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Articles 3421 through 3520 of 7145:
- Polls: Dmk Wraps Up Seat-Sharing Exercise (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
The DMK on Friday completed its seat-sharing exercise by allocating 102 seats to its allies and keeping 132 seats to itself in the elections to the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly scheduled to be held on May 8.
- Indian Left Has Little Hope For Iran Gas (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Mar 11, 2006)
As Indian officials braced to participate in next week’s crucial tripartite meeting with Iran and Pakistan to specifically discuss the price of gas that Tehran would supply, India’s leftist parties on Thursday expressed the fear . . .
- New Logic For New India (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 10, 2006)
Even after he fell from grace and spent his last years in disgrace, there was one country where Richard Nixon was always welcome. For all its other angularities, China never forgot its indebtedness to the man who in 1971 began the process of extricating t
- Born Again (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Mar 10, 2006)
All of a sudden the Joint Intelligence Committee — “subsumed” in the secretariat of the National Security Council nearly seven years ago — has been revived.
- The Writing Is On The Wall For Poll Graffiti (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 10, 2006)
A West Bengal Government directive on ridding walls of poll graffiti has sounded the death knell for a popular means of communication.
- All-Round Criticism Of Budget (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Brinda Karat seeks more funds for the farm sector
- Dmk Seals Seat-Sharing Agreements With Congress, Cpi(m), Iuml (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The party will hold discussions with the PMK today, says Karunanidhi
Congress to contest 48 seats, CPI (M) 13, IUML 3
IUML to contest on the DMK's symbol
Congress chief "pleased" with the outcome
- Blasting Through Peace (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 10, 2006)
A colonial power was dismissed from a fragmented subcontinent.
- Great Leap Sideways (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 10, 2006)
The tenth Chinese National People’s Congress (NPC) has been remarkable for several reasons.
- Sonia Snarls (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
It appeared more than electoral rhetoric. For going beyond telling Congress workers in Kerala not to take lightly its CPI-M led rivals, Sonia Gandhi seemed miffed at the Left’s frequent carping in the capital.
- Hospital Hoodlums (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
The sight of political parties and social activists targeting the superintendent after an incident as ghastly as the one that took place at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital last week is a familiar one.
- Assam: Most Pol Parties Yet To Finalise Poll Nominees (Press Trust of India, Sukhendu Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
With barely a month to go for the Assam assembly elections, the scene remains hazy without formation of any major alliance by political parties and most of them not even finalising their list of candidates.
- Marxist Vs Maoist (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 09, 2006)
The most striking feature of the continuing wave of Maoist killings is its anti-establishment character.
- Govt-Left Relations Getting Worse (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
Relations between the Left parties and the Manmohan Singh Government are set to get more fractious in the days to come over India’s ties with the United States
- Bush Visit To South Asia (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 09, 2006)
Some change in US thinking on Pakistan
NEVER before has the visit of an American President to South Asia created such a political storm as the recent one by President George W. Bush to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
- Indo-Us N-Deal: Good Or Bad? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
India tested nuclear bombs in 1974 and has remained outside the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since then.
- Pieces In Terror Jigsaw, Two Top Lashkar Men Shot In Up, Delhi (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Mar 09, 2006)
Within hours of the terror strike in Varanasi, two top-ranking Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed by the police in Lucknow and Delhi.
- In Islamabad, On A Turning Wicket (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says HUSAIN HAQQANI
- Indo-Us N-Deal: Good Or Bad? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
India tested nuclear bombs in 1974 and has remained outside the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since then. US laws prohibit the export of nuclear technology to countries who have not signed NPT.
- Budget For Deceptions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 08, 2006)
An analysis of this year’s budget by JNU professor Prabhat Patnaik, a key figure in the CPM’s group on economic affairs, pinpoints inadequacies in the document from the Left’s standpoint:
- Issues Remain Unaddressed In Budget (Hindu, Subramanian Swamy , Mar 08, 2006)
The 2006-07 budget has no solutions for the pressing problems of the economy. Instead, we find a tax on kitchen tiles, packaged software, and share transactions just to make budgetary ends meet and not for dynamic policy.
- Lalu Statement On Banerjee Report Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The Government on Tuesday postponed its statement in the Rajya Sabha on the U.C. Banerjee Commission report on the Godhra train fire. An announcement to this effect was made by Deputy Chairman K. Rehman Khan.
