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Articles 4621 through 4720 of 9735:
- Rights Of Victims (Tribune, A.S. Anand , Mar 11, 2006)
Time to reform criminal justice system
- Nepali Families Fight Poverty With Condoms, Pills (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Mar 11, 2006)
One of the biggest-selling items in the tiny chemists in the rebel-held Nepali hill town of Tila are condoms -- several hundred a month for a total population of just 2,000.
- Kalam: India, Myanmar Should Standardise Traditional Medicines (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 11, 2006)
"Most herbs used in Myanmar were common with those found in northeastern States"
First-ever visit by Indian head of state to Mandalay
"Harness biotechnology to improve efficacy of traditional medicines"
President pays homage at pagodas
- Police Detain Eight For Varanasi Blasts (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Police detained eight people on Friday over bomb attacks that killed 15 people in one of Hinduism's holiest cities; blasts that were later claimed by a group which said it was fighting Indian rule in Kashmir.
- Muslim Representation (Daily Excelsior, Maqbool Shah, Mar 11, 2006)
The alleged seeking of details by Sachar Committee from the Army Headquarters about the Muslim officers and personnel below officer rank serving in the Army and their pattern of posting has yet again focussed the attention of the nation . . .
- Unholy War On Holy City (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmood, Mar 11, 2006)
In an outrageous serial terrorist strike on the holy city of Varanasi, the ancient Sankat Mochan temple packed with Tuesday worshippers of Lord Hanuman was rocked by a huge blast and two bombs exploded soon after at Cantonment railway . . .
- Damage Uncontrolled (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 11, 2006)
Reports that the Kolkata police had tipped off their UP counterparts about the possibility of bomb blasts are neither here nor there.
- Osama's Niece Set For Us Tv Show (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
The would-be pop star niece of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has signed on for a reality television show about her attempts to break into the music industry.
- Kalam Is All Smiles On The Road To Mandalay (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, Mar 11, 2006)
My people are rich and live in a powerful country but are still not content. I have come here to ask you how to make them happy.’’ During a rare heart-to-heart,
- Cosmic Manifestation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Those who tread the arduous path of Godliness rely for guidance on the teachings of the Upanishads and texts like the Bhagavad Gita. While revealing the philosophic truths of existence to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna declares . . .
- A Green View (Hindu, SOUMYA NARAYAN ACHARI, Mar 11, 2006)
For some history lessons just around the corner in Kolar
- The Politics Of Patronage (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Mar 11, 2006)
Other than the senseless, needless deaths of innocent people one of the saddest aspects of last week’s bombings in Varanasi is that the Sankatmochan temple should have been targeted.
- Playing With Fire In U.P. (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 11, 2006)
The last thing the boiling political cauldron of Uttar Pradesh needed was for the temple town of Varanasi to be hit by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.
- Police Detain 4 Over Bombings In India (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Police have detained four people for questioning in bombings that killed 20 people at a temple and train station in Hinduism's holiest city, a top state official said Saturday.
- Us Has No Hopes For Democracy’S Return In Nepal: Special Bush Emissary (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Mar 10, 2006)
President George Bush’s special emissary to Nepal has said that the return of democracy in the kingdom does not seem imminent.
- They Cannot Decide On History (Times of India, Romila Thapar, Mar 10, 2006)
The California State Board of Education (CSBE) is currently discussing a very controversial issue.
- Deal Will Not Fuel Arms Race: U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Washington replies to critics of the agreement
Deal doesn't recognise India as a nuke weapons state
Accord brings India into non-proliferation mainstream
India's growing energy needs will be addressed by pact
- Varanasi Youths Line Up To Donate Blood (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
In this ancient holy city, if the perpetrators of the terror on Tuesday were youngsters, so too are an increasing number of people rushing forward to donate blood to scores of victims, irrespective of creed, battling for their lives in . . .
- State And The Nation (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Mar 10, 2006)
Don't read this if you are a spiritual tourist.
- There’S A Better Way To Check Stray Animals (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Why can’t the money be used to tackle the problem before precious lives are lost, I can’t understand. Only death and calamity stirs the authorities into action
- How Many Ways To Tie A Knot? (Indian Express, MARGARET WERTHEIM, Mar 10, 2006)
You have to hand it to mathematicians.
