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Articles 11821 through 11920 of 27135:
- Manmohan Urges Hurriyat To Propose Mechanism (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night asked the Hurriyat Conference to suggest mechanism to address intractable issue of Kashmir.
- Kathmandu Spring (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 04, 2006)
For a while during the past three weeks of turmoil in Nepal, observers would have been forgiven for thinking that the crisis had more to do with Indian domestic politics than with events in the Himalayan kingdom.
- Body Blow (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 04, 2006)
Pramod Mahajan embodied the best, and worst, qualities of Generation Next in Indian politics. His death, at the age of 56, leaves the BJP crippled. Politics will miss him. Mahajan was representative of a generation in politics that valued efficiency . . .
- A Move Long Overdue (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 04, 2006)
The report that the federal government is thinking in terms of transferring four subjects to the provinces deserves to be welcomed because it gives an indication of Islamabad’s belated awareness of the need for greater devolution of power to the . . .
- Nepal’S Maoists Write Off New Leaders, Refuse To Disarm (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
Richard Boucher ignores king in a quick-fire series of meetings with Nepal’s power brokers
- Nepal Declares Truce (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, May 04, 2006)
Lifts ban on Maoists, calls for talk
- The Costs Of Plagiarism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 04, 2006)
Plagiarism is a nasty word and offence — and literary plagiarists, when caught, tend to be subjected to long-lasting shame.
- Pak Uzbek Ties (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 04, 2006)
ON Tuesday, Uzbek President Islam Karimov held talks with General Musharraf in Islamabad after which the two leaders addressed a press conference.
- Iran And The Us Share Goals In Afghanistan (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The owner of this plumbing shop in Herat, Afghanistan, says his business would be crippled if Iran stopped exporting its products.
- Dangers Of Saltor Demilitarisation (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, May 04, 2006)
There has been significant progress in recent months in expanding cooperation and reducing tensions between India and Pakistan, despite continuing incidents of ISI sponsored terrorism.
- Up To Us (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 04, 2006)
Oil prices are approaching $75 a barrel, and could go higher.
- Army Deployed In Vadodara (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, May 04, 2006)
Centre moves swiftly to check violence
Violence erupted on Monday killing six people
Decision taken to deploy Army after Modi briefs Centre
No relaxation in indefinite curfew
- Army Conducts Flag Marches In Vadodara (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2006)
The Army on Wednesday night conducted flag marches in all curfew-bound localities of this riot-hit town where a shop was set on fire in a fresh outbreak of arson as three days of violence left six dead and more than 60 injured.
- Karimov’S Productive Visit (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, May 04, 2006)
THE visit of Uzbek President Islam Karimov to Pakistan has led to greater understanding between the two countries. The leadership of Pakistan and Uzbekistan has vowed to expand bilateral commerce and economic relations
- Iran, Us Share Afghan Goals (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, May 04, 2006)
The smooth blacktop roads and 24-hour electricity of Herat set this Afghan commercial capital apart as a model of stability in a country still struggling to get on its feet. Much of the wealth in this western city, with its tree-lined streets and . . .
- Deported Ex-Militant Says Khalistan His Life’S Aim (Indian Express, ANJU AGNIHOTRI CHABA, May 03, 2006)
To get Khalistan through peaceful means is the purpose of my life and I will struggle for it till the end,’’ said former militant Harpal Singh Cheema, who has been deported from San Francisco.
- Nepal Maoists (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, May 03, 2006)
The American Connection And More
- Indefatigable Survivor (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, May 03, 2006)
There are times when people change the course of their destiny with sheer will and determination. Rungeen Singh mentions one such incident
- Iran Must Be Tamed, Now (Pioneer, Utpal Kumar, May 03, 2006)
In the Cold War era, when there were five relatively responsible nuclear powers, the prophets of doom were much in business with their apocalyptic predictions about mushroom clouds and a nuclear winter. Ironically, today, when Iran, which has . . .
- In Search Of A Solution (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, May 03, 2006)
Next to cricket legend Brian Lara, Norwegian peace negotiator in Sri Lanka Erik Solheim is the best known name there. He is in Kathmandu today instead of Kilinochchi where he might have been counselling LTTE to rejoin the on and off Geneva peace talks.
