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Articles 12221 through 12320 of 16899:
- Congress Deliberates On Report (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2005)
The Congress on Friday continued its discussions on the political controversy it has been drawn into following the Volcker report.
- Altering The Rules Of The Game (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Nov 05, 2005)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is certainly going to face a tough time.
- Slipping On Oil (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 05, 2005)
Yes, Natwar needs to clear his name
- Plainly Untenable (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 05, 2005)
The Congress party plans to take the United Nations and the Paul Volcker committee to court, demanding full disclosure of the material on the basis of which it was concluded that the party and External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh were beneficiaries...
- After The Blasts, Some Good Sense (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Nov 05, 2005)
What with three serial blasts in Delhi, so many lives lost, the omens were bad.
- Azad’S Kashmir (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Nov 05, 2005)
A change of guard in J&K is finally to take place on Wednesday, when senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad will replace the PDP’s Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as chief minister.
- E-Mail To Azad (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Nov 05, 2005)
It is just a coincidence that on the day we had carried the news about the election of Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party we had also published a letter from a citizen of Bhadrawah in our "action please" column referring t
- Indian Communist Party Backs Foreign Minister Over Un Volcker Report (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2005)
The Communist Party of India [CPI] came out in support of India's External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh,
- All Were Notified: Volcker (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 05, 2005)
While the Congress has gone silent on Natwar, the CPI and the CPM have rushed to his defence saying there is no need for him to quit the Cabinet.
- Hollow Noises (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 05, 2005)
West Bengal PCC steeped in confusion A non-bailable warrant of arrest was issued several weeks ago against Adhir Chowdhury, Congress MP, from Murshidabad, coinciding with a similar warrant against a Left Front minister, Narayan Biswas.
- Right To Infromation (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Nov 05, 2005)
The Right to Information (RTI) Act, which gives legal right to people to seek information from the Government and curb corruption, has come into force, placing India among the 55 countries that have such a legislation.
- On Records (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 05, 2005)
I have no objection to any probe ... the report has as much validity as that prepared by the CIA director on the alleged existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
- India Must First Begin Separation Of Nuclear Facilities, Says U.S. (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Nov 04, 2005)
Administration officials praise India's anti-Iran vote, Saran's promise on separation
Broad vision for U.S.-India relationship outlined
It must craft a credible and transparent plan: Burns
- Volcker Goes On Attack (The Financial Express, HARISH DUGH, Nov 04, 2005)
The former Chairman of US Federal Reserve Paul Volcker and the man who opened a Pandora’s box in the Iraq Oil-for-Food scam, indicting many world companies and government officials,
- Cia's 'Black Sites' Breed More Evil (Asia Times, Ehsan Ahrari, Nov 04, 2005)
The US has exclusive facilities across the world to interrogate militants ... al-Tamara detention center, eight kilometers out of Rabat in Morocco, houses dozens of people arrested in Pakistan, while others are kept in Egypt, Thailand, Saudi Arabia . . .
- On A Common Plane (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 04, 2005)
Yet, today, thanks to very strange circumstances, Singh and Galloway find themselves in the same boat.
- False Virtue (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 04, 2005)
Abiding by the rule of law cannot be a matter of political strategy. But the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) seems to think differently.
- Fall Of Bihar -By Shree Shankar Sharan (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 04, 2005)
It is a great pity that a promising state like Bihar should be dragged down by misgovernance and labelled as backward. There is nothing basically wrong with Bihar.
- Bjp Writes To Manmohan On Volcker Report (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 04, 2005)
Continuation of Natwar an embarassment
Criminal proceedings sought against those indicted
Government should seek detailed evidence from U.N. authorities
Letter points to a series of "coincidence"
- Two Anniversaries (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Nov 04, 2005)
By a remarkable coincidence the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi and the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel fall on the last day of October.
