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Articles 8021 through 8120 of 27135:
- Boys Gone Astray, Minister? (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Jul 13, 2006)
You don’t have to wait for intelligence agencies to release their trademark identikit pictures to know the faces behind Mumbai’s serial blast.
- Time Opportune To Talk Strategy (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jul 13, 2006)
It was an interesting experience for me to again exchange views with key strategic thinkers in the US last month at a location close to the statue of Mahatma . . .
- No Public Bickering (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 13, 2006)
One supposes it is something to be welcomed that the United States "agrees," as Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri said in Washington on . . .
- Death Toll In Mumbai Train Blasts Rises To 250 (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
The death toll from a series of bombs that struck Bombay’s packed commuter trains rose Wednesday to 200, and India demanded that Pakistan dismantle the “infrastructure of terrorism,” but leveled no direct accusation at its rival for the attacks.
- Kasuri For Fissile Material Moratorium With India (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has said that Islamabad is ready for a bilateral fissile material moratorium with India saying that its nuclear weapons programme was driven by Indian threat perception.
- Isi’S Pervasive Role (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 13, 2006)
The court proceedings in the case of missing persons should focus the nation’s attention on the invisible but pervasive entity that the Inter-Services Intelligence is.
- Israel Air Strike Destroys Palestinian Foreign Ministry (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
An Israeli air strike destroyed the office of Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar on Thursday in an attack that signaled Israel would pursue its Gaza offensive while fighting along a second front in Lebanon, witnesses said.
- Widen The Net, Tighten The Noose (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, Jul 13, 2006)
Election Commission must realise that the polling process is not just about mobilising paramilitary forces, says Ahtesham Qureshy
- How Could We Let This Pass? (Pioneer, Rai Singh, Jul 13, 2006)
By completing the railway link between Beijing and Lhasa, the Chinese have achieved a marvellous feat of engineering.
- Militants Bang On Target, Tourists Flee Kashmir (Pioneer, Khursheed Wani, Jul 13, 2006)
A day after Tuesday's serial blasts that killed eight visitors, tourists began leaving Jammu and Kashmir in large numbers.
- Victor And The Vanquished (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Jul 13, 2006)
To keep faith with the Seven-Party Political Alliance, Prachanda will have to break faith with his Maoist comrades in Nepal, in India, and all over the world ----
- Nawaz Was Briefed On Kargil And He Was On Board: Musharraf (Daily Times, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Jul 13, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has challenged former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s allegations that he (Musharraf) did not take him into confidence on the situation in Kargil by presenting pictorial evidence of Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Kel in Kashmir in . . .
- Pak Seeks Nuke Deal, Again (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Claiming that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme was “driven by the threat perception of India,” foreign minister Mr Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has said Islamabad would “say yes” to a bilateral fissile material moratorium.
- Leveraging India Post's Strength (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Jul 13, 2006)
The strengths of India Post are its long tradition of handling financial services, its wide reach among the mass market and its credibility and trust, says R. VAIDYANATHAN, arguing that more flexibility and autonomy can help the behemoth provide the . . .
- Grit And Discipline (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 13, 2006)
The bomb blasts in Mumbai, which have taken a toll of nearly 200 lives, are numbing in their brutality, design and lethal execution.
- Afternoon Tea With “Russia’S Osama” (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 13, 2006)
The afternoon I spent drinking tea with the man who became Russia’s most-wanted terrorist was, considering the circumstances, quite civilised.
- Gender Battle (Tribune, Lt Gen Raj Kadyan, Jul 13, 2006)
An Army Lieutenant posted at Udhampur committed suicide recently.
- For Durable Ties With Us (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Jul 13, 2006)
Understanding the perceptions of those who influence US foreign policy provides an insight into the factors that shape the directions that global developments will take. It was, therefore, interesting to meet key strategic thinkers in the U.S last . . .
- ‘China Gears Up For Rival Resolution’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
China is preparing a rival resolution on North Korea’s missile tests that would drop language in the USA and Japanese-backed measure which could lead to possible future military action against Pyongyang, UN diplomats said today.
- The Day After (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 13, 2006)
Few organisations would have both the ruthlessness and the logistical capabilities to mount attacks on the scale and intensity of the Mumbai train bombings, which killed 190 at last count and injured many more.
