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Articles 5921 through 6020 of 21907:
- We Fat Men (Indian Express, HARSH DESAI, Jul 04, 2006)
We, fat men, are invariably underestimated and thought to be sluggish both in mind and body. We are regularly condemned for our eating habits and our lack of exercise. We are laughed at as we waddle from place to place.
- Army Jawan Thrown Off Train In Bihar (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
An Army jawan, Sunil Dutt, has been thrown off the running Mahananda Express by four drunken criminals near Bihia railway station between Danapur and Mughalsarai sections of the East Central Railway.
- Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
With the Indian and Chinese Governments opening the historic Nathula Pass on 6th of July, a part of the silk trade route will be revived. But this time the traders won't just trade silk, atleast 44 items will be exchanged between the two countries.
- Air Sahara Re-Launches `Sixer In Air' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Air Sahara on Monday announced the re-launch of one of its competitive schemes, offering six economy flight coupons worth Rs. 26,000 for travel on any domestic sector up to September 30.
- A Hilarious Narrative (Hindu, C. G. Rishikesh, Jul 04, 2006)
`Crazy' Mohan; Kizhakku Pathippagam, 16, Karpagambal Nagar, Mylapore, Chennai-600004. Rs. 80.
- Measures To Check Antecedents Of Bpo Staff (Hindu, Sandhya Soman, Jul 04, 2006)
Arrest of HSBC employee for fraudulent transactions scares clients
Closed-circuit cameras used
Confidentiality ensured
Sensitive data encrypted
- Gandhi As Postmodern Thinker (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Jul 04, 2006)
Writings on Gandhi... resemble a state that falls between two extremes: a passionate embrace and an autopsy
- Travel Pack For Students Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Parry Travels, part of the Murugappa Group, has launched a students' travel pack, which comprises all travel-related items like airfare, medical insurance and foreign exchange.
- Mahasamprokshanam Of Koodal Alagar Temple Performed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Mahasamprokshanam of Koodal Alagar Temple was performed here on Monday, which was witnessed by thousands of devotees from Madurai and nearby districts.
- At Journey's End, In Tibet (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jul 04, 2006)
Lhasa receives the very first passengers to have ever come from Beijing by train.
- Rains Lash Orissa, Chhattisgarh, U.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
One killed in Orissa; railway traffic disrupted; more rain likely
- Girija Lokesh Says She Too Visited Sabarimala Temple In 1987 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
The actor doubts Jayamala's claim of having touched the deity
Actor criticises tradition on women's entry into Sabarimala temple
Pejawar Math seer declines to comment on temple norms
- A Young Girl’S Struggle In Stalin’S Russia (Tribune, Andrew Osborn , Jul 04, 2006)
A 13-year-old schoolgirl who kept a poignant and ultimately tragic diary during Stalinist Russia is being hailed as the Russian Anne Frank.
- End Of An Innings (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jul 04, 2006)
The American political vocabulary as well as of daily discourse is loaded with superlatives.
- Refined And Clean (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 04, 2006)
The Punjabi suit has taken over the dress code in south India. Sad but true. Those wonderful woven saris that typify Tamil Nadu are now rarely seen on the streets of its cities and small towns except on special occasions like a wedding.
- Touch And Go (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 04, 2006)
Remembrance of things past is not always a pleasant occupation. The former actress, Ms Jayamala, who is waiting to be interrogated by the Sabarimala temple’s own vigilance wing for an indiscretion on her part close to two decades ago, knows that. In fact,
- Indian Markets Are Still Expensive: Mark Mobius (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
India is about 20 times versus 14 for emerging markets on P/E basis
- A Clash Of Civilizations (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Jul 04, 2006)
The Pew Research Center, a Washington think-tank, is about six years old.
- Vietnam Showcases Political Stability (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Jul 04, 2006)
The smooth change in leadership reflects the country's recent track record.
- `India Is Exciting, But Not Without Hassles' (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 04, 2006)
A growth rate of 7-8 per cent is sustainable for India and very good in Asian terms. But investing in India is also very challenging.
- Babloo And Nitin Get Life For Plotting Murder (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Underworld don Babloo Srivastava and Mumbai-based trader Nitin Shah have been convicted by a city court and sentenced to life for planning and executing the murder of Lalit Suneja, a Delhi trader, 14 years back.
