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Articles 15821 through 15920 of 21907:
- Aftermath Of The Vote In Vienna (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Oct 05, 2005)
The voting that took place at the IAEA in Vienna last week on the EU-3’s resolution calling upon the Agency to consider reporting Iran to the UN Security Council for not complying with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty is a major development,
- Not Good Enough (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Oct 05, 2005)
Why do most products with the ‘Made in India’ label continue to be so shoddy and unreliable? asks Bhaskar Ghose The author is former secretary, ministry of information and broadcasting
- Life In Islamabad (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 05, 2005)
Newspapers in Islamabad make much of the fact that on Eid days the capital presents a deserted look because a substantial number of its citizens go away to their home towns and villages for the holidays.
- Bali Ii (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 04, 2005)
Alomost three years later, terrorists have struck at Bali again, causing nearly 150 casualties, 26 of them fatal.
- Time To Talk To Turkey (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
Turkey has already waited more than 40 years to join the European mainstream, but there are still a few more tense days left before there can be certainty that its ambition will eventually be realised.
- India, Pakistan Sign Accord On Pre-Notification Of Missile Tests (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 04, 2005)
Natwar Singh, Khurshid Kasuri review the status of composite dialogue
Communication links will help facilitate information on fishermen who stray into each other's territories
Pakistan wants quickening of pace of negotiations; India wants a conducive
- The Hand That Makes The Cradle (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
In the capital of cradle-making, only a single family pursues the traditional occupation, keeping alive a craftsmanship which otherwise would have existed only in north Karnataka's legends, Shyam Sundar Vattam tells us.
- Annular Eclipse Witnessed By Thousands (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
People thronged the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi and Hardwar
- City's War Connection (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
Bangalore played a significant role in both the World Wars
- Sticky Questions (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Oct 04, 2005)
Iran needs an image makeover. Instead of pursuing the nuclear option, it should emerge as a benign power
- I’M Sorry (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 04, 2005)
The Bush administration took a 180-degree turn when the president announced he was responsible for things that went wrong in the Gulf States after Hurricane Katrina.
- Bahrain Keen On Developing It Ties With India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
Bahrain has evinced interest in strengthening its information technology ties with India, saying it is an "ideal partner" for promoting its e-government initiatives.
- Smoking Ban: I&b Takes On Health Ministry (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
The Health Ministry may have agreed to defer banning of smoking scenes in movies till January 1,
- Kashmir In A Fix - Ii (Greater Kashmir, SHUJA MASOOD, Oct 04, 2005)
Islamabad, a party to this dispute has stated that it will consider other options as well and it is time for some bold decisions,
- Nonstop Menace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 04, 2005)
Why don't we learn from accidents that have a certain degree of frequency in our higher reaches particularly in Rajouri, Poonch and Doda districts? The reasons for these tragic occurrences are only too well known: rash driving, dilapidated vehicles . . .
- Pakistan Aspiring For A West Asian Role - Ii (Greater Kashmir, Z A MALIK, Oct 04, 2005)
The Islamic Republic has had no compulsions in establishing contacts with the Israelis who never respected international law, morality and opinion,
- Dasara Dhoom! (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
Shankar Bennur digs into the pages of the past and comes up with interesting information on the widely celebrated battle between the good and the evil and the special cultural slant that Karnataka has given to the Dasara festival.
- History Of Tiruvavaduthurai (Hindu, T. N. Ganapathy, Oct 04, 2005)
THIRUVAVADUTHURAI-P-PURANAM: V. R. Madhavan — Editor; pub. by the International Institute of Tamil Studies, Taramani, Chennai-600113. Rs. 250.
- It Was Just A Kiss (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 04, 2005)
What is obscenity? Surely it means different things to different people in varying contexts, particularly in a democratic society. But in Tamil Nadu, the definition appears to be warped.
- Saint Who Personified Religious Unity (Hindu, Prema Nandakumar , Oct 04, 2005)
He stood for human unity for the sum of his teaching is: `one Lord for all'
- Inspiring Biography Of A Scientist (Hindu, AMBIKA ANANTH, Oct 04, 2005)
YELLAPRAGADA SUBBAROW: Puranapanda Ranganath — Tr. in Telugu; Pub. by Alakananda Prachuranalu, publication wing of Ashok Book Centre, Opp. Maria Stella College, Vijayawada-520008. Rs. 60.
