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Articles 5921 through 6020 of 26693:
- N-Deal May Get Through Us Cong By Month-End (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 14, 2006)
The United States Ambassador to India David Mulford expressed confidence that the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal that cleared the House and Senate Committees last month can be through Congress by the end of month or before law makers break away for . . .
- Pushed To Insanity (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jul 13, 2006)
Psychology of nation states should be understood to make sense of their actions
- 'India Has Enough Uranium' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
From the moment United States President George W Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the India-US civilian nuclear agreement, US Congressman Gary Ackerman has been a major supporter of the accord.
- Congress Sees Conspiracy Behind Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Wants Karunanidhi to take up the issue with Manmohan Singh
- Markets React To Bottomlines, Not Headlines (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Jul 13, 2006)
Terrorism and markets make for the strangest of partners, simultaneously in and out of sync with one another.
- Duct Tape Patches Up Jet Backpack (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Rolls of duct tape are among the first equipment packed on each of the 115 shuttle missions
- Huge Cut In Nepal Palace Expenditure (Hindu, Ameet Dhakal, Jul 13, 2006)
Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat on Wednesday proposed $1.9 billion budget for 2006-2007 fiscal year, a major feature of which is a massive cut in the royal palace expenditure.
- Tirupati Shrine ‘Defiled’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 13, 2006)
The big story—splashed on the front page and occupying three inside pages—in the latest issue of the Organiser is about the “startling revelation” of a “fact-finding committee” on the alleged attempt by “evangelists” to “defile the great holy . . .
- Muslim Conference Wins 20 Seats (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jul 13, 2006)
The Muslim Conference, which won half the seats in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Assembly elections, is set to form the next Government in the region.
- Pak Under Scrutiny Over Mumbai Blasts (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Jul 13, 2006)
Pakistan's swift and all-to-quick condemnation of the Mumbai blasts and its commiseration with New Delhi notwithstanding, all eyes are on Islamabad's militaristic leadership to see if it has ceased to use terrorism as a state policy against India.
- Tuesday Terror (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 13, 2006)
Another reminder of the need to tighten security
- Tackling Energy Crisis (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 13, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has vowed to overcome the prevailing energy crisis by taking all possible measures on war footings
- Govern Or Get Out, Bjp Tells Upa (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Jul 13, 2006)
In a blistering attack on the Centre for compromising national security, the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday told the United Progressive Alliance Government to either "govern or get out" in the interest of the nation and the people.
- Time Opportune To Talk Strategy (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jul 13, 2006)
It was an interesting experience for me to again exchange views with key strategic thinkers in the US last month at a location close to the statue of Mahatma . . .
- No Public Bickering (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 13, 2006)
One supposes it is something to be welcomed that the United States "agrees," as Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri said in Washington on . . .
- India Slams Pakistan For Linking Attack To Kashmir (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
India has slammed Pakistan for trying to link the Mumbai blasts with the Kashmir dispute and asked Islamabad to reign in terror outfits operating from its soil.
- Lessons From Ajk Elections (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 13, 2006)
Tuesday's elections to the Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir were held, by and large, peacefully barring a few incidents of violence.
- India Rejects Ajk Elections (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
India said on Wednesday said that elections in the Pakistani part of Kashmir held on July 11 “lacked credibility” and could neither be called “free” nor “an exercise towards self-governance”.
- Polo Festival Litter (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 13, 2006)
It is disappointing to note that after the end of the three-day polo festival in Shandur on Sunday, the area resembles a garbage dump, with waste and litter scattered all over the place - and no sign of it being cleaned up.
- Widen The Net, Tighten The Noose (Pioneer, Ahtesham Qureshy, Jul 13, 2006)
Election Commission must realise that the polling process is not just about mobilising paramilitary forces, says Ahtesham Qureshy
- Putin Hits Backs At West On Democracy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
President Vladimir Putin, seeking to pre-empt rebukes over democracy from fellow members of the Group of Eight, said on Wednesday the West’s criticism of Russia was a mix of Cold War thinking and neo-colonialism.
- Blasts Will Not Derail Peace Process: India: No-One Can Make Us Kneel: Singh (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Jul 13, 2006)
A day after serial blasts killed close to 200 commuters in Mumbai’s local trains, India vowed on Wednesday to continue the peace process with Pakistan even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned that no one could make his country kneel.
