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Articles 11621 through 11720 of 27135:
- Usa Pledges Cutting-Edge Arms To Pak (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 09, 2006)
USA has agreed to provide Pakistan’s military with the latest conventional weapons systems besides the already promised F-16s to fight terrorism.
- Iran Letter To Bush Talks Of ‘New Solutions’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 09, 2006)
N-standoff: First letter in 27 years from an Iranian president to US president ‘could lead to new openings’
- Iran President Sends Letter To Bush (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 09, 2006)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to President George W. Bush in an unprecedented attempt to ease mounting tensions between Tehran and the West, an Iranian official said today.
- The Plight Of Women In Iraq (Hindu, Natasha Walter, May 09, 2006)
Women in Iraq are living a nightmare that is hidden from the West. Now one of them has turned film-maker to give us a window on to what they endure. She reveals what she saw.
- Another Great Game? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 09, 2006)
India should read right the renewed note of hostility in US-Russia relations
- Tamil Nadu Records 65 Per Cent Polling (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 09, 2006)
Madurai, Erode register the highest — 73 per cent; Theni the lowest — 57 per cent
At Nariampatti, 45 votes were cast forcefully
Incidents of poll boycott in some places
- Bush For Closure Of Guantanamo (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 09, 2006)
U.S. President George W. Bush says he would like to close the detention centre in Guantanamo in Cuba, but is waiting for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether inmates can face military tribunals.
- Mirwaiz Urges Changes On Ground (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
Chairman of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has stressed the need for what he said change in the ground situation and said it was vital for the success of the peace process, adding that it would lead to the resolution of the . . .
- Iran — Burning The Bridges (Jordan Times, GWYNNE DYER, May 08, 2006)
The draft resolution on Iran’s nuclear activities that the United States, Britain and France presented to the United Nations Security Council is designed to fail. By making it a Chapter 7 resolution (one that is mandatory under international law and . . .
- Terror Tactic Of The Times (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, May 08, 2006)
Suicide terrorism is the flavour of season, whether in India, Sri Lanka, West Asia or Pakistan. Suicide terror attack is invariably politically motivated. It is aggressive, brutal and generally executed by an individual or a group of individuals.
- New Breed Of Terror (Pioneer, Samuel Baid, May 08, 2006)
The Taliban are bent upon creating security problems for Indians who are engaged in reconstruction work in Afghanistan.
- Nepal Recalls 12 Ambassadors (Hindu, Ameet Dhakal, May 08, 2006)
Pro-democracy movement toll 21; Maoists want interim constitution
- Blind Eye To Terror (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 08, 2006)
World Council of Churches has castigated Israeli teenagers for throwing stones but not condemned a Palestinian suicide bomber, says Mark D Tooley
- China Stoops To Conquer (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, May 08, 2006)
The China-Australia agreement on uranium supply was signed in April 2006, after the Indo-US joint statement of March 2, 2006. Therefore, the Chinese should have been aware of India contesting the perpetuity clause and getting satisfactory assurances . .
- Breaking The Space Barrier (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, May 08, 2006)
Fed up with the secrecy of NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and the bloated government bureaucracy it represents, heads are being knocked together to see if alternative business models can make the cost of Space travel cheaper . .
- 'Bin Laden Could Be Hiding In Pakistan' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
The US ambassador in charge of counter-terrorism has said that parts of Pakistan are a "safe haven" for militants and that Osama Bin Laden was more likely to be hiding there than in Afghanistan.
- Enough Is Enough! (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 08, 2006)
If, for all the sacrifices Pakistan has made and the adverse public opinion its military action in the tribal belt has created within the country, including strong resentment among the tribesmen, the US still believes we are not doing enough to . . .
- Iran Threatens Npt Pullout (Hindu, Atul Aneja , May 08, 2006)
In case of further pressure
- Vadodara Limps Back To Normalcy (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
With the seven-hour curfew relaxation here passing off peacefully today, authorities said the Army was likely to be withdrawn from the city from Tuesday.
- Plagiarism And Modern Publishing (Hindu, Mark Lawson, May 08, 2006)
The best image of plagiarism I can think of is that of someone being caught with their fingers in the word-till. Unfortunately, it was not me who thought of it, but the British novelist Martin Amis.
