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Articles 2921 through 3020 of 43820:
- The Growth-Jobs Disconnect (Business Standard, Subir Gokarn, Oct 09, 2006)
The NSSO survey results should be analysed by all stakeholders and the debate must transit from being conceptual to factual.
- Bank Derivative Deals Under Lens (Business Standard, Anindita Dey, Oct 09, 2006)
RBI seeks data from foreign banks after FCI's complaint.
- Iran, Turkey Support Syria More Than Arabs: Bashar (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Syrian President Bashar al-Asad has said that Iran and Turkey support Syria’s position more than the Arab countries do, IRNA reported.
- Clemency — For The Right Reasons (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 09, 2006)
The issue of exercising presidential clemency and commuting to life imprisonment the death sentence passed on Mohammad Afzal in the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case — which took a toll of nine lives, not counting the five terrorists killed . . .
- Food Security: Safeguarding The Heartland (Hindu, M.S. Swaminathan, Oct 09, 2006)
The gap between potential and actual yields is high in most parts of India. The principles of conservation, particularly with reference to land and water, need to be integrated with farming practices.
- State Of Change (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 09, 2006)
Something has definitely changed in Indian politics if an election-bound chief minister in a state notorious for spreading electoral largesse can sell state corporations and persuade state employees to take VRS — and no one in scandalised.
- Growth Gets An Fdi Spur (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 09, 2006)
The sharp increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) is heartening and is proof that from being primarily consumption driven, the fast-track economic growth is increasingly being fuelled by investment.
- India, Israel For Pre-Emptive Strike Against Pakistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 09, 2006)
Israeli Ambassador to New Delhi David Danieli has said that his government appreciates the idea that India should launch pre-emptive attacks to dismantle alleged terror camps in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Is Pakistan Aiding Iraqi Resistance Too? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 08, 2006)
Accusing Pakistan of providing assistance to Taliban, commanders of five NATO countries, based in Afghanistan, are reported to have asked their governments to use once again the threatening language of ‘either with us or against us’ vis-à-vis Pakistan.
- Shaken And Waiting For Someone To Stir (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
It's stocktaking time; one year on from the earthquake that devastated the north of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. Time to look at and evaluate what has or has not, depending on which side you stand, been done.
- Sycophancy, Now With A New, Desperate Edge (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Oct 08, 2006)
Last week I spent a whole day attending a Congress Party rally in Jaipur and it left me feeling unusually depressed about the future of our sad and ancient land.
- Living With Disasters (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
On this eighth of October, we observe the first anniversary of the most severe national disaster in our history. And as anniversaries go, this has a particular significance.
- Capital Suggestion (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
Al Azhar Mosque was founded on the 14th day of Ramadan the year 359 H or 971 AD (after the name of Sayeda Fatima Al-Zahra). In 975 AD, Chief Justice Abdul Hasan Al-No'man of the Fatimid Caliphate gave his first lecture on Shiite . . .
- Congress Retro (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 08, 2006)
In re-invoking the 20-Point Programme and the "Garibi Hatao" slogan - used so effectively in the 1971 election - the Congress may or may not quicken the pulse of voters, but, certainly, it has given nostalgia buffs their moment of the year.
- Lean On North Korea (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 08, 2006)
South Korea's alarm over its northern neighbour's threat to carry out nuclear tests is understandable. With its candidate all set to take over from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the last thing Seoul wants at this stage is Pyongyang to defy . . .
- Kargil, Lies And Musharraf (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Oct 08, 2006)
More than the problem of evolving a joint anti-terror mechanism, the real challenge for India's policy-makers and strategists is one of properly understanding and countering President Pervez Musharraf's personalised diplomatic offensive wrapped in . . .
- It's An Epidemic: Dengue Needs A Community-Based Cure (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 08, 2006)
Now that over 2,900 dengue cases, with 39 fatalities, have been reported from all across the country, the Centre would do well to officially declare the current outbreak an epidemic.
- Special Article (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Oct 08, 2006)
Seven phases of Indian foreign policy may be identifiable since Nehru; the current phase seems to involve subservience to the strong, jingoism otherwise
- The Empire Of Deceit (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Oct 08, 2006)
How the world and India continue to place faith in Musharraf is a believe-it-or-not story
- Israel ‘Lauds’ Rajnath Idea To Quell Terror (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Israel has "appreciated" Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Rajnath Singh’s idea to let India take a proactive role in dismantling terror camps in Pakistan and Bangladesh after taking the international community into confidence, the party said . . .
