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Articles 16221 through 16320 of 43820:
- The Friendly Neighbourhood Cm (Indian Express, JAYA MENON, Apr 17, 2006)
He doesn’t have a penchant for white Ambassadors or Black Cat security.
- Why The People Of Nepal Are Against A Once-Loved Monarchy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
There are thousands milling in the streets of Nepal—politicians, activists, professionals, common people—defying curfew and braving bullets to make their stand against monarchy.
- Biman Bose Cribs At Ec Directives (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Apr 17, 2006)
The EC has also directed that neither a presiding officer nor a polling officer can use a mobile phone inside the booth.
- If Us Frees Spy, Will Free Barghouthi: Israel (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Israel could release jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi if Washington grants clemency to a US Navy analyst convicted of spying for the Jewish state in the 1980s, Israel’s Army Radio said on Sunday.
- The Cost Of 3ºC Global Rise In Temperature (Hindu, Alok Jha, Apr 17, 2006)
Global temperatures will rise by an average of 3º C due to climate change and cause catastrophic damage around the world unless governments take urgent action, according to the U.K. Government's chief scientist.
- Narmada Project: Clearing The Confusion (Hindu, Ramaswamy R. Iyer, Apr 17, 2006)
The factual answers to ten relevant questions are clear. Now the Prime Minister needs to act justly and responsibly, in line with the Supreme Court's judgment.
- A New Kind Of History Textbook (Hindu, Sumit Sarkar, Apr 17, 2006)
Books just brought out by the NCERT teach history in creative ways. All themes are sought to be looked at from the angle of everyday life and its changing patterns, bringing history down from the distant skies, as it were.
- People's Needs Over Party Politics (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2006)
Once again, the politics of expediency has taken precedence over the needs of people.
- Deadlock Persists Over Iraq Premier Post (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Talks achieve no breakthrough
- Cases Against Mlas: Naidu To Take Issue To Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Vows to mobilise support from national parties on the issue
Filing of cases an affront to legislators: Naidu
TDP MLAs, MPs, asked to reach Hyderabad by Tuesday
TDP president for nationwide debate on issue
- Do Not Ridicule Our Schemes, Karunanidhi Tells Opponents (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
"They could have promised rice to poor at cheaper rates"
Opposition behaving like "enemy" parties, he says
Only DPA victory will usher in people's rule
Karunanidhi completes second leg of campaign in his constituency
- Poll Manifestos Tread Similar Grounds On Education . . . (Hindu, VANI DORAISAMY, Apr 17, 2006)
All parties offer free compulsory education for children under 18
25 per cent reservation for rural students in professional courses also promised
Free computer education, increasing budgetary allocation offered
BJP promises privileges to . . .
- "Most Pakistanis Are For Peace" (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Apr 17, 2006)
Peace process on at a steady pace, says former Foreign Secretary Humayun Khan
People on both sides have endorsed the peace process and pinned hopes on it
New Delhi can move forward on business, opening of routes
- From The Underbelly Of The Beast (Hindu, Kanak Mani Dixit, Apr 17, 2006)
All over the subcontinent, every day, the most disadvantaged fall through the cracks.
- Why Arabs Curse West (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
There is an erroneous notion among Arabs that if they are poor and underdeveloped, it's because of the US, says Abdul Rahman . . .
- Ltte Suspends Participation In Geneva Talks (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Apr 17, 2006)
Wants Lanka Govt. to remove "hurdles"
- Umbrella That Kept Out The Red Storm (Indian Express, SUBRATA NAGCHOUDHURY, Apr 17, 2006)
In the death of Abu Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chowdhury the West Bengal Congress has lost a leader who had always played his own brand of politics.
- Oil On The Boil, Again (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 17, 2006)
India may need to act on the twin issues of taxation of petroleum products and subsidies.
- Pm’S Concerns (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 17, 2006)
Addressing the commissioning parade at the Pakistan Military Academy on Saturday, Mr Shaukat Aziz said that Pakistan was opposed to the arms race in the region and was pursuing a national security strategy to secure its integrity, solidarity and economic
- Peaceful Solution To Iran’S N-Crisis (Dawn, Anwar Kemal, Apr 17, 2006)
The UN Security Council’s presidential statement of March 29, 2006, is the latest and most serious in the series of steps being taken at the behest of the United States and the EU countries to circumscribe Iran’s nuclear programme within parameters . . .
