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Articles 25921 through 26020 of 27135:
- Kashmir’s Orphans Spread Trust And Goodwill (Tribune, Usha Rai, Jan 07, 2004)
WE hear often of the widows of Kashmir and the agonising search for the missing men in their lives but there are hardly any stories about the children who have been orphaned by the 13 years of turmoil in the valley. So it came as a surprise to meet this
- India’s Grand Obsession (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Jan 07, 2004)
Why has Pakistan become so central to all our thinking and discussions? Open a newspaper and something about that country or its leaders or what they say is bound to be somewhere in it — usually on the front page, and on the few occasions it isn’t, it’s
- Pak Gave Nuke Tech To Libya: Us (Indian Express, PATRICK E. TYLER, Jan 07, 2004)
Pakistan was the source of the centrifuge design technology that made it possible for Libya to make major strides in the last two years in enriching uranium for use in nuclear weapons, Bush administration officials in Washington said on Monday.
- Terror War: Split In Military On Use Of Special Forces (Indian Express, GREGORY L. VISTICA, Jan 07, 2004)
With Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pressuring the Pentagon to take an aggressive role in tracking down terrorists, military and intelligence officials are engaged in a debate over when and how military units should be deployed for maximum effectivenes
- T-90s To Peak Army’s Nuke War Efficiency (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
The first of the indigenously-assembled T-90 series of main battle tanks will be handed over to the Indian Army for induction on Wednesday. This will enable the Army to replace its ageing fleet of Vijayanta tanks even as it awaits the limited series ...
- Stabilising The Process (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
THE LEADERS OF India and Pakistan have energised the ongoing process of positive engagement by agreeing to restart the composite dialogue in February. They also exuded a degree of optimism in asserting, in a joint statement issued after the ...
- The Great Thaw (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
AS EXPECTED, THE SAARC summit in Islamabad became a show of India-Pakistan entente. Such concrete steps as the progress on the SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Agreement) treaty were overshadowed by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee's words and
- The Renaissance Man (Indian Express, JOHN MEHAFFEY, Jan 07, 2004)
Wearing his beloved Australian cap and allowing himself a rare smile, Steve Waugh left the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday with an imperishable legacy to the international game he graced for 18 years. Waugh’s singular contribution was to blend both ...
- Friendship Vista (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
A new phase of India’s engagement with Pakistan has begun. The decision by India’s prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to meet Pakistan’s president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, and its prime minister, Mr Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, has, as expected, ...
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Ulfa Send New Warning To Bhutan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
The proscribed ULFA has threatened Bhutan of sleepless nights for flushing out North East-based insurgents from the Himalayan kingdom even as its ideologue Bhimkanta Buragohain remanded to police custody, accused both Bhutan and the Indian Army of
- Mistrust Brushed Under Huge, Red Carpet (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 06, 2004)
If ever Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wanted to contest elections from Islamabad rather than his beloved Lucknow, remarked a wag here, winning wouldn’t be difficult. ‘‘Welcome Ataljee,’’ said the headline of an editorial article in the mass-circulated
- Restoring Lal Qila (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
AFTER bringing the historic Red Fort under the unified control of the Archaeological Survey of India recently, Union Culture and Tourism Minister Jagmohan has a plan to get the Shahjahan-built fort declared as a heritage monument by UNESCO and make it as
- A Mullah-Military Alliance In Pakistan (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Jan 06, 2004)
GEN Pervez Musharraf has once again exposed the politicians of his country as being rank opportunists, always ready to barter their principles for political gains. He has done this by entering into a well-calculated deal with the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
- After Saddam, Chaos Rules (Telegraph, Arshi Khan, Jan 06, 2004)
The capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13 has raised many questions about the future of Iraq. Will the illegal occupation of Iraq by the United States of America bring peace, stability and democracy to the country? Will such democracy conform to the
- Debating Islam (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 06, 2004)
There is concern that the current climate threatens long-term Christian-Muslim ralations.
- Year Of Some Big Decisions (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 05, 2004)
History normally runs on rails, with one development following another in fairly obvious succession. It may seem like a roller-coaster ride at times, but twenty years later the outcome is just about what you would have expected at the start. Once in a ...
