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Articles 9021 through 9120 of 43820:
- Ltte Vs Unicef (Frontline, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jul 22, 2006)
THE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is listed as a terrorist or unlawful organisation in several countries. Amazingly, this has done little to temper the penchant of the Tigers for legalese and hair-splitting on international law.
- Govt. Can't Ignore Electoral Compulsions: Pm (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 22, 2006)
"In a democracy, we have to balance various interests," Manmohan tells NGOs and social activists
- Train To Lhasa (Frontline, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jul 22, 2006)
The Qinghai-Tibet railway is an engineering marvel and the Chinese government hopes it will bring about an economic renaissance in Tibet.
- Contested Verdict In Mexico (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Jul 22, 2006)
Mexico's presidential election ends in a political stalemate with the left-wing candidate Lopez Obrador rejecting the preliminary result.
- Palestine Under Siege (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Jul 22, 2006)
Israel sticks to its doctrine of disproportionate response by pounding Palestine in retaliation for the abduction of a soldier.
- Vietnam In Reform Mode (Frontline, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jul 22, 2006)
The mood in Vietnam, as it finds itself poised to enter the WTO, is one of hope and introspection.
- Only The Prez Understands (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 22, 2006)
Of all our national leaders only he has understood the urgency with which things will need to change if Mumbai is not to run out of its patience
- Unsung Genius (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 21, 2006)
That India needs confirmation by the United Nations security council to be assured of the fact that Jammu and Kashmir belongs to the country is preposterous (“From UN mouth: J&K is India’s”, July17).
- Rush For Oil Is The Real Challenge Facing Antarctica (Hindu, Ben Sandilands, Jul 21, 2006)
As if melting icecaps aren't a big enough worry, the political temperature is starting to rise over the continent's resources.
- For A Pot Of Uranium (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jul 21, 2006)
Scientists in the country’s defence establishments, reports suggest, are seething with increasing resentment even as they become more and more aware of the details of the nuclear agreement the prime minister has signed with the American . . .
- Fun For Outside Allies (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 21, 2006)
When senior CPI(M) leaders are seen lobbying energetically for the extensions of secretaries to the government of India, a coalition in which their party is not an intrinsic part of the government but . . .
- A Protracted Colonial War (Hindu, Tariq Ali, Jul 21, 2006)
In his last interview — after the 1967 six-day war — the historian Isaac Deutscher, whose next-of-kin had died in the Nazi camps and whose surviving relations lived in Israel, said:
- The Bigger B (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 21, 2006)
What better way to liven up the dullness of a degree ceremony than a bit of Bollywood?
- Under The Judicial Scanner (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 21, 2006)
There was no mistaking the mood of the Supreme Court during the hearing of the public interest litigation challenging the controversial Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006. While giving the Centre a week to reply to the petitions, the apex ...
- West Asian Crisis — Winners And Losers (Hindu, Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, Jul 21, 2006)
The whole area will be even more radicalised than it was before the eruption of the crisis. The biggest losers are the innocent men, women, and children who are the victims of the conflict.
- Shaky Landing (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 21, 2006)
The supply of land, unlike that of labour or capital, is finite.
- With ‘Give Us Proof’, General Disappoints (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 21, 2006)
If the UPA government was looking for any signals tonight from Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf that might have allowed a revival of the stalled peace process, India could only have been disappointed.
- Enough To Shame (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 20, 2006)
Even thick skin has limits
The apex court has yet to utter its last word or pronounce verdict on the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act which Parliament approved in unanimous haste to stymie the judicially-directed drive against illegal . . .
- ‘Us’ And ‘They’ (Statesman, AMIYA K SAMANTA, Jul 20, 2006)
The American vision of the world is more sharply divided between “us” and “they” than that of any other great power.
- India’S Pain Now Has International Appeal (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 20, 2006)
After 9/11 and 7/7, the international community has become responsive to problems of India.
