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Articles 5121 through 5220 of 43820:
- Vande Mataram (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2006)
September 7 has passed with some people singing Vande Mataram and a vast majority without singing it.
- China’S Foreign Policy (Tribune, S.P. Seth, Sep 09, 2006)
I would appear that China’s former president and party general secretary, Jiang Zemin, is not quite ready yet to retire into political oblivion. He wanted a role like Deng Xiaoping as the ultimate arbiter of Chinese politics and policies even after . . .
- Cops Find 875 Rockets Meant For Maoists (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
In perhaps the biggest haul of modern weapons from any terrorist or extremist outfit in the country, the Andhra Pradesh police on Friday seized 875 rockets and 30 launchers said to be meant for the Maoists from the godowns of a private transport . . .
- Posters Make A Mockery Of Poll (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
The country’s largest university went to the polls today in the middle of a nation-wide debate on the need for student elections.
- Bjp Decides Gel Vande Mataram With Aam Aadmi Issues (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
The BJP strategists met here on Friday at the party's national executive and decided to launch a nationwide agitation against spiralling prices. The party has also sought a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to study farmers' suicides and suggest . . .
- Just Nam-Sake Relevance (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Sep 09, 2006)
Dogmatism and ideological rigidity are often the biggest hurdles in the conduct of a nation's foreign policy. What may have been relevant four decades ago may not necessarily be relevant or even desirable today.
- 875 Rockets Seized In Ap (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
In perhaps the biggest haul of modern weapons from any terrorist or extremist outfit in the country, the Andhra Pradesh police on Friday seized 875 rockets and 30 launchers said to be meant for Maoists from the godowns of a private transport . . .
- Lost Landscape (Times of India, Avijit Ghosh, Sep 09, 2006)
Much before Hrishikesh Mukherjee's demise last month, his cinematic landscape too had disappeared. Nobody in Bollywood makes his kind of films anymore.
- An Indiaphile’S Files On India (Indian Express, Jayaditya Gupta, Sep 09, 2006)
His second stint in Washington has allowed Ed Luce the proximity and objectivity to observe the changes in American society, and the world at large, post-9/11. It has also lent him the distance, of time and space, to better explain his book, In . . .
- Indian Envoy Under Attack In Sri Lanka Earns Praise (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
Sri Lankan leaders Friday rallied to the defence of Indian High Commissioner Nirupama Rao, denouncing a minister who had accused her of interfering in the island's internal affairs.
- Losing Lives To Find Coal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 09, 2006)
Over the last 48 hours, all 50 miners trapped in a BCCL coalmine in Jharia, Dhanbad have been found dead. There are many reasons that add up to make our mines death traps, but what stands out is that public sector monopoly in our coalmines slows down . .
- Lives Are Cheap (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 09, 2006)
In a second accident within a month, 54 miners have died in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand after the roof of a Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) coal mine collapsed. Deadly methane gas was released following an explosion on Wednesday.
- Step Down (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 09, 2006)
Blair should listen to his conscience and resign.
- Courting Disaster (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 09, 2006)
Another horrendous chapter has been added to the long history of coalmine disasters in India with the suspected death of 50 workers after the roof of a state-owned coalmine collapsed following an explosion in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand on Thursday.
- The Path To Sanity (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Sep 09, 2006)
The fictional Hossain Miya’s promise of an island without either masjid or mandir in Manik Bandopadhyay’s Padma Nadir Majhi — which the theatre group, Pratikriti, staged with great verve last Sunday — should have a special resonance for his . . . .
- The Telgi ‘Creators’ Shouldn’T Go Scot Free (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Sep 09, 2006)
How and why did a “confession” statement made three years ago suddenly surface now and what could be the motive of those behind the deliberate leak could certainly be debated.
- How Pm Will Walk Nam Tightrope (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2006)
The Havana summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on September 15-16 is expected to be a tightrope walk for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Loaded as the guest list for the summit is with leaders of well-known anti-US persuasion, India will hope . . .
- Flowers And Guns (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 09, 2006)
Guns and roses or, for that matter, flowers and insurgency, are an incongruous combination. But in Mizoram, the two are intertwined, as if destined to be made for each other.
- Back To The Roots (Deccan Herald, SANDEEP SHASTRI, Sep 09, 2006)
The question is not who are elected to the Rajya Sabha but how they function in preserving the federal fabric.
