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Articles 6621 through 6720 of 43820:
- Parts Of Jammu, Kashmir Discriminated: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Dinesh Manhotra, Aug 20, 2006)
Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig today highlighted the issue of discrimination with some areas of the State but assured the people that policies and programmes of the coalition regime will be guided . . .
- Yesterday's Rising Scams (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 20, 2006)
While Telgi languishes in jail, politicians suspected to have patronised him are roaming free. Various cases registered in the matter are likely to take time. Whether the HIV-infected Telgi will live to face trial is another story.
- Aye, Every Inch A Pm (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 20, 2006)
In the recent past, as well as earlier, The Telegraph, in these columns, had commented on the prime minister’s failure to speak strongly on important matters as well as on his apparent tendency to allow matters to drift.
- How We Built The Bomb (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 20, 2006)
If India ever decided to single out a date for marking some sort of an anniversary of its nuclear weaponisation, March 18, 1989 will be a pretty good choice, probably even more fitting than the two dates of May 1974 and 1998, Pokharan I . . .
- Govt Drops Rti Amendments (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Aug 20, 2006)
The public outcry and dissension within and outside the ruling coalition against proposed amendments to the Right to Information Act has compelled the UPA government to indicate its willingness to consult all stakeholders for any changes in the Act.
- 'Colombo Is Procuring Weapons From Pakistan' (Times of India, Frances Bulathsinghala, Aug 20, 2006)
R Sampanthan , secretary-general of TULF tells that LTTE has realised the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was a mistake.
- Checking Abuse Of Power By Prosecution (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2006)
What is the true scope and nature of the power under Section 321 Cr PC? This authorises a public prosecutor to withdraw from prosecution of any case even after it has reached the final stage after a prolonged trial.
- Don't Rejoice, Tackle Terror (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 20, 2006)
For the past week, the Government and intelligentsia of India have been wallowing in an unseemly bout of self-congratulation.
- Law Of The Land (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 20, 2006)
India's industrialisation efforts do not take into account the fact that land is a scarce resource. The recent rush to set up special economic zones (SEZs), with the government having cleared over 40 proposals, affirms this trend.
- The Politics Of Religion (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
in a country where fanatics and hardliners come in different shapes and sizes.
- File Notings (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2006)
The Right to Information (RTI) Act, passed by Parliament last year, is new and finding its ground. Both educated and unlettered people around the country are struggling to make it a reality.
- Sharon Legacy Battered By Lebanon War (Indian Express, Reuters, Aug 20, 2006)
The same day an uneasy truce took effect in the Lebanon war, doctors treating former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reported a sharp deterioration in his condition as he lay comatose in a Tel Aviv hospital.
- Anger & Grief (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 20, 2006)
Anger is a demon. Anger leads us to commit all other sins. In the case of Vishwamitra, we know that all the good he acquired by tapas was nullified by this one evil, anger. The merit he had accumulated through tapas undertaken for thousands of . . .
- Desperate Language (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 20, 2006)
The search for scapegoats is on. Ever since it was widely seen to have lost the nuclear deal debate, the BJP has been desperately searching for a fall guy.
- Grass Does Not Grow In Calcutta (Indian Express, Anees Jung, Aug 20, 2006)
An encounter with Gunter Grass had revealed him to be a man with little love
- Kill Bill, Congress Style (Indian Express, D Raja, Aug 20, 2006)
The Bill enabling reservations in educational institutions for SC, ST and OBC categories, by virtue of the 93rd Amendment, is being virtually killed by the Congress, despite sage advice from its allies in the UPA.
- The Simi Story (Times of India, YOGINDER SIKAND, Aug 20, 2006)
The identity of those behind the bomb blasts that shook Mumbai remains unclear. Some suspect the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba or the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), or a combination of both. Police have already . . .
- Of Memory And Identity (Deccan Herald, K Sundara Raj, Aug 20, 2006)
At a time when critical idioms are viewed sceptically, it is difficult to describe this novel. This 458-page text is unusual in many senses. It has neither a story nor a plot. It does not have characters— even the protagonist cannot be called a ‘ . . .
- Protests In Nepal Capital Over Fuel Price Rise (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Aug 20, 2006)
Activists torched dozens of vehicles and attacked a senior politician in Kathmandu on Saturday in protest against an increase in prices of petroleum products, police and witnesses said.
