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Articles 12821 through 12920 of 43820:
- China, India Will Shape Asia: Lee (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Jun 03, 2006)
Singapore's Prime Minister delivers keynote address at the Asia Security Summit
Pranab Mukherjee, Donald Rumsfeld to participate
Membership of East Asia Summit `settled for now'
- Oil Price Hike: "Government Should Consider People's Needs" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Congress says people's needs must be factored into any decision
- U.S. Action Against Dawood Overdue: Cbi (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jun 03, 2006)
Pakistan under pressure: CBI chief
Pakistan flouting U.N. resolution against sheltering "global terrorists," says former Director of Intelligence Bureau
Dawood should not be given shelter, should be deported immediately, he says
- Sc Asks Pemra Chief To Vacate Land (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to immediately hand over possession of an orchard farm to its legitimate owners.
- Bush Circles The Wagons As Approval Ratings Slip (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
With just five months to go before the midterm elections, President Bush, whose once-faithful base has abandoned him in droves, is turning to the same conservative hot-button issues that won him re-election in 2004 -- homosexual "marriage" and . . .
- Military Officers To Administer Tribal Areas (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
In a major policy decision, President Gen Pervez Musharraf is reported to have approved the appointment of senior military officers as administrators of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
- Wb Wants Withdrawal Of Gas Subsidies (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
The World Bank has asked Pakistan to do away with subsidies to domestic gas consumers and remove other tariff distortions to create a competitive gas market in the country by separating transportation, distribution and supply roles of two gas . . .
- Al-Zarqawi Lashes Out At Shiites In Tape (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq railed against Shiites in a four-hour-long audiotape harangue posted on the Internet on Friday, saying militias are raping women and killing Sunnis and the community must fight back.
- The Social `Trilemma` (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Jun 03, 2006)
Equity, justice, efficiency-all three cannot be pursued simultaneously. One must be sacrificed.
- Gears That Move The Innards Of Growth (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 03, 2006)
Three books by Indian writers chart the course of economic growth in the country, looking at it from various angles — the sources of growth, growth theory and macroeconomic policy. Interesting and informative reads, says D.MURALI.
- Numbers And Welfare (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 03, 2006)
Social security for the unorganised sector
It was a touch ironic that the contours of a new deal for the country’s unorganised sector were unveiled at Kolkata’s New Secretariat, the bastion of a Leftist state’s organised and politically committed . . .
- Payback Time (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Jun 03, 2006)
The writing was always there on the wall. But, typically, we Indians failed to see it.
- Will India Run Aground Or Muddle Through? (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Jun 03, 2006)
Either way, India’s future seems flawed; eternal optimists should tone down expectations from it.
- No Movement On Reform By The Upa (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Jun 03, 2006)
The perception is of a subservient, backtracking and indecisive government.
- A Rosy Statistical Picture (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 03, 2006)
The National Economic Council (NEC) has projected an ambitious overall development expenditure for the next fiscal year.
- Dmk Gets Opposition Status In Pondicherry Assembly (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
A M H Nazeem becomes Opposition leader in the House
- Panel Wants Nuke States To Ratify Ctbt (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
An independent commission seeking ways to end the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction has recommended that all nuclear weapon states, including India, Pakistan, USA and China, ratify the CTBT which prohibits all nuclear weapon testing.
- Lifetrack In New York (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Jun 03, 2006)
My most favourite bar in New York is The Otherroom on Perry Street in West Village.
- Affirmative Action The Only Answer (The Economic Times, V KRISHNA ANANTH, Jun 03, 2006)
There is no basis to argue that caste identities will be sharpened by setting aside 27% of seats in institutions of higher learning to the socially and educationally backward classes.
- Tap Ceos For Top Jobs: Follow Us Example (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 03, 2006)
Is it possible for Deepak Parekh or K V Kamath to become India’s FM? The answer is likely to be no, because of perceived conflicts of interest and also because the political system doesn’t trust businessmen. That’s a state of mind, which is a . . .