- Jawan Is Thrown Off Train In Bihar (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
In yet another horrific incident on a train in Bihar, a group of drunken young men believed to be petty criminals threw an Indian Army jawan going home on leave out of a running train in Bhojpur district on Sunday night.
- Components Of A Strong Export Culture (The Financial Express, Rohit Pandit, Jul 04, 2006)
With merchandise trade around a third of India’s GDP, stakeholders need to work in tandem
- Expected Wto Failure (The Financial Express, Biswajit Dhar, Jul 04, 2006)
For most WTO watchers, the breakdown of the talks over the weekend was expected. Negotiating positions of most major countries have been so far apart in the key areas of agriculture and non-agricultural market access, that too much was left for the . . .
- Palestinian Crisis And Pakistan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 04, 2006)
A duck once walked into a bar and asked: "Got any bread?" The barman said: "No." The duck asked: "Got any bread?" The barman said: "No." The duck again asked: "Got any bread?" The barman responded: "No, we have no bread." When the duck again asked . . .
- Unethical Demand Of Ard, Ji (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 04, 2006)
ARD’s constituent party leaders, meeting in London on Sunday, have demanded resignation of President Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz by July 31 next or face a no confidence vote.
- Assemblies’ Tenure Can Be Extended: Pervaiz (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Monday said parliament had every right to re-elect the president and no one could prevent it from exercising this prerogative.
- Pm For World Efforts To End Poverty (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
Underscoring the pivotal role of the United Nations in advancing global development agenda, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Monday said the world today has a rare “collective capacity” to end hunger and poverty and realize the promise of universal . . .
- A Level Playing Field (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 04, 2006)
Be it 2007 or 2012, there is no denying the fact that General Pervez Musharraf, like his predecessors, will have to leave and it is meaningless whether his exit is on Ayub's model or in Zia's style.
- India-Us Deal: On Track With Reservations (News International, Nasim Zehra, Jul 04, 2006)
The writer is an Islamabad-based security analyst and adjunct professor at SAIS Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC
- Bill Gates, Ngos And The Role Of The State (News International, Ethan Casey, Jul 04, 2006)
In mid-June, Bill Gates announced that over the next two years he will be handing over many of his duties at Microsoft Corporation to two other executives and moving into a part-time role with the company, in order to devote most of his attention . . .
- Indo-Pak Peace: New Process, Old Approach (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 04, 2006)
Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital city, is just the right place for Pakistanis, Indians and Kashmiris to meet and discuss Kashmir. It is neutral, friendly, exotic, and one also feels at home when it comes to violence and suicide bombings.
- Anything But Negotiation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 04, 2006)
By using vastly disproportionate force against Gaza, Israel has once again demonstrated its contempt for international law and its indifference to human suffering.
- Smelling Gunpowder (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 04, 2006)
Steady violence unleashed by LTTE is fast shifting into a 'low-intensity' war in Sri Lanka, says Matthew Rosenberg in Batticaloa.
- Ban On The Book Is Deplorable (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 04, 2006)
The fear of the word has a hoary history. Plato, the father of philosophy, while discussing the perfect curriculum for the citizens of his republic, argued in favour of banning almost all Greek literature on the pretext that it would have a negative . . .
- New Russia’S New Rich Class (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Jul 04, 2006)
Moscow seems shamefaced about summer. Thirty degrees centigrade in the forenoon of last Wednesday is 40 degrees higher than during my last visit in December. Moscow then was a grey world flecked with snow white. The wind screamed at the fur hat and . . .
- All The Greatest Missions Have Crept Spectacularly. This Is No Exception (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2006)
For the past decade or so, whenever there has been any substantial British military deployment, a moment comes when pundits and former generals are invited to worry about the danger of something called “mission creep”.
- Nuclear Deal: Bill's Smooth Passage Virtually Assured (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
US authorities on Friday confirmed the authenticity of a latest audiotape released by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The Central Intelligence Agency said in a statement that technical analysis had determined that the speaker in the tape was bin . .
- Future Of Relations With Iran (Dawn, Javid Husain, Jul 03, 2006)
Pakistan’s relations with Iran enjoy a unique strategic significance which is too obvious to need elaboration.
