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Articles 20021 through 20120 of 27135:
- First Terrorist In Delhi Bombing Arrested (India Daily, Juhi Singhal, Nov 10, 2005)
First breakthrough in Delhi bombings - Indian army arrested a suspected Kashmiri militant who implicated himself in the bombings.
- Indian Journos Cross Loc (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 10, 2005)
India and Pakistan did not allow any civilian to cross the Line of Control (LoC) at Aman Setu (Peace Bridge) on Wednesday with relief, but mediapersons, mostly cameramen, breached it to take pictures and exchange pleasantries with their brethren from PoK.
- A Ritual Sacrifice (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 10, 2005)
What, ask the wags, was the higher crime and misdemeanour of Paul Volcker in the eyes of K. Natwar Singh?
- Israel Agrees Not To Convert 'Lost Tribe' In India (Reuters, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 10, 2005)
Israel has bowed to complaints from the Indian government and stopped trying to convert to Judaism thousands of people in India who believe they are a Biblical lost tribe, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
- Suspect In Delhi Blasts Case Held, Brought To City (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 10, 2005)
A Lashkar-e-Taiba militant, who has claimed his involvement in Delhi's serial blasts, was brought here on Wednesday from Jammu for questioning to ascertain the veracity of his statement.
- Kashmir Dialogue Process Has To Be Broad-Based, Says Azad (Hindu, Luv Puri , Nov 10, 2005)
The new Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister,Ghulam Nabi Azad, is aware of the challenges facing the State. In an interview, he calls for including all sections in the dialogue to resolve the Kashmir dispute. He also speaks in favour of administrative....
- Politics Of Accusation, Culture Of Suspicion (Hindu, Harish Khare , Nov 10, 2005)
The Volcker storm goes beyond Natwar Singh's travails. The cumulative consequence is that attention gets diverted from serious issues of policies and programmes.
- Raging Battles Against Energy Giants In Nigeria (Hindu, Andy Rowell , Nov 10, 2005)
A decade after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, old and new battles against energy giants in Nigeria are raging.
- East-West Violence Inevitable? (Tribune, James P. Pinkerton, Nov 10, 2005)
It's Baghdad here.’’ So say the rampaging Muslims of Paris, according to Newsweek. Those words are a reminder that the West and Islam are engaged in a worldwide struggle, along many different flashpoints — a clash of civilizations.
- “Terrorism Has No Boundaries” (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 10, 2005)
Former Director of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, Mr Shabtai Shavit, on Wednesday cited international cooperation, intelligence gathering and developing technology as the main tools for combating global terrorism.
- Pentagon Bans Torture Of Detainees (The Seattle Times, Josh White, Nov 09, 2005)
Pentagon officials released a new directive Tuesday on Defense Department intelligence interrogations, mandating that all questioning of detainees in U.S. military custody include "humane" treatment and banning "acts of physical or mental torture."
- Decline In Bush’S Popularity (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Nov 09, 2005)
Since my last article on this subject the results of two other opinion polls carried out by the Washington Post and ABC have appeared.
- India’S ‘Panama Canal’ (Tribune, Justin Huggler, Nov 09, 2005)
For centuries, no ship has been able to pass between India and Sri Lanka. The way is blocked by a narrow, 18-mile chain of sand shoals. Known as Adam’s Bridge in the West, to devout Hindus it is Ram’s Bridge, built by the god Ram to get his army . . .
- Un Optimistic About Relief Efforts In Quake-Hit Areas (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Nov 09, 2005)
The United Nations has expressed optimism over relief efforts for the first time since the October 8 earthquake as the world has started fulfilling its pledges.
- Image And Reality (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 09, 2005)
Israel is reportedly seeking a better image for itself in the Arab world through the Arab media.
- Clearance Sale! Politicians Going Cheap (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Nov 09, 2005)
The Mitrokhin Archives dealt with the Soviet period. The UN’s Independent Inquiry Committee Report investigating corruption in Iraq’s oil-for-food programme during President Saddam’s regime deals with recent events.
- Editorials (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 09, 2005)
No job to do
But this cloud may have a silver lining
- Cm’S Promise? (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 09, 2005)
The Chief Minister has assured due respect to human rights in the second phase of the coalition rule.