- Aidwa To Step Up Agitation For Passage Of Women's Bill (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
`Delhi Chalo' to be taken out during monsoon session of Parliament
Three-day dharna to be staged pressing for early passage of the Bill
AIDWA delegation meets Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav
- Bhatt Masala (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 03, 2006)
For someone who first tasted success directing two future MPs - Vinod Khanna to the right and Shabana Azmi to the left - in Lahu ke Do Rang, Mahesh Bhatt has, appropriately, established himself as a deft exponent of the "rent a cause" game.
- The Myth Of Ownership Society (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 03, 2006)
No,” said former Fox News journalist Tony Snow, newly appointed as one of George W Bush’s closest aides, his press secretary, when asked recently about his retirement savings. “As a matter of fact, I was even too dopey to get in on a 401(k) pension plan.
- Lifting Oneself Above The Mundane (The Economic Times, V B N RAM, Jun 03, 2006)
Last few days have witnessed gruesome crimes, some so horrendous as to be inconceivable. A high profile politician being killed by his own brother. An Indian technocrat in Afghanistan being butchered to death. Members of a particular community . . .
- Time Yet To Relent (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 03, 2006)
UPA must reconsider quota policy ---- By calling off their strike and returning to work, doctors in Delhi and other cities across the country have done the right thing.
- Parliament To Discuss Oop Bill In Monsoon Session (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
The Office of Profit (OoP) Bill, returned by President APJ Abdul Kalam for reconsideration by Parliament, will be taken up by the two Houses in the Monsoon Session beginning last week of July.
- Terror Deals Blow To Tourism, Cancellations Begin (Daily Excelsior, Sarwar Kashani, Jun 02, 2006)
As the Valley's biggest economic venture and back bone of its prosperity - the tourism sector, was limping to regain its lost glory, unscrupulous elements armed with explosives time and again discharged their lewd endeavours stabbing in the stomach . . .
- A Little Over-Optimistic (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 02, 2006)
BALOCHISTAN Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani seemed a little over-optimistic when he told a NIPA delegation on Wednesday that the province’s tribal society was “fast transforming” itself into a progressive one because of the ‘mega’ development projects . . .
- Congress-Communist Camaraderie (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 02, 2006)
There are moments in history when forked tongues will no do, and when overly nuanced appraisals of events amount only to equivocation.
- Opting Out Of The System? (Dawn, Tahir Mirza, Jun 02, 2006)
When you retire after almost 50 years in active journalism, are you also in some way perhaps opting out of the whole system in which you have been involved, have written about and reported on?
- President Acts (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 02, 2006)
President Abdul Kalam has done the right thing in returning the controversial Prevention of Disqualification Amendment Bill, 2006, popularly known as the Office of Profit Bill, passed by both Houses of Parliament, for reconsideration.
- Pull The Plug (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 02, 2006)
News of a Kolkata trader winning a whopping Rs 11 crore, post tax, is stuff dreams are made of. While the media bombards the highest ever Indian lottery winning “star” of all time with questions on what he will do with his prize money, concerns that . . .
- Sc Again Refuses To Stay Quota Policy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Supreme Court today reiterated its earlier stand declining stay of the Centre’s policy providing 27 per cent reservation to OBCs in central higher education institutions, saying without knowing the Government views no interim order could be passed.
- Medicos Return To Work (Tribune, Smriti Kak Ramachandran, Jun 02, 2006)
Resident doctors who resumed work after days of hunger strike, much to the relief of the government and patients, have cautioned that though the strike has been called off, they will sustain the anti-quota movement in the larger interest of the society.
- Focus On Agrarian Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Interesting reads in Kannada...
- Strike Out (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 02, 2006)
The foiled terrorist strike on the RSS headquarters at Nagpur early on Thursday was not unexpected, even though it is to the credit of the security forces that they acted according to drill and gunned down the three attackers.
- About Time, A Ban On Ltte (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 02, 2006)
In the 30 years of its existence, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam brazenly used Europe as an extended backyard for its war against the Sri Lankan state.
- The 2008 White House Race Is Wide Open (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Jun 02, 2006)
Hillary Clinton is regarded as a divisive figure in some quarters
John Mcain could be "too old" by January 2009
Jeb Bush is popular but the problem is his name
A fresh face could be what America is waiting for
- India's Gains Predicated On Competitiveness (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 02, 2006)
The Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN is a link up with a group of dynamic economies that can test India's mettle in several areas of trade. More than the comfort of tariff quotas it will be the country's sustained competitiveness that would bring it . . .
