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Articles 16721 through 16820 of 23107:
- Pak Move To Build Dam At Skardu Draws Flak (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Leaders of Northern Areas in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir have opposed Islamabad’s plan to build dams in the region on the grounds that it would destroy their historical monuments and cultural heritage.
- Growing Up Sikh (Deccan Herald, Geetanjali Kapoor, Jan 01, 2006)
The best part of the book is the attitude of its young protagonist who is positive, despite having faced terrible odds.
- Swamy Welcomes Statement By India, Sri Lanka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has welcomed the joint statement issued by the Governments of India and Sri Lankaat the conclusion of President Mahinda Rajapakse's visit to New Delhi.
- Losing Steam (The Financial Express, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 31, 2005)
The latest core sector numbers for the fiscal-so-far, April-November 2005, reveal slower growth in five out of the six sectors comprising the index, with the exception of cement.
- ‘Pak Yet To Meet Anti-Terror Pledge’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
The Manmohan Singh government has taken a dim view of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s commitment not to allow his country’s soil for perpetrating acts of terrorism in India as central intelligence agencies pointed to the strong possibility . . .
- Rs. 21 Lakhs Allotted Under Farmers Security Scheme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
It was given as Maternity and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Benefit Fund
- Stay Away From Media, Bjp Members Told (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 31, 2005)
D elegates at the closing session of the five-day BJP conclave here on Friday were warned by leaders to stay away from the media, desist from appearing on television shows or giving interviews to the print media. Only the official spokespersons should ...
- Tax On Google's Sale Of Website Space For Display Of Ads (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 31, 2005)
GOOGLE Online India Private Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google International LLC in the US, submitted an application before the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR), New Delhi (Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax).
- Open Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 31, 2005)
One can only express disappointment over the Pakistan Government's decision to continue to enforce ban on the Indian television channels. This is against the spirit of a sort of glasnost that has emerged in the sub-continent.
- Super Bizarre (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Dec 31, 2005)
As far as common sense is concerned quantum mecha-nical theory is not just counterintuitive, it's way beyond weird. Einstein in fact famously described it as being downright "spooky".
- Back Channel Diplomacy Taking Up Proposals On Kashmir: Musharraf (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 31, 2005)
When the ideas took concrete shape, they would be moved to the `front channel'
- Afghan Farmers Returning To Opium (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
For three years Gulam Gul has been growing wheat, rice, radishes and cauliflower - anything but the opium that his family once depended on.
- Mtc Awaits Court Permission To Procure New Buses (Hindu, Sandhya Soman, Dec 31, 2005)
Court for creating a barrier-free environment for the disabled
It will be a while before the city gets its `green' buses. The Metropolitan Transport Corporation's plans to procure buses fitted with engines conforming to Bharat Stage III. . .
- Annan Expresses Grief At Indian Peacekeeper's Death (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has expressed deep grief at the death of the Indian peacekeeper and injuries to four others in Congo on December 25 and expressed condolences to the Indian Government and the families of the victims.
- Achuthanandan Urges Kalam To Issue Order On Delimitation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
He fears that election will be held with old constituencies
Leader of the Opposition V. S. Achuthanandan has urged President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to issue necessary orders under Article 170 (2) of the Constitution to give effect to the . . .
- Cyriac Joseph Is Karnataka Chief Justice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has appointed the Chief Justice of Uttaranchal High Court, Cyriac Joseph, as the new Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court from the date he assumes office. He succeeds Justice N.K Sodhi who retired last month.
- `Year Of Farm Resurgence' (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 31, 2005)
Is the docile elephant beginning to stir itself up for some real action? If, at the turn of the year, there is euphoria around the country, especially across industrial and services sectors, it is entirely justified, for, the economy is on a roll.
- `Enlightened Moderation' In Pakistan, Really? (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Dec 31, 2005)
Local press terming Hindus, Christians and Jews as `enemies of Islam', a general free hand and support to extremist outfits, Shariat courts and blasphemy laws clearly loaded against women and minorities, all make any talk by Gen Pervez Musharraf . . . .
- City Police Release Assailant’S Sketch (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Bangalore Police Commissioner Ajai Kumar Singh said there “are no specific clues” about the suspect involved in the attack at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).....
- Towards Greater Enlightenment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
On the threshold of a new year, India emerges as a curious amalgam of the modern and the regressive. In his book, The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws from Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic strands of Indian thought to . . .
- Baglihar Issue: Pakistan Denies Media Reports (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 31, 2005)
Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam has denied media reports that Islamabad had requested the World Bank to extend the deadline for replying to questions posed by the bank's technical experts on Baglihar dam.
