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Articles 16021 through 16120 of 43820:
- West Bengal Must Talk With Maoists: Pranab (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
``Talks have to be sustained, results do not come overnight''
- Re-Poll: Liquor Flow Under Check In Vizag-1 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
10 checkposts and 13 police pickets operating round-the-clock
District officials, election authorities and police review the situation
Excise Department deploys 11 mobile parties to control supply of liquor
- ''Left Is Our Valued Ally'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Even pressures do good: Manmohan
- Aiadmk, Dmk Mum On Reserved Panchayats Polls (Hindu, S. Annamalai, Apr 20, 2006)
Conduct polls in 2006 on party lines, as in Kerala, says expert
- Where National Parties Hold Sway (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
In Tamil Nadu's deep south, the influence of Dravidian parties is far from complete
- Left May Review Support To Upa After Polls: Brinda (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
The Left will most definitely make a fresh assessment of its support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre after the elections to the five State Assemblies, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat has said.
- Their Faith In Politicians Is Eroded (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
People in three West Bengal districts urgently want governmental action to prevent land erosion by the Ganga
- Caste Politics And The Vanniyar Belt (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, Apr 20, 2006)
The new found friendship between the PMK and the DPI is a reflection of the changed realities in Tamil Nadu
- Peace In Nepal Vital, Says Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Wednesday that peace and stability in Nepal was vital to India for more than one reason. "Nepal is a flourishing democracy and all concerned should work to realise these goals," he said.
- Poll Wars Enter Cyberspace (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
The Internet revolution opened up infinite possibilities for political parties. They found it a convenient platform to air information about their policies and programmes and their stand on contemporary issues.
- Bjp Confident Of Opening Account In Kerala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national vice-president Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said that he had no doubt about his party opening account in Kerala this time around.
- Karan Singh Meets Deuba, Koirala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Says he is optimistic about talks he will be holding with the King and political leaders
- Between The Judicial Lines (Pioneer, Salman Khurshid, Apr 20, 2006)
On the basis of apex court's judgement, Buta Singh cannot be held guilty of the dissolution of Bihar Assembly, says Salman Khurshid
- Chandy Leaves `Smart City' To The People (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the issue whether the Government should implement the Smart City project is being left to the voters.
- Sonia Wants To See Son Rahul As Pm: Rajnath (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
BJP President Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said Sonia Gandhi wants to see her son or daughter as Prime Minister of the country due to which she has declined the responsibility herself.
- The Next Steps To Peace (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 20, 2006)
The dialogue process is reaching an impasse. Should India now resort to a grand gesture, or take gradated steps to sustain it?
- Minding Those Who Meddle With Money (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 20, 2006)
Papers of a new customer are before you. Your deputies in the bank have already interviewed him and done all the prescribed due diligence.
- On Slippery Rock (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Apr 20, 2006)
Despite their near-takeover by the illiberal Left, American universities are more robust than those in other Western countries, says Daniel Pipes
- The City Beckons (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 20, 2006)
Benefits and risks in RIL’s gas distribution move
- End Of Day, Size Matters (Pioneer, Dmitri Kosyrev, Apr 20, 2006)
The very air of JNU is refreshing, though some slogans high up on the red brick walls are a bit too Leftist for my taste. My latest visit to JNU brought me yet another refreshing feeling: Somebody asking me a question called me a "doctor", which I am not.
- Calling Private Unlimited (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 20, 2006)
When the Prime Minister makes an appeal to the captains of industry to “seriously consider enhancing educational and employment opportunities for weaker sections, investing in their skill enhancement and promoting their employment in an . . .
- Jayalalitha Plays The Rice Card (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
After ridiculing the DMK’s poll offer of rice at Rs 2 per kg to ration card holders, chief minister of Tamil Nadu Ms J Jayalalitha on Monday, ironically, couldn’t help but join the bandwagon of rice offers on the poll scape, as she went one up . . .
- Assam: Peaceful Battle (Frontline, Sushanta Talukdar, Apr 19, 2006)
All political parties barring the ruling Congress have predicted a hung Assembly in Assam.
