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Articles 18521 through 18620 of 43820:
- No More Fresh Taxes, Says Chidambaram (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
“Nothing should be done to hinder the booming investment climate…. We will keep the tax rates stable and moderate,” he said replying to a discussion on the General Budget 2006-07 in the Rajya Sabha.
- All-Party Meet Demands Scrapping Of Go 72 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Even a section of Congress MLAs seeks modification of order
- People Power In East Asia (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Mar 14, 2006)
Do the current attempts in the Philippines and Thailand to re-enact people power movements amount to bypassing the existing democratic systems?
- Aiadmk Stages Walkout In Rajya Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Protest Kerala all-party decision on Mullaperiyar dam
- Congress Election Committee Reconstituted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in five States, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday reconstituted the party's Central Election Committee (CEC), bringing in four new faces while retaining seven existing members.
- A Condemnable Attack (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 14, 2006)
The cowardly attempt on the life of Afghan Senate Chairman Sibghatullah Mujaddedi by unidentified suicide bombers in Kabul on Sunday deserves severest condemnation.
- Bjp "Yatras" To Skip States Going To Polls (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Mar 14, 2006)
Meeting on March 17 to finalise details
Rajnath Singh, Advani to campaign in States going to polls
"No question of the RSS opposing the yatra"
Pledges maintenance of communal peace
- Senators Should Be Role Models (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
Rumpus stemming from the exchange of hot words between Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro and PPPP Senator Safdar Abbasi and Opposition’s walk-out marked the first session of the Upper House of Parliament on Sunday. Rowdyism, chaos and . . .
- Death Of A Tyrant (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
When the Bosnian journalist Mirna Jancic went to The Hague to report on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, she was repelled by the way in which the defendant, not infrequently, managed to turn the proceedings into a soap opera with himself as leading man.
- Slow But Sure Steps Of Justice (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Mar 14, 2006)
IF there is justice there will be peace. Nine men from Baroda were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court in Mumbai for a massacre of innocents (known as the Best Bakery case) during one of the most terrible communal riots in our . . .
- Jd(s)-Bjp Coalition Plans A Populist Cmp (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Mar 14, 2006)
Vision Karnataka' outlined by the President included in it
CMP scheduled for release on Wednesday
Implementation of CMP to cost not less than Rs. 1,000 crores a year
- Saved From War, For Now (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 14, 2006)
Despite the war of words that has erupted between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam following the Geneva talks, the danger of a real war — at the brink of which Sri Lanka was teetering just a few weeks ago . . .
- Missing Indian Spy Found In Us (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 14, 2006)
Rabindra Singh, a senior Indian spy who went missing in May 2004 after suspected of becoming a double agent and passing on secret and classified documents to the Americans, has been ultimately traced in the countryside of Virginia state in the . . .
- Citizen First — Sampark Centres In India — Ishtiaq Ahmed (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 14, 2006)
Under the old bureaucratic system the individual was treated more as a subject on whom state functionaries exercised power to extract taxes, levies and other charges. In return some public services were provided, but since the state . . .
- Bush In South Asia — Raising A Political Storm (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 14, 2006)
As the US President moved from Afghanistan to India and then Pakistan, he raised political storm clouds. If India was obsessed with the nuclear deal, Pakistan wanted similar treatment and Afghanistan worried about the . . .
- Set Up National Judicial Commission (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 14, 2006)
The prime minister has rightly underscored the perils of judicial activism. Institutional vacuum, often responsible for judicial activism, cannot be rectified through judicial intervention alone.
- Seeds Of E-Agriculture (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 14, 2006)
The country's inherent IT strengths should be leveraged to address the problems of the agriculture sector.
- Pandemonium In Senate (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 14, 2006)
In an ominous turn of events soon after the swearing of the 49 newly-elected Senators, and Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the House, the first session of the Senate was marred by exchange of harsh words, unparliamentary language and walk out . . .
- Eu Employers Urge Bigger Tariff Cuts For Wto Accord (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
European manufacturers called on Brazil and India to offer bigger reductions in import tariffs to produce a World Trade Organisation agreement that benefits business globally.
- Hamas To Submit New Draft Gov't Plan (Jordan Times, Omar Karmi, Mar 14, 2006)
Hamas is set to submit a new draft government programme after talks with Palestinian factions proved inconclusive Monday. Hamas officials, however, vowed that coalition talks would be concluded by the end of the week.
