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Articles 14021 through 14120 of 27135:
- Chhattisgarh Tribe Takes Up Bows, Arrows To Fight Maoists (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 14, 2006)
Clutching their bows and arrows, a group of tribesmen and young boys mill around outside a crude refugee camp in the forests of central India.
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam returned here this morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- India Tightens Rules For Nuclear Export (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
India has tightened the screw on export of nuclear equipment and technology in a move that seems to be a fallout of its recent deal with the United States.
- Reuniting Parliamentary, State Elections (Daily Excelsior, Aditya Nath Dar, Mar 14, 2006)
The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Mr. Lalkrishna Advani, while delivering a speech at India Today conclave, surprised most of his listeners when he said that he was in favour of reuniting the parliamentary and state assembly elections.
- War Clouds Over Iran ? (Daily Excelsior, Syed Ali Safvi, Mar 14, 2006)
Iraq under Saddam Husain did not pose threat to the U.S. but it did to Israel.",
- Police Turn Gun On Jessica Judge (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Under fire for the wholesale acquittal of the accused in the Jessica Lal murder, police today went to court pleading that the evidence furnished by it had not received due consideration from the judge.
- Doublespeak (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 14, 2006)
It is possible to have one’s cake and eat it too provided one is the world’s solitary superpower.
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam returned in New Delhi on Tuesday morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- Will Bush Visit Trigger New Thinking? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 14, 2006)
A military dictatorship in Islamabad will always come out worse compared with the flourishing democracy in India
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam returned to New Delhi on Tuesday morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- Afghan-Pak Rift Deepens (Tribune, Pamela Constable, Mar 14, 2006)
A rare suicide car bombing Sunday in Afghanistan’s capital, which killed four people and left former president Sibghatullah Mujaddedi with burn injuries, seemed likely to set back government reconciliation efforts with Taliban members . . .
- ‘Cemilac Has Certified Light Combat Aircraft’ (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Mar 14, 2006)
Cemilac plays an important role in airborne systems J K Sharma Chief Executive CEMILAC
- ‘N-Deal Is Unique As India Is Unique’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 14, 2006)
The nuclear agreement with India will strengthen international security, energy security and environmental protection, as well as fostering economic and technological development, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argues in an opinion . . .
- Focus Now On Nuclear Suppliers Group (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Mar 14, 2006)
After clinching a landmark deal with the United States on civilian nuclear energy cooperation, New Delhi is eyeing the Nuclear Suppliers Group which is due to hold a crucial meeting in May this year.
- Not Enough Money For Armed Forces (Tribune, P.K. Vasudeva, Mar 14, 2006)
The modernisation programmes that have been kick-started by the armed forces are set to continue as the defence budget for 2006-07 has been hiked by 8.9 per cent (Rs. 7,300 crore) to Rs. 89,000, as against Rs. 81,700 crore in 2005-06 on expected lines.
- Russian Pm Comes Calling Over N-Supply (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Underscoring the importance India continued to attach to its strategic ties with Russia, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had availed the first available opportunity to ring up Russian President Vladimir Putin and brief him about the outcomes . . .
- People Power In East Asia (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Mar 14, 2006)
Do the current attempts in the Philippines and Thailand to re-enact people power movements amount to bypassing the existing democratic systems?
- Of Manipulators And A `Bad Victim' (Hindu, Usha Ramanathan, Mar 14, 2006)
Sentencing a survivor, however opportunistic she may be, will have the unfortunate effect of punishing a `bad victim' while leaving the manipulators free and undeterred.
- Al-Qaeda To Blame, Says Al-Sadr (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose directives can send thousands of heavily armed militiamen spilling into the streets, called for calm on Monday and blamed Al-Qaeda in Iraq for the carnage in Baghdad's Sadr City slum that killed at least 48 persons.
- Over Time, 90 P.C. Of India's Nuclear Reactors Will Be Under Safeguards: U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
"There's a commitment to place all future civilian reactors under safeguards in perpetuity" "That's a very important commitment because they intend to build very large reactors for power needs over the coming years."
- Congress Election Committee Reconstituted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in five States, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday reconstituted the party's Central Election Committee (CEC), bringing in four new faces while retaining seven existing members.