- Stand Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, May 03, 2006)
It is time for all men of courage having faith in communal harmony to stand up and be counted.
- India Without Policy Options In Sri Lanka (Daily Excelsior, Jayant Muralidharan, May 03, 2006)
Setbacks are hardly sudden; they usually have a buildup. The ceasefire between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), mediated by Norwegian peacemakers in 2002, is suddenly looking shaky.
- Vadodara Clashes: Centre Dispatches 500 Personnel (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
As violence did not show signs of ebbing in Vadodara, the Centre on Wednesday dispatched five companies of 500 personnel belonging to paramilitary forces to assist the Gujarat police in containing the situation.
- Delhi To Boost Afghan Shield (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
India is proposing to increase the number of security personnel in Afghanistan for Indians at project sites and is seeking a nod from Kabul.
- Time For A Hard Look (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , May 03, 2006)
It is time for the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, to sit up and take a long, hard look at India’s foreign policy, of which he has been directly in charge now for six months. He must do it quickly for his own protection because depth and insight are . . .
- War In Waziristan (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, May 03, 2006)
THE situation in Pakistan’s tribal badlands of Waziristan is fast spiralling out of control.
- Quake Relief Efforts (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 03, 2006)
THAT the whole world was just as surprised as it was impressed by the response from within Pakistan and the international community following the October 8 earthquake tragedy would not amount to an overstatement. Even though the government drew . . .
- J&k Peace Process Will Roll On: Patil (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
`Jammu attacks no deterrent'
- Fourth Phase Of Poll In Wb Today (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
A day prior to the fourth phase of poll in West Bengal, Marxist veteran and former Chief Minister, Mr Jyoti Basu, today said whatever might be the elections results, the CPM and other Left parties would ensure that the UPA government remains in . . .
- ‘Whoever Has Seen Aksai Chin, As I Have, Would Want Someone . . . (Indian Express, Inder Malhotra, May 03, 2006)
The passing of John Kenneth Galbraith brings back a flood of memories of this outstanding man (in every sense of the expression), especially of his India connection, that need to be shared.
- Uk Presses India To Send Troops To Afghanistan (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, May 03, 2006)
Great Britain today surprised India by urging the UPA government to contribute troops for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and do justice to its own increased role and strategic requirements in the land-locked country.
- U.S., Japan For Action On Iran (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The U.S. and Japan said on Monday that the United Nations Security Council must take action on Iran's nuclear issue and both countries were committed to work closely to convince Iran to stop uranium enrichment work.
- Loss At Sea (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 03, 2006)
Errors in navigation at sea can prove costly
- Nepal Pm Lines Up Team Amid Protests (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, May 03, 2006)
It took God seven days to create the world. And it took Nepal’s new Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala the same to announce a mini cabinet of seven members after a long week filled with bickering among allies, warnings by an enraged public and even . .
- Us Official Reports Al Qaeda Figure’S Arrest In Quetta (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
top Al Qaeda leader whose links stretch from Afghan terror training camps to extremist networks operating throughout Europe has been captured in Pakistan, according to a US law-enforcement official.
- Dutch Ask For Intelligence Sharing In Afghanistan (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
The Netherlands on Tuesday called for increased intelligence sharing between Pakistani authorities and Dutch troops whose deployment is being beefed up in southern Afghanistan. Some 400 Dutch military personnel are already deployed in Uruzgan . . .
- Three-Nation Military Exercises Begin (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Afghan, Pakistani and US troops began two days of joint military exercises on Tuesday aimed at better coordinating the hunt for Al Qaeda and Taliban militants, officials said.
- Corrections And Clarifications (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 03, 2006)
A few readers have pointed out that Kasula Suryanarayana, the engineer from Hyderabad who was killed on April 30 in Afghanistan, has been incorrectly referred to as Satyanarayana in the text of two reports ("From the South",
- End The Killings Now (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 03, 2006)
Sunday night's carnage in the mountains of Doda and Udhampur has demonstrated how surreal the idea of peace remains for ordinary people in Jammu and Kashmir.