- Maximum Power (Times of India, ARCHANA JAHAGIRDAR, Jul 13, 2006)
It took just 11 minutes to wreck Mumbai. In those 11 minutes some lives were snuffed out, other lives changed for the worse with horrific injuries. Even as phone lines in and to Mumbai were jammed, anxious relatives waited to hear about the safety . . .
- Massive Hunt On As Death Toll Rises To 200 (The Daily Star, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Indian police said yesterday the bombs which ripped through trains in Mumbai on Tuesday bore the hallmark of Islamic militants.
- India Needs To Be Ruthless In Its Vengeance (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
As a child, I rarely fell asleep without listening to my grandmother narrate 'good-over-evil' stories from religious scriptures.
- Communal Riots Would Be Precisely What The Terrorists Want (Rediff on the Net, editoral, rediff on the net, Jul 13, 2006)
Having just returned from a 'Peace Delegation' visit from Karachi, one had a sense of foreboding about coming events. Exploding population, rampant religious fundamentalism, spiralling prices, unemployment, a money order economy, violence in . . .
- How Much Will India Endure? (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Jul 13, 2006)
Yesterday's awful rush-hour bombings of trains in Bombay raise an important and ominous question: How far can India be pushed?
- Editorial: World Stands With People Of Mumbai (Toronto Star, Editorial, Toronto Star, Jul 13, 2006)
A day after seven bombs ripped through Mumbai's commuter rail system, leaving at least 200 dead and more than 700 injured, the trains were running again yesterday in India's commercial capital.
- World Stands With People Of Mumbai (Toronto Star, editoral, toronto star, Jul 13, 2006)
A day after seven bombs ripped through Mumbai's commuter rail system, leaving at least 200 dead and more than 700 injured, the trains were running again yesterday in India's commercial capital.
- Israel Terms Capture Of Soldiers Act Of War (Financial Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed up to seven Israelis in violence on either side of the Lebanese border on Wednesday, further inflaming West Asia tensions.
- Israeli Aerial Attack On Hamas Kills Six (Denver Post, Ibrahim Barzak, Jul 13, 2006)
Among the wounded in the airstrike was a Palestinian militant who has topped Israel's wanted list for a decade, the military said.
- Mayor Sees The Forest For The Trees (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Imagine for a moment that somebody in the Bush administration had thought of this four years ago.
On Tuesday, the Pentagon announced it would apply the protections of the Geneva Conventions to the 500-some detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, . . .
- "Act Of War"in Mideast (Denver Post, Dion Nissenbaum, Jul 13, 2006)
A new crisis between Israel and Islamic militants threatened to escalate into a broader and deadlier regional conflict Wednesday after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a coordinated assault along the Israel-Lebanon border.
- Four Years Late To Geneva (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Imagine for a moment that somebody in the Bush administration had thought of this four years ago.
- Nepal Cuts King's Funds By 70 Percent (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Nepal's interim, multi-party government cut King Gyanendra's allowance by 70 percent on Wednesday in the first budget presented to parliament in four years.
- Israel Battles Muslim Militants On Two Fronts (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Israeli forces battled Muslim militants on two fronts on Thursday, destroying the office of the Palestinian foreign minister in Gaza and exchanging blows with Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas to the north.
- No Breakthrough In Chinese Diplomacy On North Korea - U.S. (Reuters, Chris Buckley, Jul 13, 2006)
U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said on Thursday there had been no breakthrough in Chinese diplomacy to defuse the North Korean missile crisis as China condemned Japan for "pouring oil on fire" over the issue.
- A Summit For Global Security And Stability (Hindu, JACQUES CHIRAC, Jul 13, 2006)
We must seize the opportunities of globalisation in this extraordinary period of growth while correcting its unacceptable social and ecological excesses.
- The Road To Unimaginable Horror (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 13, 2006)
There has rarely been a crime so predictable as that visited on Mumbai. It is part of a war that is still far from over.
- All Airports To Be Put On High Alert (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
The Union Home and Civil Aviation ministries on Wednesday decided to put the country’s airports on high alert while strengthening access control and placing better mechanism to detect explosives in the wake of the terror blasts in Mumbai.