- Advani Back In Favour (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Under attack from secular parties, the Sangh Parivar and the BJP today closed ranks and rallied behind Mr LK Advani on his proposed controversial ‘National Integration Yatra’ from 6 April announced in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts.
- Govt For Stable Tax Rates (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Taxing industry more will hit investment: Chidambaram
Looking ahead
Centre's revenues expected to increase by Rs 55,000 crore.
Taxing of farm income outside purview of Parliament.
Farmers to get loans at seven per cent interest.
- Imperialism Redux (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Mar 14, 2006)
Business, Energy, Weapons And Foreign Policy
- Door Would "Reopen" For Negotiation If Iran Heeds Iaea Request (Press Trust of India, H S RAO, Mar 14, 2006)
Britain has said the door to a negotiated solution to Iran's nuclear issue would "reopen" if Tehran respects the requests of IAEA, but warned that if the country continues to defy international community, the UN Security Council "would respond."
- Tehran's Dangerous Influence On Iraqi Politics (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, Mar 14, 2006)
As The War of ever-escalating threats between Iran and the United States rages, the rest of the world watches with growing alarm as the battle of wills over uranium enrichment moves on into the UN Security Council.
- Consensus Eludes Pugwash Meet (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Mar 13, 2006)
But unanimity on need to carry forward peace process
Self-governance, de-militarisation and terrorism were sticky points
Divergence pertains to priorities: Talat Masood
Time New Delhi responded to Musharraf's pro-active approach: Omar
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- Qazi Criticises Musharraf’S Proposal On Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Ameer Jama'at-i-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that a proposal by General Pervez Musharraf to divide Kashmir into seven autonomous regions and give their joint control to India and Pakistan is a prelude to "United India" which the people on . . .
- Separatists' Shenanigans In J And K (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Mar 13, 2006)
Current events in Jammu and Kashmir appear to be in consonance with Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf’s game plan for a regional splintering of the former princely State.
- Democratic Lawmaker Asks Senate To Censure Bush (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Mar 13, 2006)
In a development that turns the political spotlight on the White House, a leading Democratic lawmaker has asked the Senate to censure President George Bush for his role in the controversial domestic wiretap programme.
- Indian Hindus, Muslims Seek To Rise Above Conflict (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Mar 13, 2006)
Starting bloody riots between India's majority Hindus and minority, but large, Muslim population usually doesn't take much doing.
- U.S. Ties With India, Pakistan On Divergent Paths (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W. Bush's visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent U.S. approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- Discourse On Course (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Mar 13, 2006)
In their case there are coincidences galore. Both are lawyers and have been People's Conference stalwarts in the past. They belong to the same northern parts of the Valley.
- India, China Confident Of Settling Border Dispute (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Holding that Sino-Indian talks on border dispute were moving in the right direction to "extricate" them from "logjam", National Security Advisor M K Naryanan today said the delineation issue could be settled after the next two to three rounds.
- Hizb, Let Leaders On Hunger-Strike (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
18 militant commanders stage protest in POK
Eighteen top jihadi commanders are staging a hunger strike in Muzaffarabad against "the betrayal of the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir by President Pervez Musharraf," a Hizbul- Mujahideen spokesperson told . . .
- Nuclear Deal: Benefits For India (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 13, 2006)
The US-India deal will lead to more efficient import of nuclear technology and equipment, translating into higher nuclear power generation, which, in these pollution-conscious times, ought not to be written off hastily on grounds of higher . . .
- Trade Powers Fail To Remove Obstacles To Wto Deal (Reuters, Richard Waddington, Mar 13, 2006)
Six of the world's top trading powers made little headway on Saturday in removing long-standing hurdles to a global trade deal, but reaffirmed a commitment to conclude a key part of the pact by the end of April.
- Varanasi Displays Secular Fabric (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Mar 13, 2006)
Residents foil terrorist designs
- The Road Less Travelled (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Mar 13, 2006)
The Indo-US agreement should see a turning point not only in India’s position in the world but also in its perception of itself.
- Growing India Needs A Permanent Establishment (Tribune, Manish Tewari, Mar 13, 2006)
In the wake of the domestic fracas on the Iran vote at the IAEA, Dr. Manmohan Singh recently bemoaned the lack of an “establishment” and a strategic culture in India that takes a long-term view of India’s interests.
