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Articles 11621 through 11720 of 26855:
- Narmada’S Dilemma (Indian Express, SAPNA SHARMA, Apr 18, 2006)
On most public issues, I can take a position without much difficulty. But there is one issue — Narmada — on which I am torn.
- Expatriates Vote For The First Time In Italian Polls (Times of India, NARAYANI GANESH, Apr 18, 2006)
Most expatriates who have made the conscious decision to work and live abroad find themselves trapped in a time warp.
- Devotees Throng Iskcon Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Devotees are thronging the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Temple here to participate in the 13-day Brahmotsavam festival. On Tuesday, a devotional event in the glory of Lord Vishnu is the highlight.
- Sound Of Bugle On Home Turf (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Prayer, paperwork, prayer again, and two kilometres separated by faith.
- Right Sum (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 18, 2006)
At least some mathematics teachers get their calculations right. Heading the list in West Bengal is the teacher of mathematics from Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission College, who has been fighting a lone battle for months over the outrageous . . .
- Spiritual Experience (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The bliss of spiritual experience is difficult to express and mystics who have revelled in union with God speak about it only metaphorically.
- 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.
- Disappointed Minister To Fight As Independent (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Move follows allotment of Oussudu seat here to the DMK
Says he has nurtured the constituency with care
Claims it is a plot by some party functionaries
To quit as Minister, MLA in a couple of days
- Manmohan Studying Soz Report On Dam Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Centre says it will await outcome of Monday's hearing in Court
BJP, Gujarat Congress teams meet Prime Minister
Medha Patkar's fast enters 19th day
Narendra Modi begins hunger strike
- The Child, The Media And The Law (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2006)
The Hindu carried a report from Mumbai, headlined "Jail for 2 Britons for child abuse.
- 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.
- Deadlock Persists Over Iraq Premier Post (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Talks achieve no breakthrough
- Pakistan To Issue 10,000 Visas To Sikh Pilgrims (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The Pakistan Government has agreed to issue 10,000 visas to Sikh pilgrims to participate in `Parkash Utsav,' the 400th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Arjan Dev on June 16 at Gurdwara Dehra Sahib in Lahore.
- Kuvempu Should Be Made Known To Other Regions . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The Chief Minster emphasises the need for translating Kuvempu's works in all Indian languages
- "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.
- Role Of Lashkar Militants In Delhi Blasts Not Ruled Out (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
No breakthrough yet; local elements' hand also being probed by the Special Cell of the Delhi police
In many such cases, the motive is to create communal disturbance: police
15 persons interrogated on Saturday
In many such cases, the motive is to cre
- 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.
- Palestinian Pm Meets Rivals (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Prime Minister Mr Ismail Haniyeh called an emergency meeting today with rival Palestinian factions amid rising tensions between the groups and a spike in violence with Israel.
- Ever-Expanding Pak-Saudi Relations (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 17, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud have agreed on the expansion of cooperation in the bilateral, economic, trade and defence fields during their wide-ranging talks in Islamabad on Saturday.
- Shutter Down Strike In Balochistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 17, 2006)
Shutter down strike was observed in Balochistan on Saturday against the alleged military action in the province, siege of Akhtar Mengal’s house and merger of Levies into Police force on the call of PONM and the four-party Baloch Alliance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Intelligence Can Recast Destiny (The Economic Times, K VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Apr 17, 2006)
The Brahmavaivarta Purana and certain other narrations conceive of the story of Savitri, who had married Satyavan, though she had known that, as per astrological predictions, he was destined to die young.
- 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.
- Bird Flu Detected At Sihala Farm (Daily Times, Shahzad Raza, Apr 17, 2006)
Over 3,000 fowl culled, human blood samples taken
- 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.
- Pak Army Commissions First Sikh Officer (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
After a Hindu created history by briefly becoming the Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court last year, a youth hailing from the birth place of Guru Nanak near Lahore has earned the distinction of being commissioned into the Army as the first . . .
- A Part Of Us (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 17, 2006)
All of a sudden Chitral, which was a centre of Buddhist learning and part of the undivided Jammu and Kashmir as it had existed in 1947, has attracted the attention of concerned citizens in Pakistan At an altitude of about 8000 feet from sea level . . .
- 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.
- Scaring Tactics (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 17, 2006)
The twin blasts that rocked the Jama Masjid of Delhi on Friday marks a new twist in the terrorist campaign to destabilise India.
- 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.
- Pm To Embark On Foreign Tour From Apr 22 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Having successfully clinched the nuclear deal with US President George W Bush in March, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves here for Germany and Uzbekistan on Saturday to garner support for the historic accord in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
- ‘Hindu’ Activists Ransack Prayer Halls (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
A group of about eight to 10 persons allegedly belonging to a Hindu organisation barged into a prayer hall, assaulted the priest and ransacked the property at Bantaguri in Bantwal taluk on Easter Sunday.
- The Temple Bull (Deccan Herald, T C NARAYAN, Apr 17, 2006)
The male calf presented to a Shiva temple was revered and feared by local devotees
- 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.
- Art (Deccan Herald, Marta Jakimowicz, Apr 17, 2006)
Ditmar Bollaert is a Belgian photographer who has travelled extensively in India, especially the South. His Indian images, which are currently on view at Time & Space (April 7 to 19), probe the manifestations of the spiritual in the raw matter . . .