- Documenting The Saffron Journey (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 04, 2005)
Analysis of the BJP as the major architect of Hindutva politics and ideology since its founding in 1980
- The Global Economy Today (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Oct 04, 2005)
This U.N. publication covers the performance and prospects of the global economy during the first few years of this century
- `Crossroads' Literature (Hindu, V.Gopalakrishna, Oct 04, 2005)
A neglected form of literature mostly in songs
- Bali Blasts Again (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 04, 2005)
The suicide bombings at crowded restaurants in the Indonesian island resort of Bali on Saturday, claiming at least 19 lives, is yet another grim reminder of the unrelenting threat of global terrorism.
- India’S Interest First (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 04, 2005)
While the CPM can afford to reduce foreign policy to a set of slogans,
- Tourism Potential Of Davangere Untapped (Hindu, H.S. Narasimha Kumar, Oct 04, 2005)
Although it has been seven years since the district was formed, there is no tourism office here
Interesting sights include the Harihareshwara Temple and the Santhebennur pond
Tourist centres remain undeveloped
- India, Pakistan Sign Two Pacts But Progress Slow (Reuters, ZEESHAN HAIDER , Oct 04, 2005)
India and Pakistan signed two agreements on security cooperation on Monday as their foreign ministers discussed a tentative peace process, although progress on their core dispute over Kashmir was likely to take more time.
- Bali’S Chill Factor (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 04, 2005)
Three years can dull the memory of holiday-makers. The horror of the 2002 attacks had evidently lost their power to intimidate those looking for a holiday break in an island paradise.
- A Global Threat, Terribly Simple (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 04, 2005)
The latest terror strikes in Bali remind the world about the gathering threat from a weapon less sophisticated. After pouring billions of dollars into systems that defeat high-technology weapons,
- Mysore Tourism Website Launched (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
The Dasara executive commitee on Monday launched the Dasara helpline and a website ‘www.mysoretourism.org’ to provide information to tourists on places and events.
- Six Indians Among World's Top Intellectual Nominees (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 04, 2005)
An opinion poll to select five names from a list of the world's leading 100 contemporary public intellectuals has Amartya Sen and Jagdish Bhagwati along with Salman Rushdie and Sunita Narain among the nominees.
- For Real Trade Justice (Hindu, Peter Mandelson, Oct 04, 2005)
Europe's export subsidies have to end, but don't forget they also provide benefits for developing countries.
- Viewing Health As An Inalienable Right (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Oct 04, 2005)
The idea of a right to health should foreground policy debates on health care.
- Railways Goes Soft On Frequent Travel (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
In an attempt to counter dipping air fares, the Railways has decided to go SOFT-Scheme of Frequent Travellers. Rail passengers can soon earn points for frequent travel, which they can use to avail a free ticket or concession of the same amount.
- Tiger Trail: Cloning Not An Alternative (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
Taking a dig at the Centre for investing Rs 3 crore in trying to clone the cheetah, Dr Karanth asked, ‘Where will the cloned cheetahs live?’
- Mastermind Did Phd In Britain (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 03, 2005)
A British educated engineer has been identified by the Indonesian authorities as the chief suspect in Saturday’s Bali bomb blasts that have killed at least 26 and injured dozens more.
- 3 Al Qaeda-Linked Suicide Bombers Behind Bali Blast (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
The blasts were carried out by three suicide bombers and bore the hallmarks of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network.
- Is Science A New Religion? (Deccan Herald, B M Hegde, Oct 03, 2005)
In a thought provoking book, The New Paradigm, John Bockris, an internationally renowned chemist, writes that western science is a new religion trying to sell itself to the world.
- Looking Beyond That 8 Per Cent (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 03, 2005)
The non-farming sectors have come of age and, going by the adage `the morning shows the day', this has important implications for the future.
