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- Does The State Know Its Limits? (Indian Express, RAVINDER KAUR, Sep 17, 2006)
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has announced a scheme to encourage marriages between Scheduled and non-Scheduled Castes.
- Cpi To Discuss Upa's Performance At National Executive Meet (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
The CPI will discuss the UPA government's performance on the economic and political fronts and work out its strategy for the forthcoming assembly polls in four states at its two-day National Executive meet beginning here tomorrow.
- Independents’ Day (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 17, 2006)
You don’t need to glance at Madhu Koda’s busy political graph to say this: Jharkhand’s new government-to-be heralds a new promiscuous moment in India’s representative democracy.
- War On Terror (Tribune, Vijai Singh Mankotia , Sep 17, 2006)
India, like most other secular democracies, is being targeted by terrorist organisations, primarily Islamic fundamentalists, who are generally sponsored by Pakistan’s ISI and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda. Ironically, our neighbours like Pakistan,
- Nam Change, Anyone? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 17, 2006)
On the eve of the NAM summit in Havana, that Vatican of anti-Americanism, go to Google and see how many cities in the entire world still have a boulevard, or a landmark named after Tito.
- The New Govt Will Complete Its Full Term (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 17, 2006)
The UPA knows how to handle bureaucrats. My government will listen to the grievances of common people, not thekedars." Madhu Koda, Jharkhand’s CM designate
- India, Pakistan To Set Up Anti-Terror Mechanism (Hindu, N. Ravi, Sep 17, 2006)
Breakthrough at Manmohan Singh-Musharraf talks
Manmohan likely to ask Musharraf help reduce cross border terrorism
India, Pakistan should seize historic opportunity: Musharraf
- Simmering Nepal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2006)
The much publicised ceasefire declared by Comrade Prachanda and his thugs in Nepal, which has been used by Comrade Sitaram Yechury and his unabashed admirers in the UPA Government to claim the mainstreaming of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), is . . .
- Smiling Again (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Sep 17, 2006)
The Manjushree Vidyapith Orphanage in Arunachal Pradesh, against heavy odds, keeps the hopes of many children alive.
In 1998 Lama Thupten quit his job, purchased seven acres of land with his own savings and opened the first orphanage of Arunachal Prades
- Forced Departures (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 17, 2006)
When women, of whatever class, are forced by circumstance to migrate, they expose themselves to new forms of violence and exploitation.
- India Leads Campaign For Revision Of Imf Reform Plan (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Sep 17, 2006)
The present reform plan may erode Fund's legitimacy'
- Beyond The Urgent (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Sep 17, 2006)
Edward Luce, former South Asia bureau chief of Financial Times, talks about his book on India and on aspects of modern Indian political life.
- Protracted Dawn (Hindu, Mike Marqusee, Sep 17, 2006)
While there is no end in sight to the war on terror, the living conditions of the Afghans have only worsened in the last five years.
- Looking Back On A Fiasco (Hindu, Bill Kirkman, Sep 17, 2006)
The Conservative Party in the U.K. is now acknowledging some of its past mistakes and is waking up to the realisation that people are important.
- Mumbai Dreams (Hindu, SUKETU MEHTA, Sep 17, 2006)
seems to have notched a permanent place in the city that he loves so much. He's back promoting translations of his magnum opus, Maximum City, that has now become another catch phrase to define Mumbai.
- Musharraf Says 'Very Good Talks', Pm To Visit Pak (Hindustan Times, MANOJ JOSHI, Sep 17, 2006)
India and Pakistan have once again agreed that dialogue is the better part of diplomacy. After a two-session, hour-long meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf, the two countries on Saturday agreed to resume . . .
- Box-Office Suicide (Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi, Sep 17, 2006)
Often simple moments are the most revealing. In 1993, I made a film called Tales from Planet Kolkata and was invited to show it at the Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany.
- How Many More Ministers Will Azad Induct? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 17, 2006)
Even while avowedly pursuing the noble objective of keeping a modestly sized council of Ministers with austerity as a State policy, the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad seems to have finally succumbed to the pressures from within and outside . . . .
- Chill Thaws In Humid Havana (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Sep 17, 2006)
The India-Pakistan peace process, in virtual deep freeze after the 7/11 Mumbai blasts, thawed in the humid Havana afternoon today after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, on the sidelines of the NAM . . . .