- Bjp Blames Upa’S Vote-Centrism For Bombings (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jul 13, 2006)
Accusing Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's Government of turning India into a “soft state” citing Tuesday's blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) bluntly . . .
- Jihadis On Rampage (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 13, 2006)
Does the UPA regime have the courage to confront them?
- World Stands With India Against Terror (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Condemning the blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar as "monstrous" and "despicable", US President Geroge W Bush and other world leaders have said such acts increase the urgency of coordinated action by all countries to defeat terrorism in all its forms . . .
- Infosys Diffuses Bomb Worries (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's number-two software services exporter, beat forecasts with a 50 percent jump in quarterly profit and raised its full-year estimates, sending its shares up more than 7 percent.
- Reforms Hobbled By Politics (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 13, 2006)
If only Dr Manmohan Singh, a competent economist and honest politician, is allowed a free hand to do his job, he could emerge an efficient administrator.
- Baby Steps In Conflict Zones (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 13, 2006)
An atypical publication from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (www.icai.org) is Government Consulting - Taking the First Steps. What is unusual is the assertiveness right from the foreword.
- Why Bother About Corruption? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 13, 2006)
To strike at the roots that feed corruption in India we need to move quickly on poll campaign finance reform.
- Grit And Discipline (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 13, 2006)
The bomb blasts in Mumbai, which have taken a toll of nearly 200 lives, are numbing in their brutality, design and lethal execution.
- Mumbai Terrorism Must Be Seen In Context (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 13, 2006)
The seven bomb blasts in Mumbai are bad news for many reasons.
- 'We Should Not Be A Haughty Big Brother To Nepal' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Devi Prasad Tripathi, general secretary, Nationalist Congress Party, has been associated with Nepal since his days as a student leader at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Confront The Challenge (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 13, 2006)
To combat terror, rise above political interests
- Arrest Decline Of Punjab Economy (Tribune, Joginder Singh, Jul 13, 2006)
As a result of exemplary progress, particularly in the fields of agriculture and industry, Punjab state continued to maintain the top position in terms of per capita income till the early nineties.
- For Durable Ties With Us (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Jul 13, 2006)
Understanding the perceptions of those who influence US foreign policy provides an insight into the factors that shape the directions that global developments will take. It was, therefore, interesting to meet key strategic thinkers in the U.S last . . .
- Tainted Ministers (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 13, 2006)
THE Supreme Court has rightly expressed its displeasure over the Centre’s failure to make its stand clear on the issue of tainted ministers.
- Amarinder Rules Out Revival Of Terrorism (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today ruled out any possibility of revival of terrorism in the state.
- Nepal Price Tag For Peace: $2b (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
On a day Nepal's prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala returned home from hospital, his government announced a $2-billion annual budget geared towards institutionalising the government-Maoist peace process.
- Mumbai Blasts Derail Indo-Pak Peace Process (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jul 13, 2006)
Yesterday’s serial blasts in Mumbai appear to have taken the most important toll — the three-year-old Indo-Pak peace process.
- Mumbai Blasts Derail Indo-Pak Peace Process (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jul 13, 2006)
Yesterday’s serial blasts in Mumbai appear to have taken the most important toll — the three-year-old Indo-Pak peace process.
- Pointless Savagery (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 13, 2006)
Bombay's return to work yesterday after one of the worst terrorist attacks in Indian history was admirable. The stock market, almost perversely, even rallied by more than two per cent.
- Pointless Savagery (Telegraph (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Bombay's return to work yesterday after one of the worst terrorist attacks in Indian history was admirable. The stock market, almost perversely, even rallied by more than two per cent.
- Ministry Forcing Rhd To Sign Construction Deal Despite Faulty Design (The Daily Star, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Karnaphuli Bridge
Ministry forcing RHD to sign construction deal despite faulty design
Sharier Khan
- Petition Initiative Is Wrong For Colorado (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Colorado voters crushed anti-tax activist Douglas Bruce's so-called "Petition Rights Amendment" by a 78 percent to 22 percent margin in 1994 and 69 percent to 31 percent in 1996.
- South Africa's Optimism (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
America could use a Nelson Mandela. The former South African president, 88 next month, is universally revered in his country.
- Voting Machines Under Fire (Denver Post, George Merritt , Jul 13, 2006)
A voter-rights group announced Wednesday that they would ask a judge to block electronic voting machines from the November election.
