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Articles 12021 through 12120 of 43820:
- Bogged Upa May Call Ndc Meet By June-End (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Threatened by growing restlessness in the Opposition as well as among its key allies, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government is going to call a meeting of National Development Council (NDC) for a consensus on the issues of petroleum prices . . .
- Coalition Government In Crisis; Differences Crop Up Over Bmic (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Jun 14, 2006)
Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister attempt to save Government
- `Poor Performers' Proposed To Get A Fee Hike (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Jun 14, 2006)
Retainership and fees of MCD standing counsels in Supreme Court and High Court to go up
- `Rail Roko, Chakka Jam' Mark U.P. Bandh Against Price Hike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Government claims protest symbolic; rail passengers inconvenienced
- We Have No Role In Pok Polls: Pakistan (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 14, 2006)
``Elections were determined by its constitution''
Nominations of 30 candidates of JKLF rejected
Region's constitution includes requirement to sign accession declaration
- Congress To Spend Rs.30 Crores On Campaign: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Party to complain to EC on 'violation of code' by Congress
CPI(M) flayed for tying up with the TDP even after describing its chief as World Bank agent
CPI(M)'s truck with the TDP aimed at gaining political power
- Strike Against Fuel Prices Halts Transport In India (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Trucks, buses and some train services ground to a halt in India on Tuesday as part of a nationwide one-day strike against a government decision to raise fuel prices.
- Another Blow (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 14, 2006)
Sri Lankan government can tackle the LTTE only politically
- Tackling Threats (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 14, 2006)
Raising more Central forces is not the best solution
- Rising To Our Potential (Deccan Herald, B G Verghese, Jun 14, 2006)
In a globalised world, India can't afford to shy away from its role as a key player
- Uproar In Na: Nadra Missing From Budget (Dawn, Raja Asghar, Jun 14, 2006)
An opposition eagle eye put the government in the spot during the budget debate in the National Assembly on Tuesday when it was found that no funds had been demanded for a key federal department and the finance minister did not know why it was so.
- The Lady With A Candid Camera (OutLook, SHYAM BENEGAL, Jun 14, 2006)
A scholarly coffee-tabler, meticulously tracing the intrepid odyssey of India's first lady photojournalist.
- Indo-Us N-Deal Faces ‘Testing’ Times (Daily Excelsior, V Mohan Narayan, Jun 14, 2006)
The hype over the agreement between India and the United States on cooperation in civil nuclear energy has subsided with reality checks in both countries.
- A Woman's Sight (OutLook, Jean Dreze, Jun 14, 2006)
Sen is praised as a "feminist economist" but it is not very clear what "feminist" actually stands for (except for a general concern with gender issues) and why Sen qualifies
- Musharraf To Be Re-Elected In Uniform: Wasi (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Federal Minister for Law Wasi Zaffar said Tuesday President Gen. Pervez Musharraf can retain both offices at a time and he would be re-elected as president for next five years.
- Pml-N For Polls Under Neutral Govt (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
The Central Working Committee (CWC) of the PML-N here on Tuesday resolved to speed up its struggle for the establishment of a neutral caretaker government in the country to conduct credible elections through an independent and effective Election . . .
- Sco A New Model Of Successful Tie-Up (News International, Vladimir V. Putin, Jun 14, 2006)
As the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), one of the youngest international entities, is turning five on June 15 and preparing for the anniversary session of its Heads of State Council in Shanghai, I would like to share my thoughts and . . .
- Palestine Further Destabilised (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 14, 2006)
Palestinian factional rivalry erupted into unprecedented violence on Monday as followers of President Mahmud Abbas set Parliament and West Bank cabinet offices ablaze while Hamas supporters tried to storm a security compound in Gaza.
- People Participation In Agricultural Development (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 14, 2006)
This fact has been proven time and again that the success of any agricultural development programme depends to a large extent on the intended beneficiaries.
- Consumer Not The King (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 14, 2006)
The findings of a CAG-commissioned survey on the status of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) of 1986 underscore the imperative need for the government — at the Centre and in the states — to take effective steps to educate the consumers about their . . .
- Inflationary Discomfort (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 14, 2006)
If any evidence of inflation concerns was needed, the RBI provided it by raising the repo and reverse repo rates.
