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Articles 20421 through 20520 of 26861:
- Nepal King Says Defending Democracy, Phones Cut (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Nepal's King Gyanendra said on Friday he took power to protect democracy from Maoist rebels and political instability,
- Be Free And Be Creative (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Jun 22, 2005)
While altogether banning smoking on the Indian screen, as recently demanded by the Health Ministry, does seem excessive,
- Iraq’S Continuing Travails (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Jun 22, 2005)
Speaking in his weekly radio broadcast US President George Bush said on Saturday that pulling out of Iraq now is not an option.
- Rise Of A ‘moderate’ Advani? (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 22, 2005)
Ever since Lal Krishna Advani began attracting flak for his comments in Karachi on Mohammad Ali Jinnah,
- As Aung San Suu Kyi Holds On (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 22, 2005)
Celebrating her 60th birthday in confinement last Sunday, the world’s most famous political prisoner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has remained a beacon of hope for millions of Burmese who have suffered under repressive military rule for more than 40 years now.
- Tiff Over Bhel (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 22, 2005)
In the coming months, tension between the Congress and the communist parties is expected to exacerbate,
- The Lost Chances Of History (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2005)
Author of Constitutional law of India and former attorney general, the late H.M. Seervai, has provided an interesting account of Jinnah’s role in Partition.
- Chhattisgarh: These Gift Cows Are A Burden On Poor Farmers (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
The cows that were distributed were old, ailing and infirm and hassled their owners with their gluttonous habits and measly output.
- Laloo, Rabri Plea Dismissed In Hc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Patna High Court dismissed a petition filed by Laloo Prasad and Rabri Devi challenging their prosecution for alleged misappropriation of public funds
- No Consensus On Un Reform After Rivals Meet (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
United Nations - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan intervened yesterday to try and get consensus among supporters of rival plans over expansion of the Security Council but no meeting of the minds emerged, diplomats said.
- Pakistan's President Musharraf To Visit Nz (New Zealand Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf will visit New Zealand next month, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
- Counterview: Appropriate Idea For India's Financial Capital (Times of India, ARCHANA JAHAGIRDAR, Jun 22, 2005)
The finance minister's suggestion that Mumbai needs a CEO has, as expected, created a storm. Shorn of political theatre there is merit in the suggestion. Mumbai is a unique city with unique problems.
- "No Ambiguity In Our Position On Kashmir" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2005)
This is the text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's letter to the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on India-Pakistan issues:
- China, India To Change International Politics (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
How will the geopolitical map of the world be shaped by 2020?
- Rice Applies Pressure On Me (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 22, 2005)
American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has gone a step further in Washington’s bid to introduce, what it terms, democratic reforms in the Middle East.
- Research Shows Concerns About Nz Economy (New Zealand Herald, Reuters, Jun 22, 2005)
Around a third of all New Zealanders thought the economy had improved over the last six months, but the outlook is not so positive, with 35 per cent saying they felt the economy would deteriorate in the coming year, compared to 28 per cent of respondents
- Bigger The City, The Bigger The Disaster (New Zealand Herald, Michael Richardson, Jun 22, 2005)
For the first time in human history, more people will soon live in cities than do not. Urbanisation is intensifying as greater numbers of people, especially in Asia, leave the countryside in search of jobs, better living standards and wider opportunities.
- The Winning Combination (Telegraph, Sanjay Kumar, Jun 22, 2005)
Going by past performance, the RJD has the best chances in the coming assembly polls. But in Bihar, you never know, says Sanjay Kumar
- Time For Constitutional Statesmanship (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jun 22, 2005)
After the recent talkfest at the Conference of Governors, it is time for follow-up action.
- Just How Moral Are The Moral Police? (Deccan Herald, R AKHILESHWARI, Jun 22, 2005)
When it comes to love in India, even the neighbourhood watchman turns into a moral policeman. The concept of privacy is not understood.
