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Articles 18621 through 18720 of 27135:
- Al Qaeda Still Capable Of Attacks: Saudi Envoy (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Prince Turki al-Faisal claims Bin Lade
Saudi Arabia’s new ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday the failure to capture Osama bin Laden only enhanced a sense of Al Qaeda’s invincibility and said that the group remained capable of launching attacks.
- Violence Simmers In Sri Lanka's Multi-Ethnic East (Reuters, Peter Apps, Dec 09, 2005)
Ethnic tension between Sri Lanka's minority Tamil and Muslim communities is rising in the island's east after a November grenade attack on a mosque killed seven and as observers fear the island's 2002 truce is falling apart.
- Nato Plan To Operate In Southern Afghanistan (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) approved on Thursday a plan to expand the alliance’s peacekeeping force in Afghanistan into the volatile south of the country, after overcoming concerns about troop safety.
- India Tests Missile (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
India successfully tested its Trishul missile on Thursday in the eastern state of Orissa, defence officials said. The Trishul was fired a day after the Indian military tested its surface-to-air missile, Akash, at the same location of Chandipur-on-Sea.
- Of Captors And Their Captives (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Dec 09, 2005)
India must remain watchful of American designs in South Asia in the guise of friendship, says Anuradha Dutt.
- Islamists Losing Ground In Valley (Pioneer, PN Khera, Dec 09, 2005)
People of Jammu & Kashmir are showing an increasing inclination for peace than the loud anti-India rhetoric of terrorists, says PN Khera
- World Can't Watch Dhaka Fall (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Dec 09, 2005)
As the region's biggest power, "larger than all the rest combined" as Junius R Jayewardene reminded the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's inaugural conference in Dhaka 20 years ago, India might expect to enjoy the same . . .
- Hindus In Pakistan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 09, 2005)
The recent abduction and conversion of three Hindu girls in Pakistan clearly shows that, despite the isolated example of a Danish Kaneria playing for the country's cricket team, Hindus there are a marginalised and persecuted lot stalked constantly . . .
- There Comes Another Good Man (Tribune, V.N. Kakar, Dec 09, 2005)
Anything?” my father’s eyes asked me wistfully, lovingly. “Nothing,” my eyes replied silently, dolefully. Partition of India was just about a month behind us. So was the wreckage of our house in Peshawar. We had landed in Lucknow.
- Can There Really Be Peace With Ariel Sharon? (Hindu, Gerald Kaufman, Dec 08, 2005)
The Gaza withdrawal has been a veil for continued persecution and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
- Inside The Lashkar-E-Taiba's Network (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 08, 2005)
Top Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Shabbir Bukhari's story offers unprecedented insight into the organisation's working — and raises disturbing questions about the threat it holds out to the India-Pakistandétenteprocess.
- Chain Reaction (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 08, 2005)
The outcome of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Russia is the best proof that the India-US nuclear agreement of July 18 is the key that will unlock the many bolts clamped on India’s civil and military nuclear programmes.
- Untenable Methods (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 08, 2005)
America’s means of fighting terrorism are suspect
- Al-Qaeda’S Abu Hamza Is Alive? (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf declared his 200 percent certainty that Egyptian-born Abu Hamza Rabia had been killed. Headline stories in the world media proclaimed he was in a house in Isory village, North Waziristan near the Afghan border, . . .
- Norwegian Pm’S Call (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 08, 2005)
NORWAY’S Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has appealed to the international community to come forward with more aid for rehabilitation and reconstruction of areas devasted by the October 8 earthquake. At a joint Press conference . . .
- New Breed Of Suicide Bombers (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 08, 2005)
AT least 36 Iraqi Police officers and cadets were killed and 72 others wounded on Tuesday when two women suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Baghdad Police Academy classroom on Tuesday. The two females, each wearing a suicide vest, walked into a . . .
- Us Congress Threatens To Throw Out India N-Deal (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The chairman of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee warned on Tuesday that Congress would throw out any ‘opaque’ plan by the Bush administration to forge unprecedented civilian nuclear cooperation with India.
- Galvanizing The Muslim Countries (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Dec 08, 2005)
An extraordinary summit of the 36-year-old Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is being held in Makkah at the invitation of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to define the Ummah’s response to the multiple challenges it faces internally and externally.
- Ltte Pushes The Envelope (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 08, 2005)
The two claymore mine blasts and other attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the first six days of December, which have taken the lives of 15 Sri Lankan soldiers, constitute the most serious violations thus far of the February 2002 . . .
