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Articles 21221 through 21320 of 27969:
- India's Power Reforms Stall, Foreign Funds Keep Clear (Reuters, Hiral Vora, Aug 27, 2005)
Power-hungry India faces a stifling energy crisis after a decade of halting, half-hearted reform and payment problems, contract disputes and political interference that have sent most foreign investors packing.
- Whistle-Blowing On Mdbs (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Aug 27, 2005)
This is a story which for me began in the mid 80s when a friend of mino, working as an Economist with the Asian Development Bank in Manila asked me to visit him
- Explosive Recoveries (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 27, 2005)
All of them are volatile recoveries made in the State during the last 72 hours: 1400 kilograms of chemicals in Srinagar, six kilogram RDX along with other ammunition in Satwari, one kilogram RDX from Rajouri and quite a few grenades from the Valley includ
- The Guise Of Contingent Payments (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Aug 27, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a curious case of tax planning which almost succeeded
- U.S. States Bypass Bush; Set To Sign Pact On Freezing Gas Emissions (Hindu, Julian Borger , Aug 27, 2005)
The region generates the same volume of pollutants as Germany
America's north-eastern States are on the brink of a declaration of environmental independence with the introduction of mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions of the kind rejected. .
- India Plans Massive Refining Capacity Addition (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
India plans to invest a massive Rs 35,000 crore in adding new refineries to become an oil product export hub, even as it looks at opportunities to build refineries in Africa and Latin America.
- Al-Qaeda To Attack Asia's Financial Hubs? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Al-Qaeda could be planning an attack on Asian financial centres to try to undermine investor confidence in the region, a senior French anti-terrorism judge said in an interview.
- "Storm Threat Has Doubled" (Hindu, Paul Brown, Aug 27, 2005)
New findings suggest the power of tropical storms has increased due to global warming.
- Brand Iit: The People Behind The Image (Hindu, Dinesh Mohan, Aug 27, 2005)
IITs have justly been ranked as the top educational institutions in India and Asia. A little known fact is that more than 80 per cent of their products live and work in India. The next stage is to restructure and reinvent IITs so that they can become. . .
- Are Wild Birds Villains Or Victims? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 27, 2005)
Have migratory wild birds been responsible for carrying bird flu? Or are they merely victims of the virus and therefore unlikely to spread it?
- Water Harvesting To Become Mandatory In Mangalore Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Model rainwater harvesting unit inaugurated
Civic bodies directed to include rainwater harvesting clause in licence document
Recharging will help improve groundwater quality
- An Irrevocable Error (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 26, 2005)
Sixty years ago, the state of Georgia executed a woman named Lena Baker. Last week the state Board of Pardons and Paroles announced that it would posthumously pardon her.
- Tony Blair’S New Game (Dawn, Sayeed Hasan Khan and Kurt Jacobsen, Aug 26, 2005)
After the bloody London bomb attacks British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned, with an underlying touch of authoritarian glee, that “the rules of the game are changing.”
- The Price Tag Of Alliance With The Us (Dawn, Mustafa Malik, Aug 26, 2005)
In his Independence Day message President Pervez Musharraf reiterated his vow to defeat terrorists and extremists.
- Swiss Brace For More Floods (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Floods across Romania have killed 67 so far this year and the government estimates the damage at 1.5 billion euros.
- Next Stage In Nuclear Reactors (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 26, 2005)
The stress on conserving fossil fuels and a scale-up in renewable energy technology seems to be narrowing the options for high energy consuming countries such as India.
- Western Banks' High Interest In Chinese Banking Sector (Business Line, BATUK GATHANI, Aug 26, 2005)
China has a fast growing economy but its banking sector under-developed, albeit with huge potential for expansion, modernisation and improvements in efficiency.
- Crude Oil Prices Reaches $68 A Barrel, A New Record (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Crude oil prices hit a record $68 a barrel on Thursday after the United States reported a decline in gasoline stocks and China said its crude imports spiked in July, as strong demand on the mainland shows no signs of easing.
