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Articles 221 through 320 of 500:
- India Marks 60th Anniversary: (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh marked the 60th anniversary of independence from British rule by urging the country to work harder to free itself from the shackles of poverty, ignorance and disease.
- India Celebrates Independence Day (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told Indians celebrating 60 years of independence from Britain that "the best is yet to come".
- India Celebrates Independence Day Amid Tight Security (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Aug 16, 2007)
India celebrated its 60th Independence Day on Wednesday amid customary tight security, but unlike the previous year when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke of improving ties with Pakistan and other neighbours, the focus this year was on domestic . . . .
- Conviction Of Al-Umma Leaders (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, Aug 16, 2007)
WHEN Special Court (bomb blasts cases) Judge, Coimbatore, K. Uthirapathy told the young and studious-looking Mohammed Basith that he found him guilty of all the charges framed against him in the February 14, 1998 serial blasts cases, the latter . . . .
- Killing Spree (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 14, 2007)
It is the human tragedy, rather than the militants’ madness or the state’s failure, that is the most shocking thing about the latest massacre in Assam.
- Monsoon Flooding Spreads West Across India And Pakistan (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
Torrential monsoon rains that have killed more than 2,000 people in north-east India, Bangladesh and Nepal in recent weeks are now devastating north-west India and neighbouring Pakistan.
- Central Team Visits Assam (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Aug 14, 2007)
A high-level team of the Ministry of Home Affairs arrived here on a day’s visit to take stock of the situation in the wake of the killing of Hindi-speaking people in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Monday.
- Bloodletting In Assam (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 14, 2007)
COMPOUNDING the Centre’s failure in reining in the dreaded United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), a second wave of attacks by a Karbi tribal outfit has left more Hindi-speaking families dead.
- India Fears Violence May Mar Independence Day Bash (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
From the mountains of Kashmir to the forests of central India and the troubled towns of its remote northeast, troops are on the streets in a major security crackdown ahead of Independence Day celebrations.
- Illusions And Reality (Pioneer, Jagmohan , Aug 14, 2007)
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." These historic words, spoken by Jawaharlal Nehru on August 14-15, 1947, have their own fascination.
- Manmohan Condemns Assam Attacks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2007)
The recent attacks on Hindi-speaking people, mostly Biharis, in Assam that has left at least 16 people dead in the State’s Karbi Ablong district has been widely condemned.
- On The Run, Ulfa Finds Migrants An Easy Target (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2007)
Be it the violence perpetrated by the 28-year old United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) or the little-known Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF), it is the ordinary and faceless migrant from Bihar who has been the worst sufferer . . . .
- Sc Cautious, Govt Lax On Bangladeshi Migrants' Threat (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2007)
For the Supreme Court, the illegal Bangladeshi migrants are a security threat, but not for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government. Millions of illegal migrants do not constitute any threat to the country's internal security if one . . . . .
- In Chhattisgarh, Maoists Prevail (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Aug 13, 2007)
The Chattishgarh Assembly held a secret sitting for the first time. No visitors or journalists were allowed inside the House.
- Bjp-Jd(u) Panel To Report On Assam Violence (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2007)
Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and Janta Dal (United) on Sunday constituted a six-member committee of senior leaders to visit Assam.
- Hindi Bloodspill In Assam Again (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2007)
Four more Hindi-speaking persons fell to militant bullets in the killing fields of Karbi Anglong last night.
- India Scaling Down Flood Relief Efforts (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2007)
Indian officials said Sunday they were scaling back flood relief efforts and ending airdrops of supplies, as land routes were re-established to villagers who had been cut off by the waters.
- Gogoi Ready To Release Ulfa Leaders To Facilitate Talks (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 13, 2007)
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi is ready to release five jailed ULFA leaders to bring the group’s top leadership to the negotiating table for direct talks but doubts the outfit’s sincerity about joining the peace process as it is . . . .
- Now Probe Into Competence Of Indian Docs In Britain (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2007)
Indian doctors are among several overseas doctors whose competence to practice in Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is being investigated following an increasing number of complaints registered with the General Medical Council (GMC).
- 10 Hurt In Blast; Ulfa Man Killed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2007)
Ten persons were injured, four of them critically, when a powerful explosion rocked the daily fish market at Diphu town of Karbi Anglong hill district of Assam at around 6.30 pm today.
