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Articles 12121 through 12220 of 27135:
- Sri Lanka Strikes Stop But Mine Blasts Kill 5 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
If violence stops, diplomats say peace talks might still be possible. But if it resumes, they fear a return to a two-decade-old civil war that has killed more than 64,000.
- Pm To Keep Close Watch On Lanka, Nepal (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Apr 28, 2006)
India will keep a close watch on the Sri Lanka co-chairs meeting scheduled for Friday at Oslo — a senior diplomat from the Indian embassy will attend the meeting, as an observer.
- Tainted Army Officers May Have Been In Line For Medals (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
As if being found guilty of killing five innocent civilians in a stage-managed encounter in Jammu and Kashmir was not enough, the Army now has more reason to cover its head in shame.
- Admission Of Defeat? (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Apr 28, 2006)
The Pakistani Army and other law-enforcing forces avoid direct clashes with Taliban and other Islamic extremists
- Caught In A Trap Of Its Own Making (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 28, 2006)
Facing bitter electoral competition in three Assembly by-elections in the Kashmir Valley, the PDP flew Islamist colours, borrowing from tactics used by Sheikh Abdullah in 1977. This time around, the trick hasn't worked.
- Iraq V-P's Sister Shot Dead (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
Sister of Iraq's new Sunni vice-president was killed on Thursday in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, a day after the politician called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force.
- Tame The Tiger (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 28, 2006)
The heinous attack on Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka at a hospital in Colombo has pushed the island nation to the brink of war. Colombo has already launched air strikes on 'selected targets' in areas under LTTE control as a retaliatory measure.
- Naxal-Hit States Allowed To Raise 9 Police Battalions (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
The Centre today sanctioned the raising of nine more India Reserve Battalions (IRB) comprising 9,000 police personnel for Naxalite-affected states, including Haryana.
- Bush's Misbegotten Iran Plan (Boston Globe, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 28, 2006)
In an article titled ''The Iran Plans," published in a recent issue of The New Yorker, Seymour M. Hersh -- who helped bring the Abu Ghraib prison scandal to light -- examines what appear to be well-advanced White House plans for a bombing campaign. . . .
- Burning Evil (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 27, 2006)
One more incident of a possible Sati has come to light, this time of a 77-year-old woman at Imamganj in Gaya district in Bihar.
- Polling Begins For 76 Constituencies In West Bengal (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Polling for 76 constituencies in West Bengal began at 7 am today amidst unprecedented security to decide the fate of 474 candidates in the third phase.
- Overhaul The Civil Services (Tribune, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 27, 2006)
Over the last few years, there have been several cases of misconduct and misuse of official powers by officers belonging to the civil services. People have been mute witnesses to cases such as a Director General of Police pawing a teenager in his . . .
- Tamil Nadu: Ec Issues 'Shoot At Sight' Orders (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
The Tamil Nadu State Election Commission has issued 'shoot at sight' orders against those who indulge in violence during the May 8 Assembly polls.
- Fijian Parties Unite (Statesman, Sam Rajappa, Apr 27, 2006)
Almost coinciding with the election to five state assemblies in India, in distant Fiji, a cluster of islands in the South Pacific where people of Indian origin outnumbered ethnic Fijians at the time of its independence in 1970, election to Parliament . .
- Major Military Rage Grips Myanmar (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Mya-nmar troops, engaged in their biggest military off-ensive in almost a decade, have uprooted more than 11,000 ethnic minority civilians in a campaign punctuated by torture, killings and the burning of villages, according to reports . . .
- Iran Sends Nuke Negotiator To Meet Iaea Official (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Iran dispatched its top nuclear official for last-minute talks with a senior International Atomic Energy Agency official today, but diplomats said he was unlikely to be bearing major concessions that would alter the negative tone of an IAEA report to . .
- Maoists Announce Three-Month Truce In Nepal (Press Trust of India, Shirish B Pradhan, Apr 27, 2006)
In a significant move, Maoist rebels in Nepal late last night announced a three-month unilateral ceasefire but stuck to their demand for a Constituent Assembly, a day before the formation of a new government under veteran leader . . . .
- View From The Right (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Apr 27, 2006)
The Supreme Court order may have been even-handed to both the pro-Narmada Dam lobby and the Narmada Bachao Andolan, but the Organiser sees it as a victory for the “principled stand” of Narendra Modi.
- Eu Condemns Attack On Army Hq In Sri Lanka (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
The European Union has condemned the suicide bomb attack at the Army Headquarters in Colombo on Tuesday.
