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Articles 921 through 1020 of 27135:
- Open The A 9, With Safeguards (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 03, 2006)
To the disappointment of everyone except chauvinists on both sides, the Geneva-II talks between the Sri Lanka Government and the LTTE broke down on the A 9 highway. Taking the high ground on the issue, the latter held the talks hostage to the demand . . .
- Ltte Gearing Up For Major Offensive: Army (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Nov 03, 2006)
The military on Thursday said the LTTE was gearing up for a major offensive in the east to "recapture its lost territory." In an escalation of violence post Geneva-II, at least five persons were killed in "pre-emptive" air force raids.
- Roh Affirms Ties With N. Korea (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Nov 03, 2006)
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Thursday affirmed that there was no question of abandoning his country's "sunshine policy" of engaging Pyongyang despite its nuclear-weapon test.
- Peoples' Experiments In Politics (Hindu, MUKUL SHARMA, Nov 03, 2006)
The proposed India Social Forum in Delhi from November 9 to 13 marks an initiative to further advance the movement against neo-liberal globalisation, sectarian politics, casteism, patriarchy, and militarisation.
- A Hopelessly Lost Cause (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 03, 2006)
For a lame-duck Prime Minister desperately in search of a respectable legacy, Tuesday's vote in the House of Commons on a cross-party motion demanding a thorough inquiry into Iraq invasion and its aftermath could not have come at a more awkward time.
- Iran Tests-Fires New Missile (Asian Age, Nasser Karimi, Nov 03, 2006)
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3, during the first hours of new military manoeuvres, Iranian state-run television said on Thursday.
- J.J. Singh Will Discuss Killings On J&k Visit (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
Army Chief Gen. J.J. Singh is on a visit to the Kashmir Valley a day after ordering Army commanders to conduct a detailed assessment of the recent incidents of fratricidal killings by soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir.
- The Phantom Returns (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Nov 03, 2006)
It’s not just American comic-strips like the Phantom which are caught in a time warp where a masked Caucasian in violet tights carries the white man’s burden by looking after the native pygmies.
- Niigata Cops Get Warrant For Soga Abductor (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
Police obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for a woman in North Korea they believe was one of the agents who abducted Hitomi Soga to the North in 1978, according to sources.
- Special Article (Statesman, Sumer Kaul, Nov 03, 2006)
As I see live pictures on TV of yet another dance of death in Srinagar, my mind goes down memory lane, for the nth time.
- Army: Look After Soldiers’ Kin (Asian Age, Sridhar Kumaraswami, Nov 03, 2006)
"Take care of the family of the Indian soldier and you will automatically take care of him", is the mantra of India’s director-general of Armed Forces Medical Service (DGAFMS) to tackle the alarming spurt in fratricidal killings by soldiers . . .
- Sealing Not Possible Today, Mcd To Tell Supreme Court (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Nov 03, 2006)
Atmosphere volatile, says Jaipal Reddy
Drive unlikely before November 6
Markets open in Delhi after three-day bandh.
- Ltte Not Keen On Solution: Tulf (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Nov 03, 2006)
The pro-government Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) has said the failure of the Geneva talks shows that the LTTE is not interested in a peaceful solution to the conflict in Sri Lanka.
- Iran Test Fires Missiles In Show Of Strength (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
Iranian state-run television said on Thursday the country had test-fired dozens of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3, two days after US-led warships finished a two-day manoeuvre in the Gulf —an exercise Iran described as “adventurist”.
- `Montreal Protocol Needs Reforms' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
Environmental NGOs call for strengthening it
They suggest acceleration of freeze and phase-out of the hydrochlorofluorocarbons
Improved coordination between the MontrealProtocol and the Kyoto Protocol suggested.
- War On Terror In Asia: Everyone Is A Loser (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 03, 2006)
The nuclear testing by North Korea, the passing of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US and the fourth anniversary of the October 12, 2002 terrorist attacks on Bali, and the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq in the US, should be . . .
- Disaster Or A Hard Place? (Indian Express, Harsh V. Pant, Nov 03, 2006)
The US is fighting a losing war in Iraq. But withdrawal will have intolerable consequences for Iraq and the world.
- Time’S Sepoys (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 03, 2006)
Writing to a free-floating man of letters in the summer of 1950, Hugh Trevor-Roper, then a young Oxford don, made a revealing confession: “I have been in Oxford incessantly, slowly — with infinite slowness — writing a book of infinite pedantic . . .
