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Articles 15121 through 15220 of 23107:
- Pm Helpless, Weakest, Reiterates Bjp (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Hitting back, BJP President Rajnath Singh today termed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "helpless" and charged him with targeting Leader of Opposition L K Advani "to justify his own weakness".
- Tn: Kanchi Seer Files Petition In Hc On Public Prosecutor (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Kanchi seer Jayendra Saraswathi filed a petition in the Madras High Court today, seeking a direction to the Pondicherry government to appoint a public prosecutor for the Sankaranaman murder case in which he is the prime accused, in place . . .
- Assembly Dissolution Case (Tribune, Fali S. Nariman, Feb 03, 2006)
Enough has already been said and written about the Bihar dissolution case. For me, the most heartening feature about the judgments handed down on January 24 is the fact that all five justices have held that the decision to dissolve the Bihar . . .
- Reliance Moves Hc Against Airport Bidding (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Reliance Airport Development Ltd, a company owned by Anil Ambani, today moved the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the entire tender process terming it as “mala fide”.
- Govt For All Cases In Mps' Scam To Be Heard By Sc (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Centre today urged the apex court to transfer all cases relating to the expulsion of MPs to be heard by a constitution bench, saying the petitions pending in the Delhi High Court could result in conflicting judgements.
- Talks Invitation Will Be Considered (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Denying that he had ever met Dr Manmohan Singh since he took over as the Prime Minister, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammed Yaseen Malik today discredited the media reports indicating that he has had ‘secret or undisclosed’ . . .
- Kumaraswamy To Take Oath Today (Tribune, Jangveer Singh, Feb 03, 2006)
Decks were cleared for the enthronement of Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy as Chief Minister of Karnataka today. While the reprieve from the high court, which rejected a petition seeking the disqualification of his Legislators, . . .
- Pdp Ad On Self-Rule Triggers Row (Tribune, S.P.Sharma, Feb 03, 2006)
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of Mufti Sayeed today triggered a controversy by giving an impression that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s proposal of self-rule in Jammu and Kashmir was better than the National Conference’s (NC) . . .
- Mirwaiz Calls For Kashmir Regions’ Talks (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Feb 03, 2006)
Chief of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday called for urgent consultations between regions of Kashmir on both sides of the Line of Control to plan a common strategy for resolving the dispute.
- Amnesty Criticizes Bajaur Attack (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The Amnesty International (AI) has expressed concern over Jan 13 air strike, killing civilians in Damadola village of Bajaur Agency. According to a press release, the AI voiced the concern in a letter addressed to US President George Bush on Thursday.
- Continuing The Conversation (Hindu, BINA AGARWAL, Feb 03, 2006)
Amartya Senprovides insights into what led him to examine gender issues intellectually. `My early encounters, when I was a student,' he says `with the role of tilted attitudes and positional observations and slanted habits of thought did prove, . . .
- Battered By Vat (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Feb 03, 2006)
The Centre’s growing economic power and political weakness
- Women In The Music (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 03, 2006)
When Mozart died in Vienna in December 1791, he was only 35. He left behind him 622 complete musical compositions and one unfinished Requiem. It is commonly believed that Mozart died in utter penury and was buried in a pauper’s grave.
- Pm Launches Job Guarantee Scheme (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Feb 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has today launched the ‘revolutionary’ National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Scheme in the presence of National Advisory Council Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
- Hoshiarpur Covered Under Job Guarantee Act (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The Punjab Government today kicked off the process to give jobs to the rural unemployed youth under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 in 1,317 villages of Hoshiarpur district at a functional organised in Samundra village, . . .
- Airport Staff Continue Stir (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Feb 03, 2006)
As the strike by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) employees entered the second day and the flight schedule of most of the airlines remained unaffected, the employees resorted to other measures like blocking the roads to the airport . . .
- Delhi Hc Asks Agitating Staff To Keep Off Airports (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Taking a tough stand against the striking Airports Authority of India (AAI) employees on the issue of privatisation of the management of airports, the Delhi High Court today banned the entry of agitating staff into the airports and directed that . . .
- Ex-Indian Fm’S Visit To Mazar-E-Quaid Uncertain (News International, Azfar-ul-Ashfaque, Feb 03, 2006)
A planned visit of the former Indian foreign minister and leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha, Jaswant Singh, to the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah could not materialise on Thursday raising speculations that Singh does not want . . .