- India And Pakistan Agree To Resume Peace Talks (Reuters, Paul Eckert, Sep 17, 2006)
India and Pakistan will resume formal peace negotiations frozen after July train bombings in Mumbai and set up a joint agency to tackle terrorism, their leaders said on Saturday.
- Anita’S Story (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
In the turbulent last years of the Raj, an Indian maharaja defied convention and married a Spanish flamenco dancer, who was then barely 17.
- Reading Webster Between The Lines (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 17, 2006)
As the world commemorated the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center earlier this week, English language speakers and readers around the world may have been subliminally reminded how Americanised we have . . .
- Muslims Take Protest Against Pope To Streets (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
The muslim street erupted in anger over Pope Benedict XVI’s comments on jihad and community leaders asked the Pontiff to retract his comments and apologise to Muslims.
- What’S In A Nam Summit? Plenty, If... (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 17, 2006)
As the 14th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Nam) gets underway in Havana, its relevance has come under the scanner like never before. Two questions hang over all the atmospherics and photo-ops: will the Nam be able to shrug . ..
- Pope Is Right On Islam (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 17, 2006)
At the height of the war in Lebanon two months ago, an assortment of Arabs, British Muslims, radical socialists and bleeding heart liberals marched through the streets of London with placards proclaiming "we are all Hezbollah." Since Pope Benedict . . .
- Ncp For Greater Say Of Allies (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Sep 17, 2006)
Upping the ante against the total dominance of the Congress in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday demanded 'say' for all allies in running the coalition Government at the Centre.
- I, Me, Mine (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2006)
The ascension of Mr Madhu Koda, an Independent MLA, to the office of Jharkhand's Chief Minister, may appear no more than a quirky aberration in India's politics.
- Temple On Agenda, Vhp Targets Sonia (Asian Age, Venkat Parsa, Sep 17, 2006)
Signalling the return to hardline Hindutva line, the VHP on Saturday formally revived the Ayodhya issue and targeted Congress president Sonia Gandhi, accusing her of seeking to divide the Sant Samaj through Dwarka Shankaracharya, Swami Swaroopanand . . .
- Crybaby India (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Sep 17, 2006)
If India is, as its leaders like to say, the "biggest victim of terrorism", why doesn't the wide world know about it? It's a story of a diplomatic McFailure.
- Needed, More Teachers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2006)
Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut was recently in the news for the wrong reason.
- Imf Warns Asia Of Slowdown (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
The International Monetary Fund said it has upgraded its outlook for Asian economic growth but warned that slower US growth and high oil prices are more to the downside than previously thought.
- Don't Look To Politicians For Peace (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Sep 17, 2006)
Despite the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, the risks of a widening war in the Middle East remain.
- Hunting Dawood (OutLook, B. Raman , Sep 17, 2006)
In their happiness over the conviction of some of the accused involved in the Mumbai explosions of March 1993, the Indian Police and other security agencies should not forget that the mastermind of this act of mass casualty terrorism continues . . . .
- The New Market Failure (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 17, 2006)
John Cassidy writes about neuroeconomics in the New Yorker and finds a new market failure:
- Restore The Confidence (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2006)
There is evidence, or perhaps an illusion, of sudden and great activity on the internal security front, with an apparent shift in emphasis to long-neglected issues of 'hinterland . ..
- Pitfalls Of Identity Politics In Jharkhand (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 17, 2006)
Jharkhand’s new UPA government, which is slated to come into place soon, thanks to the fall of the 18-month-old NDA regime in the state, embodies one of the more disturbing ironies of Indian politics.
- Pope Sorry, Muslims Say Not Enough (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Pope Benedict is sorry Muslims were offended by a speech that provoked fury in the Islamic world and led to calls for the leader of the Catholic church to apologise personally, the Vatican said today.
- Bp, Cairn, Ongc Bid For Indian Oil, Gas (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Global energy firms BP, BG, and Italy’s ENI are among bidders for oil and gas exploration rights in India’s latest and largest ever licensing round, government officials said on Friday.
- Ravages Of The War Against Terror (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Sep 17, 2006)
With every successive 9/11 anniversary, the triumphal-cum-superconfident note struck by President Bush on day one has been gradually muted.
- Battle With Darkness (News International, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 17, 2006)
When they, the recipients of donated kidneys, lit their candles and raised them in the courtyard of the Karachi Press Club on Friday evening, the sight was truly inspiring.