- Indian Un Official Arrested In Graft Case (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Nov 03, 2006)
A former Indian government official on deputation to the United Nations was arrested in New York on Wednesday in a multi-million dollar bribery case that embarrassingly for New Delhi involves a Government of India entity.
- Engaging The Taliban (Dawn, Talat Masood, Nov 03, 2006)
President Musharraf has described the Taliban as the biggest threat to the region at present, a threat even greater than Al Qaeda.
- Iran Test-Fires Longer Range Missile (USA Today.com, Nasser Karimi, Nov 03, 2006)
Iran test-fired dozens of missiles, including the Shahab-3 that can reach Israel, in military maneuvers Thursday that it said were aimed at putting a stop to the role of world powers in the Persian Gulf region.
- Time’S Sepoys (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 03, 2006)
Writing to a free-floating man of letters in the summer of 1950, Hugh Trevor-Roper, then a young Oxford don, made a revealing confession: “I have been in Oxford incessantly, slowly — with infinite slowness — writing a book of infinite pedantic . . .
- Battle Ground (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 03, 2006)
Calcutta, as its keepers often like to remind themselves, is a city of traditions. One of the most important among these is certainly the Book Fair.
- Bush Defends Rumsfeld And The War (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
With less than a week before the election, President George W. Bush sought to rally Republican voters with a vigorous defense of the war in Iraq and a vow to keep Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in office until the end of Bush's term.
- Democrats Could Give Allies An Exit Strategy (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
A strong showing by the Democrats in U.S. elections Tuesday would embolden European critics of President George W. Bush's Iraq policy and could help transform Washington's already reluctant allies into a coalition of the unwilling, political . . .
- Opposition In Disarray (Dawn, Tahir Mirza, Nov 03, 2006)
It is often the case that in an authoritarian or a military-dominated system, criticism of the opposition, which is already suppressed by the state machinery, tends to be muted.
- Iran Testfires Shahab-3, Counters Us Manoeuvres (Pioneer, Nasser Karimi, Nov 03, 2006)
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles, including the long-range Shahab-3, during the first hours of new military manoeuvres, Iranian state-run television said Thursday.
- Lankan Air Strike On Rebels' Base Kills Four (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
Sri Lankan air force jets bombed the Tamil rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi on Thursday, killing at least four people, a spokesman for the rebel group said.
- One Nation, Different Laws (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Nov 03, 2006)
The Uniform Civil Code has been sacrificed at the altar of political expediency; it's time we called the bluff of our law-makers, says Anuradha Dutt.
- France To Declassify Rwanda Files (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
France says it will release classified documents on the Rwandan genocide, after claims that French troops were complicit in the 1994 massacre.
- Militia In Our Midst (Nepali Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
A UN team is due here next month to assess needs in a future monitoring mission, but the world body and the seven party government have so far overlooked an important source of Maoist strength: its militia.
- Us Warns Of Africa Terror Attacks (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
The US has issued a warning to its citizens in the Horn of Africa about the threat of suicide attacks from Somali extremists.
- Bush Hits Gop Outposts, Dems Optimistic (USA Today.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
President Bush, campaigner in chief for a party in peril, set out on a rescue mission for embattled candidates in the unlikeliest of places Thursday as Republicans struggled to minimize their losses in next week's elections.
- Us Accuses Syria, Iran, And Hizbullah Of Plot To Topple Lebanon (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
The Bush administration has accused the governments of Syria and Iran, as well as the militant Lebanese group Hizbullah, of plotting to overthrow the elected government of Lebanon.
- China And Africa, Then And Now (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
It was early 1964 and I was doing postgraduate work at the University of Khartoum in Sudan. John F. Kennedy, symbol for many in Africa of all that was best about America, had been recently assassinated.
- Mess In Bangladesh (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Nov 03, 2006)
Whatever may be said of the grim political and constitutional crisis in Bangladesh, it can in no way be called a surprise.
- The Domino Effect (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Nov 03, 2006)
There are few things as demeaning as nation-states being engulfed in hyphenated relationships. For more than five decades, until information technology injected a new dimension, India was trapped into a hyphenated relationship with Pakistan.
- Kashmir Killings: India’S Army Probes Into Stressed Soldiers (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
India’s army chief has ordered an investigation into several cases of soldiers turning their weapons on their colleagues in Indian-held Kashmir, officials said on Thursday.
- Keeping The Bomb Safe From Extremists (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Nov 03, 2006)
A group of nuclear-powered and other countries led by the United States and Russia has crafted new global nuclear-safety principles under the rubric of ‘Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism’ in a meeting in Morocco.