- Transforming The Art Of Giving Productively (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jul 03, 2006)
The Gates-Buffet twin decisions to walk away from wealth have lessons beyond the money.
- Western Geopolitics: An Infantile Disorder (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 03, 2006)
The mindless enlargement of the NATO alliance threatens to create new arcs of instability.
- Stay Home (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 03, 2006)
The path-breaking nuclear deal between India and the United States of America seems to be on the verge of being translated into reality.
- Don’T Delay Quota Law, Govt Told (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Reviving the controversial quota debate, the pro-reservation political parties on Sunday asked the government to bring the legislation to implement 27 per cent OBC quota in the institutions of higher learning in the coming monsoon session of Parliament.
- Soul's Awakening (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
This earth is the best place to know and experience God, and the lives of the devotees such as the Nayanmars and Azhwars who have directly experienced God and His grace prove this.
- Tension In Golden Temple, Edict Against Akali Leader (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Head priests of the Akal Takht issued an edict on Sunday barring radical Akali leader Simranjit Singh Mann from religious functions after his supporters allegedly roughed up Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Avtar Singh Makkar . . .
- Quotas In One Stroke And In This Session Itself, Parties Tell Govt (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Parties supporting reservation have adopted a resolution demanding that the first step of the UPA government during the monsoon session of Parliament should be the enactment of a law for 27 per cent OBC quota in institutes of higher education.
- Rights Of Passage (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 03, 2006)
At Kerala’s Sabarimala temple, priests and the management draw on ‘tradition’ to bar women between ages 10 and 50 from the temple.
- Slums Are Cities Of The Future (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 03, 2006)
Even if income poverty is not so acute in urban slums as in some rural areas in India, everyone living in a slum suffers acute deprivation of water and sanitation. Then there is the fear of being forced to move at any time.
- A Journey To Remember Across China (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 03, 2006)
The feeling of being part of history in the making forms a common bond among the passengers of the Beijing-Lhasa train.
- Manali Magic (Times of India, SHARON SHEFALI GUPTA, Jul 03, 2006)
It's summer time and most of us will be heading for the hills in quest of fresh air and relaxation.
- Rlys Plans Another Palace On Wheels (Times of India, Shalini Singh, Jul 03, 2006)
The Indian railways is on the verge of announcing a tie-up with the Oberoi group, more famous for their luxury hotels. This arrangement is to launch a service like the Palace on Wheels train, which the Rajasthan Tourism Development and the railways . . .
- Call This Divinity? (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Jul 03, 2006)
To speak with even an iota of conviction that Lord Ayyappa’s temple, Sabarimala, has lost some of its divinity because a woman entered its premises and touched the feet of the idol is reflective either of the speaker’s religious arrogance or his . . .
- Tibet Rail: Dalai Lama’S Open Mind (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 03, 2006)
While supporters of the Tibetan cause protested against the inauguration of the spectacular rail line from Gormo to Lhasa on Saturday, the Dalai Lama has left himself some political room.
- Bush Administration Says More Work To Be Done On N-Bill (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
The Bush administration has said a bill to implement the historic Indo-US civilian nuclear deal that has been cleared by two key congressional panels has to go through "some more work" and pledged to work with Congress to . . .
- Cautious Approach To Medical Tourism Advocated (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Medical fraternity lays stress on monitoring quality of treatment
- Pro-Quota Parties For Bill In Monsoon Session (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Stepping up their campaign, pro-reservation political parties today asked the Government to bring the enabling legislation to implement 27 per cent OBC quota in elite educational institutions and private sector, including media and judiciary in the . . .
- Travel Pack For Students Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Parry Travels, part of the Murugappa Group, has launched a students' travel pack, which comprises all travel-related items like airfare, medical insurance and foreign exchange.
- Return The Booty (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 03, 2006)
We Welcome the decision of the US-based J Paul Getty Trust to return some “significant objects” to Italy from its collection of Etruscan and Roman art.
- Sustaining The Pace Of Services-Led Growth (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 03, 2006)
A coherent integrated services policy, in line with the agricultural and industrial policies, needs to be developed.
- Beijing As Bada Bhai? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 03, 2006)
From a historical perspective, the inauguration of a train service from mainland China to Lhasa over the weekend is as significant as the Francis Younghusband mission that opened up Tibet in 1904.
