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Articles 12921 through 13020 of 27135:
- "Cyprus Welcomes Nuclear Deal Between India And The U.S." (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Apr 10, 2006)
Cyprus PresidentTassos Papadopoulosbelieves it is time to rekindle Nicosia's traditionally strong bonds with New Delhi. Mr. Papadopoulos, who arrives in India on Tuesday, believes Cyprus needs to focus more on Asia. Excerpts from an exclusive . . .
- ``U.S. Congress Will Ratify Deal'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Deal is simply about helping India: Sibal
Indian-American community has an exceptionally important role
Praises Rice statement in Congress on the deal
- Protectionism Not The Solution (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Apr 10, 2006)
China's President Hu Jintao's visit later this month to Washington takes place in the context of renewed momentum in Congress on retaliatory legislation following the U.S. trade imbalance of $202 billion with China and an overall current account . . .
- "Prime Responsibility Of Cinema Is To Entertain The Masses'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Youngsters are as nationalist as anyone else, says Kunal Kapoor in conversation with Madhur Tankha...
- Nepal Strike Now Indefinite (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Killing of activists firms up political parties' resolve
- Jayalalithaa To Campaign In Kanyakumari District Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, will campaign in Kanyakumari district on Monday. She will start from Aralvoimozi and speak at 10 points, according to the Health Minister, N. Thalavai Sundaram.
- India Emerging As A Global Leader: Drdo Director (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
One of the greatest strengths of India is its large resource of professionals: DRDO Director
- Iraq, Iran, And A Strategy Of A Thousand Errors (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Apr 10, 2006)
America has brought anarchy and indescribable misery to Iraq. Now it is eyeing Iran. Would American and world public opinion be mute spectators to another exercise in monumental folly?
- Maximum Support (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Apr 10, 2006)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has begun the hard task of shifting US Congressional opinion in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Israel Not To Be In Forefront Of War With Iran: Olmert (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Israel will not be in the forefront of a war to stop Tehran from developing nuclear weapons even though Iran was as much a threat to the well-being of Tel Aviv as to Europe and America, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said.
- Cooperative Common Future (Tribune, B.G.Verghese, Apr 10, 2006)
There is a role for both Kashmirs
- An Indian Role In Africa (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Apr 10, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic . . .
- King’S Cross (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 10, 2006)
The collapse of authority comes in many ways. King Gyanendra may still be the reigning monarch of Nepal, but he clearly has little political or moral authority.
- Money Is Cheaper Than Blood (Tribune, James P. Pinkerton, Apr 10, 2006)
Caspar Weinberger was the best secretary of Defense that America ever had. Among the 20 men who have held that post since 1947, there have been some other greats, too. And there have been some big . . .
- Us Recognises India’S Concerns’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 10, 2006)
In an informal chat with reporters here on Saturday, Mr Sibal said he had sought to explain this to everyone he met during his visit to the US, including Congressmen, Senators, administration officials and members of the scientific community.
- Pakistan And Siachen Imbroglio (Daily Excelsior, Brigadier (Retd.) S. N. Sachadeva, Apr 10, 2006)
Even as India and Pakistan work out a demilitarisation agreement on Siachen to facilitate a prime ministerial visit to Pakistan later this year, foreign office and defence mandarins have drawn their red lines:
- Politics As Spectacle (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 10, 2006)
What should one make out of these pictures: former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani holding a bow and arrow in his hands and Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh wielding . . .
- U.S. Insists Focus Is On Diplomacy Against Iran (Reuters, Matt Spetalnick, Apr 10, 2006)
The Bush administration insisted on Sunday its priority was to seek a diplomatic solution to the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions, amid reports of stepped-up planning for possible U.S. air strikes.
- Left To Review Govt Support After Polls (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Apr 10, 2006)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) on Friday said it would review its support for the government after state elections are out of the way next month.
- Tight Security For Final Ballot In Assam (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Security personnel carrying automatic weapons guarded polling centres across Assam on Monday as voting began for the second and final phase of elections.