- Russia As An ‘Unpredictable’ Petro-State (The Financial Express, DOMINIQUE MOISI, Mar 08, 2006)
When he first arrived in Paris in 2000 as Russia’s newly elected President, Vladimir Putin had a simple and reassuring message. “I am bringing you what you need most: a stable and guaranteed source of energy.
- Marxist Miff (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 08, 2006)
West Bengal’s ruling Left Front is livid at the Election Commission of India’s insistence on enforcement of the ban on wall writing by political parties. In earlier elections, the ban was enforced fitfully.
- Analysis - India-U.S. Ties Surge But Some Mistrust Lingers (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Mar 07, 2006)
A successful visit to India by U.S. President George W. Bush has dramatically bolstered ties between the two countries but decades of mistrust will not be erased overnight
- Congress Violating Code: Assam Opposition (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
EC in State to assess preparations The parties expressed apprehension that the Congress might resort to rigging
Opposition parties in Assam complained to the Election Commission on Monday that the Congress was violating the model code of conduct.
- Extreme States (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 07, 2006)
Leftwing politics is notorious for partisan wars. This is fundamentally due to the importance of violence in leftist ideology.
- Godhra Report Rocks Parliament (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
The government today informed the Rajya Sabha that it would table the U.C. Banerjee Committee report on the Godhra train tragedy in Parliament tomorrow, which found that the blaze in the Sabarmati Express was “accidental.”
- Watch A Space Called Tamil Nadu (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Mar 07, 2006)
Of the five states going into election mode, it is Tamil Nadu that will most affect national politics.
- On Naxal Trail, Chhattisgarh Slips In Gag Law (Indian Express, Milind Ghatwai, Mar 07, 2006)
With all eyes on the government-sponsored and opposition-backed Salva Judum campaign in Chhattisgarh, in a quiet move two months ago, the government armed itself with draconian powers that can be used to gag the media in the name of fighting Naxalites.
- Foreign Policy Approach Against Cmp And Security Interest, Says Cpi(m) (Hindu, K. V. PRASAD, Mar 07, 2006)
"Sum total of Bush's visit was to draw India closer into U.S. strategic plans in Asia"
India will have to pay unacceptable price for nuclear deal
Tie-up will trigger more American demands
Wrong to see nuclear deal in isolation from emerging alliance
- "Give Time For Diplomacy To Resolve Iran Issue" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Says Manmohan: Not part of any global move for regime change
Putin shared Manmohan's views on Iran issue
India wants comprehensive peace and stability in the Gulf region
- 62 Opposition Members Suspended In A.P. House (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Sripadsagar project tenders rock Assembly again
- Bridging The Indo-Us Nuclear Divide (Daily Excelsior, Abhijit Patwardhan, Mar 07, 2006)
The US president, George W. Bush, and prime minister Manmohan Singh signed the civil nuclear deal, which will go a long way to meet India's growing energy needs.
- Spurious Friendship-Ii (Statesman, BP SAHA, Mar 07, 2006)
The Congress top brass is keen to avoid a confrontation with Left parties in spite of provocation.
- Left Flays Indo-Us Strategic Partnership (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
The Indo-US strategic partnership today came in for sharp criticism from the Left parties who charged the UPA government with deviating from an "independent foreign policy" outlined in the Common Minimum programme of the ruling alliance backed by them.
- Tn:mdmk, Aiadmk Tie Up For Pondy Polls (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
MDMK today extended its alliance with the AIADMK for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections to the polls in neighbouring Union Territory of Pondichery too.
- Bashing Bush (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 07, 2006)
Left makes a spectacle of itself
Seldom has the Left become an object of mockery as during the Bush visit when it tried desperately to demonstrate that its sympathies for the UPA that was rolling out the red carpet for the US President . . .
- Bandh Call To Avenge Leader’S Death (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
The CPI (Maoists) has called for a Palamu district bandh on Thursday.
- Maoist Rebels Attack Nepal Town, Free Prisoners (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
Hundreds of Maoist rebels raided a town in eastern Nepal, bombing government buildings and freeing dozens of prisoners from a local jail, officials said on Monday.
- Cleaning Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 06, 2006)
The Election Commission has a constitutional obligation to clean up the electoral system.
