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Articles 22021 through 22120 of 26855:
- Percussion Marvels (Hindu, G.S. PAUL , Jun 26, 2005)
Percussive rhythms are a crucial part of life in Kerala.
- Gandhi’S Bad Faith (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Jun 26, 2005)
Gandhi returned to Indian politics in 1915. While trying to understand his politics, we should bear in mind that he was forty-six years old and had been an NRI for nearly a quarter of a century.
- Advani A Nationalist Leader, Says Naqvi (Tribune, S. Satyanarayanan, Jun 26, 2005)
June has been an eventful month for the BJP. It had to tackle the “Jinnah Ghost” following its president L.K. Advani’s remarks in Pakistan.
- Aligarh Memories (Hindu, K.M. Devarajan , Jun 26, 2005)
IN THE midst of the recent brouhaha over the reservation policy of the Aligarh Muslim University, many seem to have forgotten the role the university has played in the history of this nation, particularly in the development of education of Muslims.
- A Celebration Of Ragas (Hindu, S. RANGARAJAN, Jun 26, 2005)
The Ragamala paintings are sublime and celestial, enhancing the colour and quality of Indian classical music.
- Older Than Us, Still Going Strong (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Usha Kris discovers the Narasimha Jayanthi, which has been celebrated every year for the past 364 years at Tanjavur.
- Master Of Miniature (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Artist Vijay Hagaragundgi steadfastly pursues traditional miniature painting in the near-extinct Surapura style, discovers Giridhar Khasnis.
- Pak Trust To Spend Rs 12 Cr On Hindu, Sikh Holy Sites (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
A Pakistan-based trust will spend Rs 12 crore for the beautification of the holy places of Hindu and Sikh communities in the country.
- After The Launch, It’S A Climb To The Crescendo (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
The new generations of the music gharanas are ready to take over the mantle. But while striving to live up to their respective father’s name, the Gen Y gurus face the daunting task of giving classical music it’s rightful space in the world of pop and remi
- State Apparel Park To Be Ready By 2006 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
The Rs 69 crore apparel park being developed near Doddaballapur is expected to be fully operational by 2006.
- Religious Scholar’S Murder (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 25, 2005)
Yet another religious scholar has been shot dead in Karachi.
- The Speaking Tree: Birth And Death Are Only Constructs In The Mind (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 25, 2005)
Early one morning, a little bird was sitting on the branch of a tree, singing sweetly its song. Suddenly it fell silent.
- Kanchi Pontiff Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Offers Prayers At Tirumala (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2005)
The senior pontiff of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal visited the temple of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala early on Friday morning and took part in the sacred abhishekam.
- Tanks Restoration With Central, State Funds (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2005)
The State Cabinet on Friday decided to seek aid under a Centrally sponsored project to rejuvenate 299 agricultural tanks in Gulbarga and Bangalore Rural districts in two phases.
- Politics Of Budgeting (Dawn, Kaiser Bengali, Jun 25, 2005)
The budget is a political document. It determines how much money will be taken out of whose pockets and how much of that money will be put into whose pockets.
- Glaring Omission In A Commission Case (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Jun 25, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam discusses a Allahabad High Court ruling on the tax treatment of illegal payments in the course of business
- The Leader Article: Left With No Alternative (Times of India, KINGSHUK MUKHERJI, Jun 25, 2005)
In sweeping the civic polls in West Bengal, the CPM has proved a point — a fractious Opposition will never dislodge it from power.
- Hang Democracy! (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 25, 2005)
It takes little time to make a blunder — but a great deal more to undo it. It is understandable that a man of culture would feel particularly at home in Calcutta’s Nandan complex
- Loan, Cash Credit: No Source, Will Tax (Business Line, H R RANINA, Jun 25, 2005)
Where adequate explanation is not provided for loans, cash credits and unsubstantiated investments, they are taxable and the court would also uphold such an assessment. This provision in the Income-Tax Act is an excellent tool against evasion, ....
