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Articles 6621 through 6720 of 27135:
- On The Runway And Ready For Take-Off (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Aug 02, 2006)
Given China's current airport infrastructure and its expansion plans, India's task of catching up becomes formidable.
- Nuclear Weapons: A World Gone Mad (Deccan Herald, BOB HERBERT, Aug 02, 2006)
More and more nations are in the race for nuclear weapons. NPT has been a failure.
- Rwanda Striving For A High-Tech Future (Hindu, Xan Rice, Aug 02, 2006)
If successful, the percentage of Rwanda's workforce involved in farming will drop from 90 per cent to 50 per cent in 15 years
- U.S.' Latest Plans On Cuba (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The latest U.S. scheme for Cuba has classified sections that are believed to contain plans of attack and assassination.
- Jaswant Was "Irresponsible" In Handling Security: Dasmunsi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
From where did he get the document on the "mole"?
- Somalia's Road To Anarchy (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The Ethiopian bid to remove the Union of Islamic Courts from power in Somalia risks destabilising the entire region.
- Leadership Failure (Frontline, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 02, 2006)
The Indonesian leadership suffers a loss of face in its failure to set up a tsunami warning system.
- To India And Pakistan (News International, Amanullah Khan, Aug 02, 2006)
For most of the time during their 60-year-long history as free nations, India and Pakistan have been fighting against each other at national and international levels and on political, diplomatic, economic, military and media fronts.
- The Indo-Us Deal (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Aug 02, 2006)
Two legislatures, separated by miles of land and sea, but inspired by the same ideals of freedom and democracy, presented two different spectacles on July 27 when they discussed their vision of the future of the relationship between their two countries.
- I Don't Know Mole's Name: Jaswant (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
After triggering a huge controversy, senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Tuesday night said he did not not know the name of the mole in the Prime Minister's Office, who had leaked nuclear secrets in 1995.
- Castro Steps Aside Temporarily (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, has temporarily handed over his presidential powers to his brother Raul after having surgery to stop gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Blood Wedding (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2006)
The Lebanese village of Qana is not a place of weddings, miracles and saviours any more.
- Six Children Dead As Bus Plunges Into Sonepat Canal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
22 children have been miraculously rescued by villagers, police and Army divers; two of the rescued admitted to hospital
- 24 Soldiers Killed In Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 02, 2006)
At least 24 personnel of the Sri Lanka Army and Navy were killed late on Monday night and Tuesday in presumed LTTE reprisal attacks involving the blast of an army bus and the main naval base in Trincomalee.
- Israeli Forces Advance Deeper Into Lebanon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Aim of the military offensive is to create 30-km buffer zone
- Ulfa Should See Reason (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 02, 2006)
In June, when the People's Consultative Group (PCG) concluded the third round of talks with the Union Government on behalf of the United Liberation Front of Asom, the assumption naturally was that at long last direct talks between the Government . . .
- A Critique Of The Private Sector In Pakistan (News International, Mosharraf Zaidi, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan's favourite past-time is dissecting and criticising the government.
- Of Old Strengths In A New Era (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Aug 02, 2006)
Interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review.
- Militias Mar Lebanon’S Democracy (Indian Express, Shylashri Shankar, Aug 02, 2006)
The war between Israel and Lebanon raises an important question about democracy in the Middle East.
- Accept Or Surrender And Make Peace (The Economic Times, VITHAL C NADKARNI, Aug 02, 2006)
In his Master-Mind lecture series ‘Freud’, psychologist Adam Phillips defines desire “as the contemporary word for the risk not taken: the unlived life that seems the only life worth living.” We seem to always want what we’re not allowed to have.
- Fiscal Finances Unravel (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 02, 2006)
Surging expenditures disrupt fiscal correction
- Battle Rages As 20,000 Israeli Soldiers Enter Lebanon (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
EU fails to agree on immediate ceasefire, not to place Hezbollah on terrorist list
3 Israeli soldiers killed
Lebanon will reject ‘imposed’ UN resolution
- Indian Imprint On Armenia (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The remote village of Odzun reveals an Indian connection.
