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Articles 22021 through 22120 of 27135:
- India, Pakistan Work To Make Peace 'Irreversible' (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
Top Indian and Pakistani diplomats meet this week to push forward a cautious peace process, and officials and analysts hope the latest talks will finalise a meeting between the nations' leaders in September.
- Caught Up In Quotas (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 29, 2005)
Fire up any website or turn on a television these days, and China seems to be everywhere. If the country’s businesses are not spending billions of dollars on Kazakh oil companies or floating on American stock markets, they are bidding up the price . . . .
- Does Hasba Bill Conform To The Quran? (Dawn, Qazi Faez Isa, Aug 29, 2005)
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has virtually struck down the Hasba bill as many of its provisions were found to be contrary to the Constitution of Pakistan. The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA)
- India To Seek Dawood’S Deportation From Pak (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
India will ask Pakistan to deport underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Masood Azhar when the Home Secretaries of the two countries hold their two-day of talks here on Monday on terrorism and drug trafficking.
- Pm Stresses India-Afghan Ties (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
Declaring that a stable and prosperous Afghanistan was essential for peace and stability in the region, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India intended to continue its support for economic reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
- Pak Links Afghan Transit To Kashmir (Rediff on the Net, KJM Varma, Aug 29, 2005)
Pakistan has rejected India's request for opening the Wagah border for transportation of its goods to Afghanistan, saying that the transit trade would not be allowed without progress in resolving the Kashmir issue.
- More Than Just Neighbours (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Aug 29, 2005)
The week-long Russia-China joint war games that ended on Thursday have added a military dimension to the strengthening strategic relationship between the world's largest and the world's most populous nations
- American Security For Manmohan (Tribune, Smita Prakash, Aug 29, 2005)
Very heavy American security was placed around Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh soon after he arrived in Kabul on a two-day official visit, the first by an Indian head of Government to the Afghan capital in 29 years. Indira Gandhi was the last Indian ...
- Army Operation Against Ulfa Intensifies (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
The Army is carrying out an operation against the ULFA on the bordering districts of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in the South bank of the Brahmaputra. The 4 Corps has maintained a thick blanket of secrecy about the operation in the remote region, which is
- Din And Siasat --- To (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 29, 2005)
"Juda ho din siasat se to reh jati hai Changaizi" (when a religious belief leaves politics, what takes over is tyranny).
- Fuel-Thirsty India In Pipeline Balancing Act (Telegraph, SUJAN DUTTA, Aug 29, 2005)
Fuel-thirsty India in pipeline balancing act Boom, boom & butterflies
- Egypt Links Ctbt To Israel (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 29, 2005)
Eqypt has linked ratification of the CTBT to Israeli decision to join the NPT. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has set the condition in response to Tibor Toth, new executive secretary of the commission, which oversees the CTBT.
- Pakistan Rejects Indian Plea (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 29, 2005)
Transit facility only if Kashmir row is solved: Shaukat Aziz
Peace impossible without resolution of Kashmir
Pakistan does not have aggressive designs
Seeks peaceful settlement of U.S.-Iran standoff
- The Price Of Privileges (Tribune, Ruchi sharma, Aug 29, 2005)
I was travelling from Kathgodam to Delhi. I had barely seated myself when a battery of jawans entered the compartment. They were dressed in immaculate uniforms.
- With A Little Help From All (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 29, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India's status report on Disaster Management in India, published in August, 2004
- What After Gaza Evacuation? (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Aug 29, 2005)
What a remarkable transformation within one lifetime. The Israeli general (Ariel Sharon) known for his swagger and bluster,
- Military’S Inroads Into Job Market (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Aug 29, 2005)
President Musharraf never ceases to astonish the nation with his frequent, carefully calibrated exhortations on the merits of democracy.
