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Articles 18721 through 18820 of 43820:
- U.N. Report Discusses Corruption In India (Hindu, CP Bhambhri, Mar 10, 2006)
Its incidence is high in the water supply and sanitation sectors, survey finds
41 per cent of gave more than one bribe in previous six months
12 per cent made payments to expedite connections
- Deal Will Not Fuel Arms Race: U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Washington replies to critics of the agreement
Deal doesn't recognise India as a nuke weapons state
Accord brings India into non-proliferation mainstream
India's growing energy needs will be addressed by pact
- State And The Nation (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Mar 10, 2006)
Don't read this if you are a spiritual tourist.
- How Provident Is This Fund? (Indian Express, ILA PATNAIK, Mar 10, 2006)
When most people budget for a rainy day, they gain immense assurance from their income set aside for provident fund.
- Rhetoric Clouds Peace Process In Sri Lanka (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Mar 10, 2006)
Negotiations to resolve the ethnic conflict have again run into trouble with both the Sinhala and Tamil camps taking increasingly confrontationist positions.
- Wrong Agenda (Times of India, Sakina Yusuf Khan, Mar 10, 2006)
Will the Indian Muslim please stand up and be counted? At stake is your commitment to secularism and loyalty to the nation.
- India Offers Myanmar Help To Restore Democratic Govt (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The MoU was signed by Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Prabh Das and Director-General of Energy Planning Department of the Ministry of Energy of Myanmar, sources said.
- Winds Of Insecurity In The Land Of The Brave (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 10, 2006)
The threat to US security from Dubai’s takeover of a few US ports is negligible
- Elementary, My Dear Watson (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Times, Mar 10, 2006)
Up one day and down the next with the same furious volatility — welcome to life at Sensex over 10,500! The simple truth is that price corrections are bound to be sharp when prices have been driven up with ferocity and when liquidity has . . .
- Local Flavour (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2006)
People try to rediscover their identities in many ways. Reviving old names is often the politicians’ way of gaining popular support.
- Going Beyond Separation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 10, 2006)
By making public the Government's plan for separating the civilian and military components of the India's nuclear energy programme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has allayed many of the fears expressed inside and outside Parliament about the . . .
- New Logic For New India (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 10, 2006)
Even after he fell from grace and spent his last years in disgrace, there was one country where Richard Nixon was always welcome. For all its other angularities, China never forgot its indebtedness to the man who in 1971 began the process of extricating t
- Born Again (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Mar 10, 2006)
All of a sudden the Joint Intelligence Committee — “subsumed” in the secretariat of the National Security Council nearly seven years ago — has been revived.
- To Court Trouble (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2006)
History is made in unexpected ways.
- Crunch Time For The Eurozone? (Hindu, William Keegan , Mar 10, 2006)
A gloomy picture has emerged for the beleaguered European Central Bank.
- Middle East In Black And White Terms (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Mar 10, 2006)
Washington's refusal to deal with the new Hamas government together with a policy of isolating Teheran will only strengthen the hand of hardline Islamists.
- The Writing Is On The Wall For Poll Graffiti (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 10, 2006)
A West Bengal Government directive on ridding walls of poll graffiti has sounded the death knell for a popular means of communication.
- House Panel Votes To Block Dubai Ports Deal In Us (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
A us House of Representatives committee on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to block an Arab-owned company from managing American ports, defying President George W. Bush who has vigorously supported the deal. By a vote of 62-2, the House . . .
- All-Round Criticism Of Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Brinda Karat seeks more funds for the farm sector
- Innovative Steps In Budget To Boost Economy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Gender auditing, outcome budgeting, protection of all stakeholders to boost economy
New policy to encourage private investments health sector soon
10 knowledge centres to be established
- Bush - The Controversial (Daily Excelsior, Tanveer Jafri, Mar 10, 2006)
The president of United States of America, George w. Bush (2) may consider himself the most powerful and the best statesman of the world but in reality he stands at the top of the list of controversial leaders.