- In The Land Of Hammurabi (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 26, 2005)
"We the people of Iraq, who in all our forms and groupings undertake to establish our union freely and by choice, to learn yesterday's lessons for tomorrow, and to write down this permanent constitution... "
- Chairman Hidayatullah And Humour (Tribune, Sudarshan Agarwal, Aug 26, 2005)
I have had the privilege to serve the Rajya Sabha as Secretary-General when Justice M. Hidayatullah adorned the office of Vice-President of India and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.
- Improving Ties With Afghanistan (Tribune, Maj-Gen Himmat Singh Gill (retd) , Aug 26, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Afghanistan can be a turning point for better Indo-Afghan relations. Afghanistan is not just another neighbour, but a buffer to an ever turbulent South Asia where terrorism, religious animosity and civilisational c
- He Wants To Change Latin America's History (Hindu, Richard Gott, Aug 26, 2005)
He's a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, has long been a thorn in the side of the U.S.
- What We Like To Believe (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 26, 2005)
Let me make an honest but terrible confession. My deep and abiding interest in history began through reading Combat comics.
- Indian, Us Commandos Hold Joint Training (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Commandos of special forces of India and the US carried out a three-week joint training exercise in the country August 4 to 19 to hone their combat skills in countering modern security challenges, including terrorist threats,
- Faith In Women Demands That You Trust Them Without Reservation (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 26, 2005)
These are days when almost half the news is reserved for reservation, be it about quota in private colleges, or of seats of power for women.
- A Dalit Perspective On Reforms (Deccan Herald, TRILOCHAN SASTRY, Aug 26, 2005)
The Constitutional obligations can be met by giving Dalits a voice in policy-making to help in their upliftment
- A Life Out Of Living (Deccan Herald, HEERA NAWAZ, Aug 26, 2005)
A true teacher is not assessed by the degrees she has. She has to be natural and innovative
- Musharraf’S Discloser On A.Q. Khan Raises Questions (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Aug 26, 2005)
General Musharraf has now disclosed for the first time that Dr A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani metallurgist who confessed to having proliferated to Iran and Libya also provided centrifuge technology to enrich uranium to North Korea.
- Bush Vows To Fight On In Iraq (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
With public support for the Iraq campaign falling, Bush is under great pressure to come good on his promise that the war will be fought and won.
- Economics And Not Just Spending Is The Key To Development (Greater Kashmir, ER IMTIYAZ, Aug 26, 2005)
Running costs are negligible in hydro power projects and they are affordable for the State. Centre with its vast resources base can afford it, not our improvised State, comments
- Venezuela: A Country On The Edge (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 26, 2005)
Venezuela is living in the shadow of the other 11 September. In 1972, on a day synonymous with death, Salvador Allende
- Side-Effects Of Verdict On Painkillers (Tribune, Katherine Griffiths, Aug 25, 2005)
The desision to award $253m to a widow whose husband died after taking Vioxx might be good news for the thousands of people in the US, UK and elsewhere who suffered after using the blockbuster drug, but there remains a nasty after-effect for the drugs ind
- In Defence Of The Speculator (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Aug 25, 2005)
Governments, regulators and the financially illiterate across the world, suspect, fear and abhor speculators.
- Mutiny’S Bounty (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Aug 25, 2005)
Each time an Indian filmmaker attempts to recreate the past, the resident bore stands up and yelps, ‘‘But this is not history.’’
- Cancelling Out O’Reilly (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 25, 2005)
When the Vietnam war was going on, a man stood in front of then secretary of defence Robert McNamara’s window at the Pentagon and set himself on fire to protest against the war.
- Rising Power (Statesman, SP Seth, Aug 25, 2005)
An important indication that the United States is worried about China’s incursions into the Asia-Pacific region is the inroads it has made into Australia.
- Bandh Karo Bandh Ko (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 25, 2005)
is obviously because of our common past that we in the Indian sub-continent have certain identical traits --- positive as well as negative --- whether we are in this country or in Pakistan or Bangladesh on our two sides.
- Trouble In Russia’S Backyard (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 25, 2005)
Russia, which in the Cold War days ruled over a huge land mass, now finds its influence in the area that constituted the former Soviet Union considerably reduced.