- Natwar’S Suspension (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 09, 2005)
Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has suspended Natwar Singh as India’s Foreign Minister on Monday over allegations of his involvement in Iraq’s oil-for-food scandal. An independent report has identified Natwar Singh as amongst prominent . . .
- The Case Of El Baradei (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Nov 09, 2005)
There’s no hard evidence but the Nobel Peace Prize is of late going to candidates who are approved by America
- Softening Of The Border (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, Nov 09, 2005)
UNLIKE individuals, nations can seldom afford mushy sentimentalism.
- Breaking The Impasse (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 09, 2005)
There are signs that the Iran-EU-3 impasse on the nuclear issue is to be broken.
- ``Sonia Must Quit Advisory Council'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 09, 2005)
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should either set matters right or resign"
Centre has no moral authority to lead the people"
Involvement of Congress "not surprising"
- More Relief Material Sent To Pok (Hindu, Luv Puri , Nov 09, 2005)
Pakistan Army out in full force to prevent attempts to cross over to the Indian side
15 trucks with Indian relief material given to PoK authorities
Unexpected meetings between families who had come to the LoC
- Right Of Return Of Diego Garcia Islanders (Hindu, Mark Curtis, Nov 09, 2005)
The dispossession of the Diego Garcia islanders to create a U.S. base is an indictment of Britain.
- Political Vendetta (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 09, 2005)
The indictment of Lewis Libby has shown rot at the top level of the Bush administration
- Locked Approach (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 09, 2005)
The symbolic opening at the Line of Control yesterday at Chakan da Bagh in the Poonch Sector, as part of Indo-Pak quake diplomacy, ended in security forces on the Pakistani side (Titrinote) firing tear gas shells on the large number of people who were ...
- Piercing The Veil On Volcker Committee And Iraq (Hindu, Prakash Karat, Nov 09, 2005)
The inquiries announced by the Government into the charges in the Volcker Committee report represent a correct step. But the exercise has brought Iraq and the brutal regime of U.N. sanctions back into the limelight.
- Suicide Jacket Recovered In Colombo (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Nov 09, 2005)
The Sri Lankan Police recovered a suicide jacket here on Monday night, following a tip-off.
- Media Minimising War Crimes In Iraq (Hindu, George Monbiot, Nov 09, 2005)
The reporting of the Iraqi death toll - both in its scale and account of who is doing the killing - is profoundly dishonest
- Pakistan And India: Pioneers In Global Disaster Response? (Christian Science Monitor, Mansoor Ijaz, Nov 08, 2005)
The terrorist bombs that rocked New Delhi recently must not be allowed to wreck a painstakingly crafted peace process between India and Pakistan.
- Loc Opened As India Sends Relief To Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (Hindu, Luv Puri , Nov 08, 2005)
Teargas shells fired to disperse crowds wanting to cross over the divide
- Watch India’S Hand At Iaea (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Nov 08, 2005)
The world’s standoff with Iran on its alleged nuclear intentions is getting more interesting by the day.
- Indo-Us Air Exercise Takes Off (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
The 13-day joint air exercise involving state-of-the-art aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and US Air Force began on a robust note at this strategic eastern IAF base here on...
- Quake Relief Point Opened (Deccan Herald, PTI, Nov 08, 2005)
Pulling down the wall of animosity, India and Pakistan on Monday opened the first frontier post on the LoC for quake relief in Kashmir.......
- Kashmiris From Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Run In Mass Towards India For . . . (India Daily, Niraj Lakhsman, Nov 08, 2005)
Kashmiris from Pakistan occupied Kashmir run in mass towards India for relief and food along now open Line of Control as Pakistan stops them with tear gas and warning shots
- What The Delhi Blasts Portend (Deccan Herald, Sushant Sareen, Nov 08, 2005)
India needs to re-evaluate the peace process and insist on hard evidence that Pakistan is serious about dealing with terrorist organisations based within its territorry.
