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Articles 7621 through 7720 of 27135:
- Manmohan Singh Spells Out Some Concerns Over U.S. Nuclear Legislation (Hindu, N. Ram , Jul 18, 2006)
No shifting of goal-post, President George Bush assures India
- A Veteran's Reflections On Legal Profession (Hindu, Geeta Ramaseshan , Jul 18, 2006)
Racy in style, the essays piece together fragments of legal history that make fascinating reading
- Israeli Planes Pound Lebanon, 11 Killed (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Israeli warplanes pounded Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, as diplomatic efforts brought no signs of an early end to the week-old assault launched in retaliation against Hizbollah attacks.
- Japan Mulls More Sanctions As Nkorea Rejects Un Call: Reports (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Japan is considering further economic sanctions against North Korea following Pyongyang's rejection of a UN Security Council resolution demanding the suspension of its ballistic missile program, reports said today.
- ‘Rights Getting A Raw Deal In Cambodia’ (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 18, 2006)
Democratic freedoms and human rights are getting eroded in Cambodia, despite a rosy economic picture promoted by the government, a leading human rights group said today.
- Make It Roof Of Hope And Trust (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 18, 2006)
Imagine meadows bigger and more captivating than even those of Gulmarg and Patnitop. Think of lakes in comparison with which Wullar dwarfs and the well-embellished Dal looks really small.
- No Shifting Goalposts On N-Deal, Bush Tells Pm (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 18, 2006)
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought to tie up the loose ends in implementing the historic nuclear deal with the United States, US President George W. Bush promised to do his best to prevent the US Congress from shifting the goal posts . . .
- Syria Lets Its Resolve Known (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 18, 2006)
Syria has warned that it would respond directly and try all means necessary against any Israeli attack on its territory. In its official reaction to Israel’s offensive on neighbouring Lebanon, it warned that any Israeli attack against Syria will . . .
- Israel Escalates Bombings In Beirut (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
War plane also blasts Palestinian Foreign Ministry building in Gaza City
- G-8 Leaders To Organise Int’L Force For Lebanon (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
World leaders have began work on organizing a substantial international force for Lebanon as the Middle East crisis overshadowed key trade talks at a G8 summit and US President George W. Bush made a gaffe.
- Grand Jirga (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 18, 2006)
The formation of a 45-member grand jirga in North Waziristan Agency looks like a useful measure for the normalisation of the situation in the volatile region.
- $ 18.6b Exports Target Fixed In Trade Policy (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
The government has fixed export target of 18.6 billion dollars and import estimate of 28 billion dollars for the current financial year. The government has failed to achieve the export target of 17 billion dollars and exports stood out . . .
- A Route To Trade? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 18, 2006)
Re-opening the Nathu la Pass is high on political symbolism rather than promotion of business interests
- Taliban Likely To Exploit Hunger In Afghanistan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Millions of Afghans are facing hunger after drought destroyed much of the wheat crop, and a resurgent Taliban are likely to take advantage of the misery to bolster their insurgency, Afghan and foreign officials said.
- Make Them Bite The Dust (Pioneer, B Raman, Jul 18, 2006)
Government should revert to the 'talk-talk, hit-hit' policy to fight terrorism, which it sensibly followed till the mid-1990s ---- In cautiously-worded remarks after a visit to Mumbai on July 14, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been quoted as . . .
- Israel Army Enters Lebanon (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Israeli army troops have crossed the border into southern Lebanon to conduct a ground offensive against the Hezbollah stronghold, an Israeli government spokesman said today.
- Japan May Impose More Sanctions (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Japan was planning to slap its own set of economic sanctions on North Korea after the hard-line regime flatly rejected a UN Security Council resolution condemning its recent missile tests, Japanese media reported today.
- Indian Troops In Lebanon Told To Remain Confined To Bunkers (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
The Indian Army peace keeping contingent, deployed in Lebanon has been advised by the United Nations to remain confined to their positions in the wake of the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. All the 900 Indian soldiers are safe.
- Lunch With Bs: Ashok Soota (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Jul 18, 2006)
MindTree's founder on how he's building upon the string of lucky coincidences in his life.
- Reining In Israel (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 18, 2006)
In spite of American presence, the G-8 statement on the Middle East appears relatively well balanced. First, it calls for “an end to Israeli military operations”.
- India Begins Evacuation From Lebanon (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
In the face of worsening situation in Lebanon, India has started evacuating its nationals from there with 47 of them reaching Damascus in neighbouring Syria by road on Monday.
