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Articles 6921 through 7020 of 27135:
- Powerhouse Flooded At Krs, Eight Workers Escape Unhurt (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Expensive machinery of the private power station destroyed
2,000 cusecs of water reportedly entered the generating station
A wall developed cracks and then water started entering the room
After the wall collapsed, the roof of the station collapsed
- India Losing Out On N-Deal (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 29, 2006)
In principle I am against the bomb. When India exploded it, I paraded on the streets of Delhi, along with 5,000 people, to register my protest.
- Hizbollah Fires Longer Range Rockets At Israel (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jul 29, 2006)
Militant group providing relief to thousands of refugees
- Kalam Moots 9-Point Development Plan For J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam today suggested a nine-point developmental plan for militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, including a people’s movement to eliminate terrorism and the creation of an economic zone along the Line of Control.
- Barometer: Pulp Fiction (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 29, 2006)
Senior advocate and former law minister Ram Jethmalani says he should be prosecuted, another senior advocate RK Anand has alleged that cash was paid to the hijackers of IC814 and PM Manmohan Singh says former foreign minister Jaswant Singh should . . .
- How The Left Learnt To Love Our Bombs (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 29, 2006)
Remember a time when you associated communists, at least of the internationalist variety like those in India, with being against nuclear weapons.
- More Israeli Strikes On Lebanon (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Israeli warplanes and attack helicopters pounded a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight, without claiming any victims, police in Rashaya said.
- Panic Reaction (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 29, 2006)
How should one interpret Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's fears about hot pursuit by India? Normally New Delhi should have reacted angrily.
- Al-Qaeda's Concerns For Muslims Hypocritical: Us (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
The White House said on Thursday that it was "not surprised" by Al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri's threats against Israel but that his stated concerns about Muslims were hypocritical.
- Peace Must For J&k’S Progress, Says Kalam (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Jul 29, 2006)
Stressing the need for restoration of peace and prosperity, the President, Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, here today put forth nine-point “prosperity mission” for Jammu and Kashmir that could be undertaken on the basis of its core competence.
- Pakistani Armyman Killed During Infiltration Bid (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
A Pakistan Army officer was among three persons killed when troops recently foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said on Friday.
- Services Chiefs Get More Financial Teeth (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Jul 29, 2006)
In a major step that would facilitate the decision-making at the Services Headquarters-level and also provide greater flexibility, the Union Government has enhanced financial powers of the chiefs of the Armed Forces increasing their sanctioning . . .
- 3 Hard-Drives Stolen From Defence Headquarters (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Month after NSC cyber break-in, theft from locked room; case registered by Delhi Police, no arrests yet
- Pak Major Killed In Infiltration Bid, Army Hqrs Deny (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
In a clear evidence of Islamabad’s support to cross-border infiltration, a Pakistani Major was killed along with two terrorists when Indian Security forces foiled an intrusion bid at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Probe Sought On Delayed U.S. Report On India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Democratic lawmakers on Friday requested an investigation into why the State Department delayed word of sanctions on two Indian companies for Iran-related dealings until after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a nuclear agreement with New Delhi.
- Yemeni Presidential And Local Elections On (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
The Presidential and local elections of Yemen are going to be held on September 20, a Presidential decree announced.
- Via Ahmed Faraz (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jul 29, 2006)
Ahmed Faraz, Pakistan's pre-eminent poet, is not a stranger to lovers of Urdu poetry in this country.
- Nepal Rebels Extend Ceasefire By Three Months (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Jul 29, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebels extended their ceasefire by three months on Friday in a bid to support peace talks aimed at ending a decade-old insurgency that has killed thousands.
- Rice To N. Korea: Rejoin Nuke Talks (Asian Age, Jun Kwanwoo, Jul 29, 2006)
US secretary of state Condoleezza Ms Rice urged North Korea to rejoin negotiations on its nuclear programme on Friday as ten world powers held Asian security talks without the communist regime.
- Q&a: The Fifteenth Day (OutLook, Editorial, Outlook, Jul 29, 2006)
Who is winning this war?
On the 15th day of the war, Hizbullah is functioning and fighting. That by itself will go down in the annals of the Arab peoples as a shining victory.
