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Articles 10021 through 10120 of 25064:
- Price Discovery Is A Maya (The Economic Times, T R RAMASWAMI, May 06, 2006)
A scamster’s best friend is a set of weak, inefficient and outdated regulations.
- Riding The Wrong Horse (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, May 06, 2006)
India has lost all leverage in Afghanistan by alienating the majority Pashtuns
- Monsoon To Be Normal In The State (Deccan Herald, Satish Shile, May 06, 2006)
A normal monsoon has been forecast for the year and is expected to enter the state by June 5.
- Multicultural Parody Along Info Highway (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 06, 2006)
The Internet is today’s version of the Silk Road, the great east-west trading route.
- Hunger Strike As A Blackmail Tactic (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, May 06, 2006)
Medha Patkar went on an indefinite hunger strike for one side; Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, on a token fast for the other. Patkar was concerned with the fate of thousands of villagers, whose lands were being submerged because of the . . .
- Labour Pains, Blair Delivers Blow To Men (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Tony Blair on Friday sacked Charles Clarke, demoted Jack Straw and stripped John Prescott of his departmental brief in a wide-ranging reshuffle aimed at reinvigorating his government after heavy losses in Thursday's local elections.
- Volatile Vadodara (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 06, 2006)
Bulldozers and bullets in place of negotiations
- Jaduguda's Hapless Children (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2006)
BBC presenterMark Whitakerexplores the dark side of India's nuclear programme. In this feature, he investigates the high number of children born with health problems and birth defects in the village of Jaduguda in Jharkhand and questions whether . . .
- China — Reaching Out To The World (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, May 06, 2006)
There is a global fascination now for all things Chinese. On its part, Beijing gives due importance to cultivating soft power.
- Renaissance Man Of Hindi Music And His Tehzeeb (Pioneer, Rahul Dutta, May 06, 2006)
Aaj purani rahon se koi mujhe awaaz naa de, dard mein doobe geet na de, gam ka siskta saaz naa de .
- Naushad Passes Away In Mumbai; From Barabanki, Qawwal Mourning (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
At the dargah of Haji Waris Alis Shah in Barabanki’s Dewa Sharief, the qawwals are mourning the death of a musical legend who started his journey here.
- Hurriyat Wants Militants To Join Talks (Reuters, Palash Kumar, May 06, 2006)
Kashmir's main separatist political alliance said on Friday it wanted to invite Islamist militants fighting in the disputed region to join new peace talks with New Delhi.
- Wasted Yatras (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 06, 2006)
The BJP’s decision to cancel the remaining part of the Bharat Suraksha Yatras of former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani and party chief Rajnath Singh is the most sensible it has taken in recent months.
- Growing Invasion Of Peace And Privacy (Tribune, Himmat Singh Gill, May 06, 2006)
Call it aggressive marketing, call it provision of goods and services, or just call it base corporate competitive persistence, but the daily harassment of citizens who value their quiet and privacy continues unabated.
- Ltte Attack Warded Off (Hindu, V. S. Sambandan, May 06, 2006)
The Sri Lankan navy and air force on Friday warded off an attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) off the island's north-western coast, the army said.
- Creditable Response (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 06, 2006)
Banks are wise to scale down credit targets
- Challenges Before Women In Combat (Tribune, Air Marshal R.S. Bedi (retd), May 06, 2006)
The Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune has recommended women for combat duties in the armed forces. The study carried out over a period of three years has advocated that “Women be considered for combat duties” as Indian women, as else where,
- Kvg Bank Records 22.26 P.C. Growth In 2005-06 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Registers net profit of Rs. 69 crore
Rs. 846 crore disbursed as loan in nine districts
9,364 self-help groups credit linked to the tune of Rs. 49 crore
381 of the 387 branches computerised
- A Fiat Gujarat Could Have Done Without (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 06, 2006)
Judicial activism, admirable on such occasions as when it comes to the rescue of ill-treated undertrials or bonded labour or child workers, at times turns problematical.
- Looking At Calcutta (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 06, 2006)
What sort of an eye would find Calcutta beautiful? Some would argue that such a gaze would have to be blinded with love.
