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Articles 9821 through 9920 of 16306:
- Spice Of Life : Military Bands: Pjo Taylor (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 04, 2005)
Martial music is not a modern invention: primitive drumming and sounding of such “instruments” as rams’ horns goes back centuries, indeed millennia.
- Eu Oks India Joining Iter Nuclear Reactor Project (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2005)
The European Union agreed on Friday to include India in a 10-billion-euro project to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor that in the long-run could provide virtually unlimited, cheap and clean energy.
- The Quest For ‘Pahale India’ (Indian Express, N K Singh, Dec 04, 2005)
The 21st India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum has just concluded.
- Bihar Elections Post-Mortem (Indian Express, Soli Sorabjee, Dec 04, 2005)
The main cause for Nitish Kumar’s thumping victory was public disgust with Laloo-Rabri misrule. People saw through the political gimmickry and theatricals of Laloo Prasad Yadav. After all you can fool some people for some time but not all the . . .
- Bajaj Auto Looks Overseas For Growth (Indian Express, RAGHAVENDRA KAMATH, Dec 04, 2005)
Even as a pitched battle with rival Hero Honda rages on in the domestic market, home-grown two-wheeler major Bajaj Auto has set its sights on the overseas markets.
- Wonders Of The Wild (Hindu, R. KRITHIKA, Dec 04, 2005)
We need wild animals because we are dependent on them, says Ruth Padel, in conversation with
- A Gandhian Committed To Women's Cause (Hindu, V. Parukutty Amma, Dec 04, 2005)
She is a Gandhian, biographer, painter and woman of strong political conviction committed to women's cause. In conversation withMaleeha Raghaviah
- Nanotechnology: India Lagging Far Behind Other Nations, Says Expert (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 04, 2005)
Lack of funding and short-sightedness on Government's part blamed
India 25 years behind the U.S. and Europe
Average global spending over the past four years is $13 billion
Spending in India has been negligible
- Need For Reinterpreting Islam (Dawn, Altaf Hussain, Dec 04, 2005)
The international geopolitical scene has changed radically since the cataclysm of 9/11. In the heyday of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was the adversary for the West, the Islamic concept of Ijtihad had an entirely different connotation and . . .
- Eu Oks India Joining Iter Nuclear Reactor Project (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
The European Union agreed on Friday to include India in a 10-billion-euro project to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor that in the long-run could provide virtually unlimited, cheap and clean energy.
- Mathrani Revelations Spell Trouble For Natwar (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
K Natwar Singh's stock dipped to dangerously low levels today after Indian Ambassador to Croatia Aniel Mathrani's claims involving him in the Iraqi oil-for-food programme were published by a newsmagazine
- Four Agreements On Space, Defence During Pm's Moscow Visit (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
India would focus on developing a long-standing energy partnership with Russia and sign four key agreements on space and defence cooperation during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-day visit to Moscow beginning Sunday.
- Ysr Agrees To Set Up Pharma University (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy has said the Government would be willing to establish world class University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Hyderabad, if the industry majors agreed to share 50 per cent of the cost . . .
- Develop Towns To Stop Migration To Urban Areas: Economist (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
Integrated development programme is crucial, says Panchamukhi Integrated development crucial: Panchamukhi
Other suggestions
Urban services should be brought under public-private partnership
- A Life Like Ours (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 03, 2005)
The differently abled should be included in every social stream
- Turning The Beautiful Into The Vulgar (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Dec 03, 2005)
It begins with a bang followed by a few more bangs. The number of bangs go on increasing till the first big festival Dussehra. That evening it becomes like cannons firing from all sides. You can’t hear anything else.
- Defence, Energy To Dominate India-Russia Meet (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Dec 03, 2005)
Agreements on intellectual property rights, technology safeguards to be signed.
- Putting In Place A Tsunami Warning System (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Dec 03, 2005)
For the Indian Ocean tsunami warning system to work, there must be no gaps in the network of sensors being established by different nations. And, the various national systems have to be able to readily exchange data and information.
- Charges Outrageous: Natwar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
"If Matherani was concerned, why did he not go public earlier?"
"Totally false and malicious"
Says he will consult his lawyers for further action
Ready to face any inquiry that is time bound
Matherani "already transferred": Shyam Saran
- World Youth Satellite Will Be In Orbit By 2007, Says Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
He lists areas for entrepreneurship and jobs they can create
- India, Russia To Sign Four Accords (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
India will sign four key agreements on space and defence cooperation during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s three-day visit to Moscow starting from Sunday, India’s Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said on Friday.