- Saintly Crusader (Tribune, Shastri Ramachandaran, Mar 13, 2006)
IT is a comment on our times that even the informed intelligentsia bat their eyelids in ignorance at the mention of the name Siddhraj Dhadda.
- Service With Smiles (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Mar 13, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- Law For Land (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 13, 2006)
It is easy to underestimate the significance of legislative victories.
- All Those Who Will Make The Difference (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 13, 2006)
Given the highly politicized election personnel in Bengal, fair play will depend on the neutral role of senior supervisors, writes A.K. Chatterjee
- Cas Is Back (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 13, 2006)
The conditional access system is all about letting viewers choose the channels they want to pay for.
- Burying Hatchets (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Mar 13, 2006)
Many were dumbfounded at the recent coming together of two of Tamil Nadu's bitter political enemies Marumalarchi Dravida Munntera Kazhagam (MDMK) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagan (AIADMK) for the purpose of contesting the forthcoming . . .
- Search For Truth (Statesman, SANKAR SEN, Mar 13, 2006)
Acquittal of all the accused in the sensational seven year old Jessica Lall murder case has rudely shocked the conscience of the nation and shattered its faith in the working of the criminal justice system.
- Hamas Adjusts To New Life Above Ground (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
They are wearing suits and ties, carrying briefcases, scheduling news conferences and being chauffeured in luxury cars.
- Acquittal In Killing Unleashes Ire At India's Rich (New York Times, Somini Sengupta , Mar 13, 2006)
The crime itself was sensational. A fashion model was shot dead in an unlicensed bar stuffed full of fashionable people.
- Musharraf’S Warning (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 13, 2006)
Less than two weeks after highlighting the need for implementing the Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations to restore order in Balochistan, General Musharraf has justified the ongoing military operation in that province, saying the . . .
- China Renews An Old Ideological Fight (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
BEIJING For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People's Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is consumed with an ideological debate over socialism and capitalism that many assumed . . .
- The Exploitation Of Blue Collar Temp Workers (The Financial Express, MANISH SABHARWAL, Mar 13, 2006)
Small tweaks to the Contract Labour Act could end the criminal and political nexus that exploits blue collar temp workers. Government statistics put temporary and contract jobs at 21% of India’s labour force, an astounding 80 million people.
- The State Dept Report (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 13, 2006)
Governments that have been criticised in the US State Department’s report on human rights have rightly come out strong against it, considering its obvious prejudiced outlook.
- Hamas To Hold Final Round Of Talks On Gov't Formation (Jordan Times, Omar Karmi, Mar 13, 2006)
Israeli right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday ruled out joining any Kadima-led coalition to form a new Israeli government after elections on March 28.
- Mayhem In The Menagerie (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
New conflict between the United Jihad Council and President Pervez Musharraf reflects a crisis in Pakistan's political life.
- Cpi Slams Vaiko For Allying With The Aiadmk (Hindu, S. Dorairaj , Mar 13, 2006)
MDMK leader "negated all political and ethical positions"
- Nature Of Us Relations With India And Pakistan Different (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W Bush’s visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent US approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- Badal Writes To Pm On Riot Victims' Plight (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The Shiromani Akali Dal president, Parkash Singh Badal has urged Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh to intervene and put an end to the humiliation and harassment of the November 1984 anti-Sikh riots' victims at the hands of the Punjab Government.
- Pmln-Ppp Reconciliation? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 13, 2006)
The pml leader and re-elected Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani said in a TV discussion Saturday that last week’s meeting between Ms Benazir Bhutto and Mian Shahbaz Sharif in Dubai reminded him more of ironies than a reconciliation.
- Congress's Demand For Probe Is An Eyewash: Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Parrikar says the probe will expose Government's shortcomings
Riots rocked parts of South Goa last week
Ruling party accused of pacifying minorities
BJP says probe will show lapses of the administration while handling the situation
- `Sacrifice' May Stand Dmk In Good Stead (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Mar 13, 2006)
Satisfied allies of the party now have more at stake in the Assembly elections Satisfied allies now have more at stake in the Assembly elections
Most allies feel they have a good deal and cadres may be more enthused to work for DPA . . .
- Add To Bush's Mistakes Destruction Of Nature (Hindu, Henry Porter, Mar 13, 2006)
The despoilment of the Appalachians is typical of the U.S. President's bankrupt environmental policies.