- Why Did I Go To India? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 09, 2006)
Sept 3: I'm going for a simple reason: India matters so much in the modern world…and is an incredibly diverse society... People are free to be Indian and Muslim, or Indian and Sikh, or Indian and Hindu, without any contradiction.
- Leaders Must Know When To Step Down (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 09, 2006)
Tony Blair’s stony silence on the precise date when he will step down as prime minister does little to enhance his considerably sullied reputation.
- The Rules Of Reconstruction (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 09, 2006)
Lebanon’s reconstruction, so painstakingly carried out in the 1990s, is now at risk of being undone.
- Muslims Join Mass Recitation In Gujarat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Many minority institutions voluntarily organise group singing
- India, China Ink Pact On Science And Technology (Hindu, Ashok Dasgupta , Sep 08, 2006)
India and China on Thursday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for "useful and purposive" cooperation in Science and Technology with the objective of entering into a strategic relationship in all fields of mutual benefit.
- Iraq Qaeda Chief Threatens New Attacks (Reuters, HEBA KANDIL, Sep 08, 2006)
Al Qaeda's new leader in Iraq said the country's Sunni politicians were treacherous and warned of more attacks against U.S.-led forces there, according to an Internet audio tape posted on Thursday.
- Pakistan Risks Creating Al Qaeda, Taliban Sanctuary (Reuters, SIMON CAMERON-MOORE, Sep 08, 2006)
Five years after President Pervez Musharraf bowed to U.S. pressure to withdraw support for the Taliban in Afghanistan, his government has signed a peace deal with Pakistani Taliban.
- China Still Elusive On Support To India's Bid For Unsc (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
China today said it was willing to "intensify" consultations with India on revamping the UN Security Council to make it more efficient and democratic but was non-committal on actively supporting New Delhi's bid for a permanent seat in the body.
- Spellcheck! (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 08, 2006)
Prof. Henry Higgins never got a definitive answer to his query “why can’t the English teach their children how to speak” and it is clear his concerns went beyond being called “Enery”.
- What Taliban? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 08, 2006)
Is NATO fighting a ghost in Afghanistan?
Something very strange is going on in Afghanistan.
- Risks Of Online Genetic Testing (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 08, 2006)
Since the human genome went public, a raft of websites has offered to analyse our DNA -- for a price. But at what cost to our health?
- Speaker Notices To 3 Jharkhand Mlas (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Jharkhand Assembly Speaker Mr Inder Singh Namdhari today served notices on legislators Mr Kamlesh Singh, Mr Enos Ekka and Mr Stephen Marandi in response to separate petitions filed by the BJP seeking their disqualification.
- Vande Mataram Electrifies India (Pioneer, Navneet Anand, Sep 08, 2006)
The national song is nation's pride. Vande Mataram is a symbol of a vibrant India, an icon that binds the past with the present and the glorious future.
- At Least 43 Miners Dead In Jharkhand; Hopes Of More Survivors Fading (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
A day after 50 workers were trapped in a mine of the Bharat Coking Coal Limited's Bhatbih Colliery in Jharia, hopes of finding survivors began fading.
- Most Sang Out, Few Abstained (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Nearly a century back, Rabindranath Tagore in an ode to Vande Mataram wrote, "It was the silken thread which had woven the nation.
- Blair Succumbs To Pressure (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 08, 2006)
Tony Blair, Britain’s embattled Prime Minister faced a growing rebellion on Wednesday as a junior minister and at least five official aides tendered their resignations demanding that he step down in a row over his leadership.
- Foreign Aid Or Economic Freedom? (The Financial Express, Parth J Shah, Sep 08, 2006)
FDI and remittances have the potential to offset aid as important engines of growth in South Asia
- Vande Mataram (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
A hundred years ago when the Congress adopted Vande Mataram as the National Song at its Varanasi session on September 7, 1905, the stalwarts of India's freedom struggle could not have envisaged the possibility of Bankim Chandra . . .
- Sins Of The Father (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
t is impossible not to sympathise with Mr Veerappa Moily, the chairman of the Oversight Committee on Reservations and former Chief Minister of Karnataka, as he battles the street-level threats and plain bullying of . . .
