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Articles 7821 through 7920 of 21907:
- `Luxury On Train' To Be Ready Next Year In Karnataka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
Modelled on the `Palace on Wheels,' it will cover 2000 km in the State
- Passing Weapons (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2006)
Sometimes, when I find myself at another well-informed Delhi dinner party, I wonder who the audience for Westminster Gleanings in Calcutta can be.
- Vanishing Sheen (Tribune, Lt-Gen Vijay Oberoi, May 24, 2006)
Nearly seven years back, my wife and I decided that the place to settle down for us, after my retirement from the Army, was Panchkula.
- To Be Or Not (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 24, 2006)
A second wedding anniversary is traditionally associated with paper. Mr Manmohan Singh might well want to link the second anniversary of his government with something even more fragile than paper.
- Bhopal's Legacy (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2006)
Every December for the past nineteen years, marchers in Bhopal, India, have paraded an effigy of Warren Anderson through town and burned it. Anderson is despised because he was the CEO of Union Carbide on December 3, 1984, when an explosion at the . . .
- A Martyr's Death (Times of India, Krishna Bose, May 23, 2006)
On my first visit to Taipei 27 years ago, I went looking for the historic sites related to the last days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. I walked into the old, one-storey, red-brick building of Nanmon Hospital.
- On The Trail Of The Buddha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The stupas at Sanchi and Sarnath are a must-see even if you don't have religion on your mind
- Sensex Shocks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 23, 2006)
The volatile swings that have characterised the movement of the stock market over the last few days continued on Monday, but even the pessimists would not have expected the 1100 point fall that took the Sensex below the five digit mark.
- Out Of Place (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 23, 2006)
Playing politics through religion is a dirty game, and the results are usually a dirtier — often an unbearably tragic-mess.
- Bandage On A Cancer (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 23, 2006)
Taking a stand is thorny, more so, when one is ‘rebelling’ against one’s own community.
- Upa’S Birthday Gift: Petrol, Diesel Price Hike Soon (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Strongly indicating an increase in the price of petrol and diesel as “we cannot continue to subsidise energy consumption on this scale” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh categorically said here tonight that his UPA government had significantly . . .
- Meltdown: Carnage On Bourses (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
The sensex not only opened in the positive but posted strong gains in the initial minutes when it hit a high of 11,142 levels. It was after about an hour that the sensex started losing ground when brokers, who had not received margins from . . .
- Biggest Crash In Stock Market (Hindu, Oommen A. Ninan , May 23, 2006)
Black Monday repeats as Sensex falls by 1111.70 points; partial recovery later
- Quota: 2 Quit Knowledge Commission (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
Favour affirmative action as opposed to numerical quotas
Not doing enough to genuinely empower marginalised groups
All measures under discussion are to defuse the agitation: Beteille
- Majority Votes For Independence In Montenegro Referendum (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
55.4 per cent say "yes" to secession, 44. 6 per cent vote "no"
- Reservation — An Alternative Proposal (Hindu, Satish Deshpande, May 23, 2006)
In this second and concluding part of their series, the authors offer a method to ensure both merit and social justice are taken into account.
- Serious Lapse (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 23, 2006)
Kashmiris should stand up against terrorism
- History And Heritage Of A Famous Landmark (Hindu, CHARUKESI, May 23, 2006)
The Kapaliswara temple is synonymous with Mylapore. The daily rituals and annual festivals attract thousands of devotees from far and near.
- Exploiting The Vulnerable (Hindu, Geeta Ramaseshan , May 23, 2006)
A monumental report on an issue that involves serious human rights violations
- Pilgrim Centres (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
This book is a collection of 70 articles about various deities, mostly related to South Indian temples, with information regarding incidents associated with them. Some articles deal with pilgrimage centres like Ujjain, Manidweepam and Varanasi.
- Mystique Of The Garhwal (Hindu, B.R.P. BHASKAR, May 23, 2006)
In this book the author, M. K. Ramachandran, who claims to have visited all the major temples of India and most places along the Himalayas, provides a fascinating account of his travels in the Garhwal region.