- Israel Disgraces Itself (News International, Praful Bidwai, Jul 29, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi
- Bush, Blair Speed Up Diplomacy On Lebanon Crisis (Reuters, Steve Holland, Jul 29, 2006)
President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pressured for a Lebanon cease-fire, sped up diplomacy on Friday for a U.N. resolution aimed at halting the violence and establishing a multinational force.
- U.N. Looks To Vote Next Week On Iran Nuclear Measure (Reuters, Evelyn Leopold , Jul 29, 2006)
France introduced a draft resolution to the full U.N. Security Council on Friday that demands Iran suspend nuclear activities by Aug. 31 or face possible sanctions.
- Sri Lanka Keeps Up Air Attacks For Third Straight Day (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Sri Lanka's air force bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in the northeast of the island for the third straight day amid a deepening crisis over water.
- Half Shut, Yet Half Open (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 29, 2006)
But the Mukherjee report is the nearest to a definitive closure on the Netaji mystery till date -------- The report of the Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry probing into the alleged disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was submitted to the . . .
- Handicaps To Education (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Jul 29, 2006)
A friend was saying the other day that but for frequent cataclysmic changes in our politics and in the country's constitution, the problems of education might have been taken more seriously by successive governments.
- U.S. To Impose Sanctions On Two Indian Firms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
The Bush administration has decided to impose sanctions on two Indian firms for missile-related transactions with Iran, U.S. officials said.
- Grabbers Keepers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 29, 2006)
That's what Dhaka believes ---- Adverse possession, those acquainted with the daunting and near impossible task of evicting squatters from their property will aver, is nine-tenths of the law.
- Congress Follows The Us Establishment (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 29, 2006)
Ignoring voices of sanity, the US House of Representatives has voted to allow shipments of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India.
- The Sindh Crisis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 29, 2006)
Not handled carefully by the two sides, the MQM’s decision to quit the provincial and federal governments could be the precursor to a crisis greater than what appears to be the case at present.
- Peace Process Sidelined (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Jul 29, 2006)
The multiple bomb blasts in Mumbai on July 11 resulted in the death of nearly 200 people.
- President Rejects Mqm Ministers’ Resignations (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Jul 29, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday rejecting the resignations submitted to him by the MQM federal ministers has asked them to continue to work with the government for strengthening the political and democratic institutions in the country.
- 26 Hezbollah Men Killed By Israeli Forces (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Israel Defense Forces troops killed 26 Hezbollah gunmen in clashes in the southern Lebanon town of Bint Jbail. No IDF troops were hurt in the operation, an Israeli army spokesperson said.
- J&k Top Cop Proud Of Muslims In Force (Asian Age, M.R. Narayan Swamy, Jul 29, 2006)
The chief of the Jammu and Kashmir police is all praise for his Muslim colleagues, saying the detention of just two of them for suspected terror links is no commentary on the entire community.
- Mqm Resignations (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 29, 2006)
Sindh has always been a province that has been difficult to govern. It has seen unwieldy and sometimes unnatural coalitions cobbled together by the centre to prop up governments and keep out the province's single largest party -- the PPP.
- ‘Vimochana Samaram Ii’ (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Jul 29, 2006)
History is repeating itself in Kerala. Exactly 47 years ago on 31 July, 1959, the first democratically elected Communist government of EMS Namboodiripad in Kerala, after only two years and four months in office, was dismissed by the Union government . . .
- Maoists Extend Truce With Warning (Statesman, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jul 29, 2006)
With the three-month ceasefire called by them ending today, Nepal’s Maoists today extended the truce by another three months, however adding a warning that if the government and parliament continued to dither over the peace talks, they would . . .
- N Korea Threat To Quit Asean (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
North Korea warned today that it could quit the Association of South-east Asian Nations’ Regional Forum (ARF) if the organisation condemns the communist regime’s missile tests, a South Korean official said.
China and South Korea do not recognise . . .
- Former Intelligence Official Says Secrets Were Leaked To Us (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
A former Chief of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has alleged that top security secrets were leaked to the US during the P V Narasimha Rao regime.
- Government’S Dilemma In Fata (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 29, 2006)
Major General Shaukat Sultan, the Inter-Services Public Relations director general, has said that the extension of adult franchise in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has created the problem of Talibanisation.