- Foreign Investment (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 17, 2006)
The prime minister’s statement that a strong macro-economic performance and an improved debt profile have made Pakistan attractive to foreign investors must be accepted with a pinch of salt.
- India’S Left, Congress In State Poll Standoff (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Millions of people will vote in India’s West Bengal on Monday as part of elections in five states whose results could further strain ties between India’s left and the national ruling coalition it backs.
- King Seethes At The People, Delhi Steps In (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Apr 17, 2006)
Feeling the heat of unrelenting protests against the monarchy, Gyanendra met Indian ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukherjee on Sunday evening to offer fresh dialogue with the political parties.
- No Easy Options (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 17, 2006)
As the political crisis in Nepal deepens, Indians are being forced to re-examine their view of a country that they have taken for granted for 60 years, and which is now at a political crossroads.
- The Ghost In The Quota Machine (The Economic Times, Pothik Ghosh, Apr 17, 2006)
Debating societies are notorious for indulging in open-ended arguments. To be conclusive is hardly a virtue in such fraternities.
- Narmada: No Plan To Stop Work, Says Pm (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
An all-party delegation from Gujarat, including parliamentarians from the Congress and the BJP on Sunday met the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, urging him to allow continuance of construction work on the Narmada Dam, following which the PMO . . .
- Is Azad Cm Of Kashmir Alone? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has virtually rejected the 23-year old Wazir Commission Report (WCR) and asserted that Kashmir, like the Jammu province, too needed more districts "either through an executive order" or on the basis . . .
- The Power Of Public Opinion (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Apr 17, 2006)
The polling in Assam is over and the results will be announced in a month. Expectedly, before the 'numbers' are made public, 'alliances' will be struck and power sharing agreements signed between parties that contested the election.
- Mullaperiyar: Minister Slams Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Says she is making it a campaign issue
- Dangerous Concept Of Nation-State (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Apr 17, 2006)
Serb communist-nationalist and President of the post-1991 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Gom's Confidential Report (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2006)
This is the text, obtained exclusively by The Hindu, of "A Brief Note on the Assessment of Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R & R) Sites and Submergence of Villages of the Sardar Sarovar Project." The note marked confidential and dated April 9, 2006,
- Patriarch's Passing (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
In the passing of Abu Ataul Barkat Ghani Khan Choudhury, India and West Bengal have lost yet another of the vanishing breed of patriarchal politicians with large personal followings held together by strong ties of loyalty, and who, in many ways,
- Apartheid In Reverse (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
Statistics often pitilessly expose the truth that politicians craftily seek to hide behind rhetoric.
- Cong Makes Mp Scapegoat In Narmada Politics (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Apr 17, 2006)
Dam on Narmada is not only caught in the crossfire between anti and pro-dam activist, but also in politics of riparian States.
- Height Of Injustice, Gujarat Mps Tell Manmohan (Pioneer, Yoga Rangatia, Apr 17, 2006)
The UPA Government is speaking with a forked tongue on the politically volatile issue relating to the construction work on the Sardar Sarovar Project on river Narmada.
- Poor Nations Need A Change In Strategies To Guard Trade Interests (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Third World disunity allows developed countries to maintain their trade barriers
The huge economies of India, China and Brazil play along with the Third World coalition so long as it suits their interests.
- With An Eye On Personal Glory (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 17, 2006)
Arjun Singh wants to introduce reservation for OBCs for reclaiming his lost aura in the Congress and Government, says . . .
- Advani Swipe At Pm Over Dam (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Senior BJP leader Mr LK Advani today accused the Prime Minister of abdicating his responsibility when he was supposed to provide leadership and blasted the Centre for creating an “unprecedented and messy Centre-state stalemate” on the Narmada dam issue.
- Jaipal Succumbs (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 17, 2006)
All the abundant articulation-skills S Jaipal Reddy can muster cannot camouflage degrading reality ~ he has wilted under pressure from the Capital’s unique trader-politician nexus.
- How Blows The Wind? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 17, 2006)
Barring the death of a school teacher in the Bodo region and minor incidents in Karbi Anglong, the two-phase polls in Upper and Lower Assam were peaceful enough.