- Big Dad, Small Vision (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 27, 2006)
As India struggles to manage the historic political transition in Nepal and comes to terms with a collapsing peace process in Sri Lanka, two larger paradoxes confront its regional security strategy.
- Sri Lanka Defends Air Strikes (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Apr 27, 2006)
Unofficial figures put casualties in deterrent strikes at 12
- Army Invites Applications From Graduates (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
The Indian Army has invited applications from graduates, both technical and non-technical, for various vacancies.
- Army Recruitment Rally From June 6 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Report at venue by 5 a.m.
- Blackwill Sees Nod For Nuclear Deal By June (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
"The approval will come on the basis of strategic long-term relation with India"
Diplomatic interaction between two countries should be intensified
India too should "think seriously about radical Islamic terrorism"
- Durand Line: Turning The Great Game On Its Head (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Apr 27, 2006)
As British and other Western troops pour into Afghanistan to assist the Hamid Karzai government defend itself against a resurgent Taliban and the al Qaida along the Durand Line, the Great Game is being turned on its head.
- A Momentous Visit (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 27, 2006)
CHINA now seems to be reaching out to the Middle East in a big way, for the result of President Hu Jintao’s visit to Saudi Arabia could turn out to be seminal.
- India-Pak Agree To Finalise Draft On Reducing Nuke Risks (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
India and Pakistan have agreed to work for finalising the draft text of an agreement for reducing risks of nuclear accidents and reaffirmed their desire for further elaboration and implementation of nuclear Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) within . . .
- Angry Rhetoric Iran's Brinkmanship Doesn't Help (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 27, 2006)
The closer one gets to Friday, April 28, the deadline prescribed by the Security Council for Iran to stop all uranium enrichment, the more belligerent become the statements from Tehran.
- Tiger Hunting Arm Sri Lanka, Get Prabhakaran (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 27, 2006)
Exactly a decade after their opening terror strike in Colombo - the first major bomb attack on the Sri Lankan capital was in the summer of 1996 - the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have announced resumption of warfare by attempting to blow up the . . .
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal Helps Non-Proliferation (Tribune, Selig S. Harrison, Apr 27, 2006)
Why should India, with a spotless non-proliferation record, be denied access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology for electricity, while China — which helped Pakistan and Iran in their efforts to acquire nuclear weapons — can have it?
- India, Pak Agree To Finalise Draft On Reducing Nuclear Risks (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
India and Pakistan have agreed to work on finalising the draft text of an agreement to reduce risks of nuclear accidents and reaffirmed their desire for further elaboration and implementation of nuclear confidence-building measures (CBMs) within the . . .
- Pakistan, India Work Towards Pact To Avert N-Accident Risk (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Discuss draft text of agreement, to be finalised at next meeting
* Talks on nuclear CBMs conclude, talks on conventional CBMs today
- Maoists Melt, Nepal In A Flux (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Apr 27, 2006)
Nepal is in ferment and caught between what is to be done and what is to be undone.
- Third Phase Of Polling In West Bengal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Polling for 76 constituencies in West Bengal began at 7 am on Thursday amidst unprecedented security to decide the fate of 474 candidates in the third phase.
- Not Peaceful (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 27, 2006)
Setbacks are hardly sudden; they usually have a build-up. The ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, mediated by Norwegian peacemakers in 2002, is suddenly looking shaky.
- No First Strike, India Assures Pak (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
India on Wednesday assured Pakistan it would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in case of a conflict between the two neighbours - and that it was not engaged in an arms race.
- Lanka Burning... Again? (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 27, 2006)
Is Sri Lanka heading back to war?
- Nepal Maoists Declare Three-Month Ceasefire (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebels declared a three-month unilateral ceasefire from Thursday, easing tensions in the impoverished kingdom, but again underlined their demand for a new Constitution.
- How Opaque Kumar Got Kicked, Got Wild, And Got A Lifer (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 27, 2006)
Was Kumar `more a reformer than a wrongdoer' as his defence used to say in 2004? Is he a scapegoat?
- Pakistan, India Expect Nuclear Safety Pact In July (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Nuclear powers Pakistan and India said on Wednesday they would finalise an agreement in July to reduce risks of nuclear accidents.
- Norway, U.S. Condemn Colombo Blast (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Oslo optimistic of early end to violence in Sri Lanka
- Us Senate Hears Testimony For And Against Indian N-Deal (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Apr 27, 2006)
In a long hearing on Wednesday morning, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard from both critics and proponents of the Indo-US nuclear cooperation treaty, now before Congress for approval.