- 1 Killed, 46 Hurt As Ashram Followers, Youths Clash (Tribune, Raman Mohan, Jul 13, 2006)
One person was killed and more than 46 were injured when followers of Satlok Ashram, located on the outskirts of this village, fired at a mob comprising mainly youths of nearby villages around noon today. There was also a heavy exchange of brickbats.
- Thailand Investigates Reports Of Plot To Harm Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Thai authorities were investigating reports of a plot to "harm" the prime minister, the intelligence chief said today, as security around Thaksin Shinawatra was significantly increased.
- Inbred Duplicity (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2006)
Assam Police confirmation that the Ulfa’s Rs 25-lakh extortion notice on the Guwahati RBI regional director is “genuine” once again exposes the outfit’s inbred . . .
- Gulmarg Too Under Attack, 7 Tourists Injured (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
In a span of 24 hours after conducting serial blasts at tourists in Srinagar on Tuesday, suspected terrorists yet again today targeted tourism directly and hurled a grenade towards their vehicle at Gulmarg injuring seven tourists, including three women.
- Tackling Terror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2006)
Are we condemned to live in conditions that permit terrorists of all inclinations to strike at will?
- 8 Tourists Injured In Grenade Attack (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Two top Laskhar-e-Toiba militants and a jawan were among six persons killed and 15 injured as militants carried out two more grenade attacks, including one targeting tourists for the second straight day today in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Let Logic Reign In Tricky Situation (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 13, 2006)
Hardly a day passes without a loud voice being heard for and against demilitarisation in the State especially the Valley.
- Pak Isi Agent Arrested (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
The State Intelligence Department arrested a Pakistani ISI agent Aslam Ram here yesterday.
- Ice-Cool Under Terror Attack (TIME, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Unlike the hysterical reaction of America and Spain, India's restraint under pressure is exemplary
- Al-Qaeda Drops Bombshell, Says Has Network In J&k (Hindustan Times, Rashid Ahmad, Jul 13, 2006)
This could be more trouble for India. On Thursday, a man claiming to be a spokesperson for Al-Qaeda called up a local news agency in Srinagar to announce the arrival of the terror group in Kashmir.
- Peaceful Voting In Pok (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Voting began on Tuesday in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to choose a new regional legislature that will face the . . .
- Space Stumbles (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 12, 2006)
Isro must build on its failures
- Fokker Crash And The Problem Of High-Risk Technologies (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 12, 2006)
The tragic crash of a PIA Fokker F-27 in Multan on July 10 has predictably revived the debate about the safety of the aircraft inducted in the PIA fleet some 40 years ago.
- Us Opposes India Joining Npt As N-Weapon State (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
“Let me be clear: We do not support India joining the Non Proliferation Treaty as a nuclear weapon state. Rather, the goal of our initiative is to include India, for the first time ever, in the global nonproliferation regime,”
- Afghanistan Forces Claim Killing 30 Militants (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The latest raid was conducted in Sangin village in the volatile Helmand province, where more than 3,000 NATO-led British troops had been deployed to take over security control from US forces.
- Militants Kill Tribal Elder, Soldier (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Militants on Tuesday killed a pro-government tribal elder and a paramilitary soldier in a remote town near the Afghan border, officials said. Gunmen perched on hills opened fire on the house of tribal . . .
- Where's The Steel In Our National Character? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 12, 2006)
Why doesn't our Government respond with the vehemence of Israelis when our jawans are abducted and mutilated,
- ‘No Election Alliance Between Ppp And Pml-N’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is not against the Army, but some generals have held the country hostage and the government is on the verge of collapse.
- Terror Bombs Cause Mayhem On Mumbai’S Lifeline: •Over 160 Killed, . . . (Dawn, Anand Kumar, Jul 12, 2006)
Bombs ripped through seven packed commuter trains and stations during rush hour in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, killing at least 163 passengers and injuring about 600.
- Enough Is Enough! (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
When the first of the explosives went off at the Bombay Stock Exchange on March 12, 1993, by chance I was in the vicinity.
- Dawood Is In Waziristan (Pioneer, B Raman, Jul 12, 2006)
With US mounting pressure on Islamabad to reveal underworld don's whereabouts, Pervez Musharraf has shifted him to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border ---- Mafia don and wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim was living in Karachi with a Pakistani passport . . .
