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Articles 14921 through 15020 of 43820:
- Old Query On Young (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 05, 2006)
With Pramod Mahajan no more, Uma Bharati out and Rajnath Singh’s earlier elevation to party presidentship in some ways taking him out of the future race, the BJP’s so-called second generation leaders have less competition but are perhaps no more . . .
- A Pursuit Of Pure Passion (Hindu, S. DIWAKAR , May 05, 2006)
Did you know that Gauhar Jaan was not actually the first Indian musician to have a gramophone recording?
- Seeking Progress On All Fronts (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 05, 2006)
The people of Darfur need much more than aid. They need protection on the ground and they need peace, not just on paper but implemented and enforced throughout each and every village across the region.
- Kargil And Questions Of War (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 05, 2006)
Was the Kargil war the outcome of just intelligence failure?
- Indian Security Presence In Afghanistan (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, May 05, 2006)
The U.S. and Britain have hitherto been averse to any role for India — in deference to Pakistani sensitivities. Why, now, a change of heart?
- Curfew Relaxed In Vadodara (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, May 05, 2006)
Clash in Navapura before Army moved in
Army stages flag march in affected areas
"Handling of situation by police raises a lot of questions"
- Bjp, Aiadmk Have Secret Pact: Brinda Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Says Jayalalithaa is not attacking BJP, RSS, due to this
Describes AIADMK Government as anti-poor, anti-peasant, anti-Dalit"
Praises DMK's election promise of subsidised rice
- Mahajan Gets An Emotional Farewell (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
The grief in the air was palpable. At 1.30 pm on Thursday, Rahul Mahajan lit his father Pramod Mahajan's pyre amid chanting of Vedic hymns at the Shivaji Park crematorium, not far away from the very maidan where the late BJP leader had charmed mammoth . .
- Is The Tn Poll Free And Fair? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, May 05, 2006)
When the Election Commission has been piling up accolades for managing even more complex assignments with aplomb, it might seem an odd question to ask, but it must be asked: are the Tamil Nadu elections really free and fair?
- Snap Poll In Singapore (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, May 05, 2006)
The May 6 election is viewed as an exercise in the politics of stability.
- Over 5,000 Police Personnel To Be Deployed For Elections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Around 140 booths identified as sensitive; flag march held at Namakkal
- Washington Still Needs Islamabad (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, May 05, 2006)
When america's world changed after 9/11, President Pervez Musharraf adapted faster than most. He severed Pakistan's official links with the Taliban, backed the U.S. war on terror, and set about taming lawless tribal areas abutting the Afghan border. Gen.
- Singh Wants Kashmir Issue Settled By 2008’ (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, May 05, 2006)
Indian PM tells Kashmir interlocutors he doesn’t want indefinite talks
APHC, New Delhi to remain in touch through committees
- Us Body Seeks ‘Aggressive Action’ Against S. Arabia: Pakistan Cited Among ‘Religious Freedom Violators’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
A US Congress-mandated commission urged the government to take ‘aggressive action’ against Saudi Arabia for alleged religious freedom violations and warned that religious rights were under threat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Sabre-Rattling Against Iran Unlikely To Succeed (Hindu, Tariq Ali, May 04, 2006)
Ringed by nuclear states, Teheran's atomic programme is scarcely unreasonable. So why has Washington manufactured this crisis?
- Russia's Energy Diversification Moves (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , May 04, 2006)
Irked by attempts to block it out of Europe's energy retail market, Moscow has begun to seek other export routes.
- A Man Of The Modern World (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , May 04, 2006)
There was no job in the BJP that Pramod Mahajan did not handle — and handle with some finesse. Whether he was in the party or the government, he took every job seriously, working out every detail.
- Nepal's Monarchy At A Crossroads (Hindu, Ameet Dhakal, May 04, 2006)
Nepal's reinstated House of Representative passed a unanimous resolution on Sunday to go for constituent assembly elections to draft a new constitution. Will ballot power overthrow the 237-year old monarchy?
- The Curse Of Dual-Income Workaholic Consumerism (Hindu, Oliver James , May 04, 2006)
Long working hours and status consumption have the U.S. and Britain in their grip.
- Man In A Hurry (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, May 04, 2006)
For the fledgling Bharatiya Janata Party, New Year’s Day, 1985 was not the occasion to celebrate. As the general election results poured in, the anticipated victory of the Congress turned into an avalanche.
