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Articles 4721 through 4820 of 13380:
- J&k Producing 500 Doctors Every Year (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Apr 30, 2006)
In the last decade or so, the number of MBBS graduates that India produces every year has multiplied by several thousands and the number is going up each day.
- Vultures! Who? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 30, 2006)
Discussing vultures may not be a very idea of spending a Sunday morning. Their sheer sight evokes disgust. It is obviously because of their association with death.
- Democratic Polls Worry Bengal Reds (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Apr 30, 2006)
In a week that has witnessed needless euphoria over the victory of Maoist-inspired mob power in the streets of Kathmandu, it may be prudent to celebrate a dramatic but silent victory of Indian democracy right on our doorstep.
- Challenge Of Coexistence With India (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Apr 30, 2006)
Having been created in the teeth of India’s opposition, whose Hindu majority considered the division of “Bharat Mata” (Mother India) a sacrilege, Pakistan has had to contend with India’s hostility from its very birth.
- Cpm Activist Killed In J&k (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Militants killed a CPM activist and injured three others, including a sarpanch, while the security forces arrested a Jaish ultra along with 40 kg of explosives in Jammu and Kashmir overnight, official sources said.
- Us Interested In Final Settlement To Kashmir (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
The US has an "interest" in seeing if a "final settlement" of the Kashmir issue can be reached and was trying to help build on the progress made by India and Pakistan on the Composite Dialogue.
- Bending Over Backwards (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 29, 2006)
THE third round of talks between Pakistan and India on conventional confidence building measures ended on Thursday with little success, as New Delhi rejected Islamabad's proposal for demilitarisation of Occupied Kashmir while also turning down its . . .
- Pakistan's Fault Line (Pioneer, BHARAT VERMA, Apr 29, 2006)
The so-called land of the pure, Pakistan, on its creation in 1947 had approximately 13 per cent minorities residing within an Islamic population of 76 million. In its unholy fervour to achieve physical instead of the spiritual purity, the minorities . . .
- An Open Letter To The Hon'ble Pm (The Economic Times, V RAGHUNATHAN, Apr 29, 2006)
In our country, we have more varieties of haves and have-nots than most. We have the rich haves and the poor have-nots; the urban haves and the rural have-nots; the higher-caste haves and the backward-caste have-nots; the educated haves and the . . .
- With A Plot From Bangladesh (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 29, 2006)
Investigation into the Varanasi bombings leads to the fact of Bangladesh's emergence as a base for Islamist terrorism.
- Accord On New Cbms (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 29, 2006)
Even though basically of a technical nature, the four confidence-building measures, including the finalisation of “ground rules” along the international border, agreed to by Pakistan and India on Thursday, constitute a step forward in the on-going . . .
- Count The Votes For Democracy (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 29, 2006)
The outcome of the by-elections in Jammu and Kashmir proves that the hardy plant of democracy survives despite the jehadi challenge.
- Us Asks Cong To Clear Sale Of F-16 Jets To Pakistan (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Apr 29, 2006)
THE Bush administration will formally ask the U.S. Congress to approve the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, Undersecretary of State R. Nicholas Burns said on Thursday.
- Us Warns Naxalites May Pose A Long-Term Challenge In India (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Apr 29, 2006)
The United States today warned Naxalites in the eastern India are "growing in sophistication and lethality and may pose a significant long-term challenge.
- J-K: President To Address Legislature's Joint Session (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Accepting the invitation of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, President A P J Abdul Kalam will address a joint session of the state legislature in Srinagar, an official spokesman said.
- Triumph Of Politics (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 29, 2006)
The first thing that strikes one about Monday's by-elections in four Assembly constituencies in Jammu & Kashmir, the results of which were announced on Thursday, was the high percentage of polling.While the average was 61 per cent, the turnout at . . .
- America Slams Indian Laws On Fight Against Terrorism (Hindustan Times, S Rajagopalan, Apr 29, 2006)
India’s fight against terrorism is “hampered by its outdated and overburdened law enforcement and legal systems”, says the US State Department's annual country reports on terrorism. But the report also praises India for improving its “tactics . . .
- Record Victory (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 29, 2006)
This was the first popular election that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had contested and what a victory he scored! The record margin of over 58,000 votes by which he won the Bhaderwah Assembly seat gives solid legitimacy to . . .
- Manmohan Singh To Meet Hurriyat Next Week (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
Kashmiri separatists will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next week before he heads for the revolt-hit region to discuss possible solutions to the conflict.
- Cbms-Conflict Resolution In Tandem (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 29, 2006)
The third round of Pakistan-India dialogue on conventional CBMs has concluded with experts agreeing on some important measures, including finalisation of ‘ground rules’ for implementation along the international border. They also agreed not to develop . .