- India's Ultimatum To Nepal King: Set Up Interim Govt (Pioneer, Rahul Dutta, Apr 19, 2006)
India on Tuesday decided to dispatch Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) president Karan Singh as Special Envoy to Kathmandu on Wednesday with a simple brief:
- Discordant Orchestra (Pioneer, CP Bhambhri, Apr 19, 2006)
A motley crowd of the Congress-led UPA Government has been bumbling like the extremely temporary regimes of Mr VP Singh, Mr Chandra Shekhar, Mr HD Deve Gowda and Mr Inder Kumar Gujral in the 1990s.
- Lalu Keen To Join Hands With Maya (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Apr 19, 2006)
RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is keen to tie an electoral alliance with BSP supremo Mayawati for the upcoming Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.
- Islam And Democracy (Pioneer, Kishan Bhatia, Apr 19, 2006)
Abdul Rahman Al-Habib's article, "Why Arabs curse West?" (April 17), makes interesting read.
- Guarding The Good Times (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 19, 2006)
The Annual Policy unveiled by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is a mix of the rough with the smooth. Having sought to pre-empt inflationary expectations with a hike in the reverse repo rate last quarter, it has chosen now to keep key rates unchanged, sign
- In Asia, How To Manage The Boom? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
In the 1990s, the free flow of money and goods turned Malaysia and Thailand into middle-class economies, made Singapore rich and helped Vietnam start transforming its centrally planned economy.
- Karan Singh To Go As Pm’S Envoy To Nepal (Indian Express, Satish Misra, Apr 19, 2006)
Concerned with the fast deteriorating political situation in the neighbouring Himalayan Kingdom, India today decided to send a senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member, Dr Karan Singh, to Nepal tomorrow as the Special Envoy of . . .
- Sinister Motive (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 19, 2006)
The Prime Minister's high level committee headed by Justice Rajinder Sachar that was set up to look into the "social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community in the country", is working on a report that could have severe . . .
- Pm Sending Karan To King, Message Clear: Restore Democracy (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Apr 19, 2006)
With tensions rising in Nepal and economic indicators worsening, India today decided to send senior Congress leader Karan Singh on Wednesday as a special envoy, carrying a message from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for King Gyanendra.
- Narmada: Listen To The Real Stakeholders’ Voices (The Financial Express, CM VASUDEV, Apr 19, 2006)
We have a long way to go to utilise our water resources better; let’s not waste time in futile . . .
- Saffron Poison Or Panacea? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 19, 2006)
While Hinduism is increasingly seen as the spiritual elixir in the West, our self-claimed secularists deride it, says S Gurumurthy
- West Bengal: Clear Choice (Frontline, SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY, Apr 19, 2006)
The results in West Bengal are a foregone conclusion; only the margin of victory is to be known.
- Kerala: Close Race (Frontline, R Krishnakumar, Apr 19, 2006)
In Kerala the main contest is between the traditional rivals, the UDF and the LDF, with the BJP nowhere in the picture.
- Tamil Nadu: Promising Start (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, Apr 19, 2006)
In Tamil Nadu the two main alliances have firmed up seat-sharing arrangements, but the spoilers may be the few parties fighting alone.
- China Defends Role In N Korea Nuclear Talks (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
China defended its role in international talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions on Tuesday, a day after a top US official said China needed to make stronger efforts to restart the stalled negotiations.
- Making Nonsense Of Alerts In Public Issues (The Financial Express, PRITHVI HALDEA, Apr 19, 2006)
The mandatory risk factors in a prospectus have become redundant and do disservice to . . .
- Reconciliation, The Only Way (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Apr 19, 2006)
Nepal's Lali Guras (rhododendron) Revolution has entered its 14th day, well beyond the original four days.
- Win-Win Ruling (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 19, 2006)
It is now upto the two sides to work together
- Growing Unrest In Nepal (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 19, 2006)
As political restlessness intensifies in Nepal with thousands of protesters taking to the streets, there are deep forebodings that the current situation may mark “the beginning of the end” for the monarchy in that country.