- Saddam-Era Judge Admits Sentencing Shiites To Die (The Nation, Robert Fisk, Mar 14, 2006)
Baghdad A former judge in Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Court acknowledged Monday that he had sentenced 148 Shiites to death in 1984, but he said they had received a proper trial and had confessed to trying to assassinate the former Iraqi . . .
- Attack On Mujaddedi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
The law and order situation in Afghanistan, which was never very satisfactory, is taking a turn for the worse.
- Visiting China Again (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
President Hu Jintao has sent a formal letter to President Pervez Musharraf inviting him to attend the sixth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Pakistan enjoys observer’s status with the organization that seeks to . . .
- Death Of A Tyrant (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
When the Bosnian journalist Mirna Jancic went to The Hague to report on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, she was repelled by the way in which the defendant, not infrequently, managed to turn the proceedings into a soap opera with himself as leading man.
- Us Wants To Help Pakistan On Energy, But Not Nuclear (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Barring nuclear power, or a gas pipeline from Iran, the United States wants to help its ally Pakistan develop potential energy sources, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W Bodman said on Monday
- Missing Indian Spy Found In Us (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 14, 2006)
Rabindra Singh, a senior Indian spy who went missing in May 2004 after suspected of becoming a double agent and passing on secret and classified documents to the Americans, has been ultimately traced in the countryside of Virginia state in the . . .
- Bush Administration Launches Campaign For Us-India N-Deal (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Mar 14, 2006)
The first high-profile administration attempt to ease the passage of the India-US nuclear agreement through Congress was in evidence on Monday, with the publication of a signed article by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the . . .
- N-Export Rules Tightened As Un Faults India’S Record (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 14, 2006)
The Indian government tightened rules on the export of nuclear equipment and technology on Monday, a day after the former UN weapons inspector David Albright faulted India’s non-proliferation record.
- Bush In South Asia — Raising A Political Storm (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 14, 2006)
As the US President moved from Afghanistan to India and then Pakistan, he raised political storm clouds. If India was obsessed with the nuclear deal, Pakistan wanted similar treatment and Afghanistan worried about the . . .
- Standstill In The Middle East (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
Going by the policies Mr Ehud Olmert is pursuing, it seems Mr Ariel Sharon is still very much at the helm of Israeli affairs.
- Advani Back In Favour (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Under attack from secular parties, the Sangh Parivar and the BJP today closed ranks and rallied behind Mr LK Advani on his proposed controversial ‘National Integration Yatra’ from 6 April announced in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts.
- Imperialism Redux (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Mar 14, 2006)
Business, Energy, Weapons And Foreign Policy
- India Not To Compromise Friendly Relations With Iran (Press Trust of India, Amitabha Roychowdhury, Mar 14, 2006)
Thamrait Air Base (Oman), Mar 13 (PTI) Maintaining that the Iran nuclear issue should be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy, India has said it would not compromise friendly relations with Tehran "at any cost."
- Tehran's Dangerous Influence On Iraqi Politics (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, Mar 14, 2006)
As The War of ever-escalating threats between Iran and the United States rages, the rest of the world watches with growing alarm as the battle of wills over uranium enrichment moves on into the UN Security Council.
- Our Opportunity With India (Washington Post, Condoleezza Rice, Mar 13, 2006)
The week before last President Bush concluded a historic agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation with India, a rising democratic power in a dynamic Asia.
- Qazi Criticises Musharraf’S Proposal On Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Ameer Jama'at-i-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that a proposal by General Pervez Musharraf to divide Kashmir into seven autonomous regions and give their joint control to India and Pakistan is a prelude to "United India" which the people on . . .
- Five Rockets Hit Bannu Garrison (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Five rockets fired by unknown people fell in different parts of Bannu city in the early hours of Sunday without causing any loss to life and property.
- Mujaddedi Survives Suicide Attack (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Former Afghan president Sibghatullah Mujaddedi was slightly wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on Sunday that officials said killed two bombers and two civilians.
- Separatists' Shenanigans In J And K (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Mar 13, 2006)
Current events in Jammu and Kashmir appear to be in consonance with Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf’s game plan for a regional splintering of the former princely State.
