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Articles 6221 through 6320 of 27135:
- Musharraf Court Martial Recommended For Kargil’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
A Pakistan military inquiry committee which probed the Kargil debacle had recommended “court martial” of General Pervez Musharraf but he overthrew the then Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 and “stole” the report before it was implemented, claimed . . .
- Harsh Home-Truths (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 07, 2006)
For far too long have far too many politicians in Jammu and Kashmir secured their popularity by playing the “army card”. Mehbooba Mufti made a fine art of it.
- Half A Million Homeless In India Floods, Mumbai Hit (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Rescuers in India stepped up efforts on Sunday to help hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes by floods in a southern state as torrential rain hit the country’s financial capital.
- Hezbollah Hits Back (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
At least 10 people were feared killed today in northern Israel in the worst rocket attack by Hezbollah guerrillas as the UN considered a draft resolution aimed at ending the fighting in Lebanon.
- Israeli Strikes Kill 10 Lebanese; Un Split On Truce (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Israeli air strikes killed 10 civilians in Lebanon where Hizbollah battled Israeli troops on Monday as the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on a draft resolution seeking to end 27 days of fighting.
- Army Evacuates 500 From Flood-Hit Ladakh (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
With flood situation in Ladakh turning grim, the army has stepped up rescue efforts evacuating over 500 people from several submerged areas of Leh and Kargil district.
- India: Human Trafficking Fuelling Hiv (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 07, 2006)
Images of guns, drugs and rebels have long defined India’s troubled northeast. Now, a study across eight states in this resource-rich, infrastructure-poor, conflict-scarred region seeks to highlight a new worry:
- Hiroshima Calls For N-Free World (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
The Japanese city of Hiroshima marked the 61st anniversary of the world’s first atomic attack on Sunday with renewed calls for a nuclear-free world.
- A Congress Mole In The Bjp? (OutLook, Salman Khurshid, Aug 07, 2006)
Jaswant Singh seems to have had the better of the call of BJP culture but gaps remain in his tell-all
- Reining In Us Soldiers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 07, 2006)
Although there has been growing pressure on the US military in Iraq to check its arbitrary use of force when dealing with the civilian population, there have been a number of cases in which the strong-arm . . .
- Speak Turkish To Syrians (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Aug 07, 2006)
There will be an international force (in Lebanon), because all the key players want it," a US official asserted recently. He appears to be right, as even the Israeli Government embraced the plan, announcing it "would agree to consider stationing . . .
- Division In The House (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 07, 2006)
UPA will face trouble on the Indo-US nuclear deal in Parliament, with combined opposition pressure mounting against it, says CP Bhambhri.
- ‘N. Korea Missiles Successful’ (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
An analysis by Japan and the US has concluded that six of the seven missiles tested by North Korea last month fell within their targets, indicating the tests were successful, a major Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday.
- A Bit Of Galbraith And A Vision In 4-D (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
The PM's press advisor advocates a marriage between economic and foreign policy, but is anyone listening?
- Problems Of Manning Military Machine (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 07, 2006)
Even the most sophisticated technology of warfare is handled ultimately by men engaged in the profession of soldiering. Its use in combat depends therefore greatly on their skill, training, morale and ingenuity.
- Us Military Hearing On Iraq Rape Case Starts (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
A U S military court convened in Baghdad today to decide whether to court-martial four U S soldiers for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her family in March.
- Colombo Rejects Deal To End `Water War' (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 07, 2006)
Brief prospects of an early end to the `water war' between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to nought on Sunday evening after Colombo rejected a deal negotiated by Norway and bombed LTTE positions . . .
- The Precedence Principle (Business Standard, Bibek Debroy, Aug 07, 2006)
There is a law in economic policy-making. For every silly policy, there is a precedence somewhere in the world. Indians should be flattered that the Indian Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) of 1955 is being cited by the Philippines and Malaysia, in an . . .
- Syria Ready For Regional War: Fm (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
15 Israelis, 9 Lebanese civilians killed in violence
UN mulls draft resolution
Iran, Syria reject draft
Putin wants immediate ceasefire
- Israel Captures Hamas Speaker (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Israel seized the Hamas speaker of the Palestinian parliament at his West Bank home and continued its deadly incursions into the Gaza Strip on Sunday with a sustained assault on the city of Rafah on the Egyptian border.
- Half A Million Homeless In India Floods (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Rescuers in India stepped up efforts on Sunday to help hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes by floods in a southern state as torrential rain hit the country’s financial capital.