- Tsunami And The Tide Of Globalisation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
Before your research in oceanic history, you also wrote about the 1857 Uprising. South Asia is now preparing to mark its 150th anniversary. Would you say that 1857 saw the beginnings of a pan-Indian consciousness?
- Manmohan Calls For Immediate Lebanon Ceasefire (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Expressing India's displeasure with Israel, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday demanded "an immediate ceasefire" to end "the destruction of Lebanon" and a "comprehensive and negotiated solution" to the Middle East crisis.
- Q&a: Options Against Pakistan (OutLook, B Raman, Jul 28, 2006)
Is hot pursuit an option? Targeted killings of jihadi terrorist leaders? Air strikes on training camps in Pakistan? US and Israel models? Why does US not act on evidence against Pakistan? And many more questions - is cover action the only practical . . .
- Pranab Fails To Satisfy Oppn On Let Men In Army (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Dissatisfied with the explanations given by defence minister Pranab Mukherjee over the issue of three soldiers being arrested for links with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, opposition members on Thursday walked out of Lok Sabha.
- Questions Arise On Reprocessing Restrictions (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 28, 2006)
Spent fuel treatment will require separate U.S. consent.
- Gays Can't Tie Knot, Rules Us Top Court (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Washington supreme court upheld the state's ban on marriage for same-sex couples, dealing the gay rights movement its second major defeat in less than a month in a liberal-leaning state that had been regarded as a promising battleground.
- Clearing The Cloud Around The N-Deal (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 28, 2006)
After the thumping vote on Wednesday night in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal in the House of Representatives, you might think a happy ending is at hand.
- Advantage Lebanon (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 28, 2006)
Half-time score in the Middle East
Israel had well-laid well-rehearsed plans to attack Lebanon aiming to permanently destroy Hezbollah.
- Calibrated Incursion Attempts: Army (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jul 28, 2006)
A day after the Union home minister Mr Shivraj Patil said that infiltration from across the Line of Control had picked up in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army in the terrorism-hit state today said that there were ‘‘calibrated’’ attempts of infiltration . . .
- Israel Not To Expand Offensive (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Top Israeli Cabinet ministers today decided not to expand the country’s Lebanon offensive, but ordered the call up of thousands of additional reserve soldiers to boost the campaign, officials said.
- Salwa Judum Will Be A Watershed (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 28, 2006)
The police term Salwa Judum as the people's response to the Left-wing extremist group.
- Taliban Returning Via Pakistan: Un Envoy (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is backed by foreign money, terror networks and fighters coming over the border from Pakistan, the top UN envoy in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
- Do Not Derail The Dialogue (Deccan Herald, Sushant Sareen, Jul 28, 2006)
Is it correct to blame Pakistan for the recent 7/11 Mumbai serial blasts without hard evidence to back it up?
- The War Of Two Mistakes (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jul 28, 2006)
The current conflict in Lebanon should be called the ‘‘war of two mistakes’’.
- Nuclear Deal Wins Washington As It Continues To Battle New Delhi (Indian Express, LALIT K JHA, Jul 28, 2006)
Surprising even many of the Indian supporters and those in the State Department, the House of Representatives last night passed the civilian nuclear agreement between India and the United States with an overwhelming majority.
- Much Heat, Little Light On Nuclear Deal (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Jul 28, 2006)
While New Delhi can say it is not bound by any "Sense of the Congress" provisions in the legislation, it must recognise that nuclear cooperation with the US will end if it tests a `nuclear device'. Therefore there is merit in the criticism that . . .
- ‘Pak Has 25 To 50 Modest Nukes’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan currently has between 25 and 50 nuclear weapons, mostly relatively simple uranium arms with ‘‘modest’’ yields—around the size of the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the journal Nature claimed on Thursday.
- House Warming (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
The expansive support — more than three-fourths in a chamber of 435 — to the Indo-US nuclear deal from the House of Representatives in Washington surprised both the pros and the antis.
- Moving Ahead (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 28, 2006)
The Indo-US civilian nuclear deal is moving towards becoming a reality. It has crossed another hurdle with the US House of Representatives giving its seal of approval after an intense debate lasting nearly five hours.
- Foreign Policy Tangles (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Jul 28, 2006)
The writer is a former member of parliament and a freelance columnist based in Lahore
- The Neocon Resurgence (Hindu, Sidney Blumenthal, Jul 28, 2006)
The delusional U.S. mindset that made the Iraq war a disaster has resurfaced in Lebanon.