- Party With No Difference (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Dec 31, 2005)
The party with a difference has in the event proved to be no different. It has demonstrated conclusively that when it comes to crunch it will do anything to protect its own narrow partisan interests, dharma and adharma be blown.
- Mass Grave In Gujarat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 31, 2005)
HC directs DNA test of skeletal remains
The Gujarat High Court has rightly directed the state government to collect samples of the skeletal remains, unearthed from a mass grave in Lunavada village of Panchmahal district, . . .
- No Progress On Kashmir (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Dec 31, 2005)
For far too long, the progress on talks between the Government of India and Kashmiri leaders is in limbo. Though Indo-Pak talks are taking place on Sir Creek and Siachen glacier, they do not seem to have made any progress.
- Nothing To Smile About (Times of India, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Dec 31, 2005)
If hope were to kindle in the dying embers of 2005, one might expect the new year to dawn on a transparent democracy where voters elect candidates purely on the basis of merit.
- 2005 In Its Own Words (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 31, 2005)
Amid the dizzy year-enders, it’s best to do what the New York Times did. It tried to squeeze 2005 into a handy list of catchwords and phrases. The paper was not unaware that the exercise could turn out to be foolhardy.
- Army ‘Boards Out’ 100 Aids Patients In 2 Yrs (Indian Express, BHAVNA VIJ-AURORA, Dec 31, 2005)
The Army has removed from service nearly 100 of its personnel, infected with AIDS, in the past two years. Though government norms prevent any discrimination against those infected by the disease, the Army says it has no place for them.
- Terror Still Roadblock To Indo-Pak Talks (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
While the investigating agencies work on the evidence indicating involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba in Wednesday’s terror attack in Bangalore, India feels strongly that Pakistan is not doing enough to end cross-border terrorism.
- Tevanigans (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Dec 30, 2005)
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a tight-lipped company, rarely accessible to the media, at least in India. Recently, at the inauguration of its R&D facility in Greater Noida, the hacks finally got to interrogate Teva officials.
- India-Iran-Pak To Meet On Ipi Pipeline In Mar ‘06 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Iran today offerred to host the meeting of the tripartite joint working group comprising Pakistan, India and itself in Tehran in March next year to carry forward the negotiations on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, even as the vexed issue of gas . .
- An Unlikely Hero (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 30, 2005)
Some two decades ago, the BBC released an audio collection of its Test Match Special. It contained John Arlott’s memorable description of Don Bradman’s final test innings at the Oval in 1948 — the time when the crowd rose to greet England’s deadly . . .
- Area Of Darkness (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Dec 30, 2005)
The rule of law must still be an alien idea in some parts of Assam. But wherever that is the case, the responsibility must squarely lie with the government.
- Security Cover For Seminars, Says Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Chief Minister N Dharam Singh on Thursday said there were no definite clues about the involvement of any particular extremist organisation in the gun attack outside the J N Tata Auditorium ...
- Iranian Diplomat Says Iran, Russia Will Hold Talks On Nuclear Proposal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Top Iranian and Russian officials agreed on Thursday to hold talks on a Russian proposal aimed a resolving Tehran’s nuclear standoff with the West, an Iranian diplomat close to the talks said.
- Taliban Commander Gets Life Term In Absentia (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
A pakistani court has sentenced the Taliban’s military chief to life imprisonment in absentia for trying to kill a member of parliament, a court official said on Thursday.
- Chakri Sirindhorn: Honoured For Serving The Mankind (Daily Excelsior, R C Rajamani, Dec 30, 2005)
Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who received the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2004 recently, is an Indologist who has a special love for India and its people.
- Clues From Travel Bag Point To Pak Link: Police (Indian Express, JOHNSON T A, Dec 30, 2005)
After 12 hours of groping in the dark for clues on yesterday’s attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus, investigators today ran into remnants of the attacker’s gun-blazing march.
- Killing Daughters For ‘Honour’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family’s “honour” - a crime that shocked Pakistan.
- Tribesmen Hold Rally For Release Of Journalist (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Hurmaz tribesmen demonstrated in the Mirali town and called for the release of kidnapped journalist Hayatullah Khan, missing for the past 27 days. Protestors included elders and elites of the Hurmaz tribe.
- Telling It Like It Isn’T (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
You really have to reach for the good word while reporting from the Middle East, says Robert Fisk
- Is India Safe At The Hands Of Old Media? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Dec 30, 2005)
Besides the speed with which the guillotine came down on them, a standout feature of the expulsion of 11 Members of Parliament on charges of misconduct and corruption in the cash-for-query scam is the certificate of legitimacy it has given to the . . .
