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Articles 9121 through 9220 of 21907:
- The Tragedy Of Want In India (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Apr 16, 2006)
Poverty has always dogged India’s heels, although the situation has improved over time.
- Push And Pull Of The Mba Bull Run (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, Apr 16, 2006)
The book offers a peep into the frenetic environment of Wharton business school and the lives of its highly ambitious students.
- Earthly Haven Of Saints (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
Rajgir in Bihar was a favourite sojourning spot of Buddha. Mahavir also spent many years here. A V S Rao delves into the interesting past of this once prosperous capital of Magadha.
- Far From The Madding Crowd (Hindu, SMITA JAIN, Apr 16, 2006)
Take a break from your regular routine to enjoy the rustic charms and natural beauty of Sonapani.
- The Pentagon Preps For Iran (Washington Post, William M. Arkin, Apr 16, 2006)
Does the United States have a war plan for stopping Iran in its pursuit of nuclear weapons?
- Weapon Against Assault (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 15, 2006)
There is a single important reason why the country sat up and took notice of the conviction and sentencing of B.H. Mohanty, accused of rape, by a Jaipur fast-track court this week.
- Peace Returns To Jama Masjid (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The Jama Masjid returned to its routine on Saturday after a day of panic sparked by twin bomb blasts that injured a dozen people but caused no damage to the mammoth 17th century structure.
- Violence In New India (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Apr 15, 2006)
The corporate economy is transforming the thinking of the middle class
- Media Crisis In Nepal (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Apr 15, 2006)
I find it very disturbing that the Indian media, print and electronic, should show little interest in the ongoing political crisis in Nepal, a crisis that has been preceded by years of upheaval.
- Nuclear Deal (Tribune, Major-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Apr 15, 2006)
According to the US establishment, the geostrategic benefits of the nuclear deal with India (which is likely to sail through Congress) outweigh any risks of proliferation.
- Rival Armed Factions Seizing Pieces Of Gaza (Christian Science Monitor, Joshua Mitnick, Apr 15, 2006)
Fatah and Hamas militias train in old Israeli settlements as anxiety grows over instability.
- Some Lives Count More Than Others In China (International Herald Tribune, JIM YARDLEY, Apr 15, 2006)
He Qingzhi's teenage daughter, Yuan, and her two friends lived on the same street near the Yangtze River, attended the same middle school and were crushed to death in the same traffic accident late last year.
- Whitewash By Us Senator (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 15, 2006)
American Senator Chuck Hagel has said that the United States may sign a civil nuclear agreement with Pakistan in future. Addressing a news conference, he termed it a complicated issue and added that a responsible approach should be adopted to work out a s
- Twin Blasts In Delhi's Jama Masjid (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Thirteen people were injured, one of them seriously, in two explosions that took place in quick succession inside the historic Jama Masjid in Old Delhi when the devout were offering prayers on Friday evening.
- Those Who Attacked Supreme Court (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 15, 2006)
The Lahore High Court has issued notices to 19 advisors to the Punjab Chief Minister and Provincial Government asking them to explain under what authority they held the offices.
- China Wants India In Unsc But Not Till It Is With Japan (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Extending conditional support to India's bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council, China today virtually asked it not to make a claim jointly with Japan as part of G-4 if it wanted Beijing's backing.
- Farmers’ Woes (Tribune, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 15, 2006)
The fourth report of the National Commission on Farmers has been submitted to the agriculture ministry.
- Blasts At Jama Masjid Wound 10 People (Reuters, Himangshu watts, Apr 15, 2006)
Two small bombs exploded in the Jama Masjid, the largest mosque in India, just after Friday prayers, wounding at least 10 people, police said.
- Sick Clamour For Seats (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 15, 2006)
Poverty is our worst enemy and the root cause of India's problems.
- Series Of Terrorist Blasts In Delhi And Srinagar, 5 Dead (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
A series of terrorist blasts in Srinagar and Delhi's historic Jama Masjid today left five people dead and nearly 50 injured, prompting a high security alert in sensitive areas and vital installations across the country.
