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Articles 1521 through 1620 of 21907:
- Continuity In Change (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Oct 03, 2006)
If anything epitomises continuity in change in the capital, it is the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- Inside The Heart And Mind Of Terror (Tribune, Kim Sengupta, Oct 03, 2006)
Mohammed Atta, the leader of the September 11 hijackers, is shown laughing and joking while filming his ‘martyrdom testament’ along with others involved in a newly released video.
- Culture And The Past (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 03, 2006)
Presents aspects of ethnography advocating their use in archaeology
- Temples In And Around Chennai (Hindu, V.N. Vedanta Desikan, Oct 03, 2006)
Hnduism attaches great importance to idol worship for practical observance, especially Vaishnavism which, systematically ratiocinates to the effect that Archa (a material image, an icon in stone, wood, or metal , commonly worshipped with great . . .
- Carnivalesque End To Mysore Dasara (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Jamboo Savari, the Vijayadashami procession which marks the finale of the 10-day long Dasara festivities, concluded in the ‘City of Palaces’ with traditional fervour and gaiety on Monday with lakhs of people witnessing the splendid annual spectacle.
- Modernisation Is Railways’ New Watchword (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The Railways is all set to completely revamp its enquiry system by handing over the contract to leading BPO firms.
- Gandhigiri Is The Rage Now But For How Long? (Deccan Herald, Janaki Murali, Oct 03, 2006)
There’s a fervour across the country in the wake of the film ‘Munnabhai...’ And the findings: It’s not Gandhiism or Gandhivaad but Gandhigiri.
- The Bane Of Indian Society (Hindu, S. Viswanathan, Oct 03, 2006)
Noted social historian Dilip M. Menon endorses in his introduction a pertinent question often raised by many India watchers and also echoed by Dalit activists: how is it that caste-related violence . . .
- Let Sinking Ships (And Airlines) Sink (Business Standard, Govindraj Ethiraj, Oct 03, 2006)
In the last ten days, I’ve witnessed an Indian aviation miracle of sorts. I arrived in Mumbai airport at three different times, late afternoon, evening and night.
- Remnants Of Soviet Aggression (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 03, 2006)
Categorically stating that the country’s intelligence service (ISI) has played no role in propping up the renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf has disclosed that he is investigating possible support . . .
- Temples In Distress (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The ancient temples of Keshava and Someshwara in Haranahalli are in a dilapidated state and require urgent attention, writes I Sesunathan.
- General In His Labyrinth (Pioneer, B Raman, Oct 03, 2006)
Pervez Musharraf's lies and antics have created fissures and unhappiness in Pakistan's Army
- Attacks On Religion: A One-Sided Affair (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Oct 03, 2006)
Muslims and European Christians have interacted now for more than 1,400 years in both war and peace, and it goes without saying that both sides have committed what we today call war crimes.
- The Evil That We Live With (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Oct 03, 2006)
Why is it that instead of reining in crime, our social and political leaders readily resort to the 'root cause theory', asks Bulbul Roy Mishra
- Isi Mark (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 03, 2006)
The Mumbai Police naturally did not share with the media the details of the evidence regarding the ISI involvement collected by them.
- What's Faith Got To Do With It? (OutLook, Daniel Lak, Oct 03, 2006)
A big book, but can't get the incredulity. Is it really so strange that India should prosper or succeed?
- Planning In Conditions Of Oil Price Volatility (The Financial Express, Vikram S Mehta, Oct 03, 2006)
Our oil companies need to adopt scenario planning, a widely used tool amongst global players today
- Of Indian Bureaucracy From Far And Wide (The Financial Express, Subhash Agrawal, Oct 03, 2006)
The plethora of mindless rules is a big barrier to progressive change and the way others see us
- Diy Hinduism (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
Dalits in UP villages are reinventing Ambedkarism in the golden jubilee year of Bhim Rao Ambedkar's conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism.