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 08, 2006)
An ingenuous way to defeat the bandh
- Story Of Musharraf's 'Love' (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Oct 08, 2006)
Anybody who goes through Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's recently published autobiography "In the line of fire'' is bound to end up with the conclusion that this man was always nursing a crush for one or the other girl or woman till atleast . . .
- Troubled Lives (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 08, 2006)
Exception proves the rule. For one Indra Nooyi allowed past the glass barrier, there will be innumerable others kept firmly shut out.
- North - East In Darkness (Daily Excelsior, Sanchet Barua, Oct 08, 2006)
The emerging political and economic contours in the north-east can be expected to worsen to a point that is completely unmanageable, unless urgent and imaginative steps are taken to address basic issues of security and development.
- Awareness Campaign Against Diseases To Be Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
District-level meeting chalks out action plan
- A Whiter Shade Of Brown (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 08, 2006)
Here's a particularly interesting paradox. Nearly sixty years after Partition, some Pakistanis continue to exhibit a disproportionate negativity towards India. '37, '47, '65, '71 and 2002 are consistently rounded off to 666, the mark of the devil.
- Reform The Cop (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 08, 2006)
As the Supreme Court handed down its judgement on the state of police reforms in India last week, Dr Kiran Bedi, Director-General, Bureau of Police Research and Development, Government of India, called for September 22 to be observed as “Rule of . . .
- Foreign Policy: Menon For Consensus (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Oct 08, 2006)
In move that has no precedence, Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon has initiated a process of consultations with leaders of prominent political parties with a view to forge consensus on key foreign policy issues.
- Slow And Steady Wins The Race (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 08, 2006)
The Independent Monitoring Commission supervising the Stormont Agreement to end the Northern Ireland dispute has reported that the Irish Republican Army’s violent campaign against British rule “is over”.
- Terrorists Cannot Be Dubbed Freedom Fighters: Justice Anand (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
National Human Rights Commissioner (NHRC) Justice A S Anand today said that to term a terrorist as a freedom fighter was to insult freedom fighters.
- Theatre Everywhere (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
London puts on many performances for its visitors.
- We Helped J&k Insurgency: Pak (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Pakistan has admitted that it might have helped insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir at “some time” but claimed it is now “trying our best” to prevent infiltration of militants into India.
- Estranged Bedfellows (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Oct 08, 2006)
Despite the histrionics of this week, the Shiv Sena and the BJP cannot afford to break their alliance. It is perhaps recognition of this reality that has led to the uneasy truce on the Chimur assembly seat that both parties were laying claim to.
- Victims Of A Trust Deficit (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 08, 2006)
The J.M. Lyngdoh Committee on electoral reforms shows complete lack of comprehension about the philosophical postulates that underly the system of democratic elections in India’s colleges and universities.
- A Fast Move In Delhi (Indian Express, Kartyk Venkatraman, Oct 08, 2006)
For the past 30-odd years Manipur, home to over 30 militant groups and bitter ethnic strife, has known just one way to settle disputes:
- Foley’S Folly & Other Monkey Business (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 08, 2006)
In 1998, Bob Livingston won the Republican Party’s blessing to succeed Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House.
- Sting Operation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 08, 2006)
The country is suddenly looking at the Aedes aegypti mosquito a little more closely than it has in a long, long while.
- Masala Maketh The Book (Deccan Herald, Suresh Menon, Oct 08, 2006)
As far as political books go, it is the sensational and lesser known truths that sell. ‘In the Line of Fire’ falls in the former category.
- Investment Of $320bn Needed For Roads, Ports: Manmohan (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is persisting with his pro-reforms pitch. A day after resolving to take a fresh stab at politically sensitive labour reforms, while speaking at ET Awards function in Mumbai, Singh on Saturday vowed to undertake an . . .
- Reading Between The General’S Lines (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Oct 08, 2006)
Perhaps one way of getting the measure of Musharraf’s “memoirs” is to consider what the book isn’t. It is not, in the strict sense of the word, an autobiography or an exercise in Presidential literature.
