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Articles 5821 through 5920 of 16306:
- 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.
- Reading China (Tribune, Lanxing Xiang, Apr 17, 2006)
The world’s preoccupation with China’s sudden rise as an economic superpower is a matter of some bemusement among Chinese political leaders and intellectuals.
- Development Smokescreen In Kerala Elections (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Apr 17, 2006)
Kerala is a state that has prided itself on experimenting with and evolving ideologies, but no candidate seems to be fighting the elections on the ideological platform this time.
- 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.
- The Joke Called Higher Education (Indian Express, Seema Alavi, Apr 17, 2006)
Reservations will not destroy higher education; the damage has already been . . .
- Best Numbers Game (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 17, 2006)
It’s all very simple: If you want more medals at the Olympics, cut down on the syllabus at school.
- Jaya Hasn’T Changed: Mk (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Apr 16, 2006)
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President M Karunanidhi asserted on Saturday that Chief Minister J Jayalalitha has not changed, contrary to popular perception.
- 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.
- India, The New Stop For Americans (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
For decades, a significant section of Indian students' dream was to study in the United States and work there.
- Private Sector In Healthcare (Daily Excelsior, M V Meenakshisundaram, Apr 15, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's regret that the record of the private sector in health care provisioning has "not been very good" is certainly not a revelation.
- Nuclear Deal (Tribune, Major-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Apr 15, 2006)
According to the US establishment, the geostrategic benefits of the nuclear deal with India (which is likely to sail through Congress) outweigh any risks of proliferation.
- Karunanidhi's Poser To Jayalalithaa (Hindu, A.V. Ragunathan, Apr 15, 2006)
How can you make Tamil Nadu number one State in the country, he asks
Says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
Farmers subjected to hardships under AIADMK regime, he alleges
Says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
Farmers s
- A Spiritual Model (Statesman, Samares Kumar Das, Apr 15, 2006)
We are living in an era when there is revolution taking place in every sphere of life ~ green revolution (foodgrain production), white revolution (milk production), red revolution (meat production), yellow revolution (poultry production),
- Support Mounts For Narmada Dam Displaced Ahead Of . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Activists write to Chief Information Commissioner seeking information on GoM report
Amir Khan, Rahul Bose express solidarity
Aruna Roy, Jean Dreze, Shekhar Singh join dharna
Narendra Modi meets Manmohan, Soz
"Democracy is at stake," says Aruna Roy
- Karunanidhi Promises To Fulfil All Demands Of Farmers (Hindu, A.V. Ragunathan, Apr 15, 2006)
He says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
Says Jayalalithaa violated rule by buying TANSI land
Farmers subjected to hardships under AIADMK regime, he alleges
- The Uncertain Knowledge Edge (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Apr 15, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is following V P Singh's ‘disas- trous’ line on reservation
- R.K. Raghavan: An American Model (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Apr 15, 2006)
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, which serves the law enforcement community effectively, has a lot to offer to the Indian Police.
- 'It's A Globally Competitive Industry' (The Economic Times, BHANU PANDE, Apr 15, 2006)
The packaging in India is a Rs 65,000 crore industry and pharma packaging constitutes a large a chunk worth Rs 25,000 crore. Hindalco, Flex Art foils and Ess Dee Aluminium are the three leading players in the Pharma Packaging space.
- Us Acts Tough As Iran Shuns Un Request (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Apr 15, 2006)
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday shunned a U.N. request to end uranium enrichment saying his country would not step back “one iota,” while in Washington Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Teheran “there will have to be some . . .
- The British Sleepwalk Into A Police State (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Apr 15, 2006)
What is being implemented is a calculated, meticulous, and ruthless project to criminalise legitimate political dissent.
- Russia To Speed Up Nuclear Re-Armament (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Apr 15, 2006)
Moscow seeks to counter increasingly aggressive U.S. policies.
- Infosys Net Up 33 P.C. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Showers rewards on shareholders to mark 25 years
Fourth quarter profit up 31 p.c.
Staff strength crosses 50,000-mark
Revenue to grow at 36 p.c. in current Q1
- Broad Base Growth To Bridge Digital Divide (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 15, 2006)
Despite the phenomenal growth in the IT sector, India is still sluggish in bridging the gaping digital divide. This needs to change.
- Will Pascal's Law Work In Lamy's Case? (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 15, 2006)
World trade is in fluid state, and so one wonders if the hydraulic law of Blaise Pascal will come to the WTO chief, Mr Pascal Lamy's rescue even as he applies persuasive pressure on the member-countries, expecting the same to get transmitted . . .
- T N Ninan: Land Of Opportunity? (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Are the opportunities for creating great personal wealth in India going to be much fewer in the future than in the past? That might seem a stupid question, when the bulk of the members of Business Standard’s Billionaire Club are first-generation entrep
- Iran May Climb Down Over N-Issue Sooner Than West Expects (Arab News, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Was Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad inspired by a Tehrani folk tale to try and lead the Islamic republic out of what looks like the most serious foreign policy crisis in its history?