- Private Water, Public Misery (Frontline, AMAN SETHI, Apr 15, 2006)
Privatisation of water is taking root in India, often aided by political and bureaucratic corruption. Alongside, resistance to this is also building up.
- Hitler Planned Holocaust In Palestine: Book (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler made plans to conduct a Holocaust of Jews living in Palestine during the Second World War, according to German historians who have examined government archives for a new book about extending the extermination programme . . .
- Sans-Culottes All (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Maoist feelers to the police
- A Spiritual Model (Statesman, Samares Kumar Das, Apr 15, 2006)
We are living in an era when there is revolution taking place in every sphere of life ~ green revolution (foodgrain production), white revolution (milk production), red revolution (meat production), yellow revolution (poultry production),
- A Winner At The End (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Apr 15, 2006)
Why Amartya Sen should become the next president of India
- Identity Of Violence (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 15, 2006)
The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. Many north Indians feel that the statement would lose none of its significance, if the word “past” were to be substituted by “south”.
- Theme Of Unity Pierces Blasts (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Baisakhi, Good Friday and the Muslims’ day of prayer — two bomb blasts in close succession in Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid today strung the country’s three major communities together in a strange coincidence.
- Dam Busters (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 15, 2006)
The UPA Government's announcement that it will review the decision to enhance the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam - part of the Narmada river development project - is yet another instance of its habitual capitulation to a trendy, non-representati . . .
- Us Mulls Un Sanction Options Against Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The United States is mulling various UN sanctions against Iran for its controversial nuclear programme, including assets freezes and travel restrictions on its leaders, US officials has said.
- Jayalalithaa Expected To File Nomination Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Begins her election campaign in Theni district
- Red Alert In Temple Town Of Varanasi (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
A red alert was sounded and security was beefed up on Friday around the vital installations and religious shrines, including the sensitive Kashi Vishvanath and Sankat Mochan temples, in the wake of the explosions in Jama Masjid in New Delhi,
- U.S. Allies Are Behind The Death Squads (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Apr 15, 2006)
Iraq's U.S. overlords at last seem to have grasped the danger posed by their friends' militias. But it may be too late.
- Satellite To Take A Closer Look At Nalanda (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Apr 15, 2006)
Research shows that ancient university spread over a wider area
- China Not Keen On India’S Unsc Seat (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
China has not really been enthusiastic about the idea of India entering the UN Security Council as one of its new permanent members.
- Advani Yatra To Resume From Guntakal Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
BJP leader L K Advani, who cancelled the Karnataka leg of Bharat Suraksha Yatra following the death of Kannada icon Rajkumar, would fly to Ananthpur in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday and resume his journey from Guntakal on the Andhra-Karnataka border.
- India On High Alert After Jama Masjid Twin Blasts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The twin blasts in New Delhi's Jama Masjid on Friday triggered high alert across the country, including Varanasi rocked by terror attacks only a little over a month ago, with security tightened in and around key shrines and vital installations.
- Valley Again, Jama Masjid First Time (Indian Express, AMAN SHARMA, Apr 15, 2006)
Two blasts at Jama Masjid leave at least 13 injured • Srinagar: Seven blasts, one at Dal Gate, kill five, injure 40
- Globalisation’S Second Death? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 15, 2006)
Does the bee in the bonnet morph into to a full-scale political swarm?
- Not Being In Sync With The Times (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Apr 15, 2006)
The protests against Mandal II as Arjun Singh’s scheme has come to be known come as yet another example of how we the people of India have left the political class behind
- A Town Where The World Comes To Shop (Hindu, Pallavi Iyer, Apr 15, 2006)
Spread over 2.6 million square metres, the market in Yiwu in southern China's Zhejiang province has 50,000 stalls, selling 400,000 categories of products.
- A Feat At Tarapur (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, Apr 15, 2006)
The twin reactors of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station undergo modernisation, safety upgradation and life extension.
- Remembering Pudumaippithan (Frontline, S. Viswanathan, Apr 15, 2006)
In his birth centenary year, Tamil literature lovers all over the world celebrate the master of the short story.