- Pathan’s Tune: Swing When You’re Winning (Indian Express, Sandeep Dwivedi, Jan 05, 2004)
The ball was more than 75 overs old. The shine gone, the stitching worn, shape a bit disfigured and movement through the air lazy. The type of ball more suited to a spinner’s hand — unless of course one is a pacer who practices the sub-continental art of
- Budget-Making: An Exercise In Guesstimates (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 05, 2004)
IT IS that time of year when the corridors of North Block are busy with the Budget buzz. The detailed expenditure and revenue estimates would have already come in and the scrutiny of estimates with reference to actuals commenced. The first cut of estimate
- Lal Badshah (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 04, 2004)
IN the telegrammatic world of newspaper headline writers, a chestnut that resurfaces periodically, especially in the murky, confusing seasons before and after an election, when coalitions are simultaneously evaporating and solidifying is ‘‘Surjeet active
- Already A Star, Is Lebron Now A Superstar? (Indian Express, CHRIS BROUSSARD, Jan 04, 2004)
For a month and a half, LeBron James had the world of basketball wide-eyed and open-mouthed like no one before him. He was 18 years old, fresh out of high school and averaging 17 points, six rebounds and six assists a game in the NBA. Magic Johnson ...
- Your Money Matters (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Money. The medium of exchange. The store of value. The fuel of our life. How will it treat us in 2004? Will interest rates rise, will home loan rates fall, will the stock markets soar, will inflation suck out more purchasing power? Some predictions.
- 2004? It's So Predictable (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Tomorrow is yesterday by another name. This is not karmic philosophy. It is only cynicism, which seems to come just so easily if you’re Indian. So sitting down with a notional crystal ball, on a gloomy, sun-eclipsd day in January, to predict the rest
- Still At Sea (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jan 04, 2004)
The promise of this new year allows me to atone in sackcloth and ashes for an injustice perpetrated in these columns in July 2000. I mistook “a decrepit tub strewn with rubbish beyond an ancient jetty” for “India’s first floating hotel” or floatel which
- Up Close And Closer (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Not just roles, Dilip Kumar was intense about his heroines too. Alpana Chowdhury leafs through a new biography
- In No Man's Land (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jan 04, 2004)
The Second Gulf War is put in perspective in Simpson’s world
- Cereb Circuit (Indian Express, Murali K Menon, Jan 04, 2004)
THE butterflies in my stomach had butterflies in their stomachs as I waited at the poolside of a city hotel for Koneru Humpy. Mumbai’s skyline peeked far ahead from behind a smattering of mist and across a still ocean. A perfect setting for one of the
- Delhi-Ites Greet New Year From Under Their Quilts (Tribune, Humra Quraishi, Jan 04, 2004)
Brushing aside temptations of the varied kind, I repeated the vow — no nights out for me, even on the new year eve and huddled and cuddled myself to bed just as the clock struck 12. And next morning when I asked the circuit people how deadly was their ...
- Loc ... The Real Story (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 04, 2004)
The rain has stopped and the sunshine peers wearily through the curtain of dense clouds. Our car slips and slides over the dirt track made muddy by the early morning downpour, as it clings to the meandering path up towards the Haji Pir mountains. Around
- His Film, My Film (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
When Lord Richard Attenborough and Satyajit Ray come together, cinema changes. Vijay Rana listened in on the actor-director’s tribute to the auteur
- Loc Kargil: Caricaturing The Indian Soldier (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Jan 03, 2004)
HISTORY is often the account of the victor. The numerous books and articles on the Kargil conflict bear this out. Among them, Captain Amarinder Singh's A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights 1999 is the most authentic as he does not gloss over the lap
- Nri Implements Bill Gates’ Goals (Tribune, Ela Dutt , Jan 03, 2004)
Traditional educationists may find the radical ideas and unconventional vocabulary of Indian American Shivam Mallick Shah surprising, but these fit in well with the goals of Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. The billionaire couple has hired Harvard ...