- Picking Up The Resettlement Gauntlet (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jun 14, 2006)
Mr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh will need to be wary in drafting the Bill on the issue of resettlement of project-affected people.
By planning to bring before Parliament a Bill on the resettlement of people displaced by land acquisitions for various . . .
- Hats Off, Imf! (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 14, 2006)
If a competition were to be held to adjudge which of the international organisations has the most admirable grasp of the obvious, the prize will easily go to the IMF.
- 'Dalits Have Not Benefited From Quotas' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Professor P Radhakrishnan of the Madras Institute of Development Studies is a well-known social scientist. Some of the key areas of his research include affirmative action; agrarian problems; backward classes and reservations; backward class . . .
- Educating Without Long-Term Vision (Pioneer, Asheesh Shah, Jun 14, 2006)
The head-start that West has over India is in education, and the tragedy is despite ample opportunities, we have failed to make use of them, says Asheesh Shah
- Does The Mha Need To Change Tack? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 14, 2006)
The upsurge in left-wing violence in a number of states currently poses the most serious threat to India’s internal security.
- Story Of Profitable Politics (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 14, 2006)
UPA Government must not rush into passing the Office-of-Profit Bill without giving serious attention to the President's concerns, says CP Bhambhri
- The Palestinians’ Palestine Question (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 14, 2006)
It’s unfortunate that an errant rocket, presumed to be Israeli, which killed a Palestinian family in Gaza last week has turned out to be a catalyst for renewed violence in the region.
- Handpicked Leaders (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 14, 2006)
Whatever your political inclinations may be, you would be inhuman not to feel sorry for those poor politico dearies whose wallets and mobile phones have been nicked.
- Labourers’ Killer Among 6 Militants Killed (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Six militants including a killer of nine labourers were killed in separate encounters at Pampore, Handwara and Uri today while as militants shot at and injured a BSF trooper in Sopore.
- Politics And Football: Bridgeable Divide? (Rediff on the Net, Vikram S Mehta, Jun 14, 2006)
More than any other public event, the ongoing world cup is witness to the brotherhood of merit.
- World Cup Unity In West Bank (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 14, 2006)
It is about the only issue Israelis and Palestinians can agree upon. The TV subscription rates to watch the football World Cup are too high.
- Left Protests Against Oil Price Hike (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Restructure customs and excise duties; do not pass on the burden to States: Karat
- Crisis Blows Over As Coalition Government Defers Discussion . . . (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Jun 14, 2006)
Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and others spend four hours on Tuesday trying to save the Government
The partners are not seeing eye-to-eye on the issue
Cabinet meeting commences five hours late
- Where Leaders Come To Learn (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Jun 14, 2006)
The country's political and academic institutions must take firm efforts to groom future leaders
- When Democracy Died... (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jun 14, 2006)
The book is a personal journal, recording the Emergency as seen from an insider’s point of view.
- Giving It Back (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 14, 2006)
New Delhi has finally chosen to prick the rather thin bubble of justification that Pakistan has constructed for itself in the parts of Jammu and Kashmir that it controls.
- Jd(s), Bjp Spar Over Mysore Corridor Project (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Differences appear to have cropped up between ruling alliance partners JD(S) and BJP over the proposed legislation on the Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC).
- Taxman Cites The Law On Bachchan (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
The income-tax department today refused to confirm or deny if any fresh notices had been sent to Amitabh Bachchan and his family members, but said an “aggrieved” party could always approach the courts of law.
- In Its Own Mess (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 14, 2006)
While an increase in global crude oil prices should be transmitted in the form of increases in domestic petroleum product prices, the Centre has itself to blame for the economic and political mess it has got into.
- Azad Kashmir: Longing For Normality (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Most visitors to the earthquake-devastated areas in Azad Kashmir come away with a distinct impression that while the victims are showing great courage and resilience in rebuilding their shattered lives and broken houses brick by . . .
- Bharat Inc. (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 14, 2006)
The results of the Fifth Economic Census, by far the most reliable count of enterprises and economic activity in the country, have only underscored the trend thrown up by the latest growth data released recently.
