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Articles 9621 through 9720 of 16306:
- Gates Gets A Taste Of Tn (Hindustan Times, G.C. Shekhar, Dec 09, 2005)
Bill Gates is no stranger to politicians or their quirks. But when chief ministers of all states, big and small, have been touting their cities as the next big IT destination, even the unflappable chairman of Microsoft must have been astounded . . .
- India Seen As Key Player To Farm Deal At Wto Talks (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India is seen as a key player to win over for a global deal to free up agricultural trade at next week's World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Hong Kong, analysts said.
- India Plans Unmanned Mission And Is Studying Technical Challenges In Manned Mission To Far Out In Space (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India has planned an unmanned scientific mission to moon called Chandayan-I which is scheduled for launch in 2007-08,
- Russian Overture (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 09, 2005)
The "Special Relationship" between India and Russia is based wholly on the ties that blossomed during the Cold War, when the Kremlin responded to New Delhi's overtures to further its larger geo-political interests.
- Indo-China Trade To Reach Usd 50 Bn By 2010 (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India and China have reached an advanced stage for finalising a Regional Trade Agreement to boost bilateral trade to 50 billion dollars by 2010 from the current 13.8 billion dollar.
- Maran’S Indiaone Plan Is A Visionary Idea (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Dec 09, 2005)
India was very late in taking full advantage of the telecom revolution. It entered mobile telephony only on August 23, 1995. Due to high costs and licensing difficulties, mobile telephony did not take off until 2003.
- Norway Wants India To Join Npt (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Norway has said that India should not become a member of the nuclear suppliers’ group, unless it signs the non-proliferation treaty.
- Building Bridges (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 09, 2005)
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates’ visit to India is in part an outcome of the process of globalisation, and, in part, recognition of India’s role in the process, particularly in the key IT sector.
- India-U.S. Edusat Network Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Networking of universities the first step towards meeting the demands of the knowledge era: Kalam
- India Tests Trishul Missile (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India successfully tested its Trishul missile on Thursday in the eastern state of Orissa, defence officials said.
- Necessary Of A Knowledge Society (Daily Excelsior, Ram Rattan Sharma, Dec 09, 2005)
Twenty first century is going to be driven by science & technology. National Development is going to be increasingly dictated more by the knowledge strength than by access to Natural resources & capital.
- Society To Oversee Textbook Supply To Schoolchildren (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Students will get textbooks without delay
- Bill Gates Calls On Karunanidhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Discusses aspects of the Thirukkural with him
- Oic Can Help Resolve Kashmir, Palestine Issues: Musharraf (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Calls Mecca Summit a ‘historic moment’
Indian response to de-militarisation proposal ‘not positive so far
- Indian Military Takes Measures To Stop Sensitive Data Leakage (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 09, 2005)
In an unending war against the computer technology making the top defence secrets vulnerable, the Indian Army and the Indian Navy have banned “entry” of the flash memory pen drives in all their operational bases and offices.
- Launching Edusat In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Dr Renu Nanda, Dec 09, 2005)
Due to globalisation, the world is going through rapid changes where national boundaries of production and distribution and the quality of life are giving way to global trends and standards.
- U.N. Talks Support Clean Energy In Poor Nations (Reuters, Alister Doyle, Dec 09, 2005)
Negotiators at U.N. talks agreed to speed investments in clean-energy projects in the Third World on Thursday but remained deadlocked on ways to enlist the United States in a long-term fight against global warming.
- Hubris Of The Humanities (Indian Express, Nicholas D. Kristof, Dec 09, 2005)
The best argument against “intelligent design” has always been humanity itself. At a time when only 40 per cent of Americans believe in evolution, and only 13 per cent know what a molecule is, we’re an argument at best for “mediocre design”.
- Health Department Takes Exception To Study (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
A survey which is said to have been conducted by a team of researchers from Delhi University's Anthropology department among schoolchildren in the Amboori and Neyyar Dam tribal belt in the district last week has irked the authorities,
- Now Phirangs Can’T Work In Desi Bpos (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The government on Thursday made it clear that employment for foreigners in the booming BPO sector may be out of bounds.
- Invest In Basic Science: Tech Alone Can't Fuel Knowledge Ambition (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 09, 2005)
The one thing that both Bill Gates and P Chidambaram agreed upon, at their breakfast meeting catalysed by ET, was the importance of channelling private investment into education.