- Science In The Need Of Idiom (Deccan Herald, JAYALAKSHMI K, Jun 22, 2005)
Commercial pressures and funding drive much of research in the US today. Nothing proves this than a survey that showed that scientists indulge in fact-bending. More than five per cent of scientists admitted to having rejected data that contradicted their
- Search For A Wto Leader (New Zealand Herald, Fran O Sullivan, Jun 22, 2005)
World headlines were dominated for days last week by the ritualistic and somewhat archaic process to select the next Pope to lead the 1.3 billion-strong Roman Catholic church.
- This History Can Be Tricky (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jun 22, 2005)
Advani can claim some credit for his courage in pointing out to Pakistanis what Jinnah really stood for
- Don’T Dismiss Bjp, Or Advani (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jun 21, 2005)
Whatever happens to him personally, L.K. Advani has shifted the debate in the BJP, the Sangh parivar, and indeed in the subcontinent, on the definition of secularism and the role of Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi.
- An Expansionary Budget (Dawn, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Jun 21, 2005)
OMAR Ayub Khan, minister of state of finance, presented an expansionary budget to the National Assembly on June 6.
- Elections For Bolivia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2005)
FOR the second time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the South American nation of Bolivia.
- How The Patriarchs Speak (Telegraph, NIVEDITA MENON, Jun 21, 2005)
Not surprisingly, dramatic dialogues in any episode of the long-running sangh parivar soap draw heavily from the Ramayana,
- Central Asia — A Region Destabilised (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Jun 21, 2005)
Just what is the U.S. mission in Afghanistan? The "war on terror" is providing a timeless, seamless context for geopolitics
- Cadre-Taming (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 21, 2005)
Sunday, when municipal elections were held in Salt Lake and Calcutta, will be remembered as the day the Left Front government decisively broke with its own past.
- Is There Need For A New Company Law? (Business Line, L. V. V. Iyer, Jun 21, 2005)
The obsession with the size and age of the Companies Act, 1956, has overtaken any serious debate on why the company law has failed to be effective as a corporate governance tool and as a bulwark against corporate fraud.
- The Business Of Business (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Jun 21, 2005)
The theory of corporate social responsibility is essential for the success of businesses in the long term
- Can Doctors Do Business? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2005)
AS American medicine becomes more “managed” and doctors complain they can hardly make ends meet, young Indian physicians in the US are choosing entrepreneurship that gives them more freedom and could if successful, bring in greater profits.
- Alliance Gets Clear Majority (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jun 21, 2005)
However, the new regime is keen to get along with Syria at the economic and political levels.
- A Tale Of Two Fundamentalisms (Deccan Herald, Alan Riding , Jun 21, 2005)
“The fundamentalists committed an outrageous act. The reply was also monstrous
- Murmurs Over Andhra Pradesh Move On Quotas (Hindu, W. Chandrakanth, Jun 21, 2005)
The Andhra Pradesh Government's decision to provide five per cent reservation in education and employment for Muslims has sparked a debate
- Jawans Reach Out To People In Ladakh (Tribune, Tsewang Rigzin, Jun 21, 2005)
The deployment of the Army for the last five decades in Ladakh has gone through several stages, and the Army has touched every aspect of Ladakh’s life, economy, employment and the environment.
- Nehru At Root Of India’S Problems: Rss Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
K S Sudarshan averred that Muslims were not foreigners and they should not ask for minority status; he avoided mentioning Advani in his speech.
- Deuba's Detention Is "Unconstitutional" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Senior leaders of the seven-party alliance in Nepal on Sunday met the former Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, who is in police custody after defying the royal anti-graft Commission, and expressed solidarity with the ousted leader.
- Furrowing The Black Gold Amidst Sand And Clay (Deccan Herald, Justin Blum, Jun 20, 2005)
Major companies faced with tougher prospects for developing big new oil fields around the world are sinking billions of dollars into projects to wring oil out of deposits of petroleum buried amid sand and clay.
- An Issue Of Legitimacy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2005)
EVEN had the European constitution scraped through in the French and Dutch referendums — the most that could have been hoped for after so many months of gloomy polls — the union would still have been in crisis.
- System’S Transparency (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 20, 2005)
The effectiveness of parliament and the provincial assemblies remains stymied because of the federal and provincial governments’ authoritarian attitude towards the opposition and their stubborn refusal to respect dissent.