- Kumaraswamy Must Resign, Reiterate Congress, Jd(u) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 20, 2006)
Chief Minister has no moral right to continue in office, says Opposition
Janardhana Reddy reiterates bribery charge against Chief Minister
Government should provide security to Reddy: Dharam Singh
`CBI probe necessary to unearth the . . .
- Hurdles In The Last Mile (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 20, 2006)
When future historians write on the negotiation of the India-United States civil nuclear deal, they will marvel at the way the American side made full use of its legislative process to rewrite vital portions of a settled agreement while the . . .
- The Channel Conflicts (Business Standard, Arvind Singhal, Jul 20, 2006)
A news item a few days ago reported that Gujarat Television and Appliances Traders Associates has been upset with select leading consumer durables manufacturing and marketing companies on account of such companies reportedly giving better margins . . .
- Bust The Terror Syndicates (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jul 20, 2006)
Decisive and ruthless crackdown on jihadis is the need of the hour, not more empty rhetoric ---- Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), headed by Hafiz Saeed based in Pakistan, is a threat to India's security and sovereignty and must therefore be branded as . . .
- Fatal Attraction (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 20, 2006)
The sky was a clear blue dotted with a few white clouds. The sun shone brilliantly but the mountain breeze was gentle.
- Mumbai Serial Blasts: (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jul 20, 2006)
Wants policy of supporting Musharraf reviewed, more attention towards Nawaz than Benazir
* One ‘punitive step’ could be increasing engagement in Afghanistan and CARs
- Snowy Pride (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 20, 2006)
When experts, political leaders and concerned citizens put their heads together to discuss just one wild specie one can only imagine the seriousness of the subject.
- Write On! (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 20, 2006)
One of the paradoxes of Indian democracy is that precious little information emerges from the backrooms of its power elite.
- ‘Lashkar-E-Qahar’ Hoaxer Held (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 20, 2006)
Bhopal police have detained a local youth on the charge of dashing off e-mails to a couple of media organisations and the Mumbai police in the name of “Lashkar-e-Qahar” accepting the responsibility of the Mumbai train blasts ....
- Women In Armed Forces (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 20, 2006)
A woman’s femininity and vulnerability must never be compromised, not even at the altar of woman empowerment.
- Kashmir Today, Delhi Tomorrow (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 20, 2006)
This refers to Sandhya Jain's article, "Ascent of the anti-Hindus" (July11). Till now we thought the Maoists of Nepal were anti-Hindu because they were rabid Leninist-Maoists, that is avowed atheists.
- ‘The Best Of Us In Government Consider Science As A Budget Item, Possibly A Non-Productive Expenditure’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 20, 2006)
‘The best of us in government consider science as a budget item, possibly a non-productive expenditure’
- Most For No Change In Office-Of-Profit Draft, Cabinet’S Call Today (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 20, 2006)
The Cabinet will consider tomorrow the controversial office of profit Bill with the Law Ministry suggesting that no changes be made to the original draft that was returned by the President.
- Cabinet Making (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 20, 2006)
A new foreign minister is not the only fresh face the PM needs to give his government
- Problems Within (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 20, 2006)
Parties should avoid politicising security issues
- Mike Is On (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 20, 2006)
That United States President George W. Bush was caught swearing during a conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Moscow has understandably made big news.
- Indian Myanmar Relations (Daily Excelsior, MAHENDRA VED, Jul 20, 2006)
Myanmar and Andhra Pradesh may seem two far off places on the map of South Asia. But drawing a straight line across the Bay of Bengal, planners in New Delhi and Yangon have hit upon an imaginative way of linking them.
- After The Storm (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 20, 2006)
The sky was a clear blue dotted with a few white clouds. The sun shone brilliantly but the mountain breeze was gentle.
- Law Of The Land (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 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.
- India Failed To Prove Pakistani Hand In Mumbai Blasts (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jul 20, 2006)
“Indian authorities have provided no evidence to support their charges of a Pakistani connection to the Mumbai bombings. Indeed, the police investigation, which has included police sweeps of predominantly Muslim Mumbai slums and indiscriminate . . .
