|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles 4521 through 4620 of 27135:
- Cms’ Meeting On Internal Security Tomorrow (Tribune, Yoginder Gupta, Sep 04, 2006)
The Chief Ministers’ conference on internal security to be held in Delhi on September 5 under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, is expected to send “a clear and loud message to the Naxals that unless they give up . . .
- Pak Increases Military Activities Along Loc (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 04, 2006)
There is a certain degree of concern over Pakistan Army’s reported activities of construction of concrete bunkers and reinforcement of manpower along the Line of Control as Islamabad is upping its ante before the anticipated bilateral meeting between . .
- Pragmatism, Sanity: National Imperatives (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 04, 2006)
Balochistan Governor Owais Ghani has said that the defunct Soviet-made weapons captured in Balochistan during the last couple of months were enough to raise an Army Division.
- Towards Full Convertibility (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Sep 04, 2006)
The report does not speak about the advantages of full convertibility but suggests streamlining of it.
- 'Australia To Export Uranium To China' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Australian uranium exports to China could begin early next year, with Australia expected to capture about one third of the growing Chinese uranium market, a government official said on Monday.
- Pervez Faces Flak From Ex-Generals (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Sep 04, 2006)
Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, left virtually alone by the political establishment to handle the Balochistan crisis, has now come under strong attack from former generals for what they described as an "ill-conceived idea and badly handled . . .
- How Global Growth Surmounts New Challenges? (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Sep 04, 2006)
Important factors include expansion in emerging economies like China and India and the enabling role of technology in global integration
- Naxals, Government Rethinking Strategies (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Sep 04, 2006)
The naxalites have launched a "socio-economic investigation" aimed at reworking their tactics. And the government has moved to ensure greater coordination in countering them.
- Redressing Balochistan’S Grievances (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Sep 04, 2006)
“I have spilt blood? I had to; I shall perhaps shed more, but without anger, and quite simply, because blood-letting is a component of (my) political medicine...I am not a man like other men and the laws of morality or custom cannot be applied to me.
- Al-Qaeda No 2 In Iraq Captured (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Baghdad announced the arrest of Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s deputy leader on Sunday, accusing him of masterminding an attack on a revered Shia shrine that triggered a brutal wave of sectarian killings.
- Fears Of `Extreme' Tb Strain (Hindu, Robin McKie, Sep 04, 2006)
New drug-resistant infection is a "nightmare," say health experts.
- Us Military Confronts Shiite Militia In Iraq (News International, Peter Symonds, Sep 02, 2006)
Two days of fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah is one more sign that the US military is preparing for a bloody showdown with the militia forces of Shiite cleric Moqtada . . .
- Sureesh Mehta, Next Naval Chief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
He commanded the Western Fleet during Operation Parakram
- Bush Talks Of Decisive Ideological Struggle (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 02, 2006)
The UN deadline for Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment programme has ended and speculations are rife about what would follow. Three veto-wielding powers – China, Russian Federation and France see a ray of hope in the Iranian response to the . . .
- Mcd Squads Seal 170 Delhi Properties On Day One (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Drive to continue, orders Supreme Court panel even as traders move Court for relief.
- Good Governance (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 02, 2006)
The remarks made by Dr Ishrat Husain, chairman of an official commission on government reforms, in a speech made at the recent launch of the Human Development in South Asia (2005) Report that a qualitative change in governance would help solve . . .
- Nawab Bugti Laid To Rest Without Family Members (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The veteran politician, Chieftain of Bugti tribe and Head of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at Dera Bugti here on Friday morning.
- Bugti Buried In Secrecy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s combined Opposition observed “a successful black day” in various parts of the country on Friday, even as the army buried the body of slain Baluch leader Akbar Khan Bugti at his ancestral Dera Bugti cemetery amidst tight security and . . .
- Value Change Please, Not Regime Change (Indian Express, M Veerappa Moily, Sep 02, 2006)
With the Lebanon crisis resurfacing in West Asia and the Middle East, a strange phenomenon has emerged. Sunnis and Shias have converged in the cauldron called Lebanon.
- Sureesh Mehta To Be New Naval Chief (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
In key appointments in Armed Forces, seniormost naval officer and fighter pilot, Vice Admiral Sureesh Mehta was today named as the country's new Chief of Naval Staff and Let Gen Thomas Mathew along with Let Gen Arvind Mahajan were appointed Adjutant . . .
- Military Option Against Iran Open, Says Usa (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Raising the pitch of its rhetoric against Iran, the Bush Administration has said while the military option against Tehran stayed open, the USA could also pursue economic sanctions beyond what the UN Security Council may determine.