- Abe And Japan's Moment Of Choice (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 03, 2006)
The new Prime Minister has a challenging task if he wants to reshape his country as a post-modern state.
- Mosquito Menace Hits Kerala, Delhi (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Fear of going down with the killer fever chikungunya is fast giving way to panic across Kerala.
- For The Sheer Love Of Art Alone (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Two immensely readable books address a range of art-related issues.
- British Conservatives Bury Thatcherism (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 03, 2006)
In a symbolic break with its traditional Right-wing agenda, the Conservative Party has decided to bury Thatcherism and move to the Centre ground of British politics as it steps up its campaign to return to power.
- An `Alternative History' (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Oct 03, 2006)
A fervent plea to freedom-loving people to reject the logic of armed, competitive capitalism
- Gujarat Madrasas: An Education In Terror? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 03, 2006)
Investigations into a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Gujarat cast new light on the Islamist networks that carried out the Mumbai serial bombings — and raise hard questions about the State's madrasas.
- Isi: In The Firing Line (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's remarks against the intelligence agency have created a stir.
- Another Tiger In The Cross-Hairs (Indian Express, Amar Farooqui, Oct 03, 2006)
Not much ingenuity is required to grasp the divisive political agenda that prompted D H Shankaramurthy, Karnataka Minister for Higher (!) Education, to declare recently that all references to Tipu Sultan should be deleted from school textbooks . . .
- Stories Of Grit And Gumption (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The book highlights individuals, often ignored in studies of the violence in Assam.
- Not So Fine Print (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
That there is a strong bipartisan political support in Washington for the nuclear deal with India is of no satisfaction to New Delhi, if it falls through because of squabbling between Republicans and Democrats on procedure.
- Not In The Holmes League (Hindu, PARTHA CHATTERJEE , Oct 03, 2006)
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's detective stories may seem tame, even naïve, to those familiar with other such stories.
- Good, Not Great (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Drizzle of yesteryears and other stories; M K Ajay, Frog Books, 2006, pp 113, Rs 195.
- How To Avoid The Oil Slick Of Volatile Prices (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Oct 03, 2006)
One month is a long time in today’s oil industry. My last column, four weeks ago, was written against the background chatter of $100/barrel oil and deepening concern that the government’s refusal to allow their marketing companies to recover the . . .
- Tea Anytime (Hindu, Ranjita Biswas, Oct 03, 2006)
A coffee table book on the story of tea in India.
- Kabul Another Baghdad (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Oct 03, 2006)
US President George Bush’s dinner diplomacy between Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai and Gen Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has not worked. But on the ground, NATO commanders are claiming success.
- Letting The Light In (Hindu, S. JAGADISAN , Oct 03, 2006)
V.P. Ranga Rao, novelist and scholar, talks about the nature of R.K. Narayan's artistic vision.
- Lives In Search Of Lost Worlds (Hindu, Suchitra Behal, Oct 03, 2006)
The Inheritance of Loss is written with joy, compassion and a rare candour.
- Retelling Culture (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The retold narratives here, through Eraly's interventions, serve at once revivalist and revisionist purposes.
- Afterlife Of Sherlock Holmes (Hindu, MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE, Oct 03, 2006)
Both the books are playful and ingenuous pastiches, recreating familiar voices from the past.
- Sallekhana And Suicide (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Oct 03, 2006)
Jains who have compromised their spiritual honour by demanding minority status must explain why 'fellow minorities' did not support 'Jain personal law' when two women recently undertook 'sallekhana', one of whom is alive at the time of writing this piece.
- Flying Is A Pain (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 03, 2006)
Some people are under the impression that the government in New Delhi is a pre-reform Congress government.
- Gandhi Peace Prize For Tutu (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2005 in recognition of his "invaluable contribution towards social and political transformation through dialogue and tolerance", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Monday . . .
- Challenge To World Peace (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Oct 03, 2006)
The South Block is drawing up a strategic road map to welcome the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in November.
