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Articles 11921 through 12020 of 27135:
- Neighbours's Responsibility (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, May 02, 2006)
King Gyanendra has restored the Parliament under India's pressure.
- The Essential Galbraith (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 02, 2006)
Ideas live longer than men. So with John Kenneth Galbraith, whose ideas defined debate about money and power in the US and, indeed, much of the world in the 60s and 70s.
- The Forgotten Stronghold (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, May 02, 2006)
Waziristan is one of the most dangerous places in the world where the Taliban rule the roost
- Back To The Security Council (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, May 02, 2006)
The united states will begin a long, difficult and possibly unsuccessful campaign this week to persuade the U.N. Security Council to order an end to Iran's nuclear program -- even though Iran's president has already said the regime does "not give a . . .
- The Case Against Sanctions On Iran (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 02, 2006)
As expected, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, has issued a report citing Iran's non-compliance with the requests of both the IAEA's board of governors and the United Nations Security Council, and . . .
- Militants Kill 22 People In Doda (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
In a pre-dawn strike, militants today killed 22 people and seriously injured five others in remote villages of Panjdobi and Thava in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Pakistani Tribal Militants Execute Muslim Cleric (Yahoo! News, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
Pro-Taliban militants have shot dead a cleric they suspected of informing for Pakistani security forces fighting al-Qaeda guerrillas and their Taliban allies in the Waziristan tribal region, officials said on Monday.
- 22 Hindus Killed In Remote Villages Of J-K (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
In a pre-dawn strike, militants today killed 22 Hindus and seriously injured five others in remote villages of Panjdobi and Thava in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir.
- India Should Have More Fast Breeder Reactors, Says Chidambaram (Hindu, Staff Reporter , May 01, 2006)
Scientific Adviser calls for use of high technology in manufacturing sector
Foresight needed to make right technology choices
Talented young people should bbe retained in scientific careers
- Too Good? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, May 01, 2006)
Of late three developments have taken place concerning the restoration of popular rule in Pakistan.
- Unsc Resolution On Iran 'Dangerous': China Ambassador (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
It could be "dangerous" to introduce a UN Security Council resolution to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment activities, the Chinese ambassador to the UN has said here.
- Price Of Life (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, May 01, 2006)
Tragedies inevitably if unfortunately engender recycling of conventional wisdom. So, when news broke on Sunday late morning that Surayanarayan, the Indian telecom engineer, has been murdered by that group of murderous thugs, the Taliban, two questions....
- Visiting Pakistan To Defreeze Siachen (Daily Excelsior, Atul, May 01, 2006)
It now looks certain that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Islamabad before the summer is out; it is in a sense returning Gen Pervez Musharraf’s visit to Delhi in April 2005 actually on a self-invitation to watch the . . .
- Rewards And Brickbats For Ifs Officers (Daily Excelsior, N.B. Menon , May 01, 2006)
India’s 26th foreign secretary, Shyam Saran, will be demitting office in June. He has been a "crisis manager" ever since foreign minister K. Natwar Singh was forced to quit the office following the Volcker report.
- Nuclear Cloud Over South Asia (Times of India, Maleeha Lodhi, May 01, 2006)
The political environment in South Asia is marked by an ambience of hope and anticipation.
- Lankan Govt To Seek India's Support (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
With the Sri Lanka peace process under threat due to escalation of violence, the island nation is sending a senior minister here this week to seek India's "political" support for revival of the dialogue process between the government and LTTE.
- Dirty Lesson (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
Efficiency, apparently, has nothing to do with civic sense. Anyone participating at any level to keep the incredibly huge and intricate machinery of the elections ticking deserves praise, and the smoothness with which elections...
- Back To Square One? (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, May 01, 2006)
The prophecy was almost right. It said that the Shah dynasty in Nepal would last for 12 generations, so King Gyanendra is pushing the edge of the envelope.
- Impact Of Iran’S Russian Missile Defence Deal (Tribune, Rosa Brooks, May 01, 2006)
Let me tell you about the next war. It will start sooner than you think — sometime between now and September. And it will be precipitated by the $700 million Russian deal this week to sell Tor M1 air defense missile systems to Iran.
- Not Quite Kosher (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, May 01, 2006)
In the first flush of relief at regulatory action, the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) order in the IPO demat scam has been mostly welcomed.
- 20 Killed As Tiger Rebel Factions Clash In Lanka (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels raided camps belonging to renegade ex-rebels on Sunday and killed 20, a Tiger official said, as fears of a return to war ran high.
