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Articles 8121 through 8220 of 43820:
- Power Struggles Stem Our Growth Impetus (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Aug 02, 2006)
Even as global uncertainty is curbing India’s business confidence, policy signals are amiss
- Kolkata Gets Bangalored (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Aug 02, 2006)
Residents of Kolkata beware! The city they so treasure and which has undergone a rejuvenation in recent years shows early signs of being afflicted by the Bangalore disease.
- The New Face Of India`s Public Sector (Business Standard, A K Bhattacharya, Aug 02, 2006)
Indian Oil Corporation is now planning to enter the retail sector.
- Battle Rages As 20,000 Israeli Soldiers Enter Lebanon (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
EU fails to agree on immediate ceasefire, not to place Hezbollah on terrorist list
3 Israeli soldiers killed
Lebanon will reject ‘imposed’ UN resolution
- Left Not To Join Hands With Bjp On Nuke Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Raising the government's comfort level, the Left parties on Tuesday night ruled out joining hands with BJP in the saffron plans to bring a resolution in Parliament against the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Iran Fm Blasts Un ‘Failure’ Over Israel War On Hezbollah (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday blasted the United Nations’ “failure to do anything” over Israel’s offensive on Hezbollah and vowed to continue backing the Lebanese Shiite militant guerrilla group.
- Ltte, Navy Clash Again (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a government troop ship and killed fourteen sailors today, a pro-rebel website said, as Sri Lanka’s military pounded rebel positions in an attempt to seize control of a key reservoir from the guerrillas and restore water . . .
- Don't Compromise Nation's Security (Pioneer, Charti Lal Goel, Aug 02, 2006)
To overcome an enemy, who is at perpetual war with India and Indians, we have to put our own house in order first, says Charti Lal Goel
- India, Egypt To Discuss W. Asia (Asia Times, Ramesh Ramachandran, Aug 02, 2006)
After watching from the sidelines as Israel launched a series of attacks on Lebanon, India is expected to get a first-hand look at the unfolding situation in West Asia when New Delhi holds talks with Cairo on issues of mutual interest and concern . . .
- Israel's Terror (Frontline, AIJAZ AHMAD, Aug 02, 2006)
The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a "New Middle East".
- Engineered War (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
Hizbollah holds out and civilian casualties rise as Israel continues to wage a war that it planned for over a year.
- Lebanese Quagmire (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The way Israel positions itself in the world political order is not a prescription for peace in the region.
- Let's Not Cry Over Qana (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Aug 02, 2006)
On Monday, July 31, a travesty of sorts was committed when the Lok Sabha unanimously adopted a resolution whose contents amount to a scathing indictment of Israel for "the large-scale and indiscriminate bombing of Lebanon...
- Superpower Returns (Pioneer, Niall Ferguson, Aug 02, 2006)
The influence of the United States on Israeli politics is not as great as it is generally believed, says Niall Ferguson
- Lessons Of A Failed Intervention (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
On a midsummer’s day 50 years ago, the new president of Egypt was scheduled to make a speech in Alexandria.
- Cong Drops Bombshell: Gowda Family Owns Rs 85-Cr It Park (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Barely a few days after producing documents proving export of iron ore by family members of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, senior Congress leader D K Shiva Kumar on Tuesday dropped another bombshell on the Gowda family by producing documents . . .
- Lashkar Is India's Al Qaeda (Pioneer, Wilson John, Aug 02, 2006)
Counter-terrorism operations through appropriate covert action should be taken to stop LeT from killing innocent civilians and bleeding India ----
- Indo-Us Nuke Deal: Left Rules Out Joining Hands With Bjp (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Raising the government’s comfort level, the Left parties on Tuesday night ruled out joining hands with the BJP in the saffron plans to bring a resolution in Parliament against the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Sonia Hard On Terror, Soft On Terror Preachers (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sent confusing signals about the UPA Government's response to terrorism in the wake of the Mumbai blasts by lacing her call for "tough measures" with considerations of vote bank politics.
- Don't Play 'I Spy' (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 02, 2006)
End this 'mole' hunt, India is fed up ---- There was something of a Shakespearean tragedy played out in Parliament on Tuesday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Foreign Minister . . .
- Salahuddin’S Meaningful Silence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Chairman of the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council, Syed Salahuddin, has adopted a meaningful silence during the past one month. According to the watchers of the separatist camp, Mr Salahuddin has not been seen issuing any statement or . . .
