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Articles 7121 through 7220 of 21907:
- A Unique City Guide (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2006)
If you're new to Bangalore, it's easy to believe that the city has held on to little of its heritage.
- Hindu To Secular (Statesman, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jun 09, 2006)
“Nepal sheds Hindu tag and proclaims itself a secular state” reported newspapers on 19 May 2006.
- I The Indian (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 09, 2006)
A citizens’ cocktail along the border
The Centre would be loathe to admit as much, but the balance of population has been so profoundly affected that even an Indian by birth will now have to carry an identity card should he happen to be a resident . . .
- Barbarians At The Gate (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 09, 2006)
Reports from Dhaka that the Khaleda Zia Government is considering relocating the Dhakeswari Kali temple - the millennium-old shrine in the heart of the Bangladeshi capital that gives the city its name - are not just disconcerting but positively ominous.
- Lakhera, Rangasamy Take Part In Car Festival (Hindu, S. Nadarajan, Jun 09, 2006)
Theppal utsavam at Sri Tirukameswarar temple on Friday
- Building Trust (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 09, 2006)
Does one need any evidence of the positive fall-out of confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan so far?
- Land And Man (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jun 09, 2006)
Indian statisticians do a thankless job. In the present, they can only go by what the sahibs tell them. Later when the facts come in they tuck them away in their reports and get the short end of the stick.
- Will Bmic Move Scare Investors? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Jun 09, 2006)
Aside from the arrogant abuse of people power that it reeks of, the Government’s move to bring in legislation that will enable it to take over the BMIC project represents the most negative signal the State could send to potential investors.
- Shades Of Green (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 09, 2006)
Avoiding any mention of the latest twist in the sordid Mahajan family saga, the latest issue of Organiser chooses to focus on the foiled terrorist attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur on June 1. A detailed two-age report, statements from the RSS . . .
- Chinese Checkers (Indian Express, Amitabh Acharya, Jun 09, 2006)
While attending an international conference in Seoul recently, I sat next to a young Korean university lecturer.
- Delay In Re-Opening Consulates (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 09, 2006)
THE six-month delay in the opening of the Pakistan and Indian consulates in Karachi and Mumbai respectively is cause for concern as it is hampering the peace process and causing inconvenience to those wishing to visit the other country.
- Text And Drama (Frontline, SUDHANVA DESHPANDE, Jun 09, 2006)
There is a vibrant theatre culture in India, but strangely there is relatively little critical reflection on it.
- Rural China's Crisis (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2006)
This scenic capital of China's southern Yunnan Province has earned itself a more unsavory sobriquet - China's AIDS capital.
- Manipur: Violence Ad Violation (Frontline, MALINI BHATTACHARYA, Jun 09, 2006)
An account of the atrocities inflicted by militants on two tribal villages in Manipur.
- Remarkable Dissonance (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2006)
Whatever be your take on the anti-reservation issue, there is no escaping the fact that the matter has triggered an unprecedented upheaval among young people.
- Indonesia: Quake And Politics (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, Jun 09, 2006)
Indonesia has hardly gone off the international community's natural disaster monitors since the horrific Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004. So, when a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's Yogyakarta and Central Java region on May 27, the alarm . . .
- Kalam On Cloud Nine (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2006)
"I'm ready, we can take off now!" a confident, 74-year-old President A P J Abdul Kalam told Wing Commander Ajay Rathore after being strapped up in the rear cockpit of a Sukhoi-30 MKI, at the Lohegaon air-base here on Thursday morning.
- Top Al Qaeda Leader In Iraq Killed (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jun 09, 2006)
Al Zarqawi and his spiritual adviser die as F-16s pound their "safe-house"
- Freelance By Choice (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jun 09, 2006)
On Wednesday when a journalist approached me for a posting in Bhubaneswar, I told him that we would rather take on board our occasional contributor from there, Bibhuti Mishra, than look for a new face.
- Time To Heal A Running Sore (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Jun 09, 2006)
Perhaps George W Bush thought that like Japan, Iraq would turn over a new leaf under American occupation and settle down peacefully to democratic moneymaking as a subordinate ally.
- Lurking Threat (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 08, 2006)
A spate of incidents during the last 24 hours shows the multi-dimensional threat of terror lurking across the State.