- Banned In India: The 1930s-1960s (Business Standard, Nilanjana S Roy, May 23, 2006)
For a state often accused of knee-jerk censorship, the number of books banned in India is surprisingly small—one reason why The Da Vinci Code isn’t likely to be stopped at Customs, despite the recent hysteria over the film. In the first of this . . .
- Godmother's Family Means Bloodbath (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
When hitmen pumped eleven bullets into Rekha Jadeja, daughter-in-law of Porbandar's dreaded "godmother" Santokhben Jadeja on Saturday, an invisible line had been violated -- no woman has ever been killed in Saurashtra's history of gang warfare.
- Sonia Praises Pm For His Leadership (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his leadership of the coalition government and pledged to fulfil all the promises made under the National Common Minimum Programme.
- First Steps To Defence Deal With America (Daily Excelsior, Brig. (Retd.) S.N. Sachadeva, May 23, 2006)
Even as the Indo-US nuclear deal languishes in the US Congress, the military establishments of the two countries have gingerly initiated negotiations on a bilateral agreement which will set out the basis for future logistics support, supplies and . . .
- Buddhadev's Halfway House (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, May 23, 2006)
A clear choice between capitalism and communism could trip Buddhadev up
- Too Many Blind Spots (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 23, 2006)
The terrorist strike in Srinagar that took the lives of five persons and injured 22 is a consequence of the foolhardy casualness with which terrorist violence in the state of Jammu and Kashmir is being handled.
- Talks On Pull-Out From Siachen Today (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 23, 2006)
India and Pakistan will begin tomorrow the 10th round of Defence Secretary-level talks to end their conflict over the Siachen glacier and discuss a proposal for withdrawing their troops from the icy battlefield.
- How To Take All The Pleasure Out Of Life (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, May 23, 2006)
The saddest part of seriousness is that it’s grim. And the stupidest myth about it is that serious somehow means important.
- Now, Look Beyond The Market Mayhem (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 23, 2006)
It was mainly a kneejerk reaction to homegrown sentiment; time to buy mispriced growth stock.
- Not A Surprise (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 22, 2006)
That hardcore Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has turned down the invitation to participate in the second roundtable in Srinagar should not come as a surprise.
- Papal Bull (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 22, 2006)
No purpose is served by criticising Pope Benedict XVI for pleading the cause of missionaries in India seeking to harvest the souls of 'heathens'.
- Taliban Plans Attacks From Pakistan - Afghan Minister (Reuters, SAYED SALAHUDDIN, May 22, 2006)
Leaders of the ousted Taliban movement and al Qaeda are living in Pakistan where they organise attacks in Afghanistan, the Afghan foreign minister said on Sunday, in the latest in a war of words between the neighbours.
- Code Of Sustained Minorityism (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 22, 2006)
UPA has shown rare maturity in allowing the Da Vinci Code to be shown, but will it brush aside Muslims when they protest, wonders Anuradha Dutt.
- The Fate Of India’S Bull Market (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 22, 2006)
After the bloodbath on our bourses, several foreign investors have reiterated their ‘bullishness’ about India in the long run and welcomed what they call a long overdue correction.
- Military Distrust Dogs India-Pakistan Glacier Talks (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, May 22, 2006)
India and Pakistan hold a new round of talks this week to try and end their bitter conflict over the Siachen glacier in the Himalayas, but lingering distrust between their militaries may stall a breakthrough.
- Saran To Seek Timeline On Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
With the American parliamentary elections drawing nearer, India will seek to know the stage at which the civilian nuclear deal is in the U.S. Congress when Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran holds talks with Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns in . . .
- Much Ado About Nothing (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 22, 2006)
It is a sign of the times we live in that after appearing to have moved to the backstage worldwide during the last half of the 20th century, religion has moved right back into public discourse.
- Take Off To The Suburbs (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 22, 2006)
Today, if you have to travel from Delhi to Meerut, you don't have much of an option but to take that spittoon of a bus. But three years down the line, you could be waiting at the airport lounge, waiting for that plane to take you to Meerut.
- Democracy Of The People... (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, May 22, 2006)
Born a Mumbaikar, success stories about my birthplace have always held fascination for me.