- Kashmir: Terror Build-Up Triggers Alarm (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 08, 2005)
Many Lashkar operatives seem to have infiltrated in the wake of the earthquake
Up to 100 cadres have crossed LoC since October 8
Activation of new Lashkar cells in Jammu
Degradation in defences because of quake
- Natwar Ripples Still Felt In Rs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Having tasted blood after forcing the resignation of Union minister Natwar Singh over the Volcker Report, BJP is now training its gun on the Congress party.
- Ahead Of Foreign Secy Visit, Us Senate Panel Chief Seeks Credible India Plan On N-Separation (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Dec 08, 2005)
As India prepares to discuss its plans to separate civilian and military nuclear facilities with the Bush Administration later this month, an influential Senator has urged New Delhi to put as many reactors as possible in the non-military category.
- Navy Eyes Tech Link On Us Aviation Project (Indian Express, Shiv Aroor, Dec 08, 2005)
For all the talk about the IAF looking to purchase 126 fighters which Washington is keen to sell, it is the Indian Navy that is on track for an agreement that would for the first time make New Delhi a scientific and financial partner in a . . .
- Osama Alive And Leading Jihad, Says His No 2, Calls For Attacks On Pro-Us Gulf Oil Sites (Indian Express, HEBA KANDIL, Dec 08, 2005)
Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has urged militants to attack oil targets in Muslim states and said Osama bin Laden was still leading its battle against the West.
- Fatwa Against Freedom (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Dec 08, 2005)
It will take Islamists in Bangladesh more than terror tactics to stamp out the free spirit of a brave people, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- Geopolitical Chessboard Warms Up - India Joins Russia In Jointly Operating Air Force Out Of Tajik Air Base - Pakistan Slowly Getting Encircled By Indian Air Force And Navy (India Daily, Sonia Chopra, Dec 08, 2005)
It is a long term strategy for India to check Pakistan from any more adventurous moves like Kargil. India plans to encircle Pakistan in a way that Pakistan will think hundred times before venturing into India ever.
- Russia Offers Long-Range Bombers To India - Tu-22m3 Is Capable Of Carrying Long-Range Cruise Missiles At Almost Twice The Speed Of Sound (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Dec 08, 2005)
This may tilt the balance of power to the Indian side. Long range air borne cruise mille may be the best way to protect India.
- Eton: School That Connects Rulers (Tribune, Terry Kirby, Dec 08, 2005)
The 19 former prime ministers produced by Eton include Robert Walpole, William Pitt the Elder, Gladstone, Sir Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Sir Alex Douglas-Home, not to mention countless ministers, top civil servants and diplomats.
- Deplorable! (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 08, 2005)
Yet another blasphemous act and yet again the Muslims across the globe feel psychologically shattered. It seems the unscrupulous elements target the towering personality of the perfect and the best creation of all times with a purpose.
- Privatisation Plans (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2005)
Don’t Disinvest, Reinvest
In his interview to The McKinsey Quarterly Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed helplessness at not being able to proceed with disinvestment of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and other public sector undertakings (PSUs) . .
- Party Must End (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 08, 2005)
When will we learn something better?
- Nonalignment Today (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Dec 08, 2005)
One unintended outcome of the Volcker report is the debate it has sparked off on whether, in the 21st century, India should continue to define its foreign policy as a nonalignment country.
- Akash Missile Test-Fired (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
For the second time in five days, India’s surface-to-air missile Akash was today test fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, 15 km from here.
- Opposition Targets Sonia, Walks Out From (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today set the proverbial cat among the pigeons when he described the ongoing disruption of Parliament by the BJP as a drama and an attempt to deflect attention from its internal problems.
- Bjp Drama To Divert Attention, Says Pm (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today set the proverbial cat among the pigeons when he described the ongoing disruption of Parliament by the BJP as a drama and an attempt to deflect attention from its internal problems.
- Moscow Is Willing (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday have brought to light Moscow’s eagerness to help India in acquiring the latest nuclear energy generation technology to meet the country’s growing power requirements,
- Moscow’S Civil About Nuclear Energy (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Dec 08, 2005)
During Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Moscow, President Putin made it clear that Russia expects to play a major role in future civil nuclear energy projects in India. But he saw this as part of a broader international cooperation on enabling...
- Russia Offers Strategic Bombers To India (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Russia has offered to sell several long-range Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers to India, Russian vice Premier and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday.
- Monica Charms Bhopal Police (Telegraph, RASHEED KIDWAI, Dec 08, 2005)
She is too innocent to be involved with gangsters, said one. Another vouched for her “virtuous” character. They all agreed Monica Bedi must have been “duped”.
