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Articles 721 through 820 of 16306:
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 12, 2006)
The Central Bureau of Investigation will have to do an infinitely better job following up the FIR it registered against George Fernandes than it did probing the Bofors affair if it desires retaining domestic and international credibility.
- Poverty And Small Towns (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 12, 2006)
Our weekly column on research made simple
- Upa's Mid-Term Report Card (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2006)
The UPA's record of achievement is a case of two steps forward and a giant step backward.
- Killer Asbestos (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2006)
A report on the health of workers at the Alang ship-breaking yard points to the need to ban asbestos.
- Cbi Attack Will Not Affect Ongoing Deal With Israel (Pioneer, Rahul Datta, Oct 12, 2006)
The CBI raids on Tuesday in connection with the Barak missile system deal with Israel during the then Defence Minister George Fernandes tenure is not likely to affect the ongoing defence deals with Israel as any action like banning or blacklisting . . .
- Bofors To Barak (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 12, 2006)
Inquiries into defence deals in India operate on this principle — catch an intruder by allowing your house to be burgled. Thus it was that the meandering Bofors investigation led to the Armed Forces never getting enough guns or spares.
- Dangerously Disarming (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 12, 2006)
Bofors and Denel were blacklisted following defence deal scandals. Will the Barak allegations result in a similar fate for companies supplying vital equipment to the three services? Are we serious about building our military deterrence?
- N Korea May Hit Back If Usa Persists (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2006)
North Korea warned today it would physically retaliate to increased US pressure on the communist regime, while South Korea reportedly prepared for a possible nuclear conflict amid spiralling tensions in Asia.
- Wounded By The West (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 12, 2006)
Although it focuses on the fate of a few powerless individuals, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary new novel manages to explore, with intimacy and insight, just about every contemporary international issue...
- North Korean Nuclear Blast (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Oct 12, 2006)
The inevitable has happened. North Korea has, by conducting the unwarranted nuclear test, given full play to its dangerously belligerent intentions.
- Bofors To Barak (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2006)
Inquires into defence deals in India operate on this principle - catch an intruder by allowing your house to be burgled.
- Lives Being Made Over (New Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Oct 12, 2006)
Look first at two other novels that were in quiet contention for the Booker Prize this year. In Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men, a young boy is rudely prepared for exile as the politics of 1979 Libya come streaming into his family home.
- Brief History Of The Bomb (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 12, 2006)
As the world debates how to respond to North Korea, it becomes even more important to recount how the country became a “nuclear power”. Below are the key events and dates. Pakistan looms large
- Second North Korean Test Feared As U.N. Weighs Sanctions (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Capitals from Asia to America were making frantic checks on Wednesday after Japanese broadcaster NHK said North Korea may have conducted another nuclear test, but there was no immediate confirmation that it had.
- How Pak Scientist Sold Bomb Secrets To N. Korea (Tribune, Anne Penketh, Oct 11, 2006)
There was nothing to betray the feverish activity of North Korea's nuclear emerald green paddy fields to the heart of the hermit state.
- N-Test: India Ready To Provide Data On Pak Role (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Indian officials travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Britain and Finland have said that New Delhi is ready to share its information on Pakistan’s clandestine role in providing North Korea with nuclear technology know-how.
- Reverse Flow (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 11, 2006)
It would be foolhardy to contest the pragmatism of a person who successfully converted economic theory into practice in the most trying of times for India.
- Cbi Fires Rs 2-Cr Charge At George In Missile Deal, He Says It’S Politics (Indian Express, Raman Kirpal, Oct 11, 2006)
Six years after India signed the Rs 1,150-crore Barak missile deal with an Israeli company, the CBI has registered an FIR naming former Defence Minister George Fernandes, his colleague and former Samata Party president Jaya Jaitly, the then Chief of . . .
- Dear Leader’S Dear Friends (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 11, 2006)
This is one Indian complaint about Pakistan the latter cannot dismiss — Islamabad is deeply implicated in Pyongyang’s nuclear jingoism and there’s evidence all over, for anyone to see.