- Counterview: Level Playing Field Doesn't Exist (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Jun 20, 2005)
Should we celebrate because 70,000 dollar- millionaires were discovered in India at last count? Or because the number of millionaires worldwide bloated by 600,000 in 2004?
- Middle: Musharraf's Real Face (Times of India, ALI DAYAN HASAN, Jun 20, 2005)
Teach the bitch a lesson. Strip her in public". As one of the police officers told me, these were the orders issued by their bosses.
- Absence Of Land Reform (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jun 20, 2005)
There is a hierarchical system of mutual favours between political leaders and local influentials in Pakistan
- Suu Kyi’S Poignant Milestone (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Aung Suu Kyi’s plight has attracted worldwide attention. Her cause has been championed by the EU.
- The Leader Article: Such A Rewarding Partnership (Times of India, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 20, 2005)
On June 18, the warring Ambani siblings announced the settlement of their much-publicised dispute over the ownership and control of a vast industrial empire.
- Nuclear Power Is Not Cheap (Indian Express, K.N. REDDY , Jun 20, 2005)
Though nuclear power currently constitutes only about 3 per cent of the country’s generating capacity,
- Ysr, It’S Regressive (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
The fact that it was redeeming an election promise, does not make it right. The fact that opposition parties,
- Hang In There (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 20, 2005)
Tokyo, generally perceived to be under Washington's tutelage in foreign policy matters, has shown admirable independence in not breaking ranks with G-4 despite
- Cet: What’S Common Every Year Is The Mess (Deccan Herald, Vijesh Kamath, Jun 20, 2005)
Over the last two years, the Common Entrance Test (CET) has become synonymous with confusion and controversy with the Karnataka government and private professional college managements locking horns over the sharing of seats and fee structure.
- In The Wrong Hands (Telegraph, Raju Mukherji, Jun 20, 2005)
The newly-appointed coach of the Indian cricket side, Greg Chappell, has blinked. Not once, but many times over.
- Politics Of Partition (Tribune, K. Subramanyam, Jun 20, 2005)
There is a belated debate on the responsibility for the partition of India and the role played by Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
- 'Til Death Do Us Part (Yahoo! News, Ari Berman, Jun 20, 2005)
Last April, with little media coverage, the House voted 272-162 to permanently repeal the estate tax, which by then had been re-christened the "death tax" by anti-tax conservatives.
- Politicos Feeding Off Turmoil (Japan Times, RONALD MEINARDUS, Jun 20, 2005)
MANILA -- These days the political class in the Philippines is preoccupied with other things besides governing. Attention is focused on what one commentator has termed "the worst crisis any administration" has ever experienced. The opposition is . . . .
- Whom Will The G-8 Debt Relief Plan Benefit? (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Jun 20, 2005)
THE finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G-8) countries have done the politically correct thing by cancelling the $40-55 billion of debt owed by the world's poorest nations to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the African Development
- The Retail Road To Nirvana (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jun 20, 2005)
The Government's stand on allowing FDI in retail trade is still not very clear. It cannot reveal all its cards, as much would depend on what others offer.
- Will The No Vote Mean The Breaking Up Of Europe? (Business Line, Mohan Murti, Jun 20, 2005)
I was at dinner in Jean Luc Jeanroy's farmhouse in Seguret, one of the most beautiful villages of France at the foot of Dentelles de Montmirail in the Rhone Valley on May 29.
- Align With Democrats In Asia (Washington Post, Jackson Diehl, Jun 20, 2005)
Just a few months ago the United States seemed to have few choices in the strategically important Muslim countries of Central Asia. All were ruled by undemocratic regimes,
- Reinventing The Bjp (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jun 20, 2005)
Indian politics is in flux. The United Progressive Alliance is an alliance of unlikely bedmates, formed to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party out of government. It cannot last.
- Hooda’S Blunder (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 20, 2005)
Only recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had spoken against giving free power to farmers.