- Drastic Need For More Aids Health Workers:meeting (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Drastic measures are needed to make sure there are enough health care workers to help treat and prevent HIV in Africa, where 25 million patients with the virus now live, said the World Health Organisation.
- Being Prime Ministerial (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 20, 2006)
These are moments that come rarely to prime ministers. Moments when they earn the adjective, ‘prime ministerial’. Before Manmohan Singh rose to reply to Thursday’s day-long discussion on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the anxiety in the Rajya Sabha did . . .
- Why This Apathy? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 20, 2006)
“Lack of quorum” seems to have become all too convenient an excuse for the National Assembly when it comes to taking up important national issues.
- Truce, A Facade For Troops To Consolidate (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Aug 20, 2006)
Everyone agrees that the truce in Lebanon is “fragile”. But that is only a polite way of saying that both sides are consolidating their positions.
- Adivasis Made Mercenaries To Kill Their Own People (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 20, 2006)
“Naxalism is not an issue or a problem. It is a solution, an alternative development programme.” Pendyala Varavara Rao, Poet and Ex-emissary for peace talks between AP Govt and naxalites.
- Israelis Arrest Hamas Dy Pm (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Israeli soldiers arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister early on Saturday, the Army said, the highest-ranking Hamas official to be arrested in a six-week-old crackdown against the ruling Hamas party.
- As India Debates N-Deal, China & Pak Move To Close Rival Pact (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Aug 20, 2006)
As India’s nuclear debate enters the Rajya Sabha tomorrow, Beijing and Islamabad are moving towards deeper bilateral atomic energy cooperation.
- On I-Day, A Rural Reality Check (New Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 20, 2006)
India's 59th birthday I decided to skip the President’s Independence Day tea party for a rural reality check. Not because I am blase about invitations from Rashtrapati Bhawan—I only get invited once a year—but because political Delhi at the moment . . .
- The Mumbaikar In The Crowd (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Sir, may I help you?”, someone at the reception at the Taj Coromandal asks. “No, thanks, I am waiting for writer Vikram Chandra. I have to interview him,” I tell her. “Ooh, the one who wrote Two Lives, right?, the receptionist curiously asks.
- Sister Sonia, He Wanted A Total Ban On Conversions! (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Aug 20, 2006)
“The Congress party's views on this are well known,” Sonia says. ‘This’ means laws banning forcible religious conversions. She goes on: “They are enactments passed by state legislatures where the Congress is in opposition.”
- Muslims: Smell The Coffee (Pioneer, Khwaja Ekram, Aug 20, 2006)
The community is stigmatised by jihad. It's time educated Muslims come forward to replace the traditional leaders
- Tell Tale Signs (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Aug 20, 2006)
After the Mumbai blasts and the uncovering of the conspiracy to blow up 10 aircraft over the Atlantic, the situation is vastly different. The anti-Iraq war lobby, the defenders of Iran and the root cause wallahs, who on past occasions have displayed . . .
- Bunkum Of Resilience (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2006)
Children in schools are taught that India is a great country and a potential superpower.
- Corruption And Profiteering (Pioneer, KPS Gill, Aug 20, 2006)
There was a time when profit was a dirty word in India. That was wrong. Enterprise is driven by profit, and vast areas of national activity and development are inherently a function of enterprise.
- Crackdown On Simi (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2006)
Students Islamic Movement of India, banned on February 8 this year for the third time since its formation in 1977, continues to deviously work towards its proclaimed objective of "liberating India by converting it to Islam".
- N-Deal Clarified (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's detailed response to the Opposition's concerns over the perceived shifting of goal posts by the US Congress, thus changing the parameters of the proposed India-US civil . . .
- Un Delegation, Lebanon Pm Discuss Implementation Of Resolution (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
A United Nations delegation led by Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special political adviser Vijay Nambiar today discussed with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora implementation of the Security Council ceasefire resolution including strengthening . . .
- Bush Has A Terror, Fascist Agenda (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2006)
Hussain Randathani | Director Islamic Research and Development Council Kozhikode
- Israel Violated Lebanon Ceasefire: Annan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Israel has violated the terms of a UN-mandated halt to fighting in Lebanon, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Saturday, calling on all parties to respect an embargo on unauthorized arms shipments to Lebanon.
- Police Can’T Deliver Alone (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 20, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has asked the Police to do justice to the needy through prompt delivery of services.