- Varanasi Stands Resolute (Deccan Herald, PUJAA AWASTTHI, Mar 10, 2006)
Since Tuesday when twin bomb blasts rocked the temple town, business, according to Ashok Majhi, a 32-year-old boatsman, has been dull. “On a good day we make anything like Rs 300. Yesterday there was nothing,” he shrugs.
- New Logic For New India (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 10, 2006)
Even after he fell from grace and spent his last years in disgrace, there was one country where Richard Nixon was always welcome. For all its other angularities, China never forgot its indebtedness to the man who in 1971 began the process of extricating t
- Corrections And Clarifications (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 10, 2006)
In "Call to register protest against cartoons in peaceful manner" (March 8, 2006, page 10, Chennai city), a resolution adopted at a Chennai rally condemned the caricaturing of the Prophet and demolition of the Samarra mosque, we reported.
- Innovative Steps In Budget To Boost Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Gender auditing, outcome budgeting, protection of all stakeholders to boost economy
New policy to encourage private investments health sector soon
10 knowledge centres to be established
- Devotional Experience (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The Bhagavata Purana describes the true devotee as one who realises that God resides in the innermost self and also in all beings, and that all beings dwell in Him.
- Varanasi: Show Of Solidarity (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Mar 10, 2006)
All sections, cutting across religious affiliations, take out peace marches
The U.P. Government was focusing more on Mathura, Ayodhya
High-profile visits being seen more as attempts to score brownie points
Many BHU students, RSS volunteers donate bl
- Pressures May Be Skewing Blasts Probe, Warn Experts (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 10, 2006)
No evidence whether bombings had a Kashmir link or were carried out by a local Lashkar cell
Officials contest claims that a top Lashkar-e-Taiba operative shot dead on Wednesday had a role in the bombings
Intelligence officials say it would have made n
- Bjp’S Yaqoob Qureshis (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Mar 10, 2006)
The BJP, one can safely state, has never been known for appeasing India’s Muslim community.
- What Is To Be Done? (Telegraph, Rashid Shaz, Mar 10, 2006)
Negotiating the Future, Rashid Shaz states that it is a post-9/11 book on Islam.
- Sonia Calls Truce In Lucknow (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The Congress has said it will do nothing to “destabilise” the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh.
- Up Cops Sat On Terror Tip-Off (Hindustan Times, Soumen Datta, Mar 10, 2006)
The raw material for the Varanasi bombs was sent from Kolkata.
- Varanasi Attacks: Police Release Sketches Of Suspects (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday released sketches of two men suspected to have triggered the twin blasts that killed 15 people, even as they said they had reason to believe Pakistan-based terrorist outfit . . .
- Fight It Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 10, 2006)
It is just a coincidence that the reopening of educational institutions in the Valley has coincided with step-up in militant violence.
- Vvip Visitors (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
Hardly had the reverberations of the Varanasi blasts died down than a string of political VVIPs begin to descend on the Sankat Mochan temple, which actually shifted the focus of the police away from investigative action to making arrangements . . .
- Islamic Kashmir Outfit Claims Blasts In India (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
An unknown Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for blasts that killed 23 people in India’s holiest Hindu city of Varanasi as grieving relatives cremated victims.
- Britain Slams Blasts In Indian Holy City (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
British Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells on Wednesday condemned bombings in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi that killed 23 people, saying he was ‘horrified’ to hear of the attacks.
- Pakistan Blamed For Temple City Blasts (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Mar 09, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, cornered by the opposition over a devastating bombing incident in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, pointed the finger at Pakistan on Wednesday, saying that the attackers had been trained across the border.
- Blasts In Varanasi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 09, 2006)
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the three blasts in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi on Tuesday, but whosoever carried out this dastardly act deserves to be condemned.
- Easy Targets (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The terrorist attack in Varanasi (including one on an important Hanuman temple on Tuesday, in which about 15 people died) does not leave much room for doubt that these attacks follow a pattern.
- Deciphering Evil (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 09, 2006)
It is appropriate that top political and government heads have rushed to Varanasi in the aftermath of Tuesday’s bomb blasts. For, it is vital that two things are done with urgency, and be seen to be so done.
- 'We Want To Demystify Careers In Networking’ (Deccan Herald, Sangeetha Chengappa, Mar 09, 2006)
While the Internet has revolutionised the way we deliver and receive information and the way businesses are conducted, more than 80 per cent of the world has never heard a dial tone, or sent an e-mail or even surfed the Net.