- Maoists To Hold First Rally In Nepal Capital In 3 Yrs (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebels are set to hold their first mass rally in Kathmandu in over three years on Friday, in what their chief negotiator said would be a peaceful demonstration after a ceasefire declared in April.
- Mumbai On Alert For Heavy Rains (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
India's commercial capital of Mumbai was on alert for very heavy rains on Thursday, almost a year after a sharp cloudburst crippled the metropolis for days and killed hundreds of people in the region.
- Gdp Figures Underline Importance Of Reforms (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jun 02, 2006)
If the economy's performance is to sustain, more reforms are needed, as the Finance Minister has called for.
- Multi-Racial Fiji (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Jun 02, 2006)
The dream of the late Timoci Bavadra of a multi-racial Fiji for which he launched the Fiji Labour Party in the 1980s providing a common platform for the indigenous Fijians and the Fiji-Indians was at last realised in the just concluded parliamentary . . .
- National Assembly, Senate Begin Stormy Budget Sessions Today (Dawn, Raja Asghar, Jun 02, 2006)
Both houses of parliament will meet on Friday to begin what are likely to be tense budget sessions that will be keenly watched for government-promised relief in the face of one of the severest price hikes prevailing in the country.
- From `Volumes` To `Value` (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jun 02, 2006)
Brands and marketers should start tapping the opportunity at the top of the pyramid.
- How Should Airports Be Modernised? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 02, 2006)
The question should in fact be debated by the professionals in the field rather than politicians.
- Buoyant Economy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 02, 2006)
Reforms are needed to sustain the GDP growth
- Left Wants Parliament To Pass Oop Bill Again (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Left parties, whose ten MPs including Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee face disqualification petitions and strongly favour an amendment on offices of profit issue, on Thursday toughened their stand saying Parliament should pass the . . .
- Contract Farming Is Not The Panacea (Pioneer, Sudhirendar Sharma, Jun 02, 2006)
Unless there is a policy shift in favour of cooperative farming, our impoverished farmers will continue to commit suicide, says Sudhirendar Sharma
- Waving, Not Drowning (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Jun 02, 2006)
If the BJP wants to stage a comeback, it must regain the Opposition space that it has lost to the Left -
- Appeasement As State Policy (Pioneer, Sanjog Maheshwari, Jun 02, 2006)
While the past decades have witnessed relentless competition among various political organisations to appease the minority community in a bid to cultivate the Muslim vote-bank, none can match the UPA Government's firestorm of minorityism.
- Trinamool Fans Farmers' Ire On Land For Tatas (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Jun 02, 2006)
For the first time after the elections, the Nationalist Trinamool Congress on Thursday got down to testing the political waters in Hooghly district by galvanising disgruntled farmers at Singur block to protest against the "unlawful and impetuous . . .
- Govt Wants Peace, To Refrain From Military Action: Rajapakse (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Sri Lanka's president on Thursday told the United States that his Government sought peace with separatist rebels and would not opt for a military solution to the conflict.
- Opening Doors To Islamists (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jun 02, 2006)
After sealing the fate of Indian academics with 27 per cent reservation, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is off on a nine-day trip to the Gulf to explore possibilities of cooperation in academics between the two countries.
- Gang Targets Itc Official’S Nepal House (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jun 02, 2006)
A day after three people were killed in broad daylight in the capital during a bank robbery bid, on Thursday, an official of ITC’s joint venture in Nepal came under a bomb threat.
- Civil Unrest (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 02, 2006)
East Timor needs to concentrate on nation-building
- Why’S Kalam Mum On Quota? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jun 02, 2006)
Although his decision to return the Office of Profit Bill has won him the applause of a middle-class suspicious of the motives and motivations of the political class, a good question to ask is: why has President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam been silent on the . . .
- Smoke-Screen (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 02, 2006)
The government is past master at the art of diversion. If a book or a film proves controversial, it reacts by banning the work. It implements social justice by ruining our universities, instead of tackling the problem at its root — ensuring that . . .