- Suffering To Surrender (Deccan Herald, Swami Sukhbaodhananda, Jun 25, 2005)
One of the common questions people ask me during my workshops is “How do we avoid suffering?”
- Eu States Also Need To Deal With Israel (Japan Times, RAMZY BAROUD, Jun 24, 2005)
DOHA, Qatar -- Hamas' electoral success since the first round of local elections in Gaza in December has signaled a dramatic shift in the way the movement is perceived both nationally and internationally.
- That Long Night Of Knives (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 24, 2005)
When India’s democratic structure was shaken to its roots
cutting corners ashok mitra
- Tweaking The Line On Pakistan (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jun 24, 2005)
The UPA-NDA exchanges on the dialogue process with Pakistan are no sudden eruption.
- Balochistan Budget (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 24, 2005)
BALOCHISTAN’S Rs46.37 billion budget for 2005-06 unveiled on Wednesday by finance minister Syed Ehsan Shah is a case of a poor man reeling under the heavy burden of Rs13.24 billion in deficit.
- Israel’S Policy Of Murder (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 24, 2005)
THE report that Israel has “revived” its assassination policy implies that Tel Aviv had discontinued it.
- Confession Of A Communalist (Indian Express, Vikram Kumar, Jun 24, 2005)
I met Khan Sahib at a private gathering. Urdu poetry is a passion with him.
- Indian Idol (Indian Express, SHOBHAA DE , Jun 24, 2005)
Sometimes, it takes a Hollywood blockbuster to underline a home truth. I fell fast asleep for one restful hour while watching Batman.
- First Egalitarian Creed (Dawn, Jafar Wafa, Jun 24, 2005)
ISLAM, unlike some superstitious religions, introduced egalitarian creeds focussing on the uplift of society by ameliorating the lot of the slaves, the orphans and the poor as a first step to the ennoblement of human life.
- Sacred Space: Compassion Is Strength (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 24, 2005)
This wide and wind-swept fertile earth is witness to the truth
That misery is not for men who keep compassion.
Thiruvalluvar, Thirukural
- Irresponsible Approach (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 24, 2005)
Vajpayee’s criticism of the UPA’s Pakistan policy is hypocritical
- Implications Of Aphc Leaders’ Visit (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Jun 24, 2005)
THE two-week long visit of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Delegation to Azad Kashmir and Pakistan
- Open Eyes And Minds (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 23, 2005)
The more the BJP averts a debate, the more difficult will it be to recover ground
- The Politics Of Arson And Violence (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Jun 23, 2005)
The Sindh government has constituted a committee to inquire into the Karachi police’s failure to control the acts of arson (and riots) after last month’s bomb blast in Madinatul Ilm in Karachi.
- The Leader Article: Cast For A New Coalition: In Up, Mayawati Aims For Dalit-Brahmin Alliance (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 23, 2005)
Icons define identity politics. Each political movement creates its own icons. They represent the ideology of the movement.
- India A Satellite Power? (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jun 23, 2005)
There is no need to kowtow to the US. India should assert itself as a world power in its own right
- Indira Gandhi As Parivar Heroine (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 23, 2005)
K.S. Sudarshan's praise of Indira Gandhi at a recent function in Lucknow is yet another command centre barb aimed at the Bharatiya Janata Party's supposedly week-kneed leadership.
- Price Of Division (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 23, 2005)
Election results in Left Front-ruled West Bengal seldom, if ever, go beyond the expected.
- Ngos’ Regulation (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 23, 2005)
PRIME Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the Government is working on a programme to regulate NGOs to ensure more transparency in their activities.
- Runaway Wedding (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 23, 2005)
June, of course, is the busiest month for weddings. My friend Clara has been feverishly planning her daughter Faith’s wedding.
- Nuclear Threat Or Bluff? (Business Line, K. Subrahmanyam, Jun 23, 2005)
The old time-worn story of Bruce Riedel, who was on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff during the Kargil crisis and was present during the Clinton-Nawaz Sharif negotiations on July 4, 1999, has captured Indian media headlines once again.