- Controversy In India Over Medical Tourism (International Herald Tribune, Amelia Gentleman, Dec 03, 2005)
As foreigners flock to India to find lower health-care costs and avoid long waiting times, the rapid growth of this medical tourism has begun to create significant opposition among doctors here.
- Et Hacking (Times of India, MUKUL SHARMA, Dec 03, 2005)
Could we be doing something terribly dangerous here in the name of cutting-edge science? According to physicist Richard Carrigan of the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, trying to locate evidence of extraterrestrial signals could itself signal a s
- Why Delhi Must Rediscover Moscow (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 03, 2005)
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads to Moscow — he arrives on Sunday — for the annual summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, you don’t have to be a betting man to suggest that the outcome would be long on rhetoric but short on substance.
- They Share No Chemistry With Physics Teachers (Deccan Herald, Vijesh Kamath, Dec 03, 2005)
Here is a story of a “property dispute” of a unique kind. Unique in that that the dispute is not in “possessing” the “property” but rather in palming it off on others.
- Thou Owest The Worm No Silk, The Beast No Hide, The Sheep No Wool, The Cat No Perfume (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 03, 2005)
"DOUBLE, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble," chant the three witches in Macbeth. Thereafter, the second among them offers her recipe thus: "Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake; eye of newt and toe of frog,
- Treating Scientists Like Animals, And Animals Like Fodder (Indian Express, BAHAR DUTT, Dec 03, 2005)
Now that the Tribal Bill has been cleared, the animal versus people debate will start all over again. Most of the discussion will miss the central point: Our failure to protect fast diminishing wildlife is embedded in our failure to work with two . . .
- Footsie With Terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 03, 2005)
The NDA-led Opposition has forcefully articulated the growing public concern on matters of internal security with its broadside against the UPA Government for its "misplaced compassion" for terrorists that, even at this moment, . . .
- Politicians Behind Woes Of Up's Babus (Pioneer, MANOHAR SUBRAHMANYAM, Dec 03, 2005)
While politicisation of the bureaucracy is a national problem, Uttar Pradesh's woes have been exacerbated by short-sighted regionalism practiced by its politicians since the 1970s. MANOHAR SUBRAHMANYAM traces the steady road downhill for a once-proud.....
- Eighty Plus And Going Strong (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
Mr Balram Bhasin! Who? A younger colleague asked us this question out of sheer innocence the other day.
- Volcker Volcano Erupts Again (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 03, 2005)
Within days of flattening the Opposition attack, the government was back to fighting the Volcker fire in Parliament today.
- Physicist Sudarshan's Omission Questioned (Hindu, R. Ramachandran, Dec 02, 2005)
"Miscarriage of justice," say 10 scientists in appeal to Nobel Committee.
- Vidharbha: Cry, The Beloved Countryside (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Dec 02, 2005)
The agrarian crisis in Vidharbha has spun almost out of control. Appeals for swift measures by many have fallen on deaf ears.
- After Volcker Damp Squib, Nda Primes Mitrokhin Ammo Next (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
With the parliamentary debate on the Volcker Committee report turning out to be a damp squib, the BJP-led Opposition is now keen to have a discussion on the Mitrokhin Archives and former US ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s book, . . .
- Edusat An Effective Educational Aid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
E-content factor development was a major aspect of technology
Educational programmes available through the innovative system were aimed at bridging the digital divide
- Organisational Health (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 02, 2005)
IS IT possible to transpose to organisations the methodology of a doctor who undertakes various tests and scans to assess a person's state of health?
- Hiv Positive People Told Not To Lose Faith In Themselves (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Several awareness programmes mark World AIDS Day
- Cope India 2005 — Lessons For Us (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Dec 02, 2005)
At Cope India 2005, the recently held two-week India-US joint air exercise, Indian pilots flying the Sukhoi-30 MKIs are reported to have outperformed the United States F-16s. Indian pilots not only came out the winners in various visible-range encounters,
- Why Mncs Need To Create Products For India, In India (Business Line, Prashant Sarin , Dec 02, 2005)
The operation of subsidiaries based in emerging markets and conducting research targeted at domestic consumers offer MNCs radically new big-win opportunities, as they will be defining a new segment, and growing it in the absence of competitors.