- Bjp Demands Natwar's Departure Over Iraqi Oil Scandal (India Daily, Balaji Reddy, Nov 04, 2005)
Stepping up its offensive, India's main opposition party BJP shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
- The Cia Bureaucracy (Dawn, David Ignatius, Nov 03, 2005)
THE most dangerous moment in any transition is halfway through, when the old structure is badly weakened but the new one isn’t yet strong enough to carry the load.
- Azad’S Kashmir (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 03, 2005)
Ghulam Nabi Azad's chiefministership has been the occasion for many exclamations.
- Azad Sworn In Chief Minister (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Nov 03, 2005)
PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig takes oath as Deputy Chief Minister
- Delhi Blasts Traced To Srinagar, Muzaffarabad (Daily Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 03, 2005)
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and 12 nominees of his Council of Ministers (CoM) were sworn-in today by Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha at Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC).
- Oil Stains On A Minister (Indian Express, T V R Shenoy, Nov 03, 2005)
Mani Shankar Aiyar must be a very worried man. He may be in charge of the petroleum ministry but even fellow Congressmen joke, behind closed doors of course, that Natwar Singh is the ‘oil minister’!
- It’S Too Early For Optimism In Assam (Deccan Herald, Deepak K Upreti, Nov 03, 2005)
While an ULFA-approved civil society group and the Centre are talking, the police and the army are queering the pitch.
- A Challenge For Azad (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2005)
THE bomb blast in Srinagar in which 10 people were killed on Wednesday is a grim reminder of the challenge facing the new Chief Minister.
- Tasks Before Azad (Daily Excelsior, H C Katoch, Nov 03, 2005)
Prevailing uncertainty set-tles and Azad sits on the throne of the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir State.
- Baton Change (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 03, 2005)
After a fine half-term at the helm, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed has stepped down to make way for a Congress-led government in the State.
- Car Bomb Explodes Near Mufti’S Residence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2005)
Barely a few hours before the swearing in of Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad as the 10th Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir,
- Cabinet Revamp Before Nov 20 (Deccan Herald, PTI, Nov 03, 2005)
The exercise is expected to be mainly a Congress affair but Sibu Soren of JMM could again find a berth in the Cabinet.
- The Volcker Report And Troubling Issues (Hindu, Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Nov 03, 2005)
The fifth and final report of the "Independent Inquiry Committee" on the "manipulation" by Iraq of the United Nations' Oil-For-Food Programme (OFFP)
- 'Fdi In Politics' (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 03, 2005)
The external affairs minister, Kunwar Natwar Singh, can be forgiven for feeling like the Wodehousian character, Roderick Spode, who while out for a walk in the garden stepped on the sharp end of a hoe whereupon the handle leapt up and conked him on the no
- Bush Officials Oppose Amending India Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Nov 03, 2005)
The Bush administration on Wednesday warned against efforts to impose new conditions on a controversial civilian nuclear power agreement with India saying such amendments would be "deal breakers."
- Why This Fear Of Dalit Freedom? (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Nov 03, 2005)
Along with the prospects of upper castes, the problems of the lower castes too have got globalised
- Reality In Kashmir: The Quake Opened A Window (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Nov 02, 2005)
One believed that only some kind of self-determination vote offered to the people of Kashmir would exorcise from their minds the ghost of plebiscite.
- Editorials (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 02, 2005)
Whose Congress is it?
Understanding the state of the nation
Ambika Soni, who personified a particular Congress culture under Sanjay Gandhi thirty years ago,
- Good Bye Or Good Riddance? (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Nov 02, 2005)
Why not? should be the question as we need to turn back and take a leaf from history. Kashmir deserves a relief from the agony it had been put through earlier. What they say a Good Bye can be a Good Riddance for others, Javed Iqbal Shah comments . . .
- Age Of Wisdom (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 02, 2005)
The will to retire is not very strong among most Indians. The resistance is rooted in reasons both economic and psychological — in that order.