- General Calling (Business Standard, John Satish K, May 08, 2006)
To S S Mehta, a retired Lieutenant General and director general-designate of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), serving in the industry association is a calling on a par with that of the army, the wild, or the sea.
- Access To N-Technology: Right Vs Reality (Dawn, Shaukat Umer, May 08, 2006)
I write this analysis with some reluctance since much has been written in these columns on Iran’s nuclear programme.
- Bush Says Wants Guantanamo Closed (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
The last American survivor of the Titanic wreck has died in the state of Massachusetts aged 99.
- Another Verbal Skirmish With Kabul (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, May 08, 2006)
The US State Department Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, Henry Crumpton, has launched another verbal skirmish with Islamabad over the presence or otherwise of Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan. He admitted Pakistan was fighting . . .
- King’S Party Woes (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 08, 2006)
The PML Central Executive Committee, which met in Islamabad on Saturday to discuss intra-party elections, shifted its focus to General Musharraf’s re-election as President, but there was a divided opinion on whether he should retain the office of . . .
- War Over Spectrum Allocation (The Economic Times, Rajesh Kalra, May 08, 2006)
Ratan Tata is upset with the way the department of telecommunications has allocated spectrum for mobile operators.
- No Longer A `Functioning Chaos' (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , May 08, 2006)
Thanks mainly to the economic reforms, which have unleashed the productive powers of the nation and its people, India does not figure in the list of `failed states'. Indeed it has come a long way from being so described, in the 1970s, and a . . .
- Debating A Bad Idea (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, May 08, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic Research
- Only Social Change Can End Moditva (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 08, 2006)
The partisan role played by the local administration and police of Vadodara to instigate and abet the recent communal violence in the city, which claimed five lives, is galling. It, however, does not surprise.
- On Insecurity Scale, East Shivers More (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
Half the people in the eastern region of the country feel insecure about the society in which they live and more than half are economically insecure. In the rest of the country, most people feel secure about their communities and social environs but . . .
- Hizbul Mujahideen Activist Killed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
A Hizbul Mujahideen explosives expert and mastermind of most car bomb attacks in Jammu and Kashmir since 2004 was on Sunday killed in an ambush by security forces in Pulwama district.
- How Not To Fight Terrorism (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 08, 2006)
After four years, numerous appeals, millions of dollars, and a massive investment of government personnel and resources, the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui concluded last week with a life sentence.
- Cable Operators Threatened In Kashmir (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
Students of a madrassa staged a march here today to protest against the police’s alleged failure to act against those involved in a sex racket while a little-known militant group warned cable TV operators not to air programmes in the Kashmir Valley.
- Sri Lanka Rebels Vow To Neutralise Renegades (Reuters, Simon Gardner, May 08, 2006)
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have vowed to raid government territory to kill former comrades they say are attacking their fighters with the help of the military, warning peace talks are off until those renegade attacks stop.
- Iran Ups Rhetoric On Quitting Nuke Treaty (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 08, 2006)
Iran said on Sunday it will reject any UN resolution seeking an end to its atomic fuel work and ratcheted up its rhetoric about following North Korea out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
- Fragile Peace (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 08, 2006)
'Peace is happiness', reads a Lions Club poster as our car rolls into Trincomalee on Sri Lanka's north-east coast. In peaceful times, the picturesque port city's long beaches are popular with surfers, scuba divers and whale watchers.
- Message From Osama’ Circulating In N Waziristan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
A message from Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was distributed in Miranshah and Mir Ali bazaars on Saturday, calling on Pakistani Muslims to help “the oppressed people of Waziristan”.
- Militants Kill 2, Lob Grenade In House (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
In two separate incidents, militants in Jammu and Kashmir shot dead a person and hurled a grenade inside a house in Baramulla district injuring a woman, official sources said here today.
- Pakistan Not Doing Enough To Root Out Terror: Us Official (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
Pakistan is not doing enough to help root out Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders who have found safe haven in its lawless tribal region along the Afghan border, a senior US security official said on Saturday.
- The End Game (Deccan Herald, BITTU SAHGAL, May 07, 2006)
A tiger was found dead near the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in end-April 2006. Its legs were separated from its body, yet it was reported by officials that the tiger died fighting another tiger.