- Challenge For President Musharraf And Ard (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 10, 2006)
Just as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was in the process of disclosing further alleged scandals about the PPP leader, Benazir Bhutto, leaders of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) were thinking in Lahore about . . .
- Karzai Arrives In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in India on Sunday to boost ties with New Delhi that have blossomed after the fall of the Taliban regime, in a trip a nervous Pakistan will be closely watching.
- Living In A World Of Make-Believe (Dawn, Murtaza Razvi, Apr 10, 2006)
There is a waning sense of reality in national politics as each day passes.
- Indo-Us Deal: Not Without Amendments (News International, Nasim Zehra, Apr 10, 2006)
The writer is an Islamabad-based security
- The Glitch In The Indo-Us Deal (News International, S M H Bokhari, Apr 10, 2006)
George Bush was triumphant on signing the historic Indo-US deal first conceived in Washington in July and concluded in a hurry in New Delhi early last month.
- Democracy By Choice (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Apr 10, 2006)
The US gives little value to popular mandate and counts monarchs and dictators as its staunch supporters
- Bush Should Come Clean On Cia Leak’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the CIA leak case so people can understand what happened, a leading Republican senator said on Sunday.
- Cm Under Fire Over Move To Disband Ranvir Sena Panel (Indian Express, J P Yadav, Apr 10, 2006)
The Nitish government’s decision to disband Justice Amir Das Commission probing the political links of the Ranvir Sena has generated sharp criticism from various quarters.
- Democracy And Poverty — Thailand And The Philippines (Jordan Times, GWYNNE DYER, Apr 10, 2006)
We should return to the rule of law after the election,” declared Thailand's national police chief, General Kowit Watana last Sunday, as the polls closed in a parliamentary election called three years early by embattled Prime Minister Thaksin . . .
- The Challenges In An Era Of Liberalisation (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Apr 10, 2006)
A Pay Commission is often not the culmination of difficulties, but their starting point. An unending exercise in lobbying and activist interventions by various coalition partners seems to be on the Government's agenda in the next few years.
- Capitalise On Brain Power (Pioneer, Joginder Singh, Apr 10, 2006)
Concern has been expressed in some quarters over the trend of doctors leaving premier Government hospitals to join private ones.
- Waziristan Crisis (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 10, 2006)
Since the military operation started, the tribal areas have been thrown into a quagmire of violence and now “Talibanisation”.
- Kerala's Highway To Nowhere (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Apr 10, 2006)
K Govindan Kutty on why grandiose projects like metro have support of politicians and bureaucrats alike in Kerala
- Pak General Elections In Feb 2008: Minister (Pioneer, K J M Varma, Apr 10, 2006)
Pakistan would go to polls in February 2008 instead of next year as was earlier scheduled while the Presidential vote would take place within 30 days after the completion of the general election process, a senior Minister said.
- Hussein's Trials (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 10, 2006)
The crimes committed against the Iraqi people by Saddam Hussein's dictatorship are so numerous that there is no realistic possibility of . . .
- Democracy Now? (News International, Khusro Mumtaz, Apr 10, 2006)
"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations."
- Memorial Hopes (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 10, 2006)
How soon is ‘decisive’?
- Curfew Imposed In Kathmandu; 12 Dead In Clashes In W Nepal (Pioneer, Shirish B Pradhan, Apr 10, 2006)
Nepal's royal government today imposed a curfew in the capital with a warning that violators would be shot and also cut mobile phone services ahead of a massive anti-King rally by the opposition as clashes between Maoists and security forces . . .
- Take Sting Out Of Bite (Pioneer, Cecil Victor, Apr 10, 2006)
If the US has had to begin looking for remnants of Stinger surface-to-air shoulder-fired missiles it gave the Afghan mujahideen to fight the Soviet Army in the 1980s, there is trouble brewing within the "coalition against terror" and Pakistan is . . .
- Troops Moved To Malakand To Smash Kidnapper Dens (News International, Ikram Hoti, Apr 09, 2006)
More than 1,000 Army troops have been moved to Malakand Agency possibly for carrying out an operation against gangs of kidnappers, authorities told The News here on Saturday.