- Irresoluteness, A National Disease (Pioneer, A Surya Prakash, Jul 18, 2006)
The Mumbai blasts, which have claimed over 200 lives and maimed or injured over 700 people, constitute a terrible tragedy for the victims and their families.
- Stolen Secrets (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Jul 18, 2006)
The ‘Naval War Room Leak’ case has many dimensions. Like for instance the dangers from the reported sale of more than 10,000 computer pages of information on the country’s security on land, in the air and on the sea.
- Israelis Feel Mumbai’S Sorrow, India’S Pain (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
In Israel, a country in a region where the vocabulary of terrorism has an unfortunately high currency, the 7/11 attacks have been followed with deep concern and interest.
- Israel Attacks Beirut Airport (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Israel intensified its attacks against Lebanon on Thursday, blasting Beirut’s international airport and the southern part of the country in its heaviest air campaign against its neighbour in 24 years. Officials confirmed 36 civilians deaths.
- Blair Moots Lebanon Force (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Israeli jets hit a Lebanese port on Monday and killed 17 people in strikes at targets linked to Hezbollah in the city’s suburbs, while the militant group continued the rocket barrage on Israel that killed 8 people in the port city of Haifa on Sunday.
- Naxals Kill 25, Injure 80 In Chhattisgarh (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
At least 25 people were killed and 80 injured, 32 of them seriously, while about 250 people were missing following an attack by some 800 armed naxalites in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Monday, the police said.
- Israeli Bombs Hit Beirut Airport, Streets Again (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Israel struck Beirut airport again on Friday and bombed Lebanese roads, power supplies and communication networks in a widening campaign after Hizbollah guerrillas seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight.
- 672 Indian Troops Stuck In Lebanon (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
India on Monday evacuated 49 Indian nationals from Lebanon in view of the "escalating" crisis in the region. An advisory has been issued advising all Indian nationals living in Lebanon, particularly in southern Lebanon, to take suitable precautions . . .
- Asia’S Changing Strategic Scenario (Dawn, Javid Husain, Jul 18, 2006)
The recent testing of seven missiles by North Korea and the varying reactions of the major powers to this event have once again highlighted the tensions which have been building up in Northeast Asia and the strategic realignment which is taking . . .
- 49 Indians Evacuated From Lebanon (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
India today evacuated 49 of its estimated 12,000 nationals from Lebanon in view of ongoing Israeli operations against Hizbollah militants in Southern Lebanon. New Delhi said it was ready to shift other from the conflict zone and had pressed into . . .
- Kalam Meets Mp Students (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam’s inspiring words to meritorious yet poor children resembled the battle cries of a noble general urging young warriors to valiantly advance along the path of developing the nation and themselves.
- Blasts Rip Kashmir Gag (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jul 18, 2006)
In a historic change with long-term policy implications for South Asia, the UN Security Council has acknowledged, following the July 11 Mumbai bomb blasts, that Jammu and Kashmir is a part of India.
- Death Dance In Tit-For-Tat Strikes (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Hizbollah today killed eight people in the Israeli city of Haifa in its deadliest rocket attack on the Jewish state, and Israeli planes killed 36 people in Lebanon in a fifth day of strikes.
- Keep Back Channels Open (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jul 18, 2006)
The pause in the Indo-Pakistani dialogue was inevitable, given the devastating nature of the terrorist attacks on the Mumbai trains and their suspected links to groups in Pakistan.
- Surprised At Kargil (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 18, 2006)
F C. Fuller, a well known military historian, records, “he, if he wishes to understand war, must examine the nature of surprise in its thousand and one forms as it pursued its relentless course throughout history.”
- Pecking Order (Indian Express, Ravi Sharma , Jul 18, 2006)
Some naval ships from Indian visited Vietnam last month. The news took me back 48 years when, in August 1958, I went to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) on board the training ship ‘Tir’.
- A World Awash In Tools To Kill (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 18, 2006)
Just as gun crimes are frequent when people have lots of guns, so bombings are frequent when people have access to lots of bombs. India, just by itself, proves that truism: A series of blasts in 1993, also in Mumbai, killed 250. And in 2005 three . . .
- Nathu La: Still In Deep Freeze (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 18, 2006)
After all the recent media fuss over the re-opening of Nathu La, the scene there is far from vibrant.
- Reid Uses New Laws To Ban Two Islamist Groups For 'Glorifying Terrorism' (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2006)
Two UK-based Islamist militant groups, al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, were yesterday named as the first extremist groups to be banned in Britain under new anti-terror laws.