- 60 People Die Of Chikungunya In Kerala (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Kerala, hit hard by a viral fever caused by mosquito bites, is apprehensive that the tourist season starting mid-October might not take off.
- Rajasthan To Provide Online Guides For Tourists (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Rajasthan has set up three electronic kiosks here to provide online information on travel, stay and sites to tourists coming to the state.
- White House Upset With Indo-Us Nuke Deal Failure (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The White House said on Monday, it was disappointed the US Senate failed to approve a landmark US-India nuclear deal before adjourning, but expressed optimism it would be approved during a "lame duck" session in November.
- Minister Wins Ayodhya Reprieve (British Broadcasting Corporation, bbc correspondent, Sep 30, 2006)
The High Court in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state has deferred criminal proceedings against a cabinet minister charged with inciting Hindu mobs to destroy a mosque in Ayodhya in 1992.
- Woes Of Migrants (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2006)
At one level a migrant is a person who moves from place to place to get work. At another level, he is a globetrotter who is in search of the best market for his talent. Punjab is one state in which both kinds of migrants are in large numbers.
- The Arts Of Humankind (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2006)
“For a sixteen-year-old youth who had yet to begin to shave,” writes Kumar Mukherji in his memoir of life as a music lover, “the winter of 1942 would best be remembered as the year when he heard Kesarbai [Kerkar], Roshanara Begum and Ustad Bade . . .
- London’S Embarrassment And Pakistan’S Isi (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 30, 2006)
A paper written by an officer of the British MI6 for the Defence Academy, a British Ministry of Defence think-tank, has alleged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is indirectly supporting . . .
- Attracting Tourists (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 30, 2006)
World Tourism Day was observed in Pakistan on September 27 with the federal tourism minister announcing that tourists from several countries could expect to get visas on arrival.
- India Should Not Join Race For Biological Weapons (Hindu, Sujatha Byravan, Sep 30, 2006)
New Delhi has the opportunity to step up as the global leader it aspires to be by taking a practical approach and the moral high road on the subject.
- Islamabad, Kabul Agreed To Avoid Verbal Attacks: Us (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to maintain regular contact over the issues that caused verbal spats between their leaders during their two-week stay in the United States, the White House has said.
- Creative Cooperation (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 30, 2006)
Do inventors, discoverers and scientists like to work alone or in collaborative pairings and groups? Historically it would appear that the overwhelming majority of them, from Aristotle to Einstein, have preferred to exert their grey cells on their own.
- Malaysia Keen On Investing In Puducherry Tourism (Hindu, Rajesh Nair, Sep 30, 2006)
Malaysian Tourism Ministry conducted a road show.
- Gram Sabha Passes Resolution Against Special Economic Zone (Hindu, Meena Menon, Sep 30, 2006)
People register protest against land acquisition for Reliance Group's Mumbai SEZ
- Plotting A Future (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Sep 30, 2006)
This newspaper has been looking at the serious issues of land and water scarcity. Apart from my commentaries on these pages, I have dealt with these issues in lectures and academic contributions.
- Discouraging Iron Ore Exports (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 30, 2006)
Steel, along with textiles, has played a pioneering role in modern India's industrialisation and it is not surprising that the policy to be adopted on the industry's major raw material, iron ore, has become the focus of national attention.
- Soz Calls On Rajapaksa (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 30, 2006)
Union Minister for Water Resources Saifuddin Soz called on Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the temporary Presidential Palace and exchanged views on the current situation in the island nation and issues of interest between India and Sri Lanka.
- Bathukamma: Festival Of Mother Goddess (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Songs sung by women during the Bathukamma festival are essentially an appeal to goddess Gauri to come back to the earth
- South Korean Leads Race For Un Secretary General’S Post (Deccan Herald, COLUM LYNCH, Sep 30, 2006)
The leading candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea’s minister of foreign affairs and trade, has at least one potential advantage over his rivals in the election race for the world’s top . . .
- Opening A Dialogue (Hindu, BAGESHREE S. , Sep 30, 2006)
Shashi Deshpande's translation of her father Shriranga's memoirs is an important bridge across languages.