- Us And China Scramble To Work Out A Common North Korea Policy (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
For almost two decades, the United States and China have tried different approaches to dissuade North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons—all of which appear to have failed with Pyongyang’s announcement that it exploded a nuclear device.
- Marx In Motion (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 11, 2006)
Two articles in People’s Democracy on how the CPI(M) balances Marxist philosophy with the need for industrialisation and technological advances highlight how the party is trying to explain its stand on crucial issues.
- Knowledge Is Power (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 11, 2006)
One should welcome the decision to introduce human rights, disaster management and physical and health education as full-fledged subjects for senior secondary students from the next academic session.
- Taste Of Tesco (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 11, 2006)
Should British retail major Tesco enter India in partnership with an Indian firm, it would change the dynamics of agri business in this country.
- Number Of Dengue Cases Crosses 1,000 In Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
34 new cases admitted to AIIMS
More number of cases this year
Additional 100 doctors put on duty in dengue ward.
- North Korea & Envisioning Alternative Nuclear Futures (Hindu, Ramesh Thakur, Oct 11, 2006)
If the NPT status quo is already history, then we must either accept a world of more nuclear weapon powers, or move to a nuclear-weapon-free world. There is no third way.
- Moily’S 3-Yr-Plan For Obc Quota (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Outlining the need for giving greater autonomy for institutions of excellence like IITs and IIMs, the Oversight Committee has said such institutes should be allowed to mobilise their own resources.
- Fir Against Fernandes, Jaya, Ex-Navy Chief (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
The Tehelka ghost today returned to haunt former Defence Minister George Fernandes when CBI filed a corruption case against him, the then Naval chief Admiral Sushil Kumar and Jaya Jaitley, who was accused of receiving a bribe of Rs two crore in the . . .
- Missile Mud On Fernandes (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Allegations of corruption in arms deals erupted on former defence minister George Fernandes today with the CBI registering a case against him.
- Us To Make It ‘Very Costly’ For Pyongyang (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
The US has proposed sanctions against Pyongyang, including the inspection of cargo to ensure no materials connected with weapons of mass destruction enter or leave North Korea
- N Korea Pulls Off Nuke Test (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
North Korea’s neighbours strongly condemned the nuclear test the country conducted today, throwing the region into the brink of security chaos.
- Don’T Drag In Language Policy: Horatti To Literati (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Basavaraj Horatti echoed the Chief Minister’s view that there won’t be any going back on teaching of English in Kannada-medium schools from June 1, 2007.
- The N. Korean Blast And Its Mushrooming Aftermath (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 11, 2006)
The Pyongyang nuclear test will only push the world a little further towards the brink, the concern being not so much North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons as the inevitability of this capability being available on the market for anyone to bi . . .
- North Korea Gatecrashes Into The Nuclear Club (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 11, 2006)
The US and the world ought to have realised that it was a mere matter of time before other countries with scientific capabilities and the needed resources gate crashed into the nuclear club.
- Defence Deals Back In Focus As Cbi Bares Its Fangs (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
India’s locational advantage, between Pacific Rim countries and Europe, and its proximity to East Coast of the US, has also facilitated the growth of exports. Vehicle exports have risen at a CAGR of 44.5% over the past five years, with healthy . . .
- Nation Needs A Vivekananda (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 11, 2006)
Sir, ~ Jagmohan’s excellent discourse “The Mahatma and Vivekananda” (2 October) as a pointer to the nation’s desirable direction should be endorsed. Jagmohan rightly says that “both believed in practical Vedanta and viewed Hinduism as a . . .
- Thick As Thieves (Pioneer, Wilson John, Oct 11, 2006)
Clandestine dealings between Pakistan and North Korea leave no room for doubt that their nuclear weapons programmes are closely entwined
- Needed, Sustainable Energy Strategy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 11, 2006)
It's time the biggest polluter in the world, the United States, coughed up ecological tax to help save the environment, says Roy Morrison.
- Cbi Accuses George In Israel Barak Case (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Former defence minister George Fernandes was on Tuesday named an accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a case related to alleged irregularities in the purchase of the Barak missile systems from Israel in 2000.
- Zones Of Conflict (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Oct 11, 2006)
The Centre's special economic zone initiative evokes protests from farmers and fears of a huge "land scam".