- Varanasi: Show Of Solidarity (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Mar 10, 2006)
All sections, cutting across religious affiliations, take out peace marches
The U.P. Government was focusing more on Mathura, Ayodhya
High-profile visits being seen more as attempts to score brownie points
Many BHU students, RSS volunteers donate bl
- Kalam Addresses The Last Mughal's Lament (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 10, 2006)
President brings a bunch of flowers and lights a candle for Bahadur Shah Zafar
- Rajya Sabha Elections Likely To Throw Up Some Surprises (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Mar 10, 2006)
but the three major parties say they are not keen on fielding a second candidate
A candidate needs a minimum of 45 votes for victory
The BJP, the Congress and the JD(S) have 79, 64 and 59 seats respectively in the Legislative Assembly
- Dmk Seals Seat-Sharing Agreements With Congress, Cpi(m), Iuml (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The party will hold discussions with the PMK today, says Karunanidhi
Congress to contest 48 seats, CPI (M) 13, IUML 3
IUML to contest on the DMK's symbol
Congress chief "pleased" with the outcome
- Blasting Through Peace (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 10, 2006)
A colonial power was dismissed from a fragmented subcontinent.
- Bjp’S Yaqoob Qureshis (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Mar 10, 2006)
The BJP, one can safely state, has never been known for appeasing India’s Muslim community.
- What Is To Be Done? (Telegraph, Rashid Shaz, Mar 10, 2006)
Negotiating the Future, Rashid Shaz states that it is a post-9/11 book on Islam.
- Sonia Calls Truce In Lucknow (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The Congress has said it will do nothing to “destabilise” the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh.
- India Joins Ranks Of Disaster Donors At Un (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Mar 10, 2006)
India’s role as an emerging global power received a major shot in the arm today when New Delhi joined the world’s “traditional” donors and pledged $2 million to a UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), which will rapidly respond to . . .
- Great Leap Sideways (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 10, 2006)
The tenth Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) has been remarkable for several reasons.
- Iaea Clears Way For Unsc Action On Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday opened the way for Security Council action against Iran over its nuclear program, sparking an angry reaction from Tehran which threatened Washington with "harm and pain" for leading the charge.
- House Adjourned For 2nd Day Without Any Business (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The National Conference today forced adjournment of the Legislative Assembly without transaction of any business including discussion on the budget for second day today sticking to their demand for constitution of a House Committee . . .
- Us Compulsion Brings (Daily Excelsior, R.S. Rangachary, Mar 10, 2006)
The self-appointed head prefect of the world has rewarded a bad boy of the class.
- India, China Boundary Talks On Saturday (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
India and China will hold the seventh round of talks for an early settlement of the decades-old border dispute that start on Saturday and shift to a resort in Kerala for the next two days.
- Vvip Visitors (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
Hardly had the reverberations of the Varanasi blasts died down than a string of political VVIPs begin to descend on the Sankat Mochan temple, which actually shifted the focus of the police away from investigative action to making arrangements . . .
- Sonia Snarls (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
It appeared more than electoral rhetoric. For going beyond telling Congress workers in Kerala not to take lightly its CPI-M led rivals, Sonia Gandhi seemed miffed at the Left’s frequent carping in the capital.
- The Great Deception (Statesman, D BANDYOPADHYAY, Mar 10, 2006)
Sunanda Sanyal’s “Fake ration cards” (28 February-1 March) is an eye-opener on the fraud perpetrated on genuine electors in West Bengal.
- Hospital Hoodlums (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
The sight of political parties and social activists targeting the superintendent after an incident as ghastly as the one that took place at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital last week is a familiar one.
- Iran’S Nuclear Standoff And Pakistan (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 10, 2006)
With the United States nudging the International Atomic Energy Agency at every step, the IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has transmitted his report on Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council at the close of the Agency’s . . .