- Reliance Alleges Rigging In Airport Bids, Moves Court (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Dark clouds seemed to be gathering over the Delhi and Mumbai airport modernisation plan with Anil Ambani’s Reliance Airports Developers Ltd on Thursday moving the Delhi high court to seek cancellation of the contracts to GMR and GVK on grounds . . .
- Hc Imposes Ban On Aai Strike (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The Delhi High Court today imposed a ban on the strike by the Airport Authority of India (AAI) employees and said the agitating employees should remain 500 metres away from the gates of the airports all over the country and Civil Aviation . . .
- Seize The Initiative (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 03, 2006)
Disappointed with the model nikahnama approved by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board in May last year, its counterpart the All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board has decided to come up with its own nikahnama.
- Devil's Advocate: Guvs Must Go (Times of India, RONOJOY SEN, Feb 03, 2006)
The Supreme Court's stinging reprimand to Buta Singh ensured his exit as Bihar governor. The court had said that Buta's report recommending President's rule in Bihar was based on "fanciful assumptions".
- Diagnosing Underachievers (Daily Excelsior, S K Kakroo, Feb 03, 2006)
Every parent and teacher puts in the best efforts to help the child to excel in his studies. But still 20-30% of elementary level school children remain underachievers i.e. they remain scholastically backward.
- Shekhawat Opposes Commercialisation Of Education (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat today urged the educational organisations not to "commercialise" education, but play a vital role in dispelling the darkness of illiteracy from the country as despite making tremendous progress in all spheres . . .
- Reliance Airport Moves Court Against Award (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The modernisation plan for Delhi and Mumbai airports faced its first major legal hurdle on Thursday with the Reliance Airport Developers Private Ltd filing a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the award of the modernisation contract.
- Doctor At Work (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 02, 2006)
PM seems more at home. Message from his press meet: Governance, rather than politics, is my test
- Log Out Of Your Inner Chatter! (The Economic Times, Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Feb 02, 2006)
Mind is in constant inner chatter. It starts as soon as you wake up. If you record all of your inner chatter you need a recorder for all your waking hours, say 15 hours. All this chatter creates problems unconsciously.
- 'Marshlands Prevent Beach Erosion' (The Economic Times, NARAYANI GANESH, Feb 02, 2006)
Ecologist Andrew Watkinson is the deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
- In The Budget Session, Will There Be A Fair Deal? (Indian Express, SUNITA THAKUR, Feb 02, 2006)
Rotating reserved constituencies makes no sense. But neither does shelving the entire plan for women’s reservation in Parliament, says SUNITA THAKUR
- Karnataka Petition Worries Bjp (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Feb 02, 2006)
Senior BJP leaders left wondering
The Karnataka Chief Minister-designate, H.D. Kumaraswamy, failed to keep his date with Bharatiya Janata Party leaders here on Wednesday.
- Moderate Quake Shakes Kashmir Valley (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
A moderate intensity quake measuring five on the Richter scale shook the Kashmir valley on Wednesday evening, the Met office in Srinagar said.
- ``Sonia A Source Of Strength'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Handles with aplomb questions on domestic political issues
Asks to be judged not by what Mr. Advani says but what he delivers to the country
No fear of government falling. It will complete five years"
Right to Information Act will have revolutionary
- The Governing Principle (Indian Express, S.K. JAIN, Feb 02, 2006)
The recent Supreme Court verdict has indicted the Buta Singh for acting unconstitutionally and misleading the union cabinet into recommending the dissolution of the Bihar assembly.
- Let Kolkata Attack Foiled: Police (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Target 3 alleged terrorists held; cops allege plan to carry out blasts at public places
- Kumaraswamy Skips Delhi Date (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Karnataka BJP cites ‘exhaustion’, says it has nothing to lose in JD(S) alliance
- Arab World Pressures Hamas To Mellow (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Egypt and Jordan joined the West today in pressuring the militant group Hamas, declaring it must recognise Israel and renounce violence if it wants to lead the Palestinians. Hamas held fast to its militant platform but suggested it might extend . . .
- No Mandate To Change Indian Borders: Singh (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Leaves options open on Iran issue
India is committed to forging the "friendliest possible relations" with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday, striking an upbeat note on the peace process.
- Women’S Heart Disease Harder To Diagnose (Tribune, Rob Stein, Feb 02, 2006)
Many women suffer from a form of heart disease that is fundamentally different from the type that strikes most men and is easily missed by standard tests, researchers reported Tuesday.
