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Articles 2921 through 3020 of 21907:
- Worsening Situation In Afghanistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 05, 2006)
Nato’s military spokesman in Kabul has said that about 200 suspected Taliban and four Canadian soldiers were killed in a major operation in southern Afghanistan. Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman said that air strikes and ground offensive have been . . .
- Shift In Us Public Opinion (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Sep 05, 2006)
America has returned to 1968. On August 31, a vital deadline at the very top of George Bush’s agenda passed, and no one died at the deadline. Instead, the intended victim was frisky to the point of being cocky.
- Australian Investor Offers A$700m For Travel Group (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Australian property and tourism investor MFS launched an A$700m bid for travel group S8 as it seeks to expand its leisure property business.
- States To Get Lesson On Terror (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
With jehadi outfits seeking to move beyond J&K to include states like Maharashtra, Karnataka and eastern UP in their terror network, PM Manmohan Singh will sensitise chief ministers on the growing need for states to crack down on local conduits and . . .
- In Defence Of National Autonomy (Pioneer, CP Bhambri, Sep 05, 2006)
India has surrendered its democratic right to regulate its economy by accepting the dictates of the new global economic regime, says CP Bhamhbri.
- Through The Third Eye (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 05, 2006)
Check-up, not check-in, is the new buzzword at ITDC’s flagship Hotel Ashok. The PSU’s chairman and managing director, Parvez Devan, has done something no hotel in India has thought of: tie-ups that would enable the hotel to provide its guests . . .
- Petro Product Pricing: Accept The Reality (The Financial Express, Vikram S Mehta, Sep 05, 2006)
For how long can the interests of public shareholders be subordinated to political exigency?
- Tourist Centre At Taj’S Eastern Gate Is Needed: Asi (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Archaeological Survey of India has said the facilitation centre for tourists at the Taj Mahal’s eastern gate "need not be removed" and will be seeking the permission of the Supreme Court, which is hearing a PIL on the issue.
- Delight Or Despair? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 05, 2006)
Four flood-related photographs in this newspaper on Monday tell the same tale but in its varied dimensions. One is of "Har ki Pauri" --- a replica of much-revered ancient place of worship of the same name in Haridwar --- at the foothills of . . .
- Call From Karbala (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 05, 2006)
The killing of three Indians, all Shia pilgrims from Hyderabad, by a posse of what are assumed to be Sunni terrorists, is a wake-up call in more ways than one.
- Iran Snubs Annan Concerns On Twisting Holocaust Horror (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The UN chief got little satisfaction at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored of warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.
- Bomb Hoax Delays Kalam's Aircraft By Three Hours (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
A bomb hoax delayed by three hours, the departure of a special Indian Air Force aircraft carrying President A P J Abdul Kalam to New Delhi.
- Illusion As Reality (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Sep 05, 2006)
In Kinfra, a new kind of research is underway to rediscover India's magical past and dazzle people with illusion and meta-reality
- Lobbyists On Overdrive As Us Senate Reconvenes (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Come Tuesday, and the race for getting the India-US civil nuclear cooperation deal through the Senate begins gathering urgency, with only a month left before Congress adjourns for the November mid-term elections.
- Pakistani Crime Busters Help Police Solve Cases (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
On the mean streets of Pakistan's biggest city, crime-weary citizens fed up with a wave of kidnappings look to a private crime fighting unit for help.
- Inquiry Report Blames Greed For Kumbakonam School Fire (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
A mixture of avarice, dishonesty and a blatant disregard of safety standards caused a devastating fire in a school in Kumbakonam two years ago in which 94 young children died, an inquiry commission found.
- The Nuclear Deterrent Interest Of Iran (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 05, 2006)
Historically speaking, among the more important international events in the 1950s was the First International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy held in Vienna in 1955.
- Peace Process May Figure During Singh-Musharraf Meet (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Sep 05, 2006)
The Indo-Pak peace process and related issues may come up for discussion during the likely meeting between Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Havana later this month.
- Alienated Baloch (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Sep 05, 2006)
During an interview with an enterprising Pakistani journalist in March 2006, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, the most popular tribal leader of Balochistan, said: “Now our options are clear: resist and die, or die without resisting.