- Clash Within Civilisation (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Sep 08, 2006)
In two recent incidents, Muslim lives have been lost in violence.
- Collective Guardianship (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Sep 08, 2006)
The murder of Prof Sabharwal in a college campus should make us think about the role of politics in educational institutions
- Life After Fidel (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 08, 2006)
Fidel castro's succession may be easier to agree than Tony Blair’s, but there is plenty of chatter in Havana and beyond about what will happen when the iconic Cuban leader is no longer in charge.
- He Taught In A College... (OutLook, NAGENDAR SHARMA, Sep 08, 2006)
I see that the world continues to move on as if nothing happened, people continue to lead their lives normally, despite the fact that an elderly college professor was murdered in broad daylight by goonda elements. Was the only fault of my father . . .
- Blair To Quit Within A Year (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 08, 2006)
After days of speculation about his political future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday confirmed that he would quit within 12 months but refused to set a date saying he did not think it would be "right'' to do so at this stage.
- Don't Cap Fdi On Bourses: They Are Not Strategic (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2006)
The government’s resolve to quickly put in place a policy on foreign ownership of stock exchanges is welcome. This exercise ought to be part of a larger deliberation including the role of exchanges, ownership limits and the nature of the entities . . .
- Constitution Is Supreme: Judicial Review Is A Basic Feature (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 08, 2006)
We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to set up a nine-judge constitution bench to examine Parliament’s powers to enact laws and put them beyond the pale of judicial review by including them in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution.
- This Too Shall Pass (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 08, 2006)
Manish Adhikary's mind takes a curious ride on a number of important issues gripping the people when he is left idle by a midnight power cut
- Foreign Aid Or Economic Freedom? (Business Standard, Parth J Shah, Sep 08, 2006)
Aid leads to larger government while economic freedom eventually results in higher FDI and growth.
- Mlas To Take Part In Bijli Adalat Tomorrow (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
It will be the first time that such an event attracts political leadership
- Rbi Sounds Farm Warning (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 08, 2006)
Halting and indecisive steps have meant little progress on the farm front.
- Why Globalisation Is In Trouble - I (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 08, 2006)
The dominant world powers historically pushed for globalisation as a means of increasing wealth and influence. Yet those nations fret as the emerging powers of India and China embrace the same strategy.
- We Want To Push Energy Conservation And Efficiency Strongly' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 08, 2006)
The Government is serious and you can see reform in the coal and power sectors and in many areas of non-conventional energy in the next few years. — DR KIRIT S. PARIKH, MEMBER, PLANNING . . .
- Govt May Lower Political Temperature (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 08, 2006)
The only BNP member in the National Assembly, Mr Abdul Rauf Mengal has resigned from the House in protest against kill ing of Nawab Akbar Bugti and his last speech was full of all sorts of grievances and accusations.
- Why Can’T Gen Musharraf Say Goodbye To The Mullahs? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 08, 2006)
The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal has threatened to resign from the assemblies if the government goes ahead with the passage of the Women’s Protection Bill as it now stands.
- Disenfranchising Women (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 08, 2006)
It is unfortunate that the tribal areas in the NWFP should continue to be governed by medieval social practices while there is at least an attempt to question and debate regressive customs and laws in other parts of the country.
- Blair Is Going To Quit — But When? (Hindu, William Keegan , Sep 08, 2006)
Tony Blair has led the British Labour Party to an unprecedented three election victories in a row — now all the talk is how the party can get rid of him.
- Caste Votes On Campus (Indian Express, NEHA SINHA, Sep 08, 2006)
The election to Delhi University’s Student Union, which takes place today, is as big as it gets.
- Pm, Musharraf To Meet Again (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Sep 08, 2006)
The post-Mumbai blast stand-off between India and Pakistan may be over soon as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is preparing to meet President Pervez Musharraf on the margins of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Havana next week.
- Hollow Nation (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 08, 2006)
The extent to which the so-called “second War of Independence” in Baluchistan has been galvanized in the aftermath of the “martyrdom” of the octogenarian, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, on August 26 can be gleaned from three developments.
- Pakistan Risks Creating Al Qaeda, Taliban Sanctuary (Reuters, SIMON CAMERON-MOORE, Sep 08, 2006)
Five years after President Pervez Musharraf bowed to U.S. pressure to withdraw support for the Taliban in Afghanistan, his government has signed a peace deal with Pakistani Taliban.