- Exit Polls (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 06, 2006)
Strength and straightforwardness are usually rewarded with brickbats. Mr K.J. Rao, the election official who has not endeared himself to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal by his determined effort to rid the electoral rolls. . .
- Naxal Menace: Crpf To Have Intelligence Wing (Tribune, S Satyanarayanan, Mar 06, 2006)
Heavy casualty of its men in naxal attacks due to lack of adequate intelligence inputs, has prompted the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to set up its own Intelligence Wing despite the Ministry of Finance turning down its request for financial assista
- Naxalites Blast Railway Engine, Abduct Officials In Chhattisgarh (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
Armed Naxalites today blasted a railway engine and damaged a railway station in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, in an apparent attempt to stop iron ore export from Bailadila, and abducted half a dozen railway officials, police said.
- Pm’S Deal With Us Turns Left Red (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
The Left parties on Sunday said the “bad bargain” by India with the US in economic, defence, agriculture and other crucial fields dealt during President George W Bush's visit was detrimental to the country's commercial and strategic interests.
- Ec Tough Talk: No Ministers To Meet Poll Officials (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
With the Model Code of Conduct coming into force in West Bengal, the Election Commission has directed that no minister be allowed to meet any district magistrate, superintendent of police, official or authority involved in the poll process.
- No Vaiko Shadow As Dmk Hits The Road (Indian Express, JAYA MENON, Mar 06, 2006)
Tamil Nadu Sonia kicks off DPA campaign, vows to replicate UPA’s performance in the state
Though MDMK leader Vaiko’s exit from the Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA) stole some of the glitter from the finale to the DMK’s three-day conference here, all
- Wen Pledges Growth Will Lift Rural Poor (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 06, 2006)
China will channel its surging economic growth to narrow the chasm dividing its rich cities and restive countryside, Premier Wen Jiabao told parliament on Sunday in a speech tempering optimism with stark warnings.
- Churchill’S Iron Oratory (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 06, 2006)
Sixty years ago an ageing British politician made a speech at Fulton, Missouri, and conjured up a metaphor that helped define an entire era.
- Mine Fields Of Chhattisgarh (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 06, 2006)
Even as the Union budget and US President George Bush exercised metropolitan India’s imagination, more than 30 tribals were killed in a brutal land-mine attack triggered by Maoists in back-of-the-beyond Chhattisgarh.
- How Does Nuclear Deal Serve Our Interest? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Manmohan will make statement next week
Knowledge Initiative will help MNCs: Acharia
CPI(M) leaders cite need to adhere to three principles
- China Launches Exercises (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Beijing stresses importance of reunification efforts
- Jammu And Kashmir: Politics Of Death (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 04, 2006)
The real challenge before those who represent Jammu and Kashmir's people is to build pressure for the carnage in the State to end — not to initiate endless discussions on its constitutional future.
- Corrections And Clarifications (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 04, 2006)
The CPI (M-L) called a hartal and the CPI (M-L) Red Flag burnt an effigy of George Bush, both in Thrissur, Kerala, on March 2 to protest the U.S. President's visit to India.
- Bush, With Indian Myth (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
If you have been wondering why the Left’s been leading protests against President George Bush when everybody else was effusively welcoming him, and that includes the Congress and the BJP, the Left parties are just as incredulous why many Indians . . .
- Riding The Anti-Bush Wave (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Mar 04, 2006)
The start of a new Parliament session in Delhi once meant road blocks, dharnas, rallies, water cannons, lathi-charges and marches. But things have been pretty peaceful in the Capital over the last decade or so.
- Jharkhand: Three Cops Killed In Naxal Attacks (Indian Express, Manoj Prasad, Mar 04, 2006)
Three policemen were killed this evening in two seperate incidents of Naxalite violence in Bokaro district of Jharkhand.
- Pm’S Statement On N-Deal In Parliament On March 6 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will make a statement and give details of the Indo-US nuclear deal in Parliament on March 6.
- No Shortcut (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 04, 2006)
US President George W Bush has firmly ruled out his country’s mediation between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue and promised to convey in strong terms to Gen Pervez Musharraf that there must be an end to support to terrorist groups and dismantle t
- Naturally Allied (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 04, 2006)
Love and hate before the age of Bush
Politics and Play Ramachandra Guha
- Resistance Within (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Mar 04, 2006)
The Manmohan Singh government's apparent subservience to the U.S. invites protests from alliance partners of the Congress.