- Will Soccer World Cup Foster Peace? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 08, 2006)
The soccer World Cup is coming. ESPN, which will broadcast most of the games in the US, is airing a series of ads with members of the rock band U2. In one, Bono says that the World Cup ``closes the schools, closes the shops, closes a city and stops a war.
- 100 Killed In Congo Ferry Fire (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
The ferry was travelling south from Uvira to Kalemie with several tonnes of freight, including barrels of oil and petrol, when the engine caught fire, United Nations-run Radio Okapi reported.
- When Crude Oil Runs Out ...... (Daily Excelsior, G V Joshi, Jun 08, 2006)
As the crude oil price, jumped above $70 a barrel and there is no sign of decline, a small group of geologists and planners are considering a more fundamental question:
- Traps In A System? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 08, 2006)
You will have to look into the lives of hundreds of such students in our country, incidents that occur at the same time, every year, to see a pattern is emerging in a disturbing fabric.
- The Freedom To Say No (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 08, 2006)
General Musharraf and his loyalists have rejected the alliance between Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. But shouldn’t that privilege lie with the people of Pakistan?
- Development With A Disclaimer (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 08, 2006)
Kerala\'s new chief minister V.S. Achutanandan has a reputation for being conservative on development issues, but the Left clearly realises that jobs and investment in business can fetch good political dividends.
- A New Line Of Thinking (Telegraph, Bidyut Chakrabarty, Jun 08, 2006)
The anti-reservations stir launched by members of the medical fraternity has brought back the ‘quota system’ into the limelight.
- Jihadi Leaders Roaming Free In Pak: Saran (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Noting that Pakistan is not trying to control ‘jihadi’ leaders roaming free on its soil, India has said that confidence between the two countries cannot be built in such circumstances.
- Kanchenjungha (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 08, 2006)
How do we look at the mountains, and how do the mountains look at us? What roles do heights and distances play in the lives of our body, mind and eye?
- A Pioneering Feat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 08, 2006)
It’s a feat unmatched in the annals of Indian wildlife history. Records show that in 1892 the Scottish pioneers who opened
Advertismentup Munnar’s tea estates successfully trapped and tamed a gaur, or Indian bison — the first ever to be so tamed.
- India Inc Among Top Us Lobby Groups (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Jun 08, 2006)
In the uphill battle to influence or educate -- depending on how one looks at it -- the US Congress, Indian industry has taken baby steps.
- Malaise Too Deep (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 08, 2006)
It is raining scandal in the Bharatiya Janata Party's backyard — sleaze, murder, and now a suspected case of liquor-and-drug overdose.
- India Offers Nepal Pm Aid To Rebuild Nation (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday offered Nepali counterpart Girija Prasad Koirala an aid package to help rebuild his strife-torn country, officials said.
- Dangers Of Globalisation (Daily Excelsior, Ram Rattan Sharma, Jun 08, 2006)
Just as post modernism was the concept of the 1980s, globalization may be the concept of the 1990s. We are now on the road to the formation of a global society, as the needs and interests of all human beings are universally similar.
- Bird Flu Exercise Tests (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
The 21 members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group began a bird flu disaster exercise today to test how countries inform each other about the risks of a flu pandemic.
- Dhaka Hawks Want Ancient Dhakeswari Temple Shifted (Pioneer, Pramod K Singh, Jun 08, 2006)
In a bid to appease fundamentalist Muslims in the run-up to the 2007 general election in Bangladesh, certain sections of the Begum Khaleda Zia Government are mounting pressure to shift the historic Dhakeswari Kali temple located in the heart of . . .
- Playing Spoilsport (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 08, 2006)
Despite ending in a draw, the Antigua Test will be remembered for the remarkable resilience displayed by both teams:
- Basavakalyan Project To Be Launched On June 23 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy will launch the ambitious Basavakalyan Development Project by opening the Basavakalyan Development Board's office at Basavakalyan on June 23, Mallikarjun Khuba, MLA, said on Monday.
- On Committees And Convertibility (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jun 08, 2006)
Fortunately for India, very rarely do experts' views go unnoticed. Yet, not all the apparently sound diverse viewpoints get reflected in the final decisions. This is ironical since most bodies in both the public and private sectors strongly vouch . . .