- Chamba Is 1000 Years Old; Weeklong Festivities Begin (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Union Tourism Minister Ambika Soni inaugurates weeklong celebrations
- Justice Subverted (Frontline, Bhaskar Ghose, Apr 15, 2006)
If the rule of law is not comprehensively ensured, all the good work sought to be done will come to nothing.
- Age Of Quotas (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Apr 15, 2006)
The controversy generated by the Government decision to set aside a quota for Other Backward Castes in specialised educational institutions is important for at least one reason — that a chunk of the populace will find the step unjust and . . .
- Leader Article: Coming Of Age (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 15, 2006)
By now the almost scripted Bangladeshi fairy tale is a much-discussed subject in the cricket world. Even the local Bangladeshi Fish Corner, where I shop for my fish in Chicago, was all cricket this morning.
- Q&a: 'Ramanujan's Story Is That You Can't Imprison The Mind' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 15, 2006)
Writer-director Dev Benegal, 45, has never walked the easy line. His debut feature English August (1994) was a wry look at bureaucracy. His second movie, Split Wide Open (1999), scraped the jagged edges of globalisation from below. Now, Benegal i . . .
- China Okay With India At Unsc Sans Japan (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The US and China maintain a somewhat identical position on India's candidature of the UN Security Council.
- The Khalsa Panth (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Who is Khalsa? The author of the Prem Sumarag Granth (a traditional book on Sikh Code of Conduct written in the 18th century) has very specifically answered this question. "Khalsa is one, who has given his entire body, mind and belongings to the . . .
- Iran May Climb Down Over N-Issue Sooner Than West Expects (Arab News, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Was Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad inspired by a Tehrani folk tale to try and lead the Islamic republic out of what looks like the most serious foreign policy crisis in its history?
- Lanka Burns, Tigers Want Talks Put Off (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
The Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday requested the Norwegian facilitator to postpone the second round of direct talks with the Sri Lankan government in Geneva and set a new date after April 22 to enable its Eastern commanders to have discussions with . . .
- Ring A Bell? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 14, 2006)
Ruchi Sharma waits for the day cellphones stop interrupting . . .
- Agriculture Needs A Paradigm Shift (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Apr 14, 2006)
It is time for a fundamental shift from the "unproductive" spending to extending support in a form that creates permanent assets, reduces the vulnerabilities of the poor farmers and builds their capacity to improve yields and augment income.
- Working On A Bandh Day (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 14, 2006)
Some years ago, there was this vivid photograph published in a newspaper of children playing cricket on a main road in Kolkata where the vehicular traffic had stopped for the nonce because of a bandh.
- Gyanendra’S Time Is Up (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Apr 14, 2006)
That he has managed to get Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra and US President George W. Bush on the same side of the debate on Nepal reveals all you need to know about King Gyanendra’s ham-handed power . . .
- Space Travels Business Class (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 14, 2006)
Nasa’s commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight, Columbia, may find echoes in the subcontinent.
- Kandahar Crawl (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 14, 2006)
Advani must come clean
- Baisakhi- Birth Of Khalsa (Daily Excelsior, Mohan Singh Kala, Apr 14, 2006)
On the festival of Baisakhi people from all walks of life meet in festive mood on the 1st day of Baisakhi Associated with the harvest of Rabi Crop., Baisakhi is celebrated with fun and frolic in Northern India particularly in Punjab.
- Swaminathan Commission Calls For Farmers' Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
To give all-round boost to agriculture by providing them various services
For completion of "unfinished agenda" in land reforms
Agri-business centres, food parks must be set up
- Clans Do Not Make India (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Apr 14, 2006)
It is a hard choice between feudalism and sectarianism
- Vajpayee Isn’T Amused With Advani’S Kandahar Remark (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Apr 14, 2006)
Just as the controversy over the two yatras seems to be dying down, the BJP is faced with another.
