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Articles 10921 through 11020 of 16899:
- Mathrani Mud Makes Cong Dig Deep (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Dec 11, 2005)
The muckraking is getting murkier and the Congress is trying to figure out who saddled the party with Anil Mathrani, the former Croatian ambassador who is turning into a millstone around its neck following the Volcker report scandal.
- Sonia Is The Target; If She’S Down Upa’S Out (Deccan Herald, Bhim Singh, Dec 11, 2005)
“That the Congress should marginalise Mr Natwar Singh... ...shows that the party continues to suffer from internal crisis.”
- The Slick That Sticks (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Dec 11, 2005)
Perhaps the most arresting thing Mr Mathrani said in his interview with a New Delhi magazine was: “That Natwar and the Congress never knew is hogwash.” It is the last line of the Mathrani text and was tossed off seemingly as both a challenge and . . .
- The System That Failed (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Dec 11, 2005)
Every so often I find someone arguing that the present disarray in our government and politics will not go away unless we adopt a presidential system. But no one has spelled out the relevant specifics and told us what kind of a presidential system . . .
- Sonia Pledges Her Support To Rehabilitation Of Kashmir Quake Victims (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Dec 11, 2005)
Becomes first high-ranking leader to visit Teetwal close to PoK "I have come to share your pain and grief. You have faced the worst days but with great courage"
- Sonia Flies In And Out, Leaves Angry People In Her Wake (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 11, 2005)
She came, she saw, spent a total of eight minutes and cocooned herself in the high security army zone to spend the night.
- J&k: Sonia Sends 500 Quake-Hit Kids To Pune (Rediff on the Net, MUKHTAR AHMAD, Dec 11, 2005)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi late Saturday afternoon flagged off 500 children of quake hit areas of north Kashmir for their new home in Pune in Maharasthra where a Non Government Organisation has decided to adopt them.
- What's Cooking On J&k? (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Dec 11, 2005)
APPARENTLY, A US TRANSLATION OF AZAADI------ Is something cooking on Jammu & Kashmir of which little is known in India right now? It would seem so from reports emanating from Pakistan and Mecca where the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) . . .
- Advani Demands Jpc Probe Into Volcker Issue (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
BJP President L K Advani today demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Volcker findings on the Iraqi oil pay-offs so that the people would know what it was all about.
- Volcker: Jpc Probe Ruled Out (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The Government on Friday ruled out a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the findings of the Volcker Report but assured the Lok Sabha that Parliament would be taken into confidence on the Justice Pathak Inquiry Authority's findings.
- Lame In Lucknow (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 10, 2005)
In UP, Mulayam seems more at home with modern politics than the BJP or Congress
- Dual Power Centres (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Dec 10, 2005)
Natwar Singh has resigned but look at all the pain and suffering over the last forty days as confusion and chaos prevails between the dual power center's = PM who has no power to 'act' and another power center [Sonia Gandhi] who runs away from
- Buddhadeb Calls For Land Reforms Across India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Second International Congress on Kerala Studies begins in Thiruvananthapuram
- Kerala Can Have An Indigenous Growth Path: Mgs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Calls for `an imaginative politics of industrial development'
- Bjp Should Turn Mirror Inward (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 10, 2005)
Fresh from a morale-boosting victory in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party has returned to its favourite legislative pastime — disrupting House proceedings, staging noisy walkouts, and forcing adjournments.
- Govt Rules Out Jpc Probe (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The demand by the Opposition for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Volcker findings on food-for-oil scam was rejected by the government in both the Houses of Parliament today saying Justice R.S. Pathak Inquiry Authority had . . .
- Natwar Singh In Patiala (Tribune, Chander Parkash, Dec 10, 2005)
Was the beleaguered former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh in the city today to tax his and the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh’s brains in an effort to hammer out a strategy to overcome the crisis which he has been facing after the surfaci
- Indo-Us Relations On A New Level: Rocca (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Terming the Indo-US ties as being on a “new level”, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Ms Christina Rocca, said a landmark nuclear agreement between the two countries was “well in train,” brushing aside the notion that Washington was “moving
- Natwar Visits Amarinder In Patiala (Indian Express, MANISH SIRHINDI, Dec 10, 2005)
Former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh is at the new Moti Bagh residence of his brother-in-law and Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. Natwar, whose visit is under wraps, arrived in a personal vehicle here yesterday evening.
- No New Conditions For Realising India N-Deal: Rocca (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Asserting that the Indo-US ties have touched a “new level”, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca has said the landmark nuclear agreement between the two countries was “well in train”, brushing aside the notion that Washington . . .