- Evolving A New Foreign Policy (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Nov 08, 2005)
ARE we witnessing the end of India’s famed bipartisan consensus on foreign policy? The July 18 Indo-US agreement certainly represented a departure point in the country’s professed policy of non-alignment, in today’s circumstances to denote its independent
- A Wing-Wing Strategy (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Nov 08, 2005)
The decision of the Left parties to publicly demonstrate and try to disrupt the India-USA air exercises being held in West Bengal raises many doubts,
- Pakistan Acquiring F-16s Will Impact India: Tyagi (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
Pakistan's plans to acquire F-16 fighter aircraft from the US will have an impact on India but India is equipped to face any challenge, Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi said on Monday.
- Impediments To Culture Of Peace (Deccan Herald, E P Menon, Nov 08, 2005)
Life for everyone in the world needs to be quantitatively and qualitatively equal
- For Those Who Love The Beauty Of Nature (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Nov 08, 2005)
It’s a charming valley which need be explored, A R Bhat writes on the topography, history and the landscape of a lovely piece of land called Gurez
- Cope India '05, A Two-Week Indian-U.S. Joint Military Air Exercise Started (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
Cope India ''05, a two-week Indian-U.S. joint military air exercise,
- India, U.S. Air Exercises Begin Amid Protests By Left (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
19 planes, including F-16s, SU-30s and MiGs, take part
Exercises to continue till November 19
Policemen cordon off the airbase at Kalaikunda
A shift from India's foreign policy: Left
- F-16s For Pak To Impact India: Tyagi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
Pakistan’s plans to acquire F-16 fighter aircraft from the US will have an impact on India but it is equipped to face any challenge, Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi said on Monday.
- Retain Death Penalty (Tribune, A N Sudarsan Rao , Nov 08, 2005)
FOR the past few days a legal controversy has been razing in the media: “should the death penalty be abolished in India?”
- The Moment Has Arrived (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Nov 08, 2005)
THERE are moments in a nation’s history when its leaders must look at their performance and also around themselves, take stock of the situation they and their country face, and, if need be, adopt a new course.
- Insurgency In Nepal -By Jr Mukherjee (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 08, 2005)
According to Prachanda, general secretary Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Nepalese Maoists see their armed struggle, based on Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, from three perspectives — international, Nepalese and Indian.
- A Wise Decision (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 08, 2005)
The Pakistan government has done well to delay the deal with the US for the purchase of 75 F-16s.
- Mulayam’S Gamble-Left Confronted With A Tricky Choice (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Nov 08, 2005)
The idea of a third front that cropped up when Harkishen Singh Surjeet was CPI-M general secretary was a non-starter. The next best option for the Left was to support the Congress-led UPA to check the NDA.
- Back From The Precipice (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Nov 08, 2005)
Writing in these columns on August 18, I had expressed the fear that the fundamental lack of moral and legal legitimacy in the invasion of Iraq would vitiate subsequent efforts to build a new political order.
- Freedoms Under Attack (Dawn, Charles Kennedy, Nov 08, 2005)
A crucial division of opinion is opening up in Britain between the party of civil liberties and the party of authoritarianism.
- China’S War On Terrorism (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Nov 08, 2005)
Tragedy does at times bring adversaries closer together, even those with vastly different ideologies.
- Facts Of The Matter (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Nov 08, 2005)
Natwar Singh and his son continue to dominate the news — no fresh inputs, no worthwhile responses except for the left position on the issue.
- Pleasing The Boss (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 08, 2005)
A stunning and incisive indictment of the system of assessment and selection for promotion in the armed forces, among other things, has been published in the War College Journal of the Army War College (AWC) in Mhow.
- Kashmiris Protest As Loc ‘Opens’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
Police fire tear gas to disperse villagers, men arrested for trying to cross LoC
* Protestors say they don’t need aid, just want to visit families on other side
* Army officer says crossing points ‘could be permanent’
- From The Blurb (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
The Nice Guy Who Finished First — A Biography of Rahul Dravid: Devendra Prabhudesai; Rupa & Co., 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002. Rs. 295.
- Hero And Villain (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Nov 08, 2005)
Any comparison between Mahatma Gandhi and Osama bin Laden is odious. But for one reason or the other their names have come up around the globe of late . . .
- Indian, Us Air Forces Begin Joint Exercises Amid Protests By Communists (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
The US and Indian air forces began joint exercises on Monday at a base in eastern India amid protests by tens of thousands of people who object to closer military ties with Washington.