- Rajapakse Condemns Attack On Tamil Paper (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, May 04, 2006)
The Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse, on Wednesday strongly condemned the attack on a Jaffna-based Tamil newspaper, Uthayan, and described the attack as an "attempt to destroy values and principles that are both sacred and dear to all freedom . . .
- Nellithope Crucial For Both Dmk, Aiadmk (Hindu, S. Nadarajan, May 04, 2006)
An ex-serviceman and an ex-CM lock horns in the poll battle
Janakiraman has been holding the seat since his first win in 1985
Segar is a green horn in the poll battle
Nellithope has a total of 22,758 voters with 11,645 women voters and 11,113 men
- Rocket-Rattling Over Iran (Deccan Herald, Tariq Ali, May 04, 2006)
Till now, what has prevented the crisis in Iraq from becoming a total debacle for the US has been the open collaboration of the Iranian clerics.
- Advani Calls For Bjp-Muslim Unity (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Has the negative outlook towards the BJP helped the minorities or the nation at large? Floating the question to Indian Muslims, veteran BJP leader L K Advani took a dig at the Congress party for trying to divide the Nation by harping on “minority . . .
- Cbi To Probe J&k Sex Scandal (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , May 04, 2006)
It allegedly involves politicians, bureaucrats and police officers
- Pressure In The Pipeline (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 04, 2006)
The low price of gas is given as the reason for Iran not wanting to go through with the deal, but is there more to it?
- No Duty Free Crude Imports (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 04, 2006)
Jaundiced policy is adding fuel to the oil price fire. The committee on feedstock policy and pricing for petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIR) wants nil duty on crude oil imports, while keeping customs tariff on petroleum . . .
- Rest In Peace (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 04, 2006)
Whenever he was buffeted by a political storm, and there were many in the two-and-a-half decades that Pramod Mahajan spent in the BJP, he would resolutely battle on, refusing to accept defeat.
- Changing Geo-Politics Of Central Asia & India (Daily Excelsior, Sudhanshu Tripathi, May 04, 2006)
The Central Asian region is one of the most prominent socio-political cultural units in the contemporary world. Its location in the middle of Islamic, Christian and Buddhist radicalized civilizations makes the region as the most convenient transit . . .
- Components Of A Miracle That Is Attainable (The Financial Express, JAYANTA ROY, May 04, 2006)
Why we need high and sustained growth and what we need to do to make this happen
- Time Is Running Out For Tehran (Pioneer, Pyotr Romanov, May 04, 2006)
The US war against Saddam Hussein in Iraq was a precursor to the eventual or inevitable conflict with Iran, says Pyotr Romanov
- We Need More Education (Pioneer, JS Rajput, May 04, 2006)
The primacy of the HRD Ministry in attracting media attention remains unchallenged. Moving ahead from 27.5 per cent reservation for OBCs, it has embarked upon 100 per cent teacher recruitment in the institutions of higher learning.
- Tax Agricultural Income (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 04, 2006)
There was a time when it did not make much sense to tax income from agriculture. That was before India’s economic reforms.
- Consensus Crucial (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 04, 2006)
Nobody with a modicum of common sense would oppose a settlement of the debilitating dispute over Siachen, yet there is scope for disquiet at the series of “leaks” suggesting that an accord is imminent.
- Pramod Was A Caring, Generous Friend (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, May 04, 2006)
When the mission in Cairo was informed that a parliamentary delegation would be visiting Egypt, a collective groan went up.
- Farewell Pramod (Pioneer, TN Raghunatha, May 04, 2006)
Death snatched away one of the brightest politicians that the country has produced in recent times.
- Obituary: Pramod Mahajan (Statesman, Pramod Mahajan, May 04, 2006)
A strategist & an expert organiser
An iconoclast till his last day, Pramod represented that new breed of hyperactive “Gen next” eager to make an impact at the centre-stage of the national politics.
- Ceasefire Ceases (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, May 04, 2006)
The suicide attack on the Sri Lankan Army Commander, Lt.-Gen. Sarath Fonseka, on 25 April, by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, marks the end of the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement between the government and the militant organisation.
- Surviving Devils (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 04, 2006)
Dum Dum hoodlums mock CM’s assurances
- Mahajan Outstanding Organizer, Able Parliamentarian: Parties (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Leaders across the political spectrum today said that with the death of BJP leader Pramod Mahajan the country has lost an outstanding organizer and an able parliamentarian who had a bright future ahead of him.
- Delhi Bjp Suffers In Silence, Lets Shock Sink In (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
At a time when the BJP headquarters was busy making arrangements to receive the twin Bharat Suraksha Yatra on Wednesday, wreaths piled up inside the meeting hall in 11, Ashoka Road.