- That Soft, Steady Glow Of Democracy (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Dec 08, 2005)
What could be the link between a constitutional referendum in Kenya, the arrest of a former military dictator in Chile and the electoral defeat of a flawed populist in India’s Bihar state?
- India Tests Akash Missile (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
India successfully tested on Wednesday a surface-to-air missile for the second time in five days from a coastal range in the east of the country, a defence official said.
- United States Looks To India As New Global Ally (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The Bush administration is looking increasingly to India as a core ally as it seeks to engineer what could be a major diplomatic shift away from the power alignments forged after World War Two.
- Indian Opposition Demands Sonia Gandhi Quit Govt Job (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 08, 2005)
India’s Bhartiya Janata Party-led opposition on Wednesday turned its attack on ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi after one of her closest ministers, Natwar Singh, quit over charges that he and the party skimmed the UN oil-for-food scheme in Iraq.
- Opposition Targets Sonia Gandhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Turning the attack off the beleaguered former external affairs minister Natwar Singh, as least for the moment, main Opposition party the NDA on Wednesday focussed its attention on Sonia Gandhi in Parliament
- Us: India Very Close Ally In War On Terror (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Describing India as a “very close partner” in the war against terror, the US has stressed the importance of sharing intelligence between the two countries to face the threat.
- Indo-Russian Energy Ties To Be Strengthened (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Building on strategic partnership, India and Russia have agreed to actively explore opportunities to further expand their cooperation in the field of peaceful use of atomic energy.
- Naxalite Menace: Finding A Way Out (Daily Excelsior, V M Gokuldas, Dec 08, 2005)
The ''Compact Revolutionary Zone'' that provides the north-south link between the Nepalese Maoists and the Andhra Pradesh naxals is stealthily moving eastwards to cover Orissa in a major push that has worried the Union Home Ministry.
- Behind Enemy Lines (Pioneer, Abhijit C Chandra, Dec 08, 2005)
Abhijit C Chandra recounts the exploits of an IAF officer who flew across the Tibetan territory just before the 1962 war
- Calendar Year Of Indian Navy (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Dec 08, 2005)
Anil Bhat recapitulates the achievements of the wing of the armed forces that rules the waves.
- Angry Hills (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 08, 2005)
There is no let up in ethnic violence in Assam with the hills of Karbi Anglong district continuing to blaze with burning tribal homes and men, women and children being killed by rival militias.
- Nda: No Double Standards, Sonia Should Resign Too (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
After forcing Union Minister Natwar Singh's resignation on the Volcker issue, the Opposition on Wednesday trained its gun on Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
- The Odd Couple (Dawn, F.S. Aijazuddin, Dec 08, 2005)
Nothing succeeds like success, however simulated, and at the moment two persons — President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz — are savouring their own personal brand of success.
- Visit To Moscow A "Landmark" In India-Russia Relations: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here today after a "landmark" three-day visit to Moscow during which Russia extended all help to India in meeting its energy needs, including civilian nuclear power.
- The Wages Of Corruption (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Dec 08, 2005)
Around 4.30 pm on Friday December 2, 2005, officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Subhash Bhowmik, football coach of Kolkata's famous East Bengal Club and a former international footballer, on the charge of accepting a bribe . . .
- Iraq War & Arab Media (Dawn, Ameed Shah, Dec 08, 2005)
It seems that the Americans are realizing the costs and effects of the venture they decided to take in Iraq. The strategy, which Bush administration is presenting to achieve the victory in Iraq doesn’t seem to even impress his own party members.
- Focus On Central Asia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
Is Russia a partner of the United States in the war on terrorism? You wouldn’t know it from the bitter campaign Moscow is waging to thwart President Bush’s democracy agenda in Muslim Central Asia.
- Bjp Targets Sonia, Stages Walk-Out In Parliament (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Buoyed by Union Minister Natwar Singh's decision to resign on the Volcker controversy, an aggressive BJP-led opposition today targeted Sonia Gandhi in Parliament demanding her resignation as chairperson of the National Advisory Council, saying . . .
- Four Pakistani Soldiers Abducted Near Afghan Border (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Unidentified men have abducted four Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in the country's South Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
- Russia Offers Tu-22m3 Strategic Bombers To India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Russia has offered to sell several long-range Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers to India, Russian Vice Premier and Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said today.
- India-Pakistan Shipping Talks From Tomorrow (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 07, 2005)
It enables ships of both countries to pick up cargo for a third country party
Talks are a follow up to the decision by the Joint Study Group
Shipping industry feels that if the protocol is amended cargo flow could rise manifold
- Get Serious About Flood Assistance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has very good reason to complain about the unsatisfactory nature and lackadaisical pace of the United Progressive Alliance Government's response to the flood-ravaged State's plea for financial assistance . . .