- India Opens Border, Pok Shouts For Freedom, Pakistan Cops Shoot (Express India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
Pakistani police fired tear gas and shots to disperse hundreds of villagers trying to approach a border crossing with India alongside Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir after it was opened to facilitate earthquake relief efforts.
- Iran Calls For Resumption Of Talks (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Nov 08, 2005)
Teheran initiative on nuclear issue timed to coincide with E.U. Foreign Ministers' meeting
- Fringe Damages (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 08, 2005)
The government has done well to defy the pressure from the Communist parties and go ahead with the joint air exercises with the United States at Kalaikunda in West Bengal on Monday.
- Army Officers From India And Pakistan Shook Hands On The Line Of Control In Kashmir (India Daily, Kiran Chaube, Nov 08, 2005)
It was spectacular show. India and pakistani Army officers exchanged greeting and hugs at the check point along the Line of Control!
- A Shrine With The Elephant’S Rump (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
There is a tale hidden in every temple. Dr K R Srinivasan helps unravel some of the mysteries of the apsidal temple at Aihole.
- Indo-Us Air Exercise Kicks Off Amid Protests (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 08, 2005)
India and the US began their largest joint Air exercises on Monday morning at the Kalaikunda defence airbase, which is approximately 120 km from here.
- Investigators Believe Militants Behind Delhi Blasts (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
A lack of concrete evidence has not sidetracked Indian investigators from a firm belief that well-organised Kashmiri militants planted bombs that killed 62 people a week ago in New Delhi.
- Indo-Us Air Exercises Begin Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
The CPM is planning a massive demonstration in front of the airbase to protest against the exercises.
- ``Allowing People Across The Line Of Control Will Take Days'' (Hindu, Luv Puri , Nov 07, 2005)
Applications will have to be cleared by both India and Pakistan
- Special Envoy' To Verify Volcker Charges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
Separate judicial probe into report to be announced today
- India Could Revise Stance On Iran’S Nuclear Programme: Natwar (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
India, which earlier this year voted in favour of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) motion against Iran’s nuclear programme,
- Welcome Rethink On F-16s (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf has told the BBC that his government has decided to postpone the purchase of F-16 fighter planes — worth a couple of billion dollars
- To Bring The Feet Back To The Ball (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Nov 07, 2005)
A comprehensive effort comprising long-term programmes is needed to revive the popularity of football in India
- First Loc Point Opens Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
The army has made all preparations for opening five points along the LoC for sending relief to earthquake affected people in PoK but it would take another week to facilitate the......
- Reconsideration Of F-16s Deal (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 07, 2005)
President Musharraf has said that Pakistan has deferred the purchase of F-16s warplanes from the United States. He was talking to newsmen in Muzaffarabad during his visit to quake devastated areas on Eid day.
- October Revolution Day Scrapped (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Nov 07, 2005)
President Vladimir Putin has decided to scrap the November 7 holiday in favour of a new one on November 4.
- The Avian Flu Threat (Dawn, Eric S. Margolis, Nov 07, 2005)
It seems inappropriate to write about anything but the earthquake that devastated Pakistan, but since this writer is deep in northern China, he leaves this tragic subject to colleagues closer to home.
- Bridges Over The Bombs (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 07, 2005)
IT is hard to get inside the minds of people who are prepared to plant bombs in order to destroy innocent lives on buses, markets or in restaurants, especially when the precise identity of the perpetrators remains unknown, as it does with the . . .
- Un Chopper Strays On Indian Side Of Loc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 07, 2005)
In another such incident in post-quake Jammu and Kashmir, the Army on Sunday returned a UN chopper to Pakistan after it landed at Udoosa, two km inside Kaman bridge-the symbol of Indo-Pak bonhomie.
- Holier Than Thou (Deccan Herald, Meera Seshadri, Nov 07, 2005)
A discussion on why others should not feel jealous of oneself turns into what one despises in them
- A Wing-Wing Strategy (Indian Express, Jasjit Singh, Nov 07, 2005)
The decision of the Left parties to publicly demonstrate and try to disrupt the India-USA air exercises being held in West Bengal raises many doubts,
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