- Volcker: Bjp Wants Jpc, Govt Says Nothing Doing (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Keen to keep the spotlight on the Volcker Committee report as long as possible, the BJP-led Opposition today raised a new demand—a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) enquiry into the Iraqi Oil-for-Food scam—and staged a walkout of the Lok Sabha . . .
- Generation Ex (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2005)
Geriatrics are becoming history Left and Right. What are they doing in the Congress, at the expense of young talent?
- Volcker: Govt Says No To Jpc Probe (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The UPA government on Friday rejected the Opposition demand for setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the Volcker committee report on the Iraqi oil-for-food scam, saying the Justice R S Pathak Inquiry Authority has a wide scope . . .
- Volcker Pay-Offs: Govt Rules Out Jpc Probe (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Government today ruled out a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Volcker findings on pay-offs in Iraqi oil deals saying the Justice R S Pathak Inquiry Authority had already started its work and its scope was "very wide".
- The Year That Was... (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Dec 10, 2005)
It was the coldest winter I can recall: late winter monsoon added dampness to the chill to usher in morning mists.
- Truth Dawns On Americans (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Dec 10, 2005)
The debate on the Iraq war has begun among Americans and the opinion polls are against Bush
- Lotus Stemmed (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Dec 10, 2005)
Three chief ministers in less than three years. This is what has happened in Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP, after a landslide win during the last assembly polls in 2003, is now facing a revolt from within.
- Wise Choice (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Dec 10, 2005)
It has been a good decision on the part of Congress President Sonia Gandhi to spend her birthday with the sufferers of the October 8 earthquake in this State. Arguably she is not the first leader to have fruitfully utilised the day to make it memorable.
- Vajpayee Aide Accused Of Involvement In Iraqi Oil Scam (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Former Indian foreign secretary Romesh Bhandari has accused a "very close" associate of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of being involved in the Iraqi oil scam and suggested a thorough probe into the matter to "expose" several faces of . . .
- A Weak Defence (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 10, 2005)
In an attempt to quell a growing storm in Europe over the CIA’s secret prisons, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has issued a defence based on the same legalistic jujitsu and morally obtuse double talk that led the Bush administration into a swamp....
- A Forgotten Kashmiri Leader (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 10, 2005)
Sheikh Abdullah, whose birth centenary is being celebrated this month, has not been given his due in India, much less in Kashmir from where he hailed.
- Implications Of Indo-Us Alliance (Dawn, M. Tayyab Siddiqui, Dec 10, 2005)
The July visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the US was hailed by both sides as a “historical watershed”. The true import of this visit, however, has not been sufficiently grasped by Pakistan, in particular the long-term adverse impact . . .
- Women Cab Drivers To Greet Tourists (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
BJP President L K Advani on Friday strongly criticised the manner in which the Manmohan Singh government is being run and expressed his doubts over how long the United Progressive Alliance could continue in power at the Centre.
- Delhi Defies Court Over Reservations (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
The Indian government says it plans to defy the Supreme Court and press ahead with a controversial measure to reserve private college places for students from low-caste or poor backgrounds.
- Musharraf Backs New Initiatives, Claims Mirwaiz (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Dec 10, 2005)
All Parties’ Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Friday that President Gen Pervez Mushrraf had assured him of Islamabad’s support for the idea of ‘united states of Kashmir’ as part of efforts to resolve the dispute with India.
- We Won't Allow Centre To Bury Volcker: Advani (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
BJP president and Leader of Opposition LK Advani on Friday demanded that the UPA Government must constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to investigate the Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal.
- Myths And Prejudices (Pioneer, N Jamal Ansari, Dec 10, 2005)
Mr KR Phanda thrives on controversies and his recent article, "Root cause of riots" (November 14) is no exception. Unfortunately, some of his remarks concerning the two-nation theory and riots demand further debate.
- The Crude Game Of Sonia Bachao (Pioneer, S Gurumurthy , Dec 10, 2005)
The Opposition has made an error by focusing too much on Natwar Singh. S Gurumurthy says all indicators point to Congress president Sonia Gandhi sanctioning the deal which brought the country much infamy
- Congress Inc. (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Dec 10, 2005)
Its 45 days since the United Nations Independent Inquiry Committee headed by Paul Volcker submitted its final report. Yet, we are nowhere near the answer to the central question: Was the Congress party as a whole engaged in trading activity with . . .