- Us Defence Firms Grow Bullish On India (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2006)
After decades on the sidelines, U.S. defense contractors are eyeing India’s growing military budget and aging arsenal as a multibillion-dollar opportunity that could help offset a projected slowdown in Pentagon weapons spending and extend . . .
- Crises All Around (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 02, 2006)
There is hardly any country that at some time in its existence has not been entangled in a crisis of one kind or the other. Such a crisis could be political, economic or security-related in nature. The afflicted country either tries to resolve . . . .
- Mehta To Be Navy’S New Chief (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Vice-Admiral Sureesh Mehta will be India’s next Chief of Naval Staff, succeeding Admiral Arun Prakash, who will retire on October 31 this year. Vice-Admiral Mehta is currently Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern . ..
- ‘‘Chalta Hai’’ Security (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Sep 02, 2006)
There are almost daily revelations that India's security apparatus has been penetrated at several different levels by US and Pakistani agents. Two ISI agents arrested in West Bengal in connection with the Mumbai blasts have disclosed that there are . . .
- Bush Warns Iran On N-Programme (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
President Bush said on Thursday that Iran has responded with defiance and delay to demands to stop enriching uranium and said "there must be consequences" for Tehran.
- 'Mush Has Knowledge About Qaida' (Times of India, RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL, Sep 02, 2006)
Pakistan president Gen Pervez Musharraf is seen in Western capitals as "not only a vital ally but someone with deep inside knowledge of the Taliban, Al Qaida and the jehadi movements — indeed, his army and intelligence services helped to create . . .
- Military Option Is Open, Us Warns Iran (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The United States has warned Iran that military option "is not off the table" as it mulls a multi-pronged strategy to prevent Tehran from going nuclear.
- Manmohan & Nam (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
Will the PM be able to define an Indian position?
The last job Dr Manmohan Singh held in his career as an Indian bureaucrat was to head the Geneva-headquartered “South-South” Commission conceived by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.
- Nam Action Plan To Change World Order (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
The 14th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit of 116 nations to meet in Havana this month will defend an action plan to guide its determination to transform the present world order.
- Stocking The Arsenal (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
More than ‘procedure’ needed
It is easy to understand Pranab Mukherjee’s sense of relief and satisfaction at finalising a revised Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP).
- Bugti Kin Shuns Coffin Burial (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
In what is being seen as yet another insult to the Bugti tribe in Balochistan, the burial of its slain leader, Akbar Khan Bugti, was done in secrecy at a cemetery at Dera Bugti, the ancestral town of the tribe, by the Pakistan Army.
- Iran N-Plan: Eu Cautious, Russia 'No' To Sanctions, Us Seethes (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The European Union said on Friday that it was too early to impose sanctions on Iran for its failure to halt uranium enrichment by a UN-imposed deadline even as Russia said such a move on Tehran for not ending sensitive atomic work was a dead end.
- Pranab Leaves For France, Germany Today (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Union Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee will pay a six-day official visit to France and Germany starting Saturday and hold talks with his counterparts on a whole range of bilateral defence issues and international security scenario.
- Feeble Response To Governance (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
Accidents of history often become intrinsic to the culture and thinking of a people. India secured its freedom through a process of non-violent confrontation with the British, and this has enormously encouraged a popular psyche that tends to . . .
- Military Option Against Iran Open: U.S. (Asian Age, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Sep 02, 2006)
Raising the pitch of its rhetoric against Iran, the Bush administration has said while the military option against Tehran stayed open, the United States could also pursue economic sanctions beyond what the UN Security Council may determine.
- Un Abstains From Quick Action Over Defiant Iran (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Security Council held off on Thursday on taking punitive action against Iran over its failure to freeze uranium enrichment as diplomats awaited the outcome of nuclear talks between European and Iranian officials next week.
- No Room For Complacency (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Sep 02, 2006)
It is hard to believe, but investors seem to have been too eager to cast aside the warning of a correction and the global equity market has not adequately reflected crucial risks.
- A Pot Of Gold On The Horizon (The Economic Times, J BRADFORD DELONG, Sep 02, 2006)
For quite a while now — certainly since the terrorist attacks on the US of September 11, 2001, and before as we watched the slaughters in Kosovo, Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Rwanda, and Congo on our televisions — the news has been dominated by war and . . .
- Pakistan-Us Naval Exercise (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Pakistani and US Navy would conduct joint exercise “Inspired Union 06” from Sept 6. The bilateral exercise would be conducted in the Northern Arabian Sea.