- Mad About Words (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Jan 03, 2004)
Not many of us are aware that when Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets, there were no dictionaries. There were some compilations of difficult words with their meanings but no one dictionary giving origins, meanings and usages of all words in the
- Sikhs In France Seek Help On Turbans (Indian Express, TOM HENEGHAN, Jan 03, 2004)
France's tiny Sikh community is seeking help from India’s Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee to have their traditional turbans exempted from a planned French law to ban Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols from schools. Chain Singh, spokesman for
- N Korea To Let Us Team Visit Nuke Site (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 03, 2004)
A US delegation will visit North Korea next week to tour the North’s controversial nuclear complex at Yongbyon, a South Korean foreign ministry official said on Friday. He was confirming a ,USA Today report. Though the report said the January 6-10
- Indo-Pak Game Continues (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 03, 2004)
ONCE more, the ante has been upped regarding efforts to normalise relations between India and Pakistan, the hope of course being that, this time, the effort will succeed.
There is nothing unrealistic about such a hope if for no other reason than the
- Kirkuk On Ethnic Boil; Falluja Downs Us Chopper, 1 Dead (Indian Express, FADIL BADRAN, Jan 03, 2004)
A US soldier was killed and another wounded in a helicopter crash in central Iraq on Friday, while ethnic tensions flared again in Kirkuk, leading to at least one death. A policeman who witnessed the helicopter crash near Falluja said it was shot down
- Case For Indo-Pak Missile Talks (Tribune, Ashok K Mehta, Jan 03, 2004)
CLEARLY, the motivation to acquire missiles falls under political, strategic and economic-commercial and technology-related heads. Missiles are nice to have and keep. They add to a nation’s standing and prestige. Besides the political and commercial ...
- Bangla, Myanmar Next After Bhutan, Says Army Chief (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Army Chief Gen N.C. Vij today claimed that the Bhutan operations against the ULFA, NDFB and KLO have been ‘‘very successful’’ and that apart from breaking the back of the three militant outfits, the total number of rebels ‘‘neutralised’’ so far has ...
- 200 Years Of Turmoil (Hindu, Lydia Polgreen, Jan 03, 2004)
After 200 years of independence, Haiti remains an impoverished and troubled nation.
- Us To Open Biggest Mission In Baghdad (Indian Express, Robin Wright, Jan 03, 2004)
In Prepration for ending its occupation of Iraq, the US is making plans to create the largest US diplomatic mission in the world in Baghdad, complete with over 3,000 staffers. The transition will mark the hand-over of responsibility for dealing with
- Us Prepares For Massive Troop Rotation (Indian Express, WILL DUNHAM, Jan 02, 2004)
The Pentagon is gearing up for a massive rotation of about a quarter million troops in and out of Iraq, a giant logistics chore complicated by concerns about opportunistic attacks targeting Americans as they arrive or depart. Between late January and
- Focus On Jobs To Counter Ulfa Plan: Gogoi (Indian Express, Samudra Gupta Kashyap, Jan 02, 2004)
With the three-week offensive by the Royal Bhutan Army having dealt a severe blow to the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), the state government today said it would create more jobs to prevent the outfit from exploiting the frustration of the ...
- China Not To Shelter Insurgents From N-E (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
Taking note of reports that some Indian insurgents may move northward from Bhutan and enter Chinese territory to seek shelter, China today assured India that it will closely monitor the situation and not allow its territory to be used by anybody for ...
- Mod Wants More Teeth: George Eyes Bigger Budget Pie (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
For the first time in years, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has sought ‘‘additional funds’’ from the Finance Ministry. This comes in the wake of the Centre clearing the Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) for the Indian Air Force. Another deal for the
- Musharraf Wins House Trust (Indian Express, Amir Zia, Jan 02, 2004)
President Pervez Musharraf won a vote of confidence in both houses of Pakistan’s Parliament and four provincial assemblies on Thursday, keeping him in power until late 2007. The vote means Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, will remain ...
- Magical Growth Rate (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
THE rosy picture of the economy painted by the Central Statistical Organisation is bound to make every Indian feel proud of the country’s performance this fiscal. The economy grew by a record 8.4 per cent during the second quarter (July-September) and is
- A Watershed Year For Indian Diplomacy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 02, 2004)
WHAT seemed to be a Sisyphean labour till a couple of years ago in the context of Indo-Pakistan relations, now looks possible. The two countries were on the road to detente in the year just ended.
During the past 56 years of turbulent Indo-Pakistan ...