- Probe Ram Naik's "Business" Delegation Too (Pioneer, CP Bhambhri, Dec 10, 2005)
The Volcker Commission of Inquiry was instituted by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to investigate into the irregularities, if any, during the implementation of the UN "Oil-for-Food" programme in Iraq.
- Killer Earthquake (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Dec 10, 2005)
Lessons of the earthquake in Kashmir, worst in over a century, are both positive and negative. The shock of that intensity was perhaps needed to make Kashmiri speaking people of the state really conscious of the existence and plight of socially and . . .
- Coca Farmer Turned Saviour Of The Left (Hindu, Dan Glaister, Dec 09, 2005)
High up on the Bolivian altiplano near Lake Titicaca, an Aymara priest holds a green plastic lighter to a carved wooden cup containing strips of paper.
- Cpi(m) Meet, A Search For Positive Governance Agenda (Hindu, C. Gouridasan Nair, Dec 09, 2005)
Meet a follow-up on 1994 Kerala studies congress
- Ignoring The Facts (Dawn, Richard Cohen, Dec 09, 2005)
In one of the most intellectually incoherent major speeches ever delivered by a minor president, George W. Bush blamed “some Democrats and antiwar critics” in recent weeks for changing their minds about the war in Iraq and now saying they were deceived.
- It Is Time For Natwar To Go After Congress Big Fishes To Bring The Truth Out (India Daily, Sonia Joshi, Dec 09, 2005)
It is time for the truth to come out.According to media reports, ticking off Congress leaders who spoke against him in the wake of the Volcker controversy, former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh today said he did not attach any significance . .
- India Seen As Key Player To Farm Deal At Wto Talks (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India is seen as a key player to win over for a global deal to free up agricultural trade at next week's World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Hong Kong, analysts said.
- Natwar Attacks Un And Us After Stepping Down (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Natwar Singh, who had to resign from the Union Cabinet in the wake of UN-appointed Volcker Committee report, today attacked the world body, terming it as a "quasi-bankrupt" organisation with no ability to carry out its political responsibilites . . .
- Natwar Ticks Off Congmen Who Spoke Against Him (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Ticking off Congress leaders who spoke against him in the wake of the Volcker controversy, former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh today said he did not attach any significance to them.
- Sonia, Vajpayee Targeted In Parliament (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Opposition and treasury benches traded charges on the Volcker report with the NDA staging a walk-out in the Lok Sabha today demanding the resignation of National Advisory Council head Sonia Gandhi.
- Upa Ignored, Bjp Wrangles With Left In Rajya Sabha (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The decrease in Employees Provident Fund interest rate to 8.5 per cent, announced yesterday by Labour Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, led to an uproar in Parliament today.
- Nda Walkout Over Sonia (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
NDA members today walked out of the Lok Sabha demanding the resignation of Congress president Mrs Sonia Gandhi as the chairperson of the National Advisory Council, a post of Cabinet rank, in the wake of the Volcker report naming the Congress as . . .
- Mirwaiz Meets Musharraf In Mecca (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today met Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of an extraordinary two-day summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) at the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, . . .
- Volcker Issue Rocks Parliament Again (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Manmohan's clarifications next week
Rajya Sabha witnesses two adjournments
Matter raised in Lok Sabha
Demand for Sonia's resignation
- Setting The Priority Right (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The change in fortune is of course on account of the stunning outcome of the Bihar poll: it has recreated the opening the BJP had, in its mode of despondency, feared had closed for ever.
- Bjp Counters Pm's Charge Of Indulging In "Drama" In Par (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Taking strong exception to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's charge that BJP was indulging in a "drama" by disrupting Parliamentary proceedings, the main opposition party today alleged that the Prime Minister had himself engaged in such an act . . .
- Congress Did Not Know Of Jagat's Visit, Says Mathrani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
"The news was treated with great surprise and indignation" "There was a sense of disbelief in the party when the Volcker controversy broke out in October-November"
- Probe Charge Against Vajpayee Aide: Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
The Congress on Thursday demanded that the terms of reference of the Justice R.S. Pathak inquiry authority be expanded to go into the latest accusation that an unnamed close associate of the former Prime Minister, Atal Bihar Vajpayee, . . .
- Smart Set Floats On Volcker’S Oil Spill (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Dec 09, 2005)
RITU SARIN tries to take the oil-for-food paper chase from the Enforcement Directorate office to its possibly inconclusive conclusion.
- Cong Unaware About Jagat's Presence In Iraq:matherani (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Congress leadership was not aware of the presence of Jagat Singh and his cousin Andaleeb Sehgal in Baghdad when a four-member party delegation led by K Natwar Singh visited Iraq in January 2001 and the news was received with "indignation" . . .
