Sunday, October 31, 2010

irishtimes.com:Indonesia volcano erupts again

Indonesia volcano erupts again

Indonesia's military evacuated villagers from the slopes of the
country�s most volatile volcano today as it unleashed a new powerful
explosion that claimed another victim and temporarily shut down an airport.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1030/breaking5.html

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Rupees and rituals: the rise and rise of Bollywood brides (The Irish Times, 08 Oct 2010, Page 12)




Rupees and rituals: the rise and rise of Bollywood brides
MARY FITZGERALD inNewDelhi
The Irish Times
08 Oct 2010

WHEN IT comes to her forthcoming nuptials, Ritika has a firm idea of what she wants. “My wedding will be simple and elegant,” she says. Her mother Kumkum nods in agreement. “I recently attended a wedding which was way over the top,” she recalls....read more...

Maoists on the rise in lopsided economy (The Irish Times, 04 Oct 2010, Page 10)




Maoists on the rise in lopsided economy

The Irish Times
04 Oct 2010

RAMESH WAS an illiterate teenage orphan when he joined the ragtag army that came to his village preaching Maoist revolution. During his years in the jungle he learned to read, write, and fire a gun. Ramesh says he left his cadre only because he wanted...read more...

IT jobs trickling down to rural India (The Irish Times, 05 Oct 2010, Page 12)




IT jobs trickling down to rural India
MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent in Bagepalli, southern India
The Irish Times
05 Oct 2010

WITH FANS whirring lazily overhead, several lines of young men and women peer at flickering computer screens as the sound of hundreds of fingers tapping on keyboards fills the room. At first glance, the scene could be that of any office in the...read more...

Boom for â€�God men’ as new rich seek balm for the soul (The Irish Times, 06 Oct 2010, Page 14)




Boom for â€�God men’ as new rich seek balm for the soul
MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent, in Karnataka, India This series was supported by a grant from Irish Aid’s Simon Cumbers Media Fund
The Irish Times
06 Oct 2010

INSIDE THE imposing five-storey meditation hall shaped like a lotus and covered with more than 1,000 marble petals, there are representations of several Hindu deities, but none as prominent as that of Lakshmi, a goddess of wealth and prosperity. Every...read more...

Caste divisions remain an obstacle to India’s progress (The Irish Times, 07 Oct 2010, Page 14)




Caste divisions remain an obstacle to India’s progress
MARY FITZGERALD
The Irish Times
07 Oct 2010

SUNITA JATAV never imagined that something as innocuous as feeding some leftover chapatti to a local dog would incur the wrath of her village council. Nor did she expect elders to impose a fine of 15,000 rupees (â��245) – an enormous sum for any...read more...

India stakes its claim (The Irish Times, 08 Oct 2010, Page 15)




India stakes its claim

The Irish Times
08 Oct 2010

INDIA IS so much more than “impossible to ignore”. This is the understated claim made for it by foreign secretary Nirupama Rao to The Irish Times recently. Seventeen per cent of the world’s population, 1.2 billion people, half of them under 24, live in...read more...

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

irishtimes.com:Legacy of bad planning

Legacy of bad planning

IN 2002, WHEN the Government published Ireland�s first National Spatial
Strategy (NSS), there was some incredulity that so many �gateways� and
�hubs� had been designated for growth � nine in each category; it was
as if our political leaders had adopted Gay Byrne�s oft-repeated Late
Late Show line about how there was �something for everyone in the
audience�. They could not bring themselves to make the really hard
choices that would have limited growth to a more select number of
centres outside Dublin, such as Cork and Limerick/Shannon, over the
period to 2020.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/1005/1224280402547.html

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