- Turbulent Skies (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Feb 02, 2006)
The UPA government has often been accused of pussy-footing on reform. On Wednesday, however, even its severest critics would have found it difficult to question its reform credentials.
- Child Rights Protection Panel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
The Government will set up a National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights.
- Airports Fly Into Turbulence, Striking Staff Caned (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Chaos, violence and disruption of flights were the order of the day at airports across the country on Wednesday, following the strike by employees of the Airports’ Authority of India (AAI) in protest against the modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
- U.S. Should Recall Envoy: Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
``The United States should recall its Ambassador, David Mulford, for his statement linking the India-U.S. nuclear deal to India's vote on Iran," Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said here on Wednesday.
- India Should Work Towards Consensus On Iran N-Issue: Left (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
The Left parties on Wednesday reiterated their stance that the Iran nuclear issue should be resolved peacefully and through negotiations within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency and hoped that India would work towards forming . . .
- When The Crown Slips Away (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 02, 2006)
It is perhaps the only country in the world where legislators can oust the executive on grounds of ill health. What makes the process all the more interesting is that the Kuwaiti executive is not an elected leader but a monarch.
- Child Labour: Notice Issued (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
“Children have to be in schools and there cannot be a place other than schools for them,” the Supreme Court said on Wednesday, adding that if there is no school, the state has to provide one.
- International Status For Calicut Airport (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Feb 02, 2006)
Malabar welcomes the Union Cabinet decision
- We Will Not Buckle Under Pressure: Manmohan (Hindu, Harish Khare , Feb 02, 2006)
``Enlightened national interest guides foreign policy; division of labour with Sonia Gandhi is working well''
- Presidential Assent For Quota In Institutions (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Feb 02, 2006)
The Constitution amendment to provide reservation for socially and educationally backward classes, besides the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, in private unaided institutions . . .
- Kolkata: Iaf Called In To Help (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Feb 02, 2006)
Air services remain largely unaffected; strike near total, say unions
The services of the Indian Air Force were requisitioned to restore normality in air services from and to the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose International Airport here on Wednesday . . .
- Iaai Officers Move Court (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Feb 02, 2006)
They contend that privatisation cannot be done without legislative sanction
- Talks Are On For Poll Alliance, Says Jayalalithaa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
AIADMK starts issuing applications for party ticket to contest Assembly elections
Jayalalithaa disagrees with the view that Supreme Court has indicted her government for the stampede
Describes the arrival of refugees from Sri Lanka as "alarming"
- Surajkund Festival Opens; Nation's Rich Heritage On Display (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Tourism has key role in economic development: Ambika Soni
Stating that tourism played an important part in the economic development of the country, Union Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni on Wednesday said both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh....
- Pm Defends Decision On Bihar Assembly (Tribune, S. Satyanarayanan, Feb 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today defended his government’s decision to dissolve the Bihar Assembly by pointing that even the Supreme Court did not have one opinion on the issue.
- Kajrare Kajrare (Tribune, G.S. Aujla, Feb 02, 2006)
After the inebriating snake dance of “Nagin” of the fifties of the last century it was five decades later that the nation danced to the tune of “Kajrare”, a sensuous feat of music and dance put together. What contributed to the unprecedented mystique ...
- Hopes In The Air (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 02, 2006)
Privatisation of leading airports is a must
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s decision to hand over Mumbai and Delhi airports to private players for modernisation and then running them has predictably evoked opposition . . .
- Memorable Journey (Deccan Herald, D B N Murthy , Feb 02, 2006)
The Jagdalpur - Visakhapatnam route over the Eastern Ghats offer scenic sights
- In A Shadow (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 02, 2006)
Peace negotiations are ultimately an act of faith. The ceasefire in Nagaland is based on the faith that it will lead to a peaceful end to the decades-old Naga rebellion.
- Find Right Remedy (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 02, 2006)
Only the naïve and the ill-formed will be surprised by a report that lakhs of persons have applied for over 5000 Government posts advertised by the Service Selection Board (SSB).
- Three Sardars And A General (Frontline, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Feb 02, 2006)
THERE are two or three tribal chiefs and feudal lords behind what is going on in Balochistan. The past governments have made deals with them and indulged them.