- Bitter Medicine Beneath The Sugar-Coated Diplomacy (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2005)
FRESH on the home-page of the WTO (www.wto.org) is the December 6 decision on changes to the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). It informs that cheaper generic versions of patented medicines . . .
- Indian, Chinese Railways: On Parallel Tracks (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Dec 09, 2005)
Though reform measures in China and India are not always comparable, there are many similarities and differences, especially when it comes to monolithic, government-run organisations.
- Growing Beyond Borders In It (Hindu, K. T. Jagannathan, Dec 08, 2005)
Economic growth will come through jobs and revenue from companies that are building businesses around commercial software, feels Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.
- Insat’S Home Launch In 2006 (Deccan Herald, Vijesh Kamath, Dec 08, 2005)
The year 2006 will witness the first ever launch of an Insat series satellite from home soil. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch Insat-4D by the indigenous developed Geo-synchronous Satellite....
- Audit Routines, Gas Pipes, Chickens And Lawyers (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 08, 2005)
"JUST as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison that one may find at the tip of one's tongue, so it is impossible for one dealing with government funds not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth."
- Management Lessons From Dunlop (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Dec 08, 2005)
An important object of this column is to draw, to the extent possible, generalisable managerial lessons from recent happenings in the business world.
- Mining Polluted Hampi Temples’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Mining activities at Sandur and Hospet have led to severe dust pollution in the Centrally-protected Parvathi and Kartikeya temples and in the State-protected Jambunatheshwara temple at Hampi.
- Big Deal! The M&a Party’S Only Just Begun (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Dec 08, 2005)
These columns had, in early 2004, talked of how the Indian marketplace was once again readying for a season of mergers and acquisitions
- Karnataka Support For Aerospace Technology Varsity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Karnataka has assured all cooperation and support, including allocation of land, to set up a university for Aerospace Technology, proposed by the Society of Indian Aerospace Technologies and Industries, in Bangalore.
- Us Congress Threatens To Throw Out India N-Deal (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The chairman of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee warned on Tuesday that Congress would throw out any ‘opaque’ plan by the Bush administration to forge unprecedented civilian nuclear cooperation with India.
- Microsoft To Invest $1.7 Billion In India (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Dec 08, 2005)
To accelerate its growing market presence in India, US-based global software giant Microsoft Corporation has announced a bouquet of sops here worth an investment of US$ 1.7 billion.
- Why Support To R&d Is Crucial (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Dec 08, 2005)
If India is to compete in the international markets for goods and services, it must give top priority to high quality advanced education in science and technology with a sharp focus on research and development.
- Microsoft To Invest $1.7 B (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Bill Gates views India as a potentially huge market
Investment to be deployed across select focus areas Computer services to the rural poor Windows Operating System in nine languages
- "Fdi In Retail Will Hit 4 Crore People" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Last 15 years of reforms have not been a model for inclusive growth, says Karat
Government asked to examine impact of FDI in retail in other countries
Says Left will not support Government on FDI in retail
- Navy Eyes Tech Link On Us Aviation Project (Indian Express, Shiv Aroor, Dec 08, 2005)
For all the talk about the IAF looking to purchase 126 fighters which Washington is keen to sell, it is the Indian Navy that is on track for an agreement that would for the first time make New Delhi a scientific and financial partner in a . . .
- A Strange Turn In Cold War – Russia Defeating America In Geopolitics – America May Have Made Mistakes In Iraq, India And China (India Daily, Sunil Razdhan, Dec 08, 2005)
Russia is slowly turning the geopolitical chess board on America.
- Do You Have Weapons To Fight Cold? (Greater Kashmir, S S A Rufai, Dec 08, 2005)
With winter already set in, you have a tough task ahead of turning your homes from chilly dwelling places to comfortable abodes where you enjoy warmth against a teeth chattering cold, writes S S A Rufai
- India Becomes Partner In Multinational Nuclear Fusion Reactor Project (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
India will become a partner in a multinational project to build an experimental nuclear-fusion reactor, the Indian government said Wednesday.
- Bill Rings In Christmas: $1.7 Bn-Plus On India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
With a $1.7 billion budget, Microsoft Corp, the world’s biggest software company, signed up on Wednesday for a major role in India’s drive to modernise and take IT to rural areas
- Voice In The Wilderness (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Negative signals at Mamata rally
There have been starvation deaths in West Bengal and some districts are particularly hard-hit by poverty and distress, made worse by the fact that the Left Front government has politicised the BPL lists.