- Troubled Neighbourhood (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Apr 27, 2006)
A volatile neighbourhood will have serious implications for India’s quest for stability and economic progress
- Deal Draws Flak (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Administration ``reneged'' on promise to share drafts of pact, alleges Senator
- Nuclear Cbms: India, Pakistan Move Forward On Draft Pact (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 27, 2006)
Text of the draft agreement likely to be finalised during next round of dialogue
Aim of pact is to reduce risk from accidents relating to nuclear weapons
To notify each other immediately in the event of accidental, unauthorised or unexplained incident
- Iran Nuclear Chief Meets Iaea Officials (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Agency finalises report to Security Council The report is likely to be critical of Iran for defying Council request to freeze uranium enrichment
- Air Strike On Taliban (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 27, 2006)
The US-led occupation forces in Afghanistan launched an air strike in southern Afghanistan killing three suspected Taliban while five other persons were killed in a militant attack on a Police Station in Kandhar amidst mounting violence in the war . . .
- Cosmetic N-Accidents Talks (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 27, 2006)
Pakistan and India have held fourth round of expert level talks on nuclear confidence-building measures focusing mainly on the agreement to reduce risk of nuclear accidents. These form part of the composite dialogue process.
- Nuclear Deal On Fission Course (Daily Excelsior, Atul Aneja , Apr 27, 2006)
It would appear that efforts made by the foreign secretary, Shyam Saran, at selling the civilian nuclear cooperation deal between India and the US during his recent visit to Washington have not been very successful in winning over the critics, both . . .
- Analysts Split Over U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Fallout (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Influential defense analysts on Wednesday differed over a controversial new civil nuclear energy deal with India, with one describing it as a grave threat to nonproliferation efforts and another saying the problems it poses in this regard are "manageable.
- Nepal Rebels Declare Three-Month Ceasefire (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Apr 27, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebels declared a three-month unilateral ceasefire from Thursday, easing tensions in the impoverished kingdom, but again underlined their demand for a new constitution.
- Cbi To Book 5 Army Officers For Killing 5 Kashmiris In Cold Blood (Indian Express, Ritu Sarin, Apr 27, 2006)
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to chargesheet five Army officers, including a Brigadier, for the alleged abduction and murder of five unarmed, innocent Kashmiris in the infamous Pathribal “encounter” in Anantnag in March 2000.
- India Has Sold Its Nuclear Soul To The Us (Rediff on the Net, Brahma Chellaney , Apr 27, 2006)
The US waiver bill to give effect to the nuclear deal with India shows just how wide the gap is between what America promises and what it sets out to do.
- Outrageous Attack (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 27, 2006)
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has once again shown that it is not interested in a negotiated settlement to the conflict in Sri Lanka.
- Whither Sri Lanka's Peace Process? (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Apr 27, 2006)
Will the situation spiral out of control or will it ultimately veer back to the path of negotiations? The international community could help determine what happens.
- Timing Was Perfect For Ultras (Deccan Herald, Brian Whitaker, Apr 27, 2006)
Just one day after Osama bin Laden issued another chilling message, last night's bombings in Egypt will inevitably revive the suspicions voiced by Washington that al-Qaeda tapes sometimes contain coded instructions for terrorists.
- Bonded Labour (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 27, 2006)
IAF will attract more pilots if they are given job flexibility
- Slide To War (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 27, 2006)
India needs to be prepared to react to the new situation
- Us To Check Labour Abuse In Iran (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Apr 27, 2006)
The US military said on Tuesday that it had issued new orders to private contractors operating in Iraq to end widespread abuse of foreign labourers working at US bases and other sites.
- Cleaning Up After Chernobyl (Hindu, John Vidal, Apr 27, 2006)
ON APRIL 26, 1986, Konstantin Tatuyan, a Ukrainian radio engineer, was horrified when Reactor No 4 in the Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded, caught fire, and for the next 10 days spewed the equivalent of 400 Hiroshima bombs' worth of radioactivity
- Nepal Army Chief Helped Convince Gyanendra (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Apr 27, 2006)
The royal Nepal Army's perception that the crisis in the country was fast escalating out of control played a decisive role in convincing King Gyanendra to step back from the brink on Monday night.
- Six Killed, 11 Injured In Nepal Army Firing (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Six persons were killed and 11 others injured when the Nepalese army opened fire on demonstrators protesting the killing of a young woman allegedly by the troops in country's east.
- 1 Dies In Lanka Attack On Ltte (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
At least one civilian was killed and nine wounded, including two Sri Lankan navy sailors, in fresh strikes launched by the Sri Lankan air force against the Tamil Tigers today.