- Puppet Masters (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 29, 2006)
Investigation into the Varanasi bombings leads to the fact of Bangladesh's emergence as a base for Islamist terrorism.
- India, Pakistan Agree To Work To Finalise "Border Ground Rules" (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 28, 2006)
Part of conventional CBMs between the two countries
Agree on modalities for holding quarterly flag meetings in agreed sectors
Existing posts, defence works not to be fortified
Persons inadvertently crossing LoC to be returned fast
- India, Pakistan Must Get Serious About Nuclear Issues (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 28, 2006)
The fourth round of expert-level talks on nuclear CBMs between Pakistan and India has been wrapped up with a joint statement on Wednesday.
- Business As A Bridge Between Neighbours (Business Standard, T Thomas, Apr 28, 2006)
By developing trade with Pakistan, we can gain more because we have a much bigger and much more competitive manufacturing base.
- Security Guard Attempts Suicide In Kashmir (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
A security guard attempted suicide at the house of a legislator in a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, official sources said today.
- Time To Consolidate Democracy In Valley (Pioneer, Ghazanfar Butt, Apr 28, 2006)
Musharraf should concede self-rule to the people of POK before questioning India on the rights of Kashmiris, says Ghazanfur Butt
- Pak Cries 'Foul' On Cbm Talks (Pioneer, K J M Varma, Apr 28, 2006)
Pakistan proposed but India disposed. And that's what Islamabad says is the cause of contention.
- Iraq Leader Sister Killed (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
Gunmen killed the sister of Iraqi vice-president Tareq al-Hashemi in Baghdad today, interior ministry sources and two officials in his party said.
- China Irked As Nepal Trumps King Card (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 28, 2006)
Alarmed at the fall of King Gyanendra’s regime, China has rushed a delegation to Kathmandu to gloss over its unstinted support to the monarch and appease the new government.
- No Demilitarisation Of J&k, Says India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
India today rejected Pakistan’s proposal to demilitarise Jammu and Kashmir by pulling out heavy artillery, guns, rockets and mortars, saying it was its sovereign right to keep troop formations in the state.
- True To Form (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Apr 28, 2006)
The verdict in the four Assembly by-elections is out.
- India Rejects Pak Proposal To Dimilitarise J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
India today rejected Pakistan’s proposal to demilitarise Jammu and Kashmir by pulling out heavy artillery, guns, rockets and mortars, saying it was its soverign right to keep troop formations in the State.
- Cm Breaks Records In His Maiden Victory To Assembly (Daily Excelsior, Sanjeev Pargal, Apr 28, 2006)
Chief Minister and Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today broke all records of margin to win first ever Assembly election from his home State in his 30 years political career defeating BJP’s novice Dhanantar Singh alias Koushal Kotwal by a . . .
- Tainted Army Officers May Have Been In Line For Medals (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
As if being found guilty of killing five innocent civilians in a stage-managed encounter in Jammu and Kashmir was not enough, the Army now has more reason to cover its head in shame.
- Caught In A Trap Of Its Own Making (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 28, 2006)
Facing bitter electoral competition in three Assembly by-elections in the Kashmir Valley, the PDP flew Islamist colours, borrowing from tactics used by Sheikh Abdullah in 1977. This time around, the trick hasn't worked.
- Spring Time In India (Tribune, Lieut-Gen Baljit Singh (retd), Apr 28, 2006)
Spring manifests in the countryside and the suburbia through two elements, both peaking from mid-March to mid-April.
- 7 Tourists Among 20 Injured In Pahalgam Blast (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
Seven tourists were among the 20 persons wounded in a hand grenade blast at the crowded bus stand of Pahalgam in south Kashmir this afternoon, official sources said.
- Naxal-Hit States Allowed To Raise 9 Police Battalions (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
The Centre today sanctioned the raising of nine more India Reserve Battalions (IRB) comprising 9,000 police personnel for Naxalite-affected states, including Haryana.
- Festering Wounds (Tribune, Aditi Tandon, Apr 27, 2006)
It was an arduous journey. Not so much for the miles that lay between the source and the destination as for the flash of distressing images that it brought back at every crossroad.
- India's Protest Ignored, Musharraf Lays Foundation For Dam (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 27, 2006)
It will inundate large parts of land in northern part of Jammu and Kashmir: New Delhi
The dam is part of our water policy: Pakistan
The $6.5-billion project is part of Gen. Musharraf's `2016 water vision'
- Pakistan, India Work Towards Pact To Avert N-Accident Risk (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Discuss draft text of agreement, to be finalised at next meeting
* Talks on nuclear CBMs conclude, talks on conventional CBMs today
- Counting Today As Valley Eagerly Awaits Results (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Even as heavy turnout of electorate in all the three segments has caused perceptible anxiety in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which asked for vote on the basis of its 3-year-long Government, Valley is eagerly waiting for results of . . .