- Dramatic Changes In Lebanon (Business Standard, Ajai Shukla, Aug 01, 2006)
Beirut: In the eye of the storm raging across the Israel-Lebanon border is a battalion called 4 SIKH, comprising about 800 Indian peacekeepers.
- Ls Mps Attack Centre On Lebanon (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
The Indian government on Monday condemned the "irresponsible and indiscriminate" bombing of Lebanon by Israel and described it as "outrageous".
- Qana Massacre Blowback Will Hurt Us (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 01, 2006)
The world is outraged by what Israel did on Sunday but helpless to do anything about it. Sixty people were killed, at least 37 of them children, in an Israeli air raid on the Lebanese village of Qana, the biggest incident of ruthless murder of . . .
- Israel And America (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 01, 2006)
Who is responsible for the second Qana massacre?
Qana saw an Israeli massacre of Lebanese civilians in 1996, and has now seen another yesterday, this time from the air of at least 60 mostly women and children, who were taking shelter in a building . . .
- Fall In Eden (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 01, 2006)
Despite what the numbers clearly demonstrate, there may not be any victors in the aftermath of the elections held in the Cricket Association of Bengal. Of course, there can be no doubt that Mr Jagmohan Dalmiya has scored a personal triumph . . .
- Too Stern (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 01, 2006)
The freedom to be silly is also a kind of freedom.
- China’S Israel Arms (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Aug 01, 2006)
Prakash Karat, the General Secretary of the CPI(M), has seized upon the current Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon to target New Delhi’s defence relationship with Tel Aviv.
- Tragic Or Comic? (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 01, 2006)
Life in India is like a tragicomic farce, where corruption and all the horrors of bad living blend easily with helpless, nervous laughter because there is nothing anyone can do to alleviate wrong and replace it with integrity and dignity.
- Picture Of Indifference And Neglect (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 01, 2006)
I am in Tamenglong, up in the hills in Manipur. An idyllic setting.
- Nda Misled J&k On Aiims: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) misled the nation during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule over the construction of 12 medical institutes in different parts of the country.
- Pro-Incumbency Wave Eludes India (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, Aug 01, 2006)
There is a pro-incumbency wave running across emerging markets.
- India Accuses Pakistan Of Jeopardising Safta (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Pakistan ‘surprised’ at Indian statement
- Nature Of Economic Change (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Aug 01, 2006)
Economic change is for the most part a deliberate process shaped by the perceptions of the actors .
- The ‘Dying City’ Vis-A-Vis The ‘National Capital’ (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 01, 2006)
Sir, ~ I have just shifted to Delhi after living in Kolkata for the last forty years and I would like to make a comparative study of the so-called “Dying city of Calcutta” and our “National Capital ~ Delhi”.
- Force-Feeding Mallika To Gujarat Won't Do (Pioneer, Navin Upadhyay, Aug 01, 2006)
The Centre and the Gujarat Government are headed for a major confrontation on the Planning Commission's controversial decision to allot a Rs 10 crore pilot project to noted dancer Mallika Sarabhai for making a series of Gujarat-centric documentaries . . .
- It's Not Cricket, Jyoti Tells Fuming Buddha (Pioneer, SHIKHA MUKERJEE, Aug 01, 2006)
For Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee the victory of Jagmohan Dalmiya as president of the Cricket Association of Bengal is the triumph of evil over good.
- Microsoft, Wipro To Fight For Bcci Website Rights (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
It majors Microsoft and Wipro will compete for the right to host the Indian cricket board's website.
- Lebanon’S Befitting Rebuff To Condi (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 01, 2006)
Infuriated Lebanese Government has refused to receive US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Beirut on Sunday following the carnage at Qana, where Israeli missile attack killed 60 people including 37 children.
- Narmada Rehabilitation: Osg Report And After (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Aug 01, 2006)
The Oversight Group's Report gives the impression that the status of rehabilitation work in the Narmada Valley is reasonably satisfactory. The facts are otherwise. The report needs to be summarily rejected.
- Beyond The `Mole' Muddle (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 01, 2006)
If for six years in government Jaswant Singh did not realise the implications for national interest, he or his party now have no credentials to define it.
- Bend In The Cauvery (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 01, 2006)
The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal has muddied the waters of the Cauvery, one of the seven sacred rivers of India which is known as the ‘Dakshina Ganga’, by adopting dilatory tactics to put off giving its final verdict.