- Naxalites Blow Up Railway Track, Cabin (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
In less than 24 hours after gunning down senior JD(U) leader Ashok Kumar Singh and six others at Deojara village in Aurangabad district, Maoists, in yet another daring attack, hit the Narganjo railway station on the Jhajha-Asansol railway line in . . .
- Explosion In Lanka (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 27, 2006)
Tuesday’s suicide bomber attack in Colombo, which seriously injured the Army Chief, Lieut-Gen Sarath Fonseka, is a body blow to the peace process that may effectively end the fragile four-year ceasefire between Tamil separatist rebels and the . . .
- Historical Links, Civilisational Affinities (Hindu, N. Ram , Apr 27, 2006)
Uzbekistan and India share a tradition of secularism and accommodating the interests and aspirations of diverse ethnic groups.
- Lanka Army Strikes At Tiger Targets (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 27, 2006)
Sri Lanka’s military launched air and artillery strikes on Tamil Tiger targets in the island’s north-east on Wednesday, sending thousands fleeing their homes a day after a suicide attack shattered an already fragile ceasefire.
- Us Should Call For Direct Talks With Iran (Christian Science Monitor, John K. Cooley, Apr 27, 2006)
It's time to soften the Bush administration's hard position against direct talks with Iran. A good time for both Washington and Tehran to begin overtures toward such talks would be following the UN Security Council's April 28 deadline for Iran to . . . .
- Maoists Plan To Engage India In Trench Warfare (Pioneer, Navin Upadhyay, Apr 26, 2006)
The developments in Nepal have a menacing overtone for India. The Maoists' rejection of King Gyanendra's decision to restore Parliament clearly indicates they are more interested in capturing power rather than restoring multi-party democracy.
- Us Condemns Bomb Attack In Sri Lanka (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
The US has condemned the suicide bombing in Sri Lanka, targeted at the country's Army Chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, describing it as an "unacceptable act of terror." Fonseka was critically injured yesterday when an LTTE suicide bomber blew herself . . .
- 10 Killed In Bid On Army Chief; Air Force, Navy Strike Ltte (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
In a virtual collapse of the peace process in Sri Lanka, the Air Force and Navy today bombed LTTE positions in Northeast shortly after a bid on the life of the Army chief by a woman rebel suicide bomber that killed at least 10 soldiers and civilians . . .
- Dangerous Neighbourhood (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Apr 26, 2006)
That India lives in a rough and turbulent neighbourhood is not news. Even as we celebrate the triumph of people power in Nepal we are shocked by the latest manifestation of terrorism in Sri Lanka.
- Lanka On The Brink After Ltte Targets Army Chief (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
Sri Lanka's military launched air strikes on Tuesday against Tamil Tiger-held areas near a strategic port after a female rebel suicide bomber targeted the country's top military general in Colombo.
- India, Pakistan Begin Talks On Nuclear Cbms (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Tuesday began expert-level talks on nuclear and conventional Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) during which officials from both sides are expected to finalise a draft agreement on reducing risk of nuclear accidents and . . .
- Iran May Hide N-Scheme If Hurt (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
Iran threatened today to begin hiding its nuclear programme if the West takes any “harsh measures” against it, in the country’s sharpest rebuttal yet to a UN Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment or face possible
sanctions.
- Corruption Propels Naxilism (Daily Excelsior, Ravindra Shukla, Apr 26, 2006)
The Naxalite affected tribal areas of Chhattisgarh are very backward. The tribal population lives on the verge of starvation.
- Pakistan, India Begin Talks To Reduce Nuclear Risk (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
Pakistan called for an end to an arms race with rival India as the nuclear-armed neighbours opened talks on Tuesday on reducing the risk of an accidental nuclear conflict.
- President’S Bodyguard Begins Counter-Insurgency Duties (Tribune, Vijay Mohan, Apr 26, 2006)
The President's Bodyguard (PBG), largely a static unit for ceremonial duties at Rashtrapati Bhavan, has started deploying its personnel on counter-insurgency duties in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East.
- Human Bomb Hits Lanka Army Hq (Deccan Herald, P KARUNAKHARAN , Apr 26, 2006)
At least 10 people were killed and 29, including Sri Lankan Army Commander Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, were critically wounded when a suspected LTTE female suicide bomber blew herself up at the heavily-guarded army headquarters here on Tuesday afternoon.
- India Terms Ltte Attack A Brazen Act Of Terrorism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday described the suicide attack on the Sri Lankan Army Commander Sarath Fonseka in Colombo as a "brazen act of terrorism."
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