- Telling The Taliban (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
The Taliban’s brutal killing of K. Suryanarayan, an Indian telecommunications engineer working for a Bahrainian company in Afghanistan, is a test of Delhi’s political resolve.
- Alternative Approaches To West Asian Crises (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, May 01, 2006)
Given the linkages, prioritisation would need to be eschewed in favour of parallel and simultaneous progress on Palestine, Iraq, and Iran.
- Iran Refuses To Blink (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 01, 2006)
With Iran refusing to meet a gun-to-its-head `deadline' to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, the debate over sanctions is virtually guaranteed to flare up again in the United Nations Security Council.
- Fresh Fighting Reported In Sri Lanka (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, May 01, 2006)
Fresh fighting broke out between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and security forces in north-eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday, the Sri Lankan Army said
- Cornering Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
The escalating international brawl we are seeing is not between the US and Iran, even though the former may be taking the lead in pointing fingers at Tehran’s nuclear activities.
- A Friend Of India (Hindu, Harish Khare , May 01, 2006)
Very few Americans have endeared themselves to Indians. John Kenneth Galbraith was an honourable exception.
- Is There A Way Out In Sri Lanka? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
A movement of the Tamils that began in the early 1970s against discrimination evolved into a violent armed struggle for independence by the mid 1980s, led by Velupillai Prabhakaran’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
- A New Strategy On Iran (Washington Post, DENNIS ROSS, May 01, 2006)
The United States and Iran are playing programmed roles in a minuet on nuclear weapons.
- Subterfuge Over Iran's Centrifuges (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2006)
Iran is years from building an atomic bomb, if that's what it really wants to do. But recent verbal threats and the pace of diplomacy in coming days indicate that the question of "an Iranian bomb" is coming to a head, with a peaceful conclusion in everyon
- Dalal Street Sees Crash And Rescue (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
The day after market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) indicted top brokers and bankers in the IPO scam, Dalal Street witnessed an opening plunge, a host of clarifications and a dramatic recovery.
- Indian Spies, Soldiers Cross Swords On Kargil (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 30, 2006)
V.P Malik's book provokes renewed debate on pre-war intelligence
Unusual decision by the Intelligence Bureau chief to bypass RAW
Pakistani activity misunderstood to represent preparations for local peak-seizing operations
- A Different Pain (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 30, 2006)
Pretending to be pregnant is one thing, being pregnant is another. Women have used the ruse of pregnancy for a variety of purposes, from smuggling rice on the trains of Bengal to killing the enemy with explosives strapped about their midriffs . . .
- The Himalayan Yawn-Spiracy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
The author fails to draw the reader into the intricacies of a conspiracy, and the excitement built up in the Himalayas trickles away in the plains of Delhi, writes Tarun Cherian
- Zawahri Lashes Out At India, Pak (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Al Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said hundreds of suicide bombers had “broken America’s back” in Iraq and accused President George W. Bush of giving a “strong impetus” to India’s nuclear programme while “doling out orders” to Pakistan, . . .
- Military Says In Full Control Of Waziristan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
324 militants including 76 foreigners and 56 soldiers killed in 9 months
* 39 operations conducted since July, 142 militants arrested
- Iran Won't Budge From N-Path (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
In an apparent bid to keep it's nuclear programme from coming to a sanctions vote in the UN Security Council, an Iranian nuclear official said Saturday that Tehran was ready for a conditional return to intrusive inspections but that . . .
- Army Backs Mush Over Al-Qaeda Statement (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
The entire Pakistani army is behind President Pervez Musharraf, a senior military spokesman said on Saturday in reaction to a call by Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri for Musharraf's overthrow.
- India Concerned As Taliban Threaten To Kill The Hostage (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Taliban militants will kill an Indian engineer being held hostage in southern Afghanistan if all Indians don’t leave Afghanistan within 24 hours, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group said on Saturday.
- Nepali Cong Activist Dies At Aiims (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Pradhyumna Kharka, 32 , a Nepali Congress activist who suffered bullet injuries during a pro-democracy demonstration in Nepal, succumbed to his bullet injuries at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Saturday.
- Us Giving Impetus To Indian N-Plan, Says Angry Qaida (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has lashed out at US President George W. Bush, accusing him of giving a “strong impetus” to India’s nuclear programme while “doling out orders” to Pakistan.