- Welcome, The Old World Order (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 07, 2006)
It is ironic that even the leaders who call for the new world order and who, one would think, have the power to make it happen, are complicit in perpetuating the old world. From the various pulls and pressures around the world, mainly by the US and . ..
- When It Comes To Mr Q, The Right To Know Doesn’T Apply (Indian Express, Arun Jaitley, Aug 07, 2006)
Despite request under RTI, CBI declines information on freezing, defreezing of Quattrocchi accounts, Central Information Commission says ‘any attempt to compile voluminous information will disproportionately divert public resources’
- Tit-For-Tat Pantomime That No One Buys (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 07, 2006)
Pakistan has declared counsellor Deepak Kaul at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad persona non grata and asked him to leave Pakistan within 48 hours.
- 4 Die As Boat Capsizes In Yamuna (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
At least four persons, including two women and a girl, drowned in the Yamuna near Chhainsa village in Ballabgarh subdivision of the district when their boat capsized this morning.
- Mumbai Paralysed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Heavy rains since Saturday threw life out of gear in Mumbai and Maharashtra with several parts of the state remaining under water till late this evening. As many as 15 persons have been killed in the state so far in rain-related incidents.
- Don’T Make Kargil’S Feat Controversial (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 07, 2006)
PML (N) has circulated a White Paper on the Kargil operation entitled ‘Kargil adventure — another huge defeat after Dhaka Fall, who is responsible?’ to focus on its negative bearing on the nation as a whole.
- Show Up (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 07, 2006)
Ulfa will be a loser if it dilly-dallies
All that the Centre wanted from Ulfa leaders after the third round of talks with the People’s Consultative Group in June was a formal written commitment to direct talks.
- Another Wet Day & Mumbai's Out Of Gear (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Torrential monsoon showers lashed Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra crippling normal life and claiming 15 lives even as flood situation in Andhra Pradesh, where the death toll rose to 62, was grim on Sunday.
- Nationalisation Versus Globalisation In Oil Sector: Can The Balance Sustain? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
Arun Singh, who was a friend of Rajiv Gandhi and the Minister of State for Defence in his government when the Bofors scandal broke, has since then been living a reclusive life in his cottage in Binsar, near Almora. Making a rare exception, he . . .
- Party Time (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Aug 07, 2006)
Delhi is back with a bang. The Page 3 regulars, designers, socialites and wannabes are back to partying big time.
- China Increases Pressure On Tibet (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 07, 2006)
Beijing – China’s Communist Party has been tightening its grip on Tibet in recent months, resorting to language and measures not seen since the repression of the late 1990s.
- Natwar’S Endgame: He Goes After The Pm, Finds Takers Outside Cong (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
With no friends left in the Congress and the Government and indicted by the Pathak panel for “misusing” his position to help those close to him obtain contracts and make money in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal, former External Affairs Minister . . .
- Rhetoric, Atomised (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
Parliament this week, like last week, is likely to see plenty of “nationalist” criticism of the India-US nuclear deal. In the US, as the nuclear bill goes to the Senate, “nonproliferation” advocates are talking it down again.
- Israel’S Turn To Feel The Shock (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Hizbollah today killed 12 Israeli soldiers in its deadliest rocket strike yet and Israeli bombs killed 19 Lebanese civilians as Lebanon rejected a draft UN resolution to end the 26-day-old war.
- Lebanon: Draft Resolution Gets Mixed Response (Hindustan Times, DHARAM SHOURIE, Aug 07, 2006)
A draft resolution seeking an end to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah as the first step towards a wider political settlement has received a mixed response from members of the UN Security Council.
- Justice Matters (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 07, 2006)
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Bill proposing several changes in the Criminal Procedure Code.
- What We Still Don't Understand About Hizbollah (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 07, 2006)
A terrorism expert, who has studied 462 suicide bombings, says such acts have little to do with religious extremism and that the West must engage politically to halt the slaughter.
- The Conflict Will Damage Lebanese Workers (Hindu, Heather Stewart, Aug 07, 2006)
The damage to infrastructure in Lebanon is The damage to infrastructure in Lebanon is estimated to cost at least œ13 billion to repair.
