
- In Quest For Justice (Business Standard, Rashid Shaz, Mar 15, 2006)
That the Supreme Court had to intervene to ensure justice in the Best Bakery is indicative of a systemic failure that needs to be addressed without any further delay. Else, how will justice be delivered to victims of terror where the perpetrators . . .
- New Options For Investments (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Mar 15, 2006)
Talk of investments in India and even the sky can no longer be called the limit. New instruments, both debt and equity oriented, are coming into the market with fair regularity.
- Were The First Skiers Actually From China? (Christian Science Monitor, Robert Marquand, Mar 15, 2006)
Move over Bode
- Call To Abandon Diamer-Bhasha Dam Project (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Speakers at a conference here on Monday asked the government to stop work on the “controversial project”, and sought UN intervention as according to them the dam site falls in the terrotory of the disputed Gilgit-Baltistan region.
- Chhattisgarh Tribe Takes Up Bows, Arrows To Fight Maoists (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 14, 2006)
Clutching their bows and arrows, a group of tribesmen and young boys mill around outside a crude refugee camp in the forests of central India.
- Kalam Visits Apravasi Ghat (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 14, 2006)
President A.P.J. Kalam on Monday re-visited the shared colonial past of India and Mauritius at the Apravasi ghat (immigrant depot) where over four lakh Indians had landed between the mid 18th and early 19th centuries to work as labourers on . . .
- The Delivery Of Justice (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 14, 2006)
Implement reforms expeditiously
- God's Benevolence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
The transcendental form of the Supreme Being is divine in nature and hence it is not possible for human beings to behold Him.
- New Security Regimen In Varanasi (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Devotees will now have to pass beneath door-frame metal detectors and put up with frisking by policemen with a hand-held detector as a new security regimen comes into force at the Sankat Mochan temple in Varanasi, informed police sources.
- Advani’S Yatra Raises Hackles (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
The Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed noisy scenes as the CPM, Congress and Samajwadi Party attacked the proposed yatra by BJP leader L K Advani through Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
- People Power In East Asia (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Mar 14, 2006)
Do the current attempts in the Philippines and Thailand to re-enact people power movements amount to bypassing the existing democratic systems?
- Rooting For Sharia Laws In Bradford (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Mar 14, 2006)
It is one thing to demand the democratic right in an open and free society to practise one's faith, but to want to have a parallel religious legal system is quite another.
- Our Opportunity With India (Washington Post, Condoleezza Rice, Mar 13, 2006)
The week before last President Bush concluded a historic agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation with India, a rising democratic power in a dynamic Asia.
- Indian Hindus, Muslims Seek To Rise Above Conflict (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Mar 13, 2006)
Starting bloody riots between India's majority Hindus and minority, but large, Muslim population usually doesn't take much doing.
- India, China Confident Of Settling Border Dispute (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Holding that Sino-Indian talks on border dispute were moving in the right direction to "extricate" them from "logjam", National Security Advisor M K Naryanan today said the delineation issue could be settled after the next two to three rounds.
- Varanasi Bomb Blasts Suspects Freed (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The two persons, who were detained by Uttar Pradesh police in connection with the twin blasts in Varanasi, were freed on Sunday after eyewitnesses failed to identify them, official sources said.
- Saddam Feared Own Army As Us Invaded (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Saddam Hussein's fear of internal rebellion led him to distrust his military commanders even after US forces began their invasion in 2003, crippling the country's defenses, the New York Times reported in today's editions.
- Pragmatic Approach (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Brahma Jnana is the knowledge of the immutable, eternal, timeless existence of the Self and its identification with the Infinite. It is a direct and immediate experience when one attains the vision of God, and when all thoughts cease and silence remains.
- Varanasi Blasts: 2 Detained Persons Released (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The two persons, who were detained by Uttar Pradesh police in connection with the twin blasts here, were freed today after eye-witnesses failed to identify them, official sources here said.
- ‘Kashi, Vatican Must Join Hands To Fight Terrorism’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
“Kashi and Vatican should unite to fight Jehadis,” VHP International Secretary Praveen Togadia has said.
- Varanasi Displays Secular Fabric (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Mar 13, 2006)
Residents foil terrorist designs
- Blast Suspects Test Negative (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The special task force (STF) probe into the Varanasi blasts suffered a setback with witnesses saying that two suspects arrested from Hardoi were not the persons about whom they had told police.
- Witnesses Fail To Identify Varanasi Blast Suspects (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Lashkar-e-Taiba denies involvement in blasts
- Mayhem In The Menagerie (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
New conflict between the United Jihad Council and President Pervez Musharraf reflects a crisis in Pakistan's political life.
- Witnesses Fail To Identify Suspects (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Mar 13, 2006)
One of the art students recuperating in the ICU ward of Sir Sundarlal Hospital is confident that he would be able to draw the sketch of the culprit as soon as he is better.
- Right Speech, The Supreme Ornament (The Economic Times, K VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Mar 13, 2006)
Bartruhari, the ancient Sanskrit poet speaks thus of felicitous speech: “One is not beautified by ornaments, garlands, glittering embellishments, bath, scented applications, flowers or eye-catching jewellery.
- Varanasi Blasts: Witnesses Fail To Identify Suspects (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The eye-witnesses have failed to identify the two suspects, detained by Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the twin blasts, official sources said on Sunday.
- In The Name Of The Lord (Deccan Herald, Aparna Achar, Mar 12, 2006)
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu left behind a nonsectarian spiritual movement based on the chanting of Lord Krishna’s name that is practical and relevant even today.
- Kalam Predicts Fusion Of Bio-Tech And Traditional Medicines (Press Trust of India, Subhashis Mittra, Mar 11, 2006)
Predicting fusion of bio-technology with traditional system of medicine, President A P J Abdul Kalam today said that both India and Myanmar could exchange knowledge in the field and use it on a commerical basis.
- When The Judiciary Exceeds Its Realm (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Mar 11, 2006)
The Supreme Court has become the chief executive of India, the operating officer, forcing policy in the realm of social activity.
- Churchill And Moscow (Statesman, Valentin Falin, Mar 11, 2006)
Myths are known to persist, as proved by Winston Churchill’s speech in Fulton in 1946. To this day it is regarded as the “anti-communist manifesto” that unleashed the Cold War and encouraged Stalin to erect the “iron curtain” which cut off a half . . .
- Understanding The Harvest Of Hate (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 11, 2006)
Varanasi was just an exclamation mark in Islamist terror groups' war against India. Learning from it needs an understanding not of each outrage, but the whole.
- Court Moved For Safety Of Temples In Varanasi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking directions to the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh Government to take appropriate steps to ensure the safety of all religious places in Varanasi following the bomb blasts at the Sankat Motchan temple
- Spirit Of Varanasi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 11, 2006)
IT is commonplace for terrorists to bandy about the name of a new outfit after a bloody strike.
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