- Noam Chomsky On The Origins Of Terrorism (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 17, 2006)
Mi linguist and perhaps the best known critic of US policies of the current generation, Noam Chomsky, speaks to Saad Sayeed on, among other things, the origins of terrorism, Kashmir, Lebanon, his friendship with the late Eqbal Ahmed and the role . . .
- Back To The Future (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
The ill-fated Women's Protection Bill has created quite a stir. The genesis of the bill, according to the cynics, is that the president wanted it passed before he arrived in the United States so that he could show the world just how well stocked . . .
- Blame Game (News International, Ajmal Shams, Sep 17, 2006)
While the atmosphere still remains relatively tense as far as the relations between neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan are concerned, a window of opportunity remains open in terms of a number of commonalities that define geo-politics in the two . . .
- Absence Of Good Governance (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Sep 17, 2006)
Embarking on his civil career almost seven years ago, General Musharraf promised to strive for the creation of a society that was tolerant and justly administered.
- Musharraf For ‘Closing Chapter Of Tension’ With India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Hours ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said that a “historic opportunity” existed for the two sides to “close the chapter of tension” and that Islamabad was determined to pursue the . . .
- Papal Fallibility (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 17, 2006)
The Pope perhaps did not imagine that an erudite lecture delivered to the university where he once taught that included a reference to a dialogue between a 600-year-old Byzantine emperor and a Persian Muslim would become the latest spark to . . .
- What Ails Our Foreign Policy (Dawn, Javid Husain, Sep 17, 2006)
Pakistan's foreign policy currently suffers from problems of substance and image, a combination that has made the country vulnerable to the challenges of the 21st century.
- Major Setback For Bush (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 17, 2006)
President Bush can do no right these days, even on home turf. An already tottering White House suffered a telling body blow on Thursday when the US Senate Armed Services Committee rejected the president’s plan to try foreign terrorism suspects in . . ..
- Musharraf Feels Heat Of India’S Blame-Game (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 17, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that India should stop the ‘blame-game’ and should adopt a ‘constructive approach’ towards Pakistan.
- Nam Should Not Be Ambiguous On Terrorism: Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
"A message must emanate from us that we are united in our desire to fight and eliminate the scourge of terrorism''
Vital concerns such as poverty, ignorance and disease should not be ignored
`Our problems are global, so must our solutions be' .
- Is ‘Islamic’ Protest Against Pope Benedict Xvi’S Remarks Justified? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 17, 2006)
The speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany on September 12 has enraged the Muslim world on account of the allegedly negative remarks it contained on Islam and the concept of jihad.
- Indian Mp In March For A Hindu Nepal (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Sep 16, 2006)
Yogi Adityanath, BJP MP from Gorakhpur, threw his weight behind two die-hard royalist former generals of Nepal army, as they led a “Hindu march” in the heart of the capital today, defying prohibitory orders to demand that Nepal become a Hindu . . .
- India Of Our Dreams? (Daily Excelsior, V.Y. Kantak, Sep 16, 2006)
What was all this tamasha about celebrating the 100th anniversary of Satyagraha, a movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa for truth and non-violence?
- For Mps It Is Simple (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Sep 16, 2006)
As the turbulent monsoon session of Parliament neared its end it was very interesting to see Lok Sabha members spending an unusually quiet afternoon one day.
- Reading Webster Between The Lines (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 16, 2006)
As the world commemorated the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center earlier this week, English language speakers and readers around the world may have been subliminally reminded how Americanised we have . . .
- Cpi To Discuss Upa Govt Performance In National Executive Meet (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
The forthcoming Assembly elections in four states and the performance of the UPA Government would come up for discussion at the two-day National Executive meeting of CPI beginning here on Monday.
- Crybaby India (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Sep 16, 2006)
If India is, as its leaders like to say, the "biggest victim of terrorism", why doesn't the wide world know about it? It's a story of a diplomatic McFailure. Instead of aggressively pillorying Pakistan, a project that could result in fewer Diwali . . .
- Nam Change, Anyone? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 16, 2006)
On the eve of the NAM summit in Havana, that Vatican of anti-Americanism, go to Google and see how many cities in the entire world still have a boulevard, or a landmark named after Tito.
- Simmering Nepal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 16, 2006)
The much publicised ceasefire declared by Comrade Prachanda and his thugs in Nepal, which has been used by Comrade Sitaram Yechury and his unabashed admirers in the UPA Government to claim the mainstreaming of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), is . . .