- Foil Them (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 17, 2006)
Any violence in the State (barring Baramulla and Doda districts where four Assembly by-elections are being held on April 24) at this juncture can have only one wicked objective.
- 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.
- Probe Finds Telgi’S Wasn’T The ‘Mother Of All Scams’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Investigations carried out by a team of the CBI, Income Tax, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Enforcement Directorate and the Reserve Bank of India have revealed that the financial magnitude of the entire scam was only Rs 172 crore.
- Those Unfunny Guys In Iran (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 17, 2006)
There’s an sms revolution taking place in Iran. And smileys have become its most potent weapon against the country’s ultra-conservative regime.
- 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.
- Music (Deccan Herald, V Subramanya , Apr 17, 2006)
Sree Rama Seva Mandali, Chamarajpet: This prestigious Ramotsava organisation is conducting cultural programmes at the special pandal situated at the Fort High School grounds, with not only music (vocal and instrumental, Karnatic and Hindustani) . . .
- 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.
- Iran's 'Nuclear University' Conceals Research: Report (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Iranian scientists are secretly conducting crucial nuclear research and development, using university laboratories as cover to avoid international scrutiny, a media report claimed here today.
- 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 . . .
- Trail Of Terror (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2006)
Friday was truly a day of terror when enemies of peace struck at the historic Jama Masjid in Delhi and hurled grenades at their targets in Srinagar. Luckily, no life was lost when improvised devices exploded inside the seventeenth-century mosque in the na
- 40,000 Iranian Suicide Bombers Ready, If Nuke Sites Hit (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Iran has formed battalions of suicide bombers to strike targets in the UK and the USA if its nuclear facilities are attacked, according to a media report.
- Pm To Get Taste Of India Fever In Germany (Hindustan Times, Manish Chand, Apr 17, 2006)
When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to Germany on a four-day state visit this week, he will find Europe's industrial titan keen to engage with an increasingly confident India and getting attracted to its films, fashion and literature as never before.
- 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
- Pm Washes Hands Of Narmada Dam (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Faced with protests from MPs belonging to BJP and his own Congress, rising pro-dam passions, and mounting concern over Narendra Modi’s skillful transformation of the issue of Narmada water into one of Gujarat’s pride, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh . . .
- Beheaded ‘Us Spy’ Found On Pak Border (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Residents of a troubled Pakistani border region found the beheaded body of a man with note saying he was an American spy and a warning others would face the same treatment, an official said on Sunday.
- Chamba Is 1,000 (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2006)
Few towns in the region, let alone Himachal Pradesh, can claim to be as old as Chamba, which is now in the midst of millennium celebrations.
- Road Jesus Trudged (Indian Express, John Dayal, Apr 17, 2006)
I am a convert. Not in the sense that the newly enacted Freedom of Religion Bill in Rajasthan would perhaps like, for I was born to Christian parents, and they in turn to parents in the Faith. But as someone who spent a quarter of a century or so . . .
- Blunt Message From Shrapnels (Indian Express, Syeda Hameed, Apr 17, 2006)
Beyond the fact of its splendour and beauty, there are two reasons why Jama Masjid has a special place in my heart.
- 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.
- 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.
- In Search Of Nirvana (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
Despite the local govt’s code of conduct for foreigners, Pushkar retains its spiritual appeal, says Shishir Prashant
- Not A Fair Portrayal (Hindu, SOMA BASU, Apr 16, 2006)
An analysis of 200 advertisements shows that sexism and gender stereotyping are still prevalent in the advertising industry.
- Reality Check (Hindu, TARAN N. KHAN, Apr 16, 2006)
Siddiq Barmak on how his films are drawn from what's happening in Afghanistan
- Breaking Free From The Golden Cage (Deccan Herald, Priyanka Haldipur, Apr 16, 2006)
The tale of a young girl coping with life in a traditional milieu is engrossing as well as brutal.
- Earthly Haven Of Saints (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
Rajgir in Bihar was a favourite sojourning spot of Buddha. Mahavir also spent many years here. A V S Rao delves into the interesting past of this once prosperous capital of Magadha.
- 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'.
- Iran Refuses To Suspend Sensitive Nuke Work (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Iran on Thursday said after talks with the head of the UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei that it would not bow to demands it freeze uranium enrichment.
- Peace Returns To Jama Masjid (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The Jama Masjid returned to its routine on Saturday after a day of panic sparked by twin bomb blasts that injured a dozen people but caused no damage to the mammoth 17th century structure.
- 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.
- Blasts In Delhi Jama Masjid Leave 14 Persons Injured (Hindu, Devesh K. Pandey , Apr 15, 2006)
Low-intensity crude devices used; Shahi Imam appeals for calm
- Five Killed In 7 Explosions In Srinagar (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Apr 15, 2006)
Four militant outfits claim responsibility
Five blasts in the day as people were preparing for prayers
Two occurred in the evening
- Rival Armed Factions Seizing Pieces Of Gaza (Christian Science Monitor, Joshua Mitnick, Apr 15, 2006)
Fatah and Hamas militias train in old Israeli settlements as anxiety grows over instability.
- Whitewash By Us Senator (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 15, 2006)
American Senator Chuck Hagel has said that the United States may sign a civil nuclear agreement with Pakistan in future. Addressing a news conference, he termed it a complicated issue and added that a responsible approach should be adopted to work out a s
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