- Fatal Medical Negligence (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 10, 2006)
The tragic death of a woman in Hyderabad as a result of doctors’ negligence should serve as a wake-up call for provincial health authorities who have so far done little to pull up errant doctors whose casual approach to their profession continues . . .
- Fast-Paced Development In Fata (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 10, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that additional funds will be made available for fast track development in the Tribal Areas. Talking to Tribal Maliks and elders, who called on him in Rawalpindi on Wednesday, he said that the Government . . .
- What Sanity Demands (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 09, 2006)
The Iran nuclear crisis is hotting up again. New developments have belied the hopes raised by the Russian proposal on which Moscow and Tehran had been negotiating.
- Iaea Clears Way For Un Action On Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
* UNSC to take up watchdog’s report next week
* ElBaradei says political settlement still possible
* Russia sees no military solution, says sanctions ineffective
- Horse-Trading And Legitimacy Of The Senate (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 09, 2006)
Appearing on a TV channel on Tuesday, opposition politicians complained of the buying and selling of votes in the provincial assemblies on the occasion of elections to the Senate on March 6, 2006.
- Blasts In Varanasi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 09, 2006)
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the three blasts in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi on Tuesday, but whosoever carried out this dastardly act deserves to be condemned.
- Ard’S Undemocratic Demand (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 09, 2006)
Opposition parties’ conglomeration ARD has said that it will not accept elections under the present set-up and demanded formation of national or caretaker government to hold free, fair, transparent and honest polls.
- Deciphering Evil (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 09, 2006)
It is appropriate that top political and government heads have rushed to Varanasi in the aftermath of Tuesday’s bomb blasts. For, it is vital that two things are done with urgency, and be seen to be so done.
- Power Moves In Asia (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Mar 09, 2006)
The US pursues goals of nuclear non-proliferation and counter terrorism in South Asia
- Ard Decisions (The Nation, Editorial, National Post, Mar 09, 2006)
DECISIONS relating to the elections scheduled for 2007 taken at a meeting of the ARD on Tuesday, were announced by its chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim.
- A New South Asian Order In The Making (Dawn, Sherry Rehman, Mar 09, 2006)
Despite the concessions made by Pervez Musharraf for Washington, President Bush’s approach to South Asia indicates very clearly a major shift in US policy, refracted most sharply by his visit to the region.
- Truth Will Out, In The Right Environment (Indian Express, H. S. PHOOLKA, Mar 09, 2006)
The Best Bakery re-trial has shown that witnesses will speak the truth in a conducive environment.
- My Beloved Granny (Deccan Herald, Sharada Prahladrao , Mar 09, 2006)
From a sheltered life at a tender age, she came to a bustling metro and fought her own battles.
- Assam: Most Pol Parties Yet To Finalise Poll Nominees (Press Trust of India, Sukhendu Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
With barely a month to go for the Assam assembly elections, the scene remains hazy without formation of any major alliance by political parties and most of them not even finalising their list of candidates.
- Jamali’S Formula For Balochistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 09, 2006)
Callin for steps to promote harmony between the Centre and Balochistan, former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has urged the President to ensure immediate implementation of the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan.
- Is The Bird Flu Over? (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Don’t just have it on your mind. Have it on your plate too!” So runs one of the series of advertisements that the ministry of health and family welfare and the department of animal husbandry are putting out in newspapers.
- Why Discuss State Policy With Clergy? (The Economic Times, P R RAMESH, Mar 09, 2006)
A few months ago, a group of Kargil widows held an emotional press conference in the Capital to complain about the Centre’s indifference towards them.
- Pension Bill May Get Green Signal After Assembly Polls (The Economic Times, Sidhartha Kanungo, Mar 09, 2006)
Hoping for an end to the opposition to pension reforms after the state assembly elections, the finance ministry has drawn up plans to introduce the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill during the second half of the budget session.
- Pak Rejects Indian Protest On Construction Of Basha Dam (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan today rejected India's assertion that the construction of Bhasha Dam in Northern Areas would inundate large parts of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the dam was being built for welfare of the people of the area.