- `India Needs To Take Gcfi As Seriously As Gdp' — Mr Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman, Feedback Ventures Pvt Ltd. (Business Line, N. Ramakrishnan , Dec 02, 2005)
The country needs to invest at least 7 per cent of its GDP in infrastructure, which at current levels works out to Rs 200,000 crore a year. It is clearly not investing enough in infrastructure but, sadder still, says Mr Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman, . . .
- Pm Calls For War Against Aids (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the nation’s health delivery system would be restructured in the next two years to provide a comprehensive package of services to the community and to HIV infected persons.
- Waste-Water Treatment: A Community Experiment (Business Line, P. Srivatsan, Dec 02, 2005)
Clean water is as important as clean air for human life and other forms of life. Recent weeks saw widespread water-logging due to the rains in Tamil Nadu and other parts of the country.
- India Plans To Launch A Dozen Satellites By 2008 (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
India on Thursday announced plans to launch up to one dozen satellites in the next four years. New Delhi aims to become a niche player in the global space communications market. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s envoy Prithviraj Chavan told parliament that
- Iran Needs Assurance: Iaea Chief (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has expressed hope that the contentious issue of Iran’s nuclear programme could be resolved by assuring international community that ‘it is not meant for developing nuclear weapons’ and by assuring Iranians
- India, Us Pledge Greater Cooperation In Technology (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
India and the United States vowed to implement steps to promote high technology cooperation on Thursday at the fourth meeting of the High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG).
- Nothing Is More Obstinate Than A Fashionable Consensus (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 02, 2005)
Recently,the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) spent five hours debating the rate of interest payable to more than three crore subscribers. But the board could not reach a consensus on the issue.
- Pm Calls For Cheaper Aids Drugs (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Law to empower HIV patients likely: Sibal.
- Fourth Generation Of India's Combat Aircraft Joins Test-Phase (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Software-intensive fourth generation Light Combat Aircraft Tejas (second prototype vehicle), indigenously designed and developed by India, joined the test phase today with its maiden flight here.
Its maiden flight launched at 1010 hours . . .
- Govt Approves Insat-4e Project, 3g Mobile Technology In Offing (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Government tonight approved launch of a new multi-media mobile satellite system 'INSAT-4E' at an estimated cost of Rs 269 crore, which will usher in the latest '3G' mobile phone technology in the country and improve broadcasting in the country.
- 'Indo-Pak Trade Can Touch One Billion Dollar By 2006-07' (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
With a view to increasing official trade between India and Pakistan to one billion dollar by next year, the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry will hold a series of trade exhibitions in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad in 2006-07.
- Politics And Science Co-Exist: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
You have to market them to political leaders, he tells students
- U.S. Confident India Nuclear Deal Will Be Approved (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
The State Department expressed confidence on Thursday a controversial nuclear deal with India would be approved by Congress and said it would work with lawmakers to make it happen
- Way "Open" For U.S. Payloads On Indian Lunar Mission (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
The way is "open" for the Indian lunar mission, Chandrayaan, to carry American payloads, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said at a joint press interaction with U.S. Under Secretary for Commerce David McCormick on Thursday.
- Kalam Plea To Cmc On Aids Vaccine (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
"An effective vaccine will be a cost-effective tool for control of infectious diseases"
- India, Us To Firm Up Tsa On Space Cooperation (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
India and the US are expected to firm up very soon a Technology Safeguard Agreement (TSA) on cooperation in space as the two sides agreed on a detailed action plan that will further promote high-tech cooperation.
- No More Watergates (Dawn, Sidney Blumenthal, Dec 02, 2005)
In the beginning, seasoned political reporters at the Washington Post disdained the Watergate story as insignificant, implausible and unserious. But two young journalists doggedly pursued every lead, helping bring about Richard Nixon’s resignation.
- Us Confident India Nuke Deal Will Be Approved (Hindustan Times, Reuters, Dec 02, 2005)
The State Department expressed confidence on Thursday that a controversial nuclear deal with India would be approved by Congress and said it would work with lawmakers to make it happen.
- India, Us Discuss Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Issues (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Discussions were on between India and the United States for working out modalities to realize the Indo-US understanding on civilian . . .
- Google's Kashmir Map Pains India (News International, Naveed Ahmad, Dec 02, 2005)
All the peace process rhetoric aside, New Delhi does not have the tolerance to acknowledge a factual description of Jammu and Kashmir map in which Google Inc. had just shown Azad Kashmir outside Indian territorial limits
- Big Pharma’S Bitter Pills (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Dec 02, 2005)
When my two-year old daughter started bumping into furniture and tripping over her toes, I was puzzled; she had been walking for a year with reasonable co-ordination.