- Visit Of Discord (Business Line, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 23, 2005)
Soon after the visit of Hurriyat leaders to Pakistan, we had commented in these columns that the development was highly irregular and undesirable.
- Taliban Generate Telephonic Parleys (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 23, 2005)
US PRESIDENT George W Bush telephoned President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday to defuse tension between Kabul and Islamabad amidst recent incidents of Taliban related violence in Afghanistan.
- Switching Places (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 23, 2005)
L K Advani's image has traditionally been a hardline one while A B Vajpayee has been the moderate face of the BJP,
- Middle: Making Peace With History (Times of India, ARIF MOHAMMED KHAN, Jun 23, 2005)
The controversy generated by L K Advani in Pakistan still rages. However, Advani's statements were not meant to certify M A Jinnah's politics or build a new image. They signified an earnest attempt to strengthen the peace process.
- Behold The Real Jinnah (Indian Express, Anupam Gupta, Jun 23, 2005)
Described by one of his leading biographers, Stanley Wolpert,
- The Political Blame-Game (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 23, 2005)
With the Ambani brothers burying the hatchet after their mother announced a patch-up formula, stock market indices zoomed,
- Hope For Siachen (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 23, 2005)
There is some hope now for Siachen. Nine days after Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh spoke of turning the glacier into a “peace mountain”, the follow-up from New Delhi is positive.
- Trade Between Hostile Neighbours Blossoms (New Zealand Herald, ALAN WHEATLEY , Jun 22, 2005)
Sixteen months into a cautious peace process between India and Pakistan, trade between the two nuclear powers is still an exercise in frustration and missed opportunities.
- India Media Slam Us Move To Sell F-16s To Pakistan (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Indian newspapers and analysts warned Monday that a US decision to sell F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan . . .
- Tsunami May Have Revealed Lost City (New Zealand Herald, Jan McGirk , Jun 22, 2005)
The mighty Boxing Day tsunami has revealed what archaeologists believe to be the lost ruins of an ancient city off the coast of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
- 'We Were Pinned Down By Fire In The Heart Of Kashmir' (New Zealand Herald, Justin Huggler, Jun 22, 2005)
When the gunfire suddenly sprayed across the street in front of us, we dived for the ground, scrabbling desperately to get behind a parked car.
- Bush Agrees To Sell F-16s To Pakistan, India Uneasy (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Texas - President Bush has agreed to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan in a major policy shift rewarding a key ally in the war on terrorism and angering its nuclear neighbor, India.
- Indian Catholics Worried About Sex-Ed Film (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
India's Roman Catholic Church, worried about traditional values breaking down in the country,
- Musharraf A Considerable Player On The World Stage (New Zealand Herald, Fran O Sullivan, Jun 22, 2005)
Pakistani strongman General Pervez Musharraf concedes it is "indeed partially true" that before September 11 ...
- Australia: Regional Profile (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
History: Australia is the world's smallest continent but the sixth largest country.
- Indian Rape Victims Fight Back Against Epidemic (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
For years, rape victims in India were too afraid to speak out, traumatised by the assault and fearful they would be blamed themselves. Many don't trust the police.
- Pakistani Scientist Gave Iran Machines Useable For A-Bomb (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Islamabad - Pakistan has acknowledged for the first time that a disgraced Pakistani scientist at the centre of a nuclear black market gave Iran centrifuges which can be used to make atomic weapons.
- Sikhs Cleared Of Involvement In Air India Bombing (New Zealand Herald, Allan Dowd and Nicole Mordant, Jun 22, 2005)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A Canadian judge cleared two Sikh militants on Wednesday of involvement in the 1985 bombing of an Air India jetliner over Ireland's Atlantic coast, history's deadliest bombing of a civilian plane.
- Us Wants Full Break-Up Of Khan Nuclear Network (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
ISLAMABAD - A clandestine network run by the disgraced father of Pakistan's atomic bomb and used to supply nuclear technology abroad must be completely destroyed, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today.
- Rethink Reservation (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 22, 2005)
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy would like to take credit for redeeming his poll promise to Muslims.