- Is Mixed Land Use A Disaster? (The Economic Times, A G K Menon, Apr 19, 2006)
The debate on mixed land use, although long overdue and very welcome, is still being conducted on grounds of legal authority and political expedience, rather than on its merits as a planning strategy. As a planning strategy, its ubiquity speaks . . .
- Tdp Leader Hacked To Death (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Former MLA Suryapratap Reddy attacked at Tadipatri rly station
- India Expresses Concern Over Nepal Turmoil (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
India’s newly appointed special envoy to Nepal said on Tuesday that civil unrest against the monarchy was “spinning out of control” in the troubled Himalayan nation.
- Maldivians Want Genuine Democracy: Ibrahim Hussain Zaki (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, Apr 19, 2006)
India should play a more active role in ensuring that true democracy is ushered in Maldives, said Ibrahim Hussain Zaki, vice president, Maldivian Democratic Party. Rather than strengthening the hands of a `dictator', India had a duty to promote democracy,
- Blight Of Bonded Labour (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 19, 2006)
An international conference on bonded labour has called on the Pakistan government to appoint a judicial commission to eliminate private jails and take measures to rehabilitate freed haris.
- I Broke Fast As I Am Needed In The Narmada Valley: Medha Patkar (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Apr 19, 2006)
Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar, who was on a hunger strike seeking justice for families displaced by the Narmada dam project, is helped by the affected vilagers as she leaves hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday. Ms. Patkar said she gave up the fa
- Beyond Interest Rate Signals (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 19, 2006)
In its annual credit policy statement for 2006-07, the Reserve Bank of India has announced a two-pronged approach to emphasise its traditional commitment to price stability and to maintaining the flow of credit to the real economy.
- "Gandhi Promoted Republican Understanding Of Development" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Gandhians are an endangered species today, says Upendra Baxi
- First High-Level Admission (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 19, 2006)
we have a high-level admission that there is high inflation, it is harmful and it poses grave threats not only to the economy but also people's budgets.
- Patriotism In Danger (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 19, 2006)
Three years after deserting their parent party for the ruling coalition, the leadership of the PPP (Patriots) has developed an instant aversion to changing loyalties.
- Karan Singh Going On Nepal Mission (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Apr 19, 2006)
New Delhi concerned at situation in Kingdom
Situation impacted directly on India's security
India would be happy to facilitate a solution
- Education Dragged Backwards (Deccan Herald, Vatsala Vedantam, Apr 19, 2006)
Seat reservation could reverse brain gain into the country and resume brain drain
- Desperately Seeking Manmohan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
The Supreme Court has played the leadership role in defusing the situation over the Narmada conflict by finding a way out of the impasse.
- Spiralling Out Of Control (Deccan Herald, Sushant Sareen, Apr 19, 2006)
The choices before the Pakistan army is limited when it comes to dealing with the jihadis
- Bush Won't Exclude Iran Nuke Strike, No Sanctions Deal (Reuters, Saul Hudson , Apr 19, 2006)
The United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy failed to curb the Islamic Republic's atomic ambitions.
- Nepal Violence Claims Sixth Victim (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
A woman who was hit on the face by a tear gas shell has become the sixth person to die in Nepal's two-week long protest campaign against King Gyanendra, officials said on Wednesday.
- Indian Says He Was Terrorised By Us Federal Agents (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months following the 9/11 terror attacks.
- 'Ltte Responsible For Most Mine Attacks’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
The chief European cease-fire monitor blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday for the recent spate of land mine blasts that have killed dozens in Sri Lanka and imperiled a four-year-old, Norwegian-brokered truce.
- 'Save Monarchy, Restore Democracy' (Times of India, Rajeev Deshpande, Apr 19, 2006)
Even as India is looking to make a significant intervention in Nepal, New Delhi is faced with the daunting task of getting Nepalese monarch Gyanendra to make concessions to the pro-democracy insurrection in time to ensure that the . . .