- India-Us Ties: One Year Later (Rediff on the Net, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Jul 18, 2006)
the doyen of Indian strategic affairs thinkers, assesses India-US relations a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington, DC
A year has passed since the signing of the Joint Statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh . . .
- Death Dance In Tit-For-Tat Strikes (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
Hizbollah today killed eight people in the Israeli city of Haifa in its deadliest rocket attack on the Jewish state, and Israeli planes killed 36 people in Lebanon in a fifth day of strikes.
- Three Nuke Concerns On Bush Table (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jul 17, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to take up with President George W. Bush aspects of the legislation pending in the US Congress to allow civilian nuclear cooperation with India which have caused some “concern” to New Delhi.
- N Korea Rejects Un Sanctions (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
North Korea today said it was not bound by a UN Security Council resolution imposing weapons-related sanctions on it and insisted the country would “bolster its war deterrent” in every way.
- Beastly End Of A Beauty (OutLook, Raja Menon, Jul 17, 2006)
The story of a gentle petite Indian girl in brutal captivity, who astonished friend and foe with her courage and beauty has been written about earlier, but never researched so comprehensively as in this book.
- Come On, It's Not As Bad As That (OutLook, Sanjaya Baru, Jul 17, 2006)
When the sun rises in the east, it's the West that has to worry about the darkness. Why be glum, Mr Jha?
- Battle For Survival (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 17, 2006)
Israel has no place left to turn to, and no choices either at this late hour but to fight back the Islamist forces, writes P David Hornik
- Hizbollah Retaliates; Attacks Israel, Kills 8 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
Hizbollah rockets killed eight persons in the Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday and bombs shook Beirut as Israel pursued a five-day-old assault in Lebanon aimed at crippling the Shi’ite Muslim group.
- Lake At The End Of The Rainbow (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
Hugh and Colleen Gantzer swear that they have never seen any stretch of water so incredibly blue; or in such a starkly exquisite setting, as the Pangong lake in Ladakh.
- China’S “Peaceful Rise” (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Jul 17, 2006)
China has inaugurated its rail link to Lhasa with pomp and show.
- Cbi Links Verma, Navy Leak (Asian Age, Sridhar Kumaraswami, Jul 17, 2006)
Lavish parties at which serving military officers socialised with defence suppliers/agents were organised by Navy War Room leak case accused Kulbhushan Parashar on the direction of businessman . . .
- Advertisements Cannot Sell The Army (Tribune, Rakesh Datta, Jul 17, 2006)
According to recent reports the Indian Army plans to spend nearly Rs 8 crore on image building to attract the youth, including young professionals, to join the armed forces.
- N. Korea Rejects Call To Halt Missile Tests (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
World powers urged North Korea on Sunday to return to disarmament talks after the UN Security Council unanimously condemned its missile tests, but the isolated Communist state rejected the "brigandish" resolution and vowed to bolster its defences.
- Kargil Martyrs’ Kin To Hold Yajna (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
On the seventh anniversary of Vijay Divas, families of 1999 Kargil martyrs will hold a nine-day “sarva dharma prarthana” at Drass in Kargil.
- Court Martial Ordered Against Major-Gen, (Tribune, Vijay Mohan, Jul 17, 2006)
Eight months after a major-general was suspended for allegedly siphoning massive quantities of army canteen liquor and selling it in the open market, the Army has ordered that he be tried by a general court martial (GCM) for his acts of omission and. . .
- Will Mottaki Have The Answers? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 17, 2006)
From nuclear issue to gas and domestic politics, India looks for a serious dialogue with Iran
- Eight Killed As Hizbollah Rocket Barrage Hits Haifa (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jul 17, 2006)
Syria is strengthening militia's hands, charges Israel
- North Korea Blasts U.N. Resolution (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday strongly criticised a U.N. Security Council resolution on its missile tests, saying the DPRK will not be bound by the resolution.
- ‘Web Crime Widespread’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 17, 2006)
‘Each year, more people become victims of Cyber Crime and India, the hub of information technology, is witnessing more of it.’
- Success Depends On A Tightrope Walk (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Jul 17, 2006)
The ceasefire may be on, but the state seem to have surrendered to Maoists. To bring the peace process and democratisation to a successful conclusion and retain its authority is the challenge before the state
- The Saga Of Gslv (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Jul 17, 2006)
The failure of the Vikas engine despite its reliable track record resulted in the INSAT-4C satellite fiasco.