- Japan May Back Indo-Us Nuclear Deal In Nsg (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
Ahead of the Nuclear Suppliers Group's meeting in Brazil next month, a key politician from Japan's ruling party has indicated that Tokyo will consider supporting the India-US nuclear deal...
- New Breed Of Taliban (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, May 07, 2006)
New Delhi’s reaction to the murder of Indian engineer K.Suryanarayana by Taliban in Afghanistan’s province of Zabeel on April 30 was on expected lines.
- Intelligence Failed In Kargil Run-Up: Malik (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 07, 2006)
"The briefing of NDA MPs on Kargil by Army officials was an aberration" Gen Malik
- Who Represents Whom In Kashmir ? (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, May 07, 2006)
The most interesting feature of the Valley's current scenario is that the socalled separatists are divided over separatism while the socalled non-separatists are divided over non-separatism...
- Eviscerating A Holy Cow (Hindu, Nisheeth Srivastava, May 07, 2006)
LET US NOT DELUDE OURSELVES. IIT IS A VERY EFFICIENT AND CONSISTENT BREEDING GROUND FOR PRODUCTIVE MEDIOCRITY
- Pm Witnesses Naval Fire Power At Sea (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
Breaking from his routine, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday made a foray into the high seas with the men in battle blues to witness first hand the efforts being undertaken by the armed forces to combat the threat of missiles.
- First Glimpse Of A New Dawn In Nepal (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, May 07, 2006)
The oldest nation-state in South Asia will soon have the subcontinent's newest constitution. Whether peace and prosperity follow depends on how inclusive it is.
- Opportunity That Was Lost (Deccan Herald, Sonya Dutta Choudhury, May 07, 2006)
The world’s hotspots have never been more beautiful. Afghanistan, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Kashmir. And India’s North East.
- View From The Clouds (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , May 07, 2006)
Kumbhalgarh demands great physical effort. But the rewards are worth it.
- India Watches As Sri Lanka Bleeds (Pioneer, B Raman, May 07, 2006)
Sri Lanka has been bleeding continuously ever since Mr Mahinda Rajapakse took over as the President last November and immediately thereafter wriggled out of the commitment made to the Sri Lankan Tamils by his predecessors to find a solution to their polit
- Endangered Peace (Pioneer, GH Peiris, May 07, 2006)
The trail of destruction that accompanied the attempted assassination of Sri Lanka's Army Commander, General Sarath Fonseka, on April 25, 2006, when set against some of the earlier massacres by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Colombo...
- An Opportunity On Oil (Dawn, Anwar Syed, May 07, 2006)
The ruling elites in Iran and Turkey have for several centuries perceived and treated the Kurdish element in their populations as an irritant.
- Annan's Proposal For Us-Iran Talks (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
Dr Kofi Annan's call to the United States to enter direct negotiations with Iran is going to make it more difficult for the US government to defend its confrontational stance on the Iranian nuclear question.
- Talk To Iran! But... (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, May 07, 2006)
Diplomacy, it seems, has so far failed to get Iran to back down from its nuclear stance and prove to the world that it isn’t doing anything against the various clauses and protocols of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
- Back From The Brink (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, May 07, 2006)
As the nation watched Vadodara burn, there was very real trepidation that Gujarat would slip back to the atavistic 2002 moment.
- Focus On Navy's Influence On Land Operations (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, May 07, 2006)
Future naval wars will be of high intensity: Admiral Arun Prakash
- Norwegian Woods (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, May 07, 2006)
When Sri Lanka's current peace process began with great public support and a good deal of optimism, there were the inevitable sceptics who thought it was doomed to failure in the same way that earlier attempts at peace in the island nation had collapsed.
- Making Peace Last (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 07, 2006)
The Supreme Court’s stay of the Gujarat High Court’s order, directing the local authorities to take immediate steps to remove all religious structures encroaching on public space without discrimination, is a welcome move.
- Balancing Act (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, May 07, 2006)
It’s doubtful if the UN resolution on Iran, which the US and its European allies have tabled, would be of much help in ending Tehran’s nuclear defiance any time soon.
- Action Against Iran Inconceivable, Says British Envoy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, May 07, 2006)
When Sir Michael Arthur took over as the British High Commissioner to India in late 2003, he would not have dreamt of the fast developments in the region — the most important being the Indo-Pak detente.