- Public Safety Commission (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 14, 2006)
The establishment of the National Public Safety Commission (NPSC), announced by the Interior Minister on Monday, has been slow in coming.
- Kumaraswamy Skids As Ally Bjp Says No To Highway Takeover, Cong For Cbi Probe (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Jun 14, 2006)
Mysore Expressway: Deputy CM of the BJP says coalition threatened
- A Tax Is Best Offence (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 14, 2006)
Sideshows sometimes show up fundamental flaws in our system. For example, the little drama going on about Amar Singh, the Bachchans and income tax returns demonstrates gross political immaturity.
- Bachchans Face 37 Income Tax Notices In Three Months (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 14, 2006)
Congress and SP on Tuesday locked horns over the income tax notices to Amitabh Bachchan, marking a sharp escalation of confrontation and bringing the superstar virtually face to face with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
- Plenty Of Enemies To Go (Deccan Herald, Thomas L Friedman, Jun 14, 2006)
Al-Zarqawi reminds us that open societies are threatened by his kind of ruthless jihadists
- ‘Reports About Arms Sales From Pakistan Are Misleading’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 14, 2006)
The peace process between Sri Lanka and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), begun with Norwegian mediation in 2002, remains stalled, violence is the order of the day in the . . .
- Martyrs' Day Observed In Kashmir, Leaders Pay Tribute (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jun 14, 2006)
Separatists call for general strike; tight security in Srinagar
- For Beijing, Terrorist And Victim Are Same (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 13, 2006)
China holds the key to containing Islamist terror in Asia, but its backing of Pakistan to countervail India does not augur well, says Cecil Victor.
- Lessons For The League (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Jun 13, 2006)
Iuml's defeat in the Kerala Assembly election reflects its alienation from the poor masses who form its social base ---- Mr E Ahamad, the Minister of State for External Affairs, remains in office not because he has no reason to resign.
- India Slams Bar On Ajk Parties (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jun 13, 2006)
Taking note of reports of the disqualification of certain political parties and candidates from contesting the upcoming elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, India on Monday said it had exposed Pakistan’s insincerity and was a U-turn from President . . .
- Plaza Blown Up, 24 Tribesmen Held In Bara (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
Authorities in Bara on Monday dynamited a multi-storey plaza and arrested at least 24 Zakhakhel tribesmen during an operation against activists of Lashkar-i-Islam.
- Fo Terms Kashmir Core Issue Between Pakistan, India (Dawn, Qudssia Akhlaque, Jun 13, 2006)
The Foreign Office on Monday emphatically declared that it considered Kashmir dispute the core issue between Pakistan and India and said it had been acknowledged in the Simla and Tashkent agreements.
- J&k's Summer Of Death And Grief (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Jun 13, 2006)
UPA Government's soft approach towards terrorism has only encouraged the jihadis to strike with greater venom and ferocity, says Anil Narendra
- Taxing The States (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 13, 2006)
The petro-product tax structure is grotesque, serving neither the poor nor promoting efficient economic outcomes.
- Choice Is Clear (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 13, 2006)
Kumaraswamy's way, or highway----It is typical of the infuriating ironies of Indian politics that the Golden Quadrilateral, the highway development programme that is contemporary India's showpiece infrastructure project, has swiftly seen a change . . .
- Imam's Call To Party (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 13, 2006)
Bukhari dreams of Muslim votes----Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari of Delhi's Jama Masjid is being truthful when he says that 'secular' parties have treated India's Muslims as nothing more than a vote-bank to be tapped at the time of elections through . . .
- Bjp's Yayati Syndrome (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Jun 13, 2006)
Some time after the arrest of the Kanchi Acharyas, the BJP think-tank hosted a talk where an ideologue defended the greatest civilisational insult Hindu India has suffered since the assassination of Guru Tegh Bahadur by a rabid Islamist ruler.
- India-U.S. Nuclear Talks Begin (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
Discussions likely to centre on "123 agreement" that will form the basis for deal
- Why Bjp Silent On Rss Suggestion: Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
In States where it is in power, the party should follow Congress example
Abandon politics of opposition
Congress will build public pressure
- Us Could, India Can (Pioneer, Surajit Dasgupta, Jun 13, 2006)
It is not only military belligerence and arm-twisting economics that has raised the US to the pinnacle of political power. It is also for the fact that there was a time when that country embraced all.