- 40 Bugti Tribesmen Surrender (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 09, 2006)
Dozens of alleged supporters of Nawab Akbar Bugti laid down their arms on Saturday and surrendered to authorities in restive Balochistan, an official said.
- The Die Is Cast Against Defiant Baloch Chieftains (News International, Tariq Butt, Apr 09, 2006)
The government is tightening the noose around the neck of three defiant Baloch chieftains to force them into renouncing aggression.
- Two Taliban Commanders Killed (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 09, 2006)
Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed three Taliban, including two commanders directly linked to deadly attacks, and captured five more in a series of operations, the coalition said on Saturday while a suicide car bomb outside a Nato military . . .
- Jirga Seeks Removal Of Soldiers From Waziristan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
A big tribal Jirga held on Friday in Mir Ali rejected the ban on carrying arms in North Waziristan and demanded that soldiers be removed from check-posts on the roads and deployed on the border with Afghanistan.
- Suicide Blast At Us Base Hurts 3 In Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
A suicide bomber set off his explosives-laden car outside a US military base in Afghanistan on Friday, wounding three Americans in the second attack on a US base in 24 hours.
- Us Denies N-Deal Is Anti-China (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
The United States has rejected an increasingly popular notion in some circles, shared also in Beijing, that its initiative to build an across-the-board partnership with India is aimed at counterbalancing the growing might of China.
- Bhutto, Sharif’S Parties May Boycott Pakistan Polls (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Pakistan's mainstream Opposition parties said on Friday they might stay out of elections next year if their exiled leaders are barred from returning home and a caretaker government is not set up.
- Iraq: A Nation In Search Of A Leader (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
United States and Britain have stepped up their efforts for a national unity government in Iraq.
- The Future Of Jihad (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Apr 08, 2006)
The jihadis of today are increasingly locking horns with the US-led Western world.
- Left To Review Govt Support After Polls (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Apr 08, 2006)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) on Friday said it would review its support for the government after state elections are out of the way next month.
- Problems In Textbook Screening (Japan Times, Editorial, Japan Times, Apr 08, 2006)
The Education, Science and Technology Ministry has screened and approved 306 textbooks, most of them for first-year high-school students, for use from next spring.
- Right Royal Mess (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Apr 08, 2006)
But Nepal’s top gun least perturbed
- Who Are These Miscreants? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 08, 2006)
The death toll in paramilitary forces’ counter-offensive against miscreants in North Waziristan on Wednesday has risen to 40 as more bodies were recovered on Thursday.
- N-Deal With India May Take A Year: Boucher (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Rules out any fresh condition, negotiations
- Pack Journalism Can Be Lethal (Japan Times, GREGORY CLARK, Apr 08, 2006)
Some call it pack journalism. It is also lazy journalism.
- Iraqi Women Argue, But Agree On Role (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
In a roomful of Iraqi and American women, brought together to explore how they can join to build a new Iraq, the discussions are stuck in recriminations, accusations, the past.
- Pak, French Air Forces To Hold Exercises On 11th (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Apr 08, 2006)
On Tuesday, 11th of April, the French Carrier Group with the nuclear powered aircraft carrier “Charles de Gaulle” will hold a series of exercises centred on air defence with the Pakistan Air Force. These exercises will oppose the PAF aircraft to . . .
- Not A Matter Of Politics (Deccan Herald, Satish Nambiar, Apr 08, 2006)
The political leadership appears not to be serious about managing national security
- Sage Counsel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
It is most unfortunate that good advice goes unheeded.
- Spy In Sky Counts Days To Last Flight (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
Photographs of militant training camps across the Line of Control, images of Pakistani army and armoured corps movements, mapping of new roads built by adversaries in sensitive border regions — ever wondered how India gets hold of these pictures?
- ‘India Needs Eight Nuclear Plants For Self-Defence’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
An Indian minister forcefully defended his country’s designation of eight of 22 nuclear reactors for military purposes under a US-Indian civilian nuclear cooperation pact now being considered by the US Congress.