- Both Sides Push Hard In Final-Days Effort (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
Just days before crucial midterm elections, the latest polls and analyses continue to point to broad Democratic gains, but President George W. Bush tried Thursday to shore up vulnerable Republican candidates in the West as both parties poured . . .
- Ground Slips Beneath Musharraf's Feet (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 03, 2006)
The proposed self-rule in Jammu & Kashmir has made the Pakistani President's cheer-leaders wary, particularly after Balochistan and Bajaur, says Ghazanfur Butt.
- Courting Death (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 03, 2006)
India rightly boasts of a disciplined, professional army. However, its sterling image has lately taken a beating following a spate of suicides and killing of fellow armymen by soldiers.
- Lankan Jets Bomb Ltte Area, 5 Killed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 03, 2006)
Sri Lanka’s Air Force fighter jets bombed LTTE stronghold Kilinochchi this afternoon, killing at least five persons. According to the LTTE Peace Secretariat website, the bombs exploded “on a civilian settlement” about 600 metres from a hospital, . . .
- Flow Of Lankan Refugees To India Crosses 15,000 (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
The number of Sri Lankan Tamils fleeing to India to escape violence in their country has crossed the 15,000-mark despite a dramatic drop in arrivals in October.
- Railroad To Development (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Nov 02, 2006)
Bringing the railways into Tibet would hardly destroy its religion and culture, for these are not objects to be stored in museums, argues Ashis.
- Bangladesh Election Chief To Stay On, Provokes Anger (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Bangladesh's Chief Election Commissioner says he has been asked to stay on to oversee next year's poll, raising the spectre of renewed violence after the former Opposition accused him of bias.
- Against Common Sense (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Nov 02, 2006)
I had persuaded myself that I had said my last word on the burqa in last week’s column when an Australian imam of Egyptian extraction, Taj Din al-Hilali, delivered a sermon in Sydney in which he suggested that the Lebanese Australians who had . . .
- Govt Fears Bali-Like Terror Attacks In Goa (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Government fears Bali-like bombings on foreign tourists in Goa. It has received specific intelligence suggesting that terrorists could target British and US citizens who generally throng the legendary beaches of Goa during the ongoing peak tourist season.
- It's Classified: A Wikipedia For Spies Only (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
The US intelligence community on Tuesday unveiled its own secretive version of Wikipedia, saying the popular online encyclopedia format known for its openness is key to the future of American espionage.
- North Korea Wants Talks To Focus On Lifting Sanctions (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Nov 02, 2006)
America willing to consider the demand.
- N. Korea Back To Talks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 02, 2006)
North Korea agreeing to return to the six-nation talks on its controversial nuclear programme is a welcome development, though it is on the expected lines.
- Defusing A Crisis (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 02, 2006)
Pyongyang's decision to re-enter the Six Party talks is excellent news but the world — and Washington, in particular — must realise this is not the way things were supposed to go.
- Lankan Fighter Jets Bomb Tiger Targets (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Nov 02, 2006)
For the first time since the breakdown of the Geneva peace talks, the Sri Lankan air force’s Kfir planes bombed LTTE positions in eastern Batticaloa district on Wednesday.
- Us Happy As N Korea Gets Back To Talks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
China played a key role in reviving the suspended talks by hosting a trilateral meeting of North Korean, US and Chinese representatives in Beijing where it was agreed to restart the six-party dicussions.
- Moment Of Truth Looms For Us (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Nov 02, 2006)
But for someone like Mr Bush who says he has both a vision and legacy to pass on, his remaining two years in the job becomes that much more difficult if control of the legislature passes into the hands of a hostile majority.
- Pranab Has His Task Cut Out (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Nov 02, 2006)
India’s ties with the neighbourhood is as important as its relations with the US.
- Bush Wades Into Kerry’S Iraq Remark (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Election Run Up: ‘If you don’t get education you get stuck in Iraq. Ask President Bush’
- Sonia To Visit Arunachal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Two weeks before the Chinese president, Hu Jintao’s India tour, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will visit Tawang, one of the hotbeds of action in Arunachal Pradesh during the 1962 war...
- Arbiters Of Morality (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Nov 02, 2006)
The French have long believed in themselves as one of the supreme arbiters of the moral history of humanity, as exercising a unique civilising mission on less fortunate parts of the world, and the ardour with which they cling to an exalted vision of . . .