- On Wheat Imports, Time To Go Against The Grain (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, May 06, 2006)
India’s foodgrains policy needs to get out of the FCI-babu mindset and in line with the ways of the world if it is to benefit the farmer
- Most Flunk Pilot Test (Times of India, Manju Vaish, May 06, 2006)
Of the thousands of pilot aspirants who gave their theory exams for a Commercial Pilots Licence (CPL) in April, no one from Mumbai seems to have cleared all the five subjects. And barely 10% have passed in two of the five subjects.
- Government Urged To Intervene In Chitrakala Parishat Row (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
B.L. Shankar says he continues to be the rightful president of the parishat
The former Legislative Council Chairman questions validity of resolution replacing him
Claims that property of the Trust is in danger
Says credibility of the parishat is at
- Hospital Claims To Have Restored Hiv Count Machine (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
ART medicine supply constrained by increasing number of cases
- `India Will Be Developed Nation In Less Than 14 Yrs' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
More FDI will help globalisation of Indian cos
The Finance Minister said that the second and much bigger wave of manufacturing offshoring was yet to come.
- Turmoil In Balochistan (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, May 05, 2006)
THE Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah wanted Pakistan to be a federation, with autonomous units in which fundamental human rights, equality of status and opportunity, social, economic and political justice would be guaranteed.
- Inundation Of Imported Cars (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 05, 2006)
The import data for the first nine months of the current financial year shows that the country imported new and used cars worth about 13 billion rupees during the period as compared to only 4 billion rupees in the same period last year.
- Doing Away With 58-2(b) (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 05, 2006)
Ever since Ziaul Haq inserted Article 58-2(b) in the Constitution by a decree, Pakistan has seen four elected governments dismissed and the elected assemblies dissolved. Ziaul Haq first made use of it in 1988 when he sacked the government of . . .
- Who's Afraid Of Convertibility? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, May 05, 2006)
Over the past month or so, I have been on a road show meeting clients around the country to talk about capital account convertibility, and, to my amazement, I have encountered a fair amount of concern about what could happen if we opened up our . . .
- Come Home, Kaavya: All Is Pirated (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 05, 2006)
It is always a great relief to find that we Indians can actually be free of bias.
- Journey Of A Lifetime (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, May 05, 2006)
The immediate fallout of Pramod Mahajan's untimely and tragic death was the cancellation of the two Bharat Suraksha yatras by Mr LK Advani and Mr Rajnath Singh.
- King Faizal Prize For M.S. Narasimhan (Hindu, S. Ramanan, May 05, 2006)
The acclaimed mathematician's contributions are profoundly original
- Crossing The Rubicon...Tamil Nadu Style (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, May 05, 2006)
The state’s elections show how the process of manipulating votes has reached its nadir
- Foreign Trade Policy Needs Fdi Flavour (Business Line, S. Majumder , May 05, 2006)
It is time for the Foreign Trade Policy to adopt a new strategy in the wake of a dramatic change in the global trade pattern.
- Tracing Disequilibrium In The Asset Markets (The Financial Express, SUMANT SINHA, May 05, 2006)
The considerable lag between the flow of funds and the creation of assets is ensuring the imbalance.
- Sonia ‘Fights For Principles’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
“This is not an ordinary election,” Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi told the people of this Lok Sabha constituency today from where she is seeking re-election following her resignation after being accused of holding an office of profit.
- Indian Origin Astronaut To Make Maiden Journey To Iss (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Three years after Kalpana Chawla's tragic space expedition, another American astronaut of Indian origin Sunita Williams will make her maiden journey to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA's six-month mission.
- Silver Lining (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 05, 2006)
There is a silver lining in the blood-splattered atmosphere prevailing today. It is to be welcomed that both New Delhi and Islamabad have reiterated their resolve to go ahead with the peace process.
- Fiction As Fact (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 05, 2006)
The Supreme Court's stay order on Thursday, putting on hold further demolition of illegal structures described as "places of worship", may have fetched a temporary reprieve for fanatics in Vadodara who have nothing but contempt for authority.
- Toilet Trouble (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 05, 2006)
One is not quite sure of it, but the Government of Chhattisgarh may well have created a global record by prescribing a new ground for depriving an elected member of a local self-governing body of his or her job - the absence of a loo in . . .