- Ring A Bell? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 14, 2006)
Ruchi Sharma waits for the day cellphones stop interrupting . . .
- Demystifying Coal Security (The Economic Times, S K CHAND & S K SARKAR, Apr 14, 2006)
Recently, two articles in these columns (November 16 and December 6, 2005) discussed about the security of energy supplies in India.
- Agriculture Needs A Paradigm Shift (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Apr 14, 2006)
It is time for a fundamental shift from the "unproductive" spending to extending support in a form that creates permanent assets, reduces the vulnerabilities of the poor farmers and builds their capacity to improve yields and augment income.
- No Ducking On The Issue Of Climate Change (The Financial Express, Vikram S Mehta, Apr 14, 2006)
Governments can no longer afford to dither over new post-Kyoto targets for GHG emissions
- Bridge Between Asia And Europe (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 14, 2006)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev outlines the ways for his country to reach higher levels of attainable development
- The Line Is Busy (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 14, 2006)
Even as the telecom market grows exponentially (40 per cent last year), the regulation of this vital industry is coming up short. For many months now, mobile phone service providers have been demanding more spectrum allocation—for free, to be . . .
- Muslims Must Pursue Modern Education' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Apr 14, 2006)
"Unless we develop a modern outlook skewed towards scientific education, there is no future for us."
- At Whose Cost? (Statesman, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Apr 14, 2006)
Doubts Over Effect Of Uranium Mining On Locals
- Swaminathan Commission Calls For Farmers' Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
To give all-round boost to agriculture by providing them various services
For completion of "unfinished agenda" in land reforms
Agri-business centres, food parks must be set up
- Elbaradei For Political Solution (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Apr 14, 2006)
IAEA chief optimistic about his visit
- Winnable Reforms (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 14, 2006)
Buddha can afford to smile
- Nuclear Assertion (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 14, 2006)
Iran not helping diplomacy to succeed
- India Willing To Settle Kashmir Along Loc’ (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Apr 14, 2006)
A French academic has said that India is willing to accept the Line of Control, as it stands today, as the permanent dividing line between the two Kashmirs. He also believes that a pragmatic compromise around a soft border is possible.
- New Mantra For Prosperity (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Apr 14, 2006)
Nano-technology can significantly contribute to the food and energy security of developing countries
- Students Told To Work For Country's Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
Madhavan Nair receives award from D. Hanumanna The Government had opened Centres for Science Education at Kolkata and Pune to attract youths to follow a five-year course in basic sciences
- Creating Dispensable Citizens (Hindu, Usha Ramanathan, Apr 14, 2006)
This is not merely about whether the dam should be constructed or not. It is about condoning state inaction and then blaming the victim.
- Connecting India' Summit Ends (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Apr 14, 2006)
Delegates note deficiencies in agreement
The Singapore business community would prefer the choice of `enhancing the reality'
A consortium of private-sector Singapore firms planned to catalyse investment flows into India's real estate sector
- There Are More Ifs Than Answers (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Apr 14, 2006)
Global warming causes sleepless nights to experts and the lay public in many parts of the world....
- Heard The One About The President? (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
The misdirected email or text message is a hazard of our age. It can sour relationships and upset the closest of our friends.
- Iran's Reckless Rhetoric Provocative, Alarming (Toronto Star, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
The good news about Iran's declaration that it has "successfully mastered nuclear technology" is that it is, almost certainly, a lie.
- Ec Seeks Clarifications From Centre, Arjun (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Apr 13, 2006)
The Election Commission on Wednesday sought a clarification from the Union Government and the Human Resources Development Minister, Arjun Singh regarding the announcement of the 27 per cent reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in educational . . .
- Indian Cancer Drug Trial Gets London Jolt (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
An Indian Biotech Company that is testing a novel anti-cancer drug on patients in Bangalore says it is not alarmed by the London trial where the use of a similar class of drug led to disastrous results.
- Robot Act: Radioactive Leak In Japan's N-Plant (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Water containing radioactive material has leaked at an experimental nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in northern Japan, but no radioactivity was released into the atmosphere, the operator announced on Wednesday.
- Govt To Review Decision To Raise Dam Height (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
Yielding to demands made by Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar, the Centre on Wednesday decided to review its decision to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar Dam.
- States Prod Centre On Maoist Menace (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Apr 13, 2006)
With the Maoist menace assuming alarming proportions, affected States are clamoring for urgent central assistance to deal with the reign of terror let loose by these ultra elements.
- Pakistan’S New Campaign Against India (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Apr 13, 2006)
Having got used to excessive pampering at the hands of the US it is perhaps not at all surprising that a sense of disappointment and even frustration seems to have struck Pakistan, following the ‘successful’ India visit of President George Walker Bush.
- While Dealing With America... (Pioneer, C UDAY BHASKAR, Apr 13, 2006)
India must hardsell its ethical conduct post-Pokhran to make US Congress recognise a friend, says C Uday Bhaskar
- Nuclear Pact Unifies Indian-Americans (Washington Times, David R. Sands, Apr 13, 2006)
California entrepreneur Arjun Bhagat concedes that his fellow Indian-Americans have been a little slow to use their economic power to promote closer U.S.-Indian ties -- by a couple of decades or so.