- Missing The Pawn For The Smut (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Apr 14, 2006)
So a person’s right to life is far more important than the dubious duty of saving our society from a Fate Worse Than Death.
- Rajasthan To Entrust Heritage Buildings To Private Trusts (Times of India, G N LAKSHMI, Apr 14, 2006)
The government handing over custody of common heritage sites to private indivi-duals and trusts is tantamount to admitting its inability to justify its very existence. What good is a government that cannot govern?
- Corrections And Clarifications (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 14, 2006)
In the detailed report on The Hindu-CNN-IBN poll in Kerala ("As always, the floating voters hold the key", April 13, 2006), the bar chart relating to the popularity rating of Kerala leaders has errors in two figures.
- A Champion Of Equality Movement (Daily Excelsior, Dr K C Bhagat, Apr 14, 2006)
India's highest civilian award ''Bharat Ratna'' was very appropriately conferred posthumously on Baba Sahib Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar on 6th December 1989 in recognition to his outstanding and distinguished service which he had rendered to his . . .
- Court And The Constitution (Tribune, Fali S. Nariman, Apr 14, 2006)
Good sense of judges is a help, not a hindrance
- Devil's Advocate: Caste Republics (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Apr 14, 2006)
The more reservation fails to deliver social justice, the stronger becomes political parties' determination to push it into newer areas.
- Taking Another Swipe At The Left (Telegraph, Bhaskar Chatterjee, Apr 14, 2006)
When a person purchases a book priced at no less than Rs 500, he expects it to broaden his mind and enrich his analytical faculty.
- Get The Real Picture (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Apr 14, 2006)
On 1 October 1949, a fifty-six-year-old fat, balding peasant named Mao Zedong proclaimed the foundation of the People’s Republic of China from a building in the forbidden city. Mao not only became the ruler of the world’s most populous . . .
- India Willing To Settle Kashmir Along Loc’ (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Apr 14, 2006)
A French academic has said that India is willing to accept the Line of Control, as it stands today, as the permanent dividing line between the two Kashmirs. He also believes that a pragmatic compromise around a soft border is possible.
- The Thin Edge Of The Naxal Wedge (Indian Express, Ajay K. Mehra, Apr 14, 2006)
The consolidation of Naxal power — with over 55,000 well-armed cadres, hi-tech weapons in plenty and a well-honed guerilla strategy in the “compact revolutionary zone” in 13 states — is now well established.
- When You Have Faith Miracles Do Happen (Times of India, SWAMI KRIYANANDA, Apr 14, 2006)
God has no favourites. Yet, His law seems to favour those who seek Him earnestly. For the sincere seeker, the cosmos is like the sounding board of a musical instrument. It reso-nates with his consciousness.
- Brief Case: Perfect Setting (Times of India, G K GUPTA, Apr 14, 2006)
Though living in Kolkata for years, we had hardly moved out. "How will our children grow unless they get good exposure?"moaned Sarla, my wife.
- Suite Extraordinaire (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 14, 2006)
The author of this book and how it came to be published can be the theme of a novel. Irčne Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903.
- Turtle Bay (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 14, 2006)
We have a legal and moral obligation to protect turtles
- Students Told To Work For Country's Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
Madhavan Nair receives award from D. Hanumanna The Government had opened Centres for Science Education at Kolkata and Pune to attract youths to follow a five-year course in basic sciences
- Creating Dispensable Citizens (Hindu, Usha Ramanathan, Apr 14, 2006)
This is not merely about whether the dam should be constructed or not. It is about condoning state inaction and then blaming the victim.
- Leader Article: Day Of Reckoning (Times of India, Akshaya Mukul, Apr 14, 2006)
Kathmandu is like any capital built on the tragic paradox of a glorious few enjoying the benefits achieved through subjection of many. Maybe the subjected lot here is even more naive than normal with a historically tested patience to let the few . . .
- 20,000 Houses Sanctioned For City (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
Geeta Reddy tours Chudi Bazar as part of Praja Patham
- Annual Car Festival Of Narasimha Swamy Temple Held (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
Special poojas performed for presiding deities
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