- What Fails Us From Becoming Good Teachers (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Vishiesh Verma, Sep 05, 2006)
At the time when the very edifice of the profession of university and college teaching is caught in the eye of the storm, adrift and tossed like a toy, one can't help reminicening over the question, "What fails us from becoming good teachers?"
- Victim As Villain (Times of India, HARSH MANDER, Sep 05, 2006)
A young woman, barely 20, who lost 14 members of her family in the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, has desolately spent the last five months in a prison ward in Nashik.
- Report On Fuller Capital Account Convertibility — Will The . . . (Business Line, Ashoak Upadhyay , Sep 05, 2006)
Though the latest CAC report reads like a travelogue of India's financial sector and government finances reforms to date, it is a valuable guide to the subject of convertibility.
- Tourism Office's Awareness Walk (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Tourism Office organised an awareness walk to foster national unity and social harmony to mark the National Integration and Communal Harmony Week in the city on Saturday and Monday.
- A Teacher's Tribute To Her Dear Students (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 05, 2006)
Teaching is my passion, and luckily my experience as a teacher has been beautiful, emotional and fulfilling. Over the years, I've watched the student-teacher equation evolve: From guru as God, guru as all-knowing — "Guru Brahma, . . .
- Song Sung Blue (Indian Express, Asif Jalal, Sep 05, 2006)
The Centre’s directive to celebrate the centenary of Vande Mataram on September 7, by having it sung in all educational institutions, has unfortunately stoked a controversy. As usual, those who see themselves as the keepers of . . .
- Give Varsities Autonomy: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Urges State government to integrate all varsities under the virtual university system
Wants high bandwidth made free
Recalls his university days.
- Pilgrim Centres (Hindu, C. L. Ramakrishnan , Sep 05, 2006)
Part I: Mahadevan Sankaranarayanan; Copies can be had from the author, Plot No. 460, 24th Street, Ashtalakshmi Nagar, Alapakkam, Chennai-600016. Rs. 450.
- Rocking The Boat (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 05, 2006)
As a Sri Lanka traumatised by LTTE militarism and terrorism and trapped in a trisanku-state of `no-peace-no-war' lurches towards civil war, with the four-year-old ceasefire agreement virtually in tatters, a JVP-led move to get the merger of the . . .
- Thiruvonathoni Sets Off For Aranmula Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
With vegetables and provisions for Onam feast
- Off To Australia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
You want to make your honeymoon truly special. You are looking for an exclusive lodge in the countryside, or the stillness of the rainforest, or a beachfront bungalow within view of the ocean. Believe it or not, it is possible and Australia has to . . .
- Ananthagiri Hills To Be Developed Into Resort (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Development to be complementary to Anantha Padmanabha Swamy temple
Global tenders to be issued shortly to construct hotels, eateries and cottages
Buddha Vanam project at Nagarjunasagar completed 75%
Museum at venue to be mainstay of project.
- China Seeks To Roll Back The Sands (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Sep 05, 2006)
The livelihoods of 400 million people are threatened by the spread of the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts.
- Reminiscences (Hindu, B. R. P. Bhaskar, Sep 05, 2006)
by P.C. Alexander, Translated by Pala SK. Nair, Current Books, Round West, Kottayam-686001. Rs. 240.
- Room Shortage To Hit Goa Tourism (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Travel operators are gearing up for a 20 per cent rise in foreign charter traffic to Goa this tourist season.
- Sociological Perspective Of Public Health (Hindu, Sarah Hiddleston, Sep 05, 2006)
Two related books examining the sociology and history of disease, and public health
- Musharraf May Compare Bugti Killing To Blue Star (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 05, 2006)
As he prepares for a two week visit to the US, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is expected to defend the killing of Baluch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti by invoking comparisons with India’s Operation Blue Star against Sikh extremists in 1984.
- Hundreds Attend Uthrada Sadya At Sabarimala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
The Uthrada-sadya, hosted by meslanthi M.Sukumaran Namboodiri, was held at Sabarimala with religious fervour on Monday.
- Fear Of Flying (Indian Express, NAMRATA SHARMA ZAKARIA, Sep 04, 2006)
Once upon a time, we really flew when we flew. Taking a plane to anywhere was quite the flight of fancy.