- Left Not To Join Hands With Bjp On Nuke Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Raising the government's comfort level, the Left parties on Tuesday night ruled out joining hands with BJP in the saffron plans to bring a resolution in Parliament against the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Carnage In Qana (Tribune, Robert Fisk, Aug 02, 2006)
They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. “Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana,” was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy’s body lay.
- Bomb Attacks On Iraqi Forces Kill 43 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Bombs killed at least 43 persons on Tuesday, including 23 Iraqi soldiers, in the latest blow to the new government’s efforts to inspire confidence in the country’s security forces.
- Pm Turns Tables On Jaswant, Asks Him To Name 'Mole' (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday turned the tables on senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh, who again failed to name the mole, in the Rajya Sabha by asking him a point-blank question: ‘‘The honourable member should answer the simple question.
- Massacre Of The Innocents (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 02, 2006)
The world's anger should be directed not at any single party involved in the continuing West Asia problem but at all those who are playing a part in fuelling it.
- The Mole Letter: Disinformation (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 02, 2006)
Curiouser and curiouser. The Mole letter contains Indian spellings and many other curiosities: 'Shri Jaswant Singh may like to advise his publishers to suspend the sale of this book till the authenticity of the letter is established'.
- Iran Fm Blasts Un ‘Failure’ Over Israel War On Hezbollah (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday blasted the United Nations’ “failure to do anything” over Israel’s offensive on Hezbollah and vowed to continue backing the Lebanese Shiite militant guerrilla group.
- Ltte, Navy Clash Again (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a government troop ship and killed fourteen sailors today, a pro-rebel website said, as Sri Lanka’s military pounded rebel positions in an attempt to seize control of a key reservoir from the guerrillas and restore water . . .
- Horn Of Africa: A Perfect Storm (Pioneer, GWYNNE DYER, Aug 02, 2006)
Americans have created another first-rate crisis for themselves and Africa by backing the warlords in Somalia, says Gwynne Dyer
- Don't Compromise Nation's Security (Pioneer, Charti Lal Goel, Aug 02, 2006)
To overcome an enemy, who is at perpetual war with India and Indians, we have to put our own house in order first, says Charti Lal Goel
- Panel To Ask Kalam For Letters On Gujarat Riots (Asia Times, Sonal Kellogg, Aug 02, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will now be required to hand over the correspondence between the late President K.R. Narayanan and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on the Gujarat riots to the Central Information Commission.
- India, Egypt To Discuss W. Asia (Asia Times, Ramesh Ramachandran, Aug 02, 2006)
After watching from the sidelines as Israel launched a series of attacks on Lebanon, India is expected to get a first-hand look at the unfolding situation in West Asia when New Delhi holds talks with Cairo on issues of mutual interest and concern . . .
- 2 Nato Soldiers Killed In Afghan (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Two British Nato soldiers were killed and another was presumed dead after an ambush in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a day after the alliance assumed command from the US-led coalition.
- Israel's Terror (Frontline, AIJAZ AHMAD, Aug 02, 2006)
The U.S.-Israel axis goes all out to remove the last impediments to building a "New Middle East".
- Engineered War (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
Hizbollah holds out and civilian casualties rise as Israel continues to wage a war that it planned for over a year.
- Summer Of Shelling (Frontline, Atul Aneja , Aug 02, 2006)
From the war zone in Lebanon, an account of the distress and the relief effort.
- Lebanese Quagmire (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The way Israel positions itself in the world political order is not a prescription for peace in the region.
- In 'Liberated' Iraq (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The country is sliding into a civil war, but this reality is overlooked by the U.S. despite heavy casualties in sectarian violence.
- Un Resolution On Iran (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 02, 2006)
The timing couldn’t have been worse.