- Natwar Hands Over Resignation To Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Having been pushed to the wall to quit the UPA government after being removed as a member of the high power Congress Steering Committee late at night on Monday, Union Minister without Portfolio K Natwar Singh called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh . . .
- The Number Of Internet Users In India Will Shoot To 100 Million In Two Years From The Current 38.5 Million (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The number of Internet users in India will shoot to 100 million in two years from the current 38.5 million, an industry study said.
- Moscow Is Willing (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday have brought to light Moscow’s eagerness to help India in acquiring the latest nuclear energy generation technology to meet the country’s growing power requirements,
- Us Classes Now In Indian Colleges (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Next time you may not have to fly to the US to have a Harvard professor lecturing you. You could well be sitting in your college in India. Fifteen leading American universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Texas, Illinois and California, . . .
- Face To Face: It Czars Gates And Murthy (Times of India, PERCY FERNANDEZ, Dec 08, 2005)
The Durbar Hall at the Taj Palace Hotel was packed with India's CEOs, businessmen, entrepreneurs and academics to listen to Bill Gates and Narayanamurthy and around 1215 both of them walked in along with Dr. Prannoy Roy of NDTV who was presiding over the
- Microsoft Lines Up $1.7 B Investments For India — To Expand R&d Activities; Promote It Literacy (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Betting heavily on India's IT prowess, the Microsoft Chairman, Mr Bill Gates, today announced an investment of $1.7 billion (Rs 7,858 crore) spread over the next four years to expand its research and development (R&D) activities, . . .
- American Businesses Including Bill Gates And Microsoft Will Go Back As Fast As They Are Coming To India (India Daily, Babu Ghanta, Dec 08, 2005)
That is the way America operates. It is a free capitalistic country where people can choose what they want to do within the parameters of the law of land.
- No Substitute For Cutting Back (Deccan Herald, George Monbiot, Dec 08, 2005)
We have missed the fact that biodiesel is worse than the fossil-fuel burning it replaces
- Sena: The Tiger Whimpers (Deccan Herald, Venkat Krishnan, Dec 08, 2005)
The Shiv Sena is a party in trouble. Unless the party reinvents itself, it has no future.
- Venture Funds For Tiny Enterprises Cursor (The Economic Times, T K ARUN, Dec 08, 2005)
Climbing steep mountains, everyone knows, is high-adrenaline stuff. Scouring the bottom of the pyramid for nuggets of gold is higher adventure still. And India needs a lot of it — to attack poverty, for enterprise to flourish, to erode the caste . . .
- Developing People For Info-System (Pioneer, Vinayshil Gautam, Dec 08, 2005)
The ability to source information holds the key to continuous growth, says Vinayshil Gautam.
- Calendar Year Of Indian Navy (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Dec 08, 2005)
Anil Bhat recapitulates the achievements of the wing of the armed forces that rules the waves.
- Putin Signals Hope (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 08, 2005)
In keeping with the tradition of annual summits, Tuesday's meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Vladimir Putin was not expected to yield any results of far-reaching consequences, either in terms of bilateral relations . . .
- A New Urban Lifestyle Lures India's Rural Poor (International Herald Tribune, AMY WALDMAN, Dec 08, 2005)
This western city has at least 300 slum pockets, with grimy industry, factory-fouled air and a spiraling crime rate. A 1994 epidemic - reported as pneumonic plague - that originated here caused national panic.
- Mou To Promote Higher Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Twenty universities in the United States will join the Mata Amritanandamayi Math's Amrita University, Indian Space Research Organisation and the Department of Science and Technology through TIFAC and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum for . . .
- What Is Nc Up To? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 08, 2005)
What is the father-and-son leadership of the National Conference up to? What does it intend to gain by pledging support (even though it is unsolicited) to the Congress-led coalition Government almost every day?
- India For `Visionary' Outlook On Summit (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Dec 07, 2005)
It is an important "building block for community-building in East Asia"
India looking for ways to fashion governing document
ASEAN goes well with Manmohan's proposal of Asian economic community
- Madrasa Reforms (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 07, 2005)
Will Bengal take leaf out of Musharraf’s book?
The ordinance promulgated by President Parvez Musharraf to regulate the functioning of 25,000 madrasas in Pakistan is a bold step that recognises realities.
- Russia To Lease Two Nuclear Submarines To India : Report (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
India will get two Shchuka-B class nuclear submarines from Russia on lease and an Indian crew has already arrived here for training as part of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov deal, a media report said today.