- Manmohan, Karzai Moot Gas Pipeline Project (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Aug 29, 2005)
Afghanistan keen on seeking closer links with SAARC
First visit by an Indian Prime Minister in 29 years
India says it needs Iran pipeline project too
Afghanistan directly affected by India-Pakistan friendship
- India's Progress And A Grim Story (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Aug 29, 2005)
The PM will have to indicate which way India is moving in realising the Millenium Development Goals
- Where Does India Stand In Central Asia ? (Daily Excelsior, N. B. Menon, Aug 29, 2005)
First, it was the "revolution of roses" in November 2003 when a reluctant president Edward Shevardnadze capitulated and handed over the Georgian presidency to the pro-West Mikhail Saakashvili. Then, a little over a year later, the "orange revolution" . .
- Lackeys Of The West? No! (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 29, 2005)
India's concession to the United States to place her civil nuclear programme under international supervision without the US conceding to India's demand for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council leads one to question whether India's ruling class ....
- Hazards Of Gas Pipe Line Through Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, O P Modi, Aug 29, 2005)
In a recent meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh it was stated that India's requirement for natural gas within the next two and a half decades will soar from the current 21 million standard cubic meters per day(mmscmd)
- Shaukat Focuses On Foreign Affairs (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 29, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan will never support military action against Iran. Addressing a Press conference in Lahore on Saturday,
- Obscurantist Face Of America By A.B. Shahid (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 29, 2005)
People may differ with Pastor Pat Robertson’s view, but it is undeniable that he speaks the way he feels. His advice to President Bush to “take out"
- Japan Sees No Sign Of U.S.-North Korea Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2005)
There were no signs of the United States and North Korea reaching agreement on key issues in their standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions and the timing of the next round of talks is uncertain, Japan said on Monday.
- Reforming The System (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The Shaukat Aziz government completes its first year in office today. Mr Aziz’s elevation to the prime ministership had come in bizarre circumstances:
- Army Offensive Against Ulfa (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Frequent gun-battles are on along the Assam-Arunachal border as well as near the Indo-Bhutan border in lower Assam.
- Nostalgia For Saddam Days (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 28, 2005)
Nobody could have believed that there would be a pro-Saddam march in Iraq within two and a half years of the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
- The Emerging Asian Triangle (Dawn, Maqsudul Hasan Nuri, Aug 28, 2005)
That the Pakistan-China friendship is time-tested, enduring and of a strategic rather than tactical or transitory nature cannot be doubted.
- After The Pullout (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 28, 2005)
Israel has completed its evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank far more quickly and easily than virtually anyone — including the government of Ariel Sharon — expected.
- India: A World Power? (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Aug 28, 2005)
Many of India’s spokesmen assert that it is, or that it is on the way to becoming, a major world power.
- Maoists Name 38 Persons In Hit List (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
The CPI (Maoist) has released a hit list of 38 persons in Nallamala area in the district.
- Water Will Flow From Tungabhadra By Next June (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Mr B K Gokhale, Chairman of the Tungabhadra Board, told pressmen here today that the entire work on the irrigation side of the Tungabhadra Project would be completed by June 1956 and on the hydro-electric side by the middle of 1957.
- "China And India To Dominate In Future'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2005)
Economics and politics identified as the essentials of multilateralism
- Pm Gives Credit Where It Is Due (Tribune, Kishore Gandhi, Aug 28, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s presentation at Oxford raised many a storm in the academic tea cup of India International Centre, New Delhi. Among others, the Cambridge celebrity, Khushwant Singh,
- He Shoots With A Cool Head (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Aug 28, 2005)
As a Major in the Army in 1999, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore had actively participated in the Kargil war.
- Meet The Contemporaries (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 28, 2005)
To begin with, it shall be appropriate to talk of the literary get-together, arranged by J&K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, on 23rd evening of August, 05 at Tagore Hall Srinagar. The ‘eminent contemporary’, that we were face to face with, was . .
- Time To Be Artificially Intelligent.You Game? (Greater Kashmir, SHABIR AHMAD MIR, Aug 28, 2005)
In the Animal Kingdom everyone is good at something. This is how each species survives. The Grizzly Bear is very strong.