- Pak Increases Military Activities Along Loc (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 04, 2006)
There is a certain degree of concern over Pakistan Army’s reported activities of construction of concrete bunkers and reinforcement of manpower along the Line of Control as Islamabad is upping its ante before the anticipated bilateral meeting between . .
- 3 Indian Pilgrims Buried In Karbala (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Sep 04, 2006)
The three Indians who were shot dead by gunmen at close range in Iraq were buried in Karbala on Saturday.
- Cbi Finds Chinks In Punjab Police Probe (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons, including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by the Punjab Police.
- Police Move To Change Its Working Style (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons, including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by the Punjab Police.
- Keep It Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 04, 2006)
It is to be welcomed that Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, his predecessor Farooq Abdullah, moderate Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq and Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik have been seen together at . . .
- Cbi Finds Chinks In Punjab Police Probe: 4 Booked For No Crime (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Four years in prison for committing no crime is the story of four persons including a woman who may finally be set free, thanks to the CBI which has pointed out shoddy investigations by Punjab Police.
- Cash And Creed (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Sep 04, 2006)
The interference of religious leaders in softer and short-term issues like who should sing the Vande Mataram or which temple or mosque should be demolished to make way for development has been accepted by Indian society as a given.
- Fight Hatred In Order To Fight Terror (Tribune, SUBHASH GATADE, Sep 04, 2006)
The latest US Congressional Report on terrorism has come out at a very inopportune time as far as US President Bush and his team of neo-con advisers is concerned.
- Slain Indians Buried In Iraq (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The three Indians, killed by unidentified people in Iraq, were buried in Karbala today, the government said here as efforts were underway to ensure return of other members of the group of 14 in a couple of days.
- Vinayaka Idols Immersed (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 04, 2006)
Vinayaka idols of various sizes and hues were taken out in procession for immersion in different part of Pondicherry on Sunday.
- Kashi Vishwanath Temple To Glitter With Gold Ornaments (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Embellishments were stolen from the temple on January 5, 1983
- Sabarimala Temple Opens For Onam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The Ayyappa Temple at Sabarimala opened on Sunday afternoon for the four-day Onam festival celebrations that begin on Monday morning.
- Murder Of Pakistani Pilgrims (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 04, 2006)
Eleven Pakistani pilgrims were shot dead by unidentified bandits in Anbar province of Iraq’s western desert on Friday, Iraqi Police said. Three Indian pilgrims were also killed in the episode.
- Pakistani, Indian Pilgrims Slain In Iraq (Reuters, Ross Colvin, Sep 04, 2006)
Fourteen Pakistani and Indian Shi'ite pilgrims were abducted and killed in Iraq's western desert, police said on Saturday, victims of sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shi'ites that threatens civil war.
- Hu's Mao? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 04, 2006)
Move over Arjun Singh. Compared to your one-nut-here-and-one-bolt-there modifications in school history books, China’s leaders have dropped wars, dynasties and, hold your breath, communist revolutions from their high-school history textbooks.
- People Vs. Army (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 04, 2006)
If one goes to Pakistan and meets the members of Ms Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) one will hear an interesting observation. One will be told: "There are only two parties in Pakistan.
- Nepal Pm To Meet Maoist (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Nepal’s Prime Minister and ruling party officials are expected to meet top communist rebel leaders within a week in efforts to resume talks to end a decade-long insurgency, a government minister said today.
- Lingua Franca (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 04, 2006)
And a committee too many
The repeated formation of textbook review committees, depending on the political colour of the ruling dispensation, would have been a farcical exercise were it not fraught with serious implications for the student.
- Iran To Host Conference (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
UN chief Mr Kofi Annan said today that the Holocaust was “an undeniable historical fact” after Iran said it would sponsor a conference to question what it said was Holocaust exaggerations, in a provocative move timed during his visit.
- Asian Development Bank Official To Review Tsunami Assistance Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
South Asia Department Director-General to arrive in Chennai today
- Citizenship Isn’T A Split Decision (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 04, 2006)
Should cosmopolitan nations prohibit dual citizenship at a time when integration is very important?
- Public Health, Why Now? (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Sep 04, 2006)
The Govt’s public health initiatives seem to favour the MNCs more than the people.