- Hizb Emerges As Role Model Outfit (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 20, 2006)
Recent Israeli aggression put Hizbollah to a great test but with sagacity, determination and courage, it has emerged victorious in all respects.
- Eroding Parliament’S Sanctity (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 20, 2006)
Both Houses of Parliament were in a state of disarray on Friday as the parliamentarians mocked their sanctity. While Senate witnessed uproar and pandemonium over exchange of corruption charges in the context of the Supreme Court’s recent verdict . . .
- Full Of Sound And Fury... (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 20, 2006)
Hype. Over-dramatisation of threat perceptions, over-demonisation of suspects even before collecting evidence and over-projection of the role of Gen Pervez Musharraf in the so-called war against terrorism have become the defining characteristics of . . .
- Doing The ‘Doable’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 20, 2006)
MOST of us have by now become used to the ebb and flow in relations between Pakistan and India.
- Israel Captures Hamas Deputy Pm (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Israeli troops nabbed the deputy Palestinian prime minister, Nassereddin Al Shaer who is also a senior Hamas member, on Saturday.
- ‘The Government Sticks To The Commitment Made To Vajpayee’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
Will the peace process, which was postponed by India following the Mumbai bomb blasts, help Pakistan achieve its Kashmir policy objectives?
- ‘If You’Ve Abandoned Kashmir, You Might As Well Abandon Army’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2006)
As head of the ISI, you must have been deeply involved in the country’s Kashmir policy. How would you evaluate General Pervez Musharraf’s policy on Kashmir?
- Japan’S Problem With History (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 19, 2006)
Japan has a serious geopolitical problem.
- Sublease As Capital Asset (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Aug 19, 2006)
The Transfer of Property Act declares that lease of immovable property is a transfer of right to enjoy the property for a certain time in consideration of a price.
- Power And Caste (Tribune, C P Bhambhri, Aug 19, 2006)
The ongoing debate on the proposed policy of reservations for the Other Backward Castes in institutions of higher education by the Central Government has generated controversies because a sizable section of the intelligentsia has refused to accept . . .
- Protest In Dhaka Over Bjp Leader's Remark (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Bangladeshi Muslims took to streets in Dhaka today after noon prayers to protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh’s recent remarks that India should send its security forces into Pakistan and Bangladesh to destroy . . .
- Sc Restrains Cbi In J&k Sex Scandal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
The Supreme Court today restrained the CBI from acting in an indiscriminate manner by picking up anyone they please for interrogation in the Jammu and Kashmir sex scandal in which some state politicians, civil, police and security forces officials . . .
- Hc Asked To Decide On Punjab Police Officers’ Row (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Aug 19, 2006)
In order to have a prompt resolution to the lingering dispute between IPS and state police service officers of the Punjab police on posting to key positions like district police chiefs, the Supreme Court today referred a bunch of petitions on the . . .
- N-Deal: Pm Silences Critics (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 19, 2006)
When India’s top scientists meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on August 26 to discuss Indo-US nuclear deal, they are unlikely to have any clarifications left to seek after Dr Singh’s elaborate and scholarly reply in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.
- Tears In Heaven (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 19, 2006)
It's not Lebanon yet in Sri Lanka, but it's getting there. Fierce fighting has broken out between the military and LTTE rebels in the north and east of the country, sending thousands of civilians fleeing.
- 'War And Peace Begin And End In The Mind' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 19, 2006)
A T Ariyaratne stands out among political leaders in Sri Lanka in these times of strife. A Sarvodaya activist, he believes there is hope for peace and that violence can't resolve questions of language and ethnicity.
- Shylock As Zionist (Times of India, JUG SURAIYA, Aug 19, 2006)
The other day I saw a movie adaptation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, with Al Pacino playing Shylock. Ever since I first studied it in school, I've found MoV a deeply problematic play.
- Hard Times For Pak President (Times of India, Somini Sengupta , Aug 19, 2006)
Nearly five years after September 11 turned Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, into one of Washington's most indispensable allies, he finds himself squeezed from many directions, leading to one of the most serious political binds of . . .
- A History Lesson (Times of India, Lalit Mohan, Aug 19, 2006)
The thought may just be entering their minds, but some Americans are beginning to miss what Ronald Reagan called The Evil Empire.
- Kill Bill, Congress Style (Indian Express, D. Raja, Aug 19, 2006)
The Bill enabling reservations in educational institutions for SC, ST and OBC categories, by virtue of the 93rd Amendment, is being virtually killed by the Congress, despite sage advice from its allies in the UPA.