- Facts Still Incomplete And No One Knows Why (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Apr 30, 2006)
The way television channels have hyped the attack on Pramod Mahajan and his subsequent hospitalization for two days… crossed the limits of sanity.
- Sri Lankan Foreign Minister To Visit India (Indian Express, Rajeev Bhattacharyya, Apr 30, 2006)
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera is expected to visit India on May 7, at a time when India is looking with concern at the escalation of violence in the neighbouring country.
- Nepal Events Overtake India (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Apr 30, 2006)
Before and after King Gyanendra took over in Kathmandu New Delhi has been diligently “waiting and watching” the developing crisis in that unhappy country. And now it transpires that it hasn’t watched hard enough and has waited for too long.
- Mine Blast Kills 7 Soldiers In Nepal (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Apr 30, 2006)
Even as Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala pledged to declare a ceasefire and begin peace talks with the Maoists and the rebels called a ceasefire, seven soldiers of the Royal Nepalese Army were killed in a mine blast in western Nepal on Saturday,
- U.S. Came Close To Declaring Pakistan A "Terrorist" State In 1992 (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Apr 30, 2006)
Letter blamed Islamabad for supporting militants in India
Letter talked of the complicity of ISI and Army in training terrorists
Pakistan warned that it would be listed among State sponsors of terrorism
A meeting in 1992 resolved to further . . .
- Faking Memoirs (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
The author fails to draw the reader into the intricacies of a conspiracy, and the excitement built up in the Himalayas trickles away in the plains of Delhi, writes Tarun Cherian
- Bush Says Diplomacy With Iran Has Just Started (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
US President George W Bush said that diplomacy aimed at halting Iran's nuclear program has only just begun and a top aide said the world must prepare to impose targeted sanctions on Tehran.
- Stage Set For Iran-West Confrontation (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
The stage is set for a major confrontation between the West and Iran after the IAEA said that the Gulf nation had failed to comply with a UN deadline to halt uranium enrichment and the US asserted that it would seek sanctions to deny Teheran military . .
- Laura’S Theme (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 30, 2006)
President George W Bush’s approval ratings might be at their lowest ever. Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld might not be the flavour of any month insofar as the majority of the American people are concerned.
- No More Appeasement (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 30, 2006)
Whatever the genesis of the current rampant extremism in Pakistan, and whether or not Pakistani and American interests coincide in resisting this phenomenon, President Musharraf is right in saying that the fight against terrorism has to be fought for . .
- Pakistan's Fault Line (Pioneer, BHARAT VERMA, Apr 30, 2006)
The so-called land of the pure, Pakistan, on its creation in 1947 had approximately 13 per cent minorities residing within an Islamic population of 76 million.
- Who Cares For Myanmar? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 30, 2006)
Last month, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran spoke at a well-attended lecture organised in Washington by the Heritage Foundation. The Foreign Secretary was in the US capital to meet Bush Administration officials before the crucial vote in the US . . .
- Pramod Takes Third Surgery Well, Stable (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan underwent a surgery to wash his abdominal cavity and clear infection, on the eighth day of his admission to the PD Hinduja Hospital here on Saturday.
- Pakistan Takes Principled Position In Us (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 30, 2006)
WITH Iranian nuclear issue taking serious dimensions, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri, while speaking in London, categorically stated that nuclear strike against Iran should never be considered and the issue should be resolved peacefully.
- Stage Set For Iran-West Confrontation (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
The stage is set for a major confrontation between the West and Iran after the IAEA said that the gulf nation has failed to comply with a UN deadline to halt uranium enrichment and the US asserted that it would seek sanctions to deny Tehran military . . .
- Beyond Pragmatism (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 30, 2006)
Defendin himself against critics who accuse him of having sold out to the US, General Musharraf has defended his role in the ongoing War on Terror, saying he is fighting it not on Washington’s behest but because this suits the country’s interests.
- Tough Agenda For Nepal Mps (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Nepalese legislators headed back to work on Friday after a four year-break—their jobs reinstated by a monarch whose regime was left teetering by weeks of unrest, but their power to carry out the reforms they’ve promised unclear.
- Unsc Resolution On Iran Dangerous: China (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
It could be "dangerous" to introduce a UN Security Council resolution to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment activities, the Chinese ambassador to the UN said in Chicago on Saturday.
- Musharraf:'i'm Nobody's Poodle.' (Christian Science Monitor, Tom Regan, Apr 30, 2006)
Musharraf:'I'm nobody's poodle.'