- Natwar Off Its Back, Cong Gets Its Iraq Moment: Targets Atal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
K Natwar Singh has reason to be disappointed. He quit the Cabinet claiming he was doing so because he didn’t want to be an “excuse” for Parliament to be paralysed. No one listened.
- India Stalls Iran Envoy’S Visit To Kashmir : Shift In Me Policy Seen (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India has taken an unusually tough stance with Iran by insisting that its ambassador to New Delhi, S.Z. Yaghoubi, who wants to visit Jammu and Kashmir could do so only if he agreed to meet people selected by the pro-India government in Srinagar,
- Cong Seeks To Take Volcker Battle Into Bjp Camp (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Congress today sought to take the Volcker battle into the BJP camp by demanding that the Pathak Inqui should also take go into accusations that an unnamed "very close" associate of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was involved in the Iraqi . . .
- 'United States Of Kashmir’ (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Washington has reportedly urged India and Pakistan to find solution to the core issue of Kashmir within the parameters of APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s proposal for ‘the United States of Kashmir’.
- Congress Was Aware Of Jagat's Trip To Iraq In Nov: Matherani (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Former Indian Ambassador to Croatia and key witness in the Iraqi oil-for-food scam Aniel Matherani disclosed on Thursday that even before his explosive interview to a news magazine, the Congress leadership was aware of the inclusion of Natwar Singh's. . .
- Volcker Issue: Pm To Respond Next Thursday (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would respond in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday next to clarifications on his statement on the Volcker issue.
- Anatomy Of A Botch-Up (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Dec 09, 2005)
Kalyani Shankar says amidst the brouhaha surrounding Natwar Singh, the question remains: Where did the money go?
- World Can't Watch Dhaka Fall (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Dec 09, 2005)
As the region's biggest power, "larger than all the rest combined" as Junius R Jayewardene reminded the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's inaugural conference in Dhaka 20 years ago, India might expect to enjoy the same . . .
- Chocolate Minister (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Civil aviation minister Praful Patel has been adding quite a few feathers to his cap these days.
- Parliament On Hold (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2005)
PARLIAMENT’S time is precious. It cannot be wasted on flimsy grounds. The Opposition had every right to raise the issue of the Volcker committee report that mentioned the former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh and the Congress . . .
- Getting Out Of The Greenspan Groove — Winds Of Change At The Fed (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 09, 2005)
For a person who comes through, in his speeches and writings, as a person with a mind of his own, the new US Federal Reserve chief-designate, Dr Ben Bernanke, is unlikely to tamely toe the line of his illustrious predecessor, Mr Alan Greenspan.
- President Accepts Natwar's Resignation (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
President A P J Abdul Kalam today accepted the resignation of K Natwar Singh, the Minister without Portfolio, from the Union Council of Ministers.
- Bjp Playing Drama, Says Manmohan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its stand on the Volcker report, saying the party’s internal politics was coming in the way of national interest.....
- Natwar Attacks Un And Us After Stepping Down (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Natwar Singh, who had to resign from the Union Cabinet in the wake of UN-appointed Volcker Committee report, today attacked the world body, terming it as a "quasi-bankrupt" organisation with no ability to carry out its political responsibilites efficientl
- Bjp Slams Cut In Epf Interest Rate (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Condemning as "betrayal of the working class" the EPF Board's recommendation for one per cent cut in interest rate to 8.5 per cent this fiscal, BJP today alleged a "Left-Congress nexus" in the move and said it would protest against it vociferously . . .
- Ashamed To Be Speaker: Somnath (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
With his efforts to broker an agreement between the two sides coming to nought after a peaceful question hour in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, in a burst of frustration, said: "I'm ashamed to be the Speaker."
- ``Advani Resignation Not On Mumbai Meet Agenda'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Says it's celebration time, not for resignations or coronation
- Us Congress Threatens To Throw Out India N-Deal (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The chairman of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee warned on Tuesday that Congress would throw out any ‘opaque’ plan by the Bush administration to forge unprecedented civilian nuclear cooperation with India.
- Natwar Hands Over Resignation To Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Union Minister K Natwar Singh today handed over his resignation from Union Cabinet to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shortly after he returned from Moscow.
- Ups And Downs, Part Of Politics: Natwar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
"From tomorrow, I shall be writing a book and having a damn good time"
- Centre Clears 850-Cr. Health Sector Project Under Dfid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Funds likely to be released over a period of five years
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