- Beijing’S Arab Initiative (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, May 22, 2006)
After a highly focused African initiative that will conclude in a China-Africa summit later this year, Beijing is well poised to repeat the pattern in the Arab world.
- End Of The Road For Gyanendra (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 22, 2006)
In issuing a proclamation ending the absolute power of the monarchy, Nepal's House of Representatives has acted in the best traditions of sovereign parliaments the world over.
- When The Market Fell By 10% In Two Days (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, May 22, 2006)
Only the most naive or foolish investors would say that a sharp correction in the capital market was either unanticipated or unwarranted.
- Planet Football (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 22, 2006)
In his play Galileo, the German poet and playwright, Bertold Brecht, makes his protagonist utter these memorable words: "Unhappy is the land that needs a hero."
- Rebuilding Moribund Congress (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmood, May 21, 2006)
After the morale-boosting victory of Ms. Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli, the Congress high command has decided to try and put the Uttar Pradesh Congress unit on a rejuvenation course, preparing it for an intense political war with the Samajwadi Party . . .
- Discovering Dubrovnik (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2006)
Visiting a city with a live connection to a rich past is like a pilgrimage.
- Bourse Bullies (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 21, 2006)
Thursday's destructive volatility at the BSE, whatever one chooses to call it - a bloodbath or mayhem - is pointer to some basic inconsistencies with the great Indian bourse.
- Coup Against King (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 21, 2006)
It is absurd to hail Thursday's parliamentary coup in Nepal as a "modern Magna Carta," as is being done by those who are cheering the grossly ill-advised move to strip the King of all powers and privileges.
- League Mindset (Pioneer, Priyadarsi Dutta, May 21, 2006)
If the creation of Pakistan was the crowning glory of the Muslim League, it also implied the party's natural exit from the rest of the subcontinent.
- In Greater Tibet, Dalai Lama's Light Burns Bright (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2006)
Lit by flickering, sallow yak butter candles sits a small picture of a man despised in Beijing as leader of a splittist independence movement but admired by millions for his pacifism - the Dalai Lama.
- Politics Of Muslim Identity (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 21, 2006)
The formation of the People's Democratic Front (PDF) in Uttar Pradesh by a group of Muslim outfits is a positive development.
- New Republic (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 21, 2006)
Nepal has taken a giant step towards becoming a republic. The Nepalese parliament has adopted a resolution stripping the king of his privileges, including his title of commander of the armed forces.
- Embracing Other Selves (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 21, 2006)
Like all writers, I am often asked about my “social commitment” as a writer.
- The Road Ahead (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, May 21, 2006)
The first thing I do after getting up in the morning is to go for an hour of walk in one of the well-known gardens of my city. For my walk, I take along either my transistor to listen to the news or an audio CD or an audio tape to listen to a . . .
- Reservation On Reservations (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 21, 2006)
"Two wrongs cannot make a right" The basic intention of providing reservations at various levels to the so called backward classes (SC/ST, OBC, etc.) in the constitution of India was for the equal and overall development of all the classes/sections . . .
- Railways Set For Speed Overhaul (Statesman, Dipankar Chakraborty, May 21, 2006)
Indian Railways is all set to undergo a speed overhaul.
- Honouring Our Heroes (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , May 21, 2006)
How should we remember our icons and perpetuate their memory for posterity?
- History, Heresy, Conspiracy (Pioneer, Ashok Malik, May 21, 2006)
In 1804, two centuries before Dan Drown found his way to bestseller lists, the mystic and poet William Blake scripted his literary tour de force, Jerusalem.
- Afghanistan, Again (Dawn, GWYNNE DYER, May 21, 2006)
The Taleban are back. The resurgence of Taleban attacks in the Pashto-speaking provinces of southern and eastern Afghanistan means that US and other foreign troops in Afghanistan are now taking casualties at the same rate as American troops in Iraq . . .
- Foreign Policy Consensus (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 21, 2006)
Z.A. Bhutto once said that foreign policy could not be subjected to mobocracy.