- Unearth The Truth (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2005)
Justice should be done to the dead found in the mass grave in Lunavada village.
- Us Indian Denied Bail (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
An Indian student, charged with stabbing his professor, has been denied bail by a court in the US state of Massachusetts. Twenty-two-year-old Nikhil Dhar’s plea that he be confined to his uncle’s home with an electronic monitoring bracelet was . . .
- Gas Line Work Will Start In 2007: Pakistan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 30, 2005)
Pakistan Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Amanullah Khan Jadoon told the Senate on Thursday that the work on Pak-Iran-India gas pipeline (IPI) project is likely to commence during 2007.
- Congress Mla To Join Oommen Chandy Cabinet (Hindu, Girish Menon, Dec 30, 2005)
This may help Chief Minister manage coalition equations
- In Brief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
An Italian national has alleged that a driver belonging to the police department had raped her at her residence in Vijayanagar III Stage in Mysore on December 23....
- Wise King Jigme Wangchuk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 30, 2005)
It rarely happens that the ruler of a country decides to give up office when no constituency of importance demands this. But King Jigme Singye Wangchuk of Bhutan has repeatedly shown he is no ordinary ruler.
- Dhanasekaran Detained Under Goondas Act (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam councillor K. Dhanasekaran, who was arrested on December 20 in connection with the M.G.R. Nagar stampede, has been detained under the Goondas Act.
- Gender Issues In Agriculture — An Idea Refusing To Take Roots (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 30, 2005)
"I hold the most prestigious name in agriculture in this country, and still I can't get an appointment with the DG, ICAR (Director-General of Indian Council for Agricultural Research)! They'll be very polite and say, `Yes, madam, very good madam.'
- Remission Of Loans (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 30, 2005)
Loans worth about 4.6 billion rupees outstanding against 130 industrialists have been written off during the current fiscal year by the National Bank of Pakistan, Omar Ayub Khan, Minister of State for Finance told the Senate on Wednesday.
- Naxalite Violence, Tribal Movement Dominate Events In Chhattisgarh (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Amid Chhattisgarh’s continued struggle to raise the new state’s visibility even in the fifth year after its formation , spurt in Naxalite violence, tribal uprising against left wing extremism, paddy and rice scams and expulsion of a BJP . . .
- Mass Grave: Nhrc Seeks Report From Gujarat, Cbi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
DNA testing of the skeletal remains sought
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a report from the Gujarat Government and the Central Bureau of India on media reports on the unearthing of a mass grave at Lunawada in Panchmahals district
- Centre Stepmotherly, Says Modi (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Dec 29, 2005)
It is "sitting on" Gujarat law to curb organised crime
Gujarat and Jharkhand Chief Ministers Narendra Modi and Arjun Munda on Wednesday complained that the United Progressive Alliance Government was discriminating against the Bharatiya Janata Party- ....
- Whose City Is It Anyway (Times of India, Amit Bhaduri, Dec 29, 2005)
The last four months have seen two types of demolitions in Delhi — demolitions of jhuggis on the one hand and unauthorised and illegal structures in middle and upper income areas on the other.
- World Bank Supports Big Dams (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 29, 2005)
The World Bank has said that any further delay in the construction of new dams will be detrimental to Pakistan’s interests. In its latest report on the dams, it said that planning for new dams was supposed to begin soon after the completion of Tarbela ...
- Not Faqs (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Dec 29, 2005)
These are not FAQs (frequently asked questions) about our State. Yet, they are important. They give us rare insight into certain unconventional spheres of life.
- Iran-Pakistan-India Gas Project: Iran To Host (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 29, 2005)
Iran has agreed to host tripartite official-level talks with India and Pakistan in February to kick start the construction of the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline.
- Indian Police Register Case Against Pakistani Official For Rash Driving (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Indian police have registered a case against Mohammad S Qazi, an official of the Pakistani Embassy in New Delhi, whose vehicle allegedly hit a couple, killing the woman and injuring her husband, at Chhidan village on the Amritsar-Wagah Road on December 10
- Politicians Want You Ignorant: Murthy (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited N R Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said corruption has become pervasive in institutions in the country and there is a strong incentive for politicians to keep people ignorant and illiterate
- India's Unsolicited Concern (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
The Foreign Office on Tuesday dismissed the comment by the spokesman of India's External Affairs Ministry on Balochistan the same day as "unwarranted and baseless."
- Export Subsidies (The Financial Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 29, 2005)
Of late, there has been considerable discussion on the compatibility of the various export promotion schemes with the Agree-ment on Subsidies & Countervailing Measures (ASCM).