- Riddled With Error (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Oct 08, 2006)
The author takes on a large canvas of issues and there is evidence in the book of her having put in a fair amount of work in terms of gathering information, but at the end of it, the reader is left with a feeling of dissatisfaction.
- To Dream, To Think, To Go On (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Defeat is never easy to digest, in any endeavour in life — all the more so when the loss is both personal and, in a sense, national...
- Recording Gandhi (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Oct 08, 2006)
Listening to the speeches of N.K. Bose is more rewarding than reading many books on Gandhi.
- Accord Between Main Sri Lankan Political Parties Has Significance . . . (Hindu, S. Dorairaj , Oct 08, 2006)
The agreement between the two main Sri Lankan parties — the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the United National Party — provides room for cautious optimism in the efforts to find a viable solution to the island's ethnic conflict, according . . .
- Abvp Protests Against Demand To Commute Terrorist's Death Sentence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
`The demand is part of vote bank politics'
- "No Chikungunya Death In State" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
Has anyone verified the names of victims, asks Karunanidhi
- Army Was Caught Off Guard In Kargil: Tipnis (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2006)
IAF turned down request for helicopter gunships, insisted on `authorisation'
- Preserving The Lingam Our Major Task, Says Arun Kumar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 08, 2006)
Shri Amarnathji is one of the holiest Hindu pilgrimage centres, located at an altitude of 3,900 meters in South Kashmir. What adds to its mystique is the inaccessible location and legends surrounding the formation of the holy ice lingam every year.
- Impact Of Falling Oil Prices (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 07, 2006)
International oil prices have dropped from a peak of $78.40 in July to around $60 a barrel because of a weakening of international demand and the expectation of a global economic slowdown next year.
- Nato Command In Afghanistan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
NATO's assumption of control of security for all of Afghanistan is the first time since the end of the Second World War that US troops will be deployed under foreign command.
- The Empire Of Deceit (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Oct 07, 2006)
How the world and India continue to place faith in Musharraf is a believe-it-or-not story
Pick up a textbook of abnormal psychology and go to the chapter on sociopathic personality disorders - you will find a disturbingly accurate portrait of . . .
- Mirwaiz Sees Early Siachen Solution (Asian Age, Anwar Iqbal, Oct 07, 2006)
Pakistan and India may resolve the Siachen dispute during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s expected visit to Islamabad but there could be little progress on the Kashmir issue, says Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
- Russia Opposes Ultimatum On Iran, Major Powers Meet (Reuters, Sophie Walker, Oct 07, 2006)
Russia said it agreed with China no ultimatum should be issued to Iran over its nuclear programme, underlining divisions as world powers met on Friday to discuss U.S. and British proposals for possible sanctions.
- Pm Sure Of Reforms Accord (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Even as the Left parties attacked the government on its economic policies, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today appeared confident of forging a consensus on financial sector reforms, which he felt should be stepped up.
- Yechury Targets Upa On Its Policies (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury said that his party has decided to take on the Congress-led UPA coalition through protests for demanding a shift in its economic policies after the Centre rejected its alternative resource mobilisation plan.
- India Needs To Sign Npt For Nuclear Cooperation With Europe: Eu (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
the European Union on Friday asked India to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying this would open the doors for civil nuclear cooperation with European nations.
- We May Have Helped Insurgency Some Time, Says Pakistan Envoy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Pakistan has admitted that it might have helped insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir at ``some time'' but claimed "it is now trying its best'' to prevent infiltration of militants into India.
- Picking Winners (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 07, 2006)
In a recent Reason article, Shikha Dalmia writes an open letter to Vinod Khosla, entrepreneur and co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
- Kargil, Lies And Musharraf (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Oct 07, 2006)
More than the problem of evolving a joint anti-terror mechanism, the real challenge for India's policy-makers and strategists is one of properly understanding and countering President Pervez Musharraf's personalised diplomatic offensive wrapped . . .
- It's An Epidemic: Dengue Needs A Community-Based Cure (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 07, 2006)
Now that over 2,900 dengue cases, with 39 fatalities, have been reported from all across the country, the Centre would do well to officially declare the current outbreak an epidemic.