- The Solitary Traveller (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Travel Time to reflect, observe, recharge and simply revel in solitude is what travelling alone is all about .
- Feeling Grounded? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
What would you do when your kid chooses to be anything but cooing and cute on board an aircraft?
- Netas Score Low In Test Of Tech Savvy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
This is the era of e-governance. It has taken deep roots even in rural Karnataka, thanks to the “Bhoomi” project providing computerised copies of land records. The State government has now launched ‘Nemmadi’, an ...
- Tourism Enriches (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 29, 2006)
Pro-active promotion of tourism is needed.
- Carving Up The Beach (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 29, 2006)
The ongoing carving up of Karachi's coastline continues at full speed. On Wednesday it was reported that the federal government has signed a contract with a leading UAE-based property firm to develop two islands off the coast of Karachi and build a . . .
- Siva, Indochina And The Geopolitics Of Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2006)
Vietnam Airlines Flight 267 descended towards the airport over Cam Ranh Bay, a geopolitical relic of the Cold War where the Soviet Union built a major base for its Pacific Fleet. I, however, was flying into the area not to investigate . . .
- A Stretch Teeming With Life (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
There are two ways of looking at K Kamaraj Road or Cavalry Road as it was known earlier. Depending upon one perspective, it could be a road full of intense traffic and choc-a-block shops or you can treat this as a stretch full of life.
- Offguard General (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 29, 2006)
The President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, has got into a problem with his defenders and detractors alike by ignoring, while writing his book, In the Line of Fire, an unwritten but essential convention observed by smart authors.
- In The Land Of Rising Nationalism (Business Line, J. Srinivasan, Sep 29, 2006)
Japan's Prime Minister-elect, Mr Shinzo Abe, thinks the country cannot continue the way it has, and wants to revise the pacifist constitution and education to emphasise moral values, patriotism, and tradition.
- Read It, Forget It (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 29, 2006)
Soon after General Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan through a coup in October 1999, a former Indian intelligence official wrote a personality profile of the new man in power.
- India`s Ambassadors In The Us (Business Standard, T Thomas, Sep 29, 2006)
If we can get American students to study here, it will prove to be a major advancement in diplomacy.
- Beautiful People (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 29, 2006)
Khushwant Singh's Sex, Scotch and Scholarship lay by my side. I'd given up on it: just wasn't in the mood. No sex please, we're Pakistani. Just how we've reached a population of over 165 million isn't too clear.
- Going For The Big Kill (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 29, 2006)
The recent hedge fund crisis, the decade’s biggest, shows it’s tough to be a successful predator in a business where jungle rule prevails
- Not A Banana Republic? (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Sep 29, 2006)
The writer is a former member of parliament and a freelance columnist based in Lahore
- Combating Aids: Yunnan Shows The Way (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Sep 29, 2006)
While many of China's other regions pretend that AIDS does not exist, Yunnan has begun to experiment with novel pilot projects such as the methadone therapy and needle exchange programmes.
- Beyond The Controversy (Hindu, SHIVASUNDAR, Sep 29, 2006)
Tipu Sultan has always been misrepresented because the victors are the ones who have a say in recording history.
- Aviation Losses (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 29, 2006)
The civil aviation ministry’s anxiety over mounting airline losses is not misplaced, but its solution, entailing possible curbs on further capacity addition is not in the long-term interest of the aviation industry. The ministry should strive towards . .
- Energy Security: An Urgent Priority (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 29, 2006)
Energy means the ability to do work. The word, though, is getting energetically overworked, if news headlines are any indication. For instance, "Russian deal will bring Iran nuclear energy," says www.iranmania.com. "EU Wants Energy Companies to . . .
- Ramazan 1427 (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 29, 2006)
The month of Ramazan was known to the Arabs even before the advent of Islam, but in the second year of Hijrah (623 AD), a Quranic revelation transformed the nature of this month.
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