- Trading Terror For Votes (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jul 20, 2006)
The serial blasts in Mumbai on July 11 necessitate a second look at India's response to the terrorist challenge facing it.
- Caught In The Middle (Deccan Herald, P R KUMARASWAMY, Jul 20, 2006)
With neither side not ready for a compromise that would bring about a ceasefire along the Israel-Lebanon borders, the death and destruction brought about by the weeklong conflict has all the ingredients for a civil war.
- Q&a: 'Colombo Is Procuring Weapons From Pakistan' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 20, 2006)
Sri Lanka is on the brink of civil war. R Sampanthan, secretary-general of Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), which is Lanka's oldest Tamil political party and now a member of the pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance, indicates that the peace talks . . .
- India And Pakistan Need A Cooperative Security Mechanism (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 20, 2006)
India and Pakistan need a cooperative security mechanism.
- Anger & Grief (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 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.
- Bharat Mata Ki Jai Banned In J&k District (Pioneer, Sidharth Mishra, Jul 20, 2006)
Don't invoke Mother India, Yatris told ---- The Jammu and Kashmir Government is complementing efforts of terror groups to isolate the State from the Indian mainstream. Don't believe it? Read on.
- Banning Blogs, A Big Blunder (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Jul 20, 2006)
The only thing worse than doing something wrong is to execute the deed ineptly. Some bureaucrats in the Government of India have managed to do both by stopping access to blogs on the Internet recently in the wake of the July 11 Mumbai bomb blasts.
- Pushing Indo-Us Initiatives (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 20, 2006)
India and US must increase cooperation in research and development to promote agri-business, says Vinayshil Gautam.
- In Hieun Tsang's Footsteps (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jul 20, 2006)
Two Buddhist monks retrace the 7th century traveller's journey.
- Mischief With Tatas (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 20, 2006)
Khaleda hasn’t changed one bit
The Khaleda Zia government has committed harakiri by playing politics with $3 billion that the Tatas wanted to invest for building steel, power and fertiliser plants, and also for raising untapped coal resources . . .
- Terror Under Upa (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 20, 2006)
Two front page reports, several inside articles and the editorial in the latest issue of Organiser are devoted to the multiple terror strikes in Mumbai on July 11, and the common thrust is an attack on the UPA government’s ‘‘appeasement’’ policy.
- 57 Dead, Thousands Flee Beirut (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 20, 2006)
Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed 57 civilians and a Hizbollah fighter today, the deadliest toll of the eight-day-old war, as thousands of villagers fled North and more foreigners were evacuated.
- The Simi Story (Times of India, YOGINDER SIKAND, Jul 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.
- Help! I’M Virtually Helpless (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 20, 2006)
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the evil, despotic king decided that his people were communicating too much, too freely, through pigeon post.
- First Steps On The Road To Devolution (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jul 20, 2006)
For Sri Lanka, much depends on the working of the multi-ethnic experts group.
- Kumaraswamy Fed Up, Ready To Quit (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Jul 20, 2006)
Would rather resign than yield to `bullying tactics' by a section of the BJP
He will make feelings clear during joint legislature party meeting
Many BJP leaders rally around Chief Minister
Defamation case likely to be filed against Janardhana Reddy
- Cb-Cid Grills Police Officers In Serina Case (Hindu, S. Vijay Kumar, Jul 19, 2006)
A few more officials are likely to be questioned
- Resilience In Times Of Rudeness (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 19, 2006)
Words have specific meanings. Words like spirit, resilience. But coming from the mouths of those whose entire careers are based on the buying and selling of human votes and emotions, they almost sound like abuse.
- Discretionary Quota Misused In Site Allotment, Say Mlas (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
“While a large number of MLAs are yet to get sites, some MLAs have managed to get four sites,” alleged BJP member Araga Jnanendra.
- It’S Time For A Green Conscience And Green Morals (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Jul 19, 2006)
Consumers everywhere have a new challenge: there is no uniformly accepted standard for what constitutes a valid reduction in global warming pollution.