- Communal Riots Would Be Precisely What The Terrorists Want (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Having just returned from a 'Peace Delegation' visit from Karachi, one had a sense of foreboding about coming events. Exploding population, rampant religious fundamentalism, spiralling prices, unemployment, a money order economy, violence in . . .
- Nuclear Links With India Will Improve Energy Security: Rice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
It will "ease" New Delhi's reliance on hydrocarbons "from unstable sources''
India and U.S. can accomplish great things in this new century
U.S. is for strengthening nuclear non-proliferation regime
- How Much Will India Endure? (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Yesterday's awful rush-hour bombings of trains in Bombay raise an important and ominous question: How far can India be pushed?
- Dozen More Reasons (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 12, 2006)
To ask: just what is this government doing about terror, why can’t it even get its rhetoric right?
- Course Correction (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 12, 2006)
It may not be easy for India's defence and space engineers to get over the disappointment of the back-to-back failures of the intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III and the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) over the weekend.
- Nuclear Power Is Safer Now, But We Still Don't Need It (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jul 12, 2006)
It's true that another Chernobyl couldn't happen in a new reactor, but the case against nuclear power is as strong as ever.
- Too Many Planes, Too Few Pilots (Hindu, T.S. Shankar, Jul 12, 2006)
The shortage of qualified pilots is cause for concern.
- A Tragedy Foretold (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 12, 2006)
It could take months to identify the perpetrators of the Mumbai bombings, but the recent past holds some clues.
- Domestic Imperatives In Iran's Foreign Policy (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jul 12, 2006)
A new exercise in consensus building is under way. The purpose is to present a unified approach and deny the interlocutor space to exploit internal disagreements.
- Facing Up To The Gslv Failure (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 12, 2006)
In an unfortunate succession of failures, the day after India's latest and most powerful missile, Agni-III, failed in its maiden flight, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), lifting off with the Insat-4C communications satellite . . .
- Manmohan For Reconstruction Of University System (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Underlines need to recognise private sector contribution in its expansion
Lays foundation for the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Universities have not grown commensurate with need
- Kasuri, Rice Discuss India-Pakistan Dialogue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
No discussion on Agni-III test
- The Taliban's Hidden Masters (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Jul 12, 2006)
It is becoming increasingly clear that the kind of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) used against the coalition forces in Afghanistan is similar to the ones used in the Kashmir Valley, pointing as strongly to the Pakistani connection as the suicide . . .
- 147 Dead, 439 Injured As Blasts Rock Mumbai Trains (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
At least 147 people were killed and 439 injured in a string of seven terror blasts that tore through first class compartments of suburban trains around 6 pm during the peak hour traffic here today.
- Will They Make It? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 12, 2006)
Believers in democracy in the sub-continent should feel encouraged by reports that opposition parties in Pakistan have stepped up their offensive for the restoration of popular rule.
- America Props Up Shaky Leaders (Daily Excelsior, Rajesh Khajuria, Jul 12, 2006)
The situation the United States and its allies face in Afghanistan and Iraq is one almost without precedent.
- 8 Killed, 43 Injured In 5 Grenade Attacks In Srinagar (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jul 12, 2006)
Eight persons died and 43 sustained injuries when suspected militants carried out a series of grenade attacks, targeting domestic tourists in Dalgate and Lalchowk areas of Civil Lines in this capital city today.
- Nail In The Coffin (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
The corrupt do not spare even the dead. That is the lesson from the coffin scam, reported first by this newspaper, which rocked the nation soon after Operation Vijay in 1999.
- All Ageing Fokkers Should Be Grounded (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 12, 2006)
There is yet another crash of Fokker resulting in the loss of 45 precious lives including five crew members.Though each and every human life is important but in this tragedy two judges of Lahore High Court, Vice Chancellor of the Bahauddin Zakariya . . .
- India: Bombed But Unbowed (Los Angeles Times, Editorial, Los Angeles Times, Jul 12, 2006)
Mumbai, like london, IS A bustling center of finance and culture that looms larger in its countrymen's imaginations than any other city.
- Us Detainees Get Geneva Protection (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The Bush administration called today for Congress to fix, rather than scrap, the system of military tribunals struck down by the Supreme Court last month, while the Pentagon pledged to treat detainees in accordance with the Geneva Conventions as the . . .
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