- "White Supremacy" Or Racism? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, May 03, 2006)
Professor Cornel West says racism is what they have in America while in Britain the problem is essentially one of latent "white supremacy." This means that racial prejudices in Britain operate in more subtle forms than American-style in-your-face racism.
- 196 Companies Of Central Forces To Be Deployed For Elections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
60 sensitive constituencies identified, says Naresh Gupta
Six Special Observers to monitor poll arrangements in sensitive seats
Retired policemen, ex-servicemen, home guards to be on poll duty
Around three lakh persons will be deployed on election d
- Many Challenges And Much Expectations (Business Line, Dipankar Dey, May 03, 2006)
14th Session of UNCSD
- Give Us Weapons Or We Will Migrate, Say Doda Survivors (Hindu, Luv Puri , May 03, 2006)
"We do not want to live here with a permanent scare and a feeling of insecurity."
- Fencing, Mines On Afghan Side Of Border Proposed (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, May 03, 2006)
Pakistan has proposed to Afghanistan and coalition forces to fence and mine their side of the border to prevent cross-border movement.
- Three Years After Bush Declared ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Outlook Still . . . (Jordan Times, LEE KEATH, May 03, 2006)
At the edge of a southern Iraqi city, a refugee family huddles in a tin shack, its hope of jobs and security gone. A northern businessman dreams of opening a store in Baghdad, but the violence puts him off. In the south, a young woman glances . . .
- Murder In Kashmir: Don’T Get Derailed! (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, May 03, 2006)
Gunmen dressed in combat fatigues shot dead 23 Hindus in two remote villages of Doda district in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir late Sunday night.
- Us Won’T Remove Nepal Maoists From Terror List (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, May 03, 2006)
Indonesian anti-terror police have arrested another man suspected of links with key terrorist suspect Noordin Mohammad Top,national police deputy spokesman said on Wednesday.
- Nature Of Resistance In Iraq (Dawn, Mahir Ali, May 03, 2006)
One day last October, police responding to reports of a disturbance at an army recruitment centre near New York’s Times Square were confronted with an unusual spectacle. Young anti-war protesters — the usual culprits — were hardly in evidence.
- Defence Vs Development (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 03, 2006)
THE government has traditionally adopted an ambiguous stance on its defence budget.
- A Timely Reminder (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 03, 2006)
MR Shaukat Aziz has rightly asserted that free trade with India is not possible without resolving the political disputes.
- The Gathering Storm Over Iran (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, May 03, 2006)
in the heat of the crisis over German intervention in Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill appealed to the United States to help thwart the Nazi war machine.
- Cautious Iran (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, May 03, 2006)
In an effort to deter the international community from imposing sanctions against Iran, the mullahs are trying to instill fear in the Western capitals that if pushed to the wall, they will resort to extreme measures.
- Tribal Elder Killed In Waziristan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
The bullet-ridden body of senior tribal cleric Maulana Janat Mir was found nine days after his kidnapping by suspected Taliban militants from Mir Ali in North Waziristan, residents and a security official said on Monday.
- 20 Taliban Killed In Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
Troops from the US-led coalition have killed between 15 and 20 Taliban insurgents in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, a statement said on Monday.
- Politics And Practice Of Communal Massacres In Jammu And Kashmir (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, May 02, 2006)
Militant groups have long used death as an instrument to derail efforts towards détente
Scale of communal strikes has dropped since 2002, but periodic attacks continue
Terror campaign aimed at causing at large-scale migration of Hindus
- Truck And Bus On Pak Talks Table (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
Indian and Pakistani officials will meet in Delhi tomorrow to firm up more confidence-building measures to close the gap between the Kashmirs.
- Digital Cameras For All Polling Booths (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
For monitoring voting on May 3
- India's Troubles In Afghanistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 02, 2006)
Forced out of power in Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban remains an oppressively domineering militia outside the bounds of civilised, humane conduct.
- For Nepal & India, The Road Ahead Is Difficult (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, May 02, 2006)
Among the hurdles: the parties' lack of confidence, as well as New Delhi's anxiety over the U.N. involvement in the disarmament of the Maoists and elections to a constituent assembly.
- The Shame Culture That Exists In India (Daily Excelsior, Nalini J. Singh, May 02, 2006)
No sooner the Parliament is re-convened on May 10 the Government is likely to introduce a comprehensive legislation to protect children.