- Nathula Border Post Revisited (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Nov 02, 2006)
Trade resumption hailed as a "positive step forward"
Chinese side has reciprocated the warmth and cordiality
Seen as a step that will usher in economic development of Sikkim
- Us Central Command Charts Iraq’S Slide Into Chaos (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using as a barometer of civil conflict.
- Kerry Offers Apology; Cancels Appearances (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
issued two apologies for remarks that seemed to impugn U.S. troops and abandoned his public schedule yesterday, but he denounced what he called the "campaign of smear and fear" against him as the surreal sequel to the 2004 presidential election . . .
- Pricing The Pol Less Painfully (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Nov 02, 2006)
President Musharraf has stressed the need to facilitate the common man’s access to resources through broadening the economic opportunities.
- Us Losing Its War On Terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 02, 2006)
Pakistan, a non-NATO ally of the US, seems poised to achieve its political and military objective in Afghanistan.
- Bangladesh On The Boil (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Nov 02, 2006)
If BNP and the Jamaat alliance come back to power through rigging, it will have serious repercussions for India, says Hiranmay Karlekar
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 02, 2006)
Police reform seems to be the flavour of the season. The apex court has specified benchmarks, the Prime Minister has pontificated, now an expert group’s report is with the home ministry.
- Japan Stands Firm With Sanctions On North Korea (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Japan will continue the economic sanctions it leveled against North Korea despite Pyongyang's apparent about-face on returning to the multilateral talks to end its nuclear threat, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki told a news conference Wednesday.
- Little U.S. Flexibility Seen On N.Korea Sanctions (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Details of a U.S. offer to discuss financial sanctions with North Korea in six-party talks are not yet decided, but there is little flexibility for soon easing the pressure, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
- The Fata Fallout (OutLook, B. Raman , Nov 02, 2006)
Unease mounts in Pakistan army over the Bajaur strikes that killed 80 madrasa students in face of eye-witness accounts that 15 were children below 10 years of age and that the majority of the rest were between 10 and 20 years of age.
- Army Chief Orders Probe Into Fratricides (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Disturbed over recent incidents of army personnel killing colleagues, including superiors in rank in a series shooting incidents in the past weeks, the chief of the Army staff, Gen JJ Singh, is reported to have asked senior officers to probe into . . .
- Iaf To Outsource Pilots To Air India, Indian (Pioneer, Rahul Datta, Nov 02, 2006)
Iaf is willing to relieve its pilots for permanent absorption in the Air India following a request from the national carrier and has drafted a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the approval of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) . ..
- Us-Led Group Unveils Steps To Fight N-Terror (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
US releases ‘Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism’
- Indian Army Acquiring More Land In Kashmir (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Nov 02, 2006)
The Indian Army is acquiring more land for cantonments and bases in Jammu and Kashmir amid calls for demilitarisation of the state to curb tensions and build trust.
- Wider Dimensions Of Security (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 02, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf hit the nail on the head when he told a seminar in Islamabad on Tuesday that national security depended on pursuing defence, foreign and domestic policies in line with the needs of the regional environment.
- Stubborn Afrikaner, Unabashed Defender Of Apartheid (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Nov 02, 2006)
South Africa's last hard-line White President Pieter Willem Botha, who till his last day remained a "symbol of apartheid," died on October 31 at his home in the wilderness on the south coast. He was 90.
- Sovereignty Is More Important Than Foreign Fund Flows (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Nov 02, 2006)
India needs to develop a global strategy encompassing investments and politics. It is time the government looked at security, foreign flows and foreign affairs in an integral fashion and constituted inter-ministerial groupings. Perhaps, experts . . .
- Bush Works To Solidify Base With A Defense Of Rumsfeld (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
With less than a week before the election, President Bush sought to rally Republican voters on Wednesday with a vigorous defense of the war in Iraq and a vow to keep Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in office until the end of Mr. Bush’s term.
- North Korea Talks: Back To The Table, Some Reluctantly (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
Officially, the Bush administration is “pleased” — as President Bush put it on Wednesday — that North Korea has agreed to resume talks on nuclear disarmament.
- Iraq War Frames '06 Vote In Last Poll Before Election (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 02, 2006)
News, updates and insights on the midterm elections, the race for 2008 and everything in-between.
- Will Hu Or Will Hu Not? (OutLook, B. Raman , Nov 02, 2006)
Will Chinese President Hu Jintao visit Gwadar in Balochistan to formally inaugurate the Chinese-aided Gwadar port and the Northern Areas (Gilgit and Baltistan) to inaugurate a project for the upgradation of the Karakoram Highway?
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