- It Is A Personal Loss To Me, Says Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
A gem of a person: Shekhawat; a charismatic and youthful leader full of promise and energy, says Manmohan
- Petrol, Diesel And Cooking Gas Prices Likely To Go Up Soon (Hindu, SUSHMA RAMACHANDRAN , May 04, 2006)
Fall-out of sharp increases in global crude oil prices and under-recoveries by public sector oil companies
Kerosene may be spared price hike
Extent of increase likely to be a political decision
- Pm, Hurriyat Agree To Evolve Mechanism (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held the second rounds of talks with the moderate Hurriyat Conference during which both the sides discussed "sensitive and important" issues and agreed to evolve a mechanism to resolve Kashmir issue amicably . . .
- Mahajan Passes Away (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Mr Pramod Mahajan, BJP General Secretary and former Union Minister for Telecommunications, Information Technology and Parliamentary Affairs, succumbed to the bullet injuries he sustained on April 22. The 56-year-old `Generation Next' leader of the . . .
- Tryst With A Man Of Destiny (Tribune, Ashok Kundra, May 04, 2006)
His visits to the city have sent me down the memory lane. I recall so vividly an encounter I had with him way back in 1964.
- Nepal Announces Indefinite Ceasefire (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Nepal’s new government announced today an indefinite truce to match a ceasefire declared by Maoist insurgents and said it would seek the withdrawal of Interpol arrest warrants against rebel leaders.
- 'Mahajan Was One Of The Most Competent Ministers' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Congress on Wednesday expressed deep grief over the death of BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, whom it described as one of the most competent ministers, a very good organiser and an able politician who played an important role in Indian politics.
- Manmohan Urges Hurriyat To Propose Mechanism (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night asked the Hurriyat Conference to suggest mechanism to address intractable issue of Kashmir.
- 'Gandhi Is More Relevant Than Marx Today' (Times of India, Avijit Ghosh, May 04, 2006)
Historian Bipan Chandra, 77, is well known for his writings on Indian national movement and communalism. He has recently co-edited, along with fellow historians Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee, a 10-volume series on Modern Indian History . . .
- The Great Game In Afghanistan (Daily Excelsior, Indu Prakash Singh, May 04, 2006)
The 41-year-old telecom engineer from Hyderabad K. Suryanarayana was found beheaded in Afghanistan in a new Great Game in which tactics are becoming more cold-blooded and motives less concealed.
- Indo-Thai Economic Ties To Get A Boost (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, May 04, 2006)
The economic and political ties between India and Thailand is likely to gain strength as the political uncertainty in Thailand is receding after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s resignation early last month.
- Kathmandu Spring (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 04, 2006)
For a while during the past three weeks of turmoil in Nepal, observers would have been forgiven for thinking that the crisis had more to do with Indian domestic politics than with events in the Himalayan kingdom.
- Body Blow (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 04, 2006)
Pramod Mahajan embodied the best, and worst, qualities of Generation Next in Indian politics. His death, at the age of 56, leaves the BJP crippled. Politics will miss him. Mahajan was representative of a generation in politics that valued efficiency . . .
- Of Ajit Garh And Tarn Taran (Tribune, Manohar Singh Gill, May 04, 2006)
When Punjab was again divided in 1966, I was DC, Ambala. I proposed the creation of Ropar district in new Punjab.
- Affirmative Action As Strategy (Business Standard, Kanika Datta, May 04, 2006)
Pardon me for covering old ground, but I can’t help thinking that if private corporations did not run quite so scared, there might actually find a durable, strategic solution to this affirmative action controversy.
- Pm Wants Kashmir Roadmap (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
PM Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asked the Jammu and Kashmir separatist amalgam Hurriyat Conference to come out with a mechanism to carry forward the dialogue process in order to address internal and external dimensions of the Kashmir issue.
- Centre-Hurriyat To Evolve Dialogue Mechanism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Meeting of minds augurs well for the future of Jammu and Kashmir, the people of India and the region: Manmohan
- A Wish List For India`s Dream Team (Business Standard, Shyam Ponappa, May 04, 2006)
What do you wish the dream team would do now.
As the unshackling of the economy and external factors combine to generate economic momentum, India is set to grow strongly despite constraints, including outdated legislation and regulations.
- Widow Of Indian Bandit Fights Election (Daily Times, CORPORATE BUREAU, May 04, 2006)
The widow of one of India's most notorious bandits is contesting a state election, saying she wants to fulfill her husband's ambitions by becoming a lawmaker and fighting for the poor.