- Marxist Vs Maoist (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 09, 2006)
The most striking feature of the continuing wave of Maoist killings is its anti-establishment character.
- Varanasi Is Us (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Mar 09, 2006)
In that umbra moment after the blasts, when the television screens suddenly spewed out images of blood-stained floors, panic-stricken crowds and strewn personal belongings, a stone seemed to settle on the chest.
- The Nuclear Plan’S Hurdle Race (Indian Express, G. Balachandran, Mar 09, 2006)
At last one can heave a sigh of relief of sorts. Even though a lot remains to be done to give practical effect to the July 18 India-US statement on nuclear cooperation, the “successful completion of discussions on India’s separation . . .
- Bilateral Trade Arrangements Are The Way To Go (The Financial Express, JAYANTA ROY, Mar 09, 2006)
The recent nuclear deal with the US is a historical landmark.
- Varanasi Shuts Down In Protest Over Blasts (Reuters, Sharat Pradhan, Mar 09, 2006)
India's ancient holy city of Varanasi shut down on Wednesday in a protest against bomb blasts in a Hindu temple and a railway station which killed 15 people, but there were no reports of any sectarian backlash.
- Govt-Left Relations Getting Worse (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
Relations between the Left parties and the Manmohan Singh Government are set to get more fractious in the days to come over India’s ties with the United States
- Pleasures Of Separation (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The formal outline of the nuclear separation plan presented before Parliament seems to have been designed to keep virtually everyone happy.
- Communal Ammunition (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The bomb blasts in Varanasi, coming a little over four months after a similar attack in Delhi, are yet another attempt to incite communal violence in the country.
- Pious Intentions (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 09, 2006)
Of late if the annual budget of any State merits attention it is only to the extent the direction it takes.
- Left Points Out Holes In N-Deal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Left parties today expressed apprehensions in the nuclear separation deal reached between India and the USA by asking the UPA government whether it has decided to close down CIRUS (Canadian-Indian-US) nuclear reactor by 2010 and shift Apsara . . .
- Smouldering Yet (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 09, 2006)
Four years, two inquiry commissions and reams of literature later, no one is ready to say what caused the fire on the Sabarmati Express as it pulled out of Godhra station.
- Holy Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 09, 2006)
The combination of holiness and terror is likely to be a dangerous one for India.
- Family Matters (Telegraph, Malavika Karlekar, Mar 09, 2006)
The author’s recent book is Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915
- Un: Women Denied Representation (Tribune, Maxine Frith, Mar 09, 2006)
Millions of women around the world, are being denied effective representation because of the low numbers of female politicians, judges and employers, the United Nations has warned.
- Making Panchayati Raj Effective In Haryana (Tribune, Ranbir Singh, Mar 09, 2006)
THE enactment and implementation of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, for restructuring the system of decentralised rural governance in Haryana in accordance with the provisions of the 73rd Amendment Act (1993), the devolution of functions . . .
- Bush Visit To South Asia (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 09, 2006)
Some change in US thinking on Pakistan
NEVER before has the visit of an American President to South Asia created such a political storm as the recent one by President George W. Bush to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
- Yesterday’S Foe, Today’S Friend (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 09, 2006)
Vaiko walks into Jaya’s parlour
- Bush Gone, Now Chance To Reassure Beijing (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Mar 09, 2006)
When the Chinese Special Representative Dai Bingguo arrives here on Friday for the next round of talks on the boundary dispute, India will have an opportunity to convey to China at the highest level that its growing relationship . . .
- Killers On The Prowl (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 09, 2006)
Communal harmony must be maintained
- To Keep The Flock Together (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Mar 09, 2006)
The anti-defection law needs to be amended if the political face of India’s largest state has to be changed.
- Indo-Us N-Deal: Good Or Bad? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
India tested nuclear bombs in 1974 and has remained outside the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since then.
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