- Vote Dpa To Invest In Future, Says Manmohan Singh (Hindu, R.K. Radhakrishnan, May 05, 2006)
Says Tamil Nadu deserves a secular, development-oriented, corruption-free government
DPA aim is to make the State top in prosperity, industrial growth
Manmohan commends performance of Union Ministers from Tamil Nadu
- Another Futile Cbm (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 05, 2006)
Pakistan and India have agreed on another Confidence Building Measure (CBM). This time it relates to launching of a truck service between Azad and Occupied Kashmir to promote trade between the two parts.
- Justified Protest (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 05, 2006)
Villagers of Sungal and adjoining areas in Akhnoor tehsil are angry for right reasons. Indeed it is a matter of shame and regret that a minor girl should have her modesty outraged by her teachers.
- Crpf Director Seeks Report On Buddhia Issue (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Under attack from various human rights organisations for making four-and-a-half-year-old Buddhia Singh run a gruesome 65-km marathon, CRPF Director-General J.K. Sinha has sought a report into the incident from the force’s Orissa unit.
- Accused Must Be Booked For Trafficking Also (Tribune, Ruchika M. Khanna, May 05, 2006)
The brutal murder of 14-year-old Tripta (name changed) from Jharkhand, in a non- descript village of Jind, hit the national headlines recently. Her “owner” beheaded her when she refused to bow before his lustful desires.
- Global Warming Unprecedented In 20,000 Years (Tribune, Steve Connor, May 05, 2006)
Global warming is made worse by man-made pollution and the scale of the problem is unprecedented in at least 20,000 years, according to a draft report by the world’s leading climate scientists.
- Tearful Adieu To Pramod (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan, who died of gunshot wounds yesterday, was cremated today with full state honours at the Shivaji Park crematorium here.
- Mr Toraichi Kono And The Tramp (Deccan Herald, Bruce Wallace, May 05, 2006)
Kono and Chaplin. Kono, an aide to Chaplin for years, was forgotten until crates of his papers came to light.
- Not Quite Mainstream (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 05, 2006)
As a long-time reader and occasional contributor to Mainstream, I was dismayed at the personal attack launched on the eminent journalist B.G. Verghese by three writers, one of whom is this journal’s editor (Prashant Bhushan, Suhas Borker, Sumit . . .
- Love Is The Undying Flame That Sets Life Aglow (Times of India, AVATAR MEHER BABA, May 05, 2006)
Of the forces that can best overcome all difficulties, love is the most potent force because the greatest law of God is love, which holds the key to all problems.
- Riots Are So 2002 (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, May 05, 2006)
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tending to a Muslim riot victim. Narendra Modi seeking an army flag march in the beleaguered town of Vadodara.
- Dialogue Of Religions (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 05, 2006)
In this strife-torn age, humankind is ultimately faced with two choices, dialogue or death
- A Pursuit Of Pure Passion (Hindu, S. DIWAKAR , May 05, 2006)
Did you know that Gauhar Jaan was not actually the first Indian musician to have a gramophone recording?
- History Reinterpreted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Tughlaq one of the most popular plays of the playwright and actor Girish Karnad was staged at Bhoomigeetha, Rangayana, Mysore.
- Jairaj Is Bmp Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
With a slew of infrastructure projects lined up for Bangalore, the JD (S)-BJP Government on Thursday changed the chiefs of three civic bodies in the City, along with a major reshuffle of bureaucrats in which 53 IAS and IPS officers were transferred.
- Mysore Selected For Centre's Tourism Development Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
The city will receive Rs. 50 crore for development
Comprehensive action plan to develop Mysore as a tourist destination to be prepared shortly
A meeting with environmentalists and elected representatives on the proposed plan to be held soon
Minister
- Summer Quencher (Hindu, CHANDAN SEN, May 05, 2006)
The architectural splendour of the baoris or stepwells in Bundi, Rajasthan is simply amazing.
The numerous stepwells, kunds and tankas have made the place a "City of stepwells". And each one of them is an architectural wonder.
- Indian-Origin Sunita Williams To Make Maiden Space Expedition (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
She will serve as a flight engineer on NASA's six-month mission
- Haryana Plan For Development Of Sugarcane (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 05, 2006)
Farmers to get 50 per cent subsidy
- New Frontline In The War On Terror (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
As hideouts go, the Shawal Valley in northern Pakistan is a militant's dream.