- Us Senate Hears Testimony For And Against Indian N-Deal (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Apr 27, 2006)
In a long hearing on Wednesday morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from both critics and proponents of the Indo-US nuclear cooperation treaty, now before Congress for approval.
- Troubled Neighbourhood (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Apr 27, 2006)
A volatile neighbourhood will have serious implications for India’s quest for stability and economic progress
- Leh Pashmina (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 27, 2006)
It is good that pashmina of Leh has come into limelight after quite some time. According to a report in this newspaper the Pashmina Society of Changthang has procured 3000 kgs of valuable raw material for dehairing at the United Nations Development . . .
- Cbi To Book 5 Army Officers For Killing 5 Kashmiris In Cold Blood (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Apr 27, 2006)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to chargesheet five Army officers, including a Brigadier, for the alleged abduction and murder of five unarmed, innocent Kashmiris in the infamous Pathribal “encounter” in Anantnag in March 2000.
- India Has Sold Its Nuclear Soul To The Us (Rediff on the Net, Brahma Chellaney , Apr 27, 2006)
The US waiver bill to give effect to the nuclear deal with India shows just how wide the gap is between what America promises and what it sets out to do.
- Saffron Agenda (Indian Express, SATISH K SHARMA, Apr 27, 2006)
Said my guide, “Sir, you are two weeks too early.” It was mid-October 2002 and I was visiting Kashmir for the first time. I was at Naseem Bagh, the magnificent grove of Chinar trees in the Kashmir University campus of Srinagar.
- Historical Links, Civilisational Affinities (Hindu, N. Ram , Apr 27, 2006)
Uzbekistan and India share a tradition of secularism and accommodating the interests and aspirations of diverse ethnic groups.
- Pakistan’S Mfn Blindspot (Indian Express, Amiti Sen, Apr 26, 2006)
The political games played by India and Pakistan have now spilled into the economic court.
- 12 School Going Children Among 32 Injured In Grenade Attacks (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
A day ahead of peaceful polls, at least 32 persons, including twelve school going children, were injured in separate grenade incidents in Tral and Kupwara today, while as a trooper injured in Batmaloo blast on Monday night succumbed today in a hospital.
- Royal Irrelevance (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Apr 26, 2006)
New Delhi should have realised it was futile to continue support to the king
- President’S Bodyguard Begins Counter-Insurgency Duties (Tribune, Vijay Mohan, Apr 26, 2006)
The President's Bodyguard (PBG), largely a static unit for ceremonial duties at Rashtrapati Bhavan, has started deploying its personnel on counter-insurgency duties in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East.
- Words And Deeds (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 26, 2006)
It is just a coincidence that Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah have spoken more or less on similar lines at two different functions on the same day.
- Look Before You Leap (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Apr 26, 2006)
The "beauty" of India is that most people here are indifferent to subjects that apparently do not affect them directly. What are these "subjects''? Don't be surprised to see the list:
- Reshuffle In Pakistan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 26, 2006)
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, high profile Information Minister of Pakistan who raised hackles in India following charges that he sheltered Kashmiri militants in the early 90's, has been divested of his portfolio in a minor re-shuffle of the Cabinet . . .
- Who Is Afraid Of Peace With Pakistan? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Apr 26, 2006)
There is no dishonour in exploring the flexibility and leeway provided in the Constitution to satisfy the demand for self-governance in Kashmir.
- Justice Kohli Transferred To Jharkhand (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
A day ahead of peaceful polls, at least 32 persons, including twelve school going children, were injured in separate grenade incidents in Tral and Kupwara today, while as a trooper injured in Batmaloo blast on Monday night succumbed today in a hospital.
- X-En, Supplier Held By Svo (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
day ahead of peaceful polls, at least 32 persons, including twelve school going children, were injured in separate grenade incidents in Tral and Kupwara today, while as a trooper injured in Batmaloo blast on Monday night succumbed today in a hospital.
- New Thrust In Indo-Pak Relations (Daily Excelsior, MAHENDRA VED, Apr 26, 2006)
There were reports that Omar Sharif, is a standup a Pakistani comedian will be directing a Bollywood film. Next month, breaking barriers- political, commercial and psychological-Pakistani cinemas will show three Indian films, including the 1960 . . .
- Cabinet Reshuffle (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 26, 2006)
THE long-awaited federal cabinet reshuffle took place yesterday as the President took oath of office from Senators Muhammad Ali Durrani, Saleem Saifullah Khan and Nilofar Bakhtiar, and Engineer Amir Muqam, Ms Sumaira Malik and Mr Zahid Hamid as . . .