- Minor 'Scuffle' In Kashmir Politics (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Sep 08, 2006)
Politics rarely takes a holiday and events in Kashmir are of interest as there is a minor 'scuffle' for control and clearly it did not succeed.
- Jharkhand Pvt Ltd (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 08, 2006)
Three independent MLAs hold the key to the future of the Jharkhand government.
- Extential Crisis Of Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, N.B. Menon , Sep 08, 2006)
The latest round of acrimony between India and Pakistan could further slow down, if not halt, the peace process-which has lost the momentum witnessed last year.
- Manic Development (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 08, 2006)
Money, more aptly, the mafia, with the help of corrupt public servants, is destroying our national heritage in the shape of forests and fields. This is supposed to be modernisation.
- Spirit Of Secularism: India Joins Vande Mataram Chorus (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
Children in schools across the country and employees in offices rose to sing Vande Mataram on Thursday morning under a directive from the Union HRD ministry. But the day didn’t pass without minor scuffles and boycotts providing discordant notes . . .
- Empower People For Education And Enterprise, Says Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
There is still discrimination, denial of opportunity on the basis of caste'
- Retire At 60 (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2006)
The Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday appointed a committee of ministers to look into the employees’ demand for enhancing their retirement age from 58 to 60. Indications are that the demand will be accepted.
- Not Out Of Joint (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2006)
It says much for the sense of propriety that inspires The Times that in 1990 it deleted from the obituary of a gardening journalist called Peter Coats the suggestion that as ADC in Delhi to Lord Wavell he had been the viceroy’s gay lover.
- Those Who Cared (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Sep 08, 2006)
The new conservation policy for keeping tigers alive and multiplying seems to be out, and the government is trying to get it into operation.
- Uncertain Break (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2006)
If Bengal’s communists have changed their old ways, should Ms Mamata Banerjee be far behind?
- Musharraf May Order Purge Of Army Commanders (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly taken umbrage over senior army commanders unexpectedly questioning his motive in ordering a military operation against senior Baluch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti that resulted in the latter's death on August 26.
- Us Debates Stance Towards Musharraf (Tribune, Selig S. Harrison, Sep 08, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is supposedly a key US ally in the “war on terror.”
- Nation In The Making (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 08, 2006)
The Indian educated classes have emphasized, since the Nehru era, that the ideology of the state is both secular and national.
- Supersessions In Civil Services (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2006)
There can be differences of opinion on the admissibility as evidence of the result of the narco-analysis done on Abdul Karim Telgi, the kingpin of the multi-billion stamp paper scam.
- Munda In Trouble (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2006)
The resignation of four ministers from the Arjun Munda government in Jharkhand reducing it to a minority was not a sudden development.
- Tale Of Telgi (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2006)
There can be differences of opinion on the admissibility as evidence of the result of the narco-analysis done on Abdul Karim Telgi, the kingpin of the multi-billion stamp paper scam.
- Punjab Cm’S Farm Has ‘Only Mongolian Pheasants’ (Tribune, Pratibha Chauhan, Sep 08, 2006)
The state’s wildlife authorities are awaiting a reply from Punjab Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh in response to the notice issued by them regarding exotic species of birds at his Dochi farm near Chail, it has been reported there are only three . . .
- Sonia Skips Cong Function For Vande (Times of India, Himanshi Dhawan, Sep 08, 2006)
The Vande Mataram controversy got a new fillip with Congress president Sonia Gandhi skipping a party function on Thursday to celebrate the centenary of the national song.
- Bjp Can't Find Young Faces For Up Polls (Times of India, Mohua Chatterjee, Sep 08, 2006)
With little chances of beating either Samajwadi Party (SP) or Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) at the hustings, both BJP and Congress are preparing to take on each other for next year's UP assembly polls.
- Course Correction? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 08, 2006)
It signalled a course correction of sorts for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he picked up his telephone on Wednesday for a conversation with Iranian President Ahmedinejad.
- The Whole Thing Was A Bit Of A Scrum’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2006)
While Tony Blair was skating on thin ice in the UK, his main (non-Labour) rival David Cameron, the leader of the opposition, was riding autos in India. Here’s an account of Cameron’s India visit, extracted from his blogspot dcindia06.blogspot.com
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