- Kalam Visits Shwedagon Pagoda In Myanmar (Press Trust of India, Subhashis Mittra, Mar 09, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam today visited the revered Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar where Buddha's relics are enshrined.
- Varanasi Blasts: Religious Heads Stand United (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The blasts in Varanasi were a conspiracy by terrorists to disrupt the social and communal fabric of the temple town in which they failed miserably, Maulana Abdul Batin, the Mufti of a local mosque said today.
- Delhi: Bjp Mlas Protesting Temple Blast Expelled For Three Days (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Slogan-shouting BJP legislators seeking adjournment of the house in the memory of those killed in the Varanasi blasts were expelled for three days today ahead of Delhi government's budget proposals tomorrow.
- Indian Docs To Need Work Permit In Uk (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The string of bad news for doctors from India or any non-European Union countries continues. Now, all doctors wishing to work in the UK from outside the European Union will be required to have a work permit from July 2006, . . .
- Varanasi Is Us (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Mar 09, 2006)
In that umbra moment after the blasts, when the television screens suddenly spewed out images of blood-stained floors, panic-stricken crowds and strewn personal belongings, a stone seemed to settle on the chest.
- Varanasi Shuts Down In Protest Over Blasts (Reuters, Sharat Pradhan, Mar 09, 2006)
India's ancient holy city of Varanasi shut down on Wednesday in a protest against bomb blasts in a Hindu temple and a railway station which killed 15 people, but there were no reports of any sectarian backlash.
- Keep Cool (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 09, 2006)
Not very long ago we had struck a note of caution in these columns. For too long the terrorists have been itching to frequently target the holy places in the country.
- Organic Agriculture (Daily Excelsior, Dr K C Bhagat, Mar 09, 2006)
Agriculture is the key human profession as it is linked with the entire process of environment (that is comprising air, water, land, climate, biodiversity, forest etc) on the one hand and constitutes the life line of human species . . .
- Holy Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 09, 2006)
The combination of holiness and terror is likely to be a dangerous one for India.
- Ammonium Nitrate Used In Varanasi Blasts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The explosive material used in the twin blasts at the temple city of Varanasi was Ammonium nitrate and not RDX, official sources said here.
- An Indo-Pak Friendship That Continues To Thrive (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
It is an India-Pakistan, Hindu-Muslim friendship that started with a motor transport business in the years before partition and came alive again two years ago thanks to India's cricket tour.
- Varanasi Wakes Up To A New Dawn (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Life goes on. And with vigour in Varanasi. If the 3/7 serial blasts in the temple town were meant to create panic and hatred, its perpetrators were given a royal rebuff.
- 'Indo-Us N-Pact Doesn't Hamper Dealing With Iran' (Hindustan Times, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Mar 09, 2006)
The Bush Administration has rejected the notion that proceeding with the civilian nuclear energy agreement with India undercuts America's dealing with Iran on the issue, stressing that the US looks at both the cases differently.
- What Is Sacred? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
When terror is precision-timed for symbolism, careful scrutiny of the site and the situation is revealing.
- Growing Up (Indian Express, JYOTSNA DIWAN MEHTA, Mar 09, 2006)
The young have a careless attitude towards life. They plunge head-long into life’s challenges, without caution, responsibility, or the proverbial second thoughts! That is why they say the young can conquer the world.
- Remembering Golwalkar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
Underplaying the big ticket items of the last week — Budget and Bush visit —the latest Organiser chooses to focus on the ‘‘scintillating launch’’ of the centenary celebrations of the second sarsanghchalak and premier ideologue of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar.
- Pieces In Terror Jigsaw, Two Top Lashkar Men Shot In Up, Delhi (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Mar 09, 2006)
Within hours of the terror strike in Varanasi, two top-ranking Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed by the police in Lucknow and Delhi.
- Varanasi Bombings (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The terrorist objective is to widen the religious divide
- Prime Minister's Statement On Discussions On Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation With The Us (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
In my Statement on February 27, 2006, I had provided an assurance that this august House will be informed of developments in our discussions with the United States on separation of our civilian and military nuclear facilities.