- Govt Committed To Pragmatic Solution To All Issues With Pak:pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Ruling out transfer of Indian territory, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the UPA government was committed to a "pragmatic and practical" solution to all outstanding issues between India and Pakistan, including Jammu and Kashmir.
- Goebbels Next Door (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 02, 2006)
What is the Goebbels technique? Lest the global community forgot it needs to be reminded that it is named after Hitler's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels who was one of the most important and influential figures of Nazi Germany.
- Absolute Poverty (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Feb 02, 2006)
India needs both the market and the state
The author is professor of economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
- Talks Best Way To Resolve Iran Nuclear Issue, Says Kasuri (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki had separate meetings with his counterparts from Pakistan and Germany and discussed bilateral relations and latest developments on Iran’s nuclear case.
- Noose Tightening Around Bb (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari have reportedly admitted the ownership of Rockwood Estate, Surrey (England) and other properties abroad before different courts.
- Kidnapping Of Us Journalist In Iraq (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 02, 2006)
The fate of US journalist Jill Carroll, who has been abducted in Iraq, hangs in balance as her captors are setting deadlines for fulfilment of their demand for release of all Iraqi women prisoners detained either by the United States occupation army . . .
- Pakistan, India Urged To Make Peace Process Kashmir-Specific (News International, Mariana Baabar, Feb 02, 2006)
"Are you with the Kashmir problem? Please walk through," a security guard told us as we entered the International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace.
- Flights Delayed, Services Hit; It's Chaos At Airports (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Several flights were rescheduled, delayed and passenger services at major airports were affected following the indefinite nation-wide strike by thousands of employees of the state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI).
- India Will Not Bend To Any Pressure On Nuke Issue: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Asserting that India will not bend to any pressure on the civil nuclear deal with the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said Parliament will be taken into confidence on the issue even as he sought an end to discrimination against New Delhi . . .
- Moderate Tremors Rock Kashmir Valley (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
A moderate intensity quake measuring five on the Richter scale shook the Kashmir valley on Wednesday evening, an official of the Met said.
- J&k: Musharraf's Demilitarisation Formula Ill-Conceived, Says Azad (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's formula of "self-rule and demilitarisation" for Kashmir is "ill-conceived" as Jammu and Kashmir already has self-rule, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said.
- Speaker’S Action Draws Flak (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 01, 2006)
The decision of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker in recognising Mr H D Kumaraswamy as the leader of the Janata Dal (S) Legislature Party has now reached the Karnataka High Court.
- Stamp Of Reform (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Feb 01, 2006)
The desirability of low rates of duty for officially registering transactions is not in dispute. So also the desire not to have undue variations in such duties between states.
- Control The Senses (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 01, 2006)
" Even if the vilest sinner worships Me with exclusive devotion, he should be accounted as a saint; for he has rightly resolved," says Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.
- Hyderabad Firms Win Airport Deal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 01, 2006)
GMR-Fraport and GVK-South Africa Airports on Tuesday won contracts for modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports, respectively, but the restructuring move immediately resulted in employees striking work at several airports.
- India Has Made Its Mark As A Dynamic Emerging Economy: Nath (Press Trust of India, H S RAO, Feb 01, 2006)
Making a strong pitch to business leaders from Commonwealth, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath has said India is rapidly ascending from being a base for low-end processes and operations to high-end Research and Development in sectors like pharmaceuticals . . .
- Stampede Issue: Dmk Members Take To The Road (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 01, 2006)
They demand the release of councillor Dhanasekaran
More than 1,000 members of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam were arrested on Tuesday when they staged a demonstration demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the light of the . . .
- Reliance, Sterlite Cry Foul (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 01, 2006)
Reliance Airport Developers, part of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises, today alleged irregularities in the government procedure for modernising the Delhi and Mumbai airports.
- Munabao-Khokhropar Train To Start From 18th (Daily Times, Umer Farooq, Feb 01, 2006)
Pakistan and India have agreed to start the Munabao-Khokhropar rail route from February 18.
- Those Thin Red Lines (Indian Express, Sudhir Vohra, Feb 01, 2006)
The Delhi High Court’s recent order regarding illegal construction in the capital’s Lal Dora areas — that it, its urban villages — comes as a surprise as the matter has been debated for some years now. Nevertheless, it has fortuitiously revived . . .
- Palestinians Alter Leadership (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Feb 01, 2006)
Even though Hamas has hinted at change, the world sides with Israel in advising Palestine to renounce violence
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