- Restore The Confidence (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 16, 2006)
There is evidence, or perhaps an illusion, of sudden and great activity on the internal security front, with an apparent shift in emphasis to long-neglected issues of 'hinterland security', the restoration of the integrity of the police station, . . .
- I, Me, Mine (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 16, 2006)
The ascension of Mr Madhu Koda, an Independent MLA, to the office of Jharkhand's Chief Minister, may appear no more than a quirky aberration in India's politics.
- Jaya Stand Puts Congress In Bind (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
The Congress in Tamil Nadu finds itself in a bind as the ethnic strife hots up in Sri Lanka. With the allies of the Congress in the UPA, including the MDMK, which is extending outside support to the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, taking . . .
- What’S In A Nam Summit? Plenty, If... (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 16, 2006)
As the 14th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Nam) gets underway in Havana, its relevance has come under the scanner like never before.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 16, 2006)
Do the UN, NATO, USA know what they are doing?
- Freedom Of Faith, At Last? (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
The two-day session Gujarat Assembly beginning on Monday will see an amendment to the Freedom of Religion Act, 2003 which made forced conversion illegal.Under the new provisions anyone wanting to convert from one sect of a religion to another sect . . .
- Bp, Ongc, Cairn Bid For Oil, Gas Blocks (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Global energy giants BP, BG, and Italy's ENI are among the bidders for oil and gas exploration rights in the latest and largest yet licensing round, government officials said on Friday.
- Greater Team Work? (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Sep 16, 2006)
Kumaraswamy government needs to be congratulated for showing the necessary political will to go ahead with Greater Bangalore, even if belatedly, despite reservations being expressed in some quarters.
- More Downs Than Ups (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 16, 2006)
With elections in Uttar Pradesh imminent, it’s high time the Chief Election Commissioner and his officials paid adequate attention to happenings in the state, where efforts to undermine the poll process have already begun.
- India Ranks 47th In List Of Corrupt Countries: Wb (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
China and India must move to curb corruption or else their booming economies will likely falter, a senior World Bank official said on Friday.
- The Blunder That Cost The War On Terror (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Sep 16, 2006)
Leaving Afghanistan unfinished and starting the Iraq war has not only let the Taliban and its Pakistani supporters off the hook, but radicalised world opinion against the US and spawned several little al Qaidas
- India At 47 On Corruption List (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
A World Bank report which ranked India 47th on a list of most corrupt countries, said China and India must move to curb corruption or their booming economies will likely falter.
- Koda To Be Sworn In As Jharkhand Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Jharkhand Governor Syed Sibtey Razi has invited UPA leader and Chief Minister- designate Madhu Koda to form the next government in Jharkhand.
- Reaping What You Sow (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 16, 2006)
Unfortunately, people who stray from this path and indulge in corruption, falsehood and crime do not have a conscience and do not suffer from pangs of guilt or ill-health.
- Arjun Set To Spike Foreign Varsity Entry (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Sep 16, 2006)
Even as the HRD Ministry is drafting Foreign Education Providers (Regulatory) Bill (FEPB), Arjun Singh is all set to take on the pro-reform and pro-liberal lobby within the UPA Government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Pope’S Jihad Remarks Spark Muslim Anger (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Muslims deplored today remarks on Islam by Pope Benedict and many of them said the Catholic leader should apologise in person to dispel the impression that he had joined a campaign against their religion.
- Slmm Head Meets Ltte Leaders (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 16, 2006)
The newly appointed acting head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), Larse Solveberg, visited the LTTE administrative headquarters at Kilinochchi.
- Needed, More Teachers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 16, 2006)
Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut was recently in the news for the wrong reason.
- Tamil Politician In Sri Lanka Gets Unesco Prize For Peace (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Sri Lankan Tamil leader V Anandasangaree has been chosen for the prestigious UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for promotion of tolerance and non-violence, 2006.
- In Cold Storage? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 16, 2006)
There is no doubt that we will continue to hear cheerful promises from the government from time to time, but for all practical purposes the women’s rights bill is now in cold storage.
- Us Endorses Waziristan Peace Deal (Dawn, Anwar Iqbal, Sep 16, 2006)
The United States believes that the agreement the government recently signed with pro-Taliban tribal chiefs in Waziristan has the ‘potential to work’.
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