- 'I Am Not Trying To Make General Dyer A Hero' (Deccan Herald, Dipti Nair, Aug 28, 2005)
Nigel Collett, 52, is sort of an accidental tourist in India. Author of the much-talked about biography of General Dyer, The Butcher of Amritsar, Collett would have easily bypassed India had Dyer never committed the carnage at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919. .
- White Collars And Gi Joes (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Aug 28, 2005)
The book delivers new meaning to the term corporate ‘warfare’ by citing examples of real military battles as guidelines for business operations.
- Sunnis Defiant On Iraq Charter (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 28, 2005)
Differences yet to be resolved; U.S. frees 1,000 inmates from Abu Ghraib
- Intimations Of Mortality (Deccan Herald, Marianne de Nazareth, Aug 28, 2005)
The book records the richness of experience of a couple who ultimately has to contend with the reality of death
- Could Partition Have Been Made Less Bloody? (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Aug 28, 2005)
It could be one of the most tantalising questions of modern Indian history.
- The Grand Old Ripper (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Despite the derision hurled at her when she first aired her theories, the American crime writer Patricia Cornwell is back on the trail of Walter Sickert, the painter whom she believes was Jack the Ripper — the man who murdered five women in the East. . .
- The Maoist Threat (Statesman, JR MUKHERJEE, Aug 27, 2005)
Marx in the Communist Manifesto broadly spelt out the following major aspects for the Communist Revolution:
- The Second Round (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 27, 2005)
Rigging and violence seem to have become an intrinsic part of elections in Pakistan.
- Genesis Of The Dispute (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 27, 2005)
Kashmir dispute has a history and the struggle is based on reason, Mian Manzoor Ahmad responds to the article by Paul Beerman
- India For A Stronger Afghanistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Manmohan Singh's visit to be the first by an Indian Prime Minister in 29 years
- Natwar Singh’S Obsession (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 27, 2005)
An obsession, magnificent or otherwise, is an obsession. It is an impulse that a person cannot escape. Foreign Minister Natwar Singh is overpowered by the idea that India must be on the UN Security Council.
- Gaza Pullout — An Eyewash? (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Aug 27, 2005)
August 22 was an important day in the history of Israeli-Palestinian relationship.
- Who Will Say ‘No More’? (Dawn, Gary Hart, Aug 27, 2005)
Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool said to push on,” warned an anti-Vietnam war song those many years ago.
- Our Tragedy Is The Bankruptcy Of Leadership! (Greater Kashmir, M. ASHRAF, Aug 27, 2005)
When leaders lose touch with reality as well as masses, history throws up a fresh bunch of leaders and the earlier ones get swept away. Kashmir may be waiting for the same to happen sooner than later, comments
- Rescue Work In Full Swing As Floods Hit Azamgarh (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Relief and rescue operations were going on in full swing in the flood affected Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh where 21 people have lost their lives in the past two days.
- U.S. States Bypass Bush; Set To Sign Pact On Freezing Gas Emissions (Hindu, Julian Borger , Aug 27, 2005)
The region generates the same volume of pollutants as Germany
America's north-eastern States are on the brink of a declaration of environmental independence with the introduction of mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions of the kind rejected. .
- Left To Multinationals (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 27, 2005)
Anil Biswas quotes from capitalist manual!
- China, Russia To Hold More Exercises (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Russia and China plan to hold more joint military exercises to improve the combat skills and professional levels of their militaries, said Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov here on Friday.
- Defence Postings (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 27, 2005)
The defence community and its well-wishers would welcome the announcement pertaining to the next Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff. The appreciation would revolve not around the individual so much (no disrespect intended to that particular officer)
- Resistance Mounts In Iraq Over Constitution (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
The prolonged attempts to adopt Iraq’s new constitution descended into chaos yesterday, while a fresh wave of violence was unleashed across the country as insurgents carried out a devastating assault on Baghdad
- Brand Iit: The People Behind The Image (Hindu, Dinesh Mohan, Aug 27, 2005)
IITs have justly been ranked as the top educational institutions in India and Asia. A little known fact is that more than 80 per cent of their products live and work in India. The next stage is to restructure and reinvent IITs so that they can become. . .