- Manmohan Hopeful Bush Will Set Right Nuclear Deal (Hindu, N. Ram , Jul 19, 2006)
"We shouldn't blow it out of proportion"
- Support From G-8 (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 19, 2006)
India has reasons to be happy with the outcome
- Scoring Points Over Mumbai (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 19, 2006)
The lead editorial this week in ‘People’s Democracy’ on the Mumbai serial blasts is largely an attack on the Sangh Parivar for what the CPM believes is an attempt to score political points from a tragedy.
- Yet Another Bushfire (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 19, 2006)
Possibly the only world leader with three books dedicated to his speech inefficiencies (The Bush Dyslexicon, The DubyaSpeak Compendium and George W Bushisms:
- Dhaka Is Looking Up (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 19, 2006)
Whenever I have visited Bangladesh in the past, I have wondered whether the country would ever make it. The words like “a failed state’ has haunted me and I have often expressed apprehension over the future of 150
- Modi Asks Questions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 19, 2006)
He came, he saw and he left the city mercifully untouched by his visit. Yet the implications of Narendra Modi’s visit to Mumbai on Monday, in the aftermath of last week’s train blasts, are not short-term; Mumbai had far too . . .
- Modi Can’T Fix The Mumbai Mosaic (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Jul 19, 2006)
Narendra Modi was not on the minds of Mumbaikars as much as he was in the electronic media. Mumbaikars continue to be in sort of a State of Siege, enveloped by fear psychosis and driven by rumours rather than by ministerial assurances.
- Offensive Likely To Redefine West Asia Political Map (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
Israel’s assault on Lebanon threatens to weaken Arab moderates throughout the region, bolstering the image of Islamic militants at a time when anger among the Arab public is running high over the war on terror and America’s role in Iraq.
- Shah Bano’S Ghost Over The Rubble (Indian Express, Narayanan Madhavan and Rosemary Arackaparambil, Jul 19, 2006)
Being a party that swears by Hindutva, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) must have reason to believe in the law of karma, and how it can catch up, in its own sweet way.
- Court-Martial (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 19, 2006)
When the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill, 2006, became the law of the land in May, these columns had noted that it is unlikely that the country has heard the last of this strange piece of legislation. Sure enough, the law — which was supported . . .
- Ban On Capitation Fees (Deccan Herald, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 19, 2006)
Are schools justified in charging capitation fees since primary education should be made available to all segments?
- Kalam Shares Mumbai's Pain (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
"Help provide medicare to victims"
- Cbi Files Charge Sheet Against Bangaru Laxman (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
Charged with taking illegal gratification
- A Small Hike Makes Big News (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 19, 2006)
Last Friday's decision of the Japanese authorities to raise interest rates for the first time in six years has important messages for the rest of the world too.
- Climate-Change Deniers Have Now Gone Nuclear (Hindu, Polly Toynbee , Jul 19, 2006)
Murderous mayhem in the Middle East sends oil prices through the roof — $78 a barrel and climbing. In the U.K., electricity prices are up 35 per cent in two years, gas prices up 53 per cent. So the British Government launched its energy review last . . .
- Sensex Falls 66 Pts On Oil, Rupee Worries (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
The benchmark Sensex fell another 66 points on Tuesday as high oil prices pushed the rupee to its lowest level in more than three years, triggering worries this may slow down foreign fund investments.
- Tehelka: Cbi Chargesheet Against Bangaru Laxman (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
Five years after the Tehelka expose, the CBI on Tuesday filed its first chargesheet in the case against former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who was caught on camera accepting wads of currency from a fictitious arms dealer.
- Hdk Digs Out Mining Dirt During Cong Rule (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
Launching a counter-attack over the bribery charges against him, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday accused the two previous governments of dereserving thousands of acres of forest land for the benefit of miners...
- Tribunal Row Delays Final Cauvery Award (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 19, 2006)
Tenure ends on August 6, extension sought
- The Onus Is On The Secularist (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jul 19, 2006)
The terrorist can be isolated only if the community is mobilised. That can happen only when our political leaders give up their habits and strategies of dividing communities.
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