- Cong Upbeat Despite Pre-Poll Surveys (Times of India, P K SURENDRAN, Apr 19, 2006)
With Kerala set to go to polls on Saturday, pre-poll surveys are predicting a win for the CPM-led Left Democratic Front. But that's not dampened the spirits in the Congress camp with United Democratic Front making a brave surge for the . . .
- Cpm Infighting May Cost Isaac Dear (Times of India, Amrith Lal, Apr 19, 2006)
Thomas Isaac is not your regular politician. In spite of working his way up in the party by heading SFI in Kerala in the 1970s, he is more known as an academic from the Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram.
- Walking The Line (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 19, 2006)
If it is truly a ministerial directive ~ and not another case of the political boss taking credit for an official’s idea ~ Lalu Prasad merits a little applause for instructing that quality footwear be issued to railway gang-men whose job requires . . .
- Power Corrupts (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 19, 2006)
It is strange that certain things don't seem to change.
- Time To Decide (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 19, 2006)
The Supreme Court could not have been clearer in its latest statement on the Sardar Sarovar dam. Some of the court’s clarifications repeat, with good reason, its 2000 and 2005 judgments on the issue, and reiterate the terms of the Narmada . . .
- Pak Army Over-Stretched, Says Expert (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Observing that Pakistan was witnessing "vicious" insurgencies which had the potential to lead to its breakup, a strategic expert has said army has got over-stretched due to its internal security duties and the "anti-India catalyst" that . . .
- Leader Article: Passions Of The Tongue (Times of India, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Apr 19, 2006)
A fortnight before Rajkumar died, a poll conducted in Bangalore chose the film actor as the most admired resident of the city.
- Scam In Iccr (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Apr 19, 2006)
A CBI enquiry has been ordered into the recent ''irregularities'' alleged to have been committed at the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) under former director general Rakesh Kumar.
- Iranian Nuclear Ambition (Daily Excelsior, Indu Prakash Singh, Apr 19, 2006)
While stressing that diplomacy is the first course for dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions, the White House is not ruling out a military response.
- Hasten Slowly (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 19, 2006)
State Director-General of Tourism Salim Baig has been quoted in a Delhi newspaper as having said that Gulmarg ski resort will be handed over to a private operator for 99 years against a payment of "over Rs 20000 crores."
- Clearing The Air (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 19, 2006)
Delhi’s durbar culture is used to the rise and fall of individuals and of groups with clout to influence policy and statecraft.
- I Was Terrorized By Dogs, Threatened By Us Agents: Indian (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months following the 9/11 terror attacks.
- Pm Should Categorically Come Out On N-Agreement: Naidu (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should make a categorical statement on the nuclear agreement with the US as various reports emnating on the issue were "creating doubts in peoples' minds", former BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu today said.
- A Law For The Office (Tribune, Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Apr 19, 2006)
The question of “Office of profit” has been finding very prominent mention in the national discourse ever since Mrs Jaya Bachchan was unseated from the Rajya Sabha and even more since Mrs Sonia Gandhi resigned from the Lok Sabha and the National . . .
- Speedy Justice (Tribune, Joginder Singh, Apr 19, 2006)
Figures available with the Law Ministry show that at the end of November, 2005 there were 33,635 cases pending in the Supreme Court and 34,24,518 cases pending in the High Courts.
- "The Sky Is The Limit For Indo-German Relationship" (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Apr 19, 2006)
Bernd Mutzelburgis Germany's new envoy in India. In an interview toThe Hindu, the Ambassador, a former foreign and security policy adviser to the German Chancellor, spoke on a range of issues, including Berlin's attitude towards the Indo-U.S. . . .
- Be Vigilant On Belgaum Issue, Dharam Tells Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Leader of the Opposition in Assembly N Dharam Singh on Tuesday said the Karnataka government should be “on alert” with regard to the brewing crisis over the issue of Belgaum’s merger with Maharashtra.
- Indian Tortured, Seeks Us Apology (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Mr Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months after the 9/11 attacks.
- Today's Editorial: Return Of Fera (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 19, 2006)
Why does government want to resurrect follies that held us back in the past, just when Indians were beginning to think the licence-permit raj might . . .
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