- Tn: Vhp, Grama Poojari Peravai To Support Bjp, Janata Party (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The VHP and village priests association would back the BJP and the Janata Party in the coming Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, S Vedantham, international Vice President of the Parishad said today.
- Where Is The Justice After Never-Ending Trials? (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Apr 17, 2006)
A fast-track court at Jaipur hands out a guilty verdict in the rape of a German girl in exactly 26 days.
- Fuel Rations In Nepal, Anti-King Strike Hits Prices (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Hundreds of cars and motorcycles queued up at gas stations in the Nepali capital on Monday as fuel supplies dwindled on the 12th day of a general strike called by anti-monarchy activists.
- Left, Congress In State Poll Standoff (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Apr 17, 2006)
Millions of people will vote in West Bengal on Monday as part of elections in five states whose results could further strain ties between the left and the national ruling coalition it backs.
- Time To Restore (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2006)
Autocratic rulers make two mistakes — they overestimate their own powers and they underestimate the people’s power to change things.
- What Next, If Indo-Us Nuclear Deal Fails? (Daily Excelsior, T.P. Raghavan, Apr 17, 2006)
If we scrutinise the ongoing debate in the US Congress, the Indo-US civil nuclear deal is in danger of falling apart.
- Social Networking Through The Web (Deccan Herald, James Harkin, Apr 17, 2006)
Social networks are the perfect accompaniment to globalisation
- Nuke For Nuke (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Apr 17, 2006)
As long as the arms race between India and Pakistan continues, the dialogue will not make much progress
- Beyond The Blasts (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 17, 2006)
Ultras’ aim to break the secular fabric must be thwarted
- Kashmir Militants Coming Home, Says India General (Reuters, Sheikh Mushtaq, Apr 17, 2006)
India's most senior army general in Kashmir said on Sunday that militants based in Pakistani Kashmir have been giving up arms and returning to their homes in the Indian part of the Himalayan region following last year's devastating earthquake.
- ‘Vulgarity Is What You Can’T See With Your Family’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 17, 2006)
The Bombay High Court order striking down the ban on dance bars has been seen as a slap in the face for Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil, who has been waging a war against what he perceives to be immoral. Mahesh Mhatre spoke to Patil soon . . .
- Dmk Fields A Poet In A Different Poll Battle (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Apr 17, 2006)
Her name figures in the DMK’s list of candidates as Rokkaiah Malick. But she does not use her husband’s name, a sign of feminist streak in her.
- I Phase Poll In Bengal Today, Campaign Low Key (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Thanks to the Election Commission’s strict enforcement of the model code of conduct, which has evoked mixed response from the contesting political parties, this Marxist bastion has not witnessed such low-key campaigning ever before.
- King Gynandra's Elections Ploy (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Apr 17, 2006)
Gyanendra, Nepal's monarch, who imposed absolute rule on his country 14 months ago, in a surprise move, has announced that elections to parliament will be held soon.
- Step Back, India Tells Nepal King (Hindustan Times, Nilova Roy Chaudhury, Apr 17, 2006)
When Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Shiv Mukherjee, met King Gyanendra on Sunday, he conveyed a strong message from New Delhi: If the King wanted to salvage what he could of the monarchy, he needed to step back and hand over power to the seven-party . . .
- Top Hamas Mp Briefly Arrested In Jerusalem (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The newly elected parliamentary deputy Mohammed Abu Teir was among seven Hamas members briefly arrested by Israeli police in annexed east Jerusalem on Monday, security sources said.
- Siege Spreads To Nepal Lifelines (Telegraph, J. HEMANTH, Apr 17, 2006)
King Gyanendra held talks with diplomats from India and the US amid a call for full-blown civil disobedience and speculation about the likely imposition of emergency in Nepal.
- Three Protesters (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2006)
It has become easy to dismiss or trivialize public protest in India. ‘Activism’ is perceived as falling into one of three . . .
- Hooliganism Unleashed (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2006)
Bangaloreans live with the knowledge that that dreaded entity, known as the “Rajkumar fan,” can strike anytime, anywhere, at the slightest of provocations, and throw normal life completely out of gear.
- Indian Envoy Meets King Gyanendra (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
As the Opposition protests for restoration of democracy showed no sign of ebbing, India’s envoy to Nepal today met King Gyanendra and discussed ways to resolve the present political crisis.