- Kargil: Sharif's Party Puts Out White Paper (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Aug 07, 2006)
PML wants Musharraf to "admit his blunders"
It asked him to "present himself for a court martial"'
- Protests In Indonesia Over Israeli Action (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 07, 2006)
Thousands of Indonesian protesters held rallies in Jakarta and some other major cities on Sunday to denounce the U.S. for supporting Israel in its military offensive in Lebanon.
- "For The U.S., The Nuclear Issue Of Iran Is Just An Excuse" (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 07, 2006)
As Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council,Ali Larijaniis Iran's top nuclear negotiator. In an interview with The Hindu in Tehran on Saturday, he discussed Iran's nuclear programme, its relations with India and the escalating crisis . . .
- No Need Of Alarm (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 07, 2006)
Iraq's 'civil war' threat is not new ---- There has been a sudden change in the tone of the top echelons of the United States military establishment on the issue of Iraq.
- Army, Iaf Step Up Flood Relief Work (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Torrential monsoon rain lashes Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra; Godavari flowing over danger mark
- Parliamentary Panel Raises Queries Over Communal Violence Bill (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Aug 07, 2006)
Reservations over Centre's jurisdiction in maintaining law and order
Section 55 remains the bone of contention
Under it, Centre can notify areas as "communally disturbed"
Also, it can deploy armed forces to such areas
- Brinda Karat Joins Issue With Pawar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Wheat import leading nation into `food insecurity' trap
- 10 Killed In Israel In Worst Guerrilla Attack (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Hezbollah guerrillas pounded towns across northern Israel with an enormous barrage of rockets on Sunday afternoon, killing 10 people and wounding eight others in the worst rocket attack on the area since violence began on July 12.
- 10 Israeli Soldiers Die In Hizbollah Rocket Attack (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Hizbollah killed 10 Israeli soldiers today in its deadliest rocket strike yet and Israeli bombs killed 10 Lebanese civilians as Lebanon rejected a draft U.N. resolution to end the 26-day-old war.
- Questions Of Ethics And Safeguards (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 07, 2006)
Readers' responses fall into three categories. For the large part, they are appreciative and supportive.
- Women In Bpos To Get Unarmed Combat Training (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Young women employed at call centres in and around the capital are to get training in self-defence in the wake of two murderous attacks on two female employees in Bangalore.
- Lebanon Snubs Un Truce Draft (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
The Lebanese parliamentary speaker, a prominent Shia who has been negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah, rejected the UN ceasefire resolution on Sunday because it did not include the government's plan for ending the fighting even as 10 people were . . .
- Rains Pour More Misery On Maharashtra (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
A low pressure zone over western Madhya Pradesh resulted in the monsoon fury that swept across Mumbai and five districts of Maharashtra over the weekend, leaving over 30 dead and disrupting rail, road and communication lines in several pockets.
- Flying In The Face Of Facts (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
I have grave problems with the inferences drawn by the former air chief, S. Krishnaswamy, in his article ‘Out of the blue’ (IE, August 3). I was the chief of air staff, and P.C. Lal the vice chief, during the 1965 war with Pakistan.
- Three Rockets Target Nato Base In Southern Afghanistan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Insurgents attacked the main NATO base in southern Afghanistan with three rockets, causing no injury to people or property, the spokesman for the alliance said on Monday.
- Questions For Karat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
When extreme malleability threatens political morals we still tend to look at the CPM to see if someone cares for the straight and the narrow.
- Kargil Failure Probe Sought Court Martial Of Musharraf (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
A military inquiry committee in Pakistan which probed the Kargil debacle had recommended "court martial" of General Pervez Musharraf but he overthrew the Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 and "stole" the report before it was implemented, Sharif's PML . . .
- The Global Battle For Ideas Cannot Be Fought With Guns (Guardian (UK), Jackie Ashley , Aug 07, 2006)
Bush and Blair's belief that Islamism could be bombed into submission was deluded. We need to find a middle way
- 152 Rebels Slain, Claims Lanka (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
At least 152 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in air attacks by the Sri Lankan security forces in the island’s northeast as the troops took full control over the Muslim coastal town of Muttur...
- Indian Gang Strikes Terror In Nepal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Stone walls do not a prison make, especially if they harbour Bihar’s notorious gang lords.
- Israeli Forces Step Up Bombardment (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Israel on Saturday launched its heaviest bombardment of the nearly month-long conflict in southern Lebanon, carrying out 250 air raids and firing 4,000 shells...
- Defence Projects: Land Acquisition ‘Shoddy’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Absence of a law on land acquisition and the resulting shoddy way of obtaining land for defence projects has attracted the wrath of a Parliamentary panel.