- Going Beyond Kansas (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jun 13, 2006)
Forecasters are famously advised never to predict both an event and its timing. This was certainly the approach adopted by ancient soothsayers and oracles, who, like Alan Greenspan, added ambiguity and obscurity to their counsel.
- Free To Profit (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 13, 2006)
Whether it is industry or agriculture, the only way to run it profitably is on sound business principles.
- 'Muslim Groups Feel We Practise What We Preach' (Times of India, Rajesh N Singh, Jun 13, 2006)
Jan Morcha, a newly constituted front of various political outfits with the patronage of former prime minister V P Singh, has given a new lease of life to Raj Babbar's political career.
- Outright Dishonesty (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 13, 2006)
In the politics of petrol, reason has no place. The circumstances in which the Manmohan Singh government increased the price of petrol by Rs 4 and diesel by Rs 2 per litre are well known, the international price of crude oil having crossed the $70-mark.
- Rediscovering India (Business Line, Sudhansu R. Das, Jun 13, 2006)
If Amitabh Bachchan drinks a tender coconut in a TV commercial, millions take to the nature's best cool drink. So also if Mahendra Singh Dhoni relishes a glass of buttermilk.
- What Ails The Tiger? (Tribune, Brig Ranjit Talwar (retd), Jun 13, 2006)
Nobel laureate Milton Friedman had once remarked, “If a government were put in charge of managing the Sahara Desert, within five years, they’d have a shortage of sand!” Well, that pretty well sums up the Government of India’s most inept handling of . . .
- Digesting The Rbi’S Unexpected Rate Hike (The Financial Express, Rajeev Malik, Jun 13, 2006)
The portents are clear for at least another hike between now and the end of the calendar year.
- Islamabad Rejects Sinha’S Remarks On Kashmir (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
Pakistan on Monday snubbed the former Indian External Affairs Minister for his naive remarks made regarding the status of Kashmir dispute saying that anyone who knows even little about Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan would . . .
- Incumbent Assembly To Elect President, Says (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
PML Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain Sayed has said that the incumbent assembly would elect the president and the election would be held according to the schedule.
- North Korea Flexes Missile Muscle To Grab Us (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
North Korea’s preparations for possible long-range missile tests, its first in nearly a decade, may be an attempt to grab the attention of a US government distracted by its nuclear row with Iran, experts said Monday.
- British Police Hit On 'Bungled' Terror Raid (Christian Science Monitor, Tom Regan, Jun 13, 2006)
Muslim groups protest 'rising Islamophobia' as government admits to erosion of community trust.
- Debate Over Iraq War Back In Washington (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 13, 2006)
The No. 1 issue for American voters - the future of the Iraq war - moves to the fore this week, both among President Bush's wartime advisers and on the floor of Congress.
- Case For Provincial Autonomy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 13, 2006)
The federal minister for inter-provincial coordination struck the right note when he called for maximum autonomy to enable the provinces to run their own affairs.
- Sense And Sensuality: New Food Writing (Business Standard, Nilanjana S Roy, Jun 13, 2006)
Just a decade ago, food memoirs and histories were as exotic as the cheeses and chocolates kind friends would bring back from “phoren”. Now that even Manchegos, Reblochons and a growing selection of gourmet chocolates are available if you know . . .
- The Case Of The Curious Rate Hike (The Financial Express, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Jun 13, 2006)
The timing of last Thursday’s interest rate hike suggests more of politics than economics.
- Powering Ahead (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 13, 2006)
At one level, the power ministry’s target of an additional 19,000 mw of installed capacity in one year may seem overly ambitious.
- Tv Channels And The Hudood Debate (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 13, 2006)
The current debate about the abolition of Hudood laws is throwing up an interesting array of opinion.
- Petrol Price Hike: Can States Soften The Blow? (Business Line, C. J. Punnathara, Jun 13, 2006)
By reducing the Customs duty on crude oil the Centre has shown the way to reduce the burden of the consumer. Some State governments have followed up by reducing the sales tax, but more should do so.
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