- An Interrupted Relationship (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Oct 03, 2005)
There are two ways of looking at India’s September 24 vote at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
- Udaipur’S Lakes Of Corruption (Indian Express, Jagat S Mehta, Oct 03, 2005)
In April this year, the Express broke a story on how Udaipur’s lakes were being put up for sale.
- Restoring The Balance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
The global economy, according to the International Monetary Fund's recently released World Economic Outlook, presents a highly paradoxical picture.
- India Expands Access Offer Under Gats (Hindu, ABHIJIT ROY, Oct 03, 2005)
The revised list includes four new sectors; with success in service exports there is now more confidence while conducting trade negotiations
India has offered extensive commitments in a number of new sectors/sub-sectors.
- Getting The Priorities Right (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2005)
Every now and then, government officials issue a flurry of statements on various development projects being launched for the development of the Northern Areas.
- Battle For Mujahid Manzil (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Oct 03, 2005)
A fresh controversy between the ruling PDP and the opposition National Conference has erupted over the claim of Mujahid Manzil, the 75-year-old historic seat of the National Conference.
- Moon Orbiting 10th Planet: Scientists (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
The astronomers who claim to have discovered the 10th planet in the solar system have made another intriguing announcement: it has a moon.
- Pakistan Aspiring For A West Asian Role - I (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
The Islamic Republic has had no compulsions in establishing contacts with the Israelis who never respected international law, morality and opinion,
- Kashmir In A Fix - I (Greater Kashmir, SHUJA MASOOD, Oct 03, 2005)
They keep talking to New Delhi and who knows about what? Back home people are lost as to what can be the solution that can really end this imbroglio, comments
SHUJA MASOOD
- The Man Who "Determined The Ethos Of An Era" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2005)
The story of this manuscript is as fascinating as the life it chronicles. Written in 1939, lost in 1949 and discovered in 1989, K. Sundararaghavan's biography of `Hindu' S. Kasturiranga Iyengar was a piece of history 66 years . . .
- India Grows 8.1 Pct In Apr-June, Outlook Strong (Reuters, Surojit Gupta, Oct 02, 2005)
India's economy expanded an annual 8.1 percent in April-June, its fastest pace in more than a year, prompting some analysts to say they would raise full-year growth forecasts.
- Globalisation: It Shows The Way (Tribune, Navraj Goyal, Oct 02, 2005)
The process of globalisation and the role played by the World Trade Organisation are widely misunderstood and misrepresented, says the much-awaited report, The Future of WTO,
- Why India Failed To Have African Support For Un Seat (Daily Excelsior, I. S. Chadha, Oct 02, 2005)
India does not have a coherent and focused Africa policy. On the other hand China has a well orchestrated African policy.
- The Spectacle Of Making Slides Of Spirituality (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 02, 2005)
Subjecting abstract knowledge to practical treatment is to make a mockery of it and this precisely is how he did it. You can’t ‘teach’ spirituality the way you teach science and technology,
- Secret Of My Longevity Is Gandhism: Azhikode (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
The Gandhian ideals in me have helped me live longer, social critic, Sukumar Azhikode has said.The Gandhian ideals in me have helped me live longer, social critic, Sukumar Azhikode has said.
- On Strangeness In Indian Writing (Hindu, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Oct 02, 2005)
For 20 long years, influenced by Said and post-colonial theory, the aesthetics of estrangement has been confused with the politics of representation. It is time to restore the stranger's innocence.
- Textbook Of Laughter And Forgetting (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Literature can define the way we perceive and express our worlds. Why then is there no wider debate on the kind of English textbooks that are prescribed, asks AMITAVA KUMAR.
Literature can define the way we perceive and express our worlds
- Fine Fusion Of Forms (Hindu, RENUKA RAJARATNAM, Oct 02, 2005)
The Accidental boldly steps outside its own formal boundaries and blends different modes of expressions.
- In Love With The Many Moods Of The Monsoon (Hindu, Prachi Pinglay, Oct 02, 2005)
The monsoon is a special source of inspiration for Alexander Frater who has followed its course in India.
- The Writings Of Another Literary Family (Hindu, C.S. Lakshmi , Oct 02, 2005)
Eunice de Souza's recent book, The Satthianadhan Family Album, is an interesting attempt to understand the life of early Tamil Christians.