- Bandh In Jammu (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 04, 2006)
It did not need call by any political party for people in this region to observe bandh on Tuesday in protest against massacres in Doda and Udhampur districts.
- Nepal’S Maoists Write Off New Leaders, Refuse To Disarm (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Richard Boucher ignores king in a quick-fire series of meetings with Nepal’s power brokers
- Mahajan To Get State Funeral (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan, who passed away at 4.10 pm on Wednesday, will be cremated on Thursday at Shivaji Park crematorium in central Mumbai, Nitin Gadkari, state BJP president.
- Quotas And Social Justice (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, May 04, 2006)
The justification for quotas should be economic backwardness and not any subjective criterion
- A Flamboyant Warrior (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 04, 2006)
Pramod Mahajan's tough as nails image and the aura of invincibility around him suggested that he would simply shrug off the worst crisis of his life, that he would somehow conjure a miracle that would place him once again in the thick of action in . . .
- Nepal Declares Truce (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, May 04, 2006)
Lifts ban on Maoists, calls for talk
- How ‘Failed’ Is Pakistan? (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 04, 2006)
NOT for the first time has an international thinktank cast Pakistan among failed states. But the latest such report, compiled by the US Foreign Policy magazine and the US-based Fund for Peace think tank, which puts Pakistan at number nine among the . . .
- Horse-Trading (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 04, 2006)
THE report that the Jamaat-e-Islami has expelled two of its NWFP MPAs, including a Minister in the provincial cabinet, from the party on Tuesday after a special committee constituted by it came to the conclusion that they had not cast their vote for . . .
- Pak Uzbek Ties (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 04, 2006)
ON Tuesday, Uzbek President Islam Karimov held talks with General Musharraf in Islamabad after which the two leaders addressed a press conference.
- Iran And The Us Share Goals In Afghanistan (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The owner of this plumbing shop in Herat, Afghanistan, says his business would be crippled if Iran stopped exporting its products.
- To Succeed One Must Be Authentic? (Deccan Herald, Sarfraz Manzoor, May 04, 2006)
This is the story of two books. Foxy-T was published three years ago. Set in the heart of east London, its characters’ dialogue was rendered in ‘Banglish’, a thick mix of English, Cockney and Bangladeshi spoken by the children of Bangladeshi immigrants.
- Yemen’S Al Qaeda No. 2 Jailed For 3 Years (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Al Qaeda's alleged number-two in Yemen was sentenced Wednesday by a Sanaa court to three years and a month in prison after the prosecutor had asked for death.
- Hamas Could Match Israeli Peace Moves — Mishaal (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Hamas could reciprocate Israeli moves towards peace if the Jewish state agrees to withdraw from all lands occupied in 1967 and acknowledges Palestinian rights, the group's political leader Khaled Mishaal said on Wednesday.
- When Things Are Just Too Good To Last (Deccan Herald, Richard Adams, May 04, 2006)
The IMF says the world’s economy is fine and dandy – so something must be about to go wrong.
- Up To Us (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 04, 2006)
Oil prices are approaching $75 a barrel, and could go higher.
- Delivering On The Employment Guarantee (Hindu, Mihir Shah, May 04, 2006)
The black box of the Schedule of Rates should be opened and the rates revised upwards urgently in a transparent manner.
- Sonia Hits Rae Bareli Turf (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
For the electorate, it was a three-hour wait under the blistering summer sun for a 10-minute speech by Sonia Gandhi. But that did not stop the crowd from cheering the Congress President as she got on to the dais in the Sarini Assembly segment of Rae . . .
- Karimov’S Productive Visit (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 04, 2006)
THE visit of Uzbek President Islam Karimov to Pakistan has led to greater understanding between the two countries. The leadership of Pakistan and Uzbekistan has vowed to expand bilateral commerce and economic relations
- Iran, Us Share Afghan Goals (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The smooth blacktop roads and 24-hour electricity of Herat set this Afghan commercial capital apart as a model of stability in a country still struggling to get on its feet. Much of the wealth in this western city, with its tree-lined streets and . . .
- Deported Ex-Militant Says Khalistan His Life’S Aim (Indian Express, ANJU AGNIHOTRI CHABA, May 03, 2006)
To get Khalistan through peaceful means is the purpose of my life and I will struggle for it till the end,’’ said former militant Harpal Singh Cheema, who has been deported from San Francisco.
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