- Stray Incidents Mar Kolkata Civic Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Jyoti Basu criticises police for failing to arrest troublemakers
- Eprlf Demands Halt To Killings In Sri Lanka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2005)
Government, LTTE must strive for a solution through talks
- 'Development' Not For Tribes (Pioneer, Joseph Marianus Kujur , Jun 19, 2005)
Land is life for the tribal. Take his land and you have taken away his life. This old saying has proven to be true in the districts of Sundargarh, Keonjhar, Kalahandi, Jharsuguda, Raygada and Mayurbhanj in the mineral-rich state of Orissa.
- Burmese Years (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 19, 2005)
ON Sunday, Aung San Suu Kyi celebrates her 60th birthday — a milestone for most people, but an especially poignant one for her. In fact the more pressing measure of the passing of time for Ms Suu Kyi is the period of nine years and 238 days,
- Closed Window To The East (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Jun 19, 2005)
Lately, India has taken the lead; it has been vociferous in supporting a principle shared by most men of goodwill on this planet: The ideal of democracy.
- Whose Mines? (Pioneer, SP Nanda, Jun 19, 2005)
Orissa houses 3.57 per cent of the nation's population, while accounting for 20 per cent of its mineral reserves. Orissa's importance in the country's mineral map is underlined by the fact that its share of strategic minerals are substantial.
- In The Prison Of Guantanamo (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 19, 2005)
AT a session of the US Senate Judiciary Committee formed to look into the legal status of Guantanamo detainees, it was evident that there was concern among both Democrats and Republicans that the treatment of prisoners in the Cuba-based prison camp was su
- Elections For Bolivia (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 19, 2005)
FOR THE SECOND time in less than two years mobs have defeated democratic institutions in the poor South American nation of Bolivia. President Carlos Mesa, who tried to settle paralyzing political conflicts through a referendum and accords with Congress,
- The Royal Hunt (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 19, 2005)
There is an odd symbiosis between the hunter and the hunted. In early June, according to reports, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was hunting in a forest in Haryana.
- Coastal Drilling (Washington Post, Editorial, The Washington Times, Jun 19, 2005)
WHATEVER LOFTY words may be uttered about our nation's energy policy as the Senate debates its energy bill over the next few weeks, it is virtually certain that when the debate gets into details, parochial interests will take over
- U.P. Congress Plans To Bring Dalits Back (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2005)
Dissension blamed for drift of faithful
- The Situation Must Be Met (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 19, 2005)
We returned to Calcutta on Direct Action Day, August 16, 1946.
- The High Cost Of Misgovernance (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Jun 19, 2005)
THE president of Pakistan is busy in conducting war on terror and in finding a solution to the 58-year old Kashmir dispute which he says he could resolve in two weeks only if India and Kashmiris were to go along.
- Some Scars Of The Emergency (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 18, 2005)
SOME scars do not go away. They remind a nation of the rough period it has gone through. One ugly mark on the face of India is the emergency.
- Judge This (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 18, 2005)
When the Justice U.C. Banerjee Committee was constituted in September last year to inquire into the fire in the Sabarmati Express, there was scepticism about its outcome already.
- Us Motives In Iraq’S Invasion (Dawn, Tahir Tanveer, Jun 18, 2005)
WHAT were the motives behind the American invasion of Iraq in 2003? Was there a grand game plan of re-modelling and reforming the entire Middle East to suit Washington’s imperial design?
- Short-Circuiting Power Reforms (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jun 18, 2005)
The root cause of the power crisis facing the country today is the failure of successive governments to carry out the reforms. Repeated efforts to improve the finances of SEBs by reducing heavy cross-subsidies have failed to bear fruit mainly because...
- Hurriyat Back Home (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2005)
The Hurriyat’s visit to Pakistan underlines the fact that it is entering unchartered territory as far as Kashmir politics is concerned. It had, during recent months
- Himalayan Blunder (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2005)
The stand of the Indian government in relation to the Nepal crisis has been far from satisfactory with every passing day it seems Indian diplomacy in relation to Nepal is utterly failing out. The Indian government doesn’t seem to have any vague idea as...
- Appointments, Or Disappointments? (Tribune, Fali S Nariman, Jun 18, 2005)
The method of selection of judges is woeful and must be remedied. The Supreme Court judges can be trusted to decide cases independently and correctly. They perform a good job,
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