- Voodoo Doctor (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 11, 2006)
Every summer, India adds to its medical lexicon by discovering - or often rediscovering - long lost ailments.
- West Woke Up Too Late (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 11, 2006)
With Pyongyang's entry into the nuclear club, world leaders seem unanimous that the errant Communist regime should be punished, says Con Coughlin.
- Protect Only What You Must (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 11, 2006)
Since 1991, the Indian government has continuously liberalised the economy and has permitted foreign investors to invest in different industry and service sectors. On the one hand, although the Indian government has adopted an open door policy . . . .
- Subversive Enclaves (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Oct 11, 2006)
The SEZ policy encourages the creation of enclaves where national laws will mean little.
- Ensure Sezs Serve Their Purpose (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Oct 11, 2006)
Instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water, we now need adequate checks and balances
- Us Atomic Diplomacy Fails At Korea Front (Times of India, DAVID E SANGER, Oct 11, 2006)
North Korea may be a starving, friendless, authoritarian nation of 23 million people, but its apparently successful explosion of a small nuclear device in the mountains above the town of Kilju on Monday represents a defiant bid for survival and respect.
- Fir Against George And Ex-Navy Chief (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
CBI has lodged an FIR against former defence minister and NDA convenor George Fernandes and former navy chief Sushil Kumar, accusing them of receiving Rs 2 crore and a few lakhs as kickback in the Rs 1,150-crore Barak anti-missile defence system . . .
- Pm, Blair For ?Global Effort? To Tackle Terrorism (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his British counterpart Tony Blair on Tuesday called for a “coherent global effort with shared perspectives and commitments” to combat the menace of terrorism.
- Comic Elements (Times of India, Ed Vulliamy, Oct 11, 2006)
Isaac Asimov once remarked that the most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, was not "Eureka! Eureka"but "That's funny".
- Did North Korea Really Detonate A Nuclear Bomb? (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2006)
Even as North Korea boasts of successfully conducting its maiden nuclear test, geologists have expressed doubts over whether a nuclear bomb was really detonated.
- Fir Against Fernandes, Jaya, Ex-Navy Chief (Tribune, S. Satyanarayanan, Oct 11, 2006)
In a major development in the Defence deal cases, the CBI has registered an FIR against former Defence Minister George Fernandes, his associate and former President of Samata Party Jaya Jaitley and former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar, for . . .
- The Parable Of The Neo-Rishi’S Sacrifice (The Economic Times, VITHAL C NADKARNI, Oct 11, 2006)
Once upon a time, when disks used to flip-flop and writing was on a star, the Blue Giant made the Pea Sea for the world. But he needed a soft creature to navigate the waters with the support of a few rams.
- A Controversial Project (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 11, 2006)
The federal government’s decision to allot the twin islands of Bundal and Bundo, located off the Karachi mainland, to a UAE-based developer raises a number of questions relating to the desirability of the project.
- A Mature Market (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 11, 2006)
Indian bourses have shown their resilience
- `Allow Them Time To Stabilise' (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Oct 11, 2006)
When the Special Economic Zones Act was being discussed in Parliament in 2005, Jairam Ramesh, the present Minister of State for Commerce, was yet to join the Ministry.
- India Is Pricing Itself Out Of The Global Market (The Financial Express, JANMEJAYA K SINHA, Oct 11, 2006)
Escalating real estate prices, rising rents and fatter salaries are just some of the contributory factors
- N Korea: Everything To Gain, Nothing To Lose (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 10, 2006)
A leading US Congressman has called for the immediate and urgent deployment of a missile defence system in East Asia following North Korea's nuclear test on Monday...
- Kanshi, A Crafty Practitioner Of Dalit Politics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The passing away of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder Kanshi Ram has brought to a close a chapter in “Dalit assertion” in the post-Ambedkar era.
- North Korea Conducts N-Test (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
North Korea boasted today it performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test, saying it detonated a successful underground blast in a “great leap forward” that defied international warnings against the communist regime.
- Photo Expo (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The Coimbatore Corporation, Rotary Club of Coimbatore Metropolis and the Department of Environment along with the NGO Osai is organising an expo of photographs on environment and ecology at the VOC Park Zoo.