- Sabre-Rattling Against Iran Unlikely To Succeed (Hindu, Tariq Ali, May 04, 2006)
Ringed by nuclear states, Teheran's atomic programme is scarcely unreasonable. So why has Washington manufactured this crisis?
- Russia's Energy Diversification Moves (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , May 04, 2006)
Irked by attempts to block it out of Europe's energy retail market, Moscow has begun to seek other export routes.
- Armenian Plane Crashes Off Black Sea Coast, Killing 113 (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
An Armenian passenger plane carrying 113 people crashed in stormy weather early Wednesday off Russia's Black Sea coast as it was headed in to land, killing everyone on board, emergency officials said.
- The Curse Of Dual-Income Workaholic Consumerism (Hindu, Oliver James , May 04, 2006)
Long working hours and status consumption have the U.S. and Britain in their grip.
- Over 2.3 Lakh To Appear For Eamcet In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
As many as 2,34,483 candidates will be appearing for the Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET)-2006 on Thursday.
- Nellithope Crucial For Both Dmk, Aiadmk (Hindu, S. Nadarajan, May 04, 2006)
An ex-serviceman and an ex-CM lock horns in the poll battle
Janakiraman has been holding the seat since his first win in 1985
Segar is a green horn in the poll battle
Nellithope has a total of 22,758 voters with 11,645 women voters and 11,113 men
- Rocket-Rattling Over Iran (Deccan Herald, Tariq Ali, May 04, 2006)
Till now, what has prevented the crisis in Iraq from becoming a total debacle for the US has been the open collaboration of the Iranian clerics.
- Cbi To Probe J&k Sex Scandal (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , May 04, 2006)
It allegedly involves politicians, bureaucrats and police officers
- Components Of A Miracle That Is Attainable (The Financial Express, JAYANTA ROY, May 04, 2006)
Why we need high and sustained growth and what we need to do to make this happen
- Tax Agricultural Income (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 04, 2006)
There was a time when it did not make much sense to tax income from agriculture. That was before India’s economic reforms.
- Run For Love (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 04, 2006)
Budhia Singh, the marathon-running four-year-old, is loved by all. But what is the nature of this love?
- L.K. Advani Discontinues Yatra Programme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Along with Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, flies to Mumbai
- Tryst With A Man Of Destiny (Tribune, Ashok Kundra, May 04, 2006)
His visits to the city have sent me down the memory lane. I recall so vividly an encounter I had with him way back in 1964.
- Bid To Revive "Vanishing Traditions Of India'' (Hindu, Lakshmi B. Ghosh , May 04, 2006)
Your grandmother may have been a natural at it, but you are probably not. And if you happen to be one of those rather busy parents who never seem to have enough stories to put your child to sleep, then India Habitat Centre (IHC) is probably where you . .
- The Great Game In Afghanistan (Daily Excelsior, Indu Prakash Singh, May 04, 2006)
The 41-year-old telecom engineer from Hyderabad K. Suryanarayana was found beheaded in Afghanistan in a new Great Game in which tactics are becoming more cold-blooded and motives less concealed.
- Indo-Thai Economic Ties To Get A Boost (Tribune, Manoj Kumar, May 04, 2006)
The economic and political ties between India and Thailand is likely to gain strength as the political uncertainty in Thailand is receding after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s resignation early last month.
- Body Blow (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 04, 2006)
Pramod Mahajan embodied the best, and worst, qualities of Generation Next in Indian politics. His death, at the age of 56, leaves the BJP crippled. Politics will miss him. Mahajan was representative of a generation in politics that valued efficiency . . .
- A Fitting Finale And The Beginning Of A New Life (Times of India, Aruna Jethwani, May 04, 2006)
Believe it or not, Jamnagar's cremation ground is a popular picnic spot. Its entrance gate is colourful, its passages decorated with frescoes and relief paintings. The sprawling woods around have some amazing dioramas, depicting incidents from mythology.
- Of Ajit Garh And Tarn Taran (Tribune, Manohar Singh Gill, May 04, 2006)
When Punjab was again divided in 1966, I was DC, Ambala. I proposed the creation of Ropar district in new Punjab.
- Taliban Attack Party To Stop Music (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
A group of Taliban stormed a wedding ceremony to disrupt a music programme, wounding one man a few days after they ordered Bhittani tribesmen to grow beards, eyewitnesses said on Tuesday.
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