- Maoists Vs Militias (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 13, 2006)
Parts of Chhattisgarh are witnessing a strange sort of militarisation that is depriving people of their basic political and economic freedoms.
- Pakistan Relents, Says Yes To Kashmir Leaders (Deccan Herald, Zahoor Malik , Mar 13, 2006)
In a major shift in policy, Pakistan has begun a process to communicate with the mainstream political parties of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Corruption Can Survive E-Governance (Deccan Herald, Narayana A, Mar 13, 2006)
The Revenue department in Karnataka needs reforms. A minister receiving complaints on his mobile will not end corruption
- Bush Visit: Not Just A Stopover (Dawn, Iqbal Akhund, Mar 13, 2006)
Invidious comparison is virtually built into an American president’s visit to the subcontinent. So it has been again, as President Bush has come and gone. As a foreign journalist put it, India got a hug, Pakistan a pat on the back.
- A Footstool In The World (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Mar 13, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear deal has exposed inconsistencies in India’s position
- Exalting The Myth Of Suffering (Deccan Herald, ROGER COHEN, Mar 13, 2006)
To the last, a solitary death on Saturday in a UN cell near an international court he derided, Slobodan Milosevic clung to the notion that all the Balkan destruction he ignited and presided over was no more than a response to aggression . . .
- Can Our Way Of Living Save The Planet? (Deccan Herald, Lucy Siegle, Mar 13, 2006)
People are happy to talk about ethical awareness but when it comes to consumer patterns the talk is not reflected.....
- Final Baglihar Project Hearing Deferred (News International, Muhammad Saleh Zaafir, Mar 12, 2006)
India has succeeded in obtaining from the World Bank neutral expert another deferment of the final hearing on the contentious power project that India is building at Baglihar on the Chenab River near Jammu in southern part of occupied Kashmir in . . .
- Kashmiri Leaders Call For End To Human Rights Violations (Daily Times, Mohammad Imran, Mar 12, 2006)
The Pugwash Conference called on Saturday for an end to human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, and urged all political parties in the state to participate in the dialogue process.
- 25 Militants Killed Near Miranshah (News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai, Mar 11, 2006)
Pakistan Army artillery shelled a village 10 kilometres from Miranshah on Friday night and gunship helicopters pounded militants’ positions following reports that two of the most wanted clerics Maulvi Sadiq Noor and Maulvi Abdul Khaliq and their . . .
- Leaders Want To Forget Past, Think Of Future (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
A dinner hosted by Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri for participants of the Pugwash-sponsored International Conference on Kashmir here on Friday ended on a frenzied note.
- 29 Die In Dera Bugti Landmine Blast (News International, Muhammad Ejaz Khan, Mar 11, 2006)
Twenty-nine people travelling to a wedding were killed on Friday, when their tractor-trolley hit an anti-tank landmine near Dera Bugti, officials said.
- When The Judiciary Exceeds Its Realm (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Mar 11, 2006)
The Supreme Court has become the chief executive of India, the operating officer, forcing policy in the realm of social activity.
- Churchill And Moscow (Statesman, Valentin Falin, Mar 11, 2006)
Myths are known to persist, as proved by Winston Churchill’s speech in Fulton in 1946. To this day it is regarded as the “anti-communist manifesto” that unleashed the Cold War and encouraged Stalin to erect the “iron curtain” which cut off a half . . .
- On Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 11, 2006)
We (Pakistan and India) are into a bilateral dialogue. We don’t want to make it trilateral or multilateral. — General Pervez Musharraf.
- Somali Piracy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 11, 2006)
Protecting the mercantile marine and sanitising shipping lanes is often cited as part of the rationale for a strong navy.
- Understanding The Harvest Of Hate (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 11, 2006)
Varanasi was just an exclamation mark in Islamist terror groups' war against India. Learning from it needs an understanding not of each outrage, but the whole.
- The Morning After (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Mar 11, 2006)
The benefits we know. Time, now, to consider the costs of India's new relationship with the US.
- Murder Of Justice (The Week, Suman K. Jha, Mar 11, 2006)
Everything has been said already, but as no one listens, we must always begin again." Justice V.S. Malimath began with this Andre Gide quote while outlining the roadmap for reforming the criminal justice system in . . .
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