- Eu, Us Soften Iran Stand (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
World powers have compromised on a demand that Iran commit to a long-term moratorium on uranium enrichment and are asking only for suspension during talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, diplomats said on Wednesday.
- Shattered Hymns (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Indonesia's Hindu heritage suffers as a quake hits home
- Maoist Yoke Choking Nepal, Koirala Tells Pm (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Jun 08, 2006)
Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is in New Delhi with the express aim of seeking India's help to curb growing Maoist intransigence back home as the rebels are threatening to abort their current dialogue with Nepal's Seven Party Alliance.
- India Offers Nepal Pm Aid To Rebuild Nation (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Reaffirms commitment to rebuild Nepal’s infrastructure in accordance with Kathmandu’s prioritiesm
- Malaysia Entices Indians With Easy Visas (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Malaysia on Wednesday announced plans to expand its consular services in India in a bid to draw more holiday-makers from the crowded subcontinent.
- Sinha Discusses Indian Budget-Making Process (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 08, 2006)
Yashwant Sinha, the former Indian finance and external minister, on Wednesday addressed parliamentarians about the budget-making process in India at a parliamentary development course.
- The Jerusalem Trophy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 08, 2006)
If recent incidents in West Asia are anything to go by, 'Islamic Zionism' is much stronger than the Jewish variety, writes Daniel Pipes.
- 'Maoists Must Abandon Violence' (OutLook, Navtej Sarna, Jun 08, 2006)
'We support the peace efforts of the Government of Nepal and the Maoists and we believe that Maoists must abandon violence and must accept the discipline of multiparty democracy to enter the mainstream of politics in Nepal'
- Warily, India And China To Reopen Silk Route Trade (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jun 08, 2006)
As the rain sweeps across the high Himalayan pass, a Chinese soldier arrives at the three strands of barbed wire which separate his country's territory from that of long-time rival India.
- India's Nuclear Conundrum (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 07, 2006)
The actual long-term economic costs of civilian nuclear energy tend to be obscured in discussion of its supposed limitless possibilities
- Plan To Take Up Development Work In Sringeri (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Temple constructed by Shankaracharya to be renovated at Rs. 4 crore
Solar power unit is being set up to cook food for devotees
Number of dialysis units on the math premises in Bangalore to be increased from two to 18
- Lord Govindaraja Dons `Mohini Avataram' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Lord Govindaraja was taken round town in the guise of a woman seated on a palanquin on Tuesday as part of `Mohini Avataram' conducted during the ongoing annual Brahmotsavams at the temple.
- Pak Comes Closer To Asean (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Pakistan and Asean have agreed to begin talks for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), to boost Islamabad’s efforts towards achieving full dialogue partner status with the ten-member regional economic grouping.
- Nepal Pm Seeks Indian Aid For Ravaged Economy (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Nepali Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala arrived in India on Tuesday seeking aid to support his new government's efforts to rebuild the economy, devastated by political instability and a long-running Maoist insurgency.
- A Way Back Home (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 07, 2006)
Families of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists hope the round-table conference will help them return home.
- Dead Certainties In Wartime (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 07, 2006)
ON July 25, 1950, American soldiers in No Gun Ri, about 100 miles south of Seoul, were driven from nearby villages and herded towards a railroad embankment in front of the US lines.
- It's A Wonderful Life Of Assurance And Insurance (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 07, 2006)
It's hope that eggs us on. How else could we face life's ups and downs? Daily, we come face-to-face with joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, success and failure, acceptance and rejection, birth and death.
- A Legitimation Challenge (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 07, 2006)
China’s success is also the source of its dilemmas
- Bengal’S 34 Brave ‘Poisoned Paradise’ (Telegraph, MUKHTAR AHMAD, Jun 07, 2006)
Thirty-four Bengali tourists were on the Jammu-Srinagar highway when grenade blasts hit two buses full of visitors from the state last week, triggering frantic calls from home to drop their holiday and return.
- Sahil Supplied Drugs To Rahul On A Regular Basis (Times of India, Abhinav Garg, Jun 07, 2006)
The police have claimed that Rahul Mahajan procured drugs from Sahil on some previous occasions, too.