- Something’S Missing In The Jigsaw (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 02, 2006)
There seems to be unexplored ideas in spite of the new human, diplomatic and political situation at present
- Nepal Maoists Revile All Things Indian (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Jun 02, 2006)
Even after the establishment of an interim government in Nepal with support from Indian soil in various forms, Nepal's Maoists (Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist) are still pursuing their agenda of removing Indian influence from Nepal politics and . . .
- Iran Rejects Us Conditions For Nuclear Talks (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Iran on Thursday rejected US conditions for talks over its disputed atomic programme, saying it was ready for negotiations but unwilling to freeze sensitive nuclear work.
- Saudi Media Calls Arjun An ‘Icon Of Indian Secularism’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Saudi media has heaped praise on the visiting Union Minister for Human Resource and Development Arjun Singh, describing him as a very “seasoned politician” and an “icon of Indian secularism”. Giving wide coverage to Singh’s visit to Saudi . . .
- Left Takes A Right Hand Turn (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 02, 2006)
Under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, West Bengal's lapse into capitalism is a foregone conclusion,
- Sudan Is The Most Failed (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jun 02, 2006)
The recently released annual global “failed states index” covered 146 states from all continents. Each country was scored from one to ten according to a dozen criteria and was ranked according to its score. Those scoring highest were rated the most . . .
- Keep Out Of Profit Row, Karat Tells Ec (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
As the office-of-profit controversy locks the country’s President and Parliament in a stalemate, the woman with whom it all began shook herself free from its shadow today.
- Gap With Govt Widening, Say Maoists (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Communist rebels today acknowledged widening differences at peace talks with Nepal’s new government, accusing the ruling alliance of reneging on promises that could push the country back into conflict.
- Still Earthly (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 02, 2006)
The more vulnerable the better. This seems to be the killers’ motto, and they have succeeded three times within 15 days.
- Reserve And Destroy (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 02, 2006)
As the populism fire rages, Indian forests are under profound threat.
- Rule And Ruin (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jun 02, 2006)
This is the story of a day that shook India as few other events have done since 1947.
- Two Brands That Have Taken The Market By Storm (Telegraph, Raju Mukherji, Jun 02, 2006)
David Beckham is among the best known names in the world today. The surname rings more bells than those of kings or prime ministers, politicians or authors.
- Being Famous Is Not Enough (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 02, 2006)
There are three reasons. First, far too many books are being published and an author cannot be just another face in the crowd.
- One Answer To 5 Tricky Questions (Indian Express, M. Rama Jois, Jun 02, 2006)
The on-going controversy over OBC reservations raises some important questions: is reservation on the basis of the decades old OBC list really in favour of socially and educationally backward classes? Is reservation at the post-graduate level justified?
- Quota Nod With Rider (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Supreme Court today said the government need not wait for its final judgment to goahead with reservations for Other Backward Classes but should keep in mind that the issue was before it.
- Vatican To China: Stop Meddling (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Vatican today told China not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Catholic Church, saying “social peace” in the communist country would benefit if religious freedom were guaranteed.
- No Illusions (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 02, 2006)
India’s relationship with China is never free of baggage: faith or mindless hostility.
- Striking Difference (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 02, 2006)
Politicians couldn’t have ended the doctors’ agitation. They were only talking politics
- Ways To Defeat Ourselves (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 02, 2006)
On the face of it the two have no correlation. Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW), which has kept strategic thinkers engrossed for the last decade and a half, is about the what, why, where and how of future conflicts and possible responses.
- Why Pakistan Should Look At Nigeria, Nepal (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jun 02, 2006)
Recent developments in Nepal and Nigeria offer an example for Pakistan on how to overcome entrenched authoritarian structures through popular mobilisation and thoughtful political action.
- The Wrongs In Land Rights (Indian Express, SUDIPTA DATTA , Jun 02, 2006)
The PM wants changes in land ownership laws, so does his party president yet the government has sat on suggestions it called for 19 years ago
- Fuel Price Hike: Left Threatens Strike (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The Left on Thursday warned the UPA government against hiking prices of petro products for the fifth time during its tenure and threatened a nationwide protest involving non-Congress and non-BJP parties.
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