- Promises Of Petrol Reforms Are Running On Empty (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Sep 04, 2006)
The oil marketing companies are sliding towards financial ruin, the pathway to petroleum deregulation cluttered with broken assurances
- India Matters (Tribune, B.G. Verghese for and Sanjay Sangvai , Sep 04, 2006)
The monsoon session of the Lok Sabha concluded far from proudly, with something approaching fisticuffs. Nothing warranted or can ever justify such disgraceful conduct.
- Rs 50 Lakh To Develop Chamunda Temple (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The Union Government has sanctioned Rs 50 lakh for the development of the Chamunda Temple (Chamunda Nandikeshwar Dham) in Kangra district under the rural tourism plan. This amount would be utilised for the development of a green belt around the temple.
- `Scope For Pilgrim Tourism In Kottayam' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Minister for Tourism Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Sunday said the Government would initiate steps to get the Central Government to approve a new tourism circuit with Kumarakom as the centre.
- E-Tutoring A Boon For Travel-Weary Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
There is a high degree of personal interaction in this system
The programmes are tailored to suit each student's needs
- Cong Rally Hits Traffic (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Bangaloreans wanting a Sunday outing fa-ced a nightmare as the city with unregulated traffic due to Congress’ mammoth convention witnessed incessant blocks till early evening.
- Theerthabhisheka Mahotsavam Performed To . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
`Sahasra Narikela Theerthabhisheka Mahotsavam' was performed to Vepanjeri Sri Lakshminarayana Swamy at the S.V. Children's High School premises in Bhavani Nagar here on Sunday.
- Focus On Medical, Heritage Tourism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Private investment in tourism sector to be encouraged
- How We Deny Sectarianism And Then Pay For It (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 04, 2006)
Eleven Pakistani pilgrims to Karbala have been brutally murdered by sectarian thugs in Iraq.
- Iraq Pm: Hosting Of National Flag Must (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered that the Iraqi flag be hoisted across "every inch of Iraq", after a Kurdish leader banned it from flying in the northern Kurdish region.
- Wto Shackles On National Policy (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 04, 2006)
Ever since the WTO came into being in 1994, it has been bandied around, making a lot of sense especially to those who feel that the organisation is just another instrument through which the developed world is controlling the economic resources . . .
- From Dariya To Nullah (Tribune, R. Vatsyayan, Sep 04, 2006)
Most of the ancient civilisations grew on the banks of rivers. Even today millions of people all over the world live near the rivers and depend upon them for their survival.
- Upa Does Left Twist (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 04, 2006)
On the face of it, the only objection that can be raised about the proposed inclusion of Left MPs in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's delegation to the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Cuba is that our comrades will be junketing in the garb of . . .
- Culture Of Percentage (Pioneer, RAHUL RAMAGUNDAM, Sep 04, 2006)
Bihar has proved that corruption leads to fragmentation of society and is the number one social evil, says Rahul Ramagundam
- Our Lady Of Jhansi (OutLook, MAHMOOD FAROOQUI, Sep 04, 2006)
While it rescues Lakshmi Bai from the conjoined yokes of rebel-patriot, her true metier will only emerge when the gadar is studied as an event in its own right, not as a prologue to the glorious march of Indian nationalism.
- Gandhi, A Second Coming (OutLook, Editorial, Outlook, Sep 04, 2006)
A 100 years after he conceived the satyagraha, a breed of neo-Gandhians goes beyond the khadi and charkha to coopt Bapu in whole new ways.
- Nothing Religious About It (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 04, 2006)
Those who claim that singing Vande Mataram is a threat to their religion, say so without giving the matter due thought, says Maulana Waheeduddin Khan.
- Pragmatism Above Panic (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Sep 04, 2006)
Racial profiling of passengers is no way to prevent terrorism; rather, it provides moral victory to jihadis even when they fail to strike
- How Global Growth Surmounts New Challenges? (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Sep 04, 2006)
Important factors include expansion in emerging economies like China and India and the enabling role of technology in global integration
- Futility Of Labels (Times of India, Mukul Dube, Sep 02, 2006)
The history of human societies and of groups within them has been one of cons-tantly narrowing occupational specialisation. The earliest societies were of hunters and gatherers.
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