- The Course Reunion (Tribune, Raj Kadyan, Jan 02, 2004)
WE were meeting over 40 years after our commissioning into the Indian armed forces. The venue was an Army officers’ mess in Delhi Cantonment, and the purpose a contributory lunch. Age-wise, most of us were looking back at 60. Physically, most were afight
- Finally, Drdo Picks Up Stress Blip On Army Radar (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Jan 02, 2004)
After conducting counter-terrorism operations for more than a decade in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army is brushing up its stress-management manuals and techniques. As part of it, the DRDO’s Psychological Research Laboratory has listed warning signals for ...
- Indo-Pakistan Talks: Ten Issues (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jan 02, 2004)
India and Pakistan have been trapped for too long in arguing about procedural issues and defending past political postures.
- Missiles Are Cost-Effective (Tribune, Ashok K. Mehta , Jan 02, 2004)
RECENTLY the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, UK, hosted the first ever workshop on missile issues in South Asia that was attended by strategic experts from India, Pakistan and China, the three countries in the region with ballistic missiles.
- Mutiny In Punjab Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
SOLDIERS UNDER ENEMY fire know how to survive: they bunker down and conserve their ammunition until an opportunity to hit back presents itself. For reasons known only to the Congress rebels in Punjab, they have chosen to charge out of the ...
- Dumping Suit Against Indian Shrimp Export To Us - China, Thailand & Vietnam Also Face Problems (Business Line, C. J. Punnathara, Jan 02, 2004)
A COALITION of US shrimp farmers has filed a trade complaint seeking to curb $2.4 billion of annual shrimp imports from India, Thailand, China, Brazil, Vietnam, and Ecuador. The SSA, which represents the interests of eight shrimp producing US States,
- Govt To Testfire Agni Iii This Year (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2004)
In a major step that will boost its missile-delivery capabilities, India is all set to testfire the 3,000-km range Agni III missile early this year. According to Dr V.K. Aatre, scientific advisor to the Defence Minister, the Defence Research and ...
- First Call For Socialists Aboard Nda (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Jan 02, 2004)
: In the season of fronts formation, NDA convenor and Defence Minister George Fernandes today said there is need to bring in ‘‘socialists to strengthen the NDA’’. Fernandes’s remark is expected to keep the pot boiling, coming as it does close on the
- New Year Dinner Blast In Iraq Kills 8 (Indian Express, SULEIMAN AL-KHALIDI, Jan 02, 2004)
Up to eight people were killed in a New Year’s Eve bomb attack on a Baghdad restaurant and more than 30 wounded, US Military investigators said on Thursday as they hunted for clues among the rubble. The car bomb devastated the upmarket Nabil
- Bomb Kills 9 In Aceh On New Year Eve (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 02, 2004)
A bomb killed nine people, including a baby, and injured more than 20 at an open-air New Year celebration where hundreds had gathered in Indonesia’s Aceh Province, officials said on Thursday. The Aceh martial law administration blamed the separatist
- Kunte Plays Out A Cautious Draw (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte played out a cautious draw with top seed GM Vladimir Epishin of Russia in third round of the premier event of the Hastings International Chess Congress here. The draw, however, did not help Kunte improve his position in the 7
- Get Saarc Going (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2004)
EVERY SUMMIT OF the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) raises the same question: can this grouping of seven nations ever get its act together to achieve any of its goals? In the nearly two decades of its existence, SAARC has ...
- Pakistan: Chickens Coming Home To Roost (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
The recent assassination attempts on Gen Musharraf can best be described as the wages of sin that Pakistan's rulers have inevitably to pay for the policies they have followed for over a decade. The ISI's inducting and training of terrorists and the ...
- ‘inshallah Kashmir Will See Peace This Year’ (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 01, 2004)
Standing against the backdrop of the idyllic Dal Lake, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Maulvi Abbas Ansari points above—to the migratory birds who sail against the water currents. That’s who Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf have to
- Swami Army Gear Up For Sydney (Indian Express, NEENA BHANDARI, Jan 01, 2004)
The thrill of a series-decider coupled with the emotions surrounding the farewell match of Australia Test captain Steve Waugh have provided supporters of both teams the perfect excuse to break into grand celebration during the Sydney Test, irrespective of
- Attempts On Musharraf’s Life (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
THE chickens are coming home to roost for Pakistan’s military ruler. Just after he seized power in October 1999, Gen Pervez Musharraf became the first ruler in Pakistan to justify the violence unleashed by his jihadis in Kashmir as being a noble jihad
- U.S. Eyes Russian Turf (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Dec 31, 2003)
Russia has sent a strong signal to the U.S. that it will fight attempts to erode its position in the former Soviet states.