- We Can’T Be Soft On Terror (Asian Age, Arun Nehru, Aug 11, 2007)
The Sanjay Dutt case brings to focus several issues. Besides focusing attention on our legal system, it also highlights the issue of national security and our "soft" approach to matters of national security for the sake of vote banks.
- Who Monitoring Situation In Assam, Bihar (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Aug 11, 2007)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has begun to replenish stocks of drugs and emergency kits in the flood-affected areas of Bangladesh and Nepal.
- Tatas Rejig Tea Business, Form New Company (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2007)
Around 37,000 employees of the Tata-held tea gardens in West Bengal and Assam would be moving over to the new entity, Amalgamated Plantations Pvt Ltd (APPL), that is being created in accordance with Tata Tea’s restructuring plans to come out. . .
- India Should Rope In The Neighbours (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 11, 2007)
Floods are as much a natural phenomenon in India as they are in the rest of the world. But their calamitous impact on large parts of the country is clearly a problem of political will; or more precisely its absence.
- Upa Govt Keeps Its Promise; Mid-Day Meal Scheme On Track (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2007)
The UPA will be able to keep part of its promise made in the common minimum programme (CMP) on the mid-day meal scheme.
- Unpa Will Press For Vote On Nuke Deal (Asian Age, Venkat Parsa, Aug 10, 2007)
The UNPA on Thursday decided to press for a debate and division in Parliament under Rule 184 on the bilateral 123 agreement that seeks to operationalise the India-US nuclear deal. The idea is that the country should know who is on which side.
- Nothing To Do With Literacy (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Aug 10, 2007)
It isn't surprising that the moment there is some judicial verdict slamming jihadi terror, pseudo-secularists and Muslim communalists get into an overdrive, erecting a wall of alibis to make it appear as if one whole community is being targeted . . . . .
- Unpa To Grill Govt On N-Deal (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Aug 10, 2007)
Strongly opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal, the UNPA has decided to press for discussion in Parliament under rules which entail voting.
- Unpa To Oppose N-Deal In Parliament (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
The United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) said on Thursday it would oppose the India-US civilian nuclear deal in parliament and press for a vote on the pact during the monsoon session beginning on Friday.
- Unpa To Seek Vote (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Aug 10, 2007)
The United National Progressive Alliance will seek a discussion in Parliament on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal under Rule 184, that entails voting. This was decided at a meeting of the UNPA leaders here on Thursday.
- Two Killed In Assam Bomb Attack (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
At least two people have been killed and several others injured when a bomb exploded in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, police said.
- Un Official Says Climate Change Could Destroy Swathes Of Indian Farmland (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
As exceptionally heavy rains continued to cut a wide swath of ruin across northern India, a top United Nations official warned on Tuesday that climate change could destroy vast swaths of farmland in this country, ultimately affecting food production . . .
- Flooded South Asia Cries Out For Food Aid As Health Fears Ri (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
India battled on Wednesday to bring food and drinking water to millions of flood victims as South Asia's swollen rivers recede leaving a death toll of around 1,900 and a trail of destruction and fears of epidemics.
- India Should Rope In The Neighbours (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2007)
Floods are as much a natural phenomenon in India as they are in the rest of the world.
- Fear Of Disease Grows As Monsoon Flood Death Toll Hits 330 (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Fears are mounting that people forced from their homes by floods that have hit south Asia could be exposed to deadly epidemics as emergency teams struggle to deal with almost 20 million in need of help.
- Militants Kill 8 Hindi-Speaking Persons (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Aug 09, 2007)
Eight Hindi-speaking persons were gunned down and three others injured in an attack by militants of the Karbi Longri National Liberation Front and the United Liberation Front of Asom in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Wednesday night.
- Militants Kill 8 Assam Settlers (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Three children and five adults were shot dead by militants in army fatigues in a central Assam village this evening.
- Millions Left Homeless By Asia's Monsoon Floods (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Women and children were seen screaming for help from treetops yesterday as monsoon floods struck three countries in south Asia, leaving at least 280 people dead and 20 million washed out of their homes.
- Ultras Kill 12 In Assam (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Militants fatally shot 12 people in northeastern India's restive Assam state, stepping up violence ahead of Indian Independence Day celebrations, police said Thursday.
- A Trail Of Destruction (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 09, 2007)
The South-West monsoon, in a burst of fury, has left a trail of death and destruction in the central, northern, eastern and north-eastern parts of the country.
- Washed Away By Corruption (Hindustan Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 09, 2007)
In the end, it took one mighty nudge from the United Nations to put the news about the critical flood situation in north Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh and Assam back on the national agenda.