- Reading China (Tribune, Lanxing Xiang, Apr 17, 2006)
The world’s preoccupation with China’s sudden rise as an economic superpower is a matter of some bemusement among Chinese political leaders and intellectuals.
- Development Smokescreen In Kerala Elections (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Apr 17, 2006)
Kerala is a state that has prided itself on experimenting with and evolving ideologies, but no candidate seems to be fighting the elections on the ideological platform this time.
- The Naxalite Challenge (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 17, 2006)
Governments at the Centre and in the states are finally cranking themselves up to deal with the growing menace of communist extremism, which is said to have spread to as many as 160 districts, or about a quarter of the total.
- Orientalia (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2006)
Tagore inscribed the Orient into the trajectory of humanism
Telling Tales Amit Chaudhuri Part 2 of a six-part essay. The third part of this essay will appear next sunday
- No Decision To Stop Work On Dam: Pmo (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Apr 17, 2006)
Coming together against any move by the Centre to suspend the Narmada Control Authority decision to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam, BJP and Congress MPs from Gujarat today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying the project was . . .
- Pentagon Attacks Rumsfeld Critics (Times of India, Mark Mazzetti, Apr 17, 2006)
The US Defence Department has issued a memorandum to a group of former military commanders and civilian analysts that offers a direct challenge to the criticisms made by retired generals about Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld.
- Today's Editorial: Two Legs Good (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 17, 2006)
Indians with a condescending view of Nepali backwardness that has allowed a full-fledged Maoist insurgency to rage in that country, would do well to look in their own backyard.
- Bjp Hits Out At Uma In Mp (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
The Madhya Pradesh BJP has got a convenient handle to beat Uma Bharati with.
- Pentagon Attacks Rumsfeld Critics (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
The US Defence Department has issued a memorandum to a group of former military commanders and civilian analysts that offers a direct challenge to the criticisms made by retired generals about Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld.
- New Jd(u)chief Hopes To Take Gowda Along (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Apr 16, 2006)
Newly elected Janata Dal (United) President Sharad Yadav has the strengthening of the party in Karnataka and Jharkhand as one of his top priorities.
- Reality Check (Hindu, TARAN N. KHAN, Apr 16, 2006)
Siddiq Barmak on how his films are drawn from what's happening in Afghanistan
- The Tragedy Of Want In India (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Apr 16, 2006)
Poverty has always dogged India’s heels, although the situation has improved over time.
- Drumbeat Of War Is Drowning Out Wiser Counsels (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
The neo-con regimes in Washington and Tehran are on collision course after last week's announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that his country has 'joined the nuclear club'.
- Tn Poll Scenario Fuels Unrest In Upa (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Apr 15, 2006)
The poll scenario in Tamil Nadu has begun to cause some disquiet in the Congress.
- Rumsfeld In The Line Of ‘Friendly’ Fire (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Apr 15, 2006)
The White House has been obliged to publicly support Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as more retired army generals have stepped forward to call for his resignation.
- Merit-Vs-Quota (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Apr 15, 2006)
The vote bank politics of the UPA Government will split the country vertically if the Union cabinet passes a notification to introduce 27 per cent reservation for OBCs over and above the existing 22.5 per cent for SC/ST in 20 central universities,
- 5 Civilians Killed, 44 Injured In 7 Blasts (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Apr 15, 2006)
Amid the festival celebrations of Eid-e-Milaad-un-Nabi, Baisakhi and Good Friday, which also coincided with the arrival of an intellectual delegation from Pakistan and ‘Pakistan occupied Kashmir’, militants today struck a wave of terror with . . .
- Media Crisis In Nepal (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Apr 15, 2006)
I find it very disturbing that the Indian media, print and electronic, should show little interest in the ongoing political crisis in Nepal, a crisis that has been preceded by years of upheaval.
- Any Doubt? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 15, 2006)
Sheikh Rashid Ahmad is not the best advertisement for Pakistan. Not very long ago Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik had spilled the beans about the support he had extended to the Kashmiri militants in the neighbouring country.
- Nuclear Deal (Tribune, Major-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Apr 15, 2006)
According to the US establishment, the geostrategic benefits of the nuclear deal with India (which is likely to sail through Congress) outweigh any risks of proliferation.
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