- Pakistan Damaged Kashmir Or Vice Versa? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 25, 2006)
Syed Salahuddin, the Islamabad-based leader of Hizbul Mujahideen, the Indian-held Kashmir-based freedom-fighting militia, has said that Pakistan has caused “irreparable damage” to the cause of Kashmiri fighters by pursuing peace with India without . . .
- Jamaat Blues (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 25, 2006)
Last word has not been yet heard about the ongoing confrontation between veteran secessionist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and the leadership of his parent organisation, Jamaat-e-Islami (Jammu and Kashmir).
- Shift Gears (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 25, 2006)
Recent exchanges between New Delhi and Islamabad about the Kishanganga hydro power project in Baramulla district are for the first time laced with optimism.
- Ministry Of External Affairs X-Rayed (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Apr 25, 2006)
The blame game has started in the ministry of external affairs for the blotched policy formulation on Nepal and Indo-US nuclear deal. On both the fronts New Delhi is left with little option to manoeuvre out of the difficult situation as Kathmandu . . .
- No Halfway Houses Islamabad Must Open All Doors (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 25, 2006)
In one sense, the celebration beginning with Mughal-e-Azam in Pakistani theatres - that will hopefully end the 40-year drought of Hindi films in that country - appears to make . . .
- Corruption Is Security Threat (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Apr 25, 2006)
The "beauty" of India is that most people here are indifferent to subjects that apparently do not affect them directly.
- Separatists Don't Have Veto On Second J&k Roundtable: Govt (Press Trust of India, Ajay Kaul, Apr 24, 2006)
Taking a tough line, the Government has said the separatists groups in Jammu and Kashmir did not have a "veto" on the "success or otherwise" of the second roundtable conclave to be held in Srinagar next month.
- Pakistan Damaged Kashmir Struggle, Says Salahuddin (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
The commander of Kashmir’s largest militant group said on Sunday Pakistan had caused “irreparable damage” to the Kashmiri fighters’ cause by pursuing peace without winning more concessions from India.
- Chessboard Moves On Iranian Pipeline (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 24, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has talked to President Ahmadinejad of Iran on the phone and the two are reported to have “agreed to speed up work on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline”.
- Should Generals Speak Out? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Apr 24, 2006)
Commentators have described what has happened in the US this month as a virtual revolt, though confined to a few retired Generals. Unless put down firmly, they fear that it might become a contagion and spread to serving officers and spell the . . .
- Watch For Low-Pressure Area Extended (Business Line, Vinson Kurian, Apr 24, 2006)
The watch for the evolving low-pressure area over Southeast Bay of Bengal has been extended to the next 48 hours even as a number of weather foreign models showed the prospective system growing in strength and heading north, while skirting the . . .
- Umar Farooq May Meet Manmohan For Talks: Soz (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Apr 24, 2006)
Government committed to strengthening peace process
Advocates role for political parties as well
Assures to allocate funds for Neelnag
- Sc On Fatwa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 24, 2006)
All right-thinking citizens would wholeheartedly welcome the Supreme Court order that quashed a fatwa that forced a couple to separate on the ground that the husband had uttered talaq thrice to his wife in an inebriated state. As important as the . . .
- Pay More For Using Inter-Bank Atms (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 24, 2006)
Atm charges for withdrawing cash from another bank’s network has been raised but it may have little impact as majority of ATM users do not utilise this facility.
- Mughal-E-Azam Screened In Lahore, Taj Mahal’S Next (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Apr 24, 2006)
The official screening of the two Bollywood films — Mughal-e-Azam and Taj Mahal in Lahore and Karachi this week — will be yet another milestone in the journey to normalise relations between the two estranged neighbours.
- Expose This Scam (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 24, 2006)
One and all will be thoroughly disappointed. Indeed, the disclosure about bungling in the well intentioned scheme "for the development of Chinab river front at Akhnoor" is sickening.
- Cat Is Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 24, 2006)
The cat is out of the bag. The much-awaited "third major party" has emerged in "Azad" Kashmir as the occupied territory across the Line of Control is locally known. Barrister Sultan Mahmood has founded it under the banner of the "Jammu Kashmir . . .
- Trans-Kashmir Trade Talks On May 2 (Dawn, Qudssia Akhlaque, Apr 23, 2006)
Pakistan and India have agreed to hold talks on trans Kashmir trade and establishing new links in another major step towards reviving old Kashmiri links and facilitating greater interaction between people on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC).
- Stones Come Alive (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 23, 2006)
The town of Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh gets its name from the Khajur trees growing in abundance there, writes Ambuja Narayan.
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