- Natwar Announces Resignation (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Minister without portfolio K Natwar Singh tonight announced his resignation from the Union Cabinet saying he did not want to be an excuse for paralysis of Parliament after the opposition stalled both the Houses insisting on his immediate exit.
- Manmohan-Putin Summit (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Declaring the determination of India and Russia to jointly combat terrorism, President Vladimir Putin today expressed his country’s readiness to cooperate with New Delhi in the field of nuclear energy and said Moscow was also prepared to increase oil. . .
- Coming To Terms With The Pandemic (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 07, 2005)
Extracts from the Human Development Report 2005
- Pak Beats India To Lady Bank Boss (Telegraph, IMTIAZ GUL, Dec 07, 2005)
Musharraf picks accomplished Shamshad to take care of coffers
- Oil And Oic: A Lethal Combination (Greater Kashmir, Waseem-ud-Din, Dec 07, 2005)
Oil - the black gold of Middle East – is turning curse for not being tapped and used as a weapon to achieve prosperity and wellbeing, comments Waseem-ud-Din
- Of Aesthetics And Truth (Greater Kashmir, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Dec 07, 2005)
The life of a person is shaped in his adulthood. The environment he grows in, the lineage that he has, the influences that orient him
- Spirit Of Inquiry (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Dec 07, 2005)
f you can't beat 'em, join 'em. After failing to stall the Right to Information Act, the bureaucracy is all set to become its custodian.
- Status Of Biological Sciences In India (Daily Excelsior, Pragya Khanna, Dec 07, 2005)
Human knowledge of Biology began with prehistoric people and their experiences with edible vs. inedible, or even poisonous, plants and animals, their habits and habitats and how best to capture them, etc. This information was verbally passed on to . . .
- Bill Gates Picks Up Seattle Threads With It Minister (Hindustan Times, Prerna K Mishra, Dec 07, 2005)
Even as the first day of Bill Gates’ four-day visit to India was to be dedicated to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, politics took precedence as Gates went to meet Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran at his residence first thing . . .
- Bill Gates, Maran Discuss Areas Of Cooperation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
To create an enabling environment for adoption of IT
Progress on other projects reviewed
To launch English edition of Windows XP Starter Edition
- Beleaguered Natwar Quits Cabinet (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Minister without portfolio K Natwar Singh on Tuesday announced his resignation from the Union Cabinet saying he did not want to be an excuse for paralysis of Parliament after the opposition stalled both the Houses insisting on his immediate exit.
- Russia To Help India On N-Energy (Hindustan Times, Yashwant Raj, Dec 07, 2005)
Russia will do all it can to ensure India's energy needs are fulfilled. At the same time it wants New Delhi to sort its differences with the nuclear supplier group (NSG) countries on the separation of civil and military uses of nuclear technology.
- Bill Gates Meets India’S It Minister But The Debate In India Is – Does India Really Need Microsoft? (India Daily, Balaji Reddy, Dec 07, 2005)
While Microsoft is eager to invest in India, so is rest of the world. Microsoft founder chairman Bill Gates met India's Information Technology and Communication Minister Dayanidhi Maran to discuss various areas of cooperation.
- Microsoft To Invest $1 Bln In India - Source (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, plans to invest more than $1 billion in India, a source close to the firm told Reuters on Wednesday, joining other multinationals expanding operations in the fast-growing economy.
- Gates' Support For Developing Tb Vaccine (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Says meeting with Anbumani Ramadoss was `great'
- Will India Back Off From Its Neti Doctrine? (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Dec 07, 2005)
The draft ministerial text put out by the director-general of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, last week only reinforces the limited progress that negotiations have made so far.
- Karpoori Replaces Lalu (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 07, 2005)
Those Class VIII students in Bihar government schools who thought they would have one chapter less to study in their social sciences textbook after the change in government may have been jumping the gun. As expected, the chapter on Lalu Prasad Yadav . . .
- Bridging Digital Divide (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 07, 2005)
Chairman Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) and President Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Shahzada Alam Malik has urged technologically advanced nations of Asia Pacific region to provide assistance to the less developed countries in bridging the . . .
- India, Russia Evoke ‘Strategic Partnership’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Russia and India intensified cooperation on defence and energy as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin on Tuesday and evoked a ‘strategic Partnership’. “We have a very special relationship . . .
- New Thrust To Indo-Russian Defence Cooperation (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Dec 07, 2005)
Focus on joint development and manufacture of futuristic weapon systems
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