- Terrorist Violence Aimed At Dividing People: Patil (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
The massacre of innocent people in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday and terrorist violence elsewhere are intended to scuttle peace and create divisions among various communities, designs which the Government would not allow to succeed, Union Home Minister . .
- Constitutional Jurisprudence (Hindu, N.R. MADHAVA MENON, May 02, 2006)
Omnibus bringing together highly acclaimed essays written by a leading constitutional expert
- Strengthening Ties (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 02, 2006)
Indo-Uzbek ties should help combat terrorism
- Adieu, Foxbats: Iaf Sheds Its Eyes In Stratosphere (Deccan Herald, KALYAN RAY, May 02, 2006)
They flew amidst the stars, literally, for three decades and created aviation folklore by flying in a zone where no other aircraft ever thought of going.
- Delayed, But Not Denied (Deccan Herald, Pran Chopra , May 02, 2006)
Can Koirala guide his government to a consensus with the Maoists on reaching and preserving peace?
- Carnage In Doda (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 02, 2006)
Communal killings are back again in J & K
- High Risk (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, May 02, 2006)
Fighting an evil has its costs, but that is no reason for giving up the fight.
- Dargah Demolition Sparks Violence (Daily Excelsior, Sanjeev Pargal, May 02, 2006)
Striking at two places targetting minorities, the militants gunned down 28 civilians—19 in Kulhand area of Doda district and nine at Lolan Galla in Basantgarh area of Udhampur district since last night. Ten others were injured in Kulhand shoot-out.
- Nepal Bounces Back (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Times, May 02, 2006)
Whatever be the reservations of Natwar Singhs and their ilk in the diplomatic and media world on India’s Nepal policy, New Delhi has won warm appreciation from global think tanks for the ‘roll back of palace coup’ in Nepal.
- Kalam Calls For Global Mechanism To Prevent Terrorism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
Sharing the concern of a stunned nation at the killing of Hyderabad engineer K. Suryanarayana by the Taliban, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Monday called upon the global community to collectively devise a mechanism to ensure that such situations . . .
- Seven Killed In "Ltte Attacks" (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, May 02, 2006)
At least seven persons were killed and eight injured in suspected LTTE attacks in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday, the army said.
- Army Gets New Deputy Chief Of Staff (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
In a reshuffle of Army top brass, Lt Gen Susheel Gupta today took over as the new Deputy Chief of the Army Staff at the Army headquarters here.
- Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, May 02, 2006)
ALTHOUGH with Iran’s nuclear crisis hovering over the region’s head, it would remain uncertain whether Pakistan can continue to show an unflagging determination to go ahead with the gas pipeline project against US pressure, till it actually comes . . .
- 34 Hindus Killed In Kashmir (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, May 02, 2006)
Pakistan condemns ‘act of terrorism’
Hurriyat chairman calls for killers to be arrested
- Sorrows Of The Quake Victims (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, May 02, 2006)
According to a news report, more than 100 earthquake survivors clashed with the police recently in Mujohi, a village near Muzaffarabad, over new rules regarding compensation for quake-damaged homes, leaving a few people injured.
- Pranab’S Nudge Could Bring Japan Defence Tech To India (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, May 02, 2006)
As he arrives on a path-breaking visit here tomorrow, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to gently push at Japan’s closed but unlocked door on defence technology exports to India.
- India Prefers Russian To Us Cargo Aircrafts (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, May 02, 2006)
A representative of the US aerospace major Lockheed-Martin is here to sell US aircrafts to Indian Air Force (IAF). Indian officials have shown interest in buying the Hercules C-130J heavy-lift
- Aziz Links Free Trade To Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
PM says non-tariff barriers also impediment to trade
Urges greater energy cooperation among SAARC states
- Tribal Elder Killed In Waziristan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
The bullet-ridden body of senior tribal cleric Maulana Janat Mir was found nine days after his kidnapping by suspected Taliban militants from Mir Ali in North Waziristan, residents and a security official said on Monday.
- 20 Taliban Killed In Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
Troops from the US-led coalition have killed between 15 and 20 Taliban insurgents in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, a statement said on Monday.
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