- Grass Does Not Grow In Calcutta (Indian Express, Anees Jung, Aug 19, 2006)
Reading the news of Gunter Grass having revealed that he had served in the Waffen-SS, the Nazi elite force, was disturbing.
- Desperate Language (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 19, 2006)
The search for scapegoats is on. Ever since it was widely seen to have lost the nuclear deal debate, the BJP has been desperately searching for a fall guy.
- Musharraf Put In A Terrible Bind (Deccan Herald, Somini Sengupta , Aug 19, 2006)
No one doubts that the president, who is also the army chief of staff, remains the most powerful man in Pakistan and enjoys the backing of the United States. “He still makes the political weather,” as one Western diplomat put it.
- Being Prime Ministerial (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 19, 2006)
These are moments that come rarely to prime ministers. Moments when they earn the adjective, ‘prime ministerial’.
- U.S. Espionage In India (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Aug 19, 2006)
The book is a comprehensive survey of U.S. intelligence on the bomb in countries including India, Pakistan, the USSR and Israel.
- Politics Is A Puzzle (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Aug 19, 2006)
The leaders are all opportunists. All that matters is Islamic principles and power, no matter who rules.
- Nuclear Doubts (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 19, 2006)
The Prime Minister made a good job of a tough defence.
- Fine! Mumbai Mulls Over Spit, Litter Laws (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Spitting and littering will become punishable offences in the metropolis, which politicians including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh want to transform into a replica of Shanghai (the Sena-BJP leaders want Mumbai to be like Singapore).
- A Lesson In Values (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 19, 2006)
Prime minister Manmohan Singh’s reply to the marathon discussion on the Indo-US nuclear agreement in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday should allay all doubts about the deal.
- The Ball Remains In India’S Court (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 19, 2006)
In an interview to India’s fortnightly magazine, Frontline, General Pervez Musharraf has said all the right things, in the right vein and with sincerity.
- Rain & Civic Collapse (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 19, 2006)
Rain, storms, earthquakes — these are nature’s visitations over which man has little control.
- ‘Troops For Un Force Only If All Parties Agree’: Participation To Be Considered: Kasuri (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Pakistan will mull a possible participation in a UN force in south Lebanon but will only send troops if they will be ‘welcomed’ by all parties to the conflict, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Friday.
- Pm’S Absence From Senate, Na Criticized: Debate On Psm Privatisation (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 19, 2006)
Opposition Leader in the Senate Raza Rabbani on Friday criticised Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for not attending the parliament session to defend himself during the debate on the detailed judgment of the Supreme Court in the Pakistan Steel Mills . . .
- Need For A Probe (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 19, 2006)
One is again constrained to remind the government that for its own sake and to establish its own credibility and impartiality it should immediately institute an independent . . .
- Not A Sustainable Growth (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 19, 2006)
Economic growth is a complex phenomenon. How much growth is achieved by a country for how long, using which strategies, emerging from which sectors and is shared by whom are all inter-related questions.
- West’S Losing ‘War On Terror’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 19, 2006)
The writing is on the wall. A recent poll in the UK found that four out five Britons believe that the West is losing the ‘war on terror’, while only 14 per cent approve of Tony Blair’s support for the Bush administration’s foreign policy.
- The Confession Of Gunter Grass (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 19, 2006)
"A lie is a straight untruth," Sir Robert Armstrong, the United Kingdom's former Cabinet Secretary, famously remarked in response to a question during a trial in 1986.
- How We Built The Bomb (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 19, 2006)
If India ever decided to single out a date for marking some sort of an anniversary of its nuclear weaponisation, March 18, 1989 will be a pretty good choice, probably even more fitting than the two dates of May 1974 and 1998, Pokharan I . . .
- A Critical, Quality Debate (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 19, 2006)
The most important outcome of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comprehensive statement on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday — and the high-quality debate that preceded it — is the authoritative public identification of . . .
- Will The Fragile Peace Last In Lebanon? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 19, 2006)
The prospective members of UNIFIL have failed to agree on or even properly discuss the exact nature of UNIFIL's mandate.
- The Two Faces Of Pakistan (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 19, 2006)
The West tends to see the Musharraf regime as the last barricade against an Islamist coup, but Islamabad continues to support terrorism.
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