- Dialogue Derailed (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 17, 2006)
India-Pak peace talks have been suspended
- Indians Among 19 Killed In Nepal Rain (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
Five members of an Indian Army soldier, Hom Bahadur Pun, were among the 19 people who were killed in western Nepal after a mudslide triggered by incessant rain since last week buried their tiny village Friday midnight.
- Un Imposes Sanctions On North Korea (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday to impose limited sanctions on North Korea for its recent missile tests, and demanded that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile programme.
- Fencing Off The G-8 Summit (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 17, 2006)
The event takes place at the Tsarist-era Konstantinovsky Palace just a mile down the road and the whole area has been circled off by a ring of steel.
- Moderates On Both Sides Must Assert Themselves (Hindu, Foqia Sadiq Khan, Jul 17, 2006)
In this view from across the border on the Mumbai train blasts, the writer argues that Pakistan needs to make a greater effort to deal with terrorist networks while India must immediately act to prevent a Gujarat-like backlash and over the longer . . .
- Limit To Tolerance, But Options Are Limited Too (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 17, 2006)
Despite the Musharraf regime's equivocation on terrorism, India will gain nothing by allowing the authors of the Mumbai blasts to disrupt the peace process with . . .
- Pak Opposition Allies Likely To Probe Kargil (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
A conglomerate of Opposition moderate political parties in Pakistan has said it would constitute a commission of inquiry into the Kargil misadventure by the Army if the government failed to do so.
- Paucity Of Senior Posts Hits Army Promotions (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Jul 17, 2006)
Several gallantry award winners have been left out of latest list
Many officers feel method of assessing their capability needs to be improved
Army top brass has indicated setting up of a special merit review board
- Rice Rejects Calls For Temporary Truce In Middle East (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
Rejecting calls for a temporary truce in the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today said the international community should look at the "root cause" of the problem and blamed Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran for the current . . .
- Russia’S West Encounter (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 17, 2006)
Driving from the Pulkovo airport to a hotel on the edge of the Gulf of Finland, you cannot escape the grand sweep of Russia’s past and its hopes for a new future. Built by Peter the Great three centuries ago as Russia’s ‘‘window to the . . .
- Writer Kaun? (Times of India, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 17, 2006)
The battle of the books is about to be joined in Pakistan, with General Musharraf about to issue his riposte to Nawaz Sharif's just-out memoir Ghaddar Kaun.
- Israel Exercising Its Right To Self-Defence (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 17, 2006)
Sir, ~ The editorial, “The Gaza blitzkrieg” (11 July), demonstrates not even a cursory acquaintance with the facts. Israel fully withdrew from Gaza nine months ago, hoping that the Palestinians would . . .
- Elections In Azad Kashmir (News International, Dr Shabir Choudhry, Jul 17, 2006)
A ‘drama’ in name of elections in Azad Kashmir has been in full swing. The state of Jammu and Kashmir was at one time known as ‘base camp’, to ‘liberate’ the other Kashmir which was under the ‘occupation’ of India.
- The Failed States Index: A Critical Appraisa (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 17, 2006)
The Failed States Index published by the Fund for Peace would not have been newsworthy, but for Pakistan’s position at no.
- Time To Repeal Hudood Laws (News International, Dr Farzana Bari, Jul 17, 2006)
After twenty six years of a relentless campaign of human rights groups against the Hudood ordinances and other discriminatory laws such as Qisas and Diyat and the law of evidence, the government finally vindicated their stance by acknowledging . . .
- India Puts Off Peace Talks With Pakistan (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Jul 17, 2006)
India has put off peace talks with Pakistan due this week after suspicion over the Mumbai train bombings fell on Islamist militants based in that country, a top Indian foreign ministry official said on Sunday.
- 17 Killed In Night Raids On Lebanon, Palestine Official Building . . . (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
A fresh wave of Israeli air raids overnight left 17 people dead, including nine Lebanese soldiers killed in a raid on a military intelligence base north of Tripoli, police here said Monday.
- British Soldier Killed In Iraq Operation (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2006)
A British soldier was killed and another wounded during a raid near Iraq’s main southern city of Basra, among nearly a dozen people killed in insurgent violence around the country.
- Playing It Cool At G-8 (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 17, 2006)
Just before President Hu Jintao left for the summit of world leaders at St. Petersburg, Russia, the Chinese Communist Party’s official organ, the “eople’s Daily, said it all with a headline: “Relations with China raise G-8’s status”.
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