- Plans To Expand Security Council Make No Headway (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Aug 25, 2005)
Propasals to reform the United Nations Security Council are floundering in New York as contenders struggle to resolve their differences and at least two permanent members of the council threaten to block attempts at expansion.
- Cruise Missiles In Neighbourhood (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Aug 25, 2005)
On July 18 President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted that India and the United States would “work together to provide global leadership in areas of mutual concern and interest.”
- Draw Parallels (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 25, 2005)
The Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip and four of the 120 settlements in the West Bank has been widely welcomed.
- India And Iran: A Time For Reflection (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 25, 2005)
With vital energy, trade, manufacturing, and security interests involved, Iran and India have an overwhelming stake in resisting U.S. pressure that seeks to inhibit their relationship.
- Road To Hell (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 25, 2005)
Better roads mean better life, but what can be said of a road that takes life of human beings who make the mistake of plying over it, Khursheed Ahmad Trali narrates
- Palace In Ruins (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 25, 2005)
What is the most popular identification mark of the trans-Himalayan district headquarters of Leh which is an international destination?
- The Drama And Trauma Of Gaza (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 25, 2005)
A great media circus is being played out in Gaza as the Israeli army evicts Jewish settlers to return the strip of land to the Palestinians, who were dispossessed in 1967.
- This Is How We Perceive The Problem Of Kashmir-Vi (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 25, 2005)
We are concluding the full text of the discussion between Muhammad Yasin Malik, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and Omar Abdullah,
- Yuan Revaluation — No Big Advantage For India (Business Line, Prithwis De, Aug 25, 2005)
India may not really benefit from the yuan revaluation. This is because of its poor competitiveness in the international market, domestic policy constraints, and limited overlapping of export products with China.
- The Jack Bauer Syndrome (Hindu, Jonathan Freedland, Aug 25, 2005)
Think Of it as the dilemma of 24. In the TV thriller, hero Jack Bauer has 24 hours to avert a catastrophe
- Challenge Of Israeli Unilateralism (Hindu, Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Aug 25, 2005)
Parallel unilateralism can build self-rule without concessions.
- Fenced In (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Aug 25, 2005)
Suddenly we have discovered to our dismay that the fence that we are setting up to keep the Bangladeshis out could very well keep them in.
- Riddled With Contradictions (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 25, 2005)
While the committee mandated to draw up Iraq's constitution submitted its draft minutes before the expiry of the August 22 deadline, the interim parliament decided to wait for another three days before voting on the measure.
- There's A Method To The Mess (Deccan Herald, Rick Marin, Aug 25, 2005)
In Google age, die-hard minimalists are being forced to submit to fashionable new levels of clutter
- Accounting's Key Role In Human History Is Of Creating Institutionalised Memory (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 25, 2005)
In Chapter XX, titled `Of the tradesman's keeping his books, and casting up his shop', of The Complete English Tradesman, Daniel Defoe writes about a tradesman who could not write, but could still manage `with so many ingenious knacks of his own'.
- The Road After Gaza (Dawn, Robert Malley and Aaron D. Miller, Aug 25, 2005)
ISRAEL’S disengagement from Gaza is a historic event, but for Palestinians and Israelis it will soon be history.
- Kindness Gone Awry (Tribune, Saroop Krishen, Aug 24, 2005)
For a very very long time people have followed the practice of placing on the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem letters addressed to God to seek divine help for their problems.
- Nepal: Dangerous Drift (Tribune, S.D. Muni, Aug 24, 2005)
A recent study published in an American journal places Nepal at the 37th place in a list of 60 prospective failing states all over the world.
- Khan And Us Perfidy (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Aug 24, 2005)
We have it now on the authority of Ruud Lubbers, a long-serving former Prime Minister of Holland,
- India's Economic Opportunities And Perils (Hindu, Prabhudev Konana, Aug 24, 2005)
The prospects of traditional manufacturing sectors such as textiles have become bright.
- Registration Is A Must (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
The madressah registration drive is not going to be as easy as previously thought, going by what happened in Islamabad on Monday.