- `Margin-Trading Did Not Cause The Crisis' (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Jun 07, 2006)
SANE voices are hard to hear in the cacophony of the markets.
- Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank To Open 15 Branches (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
The bank has 22 branches in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts covering 110 villages
It also plans to open 20 ATMs this year
The bank's credit-deposit ratio stands at 91 per cent
Its jurisdiction covers 2,198 villages in nine districts
- In The Name Of Privileges (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 07, 2006)
It's strange that one of our finest constitutional experts has been charged with 'contempt' of the House, says Charti Lal Goel
- Family Matters (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 07, 2006)
Mukund B Kunte delves into his past association with the Gandhis and recalls some moments when they appeared as real as anybody
- Carrot & Stick Policy (Pioneer, Niall Ferguson, Jun 07, 2006)
The world has witnessed a welcome change in American diplomacy in the past two weeks, more so on the issue of Iran, says Niall Ferguson
- Iran’S China Syndrome (Tribune, Jackson Diehl, Jun 07, 2006)
IN the middle of a tirade about the pointlessness of talking with the United States’ Bush administration, a senior Iranian official I met in Tehran last month abruptly paused and asked if he could speak off the record.
- What Lies Hidden In The Footnotes Of The Past (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 07, 2006)
Tapan Raychaudhuri considers ways in which a legacy of mutual ill will can be transformed through honesty, memory and good sense The author is former professor of modern Indian history at the University of Oxford
- Yahoo! Unveils My Web (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Popular online search engine Yahoo!, on Tuesday, launched an improved search module that would allow users to save and organise pages looked for by them on the web and access it from any computer, instead of beginning a fresh process everytime.
- Memories That Rive Sikh Psyche (Deccan Herald, Satinder Bains, Jun 07, 2006)
Activists of the various Sikh organisations displayed naked swords and raised slogans in favour of a separate Sikh state of Khalistan.
- Ttd To Celebrate Brahmotsavam From June 7 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
The event will commence with Dhwajarohanam (hoisitng of the temple flag) and the deity will be taken out in a procession on Pedda Sesha Vahanam on the same day.
- Economics Of Mata Vaishno Devi Yatra (Daily Excelsior, Dr Rajendra Mishra, Jun 07, 2006)
Katra, the 1000 years old base camp of the holy cave of Mata Vaishno Devi, nestled in feet of the mighty Trikuta mountain, is all set to rise further in economic growth with the arrival of the train next year.
- Will Prodi Pull A Rabbit Out Of The Hat? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jun 07, 2006)
Analysts are worried that there will be too many conflicting pulls, pushes and heaves within the Italian Prime Minister's fragile coalition for him to be able to act decisively.
- ‘Jungle Lodges Displacing Tribals’ (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Jun 07, 2006)
Leading NGOs working for tribals in Karnataka have accused the state government of actively promoting jungle lodges in Nagarhole National Park of Kodagu district at the cost of tribals’ interest.
- Niit Hungry For Foreign Buyouts (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 07, 2006)
NIIT Technologies is looking at acquisitions in the US and Europe, targeting insurance, banking and financial and retail software firms. However, the company will go shopping only after consolidating its recent acquisitions.
- 1974 Pokhran Blast, Kalam’S Best Moment (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
"The best moment in my life was when India became a nuclear power following the successful nuclear blast in Pokhran on May 18, 1974," President A P J Abdul Kalam said today.
- Quota Stirs Caste Cauldron (Telegraph, DHIRENDRA K. JHA, Jun 07, 2006)
The decision to introduce quotas for other backward classes in higher education has set the caste cauldron in Uttar Pradesh on the boil.
- Iran Softens N-Stand (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
Proposals by six world powers today to end a dispute over Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment had positive points but also some “ambiguities” that must be removed, Tehran’s chief negotiator said.
- Uk Lesbians Seek Hc Ruling On Canadian Marriage (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2006)
lesbian couple married in Canada will seek to make British legal history today when they mount a High Court challenge to have their marriage legalised in Britain.
- Five Elements (Deccan Herald, PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA, Jun 07, 2006)
Existence or Cosmos is made up of the five elements that are – Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether.
- Ebay Users Need To Be Streetwise (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 07, 2006)
The man in charge of fraud-busting at internet auction company eBay is under no illusion as to the scale of the challenge.
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