- ‘Peace In Afghanistan A Must For Pakistan’ (Daily Times, Javed Afridi, May 21, 2006)
Interior minister says Pakistani experts to visit Guantanamo Bay
- Tocqueville’S Lessons In Democracy (Dawn, Nicolas Tenzer, May 21, 2006)
It seems appropriate that, due to the Iraq war, the world has been debating the nature of democracy 200 years after Alexis de Tocqueville’s birth. Tocqueville is justly famous for rejecting reactionary nostalgia and regarding democracy’s triumph . . .
- Man Who Rescued Dogma From Dogmatism (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, May 21, 2006)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has buried the ghost that hovered over Jyoti Basu’s table for two decades — that his remarkable run of victories was tainted by rigging.
- Narrative Of Faith (Hindu, Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta, May 21, 2006)
In Book of Rachel, Esther David continues the story of India's Bene Israel Jews — this time in a fictional setting about Rachel,
- If Only Rajiv Gandhi Had Stayed Back At Vizag: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday recalled how the late former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi addressed his last meeting here on May 21, 1991, and said if only he had spent the night at the port city, a great tragedy would have been averted.
- Protest Is Dissent, Silence Would Be Consent (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 21, 2006)
"Dan Brown and Ron Howard can’t rewrite christianity. Protests tell then not to rush where angels fear to tread"
- Bush Pledges Support For Iraq Govt (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2006)
US President George W Bush said that the installation of Iraq's national unity government opens a new chapter in the nation's history, and he pledged continued US support for the fledging democracy.
- The Path Less Considerate (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, May 21, 2006)
The first thing I do after getting up in the morning is to go for an hour of walk in one of the well-known gardens of my city. For my walk, I take along either my transistor to listen to the news or an audio CD or an audio tape to listen to a . . .
- Golden `Kavacham' For Chidambaram Temple Deity (Hindu, Deepa H.Ramakrishnan, May 21, 2006)
A devotee of Lord Natajara of Chidambaram is soon offering a golden "Kavacham" weighing 188 grams to the deity.
- Iran's Iraq Strategy (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, May 21, 2006)
From the moment the first U.S. warheads detonate over an Iranian nuclear installation, the United States will be at war with the Islamic Republic.
- Coup Against King (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 20, 2006)
It is absurd to hail Thursday's parliamentary coup in Nepal as a "modern Magna Carta," as is being done by those who are cheering the grossly ill-advised move to strip the King of all powers and privileges.
- History, Heresy, Conspiracy (Pioneer, Ashok Malik, May 20, 2006)
In 1804, two centuries before Dan Drown found his way to bestseller lists, the mystic and poet William Blake scripted his literary tour de force, Jerusalem.
- Bourse Bullies (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 20, 2006)
Thursday's destructive volatility at the BSE, whatever one chooses to call it - a bloodbath or mayhem - is pointer to some basic inconsistencies with the great Indian bourse.
- Making Learning Fun (Times of India, Urvashi Butalia, May 20, 2006)
"Try to imagine", my 10-year-old nephew's teacher one day asked the assembled students in her class, "what it is like for a soldier to go into the battlefield without a gun".
- Had A Great Fall (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 20, 2006)
First to go were the king’s men; it was then the king’s turn. No two historic events being quite the same, there are differences between the English Revolution of 1640 and the birth of a Nepali Magna Carta.
- Yechury: Ensure 27 Per Cent Quota For Obc Students (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2006)
Calls for increasing education base
"There is a need to add creamy layer concept to the quota"
Students from Delhi University submit memorandum to President
- New Republic (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 20, 2006)
Nepal has taken a giant step towards becoming a republic. The Nepalese parliament has adopted a resolution stripping the king of his privileges, including his title of commander of the armed forces.
- The Other Ooty (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2006)
Pagoda Point at Yercaud offers some picturesque orchards and a bit of history
- J&k's Edge (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 20, 2006)
One must congratulate Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee for driving home a reality.
- Tamil Nadu: Minister Palanivelrajan Dead (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2006)
The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Minister P T R Palanivelrajan suffered a massive heart attack while travelling in a train and died at a private hospital at Dindigul early this morning.
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