- U.S. Sanctions Two India Firms For Transfers To Iran (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Bush administration has decided to impose sanctions on two Indian firms for missile-related transactions with Iran, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday.
- How The East Was Won (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Jul 28, 2006)
The Jungle, the Japanese and the British Commonwealth Armies at War (1941-45): Fighting Methods, Doctrine and Training for Jungle Warfare By T.R. Moreman, Frank Cass, $135
- Zawahri Spits Fire At Israel (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Al Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said his group would not stand by and watch Israel bombard Lebanon and the Palestinians, calling on Muslims in a video aired today to fight those who support the attacks.
- Snubbed, Cpm Looks At Next Best N-Shield (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Jul 28, 2006)
CPM general secretary Prakash Karat has said his party would not be satisfied with a voluntary statement by the Prime Minister on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Going Soft In The Knee (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 28, 2006)
Who was the mole in P.V. Narasimha Rao’s office, and who cares about that past history? It is dead and gone, not relevant to the realities of today. And for the press to pursue, relentlessly, a non-story is even more farcical than the story itself.
- Vice Admiral Js Bedi To Head S Naval Command » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Vice Admiral Jagjit Singh Bedi will take over as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command, Kochi, on July 31 from Vice Admiral SCS Bangara who retires from the service.
- Lantos Nearly Killed Nuke Deal Bill With Iran Rider (Hindustan Times, S Rajagopalan, Jul 28, 2006)
Senior lawmaker Tom Lantos is as passionate in his support to India as in his antagonism for Iran.
- Dishonourable Silence (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Behind the noise and scurry that has accompanied the ‘non-revelatory revelations’ made by Jaswant Singh in his memoirs, A Call To Honour, there lies the matter of serious irresponsibility.
- Mole On The Nose (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 28, 2006)
Jaswant Singh is a gentleman fallen among politicians. We have been waiting for his memoirs ever since a south-east Asian summit when the post-banquet entertainment took the form of a skit that was a witty take-off of Lewis Carroll’s “You are Old . . .
- The Us And Muslims (News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai, Jul 28, 2006)
If the United States of America still hoped it would be able to win the hearts of minds of Muslims worldwide, its reaction to the events of the past few weeks in the Middle East should make it realise the futility of the exercise.
- India Exporting Brahmos Missile System (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jul 28, 2006)
Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) on Thursday that New Delhi was selling BrahMos missile systems to other countries, but declined to give details “due to the sensitivities involved with export . . .
- Us-India Nuclear Deal Wins Big Vote Despite Dissent (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jul 28, 2006)
The US House of Representatives voted by 359 votes to 68 to approve the controversial US-India nuclear cooperation agreement despite several dissenting voices, with one member calling the deal a “historic failure” that “pours nuclear fuel on the . . .
- Disturbing Trend (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 28, 2006)
The message inherent in President Pervez Musharraf’s assertion in Karachi on Wednesday is that a change at the top provincial or federal executive level will not be allowed.
- Israel Orders Heavier Air Attacks (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jul 28, 2006)
Two Hizbollah rockets hit Haifa; Al-Qaeda vows to launch world-wide offensive
- Putin Pushes A Wider Agenda For The G8 (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Jul 28, 2006)
In Russia's vision, the expanded G8 will no longer be a Western club but will evolve into a round table of the world's major players.
- When A "Loyal" Guest Rounded On Blair (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jul 28, 2006)
The Iraqi Prime Minister's recent outburst against Mr. Blair over his refusal to condemn the Israeli actions in Lebanon has reinforced Mr. Blair's image as a cheerleader for George W. Bush.
- Sri Lanka Launches Air Strikes In North, East (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jul 28, 2006)
The target is an illegal airstrip under construction by the LTTE
- Uk Court Asks Govt To Explain Reason Of Entering Iraq War (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Tony Blair’s lawyers will have to rehearse the detailed reasons for invading Iraq after a dramatic victory by the families of four soldiers killed there.
- The Royal Rescue (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jul 28, 2006)
Little Prince was very lucky. Lucky because he was saved from certain jaws of death by diligent Army engineers, who worked round the clock to rescue him when he fell into a 60-foot borewell pit in a village near Kurukshetra.
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