- Unilateral Us Sanctions On Iran? (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Sep 02, 2006)
The passing of the August 31 deadline for Iran to comply with the Security Council resolution calling upon it to end its programme of uranium enrichment has obliged the US to decide on its future strategy vis-a-vis Tehran.
- Double Indian Whammy To Nepal’S Arms Bid (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Sep 02, 2006)
Just four months after it came to power pledging to restore peace, transparency and good governance, Prime Minister Mr Girija Prasad Koirala’s government has been caught in the most embarrassing situation possible with the discovery that as it . . .
- Government Is Besieged With Popular Disbelief (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 02, 2006)
The government has made a mess of politics and probity in the case of the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti. It took Mr Bugti’s body to Dera Bugti and buried it rather than hand it over to the family or show it to anyone except two dubious persons — . . .
- Last Glimpse Not Allowed •Family Members Stay Away •Dco Shows Bugti’S Watch, Glasses (Dawn, Saleem Shahid, Sep 02, 2006)
A shroud of mystery enveloped the manner in which the Dera Bugti administration on Friday allowed only a small number of mourners to quickly bury a wooden, padlocked coffin said to contain the body of Nawab Akbar Bugti in the ancestral town of . . .
- Syria Agrees To Arms Embargo: Un (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had promised to enforce an arms embargo on Hizbollah under a UN resolution that halted Israel’s war with the Lebanese group.
- Pakistan In Crisis (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Sep 02, 2006)
The killing of Bugti has provided a martyr for the Baluch nationalism. The movement will only intensify.
- Grab In The Name Of God (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 02, 2006)
This kind of grab in the name of God is not limited to any one community.
- Pdp And Cong Rush In To Paper J&k Cracks, Azad Has A Headache (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Sep 02, 2006)
The J-K’s ruling coalition government continued to be in unstable equilibrium as differences between the two major coalition partners Congress and People’s Democratic Party grew deeper today on the PDP’s demand that its leader Muzaffar Hussain . . .
- War Tactics For The Markets (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 02, 2006)
Daryl Guppy offers The 36 Strategies of the Chinese for Financial Traders to help overcome your two biggest enemies in the markets. Vijay Singal provides tips on `stock market anomalies and low-risk investing' in Beyond the Random Walk.
- Government Buries Bugti (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
No family member attends burial
Nobody shown Bugti’s face except for DCO and prayer leader.
- Conditions For Civil War Exist In Iraq: Pentagon (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The core conflict in Iraq has changed from a battle against insurgents to an increasingly bloody fight between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims, creating conditions that could lead to civil war, the Pentagon said in a report.
- The `War On Terror' And West Asia Circa 2007 (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Sep 02, 2006)
The U.S. approach has been uniformly unsuccessful and raises questions about its major and minor premises, the efficacy of its methodology, and, in the final analysis, of its intent.
- Iranian Rejection (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2006)
The Iranian refusal to abide by UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution number 1696 has complicated the crisis that has arisen out of Teheran’s nuclear ambitions. The resolution wanted Iran to suspend uranium enrichment . . .
- Tale Of Two Ghulams (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 02, 2006)
The kerfuffle in Srinagar, which grew into a full-blown crisis, appears to have been defused for now.
- Lop-Sided On Lebanon (Indian Express, P.R. KUMARASWAMY, Sep 02, 2006)
While other countries are preparing to increase their contribution, it is likely that India will pull out from the UN peacekeeping force that is currently operating in southern Lebanon. The recent remarks of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s special . . .
- Sri Lanka Army Denies Hand In Vandalising Statue (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 02, 2006)
"Mean acts that serve no purpose"
- Hal's Sukhoi Indigenisation Plan Grounded (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
In the face of escalating costs, Hindustan Aeronautics (HLL) has scrapped the plans for full indigenisation of Sukhoi fighter aircraft. A Russian daily on Friday reported that Sukhoi manufactuer will deliver aircraft three years ahead of schedule.
- Is Peacekeeping Good For India? (Indian Express, Ramesh Thakur, Sep 01, 2006)
The big question: will we stay and even expand our contribution to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, or will we pull out? More importantly, on what basis should we make such a decision?
- Telangana Issue: Heated Exchanges In Assembly (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The Congress and BJP on Thursday blamed each other for adopting 'double standards' on the Telangana issue.
- Seniority Could Be The Key To Natwar Successor (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Sep 01, 2006)
By appointing Shiv Shankar Menon as the country’s new foreign secretary today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose ‘competence’ over ‘seniority’; but the same principle is unlikely to be applied when filling in the vacant slot of External Affairs . . .