- Breast Cancer Detection Project Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Cancer among women rising in city, says expert
The Radiotherapy department to set up a `breast clinic'
Expert says 20 to 25 per cent of the cancers occurring in women are related to the breast or the cervix
- Netaji's Death: Amartya Sen Goes By Anita Pfaff's View (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
"The leader's political thoughts... were something to be felt with the heart''
``This visit brought me close to someone whom I have known about since childhood"
Meets Anita Pfaff and her husband Martin Pfaff
- The Basic Freedom Of Expression Is On Trial (The Financial Express, RALF DAHRENDORF, Dec 29, 2005)
Not so long ago, there was jubilation that the free world and its values had prevailed in the Cold War. When the communist empire collapsed, some even announced that the victory of liberty and democracy implied the “end of history.”
- Mass Grave: Centre, Nhrc Seek Report (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Taking suo-motu notice of media reports about unearthing of a mass grave in Lunawada village of Panchmahal district of Gujarat, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday asked the state government and the CBI to file their comments . . .
- Hand In Glove (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Ulhasnagar shows how Congress rules Maharashtra. What lies in store for India?
- Raising A Tree (Indian Express, Rajnish Wattas, Dec 29, 2005)
This season always reminds me of our experiment with the Christmas tree.
- Sex And The Sangh (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 29, 2005)
This is the last call to all good pracharaks of the RSS. Tiptoe through this minefield of worldly desires and report for a lifetime of righteous denial at the barracks in Nagpur.
- 2005’S Tsunami Of Corruption (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 29, 2005)
Satyameva Jayate runs our national motto. How many Indians realise this quotation from the Upanishads is incomplete? There is a third word there, “nanritam”. Truth alone triumphs, naught else. Which is hard to believe as we look back on the year that was!
- Building For Children (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 29, 2005)
This report* covers the first year of UNICEF India’s 2005 to 2007 action plan to support the Government of India and partners in building back better for children after the 26 December 2004 India Ocean tsunami. It reflects on what happened to children and
- Can’T Hide Stupidity! (Deccan Herald, M K RATHISH, Dec 29, 2005)
Now, when I am nearing sixty, I look back, and see how stupid I have been throughout these years. I remember an event that happened when I was a young boy of ten. I was growing up in a large household in a coastal place in Kerala.
- Hajj: The Fifth Fundamental And The Way To Perform It (Greater Kashmir, AL-HAJ M.D. GILKAR, Dec 29, 2005)
Let’s hope Allah showers us with grace and blessings, prays
AL-HAJ M.D. GILKAR
- Cbi Probe, Dna Test Sought (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
writ petition was filed in Gujarat High Court on Wednesday by a relative of a post-Godhra riot victim, seeking a CBI investigation and DNA testing on the skeletal remains found in a mass grave in Lunavada village of Panchmahal district of the state.
- Panun Kashmir Rejects Idea Of Self Rule (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Praising new Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad for his pronouncements on tackling militancy, the return of Pandits and internal security situation, Panun Kashmir (PK), a frontline organization of Pandit community here on Tuesday rejected the . . .
- Pakistan Madrasas To Defy Dec Deadline (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Dealing a blow to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an alliance of Pakistan’s religious seminaries today announced they will not accept the 31 December deadline set by him for expelling hundreds of foreign students, saying the order was “discriminatory” an
- Enlightened Moderation? (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Dec 29, 2005)
Ever since it was established that the terrorist bombings in New York and Washington were engineered from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf has constantly proclaimed his goal of making Pakistan a “moderate Islamic country” based on . . .
- ‘Bjp Is Nothing Sans Parivar’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
On a day when BJP President Lal Krishna Advani admitted that his party was going by a bad phase, his former acolyte Uma Bharti put a question mark on the party’s very existence declaring that without the Sangh parivar, the BJP was nothing and that . . .
- Govt Seeks Report On Mass Grave (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
The Centre on Wednesday asked Gujarat government to submit a report on the finding of skeletal remains at a mass grave at Lunavada village of Panchamahals district, one of the worst hit post-Godhra communal riots.
- Target Bengal, Says Advani (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2005)
Predicting that the coming Assembly election will see the end of Left rule in West Bengal, the BJP president Mr LK Advani today charged the Marxists with perpetrating their reign in that state through tactics that undermined the democratic principles ....
- Improving Access To Justice (Dawn, Naeem Sadiq, Dec 29, 2005)
Our obsession with beggary has taught us the skills needed to put forward compelling reasons, dressed in nebulous grammar, in order to procure a few hundred million dollars from international institutions.
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