- Assam-Nagaland Border Flares Up (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Pre-emptive restraint from Assam was reciprocated with uncontrolled aggression from the Nagaland side today, triggering a second flare-up along their long-disputed boundary in just over a month.
- Fear Of Epidemics Follow Lethal Floods In Southern Asia (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2007)
Millions of people who have been left marooned by torrential monsoon rains south of the Himalayas face an uncertain future cut off from their submerged villages amid fears that epidemics would spread unchecked in the waterlogged region . . . .
- Ulfa Triggers Three Blasts, 3 Killed (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2007)
The proscribed ULFA triggered at least three blasts on Tuesday, killing three persons and injuring 13 others.
The first explosion took place in front of a police station in Jorhat in Assam. This was followed by two blasts — one at Nalbari in and another
- Manmohan Has Kept All Promises On India-U.S. Deal: Dasmunsi (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Aug 08, 2007)
“Government ready for any debate that the Opposition may want”
Meeting of party whips on August 9
It is for the presiding officers to decide on BJP’s demand
- Sonia Promises Help For Flood-Hit (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Aug 08, 2007)
People in Assam, Bihar complain of poor relief distribution measures
- Kaziranga Gets Back Ngo Saviour (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2007)
When two rhinos die in Kaziranga National Park on an average every month, Anwaruddin Choudhury is the last person to develop a thick hide.
- Sonia In Assam, Bihar (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2007)
As home minister Shivraj Patil and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi took an Air Force plane for an aerial survey of flood-hit areas, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh picked up the phone to promise central assistance for people in Bihar and elsewhere.
- Before The Flood (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 07, 2007)
Alarm bells have started ringing in the corridors of power but it is probably a little too late for the millions facing this year’s monsoon fury in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Assam.
- Pandemonium In Assam House Over Flood Relief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
Opposition stalls proceedings demanding a discussion on the issue.
- Fear Of Epidemics Follow Lethal Floods In Southern Asia (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
Millions of people who have been left marooned by torrential monsoon rains south of the Himalayas face an uncertain future cut off from their submerged villages amid fears that epidemics would spread unchecked in the waterlogged region, say relief . . .
- Fear Of Disease Grows As Monsoon Flood Death Toll Hits 330 (Independent (UK), Andrew Buncombe, Aug 07, 2007)
Fears are mounting that people forced from their homes by floods that have hit south Asia could be exposed to deadly epidemics as emergency teams struggle to deal with almost 20 million in need of help.
- Sonia, Shivraj On Assam, Bihar Visit Today (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to visit Bihar and Assam on Tuesday to take stock of the flood situation in the two states. She will be accompanied by Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
- Millions Left Homeless By Asia's Monsoon Floods (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2007)
Women and children were seen screaming for help from treetops yesterday as monsoon floods struck three countries in south Asia, leaving at least 280 people dead and 20 million washed out of their homes.
- A Unique Record Of Collecting Newspapers (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2007)
Here is a journalist with a different ambition. He collects newspapers from various parts of the globe with an aim to create a world record.
- 33 Injured In Three Bomb Blasts (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2007)
At least 33 persons were injured, many of them seriously, in three incidents of bomb blasts triggered by ULFA in Assam today.
- 18 Injured In Assam Explosions (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Aug 06, 2007)
Eighteen persons (33, according to PTI) were injured in Assam on Sunday in three blasts, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).
- The Armchair Revolution (Indian Express, NEHA SINHA, Aug 06, 2007)
The ruckus has died down. We are all elated that the Taj has ‘done it’ again — the pearly, monumental tomb, made it to a trendy and wholly unofficial list of New Seven Wonders of the World.
- Monsoon Fury (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
North India, Nepal and Bangladesh have been battered by heavy rains and serious floods.
- Bangladesh Agrees To Help India Tackle Ulfa, Huji Menace (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
With the home secretaries of India and Bangladesh concluding their talks here on Friday, New Delhi's major concerns — terror outfit HuJI's expanding network and deportation of Ulfa militants Paresh Baruah and Anup Chetia — again got lost in the . . .
- Fury Of Floods (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 04, 2007)
Every year, millions are forced to flee their home and hearth due to post-summer floods that take a terrible toll of human lives, property and livestock across the country, leaving a sea of stagnant water that can be just as deadly.
- Executive Authority Of Provinces Defined (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 04, 2007)
Resuming discussion on the Provincial Constitution report today, the Constituent Assembly adopted with an amendment the re-drafted clause relating to the executive authority of provinces.