- J&k: Pdp Tells Azad Fire Our Man, Your No 2 (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Sep 01, 2006)
The Congress-PDP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir plunged into crisis today when the PDP removed Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussein Beig as leader of its legislature party and asked Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to drop him from the . . .
- Teheran May Be A Stumbling Block (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 01, 2006)
Some observers in Washington believe that New Delhi’s friendship with Teheran could affect India-US relations.
- The Second Hijack (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 01, 2006)
The Kandahar hijack continues to haunt India in the form of wistful what-ifs.
- Bjp: Cpm Poll Reforms Charter For Rigging (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday pooh-poohed the documents of the CPI-M on the reforms of Election Commission, as 'the complete charter for electoral rigging.'
- Arms And The Money (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 01, 2006)
For every soldier and defence planner who has dreamed of a comprehensive defence procurement policy that would eliminate corruption and ensure the timely delivery of the right equipment at the right price, there have been leaks, scandals and delays . . .
- Heathen Under Every Bed (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 01, 2006)
We have, seemingly, already arrived at that situation. The Western world, led by the United States of America, has chosen.
- Baluchistan Heading For Federal Rule (Tribune, Muhammad Anis, Sep 01, 2006)
Pakistan largest, yet poorest province of Baluchistan is almost certainly heading for federal rule, with a majority of Pakistan's opposition parties saying on Thursday that their members were ready to resign from the Baluchistan provincial . . .
- Govt Claims Bugti’S Body Found, Will Be Buried In Dera Bugti Today: (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Son-in-law says body should be given to family
Bugti’s body badly damaged and no other body retrieved yet: ISPR
Govt might hand body to tribal jirga for burial
- In A Defensive Position (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 01, 2006)
A whole generation of Indians has grown up with the belief that all defence deals are crooked and those involved in working them out - both on the side of the government and industry - are complicit in this.
- Sonia Faces Slogans From Bjp Mla; Manvendra Singh Apologises (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had to face sloganeering from a local BJP MLA as she visited this village in flood-hit Barmer district today, causing embarassment for the state party leaders accompanying her.
- Intelligence To Counter Terror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 01, 2006)
The serial blasts in Mumbai that resulted in the death of nearly 200 train passengers has been ascribed to an intelligence failure.
- Look Within (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
Deepti Naval may not have reached the status of Shabana Azmi or Smita Patil but nobody can deny that she is a highly sensitive actress.
- Sri Lankans Flee Horror For Poverty, Safety In India (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Sep 01, 2006)
Fisherman Chinnathambi Ravikumar was returning home from a fishing trip when a sea-battle broke out between the Sri Lankan navy and Tamil Tiger rebels.
- Pakistan Army Finds Bugti’S Body From Cave (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Pakistani soldiers searching a cave in Kohlu in southwest Balochistan province have found the body of slain tribal leader Nawab Akhtar Bugti but expected to retrieve it in a day or two as it was pinned under a boulder.
- Un Threatens To Halt Sri Lanka Work After Aid Killings (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The United Nations threatened overnight to suspend aid operations in Sri Lanka after truce monitors accused the security forces of executing aid workers.
- Mother Russia Behind Nepal Arms Deal (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Sep 01, 2006)
While Nepal’s new government headed by prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala has been celebrating 2006 as the golden jubilee of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Himalayan kingdom and the former . . .
- Slogans, Regret Greet Sonia In Rajasthan (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Congress chief Mrs Sonia Gandhi had to face sloganeering from a local BJP MLA as she visited this village in flood-hit Barmer district today, causing embarrassment for the state party leaders accompanying her.
- Bugti’S Body ‘Found’ In Cave (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 01, 2006)
Pakistani soldiers searching a cave in Kohlu in south-west Balochistan province have found the body of slain tribal leader Nawab Akhtar Bugti but expected to retrieve it in a day or two as it was pinned under a boulder.
- India's Defence Attache In Germany Recalled (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Defence Ministry has recalled the country's Defence Attache in the Indian Embassy in Germany Brig P C Panjikar for allegedly canvassing with armaments firms there.
- Israel Kills Top Palestinian Commander (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Israeli troops killed a top Palestinian commander in the West Bank on Thursday, while freedom fighters in Gaza renewed rocket attacks that had largely stopped during Israel’s Lebanon war. There were no reports of casualties from the rocket barrage.
Previous 100 Defense Issues Articles | Next 100 Defense Issues Articles
Home
Page
|
|