- Abolishing Secret Us Prisons (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 02, 2006)
Although it is unlikely that the US will pay heed to the UN Human Rights Committee’s call to close down all secret detention centres associated with the war on terror, independent reports confirm . . .
- N-Deal Won't Be Under House Arrest (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Sticking to its stand that the Left cannot dictate terms on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the government has asserted that there cannot be any “resolution” or a “sense of House” statement on the issue.
- Superpower Returns (Pioneer, Niall Ferguson, Aug 02, 2006)
The influence of the United States on Israeli politics is not as great as it is generally believed, says Niall Ferguson
- Lessons Of A Failed Intervention (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
On a midsummer’s day 50 years ago, the new president of Egypt was scheduled to make a speech in Alexandria.
- Lashkar Is India's Al Qaeda (Pioneer, Wilson John, Aug 02, 2006)
Counter-terrorism operations through appropriate covert action should be taken to stop LeT from killing innocent civilians and bleeding India ----
- Indo-Us Nuke Deal: Left Rules Out Joining Hands With Bjp (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Raising the government’s comfort level, the Left parties on Tuesday night ruled out joining hands with the BJP in the saffron plans to bring a resolution in Parliament against the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Jaswant Style: Tol-Mole Ke Bol (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
PM says nation can draw own conclusion ---- The mole controversy saw a verbal slugfest between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP leader Jaswant Singh during a three-hour enlivening discussion in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
- Sonia Hard On Terror, Soft On Terror Preachers (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sent confusing signals about the UPA Government's response to terrorism in the wake of the Mumbai blasts by lacing her call for "tough measures" with considerations of vote bank politics.
- Fbi Satellite Pictures Point Towards Terror Camps In Pakistan (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s claims that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory is being strongly contested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation which has told a US court that satellite pictures pointed towards such a camp.
- Lebanon Facing Acute Fuel Crisis: Un (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Lebanon has only two or three days of fuel left and the United Nations is working urgently to persuade Israel to give safe passage to supply ships, UN officials said.
- Salahuddin’S Meaningful Silence (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Chairman of the Muzaffarabad based United Jehad Council, Syed Salahuddin, has adopted a meaningful silence during the past one month. According to the watchers of the separatist camp, Mr Salahuddin has not been seen issuing any statement or . . .
- We Must Rethink The War On Terror - Blair (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Five years into the War on Terror, Tony Blair called yesterday for a “complete renaissance of our strategy” to defeat militant Islam.
- Dramatic Changes In Lebanon (Business Standard, Ajai Shukla, Aug 01, 2006)
Beirut: In the eye of the storm raging across the Israel-Lebanon border is a battalion called 4 SIKH, comprising about 800 Indian peacekeepers.
- Lebanon’S Hour Of Agony (Dawn, Robert Fisk, Aug 01, 2006)
To Sidon. Ed Cody has found a cool, 120-mile-an-hour driver called Hassan — he has a black Mercedes which I nickname “Death Car” (because that will be the fate of anyone who gets in our way) and we zip down the coast road and turn east into the . . .
- Second Qana Massacre (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 01, 2006)
GRAPPLING with the aftermath of yet another Israeli crime against his people, the Lebanese prime minister, Mr Fouad Siniora, snubbed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday by telling her not to come to Beirut, because his government . . .
- India To Manufacture Cargo Ammunition With Israel (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Even with Israel bombing Lebanon, India is preparing to enter into a first-ever joint defence venture with Israel to manufacture “cargo ammunition”.
- Ls Mps Attack Centre On Lebanon (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
The Indian government on Monday condemned the "irresponsible and indiscriminate" bombing of Lebanon by Israel and described it as "outrageous".
- Qana Massacre Blowback Will Hurt Us (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 01, 2006)
The world is outraged by what Israel did on Sunday but helpless to do anything about it. Sixty people were killed, at least 37 of them children, in an Israeli air raid on the Lebanese village of Qana, the biggest incident of ruthless murder of . . .