- Home And The World (Hindu, Pradeep Sebastian, Oct 02, 2005)
On an impulse, I decided to read Amitava Kumar's Bombay, London, New York again. I read it in a hurry when it first came out in 2002, noting with pleasure that it was, among many other things, the first really good book on reading written by an Indian.
- Poems Of Remarkable Resonance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
Kolatkar was a genuine major talent, feels PRABHAKAR ACHARYA
- Hinduism And Gandhi (Statesman, Jagmohan , Oct 02, 2005)
To follow a shallow and superficial secularism is one of the worst sins that the false prophets of contemporary India are committing
- Reconciliation Is Need Of The Hour (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 02, 2005)
The outcome of the Algerian referendum must be a source of immense satisfaction and pride for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
- Between Cultures (Hindu, ANANDHI SUBRAMANIAN, Oct 02, 2005)
Aslam is courageous for recording his impressions of an insular world.
- New Narratives (Hindu, PADMINI DEVARAJAN, Oct 02, 2005)
A compact collection, Curtains celebrates the Indian woman and `herstories'.
- Brutal Landscape (Hindu, Gowri Ramnarayan, Oct 02, 2005)
Jayanta Mahapatra on how he needs to find the little lights amidst desolation to keep going.
Physics taught me that time held you captive, but it also made you free.
- The Return Of Salman Rushdie (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 02, 2005)
After a lean phase which, incidentally, included The Satanic Verses, Rushdie has regained his touch, and with some style.
Shalimar is also one of his most accessible novels, though, in an age of instant gratification, it still seems unfashionably
- Malaysian Firm To Pay Damages To Deceived Indian Workers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2005)
A Malaysian court has asked a local company to pay 48 Indian nationals a total of 500,000 ringgit ($132,640) in damages for not paying them the promised salary when they joined it, the New Strait Times reported on Saturday.
- The Magic Of Breathing Music (Greater Kashmir, BASHEER SHAH, Oct 02, 2005)
Back home, I am sure I missed something extraordinary. You may agree with me that, we in general (for quite some time now) are immune to, or should we say attuned to ‘ordinary’ and as some one rightly said that we don’t even try to rise above the . . .
- The Perfect Guru (Hindu, Aditi De, Oct 02, 2005)
This visually splendid book gives the reader a new lens with which to view pichhvais.
- India Grows 8.1 Pct In Apr-June, Outlook Strong (Reuters, Surojit Gupta, Oct 01, 2005)
India's economy expanded an annual 8.1 percent in April-June, its fastest pace in more than a year, prompting some analysts to say they would raise full-year growth forecasts.
- New Phase Of Me Conflict (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 01, 2005)
Three Palestinian fighters including the local leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades were shot dead by Israeli troops in the northern West Bank early Thursday.
- Bring ‘Decisive’ Pressure On King, Indian Delegation Tells Nepal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
In an effort to make some headway with Pakistan on the Siachen issue, India is willing to show flexibility in deploying mutually acceptable methods for verifying the ground positions, including satellite imagery.
- New Reloadable Atm Card Boosts 'Plastic Democracy' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
In a move to enable migrants manage money better, a new reloadable prepaid MasterCard card which does not require a bank account or credit check for approval is to be launched this week.
- A Totalitarian Treat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 01, 2005)
The 1951 biography of Stalin reads more like hagiography
- Natwar’S Pak Visit To Boost Peace Talks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
A communication link is expected to be established between the Indian Coast Guard and Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency.
- Legends On Fire (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 01, 2005)
The news that the Pahalgam Club on the bank of the picturesque Liddar has been gutted in a mysterious fire is extremely disappointing.
- Us Visas For Indian Students Made Easy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2005)
Students aspiring for US visas would be given priority as per the new visa regulations formulated by the US Consulate General for Indian applicants.
- New Horizons (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 01, 2005)
The relaxation of tension along the Line of Control (LoC) has given time to the leadership of "Azad" Kashmir, as the Pakistan-occupied territory is locally known, to think of developing tourism in a big way.
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