- Think Out Of Box: Pm To Polity (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the polity to shun 'chalta hai' (complacent) attitude and think out of the box to push forward reforms for building India as a dream nation.
- Policy Myopia And The Economic Disconnect (Business Line, Priya Mohan, Oct 07, 2006)
India's inherent social problems have taken the backseat because of the short-sighted social and economic reforms.
- Let’S Avoid Complacency On Energy Security (The Financial Express, NK SINGH, Oct 07, 2006)
A softer oil regime should not distract us from the need of the hour
- Jessica Murder Stung Venod Resigns From Hooda Govt (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The Jessica Lal murder case on Friday claimed its first major political casualty when Haryna power minister Venod Sharma, the controversial Congress leader and father of the main accused Manu Sharma, resigned from the Hooda cabinet.
- Modernisation Of Education Set Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 07, 2006)
It is pertinent question before all educationists and public in general as to what is to be future of modern generation so for as the changing scenario of the education is concerned.
- Logical Reaction (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 07, 2006)
Many will share the dismay expressed by Mr Abdul Rahim Rather, National Conference Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, over the Government's decision to put on ice the proposed one-month Assembly session in Srinagar.
- Leave The Future To The Naxals? (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Oct 07, 2006)
Growth is necessary but not sufficient to solve the political consequences of 450 million unemployable.
- India Needs To Sign Npt For Nuke Cooperation With Europe: Eu (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The European Union today asked India to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying this would open the doors for civil nuclear cooperation with European nations.
- India Must Sign Npt For Civil-Nuclear Cooperation With Eu: Fontelles (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Oct 07, 2006)
The European Union on Friday asked India to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), saying this would open the doors for civil nuclear cooperation with European nations.
- Quake Areas To Get Rs3bn For Housing Subsidy (Dawn, Ahmed Hassan, Oct 07, 2006)
The federal government on Friday decided to provide Rs3 billion for early payment of housing subsidy to the earthquake-affected people of 34 union councils of the NWFP and Azad Kashmir.
- 20 Injured As Protests Continue In Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Twenty people were hurt on Friday in fresh clashes in held Kashmir between police and demonstrators demanding clemency for a Muslim man sentenced to death for plotting a 2001 attack on parliament, police said.
- Prisoners In Private Jails (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 07, 2006)
That medieval practices exist in the country in this day and age was proved on Wednesday when a cleric and his six guards were apprehended for running a private jail in the NWFP.
- Jessica Lives On (Deccan Herald, Sucheta Dalal, Oct 07, 2006)
The reason why Jessica Lal’s case is so important is because in it we see the most blatant evidence of subversion of our criminal justice system.
- Jingoism Over Belgaum Won’T Help (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 07, 2006)
Karnataka needs to win over the hearts of the people of Belgaum district through better models of development than in neighbouring villages across the border, than merely shouting “Belgaum is ours and we will not part with it at any cost.”
- Al-Qaeda Leader In Iraq Not Dead: Us (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The US military said on Thursday the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was still very much alive, denying reports by some Iraqi politicians that he had been tracked down and killed.
- Us Tones Down N Korea Rhetoric (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
US toned down its rhetoric on North Korea a day after bluntly telling Pyongyang that it can either have a future or nuclear weapons but not both. Washington said it was not an "ultimatum" but a statement of "policy".
- Congress Retro (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 07, 2006)
In re-invoking the 20-Point Programme and the "Garibi Hatao" slogan - used so effectively in the 1971 election - the Congress may or may not quicken the pulse of voters, but, certainly, it has given nostalgia buffs their moment of the year.
- Waziristan Deal Achieving Desired Results:musharraf (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Oct 07, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has said the peace deal signed with the tribal elders in North Waziristan is progressing well towards achieving desired objectives of peace and stability in that area and stressed follow-up actions to ensure speedy . . .
- Lean On North Korea (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 07, 2006)
A rogue regime can't have the bomb
- Our Ailing Leaders (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Oct 07, 2006)
It costs the nation a fortune to keep him in poverty. These, or words to this effect were very fondly spoken by Sarojini Naidu, the late freedom fighter and ‘‘nightiangle’’ of India to describe the cost of ‘‘maintaining’’ Gandhi and his very, very . . .
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