- U.S. Ties With India, Pakistan On Divergent Paths (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W. Bush's visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent U.S. approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- India Slow To Wake Up To Growing Maoist Menace (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 13, 2006)
Kanker, India (Reuters) - Shouting "commando", police in camouflage uniform and black bandanas pour down from the sky on ropes. Others clamber over rocks, shooting from the shoulder as targets pop up all around them.
- Saddam Feared Own Army As Us Invaded (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Saddam Hussein's fear of internal rebellion led him to distrust his military commanders even after US forces began their invasion in 2003, crippling the country's defenses, the New York Times reported in today's editions.
- Hizb, Let Leaders On Hunger-Strike (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
18 militant commanders stage protest in POK
Eighteen top jihadi commanders are staging a hunger strike in Muzaffarabad against "the betrayal of the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir by President Pervez Musharraf," a Hizbul- Mujahideen spokesperson told . . .
- Nuclear Deal: Benefits For India (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 13, 2006)
The US-India deal will lead to more efficient import of nuclear technology and equipment, translating into higher nuclear power generation, which, in these pollution-conscious times, ought not to be written off hastily on grounds of higher . . .
- Growing India Needs A Permanent Establishment (Tribune, Manish Tewari, Mar 13, 2006)
In the wake of the domestic fracas on the Iran vote at the IAEA, Dr. Manmohan Singh recently bemoaned the lack of an “establishment” and a strategic culture in India that takes a long-term view of India’s interests.
- Karzai Behind Bush Plainspeak To Musharraf: Report (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
With the Taliban staging a gradual resurgence in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai was able to convince US President George W Bush, during their recent summit, that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was not doing enough to defeat . . .
- Search For Truth (Statesman, SANKAR SEN, Mar 13, 2006)
Acquittal of all the accused in the sensational seven year old Jessica Lall murder case has rudely shocked the conscience of the nation and shattered its faith in the working of the criminal justice system.
- Coastal Policing (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 13, 2006)
At first glance it would be easy to write off as “ambitious” the 15-year Perspective Plan projected by the Coast Guard to take it through to 2017.
- Musharraf’S Warning (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 13, 2006)
Less than two weeks after highlighting the need for implementing the Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations to restore order in Balochistan, General Musharraf has justified the ongoing military operation in that province, saying the . . .
- Persuading Congress (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 13, 2006)
Bush makes a good start
AS promised under the Indo-US nuclear deal, the George W. Bush administration has initiated the process for its implementation.
- A Spoof Hits China's Web, A Star Is Born (Christian Science Monitor, Robert Marquand, Mar 13, 2006)
An underground video sweeping Chinese cyberspace has half the country cracking up.
- Indian Maoists Claim Government Backs Civilian Paramilitaries (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Indian Maoists who killed 28 people last month in a landmine blast said on Sunday the victims were government-backed paramilitaries and not civilians.
- Mayhem In The Menagerie (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
New conflict between the United Jihad Council and President Pervez Musharraf reflects a crisis in Pakistan's political life.
- Nature Of Us Relations With India And Pakistan Different (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W Bush’s visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent US approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- Pmln-Ppp Reconciliation? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 13, 2006)
The pml leader and re-elected Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani said in a TV discussion Saturday that last week’s meeting between Ms Benazir Bhutto and Mian Shahbaz Sharif in Dubai reminded him more of ironies than a reconciliation.
- Beyond The Nuclear Deal (Times of India, Salman Haidar , Mar 13, 2006)
The visit was remarkably without glitter. No eye-catching gesture, no verbal flourish, no dancing in the village square, not even a trip to the Taj.
- Working With A Neighbour (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 13, 2006)
President A.p.j. Abdul Kalam's visit to Myanmar, the first by a head of state from India, marks a major milestone in bilateral relations.
- Spillover Of Waziristan Unrest (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 13, 2006)
Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao has said that the unrest in North Waziristan Agency is spreading to surrounding districts including Tank and DIKhan. Speaking in the National Assembly on Saturday he, however, vowed to continue action . . .
- For A Glimpse Of Suu Kyi (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 13, 2006)
On a visit to Myanmar, we tried to get a glimpse of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Noble Peace Prize winner, put away from the public eye by the ruling military junta for 10 out of the last 16 years.