- China’S Israel Arms (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Aug 01, 2006)
Prakash Karat, the General Secretary of the CPI(M), has seized upon the current Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon to target New Delhi’s defence relationship with Tel Aviv.
- Picture Of Indifference And Neglect (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 01, 2006)
I am in Tamenglong, up in the hills in Manipur. An idyllic setting.
- Israel Rejects End-War Calls, Us Hopeful (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Israel rejected mounting international pressure today to end its 20-day-old war against Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, but Washington said a ceasefire could be achieved this week.
- 12 Terrorists From 4 Outfits Surrender In J&k (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
As security forces stepped up anti-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir, 12 terrorists from four different outfits laid down arms in Baramulla district on Monday.
- Four Pak Infiltrators Killed; 12 Surrender (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Four heavily armed Pakistani infiltrators were killed and 10 people, including seven Amarnath pilgrims wounded while 12 militants surrendered before security forces in Kashmir valley during the past 24 hours.
- Trigger-Happy Pros (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 01, 2006)
It was obviously a mistake, this business about a militant “neutralised” in Jammu and Kashmir being a Pakistan army major operating in mufti. Still, it projected the Indian army poorly in a situation where its public image has ever been patchy.
- Tigers Trash Truce, 50 Killed In Clashes (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
A senior rebel leader declared Sri Lanka’s ceasefire “null and void” today as soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels traded artillery shells and gunfire and the air force struck insurgent positions, killing at least 50 fighters, the army said.
- Nature Of Economic Change (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Aug 01, 2006)
Economic change is for the most part a deliberate process shaped by the perceptions of the actors .
- 42 Die In Army-Ltte Water Battle (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Heavy fighting broke out today in north-eastern Sri Lanka between Tamil rebels and government troops, killing 35 rebels and seven soldiers, the military said, as a rebel leader declared the island nation’s four-year-old cease-fire over.
- Jihad's New Targets (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 01, 2006)
PM's silence is intriguing ---- Key aides of the Prime Minister are expected to be discrete and maintain a low profile.
- Lebanon’S Befitting Rebuff To Condi (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 01, 2006)
Infuriated Lebanese Government has refused to receive US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Beirut on Sunday following the carnage at Qana, where Israeli missile attack killed 60 people including 37 children.
- Beyond The `Mole' Muddle (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 01, 2006)
If for six years in government Jaswant Singh did not realise the implications for national interest, he or his party now have no credentials to define it.
- Iraqi Gunmen Kidnap Millionaire, 29 Others (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Calls to replace Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani gain strength
- Qana Attack Sparks Fury In Arab World (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Saudi men and women from all walks of life blasted the Israeli bombardment of Lebanese civilians, mostly women and children, in Qana on Sunday. They said the massacre would sow the seeds of hatred against Israel and further tarnish the image of the . . .
- Eyeless In Qana (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 01, 2006)
When the latest conflict in West Asia started nearly a month ago with Hezbollah fighters attacking Israel and kidnapping two soldiers, it was easy to figure out who started the war. Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah wanted a fight and he got it.
- Govt To Unveil Mega City Security Plan: Patil (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
A mega city security plan is proposed to be put in place in several cities to deal with terror attacks, Home Minister Shivraj Patil told the Rajya Sabha today.
- Unsc Shocked But Doesn't Condemn Israeli Attack (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
The UN Security Council expressed "extreme shock and distress" at the Israeli attack that killed at least 57 people in the southern Lebanese village of Qana.
- Bush Gets Room To Manoeuvre As Israel Suspends Air Strikes (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
President George W Bush, under intense pressure to call for an immediate cease-fire in the West Asia got some breathing room when Israel announced a decision to briefly halt aerial bombings over Lebanon.
- Israel To Expand Offensive Against Hezbollah: Peretz (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 01, 2006)
Israel will expand its offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Defence Minister Amir Peretz told parliament on Monday.
- Princely State (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 01, 2006)
The phrase ‘going down the drain’ has found new meaning in the manner in which the Haryana government has chosen to interpret it.
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