- Buses Set To Cross Kashmir Divide Despite Attack (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
India and Pakistan open a historic bus link across divided Kashmir on Thursday, protected by heavy security following a suicide attack by separatist rebels on the Indian end of the route.
- Kashmir Peace Bus Passengers Cross Ceasefire Line (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
India-Pakistan border - Showered with tears and rose petals from relatives thought long lost, two groups of Indian and Pakistani Kashmiris walked over the "Peace Bridge"
- Tsunami Carried Bronze Buddha 1000km Across Ocean (New Zealand Herald, Jan McGirk , Jun 22, 2005)
In mid-December a little bronze-eyed idol, like so many in rural Myanmar (Burma),
- Iraq’S Continuing Travails (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Jun 22, 2005)
Speaking in his weekly radio broadcast US President George Bush said on Saturday that pulling out of Iraq now is not an option.
- Rise Of A ‘moderate’ Advani? (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 22, 2005)
Ever since Lal Krishna Advani began attracting flak for his comments in Karachi on Mohammad Ali Jinnah,
- China Frees Tibetan Monk (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
China has freed Tibetan monk Tashi Phuntsog but a United States-based human rights watchdog said almost three years of imprisonment had left him seriously ill and urged the authorities to provide for his medical treatment.
- Insight Into Indonesia (New Zealand Herald, Andrew Clifford, Jun 22, 2005)
A sadfact reinforced by the Boxing Day tsunami is that our awareness of other cultures is often limited to their presence in world media headlines in times of strife.
- Pakistan-Bashing Again (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 22, 2005)
PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai has once again accused Pakistan of interference in his country’s affairs. Speaking to an assembly of ulema, he even came out with the purported tactics Pakistan was using to make the Taliban fight the Afghan government.
- Oil Pooling (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2005)
Price hikes in petrol and diesel have forged a brand new and very unlikely political alliance
- No Museums On Mall Road (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jun 22, 2005)
Standing atop the Mahanavami Dibba, a massive table with a commanding view of Hampi that evokes,
- Why An Oil Crisis Is Imminent (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jun 22, 2005)
Do world's oil producers have any headroom? Unlikely as Saudi Arabia's oil fields are said to be declining. There have not been any new discoveries since the 1970s.
- Violence Mounts Ahead Of Historic Kashmir Bus Link (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
SRINAGAR, India - Rebels opposed to a bus link joining parts of Kashmir controlled by rivals India and Pakistan set off bombs and fought gun battles with troops on Tuesday, two days before the service was due to start.
- Tiff Over Bhel (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 22, 2005)
In the coming months, tension between the Congress and the communist parties is expected to exacerbate,
- The Lost Chances Of History (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2005)
Author of Constitutional law of India and former attorney general, the late H.M. Seervai, has provided an interesting account of Jinnah’s role in Partition.
- India To Count Its Vanishing Vultures (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
MADRAS, India - India will launch a census of its vultures, a group of ornithologists said on Sunday, as the birds are vanishing rapidly due to a mystery virus and shrinking nesting sites.
- Sacred Space: Anger Management (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 22, 2005)
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are nurtured in the mind.
- Pakistan Uncovers Musharraf Plot On Al Qaeda Trail (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Pakistani intelligence officials said today they had foiled a new conspiracy to kill President Pervez Musharraf with a series of arrests, including the capture of al Qaeda’s third most senior commander.
- Muslims Sceptical Over Newsweek Back-Track On Koran (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan were sceptical on Monday about an apparent retraction by Newsweek magazine of a report that US interrogators desecrated the Koran and said US pressure was behind the climb-down.
- Sharon, Abbas Hold Summit (Deccan Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Just before the meeting, Israeli forces arrested many Islamic Jihad elements. Disarming militants is high on the summit agenda.
- Kashmir Separatist Leaders Agree To Visit Pakistan (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
India - Leaders of the moderate faction of Indian Kashmir’s main political separatist alliance said yesterday they had accepted an invitation
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