- Qana Attack Sparks Fury In Arab World (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Saudi men and women from all walks of life blasted the Israeli bombardment of Lebanese civilians, mostly women and children, in Qana on Sunday. They said the massacre would sow the seeds of hatred against Israel and further tarnish the image of the . . .
- Arab, Israel Envoys Face Off In Delhi (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 01, 2006)
The widespread anger over the Israeli war against Lebanon has affected the diplomatic community in New Delhi with Israeli ambassador to India David Danieli’s attempts to justify the aggression drawing strong criticism from the Arab envoys posted here.
- Will Judiciary Stem The Rot? (Pioneer, A Surya Prakash, Aug 01, 2006)
Given the fact that the polity is now hopelessly divided on caste, regional and communal lines resulting in a plethora of political parties, fractured mandates and unprincipled and unviable coalitions, the politics of reservations is only going to . . .
- Heading For Un-Isation Of The Wto? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 01, 2006)
Members need to focus on trade liberalisation, re-haul decision making and moderate expectations.
- Ranbaxy Family Resolves Feud (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
The feud between the two main branches of the Ranbaxy family appears to have been resolved with Nimmi Singh and her two sons, Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh, representing the Parvinder Singh group on one side . . .
- West Asia Biggest Test For Upa Government (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 01, 2006)
Developments in West Asia are proving to be the biggest test of Indian foreign policy in recent times as New Delhi finds itself under increasing pressure to review its strategic ties with Israel.
- Uma Trains Guns On Left, Congress (Tribune, Varinder Singh, Aug 01, 2006)
Training her guns at the Left parties and the Congress and hinting that her party would have an ideological and political confrontation with both, firebrand leader Uma Bharti has equated the BJP with a dead body “devoid of any soul”.
- Déjà Vu (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 01, 2006)
The finance minister has taken a firm stand on outsourcing of non-core banking activities in the face of Friday’s bank unions’ strike and the Left’s walkout in Lok Sabha.
- President’S Mind (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 01, 2006)
WHAT President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said during his address to the joint session of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly on Friday highlighted the role of socio-economic development in bringing about . . .
- Civilians Suffer In Lebanon (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Aug 01, 2006)
Not infrequently, one incident in a war or war-like situation transforms its outcome. So it was in Bosnia where a market massacre tilted the scales against the Bosnian Serbs.
- Women In Uniform (Tribune, G.S. Bedi, Aug 01, 2006)
Women have been inducted into the Indian armed forces since 1992-93 only as short service commissioned officers.
- Education Panacea Of All Evils: Dua (Tribune, Amarjit Thind, Aug 01, 2006)
The people of the country seem to have lost the will to assert themselves by consciously choosing to accept the ills plaguing our society. Instead of taking steps to contain corruption and increasing criminalisation in politics, the masses are . . .
- Bjp To Take Up Bofors Issue Again (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Armed with former Union Minister and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s close aide Arun Singh’s remarks, the BJP today said the Bofors issue had become “alive” once again and the party would take up the issue during the current Monsoon Session . . .
- Lok Sabha Passes Profit Bill (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Amid stiff resistance from the Opposition, Parliament today gave its approval without any change for the controversial Office of Profit Bill.
- Don’T Mar Independence Day’S Sanctity (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 01, 2006)
The mma, a conglomerate of six religious political parties, has decided to observe the Independence Day as ‘Yaum-e-Nijaat’ on August 14 next.
- India-Us Nuclear Deal — Good Intentions, Bad Bargain (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 01, 2006)
In their anxiety to secure the country's energy security, India's leaders seem to have convinced themselves that the nuclear deal is in the best interest of the country. Yet, the impression is unavoidable that the Government has been taking too many . . .
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 01, 2006)
It took a fund-house manager to dig up history to remind the audience at a recent seminar that emerging markets, flight of capital and currency swaps have been around for far longer than any one would care to remember.
- Movement Of Labour Is Inevitable (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 01, 2006)
Sandeep Gopalan, associate professor of law at the Arizona State University, was recently appointed to the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration. The only Indian on the commission, he tells Harsh Kabra that immigration reforms must . . .