- Reading Between The Excerpts (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
In an extremely guarded “private” function — media was asked to leave the questions out, courtesy of a Privileges Committee gag — to mark the book’s release in the City, the former Defence, External Affairs and Finance Minister did the writer bit . . .
- Us Slaps Sanctions On 2 Indian Firms (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
The US government has imposed sanctions on two Indian and five other companies from Russia, North Korea and Cuba for allegedly supplying banned equipment and technology to Iran.
- Israel Carries Out Heaviest Yet Bombardment Of Lebanon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
America says U.N. resolution designed to halt the war is nearing completion
- Pak Must Destroy Terror Infrastructure: Doval (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 06, 2006)
A quintessential “operations” man and the Bhishma Pitamah of the Indian intelligence brass, Ajit Kumar Doval (IPS 1968 batch, Kerala cadre), is viewed as a national asset.
- Splendour By The Spans (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
The grand stone `bridges' of the Arches National Park, Utah, are awe-inspiring.
- Soldiers Seize Town Captured By Ltte (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 06, 2006)
Sri Lankan soldiers on Saturday said they re-established control over a northeastern town that had been the scene of fierce clashes in recent days, and urged the thousands of civilians displaced by the fighting to return.
- 17 Killed In Car Bombings, Clashes In Mosul (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
At least 13 people were killed as Iraqi security forces fought street gunbattles with suspected insurgents in the northern city of Mosul after a suicide car bomber blew up a police patrol on Friday, officials said. Another suicide bomber killed . . .
- The Green Revolution : Soils Being Depleted (Daily Excelsior, Satyendra Pratap Singh, Aug 06, 2006)
Is the green revolution depleting the very soil on which the high yielding varieties of seeds are planted?
- Bring Bill On Nri Voting: Parliamentary Panel (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
To help non-resident Indians (NRIs) participate in the democratic process, a parliamentary panel has favoured a comprehensive bill to clear ambiguities in issues like enrollment of NRIs, mode of casting votes and norms for contesting elections . . .
- Spare Us The Whims And Fancies (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 06, 2006)
There are some good reasons why a parliamentary resolution on the Indo-US nuclear deal is a bad idea. Unlike practical legislation, resolutions reflect emotion and sentiment, things that ought to be kept in check when dealing with a country’s . . .
- Israel Launches Heaviest Bombardment (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Israel today launched its heaviest bombardment of the nearly month-long conflict in southern Lebanon, carrying out 250 air raids and firing 4,000 shells, and its naval commandos attacked targets near the port city of Tyre to prevent rocket launches . . .
- Army Recruits 248 In Kashmir (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
It was a proud moment for the 248 recruits, including 82 from the Kashmir valley, to join the Indian Army family after they took the oath of allegiance at the passing-out parade today.
- Us Slaps Sanctions On Two Indian Firms (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
The US government has imposed sanctions on two Indian and five other companies from Russia, North Korea and Cuba for allegedly supplying banned equipment and technology to Iran.
- Sri Lankan Town Deserted And Devastated By Battle (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
After days of heavy fighting in this eastern town, jumpy Sri Lankan soldiers are almost the only signs of life on streets littered with fallen power lines, spent cartridges and dead animals.
- 55 Killed In Lebanon Blitz As Foreigners Flee (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
At least 55 civilians were killed as Israeli jets and gunboats pummelled towns and villages across Lebanon and tens of thousands of people fled a conflict that both sides defiantly warned would have no limit.
- When The Vellore Sepoys Rebelled (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Though it preceded the First War of Independence by almost 50 years, not much is known of this brief act of valour by the sepoys of the Vellore fort.
- Pretexts, Provocations And Consequences (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Aug 06, 2006)
When a series of bomb blasts ripped through seven commuter trains, causing mayhem in Mumbai nine days ago, it was hardly surprising that suspicion immediately fell on Islamist militants, with Lashkar-i-Taiba becoming the main focus of attention on . . .
- Us Sanctions On Russian Groups Due To Iran And Venezuela (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
US sanctions against Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi and arms exporter Rosoboronexport over their dealings with Iran could be linked to a contract to modernise Tehran’s air force jets, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Saturday.
- Israel Bombs North Beirut, Severs Strategic Road Link (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Dozens of civilians reported buried in rubble after airstrikes, aid struggles to reach Beirut after bridges, roads destroyed
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