- Azad To Be Sworn In As Tenth J&k Cm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2005)
For the Congress, Mr Azad has proved to be a lucky mascot with his three-decade long association with the party.
- Why This Fear Of Dalit Freedom? (Deccan Herald, Kancha Ilaiah, Nov 02, 2005)
Along with the prospects of upper castes, the problems of the lower castes too have got globalised
- Baton Change (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 02, 2005)
Azad faces serious challenges as well as responsibilities in Kashmir
- Bush’S Troubled Presidency (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Nov 02, 2005)
While we in Pakistan have had our minds and energies focused, and quite rightly so, on the catastrophic earthquake and its fearsome consequences, the Americans and most of the rest of the world have been watching, some with glee and others with . . .
- Rosa’S Amazing Grace (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Nov 02, 2005)
In the summer of 1990, Nelson Mandela, finally a free man after nearly three decades of incarceration, arrived in the United States of America.
- Bring The Past To Life (Telegraph, Janaki Nair, Nov 01, 2005)
Rather than fight for custody of the past, those who frame syllabi would do better to look at conditions in the classroom, writes Janaki Nair
- Why America Loves Manmohan (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Nov 01, 2005)
US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs R Nicholas Burns says that India and US both stand to gain by "knitting together our two nations in a dense web of healthy economic connections."
- Sri Lanka: Elections And The Tsunami (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Nov 01, 2005)
Tsunami relief has not emerged as a major, island-wide issue with the potential to sway the electorate. It now jostles for space with other local issues.
- Azad's Crown Of Thorns (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Nov 01, 2005)
If Ghulam Nabi Azad manages to stay focussed on the day-to-day problems of Kashmiris, it will constitute a welcome break with the State's unhappy past.
- India’S Interests In Iran (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Nov 01, 2005)
India's relations with Iran continue to be a subject of debate after New Delhi voted in favour of the resolution sponsored by the European Union-Three on the Iranian nuclear issue at the September 24 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting . . .
- No Super Power's Stooge (Daily Excelsior, R K Bhatnagar, Oct 31, 2005)
Indira Gandhi, the two time Prime Minister of India and the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru was born on November 19, eightyeight years ago in Allahabad in 1917.
- Blind Item (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 31, 2005)
One of the most important things a gossip column must have is the “blind item.” When you use people’s names you can be sued, so blind items are safe — yet the reader is intrigued as to whom the item is all about.
- The Changeover: Democracy At Work (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 31, 2005)
Ghulam Nabi Azad's accession to power could help end the historic devaluation of democracy in Jammu and Kashmir.
- The Moving Finger (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 31, 2005)
The script follows its own inexorable grammar. The International Atomic Energy Agency has voted in September.
- Politics Prevails (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 31, 2005)
There can be only two cheers for the incoming chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Entangled Loyalties (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 31, 2005)
A detailed report in this newspaper that victorious People's Democratic Party candidate Nizamuddin Bhat in the Legislative Council elections in the Valley did not get his full quota of allotted votes of the members of local bodies belonging to the . . .
- Licence To Kill (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Oct 31, 2005)
Last Sunday in Brazil, a country with the second-highest rate of gun deaths on the planet, almost two-thirds of Brazilians voted against a total ban on the sale of firearms. Explain that.
- Anti-Israel Threat Is No Iranian Joke (San Francisco Chronicle, Edotorial, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct 31, 2005)
Nearly universal dismay aroused by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's demand for Israel to be "wiped off the map" points to diplomatic naivete on the part of the recently elected leader in Tehran.
- State To Get 90 Mw Of Power At Cheap Rates (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
Power charges will not be enhanced during UDF Government's term: Sayeed
- Iran: ``India Should Make Amends'' (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Oct 30, 2005)
New Delhi should abstain from voting at the IAEA, says Prakash Karat
- History Or His Story? (Hindustan Times, Karan Thapar, Oct 30, 2005)
Was Jinnah the cause of partition or did the British think of the idea first?