- Changing Tack To Stay In The Fray (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Dec 07, 2005)
The Naxalite leadership in Andhra Pradesh has ushered in strategic and tactical changes in the functioning of its cadre. It has shifted its local guerrilla squads (LGSs) deep into the forest and brought in three-member teams of armed cadres to . . .
- Russia To Lease Two Nuclear Submarines To India : Report (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
India will get two Shchuka-B class nuclear submarines from Russia on lease and an Indian crew has already arrived here for training as part of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov deal, a media report said today.
- Manmohan-Putin Summit (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Declaring the determination of India and Russia to jointly combat terrorism, President Vladimir Putin today expressed his country’s readiness to cooperate with New Delhi in the field of nuclear energy and said Moscow was also prepared to increase oil. . .
- Bangladesh Scene: Cause For Concern (Daily Excelsior, M Rama Rao, Dec 07, 2005)
Anam Khan who is the Defence and Strategic Affairs editor of the Dhaka daily, The Daily Star, says it is time to come to grips with 'the frightening prospect of combating an ideologically motivated group, prepared to kill themselves for the sake . . .
- Oil And Oic: A Lethal Combination (Greater Kashmir, Waseem-ud-Din, Dec 07, 2005)
Oil - the black gold of Middle East – is turning curse for not being tapped and used as a weapon to achieve prosperity and wellbeing, comments Waseem-ud-Din
- Healthcare In India — Caught Between A Rock And A Hard Place (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Dec 07, 2005)
Mr. Deshpande was in the Military Engineering Service for over two decades before he opted for VRS last year to start a business.
- Russia To Help India On N-Energy (Hindustan Times, Yashwant Raj, Dec 07, 2005)
Russia will do all it can to ensure India's energy needs are fulfilled. At the same time it wants New Delhi to sort its differences with the nuclear supplier group (NSG) countries on the separation of civil and military uses of nuclear technology.
- Opposition In No Mood To Relent (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 07, 2005)
Parliamentary proceedings will be stalled until Natwar's resignation comes through
- Asc Centre To Have Animal Transport Memorial Soon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
To celebrate 245th anniversary and 8th reunion today
- Reconsider Expulsion, Says Uma (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Appealing for reconsideration of her expulsion, Ms Uma Bharati today sent a petition to the BJP disciplinary committee requesting she be given a chance to explain her viewpoint. “Acquiescing to the BJP parliamentary board’s decision to expel . . .
- India, Russia Inching Towards Fresh Nuclear Cooperation (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 07, 2005)
Moment for broadening scope of nuclear ties will soon be at hand, says Putin
India is a strategic partner: Putin
Indian officials hopeful of solution to Tarapore fuel matter
- India Rejects The Corrupt (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 07, 2005)
The ruling Indian Congress Party has removed Natwar Singh from its Steering Committee, which oversees the party affairs for his involvement in oil for food scandal. Natwar Singh has already been suspended as Foreign Minister on the charge . . .
- Taken For A Ride (Dawn, Hafizur Rahman, Dec 07, 2005)
These are somewhat abnormal times. As a wag insists, it was the turn of martial law in Pakistan, but the present dispensation is neither here nor there, and, although on paper there is democracy in the country, the ruler is a general in uniform, ....
- India, Russia Evoke ‘Strategic Partnership’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Russia and India intensified cooperation on defence and energy as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin on Tuesday and evoked a ‘strategic Partnership’. “We have a very special relationship . . .
- Indian Troops Kill Two In Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
Indian troops on Tuesday shot dead two militants near LoC, the Indian army said. “The two were killed when they were trying to cross into Azad Kashmir,” Indian army spokesman Vijay Batra said.
- Afghan General Injured In Blast (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 07, 2005)
A bomb tore through an Afghan military vehicle, killing one person and injuring two others including a general, an official said on Tuesday. General Zia-ul Haq of the Afghan National Army and a bodyguard were wounded, while their driver died on Monday in
- Question Of ‘Image’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 07, 2005)
A major problem to be tackled by the Islamic summit conference opening in Makkah today is one of image of the Muslims, especially in the West.
- New Definitions Of Words Used In `War On Terror' (Hindu, Marina Hyde, Dec 07, 2005)
It can only be days before they start referring to white phosphorus as `freedom dust.'
- New Thrust To Indo-Russian Defence Cooperation (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Dec 07, 2005)
Focus on joint development and manufacture of futuristic weapon systems
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