Pakistan leader says US airstrikes infringe Pakistan's sovereignty.
- Cbi Wants Key Accused Home, Seeks Mea Aid (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday petitioned the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to revoke the passport of Ravi Shankaran, a kin of Navy Chief Arun Prakash, in a bid to pave the way for his deportation from London.
- Pak-Us Strategic Dialogue (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 30, 2006)
AT a joint news briefing with US Under Secretary Nicholas Burns on the conclusion of the Pak-US strategic dialogue on Friday, Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan talked of Pakistan not being oblivious of its security and the requirements of minimum . . .
- Al-Qaeda Claims Karachi Us Consulate Bombing Responsibility (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Seven people were injured in a collision between a coaster and dumper near Pakistan Steel Mills Sunday morning here.
- President Should Know Answer As Well (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 30, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf, in an interview, has expressed concern over the so-called ‘Talibanisation’ of Tribal Areas. According to him, people are going for Mullah Omer and the Taliban have influence in Waziristan and it is spilling over into our . . .
- The Man Of The Season (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
V.S. Achuthanandan has caught the imagination of the public in a way few leaders have, says C. Gouridasan Nair
- It's Pakistan's War (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 30, 2006)
When Ayman Al Zawahiri said in a video message released yesterday that the Pakistani people and army should rise up against their government, it's as if the Al Qaeda No 2 were corroborating President Musharraf's published statement the previous day . . .
- Challenge Of Coexistence With India (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Apr 30, 2006)
Having been created in the teeth of India’s opposition, whose Hindu majority considered the division of “Bharat Mata” (Mother India) a sacrilege, Pakistan has had to contend with India’s hostility from its very birth.
- Bush Promises Yokota To Press N. Korea To Return Abductees (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
Washington (Kyodo) U.S. President George W. Bush, meeting with the mother of abductee Megumi Yokota at the White House, promised Friday to press North Korea to return abductees and respect human rights.
- Pakistan Counts Dead In Fighting Al Qaeda, Taliban (Reuters, ZEESHAN HAIDER , Apr 30, 2006)
The Pakistani military said on Saturday it had killed 324 pro-Taliban militants and al Qaeda in North Waziristan, while losing 56 soldiers in the tribal region since the middle of last year.
- Iran's Nuclear Progress (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Apr 30, 2006)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues to help the Bush administration's effort to convince the U.N. Security Council that more concerted action is needed to stop Iran's nuclear program.
- Make The System Work (Jerusalem Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 30, 2006)
This time, Iran made the International Atomic Energy Agency's watchdog job easy. Iran did not even make a pretense of complying with the UN Security Council's 30-day deadline to stop enriching uranium and provide more information about its program.
- A Dangerous Deal With India (Washington Post, Jimmy Carter, Apr 29, 2006)
During the past five years the United States has abandoned many of the nuclear arms control agreements negotiated since the administration of Dwight Eisenhower.
- Us Interested In Final Settlement To Kashmir (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
The US has an "interest" in seeing if a "final settlement" of the Kashmir issue can be reached and was trying to help build on the progress made by India and Pakistan on the Composite Dialogue.
- India, Pakistan Plan Hotline On Maritime Security (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
The Indian Coast Guard and the Maritime Security Agency of Pakistan will set up a hotline soon as part of increasing cooperation for surveillance at sea between the two neighbours.
- Colombo Will Not Fall Into Ltte Trap, Says Envoy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
"The Tigers will suffer the consequences for the recent attacks"
Air strikes were a "deterrent" and limited in scope
There has been some denting of LTTE's capacity
Sri Lanka wants India to extend support for a negotiated settlement
- For A World Free From Chemical Weapons (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 29, 2006)
Let us,today, renew our collective commitment to eliminate chemical weapons.
- "Sri Lankans Want Talks To Go On" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
No backlash despite LTTE provocation
Ceasefire intact despite violations by LTTE
Sri Lankan offensive had limited intent and counter-attacks have ceased
- Indian Student Held In U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
An Indian graduate student at Purdue University, was arrested on Friday and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld.
- Iran: Nuclear Row (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Apr 29, 2006)
The Iranian government shows no signs of winding up its nuclear programme despite escalating threats from Washington.
- I’M Not Bush’S Poodle: Musharraf (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 29, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf, facing a surge of anti-American sentiment, on Thursday warned that covert US air strikes against al-Qaeda inside Pakistan were an infringement of national sovereignty.
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