- Serial Blasts Kill 65 In Delhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
A majority of the victims were women and children as they were busy shopping for the Dhanteras and Diwali festivals.
- Azad: Restoring Normality In J&k A Challenge (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
Says militants are his main political rivals
Claims "healing touch" is basically a Congress policy
Says Ministry needs to be downsized
"I will never make any effort to break any party"
- Bihar: The Saala Party Ends (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
The Laloo clan appears to be fractured, just as the mandate is expected to turn out to be.
- Rosa Parks Given An Unprecedented Honour (Hindu, Gary Younge, Oct 30, 2005)
The late civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, will be the first woman to lie in honour in the United States Capitol Rotunda — a tribute formerly reserved for Presidents, soldiers and prominent politicians.
- Give Us Power, What Would Separatists Say (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Oct 30, 2005)
How naïve and self deceiving is to draw an imaginary link between the aspirations of people and the demands of politicians, Hilal Ahmad reacts to an article by Sadiq Ali published in Greater Kashmir
- Next Man In (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 30, 2005)
The People’s Democratic Party is not the only one to feel jolted. Sonia Gandhi’s decision on Thursday evening to enforce the letter of the powersharing pact forged with Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s party after the crucial 2002 elections in J&K, . . .
- Mufti Submits Resignation (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Saturday submitted his resignation to the Governor, Lt Gen S K Sinha. Congress leader and Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will take over as the new chief minister on November
- Report Says More Than 100 Indian Firms Paid Kickbacks For Iraq Contracts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
38 companies paid more than $100,000, the rest less than that amount
All funds were routed through a U.N.-controlled escrow account
Despite this precaution, Iraqi authorities devised mechanisms for earning "illicit income."
- Spilling The Beans... (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2005)
Revelations in the book of corruption during the Indira Gandhi era has claimed the attention of national media.
- Ball In Cbi’S Court (Tribune, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 29, 2005)
Twenty One years have gone by and justice still eludes the victims of the 1984 riots.
- A Valley In Waiting (Hindustan Times, Pankaj Vohra, Oct 29, 2005)
With the November 2 deadline for the transfer of power in Jammu and Kashmir from the PDP to the Congress almost here, the Congress leadership and the PM may have to shortly take a call on what to do.
- Charity The Best Route (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Oct 29, 2005)
The best way of overcoming a sworn enemy is to be the first to donate blood to him when he is stricken.
- A Son Comes Home (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 29, 2005)
With his return to Jammu and Kashmir as the Chief Minister (he will be sworn in on November 2) Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad covers yet another milestone in his varied political career.
- J&k: 30-Yr Wait Ends For Cong (Deccan Herald, Zahoor Malik , Oct 29, 2005)
The cadres are happy that Sonia Gandhi did not extend the outgoing CM’s term beyond three years.
- Gujarat Muslims Await Justice (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 29, 2005)
One more court case failed this week at Baroda, Gujarat, to award punishment to rioters.
- The Bhopal Gamble (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 29, 2005)
On November 3, the government of Madhya Pradesh will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the state. Chief minister Babulal Gaur, who's engaged in a leadership tussle with the BJP's favourite candidate Shivraj Singh Chauhan and . . .
- Telangana Movement Losing Steam? (Hindu, S. Nagesh Kumar, Oct 29, 2005)
The rebellion by senior Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader Santosh Reddy seems to have pushed on to the backburner the demand for a separate Telangana.
- Over To Azad (Times of India, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 29, 2005)
Ignoring calls for a status quo in Srinagar, the Congress has decided to seek the chief minister's chair for its nominee, Union minister for parliamentary affairs Ghulam Nabi Azad.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Alliance (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Oct 29, 2005)
During his recent visit to New Delhi, the US under-secretary of state, Nicholas Burns, assured his hosts that the US was fully committed to implementing the nuclear deal with India.
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