- Bush Visit: Not Just A Stopover (Dawn, Iqbal Akhund, Mar 13, 2006)
Invidious comparison is virtually built into an American president’s visit to the subcontinent. So it has been again, as President Bush has come and gone. As a foreign journalist put it, India got a hug, Pakistan a pat on the back.
- Pakistan’S Energy Needs (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 13, 2006)
Us energy secretary Samuel Bodman is to visit Pakistan in the near future to discuss the country’s energy needs.
- A Footstool In The World (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Mar 13, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear deal has exposed inconsistencies in India’s position
- The Indian Connection (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 13, 2006)
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Mauritius
- Exalting The Myth Of Suffering (Deccan Herald, ROGER COHEN, Mar 13, 2006)
To the last, a solitary death on Saturday in a UN cell near an international court he derided, Slobodan Milosevic clung to the notion that all the Balkan destruction he ignited and presided over was no more than a response to aggression . . .
- George Gets Clean Chit On Kargil Scam (Times of India, Dhananjay Mahapatra, Mar 13, 2006)
After a long spell of discomfiting news, here is something that George Fernandes can afford to smile.
- Musharraf Blasts ‘Anti-Democracy’ Baloch Tribal Chiefs (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 12, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has said that only a handful of "anti-development and anti-democracy" tribal chiefs are creating a law and order situation in Balochistan.
- Five Killed In Afghan Violence (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 12, 2006)
Two policemen were beheaded and their bodies dumped in a desert after being kidnapped from their homes in the heartland of Afghanistan’s opium poppy region, an official said on Saturday.
- 25 Militants Killed Near Miranshah (News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai, Mar 11, 2006)
Pakistan Army artillery shelled a village 10 kilometres from Miranshah on Friday night and gunship helicopters pounded militants’ positions following reports that two of the most wanted clerics Maulvi Sadiq Noor and Maulvi Abdul Khaliq and their . . .
- Pak Minister Says Musharraf Has No Power To Pardon Sarabjit (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Pakistan Law Minister Wasi Zafar today said President Pervez Musharraf has no power to pardon alleged Indian spy Sarabjit Singh, whose review petition against the death sentence has been rejected by the Supreme Court.
- Churchill And Moscow (Statesman, Valentin Falin, Mar 11, 2006)
Myths are known to persist, as proved by Winston Churchill’s speech in Fulton in 1946. To this day it is regarded as the “anti-communist manifesto” that unleashed the Cold War and encouraged Stalin to erect the “iron curtain” which cut off a half . . .
- On Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 11, 2006)
We (Pakistan and India) are into a bilateral dialogue. We don’t want to make it trilateral or multilateral. — General Pervez Musharraf.
- Somali Piracy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 11, 2006)
Protecting the mercantile marine and sanitising shipping lanes is often cited as part of the rationale for a strong navy.
- Prolonging Perfidy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 11, 2006)
Hopefully the Centre and Ulfa will not precipitate any action that could jeopardise their understanding last month on confidence-building measures to bolster the next round of talks expected in June.
- Prison Diary (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 11, 2006)
As George Bush vacationed in the subcontinent pontificating on how to contain terror and Iran, his self-appointed role as an international cop has been reaffirmed with Amnesty International’s latest report on Abu Gharib prison and the . . .
- Understanding The Harvest Of Hate (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 11, 2006)
Varanasi was just an exclamation mark in Islamist terror groups' war against India. Learning from it needs an understanding not of each outrage, but the whole.
- The Morning After (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Mar 11, 2006)
The benefits we know. Time, now, to consider the costs of India's new relationship with the US.
- Murder Of Justice (The Week, Suman K. Jha, Mar 11, 2006)
Everything has been said already, but as no one listens, we must always begin again." Justice V.S. Malimath began with this Andre Gide quote while outlining the roadmap for reforming the criminal justice system in . . .
- Amulya Lessons (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 11, 2006)
The despatch of a top US defence official, charged with the reconstruction of Afghanistan, to Anand in Gujarat for a first-hand study of the famous Amul dairy development model is a reminder of the many valuable models we have in our own backyard.
- Kalam Scores With Youths On Last Day (Statesman, R C Rajamani, Mar 11, 2006)
The President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, tonight concluded a highly popular three-day visit to Myanmar during which he conveyed to the hosting military leadership India’s keenness to see the restoration of democracy in their nation . . .
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