- N Korea N-Test Jolts World (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
Major world powers condemned North Korea after it said it successfully conducted a nuclear test on Monday, and called for UN-sponsored sanctions that could further impoverish the isolated communist state.
- Does Anybody Care About Manipur? (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 10, 2006)
The question of repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act needs to be debated publicly in the light of the Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy Committee's report.
- ...Vindicates India's Stand On Pak, China And N Korea Nexus (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Oct 10, 2006)
The Asian strategic theatre got a little more complicated on Monday when North Korea announced to the world that it had gone nuclear.
- Nkorea Walks N-Threat, Dares World To Act (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
North Korea faced united global condemnation and calls for harsh sanctions on Monday after it announced it had detonated an atomic weapon in an underground test that thrust the secretive communist state into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations.
- Dalit Icon Kanshi Ram No More (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Oct 10, 2006)
Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram died here early Monday morning after a protracted illness.
- The End Of 'Non-Proliferation' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 10, 2006)
On October 9, 2006, North Korea became the eighth country on the planet to announce that it had conducted a nuclear explosive test and joined the ranks of nuclear weapon states.
- Prime Minister Calls For Second Green Revolution In Rice (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Oct 10, 2006)
Cautions researchers on use of biotechnology
- 1,000 T90s Will Add ‘Teeth’ To Army (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The much-hyped indigenous Arjun MBT, not considered to be “fully combat-worthy” even after 33 years of developmental work, is only being thought of as “a technology demonstrator” by the Army as of now.
- Utterly Frank And Direct (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Oct 10, 2006)
The parallel between Jairam Ramesh’s remarks about Brazil and George Fernandes’s, two years ago, about China, is uncanny.
- China Should Force N Korea To Abandon Nuclear Ambitions: Sen (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
A conservative US Republican Senator has called on the international community to put pressure on China to use its "economic leverage" and force North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions in the wake of the communist regime's first nuclear test.
- Us Hold On Nobel Prize Continues (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Oct 10, 2006)
For all the talk of American decline in the 21st century, the United States continues to retain a stranglehold on the Nobel Prize. An American don won the Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday, making it a clean sweep for the U.S this year with only . . .
- New Centre Of Terrorism (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 10, 2006)
According to Indian Intelligence agencies the recent incidents of terrorist attacks and trafficking of drug and human being has a very close connection with the Bangladesh based terrorists.
- N.Korea Can Now Blackmail Us (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Oct 10, 2006)
The North Korean nuclear test was unique in its being announced before hand. In the case of China and Pakistan preparations for the tests were known to the world before hand.
- North Korea Conducts Nuclear Test (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 10, 2006)
China voices ``firm opposition to the test''; a crisis, says Japan
- The Galileo Club (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 10, 2006)
The seventh India-European Summit in Helsinki next week is set to see India formally joining the Galileo satellite navigation project.
- Us To Make It 'Very Costly' For Nuclear North Korea (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
The Bush administration has said that Kim Jong Il, leader of North Korea, will 'rue the day' he made the decision to go in for the nuclear tests as it is looking for ways to make it 'very costly' for Pyongyang.
- Dear Leader Has A Blast (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 10, 2006)
The nuclear test by North Korea appears to have taken the world by surprise. But to anyone who has been following the events in the Korean peninsula, it was only a matter of time before this happened.
- American Phelps Wins Economics Nobel (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2006)
American Edmund S. Phelps won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today for his analysis of short-run and long-run trade offs in macroeconomic policy.
- Mushrooming Choices (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 10, 2006)
North Korea's nuclear test changes the global nuclear order and the regional balance in East Asia.
- Scientific Know-How (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s call for India to boost its knowledge economy by encouraging ‘reverse brain drain’, or risk being left behind by emerging industrialised nations like China and South Korea, is timely.
- Young Women March To Reclaim Streets Of Fear (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Oct 09, 2006)
Late at night, a posse of young women walk down a dark city street wearing spaghetti-strap tops and body-hugging outfits, defying the stares of onlookers in a country where a woman is raped every 29 minutes.
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