- Blasts Kill 16 In Varanasi, Red Alert Sounded Across India (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
In an outrageous serial terrorist strike on the holy city of Varanasi, the ancient Sankat Mochan temple packed with Tuesday worshippers of Lord Hanuman was rocked by a huge blast and two bombs exploded soon after at a nearby train . . .
- Varanasi Blasts Were Handiwork Of Terrorists: Official (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The bomb blasts in this temple town, which killed 20 people and injured 50 others, was the handiwork of terrorists and the Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a probe into the incident by the special task force of the state police, a senior . . .
- Centre And Up Will Bring Guilty To Justice: Sonia (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said that the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government will jointly work out the blasts in the temple city and bring its perpetrators to justice.
- In Temple Town, Blasts Drown Pealing Of Bells (Indian Express, Tarannum Manjul, Mar 08, 2006)
When two-year-old Shivangi’s parents took her to the Sankatmochan temple in Varanasi for the Tuesday darshan, never in their worst imaginings could they have foreseen that their little girl would be one of the 12 people who died in the blasts that. . .
- Kalam Embarks On Myanmar Visit Today (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, Mar 08, 2006)
A very important visit to a very important neighbour. That’s how Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran described President APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to Myanmar, beginning tomorrow.
- Devil's Advocate: False Currency (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 08, 2006)
When a bad king of yore 'debased' his currency by mixing some 'base' metal with the gold in his coins, he and the officials of his royal mint acted as counterfeiters.
- High Alert In Delhi After Varanasi Blasts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
A high alert was sounded in the capital on Tuesday following the blasts in the temple town of Varanasi in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh in which at least four persons have died.
- Up Sliding Into Lawlessness: Centre (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The serial bomb attack on the Sankat Mochan temple is the latest of a string of incidents suggesting the slide of the country's largest state into lawlessness.
- Canada Moves To Revamp Air India Bomb Inquiry (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Canada's new Conservative government took a first, tentative step on Tuesday on its pledge to revamp the inquiry into the troubled Air India bombing investigation.
- India On Alert To Prevent Trouble After Bomb Blasts (Reuters, Sharat Pradhan, Mar 08, 2006)
Armed police mounted vigil at temples and public places across India on Wednesday and leaders appealed for calm as Hindu groups called for a strike in Uttar Pradesh to protest against bomb blasts that killed 15.
- Up Didn’T Respond On Security Upgrade For Temple (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Mar 08, 2006)
Sankatmochan temple, the site for tonight’s terror attack, was one of the temples on the list of important religious places where the Centre had carried out extensive security surveys after the Lashkar-e-Toiba attack at Akshardham in Gujarat in September
- In A State Of Ruin (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 08, 2006)
The author is a former foreign secretary.
- 'Intelligence Agencies Had Warned Of Blasts' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Intelligence inputs had been received that terror groups were likely to "create trouble" at either Varanasi's Sankat Mochan or Kashi Vishwanath temples, home ministry officials here said.
- Blasts In Sankatmochan Temple And Railway Station Kill Dozen, Several Injured (Indian Express, CR Jayachandran, Mar 08, 2006)
PM, Kalam appeal for peace • BJP slams ‘competitive minorityism’ • Shameful, say Muslim law board and Jamiat
- Terror Evening Leaves 20 Dead (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Terror struck this temple town this evening when two bomb blasts in quick succession rocked the Sankatmochan Shrine and the Cantonment Railway Station here this evening killing at least 20 people and injuring over 50, some of them seriously.
- Foreign Secretary Clarifies On Kalam's Visit To Myanmar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Visit not to gain influence in the region
Suu Kyi's release will be helpful in restoration of democracy
Myanmar important to India as it shares border with four States
- Implementing India's Separation Plan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 08, 2006)
Fourteen thermal power reactors to come under safeguards between 2006 and 2014. U.S. promises to create conditions for India to have assured and full access to fuel.
- Hours After Blasts, Three Let Men Gunned Down (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Hours after the blasts in Varanasi, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist was shot dead in an encounter with the police in Gosaiganj area on the outskirts of the city early on Wednesday morning.
- N-Deal Will Bring India Into "Non-Proliferation Mainstream": Burns (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Mar 08, 2006)
Seeking to drum up support of the sceptical lawmakers, the US has said the nuclear deal with India would bring it into the "non-proliferation mainstream" and dismissed any parallel between the Indian and Iranian programmes.
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