- Us, Russia Slam Iran’S Nuclear Step (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Apr 13, 2006)
The stern words from Washington have been echoed by Moscow which described Iran’s claim as a “step in the wrong direction”.
- Right Rules For India's Democracy (The Economic Times, Arun Maira, Apr 13, 2006)
There was a lot of noise and little light in the discussion on the issue of ‘offices of profit’ in the popular TV programme, “We the People”. This is one of our better programmes.
- Reform Works (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 13, 2006)
It is often asked what good reforms have done.
- Iran Enriches Uranium (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Apr 13, 2006)
Condemnation from US, Russia, UK
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday declared his country had succeeded in enriching uranium, a development the United States described as a step in the wrong direction.
- End Of Story: Israel Triumphant (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2006)
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, virtually everyone in the town knows that Santiago Nasar is going to be murdered. Yet nobody can or will do anything to prevent it.
- Work Through The Npt To Address Concerns About Iranian Nukes (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Apr 13, 2006)
The confrontation between Washington and Tehran over Iran's nuclear program remains very menacing. President George W. Bush has dismissed as "wild speculation" reports that US officials were planning military attacks against suspect sites in Iran.
- Hamid Karzai Woos Indian Investors (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2006)
Afghanistan Government keen on joint ventures between the two countries
- China's Surplus Soars, Clouding Hu's U.S. Visit (International Herald Tribune, Keith Bradsher, Apr 12, 2006)
China disclosed on Tuesday that its trade surplus surged to $11.19 billion in March, its second- highest monthly surplus ever and a level that could increase trade friction before President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States next week.
- Pak To Serve As Fountain-Head Of Islamic Renaissance (Pakistan Observer, Zubair Qureshi, Apr 12, 2006)
Musharraf urges Muslim leaders to uplift socio-economic conditions of people
- Lessons From The New Intolerance (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 12, 2006)
Whether or not the IIMs and IITs are forced to open their doors a little wider, the new fashionable intolerance exhibited in these last few days should be a sobering experience for all of us.
- Arjun Is Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Apr 12, 2006)
More than quota, the need is to create more technical and business schools for poor students of all castes, says Bulbul Roy Mishra
- Art And The Controversy (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Apr 12, 2006)
Sunil Gangopadhyay and MF Husain must know that right to freedom of speech and expression is not unconditional, says Anuradha Dutt
- N-Deal Hurdles (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Apr 12, 2006)
That the Indo-US nuclear deal could run into trouble was expected.
- India, Emerging Markets Sizzle (Business Standard, B G Shirsat, Apr 12, 2006)
In Q1 of CY06, India stands 4th with 20 per cent returns.
- Why A Re-Think On Gm Crops Is Needed (Business Line, Aldas Janaiah, Apr 12, 2006)
The Government must review rigorously and re-position its policy on extending approval to MNC-owned GM crop varieties.
- Vit Entrance Examinations (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2006)
Results of VITEEE 2006 to be published on April 23
- Market And Mayhem In Meerut (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Apr 12, 2006)
The footage on TV and pictures in papers brought me head on with a past I had left 16 years behind.
- Manjunath Effect: Crackdown Gets A Deadline (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Apr 12, 2006)
Moving to combat fuel adulteration on a war footing, the Government has, for the first time, set deadlines for oil marketing companies (OMCs) to get their act together.
- Cyprus President Arrives On Five-Day State Visit (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2006)
Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos arrived here today on a five-day state visit aimed at enhancing bilateral relations, particularly in trade and economic cooperation, and have discussions with Indian leaders on an array of issues including . . .
- Opportune Time To Think Big (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Apr 12, 2006)
Considering the opportunities that have opened up in the textile and clothing industry, this is the opportune time to think big for the policy-makers and industry leaders.
- Performance Criteria Essential (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 12, 2006)
Vinayshil Gautam stresses on the growing need for advancing organizational efficiency through IT
- An Alternative To Being A Couch Potato (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 12, 2006)
How is IPTV better than the traditional telly? You can see programmes of your choice, at the pace you want to, by controlling the stream through pause, fast and rewind options.
- No Difference Between Naxalism, Terrorism: Minister (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 12, 2006)
"Naxals frustrated with `Salwa Judum'; anti-naxal movement not halted"
- Musharraf Urges Muslims To Move On Path Of Development (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 12, 2006)
Concept of jihad is being confused with militancy, terrorism
- Sonia Concerned Over Delhi Developments; Calls For Solution (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Apr 12, 2006)
Congress chief has taken two review meetings on the issue of sealing, demolitions
Upset over the manner charges are made against Centre
Delhi Government and MCD `mishandled' the issue
Kapil Sibal should have avoided going to Press on the matter
- From Doubt To Mistrust To Anger (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 12, 2006)
Last summer after Nepal’s King Gyanendra engineered a bloodless coup and seized absolute power, royalists washed his feet with “holy water” to express allegiance.
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