- Peace In Nepal (Tribune, Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), May 07, 2006)
Neither the ten-year long Maoist war nor the 12 years of multiparty democracy nor even the one-year direct rule by the King could resolve the political crisis in Nepal.
- Modernise Shipyards: Pm (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, May 07, 2006)
Witnesses Western Fleet's prowess
Navy showcases several other combat operations
Government committed to providing Navy with capabilities that span the entire naval strategic spectrum
- The Pml Troubles And Musharraf —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi (Daily Times, Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi, May 07, 2006)
The civil and military establishment may find it difficult to manage the elections because the international community intends to carefully monitor the elections and the opposition political forces are more determined to take on the Musharraf...
- Deft Demagoguery In Iran (Washington Post, Jackson Diehl, May 07, 2006)
The world may be focused on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declamations on the Holocaust and Iran's nuclear "rights," but as spring and its heat spread through this traffic-clogged city, the popular buzz is about the president's unlikely pronouncements on the . .
- Pakistan A Haven For Militants, U.S. Says (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, May 07, 2006)
A top U.S. counterterrorism official said Saturday that parts of Pakistan were a "safe haven" for militants and that Osama bin Laden was more likely to be hiding there than in Afghanistan.
- Two Italian Soldiers Among 11 Killed In Afghanistan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Two Italian soldiers were killed and four wounded after a roadside bomb exploded while they were on patrol, said military spokesman Major Luke Knittig on Friday.
- Afghan Forces Unable To Stem Attacks: General (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Afghan forces are unable to control the rising number of suicide bombers infiltrating the border to attack Canadians and other western troops, according to a report in a Canadian newspaper.
- India Watches As Sri Lanka Bleeds (Pioneer, B Raman, May 06, 2006)
Sri Lanka has been bleeding continuously ever since Mr Mahinda Rajapakse took over as the President last November and immediately thereafter wriggled out of the commitment made to the Sri Lankan Tamils by his predecessors to find a solution to their . . .
- Evidence Of Lashkar Role In Massacres (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 06, 2006)
Survivors identify member of terror group that carried out the Doda and Udhampur killings
Survivors provide critical information to police on Lalon Galla massacre
Terrorists sighted in high-altitude forest near Basantgarh
Phone used by "Abu Talha" r
- Where Force Is Not A Solution (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, May 06, 2006)
With its huge territory, sparse population and proven reserves of oil, gas and minerals, managing Balochistan would require great skill and acumen, even in the best of times.
- Humpty-Dumpty Sat On A Wall... (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, May 06, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf has again thrown his weight behind the PML president, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, telling the ruling League’s vice presidents that they should not oppose Mr Hussain but rather work with him to strengthen the party.
- Norwegian Woods (Pioneer, K Venkataramanan, May 06, 2006)
When Sri Lanka's current peace process began with great public support and a good deal of optimism, there were the inevitable sceptics who thought it was doomed to failure in the same way that earlier attempts at peace in the island nation had collapsed.
- Endangered Peace (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 06, 2006)
The trail of destruction that accompanied the attempted assassination of Sri Lanka's Army Commander, General Sarath Fonseka, on April 25, 2006, when set against some of the earlier massacres by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Colombo,
- Riding The Wrong Horse (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, May 06, 2006)
India has lost all leverage in Afghanistan by alienating the majority Pashtuns
- Resolving The Kargil Conundrum (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 06, 2006)
Some coherent answers are clearly needed to the question of why troops were thinned at a time when India should have been enhancing its defences.
- Solzhenitsyn’S Righteous Fury (Deccan Herald, William Pfaff, May 06, 2006)
Solzhenitsyn believes that the West has lost to secularism and materialism is threatening Russia.
- Iran For Sober Discussion (Hindu, Atul Aneja , May 06, 2006)
U.N. draft resolution provocative: Teheran
Draft says Iran is threat to peace, security
- Kashmiris Protest Sex Racket (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Protests against a sex scandal in Kashmir threw normal life out of gear on Friday.
- Labour Pains, Blair Delivers Blow To Men (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 06, 2006)
Tony Blair on Friday sacked Charles Clarke, demoted Jack Straw and stripped John Prescott of his departmental brief in a wide-ranging reshuffle aimed at reinvigorating his government after heavy losses in Thursday's local elections.
- Volatile Vadodara (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, May 06, 2006)
Bulldozers and bullets in place of negotiations
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