- Reining In The Madressahs (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Aug 24, 2005)
Last week the government issued an ordinance requiring all the madressahs in the country to get themselves registered with the authorities.
- Rising India (Deccan Herald, Anand Giridharadas, Aug 24, 2005)
World War II thrust an acute test on India: Should Indians, then under British rule, join what Japan billed as a pan-Asian struggle to expel Western imperialism from Asia?
- A Mother’S Quest For Peace (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
A couple of years ago, during a rare interlude of optimism occasioned by evidence of a massive international movement aimed at pre-empting the war against Iraq,
- Reverse Swing (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2005)
Australia has acquired a reputation over the last few years for having one of the world’s toughest immigration policies.
- India Must Play Mediator Between The Muslims And The West’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2005)
A member of the House of Lords, Bhikhu Parekh has been living in the UK for over four decades.
- Pak Weaponisation Programme (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Aug 24, 2005)
Three days before Pakistan celebrated its 58th Independence Day on August 14, 2005, it successfully test-fired the Babur Cruise Missile obviously in an attempt to reassure the countrymen that with the military at the helm of affairs their country was. . .
- Asylum And Terror (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 24, 2005)
There is a small but important piece of information coming from London, the latest battlefield of terrorists.
- Children Caught In The Crossfire (Deccan Herald, JANARDHAN ROYE, Aug 23, 2005)
In war-torn countries, children lose their lives and some their childhood as they are forced to become combatants
- Saddam Changes Lawyers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 23, 2005)
The news from Baghdad is that Saddam Hussein has fired all his defence lawyers and wants new ones.
- King Fahd’S Many Legacies (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Aug 23, 2005)
Following his assassination by a royal prince, King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud was succeeded by Khaled, the deceased king’s half brother.
- Un Resolutions Obsolete For Solving K-Issue (Daily Excelsior, L C Kaul, Aug 23, 2005)
Addressing a public meeting organised by Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, on the first anniversary of the party, at Hyderpura,
- Globalization Of Education (Dawn, Niall Ferguson, Aug 23, 2005)
More will mean worse.” It was the British novelist Kingsley Amis who prophesied that expanding universities would lower standards.
- The New Face Of Mccarthyism (Dawn, MADELEINE BUNTING, Aug 23, 2005)
A campaign is being orchestrated through the media to destroy the credibility of many of the most important Muslim institutions in Britain, including the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).
- Providing The Knowledge Edge (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Aug 23, 2005)
To sharpen India's knowl-edge edge in the 21st cen-tury, the Government has set up a Commission which will suggest how knowledge can be used to change the lives of average citizens.
- Talent On Contract (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 23, 2005)
An interview-based study in this newspaper last Sunday on contract jobs in the State Government has brought out varied responses although not entirely on unexpected lines.
- Engage Positively With Iran (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 23, 2005)
The resumption of Iran's uranium conversion and enrichment activity, with the potential to produce nuclear weapons, after a nine-month freeze and the consequent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution. . .
- Hyphenated Americans (Tribune, F.S. Aijazuddin, Aug 23, 2005)
The phrase “Cablinasian” was coined by Tiger Woods, the US golf phenomenon, to describe his parentage....
- Cruise Missiles In Sub-Continent — The Sino-Pakistani Nexus (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Aug 23, 2005)
India cannot be too careful about the manner in which China is supplying Pakistan with missiles to give latter the capability to strike at cities all across India.
- What Chance Ipi? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 23, 2005)
Reports emanating from Islamabad suggest that Pakistan, Iran and India are expected to start trilateral negotiations on the IPI gas pipeline by November.
- Looking Beyond Gaza Evacuation (Dawn, Mahdi Masud, Aug 23, 2005)
Published on April 30, 2003, the roadmap for a Middle East settlement, sponsored by the Quartet (comprising the US, the UN, Russia and the EU) called for a comprehensive settlement based on a two-state solution.
- Indonesia's Burning Problem (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Aug 23, 2005)
Mechanisms need to be put in place to create a permanent system to handle crises on a continuing basis.
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