- Voice Of Sanity (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 01, 2006)
It is not surprising that the latest voice of sanity has emanated from Mumbai. Having been exposed to serial blasts on two occasions
- Pressure Within Cong To Condemn Israeli Attack (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Aug 01, 2006)
There is growing pressure in the Congress that the party leadership convene a meeting of the working committee to adopt a formal resolution denouncing the continuing Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
- Dialogue Of The Deaf (Times of India, SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM, Aug 01, 2006)
Nearly three weeks ago, the kidnapping of a handful of soldiers unleashed a massive Israeli campaign of retaliation. Gaza was pounded, leading to considerable destruction in the infrastructure of an already miserable area.
- Kashmiri Women Lift The Veil In Silent Awakening (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Aug 01, 2006)
Twenty-five-year-old Saima Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has shunned the veil and set out to discuss dating in a region where cinemas showing Bollywood romances are hard to find and beauty parlours scorned upon.
- Recipe For Renewal (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Aug 01, 2006)
Some senior Congress leaders have privately urged Ms. Sonia Gandhi to 'review the Congress ideology and policy'.
- Education For Women: Role Of Open Universities (Daily Excelsior, Ram Rattan Sharma, Aug 01, 2006)
The twentieth century will be known for the movements and consolidation of the agenda of human rights and democracy.
- Blast In Mumbai: An Acid Test (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Aug 01, 2006)
Terrorists struck in a big way at the financial heart of India on 11th July, 2006, on Mumbai's lifeline, that is the local trains running in the City's western suburbs.
- India Talks Tough On Safta (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 01, 2006)
India-Pakistan differences on SAFTA dominate first day of Foreign Secretaries meet
Pakistan's decision to take bilateral trading route is negation of SAFTA
Lot of time and effort invested in good faith while negotiating SAFTA: Saran
- New Evidence On Mumbai Blasts Shows Up (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 01, 2006)
Rahil Abdul Rehman Sheikh may have developed transnational terror networks after a visit to J&K
Ghaswala joined jihad against India after Gujarat pogrom
Conference a cover for meeting with top J & K-based terrorists.
- Mma, Ard Agree To Launch Drive Against Pervez (Tribune, Shamim-ur-Rahman, Aug 01, 2006)
The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Friday gave formal effect to their resolve for launching a movement against General Pervez Musharraf’s dispensation, but there were indications that the vote of . . .
- Senior Sri Lanka Rebel Says War Back On, 28 Dead (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Aug 01, 2006)
Eighteen soldiers were killed on Monday night when a fragmentation mine blew up their army bus in restive east Sri Lanka, hours after a top Tamil Tiger accused the government of restarting the country's two-decade civil war.
- India Can't Afford To Snap Israel Ties (Times of India, RAJAT PANDIT, Aug 01, 2006)
Defence minister Pranab Mukherjee may have 'deferred' his visit to Israel last month due to 'political sensitivities', but there is little chance of UPA government capitulating to the Left's demand for severing all military ties with the Jewish state.
- Sri Lankan Army Faces Fierce Resistance (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 01, 2006)
The bloodiest battle between LTTE and the army since the signing of the ceasefire agreement
- Wrong Place, Wrong Time (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 01, 2006)
It seems that some political advisers of President Musharraf are managing to do what the opposition parties have failed to so far so far --
- Qana Massacre And The Security Council (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 01, 2006)
The primary role of any Chapter VII resolution or expanded U.N. peacekeeping force must be to protect Lebanon from Israeli aggression.
- Sincerity, A Lighthouse (Deccan Herald, Acharya Mahaprajna, Aug 01, 2006)
Gautam said, “Lord! What does a man gain by sincerity?” Lord Mahavira replied, “Gautam! By sincerity a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendencies, that is, congruence of speech and action.”
- Coalition Politics In A Quasi-Military-Repub (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 01, 2006)
The writer is editor current affairs, The News, and editor South Asian Journal
Before the ruling coalition in Sindh, and at the centre, could fall apart, the arbitration by President General Pervez Musharraf worked its magic to keep the adversaries tog
- Bluff Called (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 01, 2006)
Is the mole issue after all much ado about nothing
- Challenges For The Ajk Govt (News International, Ershad Mahmud, Aug 01, 2006)
Many were predicting that the ruling Muslim Conference would once again form a government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). Quite a few reasons contributed to this pre-poll pointer.
- Causes And Consequences (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Aug 01, 2006)
The difference of opinion is regarding subsidies to the farm sector. India should be careful in taking decisions.
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