- India, Us Close To Inking High-Tech Space Pact (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Taking forward the agenda of civilian space cooperation, India and US are looking at soon finalising a technology safeguard agreement (TSA) on cooperation in the sector.
- Kalam Outlines Crucial Research Areas To Foster Growth (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
President seeks the help of scientists to help solve the issues
Proteomics much more challenging than figuring out the human genome
Urgent need to track multiple parameters and predict earthquakes
- India, Russia To Sign Four Agreements During Pm’S Visit (Indian Express, Dadan Upadhyay, Dec 02, 2005)
India and Russia will sign four agreements in the spheres of defence and space, during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s annual summit with President Vladimir Putin, scheduled for December 4-6.
- Kalam Suggests A Network Of Rivers In Tamil Nadu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
"The Cauvery could be linked with the Vaigai, Palar and Tamiraparani"
- School Students Invent Method To Clean Polluted Water (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
To present paper at State-level conference
- Think Out Of The Box, Kalam Tells Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Become job generators rather than just job seekers Asks them to become job generators rather than job seekers
- Treat Aids Patients With Sensitivity: Jayakumar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Inaugurates automatic condom vending machine in city Inaugurates automatic condom vending machine in city
- Never Say Impossible, Kalam Tells Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 02, 2005)
Speech laced with questions and answers, anecdotes about scientists Speech laced with questions and answers, anecdotes about scientists
- Bihar Redeems Its Pledge (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Dec 02, 2005)
The recent Assembly elections in Bihar will be treated as a milestone in the history of Indian democracy. Though all elections are important in one way or the other, Bihar elections were a cut above the rest. First, they ended the 15-year . . .
- Google's Kashmir Map Pains India (News International, Naveed Ahmad, Dec 02, 2005)
All the peace process rhetoric aside, New Delhi does not have the tolerance to acknowledge a factual description of Jammu and Kashmir map in which Google Inc. had just shown Azad Kashmir outside Indian territorial limits.
- Germany: Angela Merkel Faces Tough Challenges (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 02, 2005)
After cumbersome negotiations over several weeks, Angela Merkel got elected on the November 22, 2005, as the first woman Chancellor in Germany’s history with the votes of the Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) as well as . . .
- Positioning Cultural Industries With Creative Intervention (Hindu, Rajeev Sethi, Dec 01, 2005)
A dynamic tradition never stops or slackens. The creative moves, nourishes, transforms, shapes, and furthers. Iqbal celebrates when he writes: "there is something that prevents our very being from being wiped out."
- Freedom Unlimitted, Disaster Indescribable (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 01, 2005)
We can call it a sexual Glasnost. A world where buggery, bestiality, adultery, incest and all such diabolic deeds of a human being have made even devil blush with himself.
- China Develops Aids Drug (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
China has developed its first AIDS drug with independent intellectual property right, the producers announced here on Wednesday.
- India And Japan On Wednesday Agreed To Set Up A Multi-Disciplinary Group To Enhance Economic Ties Focussing On Trade, Investment And Information Technology (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
India and Japan on Wednesday agreed to set up a multi-disciplinary group to enhance economic ties focussing on trade, investment and information technology.
- The Kids Aren’T Alright (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 01, 2005)
Consumer studies these days go on and on about targeting the ‘youth segment’.
- A Story Of Three Peaks (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Dec 01, 2005)
In a first-ever, prices of three major asset classes are all perched at, or very close to, their all-time highs. The most high-profile of them, of course, is the Sensex, which while negotiating the 9,000-mark, has risen by 45 per cent over the past 12 mon
- Rs. 20,000 Cr. To Be Invested In Infrastructure (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Karnataka is set for a leap in industrial growth, says Sindhia
Exports from State touched Rs. 62,000 crores last year
Bangalore international airport to become operational by December 2007
Karnataka produces over 60 per cent of construction equipment
- House Informed Of Anti-Naxal Force (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Karnataka has informed the Centre that a force has been constituted to deal with the Naxal problem in the State, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
- U.S. Payloads Likely To Be Accepted On Chandrayaan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 01, 2005)
Two sides moving forward in space cooperation: Shyam Saran
S & T accord will permit collaborative research
Civil nuclear energy is a component of larger dialogue
Nuclear agreement sends clear message
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