- Terror Outfits Strike A Goldmine In Coal Pockets (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
Guess where terrorists in India are headed these days in search of RDX? Simple, one of the 500 coal mines across the country! India is home to the world’s third-largest coal deposits, and RDX, gelatine sticks and ammonium nitrate are among the . . . . .
- Monsoon Floods Kill At Least 186 In India And Bangladesh (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
Torrents of water washed away homes, crops and cows, leaving hungry and frightened villagers perched in treetops or on roofs as the death toll rose Friday from monsoon rains across northern India and Bangladesh.
- Floods Displace Hundreds Of Animals In Kaziranga Park (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Aug 04, 2007)
Hundreds of animals in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam were displaced after flood waters of the Brahmaputra submerged about 80 per cent of the park area.
- Millions Forced To Flee And 1,100 Die After Heavier Than Usual Monsoon Hits South Asia (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
Monsoon rains whipped the Indian subcontinent yesterday, flooding a wide swath south of the Himalayas and bringing the death toll in recent weeks to more than 1,100, with 19 million people displaced.
- After People’S Car, A People’S Bike (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
The two-wheeler version of the Tatas’ Rs 1-lakh car will soon roll out from Assam with a Calcutta-based firm ready to set up a manufacturing unit at Chaygaon near Guwahati in collaboration with a Chinese company.
- Bangla Vows To Nab Paresh Baruah (Telegraph, Nishit Dholabhai, Aug 04, 2007)
Bangladesh today admitted for the first time that Ulfa commander-in-chief Paresh Barua was on its territory and even promised to track down the man who is “heard” but never seen.
- Live Like The Sahibs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2007)
Stumbling on Burra sahib’s bungalow on the Internet excited us. The next week, we were to visit Upper Assam, the state’s picturesque tea region, to attend a wedding, and would have a day to spare.
- So Talkative (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Aug 03, 2007)
The Naga peace talks began 10 years ago with the signing of a ceasefire that came into effect on August 1, 1997.
- India-Bangladesh Talks Begin (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2007)
The two-day India-Bangladesh Home Secretary-level talks began here on Thursday with both sides expressing their security-related concerns, including the deportation of militants and political activists who had crossed over to the other side.
- Tellis Denies India Got What It Wanted (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 03, 2007)
The US take on the 123 agreement remains totally different from that put out by the Indian government, with one of the key US negotiators, Dr Ashley Tellis, even dismissing the Indian claim that the agreement gave little to the US as totally "erroneous."
- Terror Outfits Strike A Goldmine In Coal Pockets (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2007)
Guess where terrorists in India are headed these days in search of RDX? Simple, one of the 500 coal mines across the country! India is home to the world’s third-largest coal deposits, and RDX, gelatine sticks and ammonium nitrate are among . . . .
- A Division Of Assets And Liabilities (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 02, 2007)
The last scene at Westminster found British statesmen ready to dispose of Indian claims serenely. On Friday, Lords and Commons met only to witness their King’s own formal approval of the Indian Independence Act.
- Flood Evacuees Die In India Storm (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2007)
At least 28 people died when an overcrowded boat carrying flood evacuees and aid workers capsized in northern India, officials have said.
- Solace For Sanjay Dutt Likely (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2007)
The report of the committee on the Draft National Policy on Criminal Justice might give some solace to cine star Sanjay Dutt who has been awarded six years’ imprisonment for possessing an AK 56 rifle. While admitting anomalies. . .
- Court Lets Off Madani In Advani Murder Plot (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, Aug 02, 2007)
Radical Islamist Abdul Nasser Madani was on Wednesday acquitted of all charges in the Coimbatore serial bomb blasts case, along with seven others, but Syed Ahmed Basha, leader of an outlawed fundamentalist group, was convicted of involvement in . . . .
- Rail Tickets From Designated Post Offices (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Aug 01, 2007)
Indian Railways and the Department of Posts on Tuesday signed an agreement to allow the sale of reserved tickets through post offices spread across the country.
- Cbi Probe Into Fci Official’S Death (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2007)
The Assam government announced its decision to opt for a CBI investigation into the abduction and death of the Food Corporation of India executive director (North-east) Dr P.C. Ram.
- Pratibha Patil Wins Big (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Aug 01, 2007)
UPA nominee Pratibha Patil wins big and the BJP’s attempt to convert the poll into a game of realpolitik comes a cropper.
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