- Let’s Not Forget (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2003)
As we end another year we seem to be far from getting down to grips with the needs and realities of an optimum manpower policy for our defence forces. The Indian army is short of more than 13,000 officers almost entirely at junior “cutting edge” level...
- The Sri Lankan Mess (Tribune, K.N. Malik, Dec 31, 2003)
ONE is intrigued by the way all parties in the Sri Lanka triangle, President Chandrika Kumaratunga (People’s Alliance), Prime Minister Ranil Vickremesinghe (UNF), and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), expect India to facilitate ethnic conflict
- Indo-Pak: Breaking The Ice (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 30, 2003)
Zulfi, I know that we must find a solution for Kashmir. But we have got caught in a situation which we can’t get out of without causing damage to the systems and structures of our respective societies...”
- $100 Billion: Understated, Underexplained (Business Line, Sudhanshu Ranade , Dec 30, 2003)
A surfeit of dollars, unless taken off the market, automatically raises the price of the rupee on account of the `excess demand'. India, like China, has been trying hard to resist this increase in the `value' of its domestic currency, which has an ...
- Year Of A Small War Made Big (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 29, 2003)
While truly historic regime-changes took place and an epidemic killed hundreds, the world remained obsessed with a minor war for most of 2003
- Our Terror, Now Theirs Too (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 28, 2003)
The end of the year seems always to bring either war or peace between India and Pakistan. This time it is a hesitant, nervous sort of peace that appears to be breaking out. We talk of cross-border trains and flights, instead of terrorism, and hear words
- Guerrillas Ambush 13 In Iraq (Indian Express, Reuters, Dec 28, 2003)
Guerrillas killed six coalition soldiers and at least seven Iraqis in southern Iraq on Saturday in a coordinated assault on nations that answered US calls for troops to stabilise the country it invaded.
- Hc Upholds Best Bakery Acquittals, Says Our Reasons After Vacation (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
Three months after the Gujarat government, prodded by the Supreme Court, challenged the acquittals in the Best Bakery case, the Gujarat High Court today dismissed the appeal and upheld the Vadodara Fast Track Court’s verdict acquitting all the 21 accused.
- He Blew The Whistle, We Hear The Sound (Indian Express, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 27, 2003)
After the Dubey murder, the thousands of IITians working selflessly in India need to renew their pledge to their country
- Power Of Nationalism (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 27, 2003)
IF Jesus Christ was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, it is no surprise that $25 million secured Saddam Hussein. The wonder is that it took impoverished and long-suffering Iraqis who are being killed like flies eight months to lead the Americans to the...
- What Led To Bhutan Operations Now (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Dec 27, 2003)
ALTHOUGH India has been pressuring Bhutan to carry out operations against the North-East insurgent groups based in its jungles for a long time, senior defence officials point out two reasons for the launch of the action against them now.
- Missing Pieces In The Jigsaw (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 26, 2003)
In the topsy-turvy universe of insurgency-scarred Jammu and Kashmir, the abnormal became the normal. So thoroughly had violence permeated life, whether it was the terror perpetrated by militants or by the police/army, that blood on the streets became as
- We Strongly Condemn, Says Delhi, Wary Of Saarc Security (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 26, 2003)
Within hours, New Delhi strongly condemned the second assassination bid on Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf today amid mounting security concern among the planners for Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s forthcoming Saarc visit to Islamabad.
- Who Is Afraid Of India? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 26, 2003)
Three days in Karachi and two in Lahore do not provide sufficient credentials for a summary statement on Pakistan. One impression is still overwhelming. Men and women at practically all levels could not be friendlier. Gestures of affection spilled over
- Rewrite Her Social Contract (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 25, 2003)
For a 16-day session in which Parliament enacted 21 laws, including two constitutional amendments, there is little surprise in a small change made to marriage laws going virtually unnoticed. The ban on defections, for instance, being extended to party ...
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