- Dialogue Of The Deaf? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 08, 2006)
Even though pessimists have already called it “a dialogue of the deaf”, the very fact that Iran and America are said to be exploring the possibility of talks on the Iraqi situation shows the two sides’ desire to open a channel of communication.
- The Abc Of Obcs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 08, 2006)
The term ‘‘backward classes’’ first raised its head in Mysore state, where preferential recruitment of backward communities was introduced in 1921.
- The Conspiracy Of Silence (Indian Express, AYESHA KHAN, Apr 08, 2006)
The fallacy of understanding Gujarat in present times lies, perhaps, in the strange assortment of its Gs: Godhra, genocide, ghettos and gaurav.
- Market Justice (Times of India, Sauvik Chakraverti, Apr 08, 2006)
The gross miscarriage of justice in the Jessica Lal case is symptomatic of the fact that Indian socialists have an extremely warped notion of the role of the state.
- In Deep Waters (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 08, 2006)
Punish all who stole secrets
- Incredible (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 08, 2006)
It is quite incredible that the authorities, so quick in blocking or outlawing some TV channels, should be unable to control the plague of illegal FM radio stations in the NWFP that are stirring up factional hatred and religiosity.
- Create Mobile Legal Aid System For Rural Litigants: Kalam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
President tells judges to encourage out-of-court settlement in villages
President's advice
Network all dispute-resolving systems
Make important judgments accessible to young lawyers
Take a re-look at cases pending for several years
- U.S. Wants India To Clarify On `Minimum Credible Deterrent' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 08, 2006)
It is "absolutely necessary" for decreasing tensions in Asia: Boucher
- Third Front? For Whom, And For What? (The Financial Express, Malvika Singh, Apr 08, 2006)
Mulayam Singh and Chandrababu Naidu’s proposed coalition promises all that India doesn’t need
- China Is Wagging A Theatrical Finger (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Apr 08, 2006)
Even as its leaders encourage US bashing, China’s real structural problems are growing silently
- Scrutiny Of Judicial Immunity Is Must (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Apr 08, 2006)
In the wake of the public outcry against the acquittal of the accused in the Jessica Lall and Irfan murder cases, the demand for judicial reforms has mounted.
- In The Wake Of The Bush Visit (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Apr 08, 2006)
In the aftermath of President George Bush’s visit, too much importance is being attached to inanities, while among the important points only the nuclear deal with India has monopolised comments, giving an impression as if all that matters to . . .
- Oily Skid Is Just Dangerously Around The Corner (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 08, 2006)
Chindia' will require increasingly high amounts of energy for its growth, points out Stephen Leeb in The Coming Economic Collapse. As alternative energy, biodiesel is well poised "to enter both the vocabulary and the fuel tanks," predicts Lyle . . .
- Bnp Seeks Un Intervention On Balochistan Crisis (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
Balochistan Parliamentary leader belonging to Balochistan National Party (BNP) in National Assembly Abdul Rauf Mengal urged the United Nations and all international bodies to intervene in the Balochistan crisis, which had further aggravated as the . . .
- Nuclear Deal: Us Tilts And India Bends (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Apr 07, 2006)
As the Bush administration — seeing a tilt in the Congress towards the India-US nuclear deal — redoubles its efforts to win over the fence-sitters, India is helping to move the deal along by committing to become a part of the global . . .
- Sonia To Quit All “Profit” Posts (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Apr 07, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s decision to resign as chairperson of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust may well trigger a wave of similar resignations by her from the various organisations and trusts which she heads or patronises.
- N-Deal: Vajpayee Accuses Govt Of Being Soft On Usa (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 07, 2006)
As the US Congress prepares to take up a Bill to amend laws to have full civil nuclear energy cooperation with India under the nuke deal, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today accused the UPA government of “giving more concessions” to . . .
- N-Deal Fiasco Will Hit Ties, Warns Rice (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Apr 07, 2006)
Urging members of Congress to support legislation that would enable a nuclear deal with India to reach fruition, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday warned the US-India relationship would suffer a "significant setback" if this agreement . .
- Missing Crown Prince (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Apr 07, 2006)
It was early spring when we docked in the northwest African port of Casablanca to pick up rock phosphate.
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