- A Trying Spectacle (Dawn, Javid Husain, Mar 04, 2006)
Afghanistan, a neighbour with close cultural, historical, ethnic and economic links with our country, has always occupied a very prominent position on the radar screens of Pakistan’s policymakers
- Improving Ties With Kabul (Dawn, Javid Husain, Mar 04, 2006)
AFGHANISTAN, a neighbour with close cultural, historical, ethnic and economic links with our country, has always occupied a very prominent position on the radar screens of Pakistan’s policymakers.
- Indian Left Slams N-Deal, Nehru’S Legacy Overturned (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 04, 2006)
While Indian scientists have welcomed the nuclear deal with the United States, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s allies the Left parties and other socialist groups have accused the government of “completely altering” the independent foreign policy foundatio
- The Left Perspective (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Mar 04, 2006)
Interview with CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat.
- Arroyo Lifts Emergency (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
After being assured by her adviser that the coup threat has eased, President Ms Gloria Macapagal Arroyo lifted the state of emergency exactly a week after she issued the controversial declaration to quell an attempt to overthrow her government.
- Editorials (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 04, 2006)
A different poll
Five days, and it’s now a Test
- Azad Asks Hurriyat To Change Attitude (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said that separatist leaders of Hurriyat Conference are neded to bring change in their attitude and should actively participate in the dialogure process over Kashmir as no solution to any problem is possible by . . .
- Countdown Begins (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 04, 2006)
Ensuring free and fair polls is the first priority
- Two Policemen Killed In Naxal Attack (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 04, 2006)
At least two policemen were killed on Friday night and another was injured in a naxal attack on a police outpost and a CISF camp on the Bokaro-Dhanbad border in Bokaro district, about 25 km from district headquarters, a top police officer said here.
- Nationwide Protests Led By Left Mar Bush Visit (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Tens of thousands of activists led by the Left parties, which provide crucial support to the UPA government from outside, today staged protests across the country to denounce the visit of US President George Bush whom they dubbed a "war criminal".
- Left, Bjp Demand Pm's Statement On Indo-Us Pact (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
With India and the US clinching the nuclear deal, members belonging to Left parties and BJP in the Rajya Sabha today vociferously demanded a statement from the Prime Minister on the agreement.
- Wb: Bjp Urges Ec To Defer Assembly Poll (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
Citing lack of time for campaign for the coming assembly election in West Bengal, BJP today urged the Election Commission to defer the election schedule, though its ally Trinamool Congress has welcomed it.
- Red Citadel On The Radar (Indian Express, SUBRATA NAGCHOUDHURY, Mar 03, 2006)
The dramatic three-phase reconnaissance exercise by the Election Commission (EC) teams over the past two months, . . .
- Why It’S Not Just About Nuclear Power (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Mar 03, 2006)
The understanding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh clinched with visiting US President George W. Bush today was only peripherally about renewing civil nuclear energy cooperation.
- Bush Heads To Hyderabad And More Protests (Reuters, Terry Friel, Mar 03, 2006)
U.S. President George W. Bush heads to one of India's premier tech hubs, Hyderabad, and into more protests on Friday after sealing a landmark nuclear cooperation deal with the world's largest democracy.
- Chidambaram Overcautious (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Mar 03, 2006)
There is a danger in trying to please a lot of people simultaneously. You might end up spreading the happiness so thinly that no one is overjoyed. On the contrary, everyone feels a little dissatisfied.
- India, U.S. Seal Nuclear Deal Amid Anti-Bush Rallies (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 03, 2006)
India and the United States sealed a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation pact on Thursday, the centrepiece of President George W. Bush's first visit to the world's largest democracy.
- Budget Over, India's Reforms To Resume After Polls (Reuters, Surojit Gupta and Charlotte Cooper, Mar 03, 2006)
India's coalition government steered clear of tackling economic reforms opposed by its communist allies in this week's 2006/07 budget, preferring to hold fire until state elections are over in May, analysts say.
- Students Unions Protest In Tripura Against Bush Visit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2006)
While the Student Federation of India (SFI) organised rallies and demonstration throughout the state from Wednesday, SUCI and AIDSO called for strike in educational institutions.
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