- Pakistan Grants Consular Access To Sarabjit (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2005)
Pakistan today granted consular access to Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Lahore.
- National Defence Academy To Have New Curriculum (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, is in for some sweeping changes in the academic curriculum beginning “next season”. Moving on from the traditional classroom teaching to having IT-powered classrooms for its 1700-odd cadets is just one of them.
- An Irrevocable Error (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 26, 2005)
Sixty years ago, the state of Georgia executed a woman named Lena Baker. Last week the state Board of Pardons and Paroles announced that it would posthumously pardon her.
- Fighting Legacy Of Partition (Daily Excelsior, Aditya Nath Dar, Aug 26, 2005)
In a changing world order after the end of the cold war a number of issues at the international level will prevent India from pursuing its main national interests
- The Warriors Against Democracy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 26, 2005)
In the immediate aftermath of the liberation of Bangladesh, Islamist forces were despised in the country for siding with Pakistan. These forces are now back with vengeance.
- The Price Tag Of Alliance With The Us (Dawn, Mustafa Malik, Aug 26, 2005)
In his Independence Day message President Pervez Musharraf reiterated his vow to defeat terrorists and extremists.
- Swiss Brace For More Floods (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Floods across Romania have killed 67 so far this year and the government estimates the damage at 1.5 billion euros.
- No More Blame Game (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 26, 2005)
IT is a measure of the distrust between Islamabad and Kabul that Pakistan has to renew assurances periodically that it is interested in peace and stability in Afghanistan.
- In The Land Of Hammurabi (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 26, 2005)
"We the people of Iraq, who in all our forms and groupings undertake to establish our union freely and by choice, to learn yesterday's lessons for tomorrow, and to write down this permanent constitution... "
- Fighting Pollution On Siachen Glacier (Hindu, Luv Puri , Aug 26, 2005)
Army installs bio-digesters to burn human waste
- He Wants To Change Latin America's History (Hindu, Richard Gott, Aug 26, 2005)
He's a friend of Fidel Castro, a fierce critic of the war in Iraq, and wants to spread revolutionary fervour throughout South America. Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, has long been a thorn in the side of the U.S.
- What We Like To Believe (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 26, 2005)
Let me make an honest but terrible confession. My deep and abiding interest in history began through reading Combat comics.
- Al-Qaeda "Threat" To Vatican (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The Italian authorities are investigating a fax, allegedly signed by Al-Qaeda, which makes veiled threats against the Vatican.
- Indian, Us Commandos Hold Joint Training (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
Commandos of special forces of India and the US carried out a three-week joint training exercise in the country August 4 to 19 to hone their combat skills in countering modern security challenges, including terrorist threats,
- Israeli Pullout From Gaza (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Aug 26, 2005)
NOT much notice has been taken of it in this country but the Israeli pullout from Gaza after 38 years of occupation is an important and hopefully promising development.
- Faith In Women Demands That You Trust Them Without Reservation (Business Line, D. Murali , Aug 26, 2005)
These are days when almost half the news is reserved for reservation, be it about quota in private colleges, or of seats of power for women.
- Musharraf’S Discloser On A.Q. Khan Raises Questions (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Aug 26, 2005)
General Musharraf has now disclosed for the first time that Dr A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani metallurgist who confessed to having proliferated to Iran and Libya also provided centrifuge technology to enrich uranium to North Korea.
- Bush Vows To Fight On In Iraq (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
With public support for the Iraq campaign falling, Bush is under great pressure to come good on his promise that the war will be fought and won.
- In And Out Of Gaza: Coping With A Depleted Inheritance (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
The recent watershed development in the Middle East brings with it a huge challenge that the Palestinian Authority must now face.
- Release Sarabjit: India To Pak (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2005)
India today asked Pakistan to consider the release of Sarabjit Singh, who has been sentenced to death by the Pakistan Supreme Court, on humanitarian grounds.
- India Moves To Spread Wealth (Christian Science Monitor, ANUJ CHOPRA , Aug 25, 2005)
A $9 billion plan guarantees the country's rural poor 100 days of work per household every year.
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