- A Sumptuous Buffet (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 03, 2006)
Warren Buffet’s decision to donate 85% of his personal wealth, around $38 billion, to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is a landmark event in the history of philanthropy and shows the best of capitalism .
- Israel Steps Up Raids In Bid To Free Soldier (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
Israeli aircraft intensified their attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza early Monday, a day after Israel's prime minister ordered his military to do whatever necessary to pressure militants to free an Israeli soldier captured a week ago.
- Why Javed Was Denied Visa ? (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jul 03, 2006)
Pakistan establishment seems to take a sadistic pleasure in humiliating or harassing Indians associated with Mumbai films (Bollywood) or the world of arts and culture when they apply for visas to visit the land of the ‘pure’.
- New Jersey Educators On Trip To Southern India (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 03, 2006)
A team of 14 educators, including 11 from North Jersey, is bound for southern India this weekend to begin a month-long study of the region and its interactions with the rest of the world.
- A Tiger’S Tears (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Jul 03, 2006)
If a tiger can shed crocodile tears, a super Tiger has done it. Anton Balasingham, described as the chief negotiator on behalf of the Tamil secessionists in Sri Lanka, is obviously skilled in the art of saying one thing and meaning another.
- A Rail On The Roof Of The World (Tribune, Ching-Ching Ni, Jul 03, 2006)
The inaugural journey for the world’s highest railway began on July 1, a technological feat improving China’s access to one of the most forbidding corners of the Earth.
- The Dilemma Of Language (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 02, 2006)
AS A child I often wondered about the status of English in my school. "A foreign language," we were told, which confused us further as there were no foreigners around.
- Javed Akhtar: Poetry Runs In His Veins (Times of India, Harihar Swarup , Jul 02, 2006)
Why an unseemly controversy was whipped up over the grant of visa to noted lyricist Javed Akhtar to visit Pakistan for the grand premiere of the 1960 classic Mughal-e-Azam?
- Secrets In The Family (Hindu, NIMI KURIAN, Jul 02, 2006)
Eraly portrays various aspects of relationships — some dark, some fiery, some sleazy.
- A Rambling Read (Hindu, Sonya Dutta Choudhury, Jul 02, 2006)
What Mahasweta Devi's Salt did to dramatise the plight of the landless peasant, this complicated cast of characters fails to achieve.
- Window On The World (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
Hameeda shows rare insight in recounting events as they were.
- Not Just For Children (Hindu, R. KRITHIKA, Jul 02, 2006)
An exploration of the teaching behind the Jataka tales.
- Pilgrimage To The Past (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Jul 02, 2006)
FOR a Lahoria — whether an Indian or a Pakistani — the essential identity is hailing from Lahore. What is it about the city — "feted as the Paris of the East" — that sets it apart from other pre-Partition bustling centres on both sides of the border? . .
- The Root Of The Real Inequality Problem (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 02, 2006)
Linguistic diversity in itself is not sufficient rationalisation for wide use of a non-native language in schools and colleges
- The Art Of Amrish Puri (Hindu, V. Gangadhar, Jul 02, 2006)
Vignettes of Indian theatre and cinema.
- Death For Three In Akshardham Attack (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
A Pota court in Ahmedabad has found six accused guilty in the Akshardham temple attack case and sentenced three to death,one to life imprisonment and one each to 10 years and five years imprisonment, respectively. Twenty six accused are still absconding.
- Three To Die For Akshardham Attack (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 02, 2006)
The POTA court today awarded death sentence to three persons for terror attack on Akshardham temple in 2002.
- China Opens Train Service To Tibet On World's Highest Rly (Press Trust of India, Anil K Joseph, Jul 02, 2006)
China today launched the first train service to Tibet on the world's highest railway, which President Hu Jintao hailed as a "miracle" and a part of the communist nation's historic efforts to modernize the country.
- Law, Justice And J&k~i (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Jul 02, 2006)
For a solution to J&K to be universally acceptable it must be seen by all as being lawful and just. Political opinion in Pakistan and India as well as all people and parties . . .
- A Bomb That Didn’T Go Off (Deccan Herald, M BHAKTAVATSALA, Jul 02, 2006)
The book reads more like a filmography than a biography.
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