- Bush's Style Of Diplomacy Texas Plain Talk (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
President George W Bush, who irked key allies with his war in Iraq, is pushing diplomacy more in his second term and will use his penchant for Texas plain talk and slapping backs on visits this week to Germany and Russia.
- Bangla Immigrants: The Threat Within (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
While investigators probing leads into the Mumbai train blasts are scouring for evidence linking the terror strike to groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba, there is rising concern over a large of pool of illegals from Bangladesh in the city providing . . .
- Nepal Cuts King's Funds By 70 Percent (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Nepal's interim, multi-party government cut King Gyanendra's allowance by 70 percent on Wednesday in the first budget presented to parliament in four years.
- Israel Battles Muslim Militants On Two Fronts (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Israeli forces battled Muslim militants on two fronts on Thursday, destroying the office of the Palestinian foreign minister in Gaza and exchanging blows with Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas to the north.
- Vanuatu — The Happiest Place On Earth (Hindu, Duncan Campbell, Jul 13, 2006)
Its people are satisfied with their lot, live to nearly 70 and do little damage to the planet.
- A Summit For Global Security And Stability (Hindu, JACQUES CHIRAC, Jul 13, 2006)
We must seize the opportunities of globalisation in this extraordinary period of growth while correcting its unacceptable social and ecological excesses.
- 'Indo-Us Nuke Deal Can Get Through Cong By Month-End' (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
The United States Ambassador to India David Mulford expressed confidence that the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal that cleared the House and Senate Committees last month can be through Congress by the end of month or before law makers break away for . . .
- Dhaka’S Rice Scam (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2006)
Delhi’s decision to cancel delivery of the balance consignment of Rs 32 crore worth of rice to Bangladesh, for free distribution among flood victims in the northern parts of the . . .
- India Slams Polls In Pok (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
India said the entire election process in ‘‘Azad Jammu and Kashmir’’ part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir demonstrated a “lack of credibility” with the authorities rejecting most of the candidates who did not sign a declaration ascribing to . . .
- India Reacts Strongly To Kasuri's Remarks On Kashmir (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
In the aftermath of deadly terror attacks in Mumbai, India today took strong exception to Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri's remarks seeking to link the blasts to lack of resolution of Indo-Pak disputes, denouncing his comments . . .
- Cruel Intentions (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 13, 2006)
It’s unlikely that Tuesday’s violence in Srinagar was connected to the carnage unleashed in Mumbai a few hours later.
- Infosys Q1 Profit Soars, Raises Forecasts (Reuters, Sumeet Chatterjee , Jul 13, 2006)
Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's number-two software services exporter, beat forecasts with a 50 percent jump in quarterly profit and raised its full-year estimates, sending its shares up more than 7 percent.
- World Condemns Blasts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
``Terrorism is a bane of our times and it must be condemned"
There can never be any justification for terrorism: U.K.
The terrorists guilty of this crime must be severely punished: Russia
- Infosys Q1 Net Rises 50 Pct, Beats Forecast (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
India's number-two software exporter, Infosys Technologies Ltd., said on Wednesday quarterly net profit rose 50 percent, beating expectations and boosted by robust outsourcing demand from . . .
- Peaceful Voting In Pok (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Voting began on Tuesday in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to choose a new regional legislature that will face the . . .
- The Realpolitik Of India’S ‘New Deal’ (The Financial Express, Sauvik Chakraverti, Jul 12, 2006)
The curse of ‘politics’ combined with ‘socialism’ and ‘democracy’ has made the state a clientelistic affair
- Muslim Conference Leading In Ajk Polls (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Muslim Conference is leading in Azad KAshmir polls while Sardar Atiq, Barister Sultan and Ishaq Zafar have been elected for their constituencies, according to unofficial results.
- Development Projects Come To Standstill (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Blacktopping of roads, water pipeline, underground drainage in limbo at Ambattur
Projects `hit by frequent transfers of officials, contractors' resistance'
Construction of stormwater drains, repairs of damaged roads on anvil
Possibility of . . .
- ‘No Election Alliance Between Ppp And Pml-N’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is not against the Army, but some generals have held the country hostage and the government is on the verge of collapse.
- The Left’S Plan~b (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Jul 12, 2006)
The Left Front knows how to bark. Will it ever bite? Starting tomorrow for a whole week it will launch a nationwide protest movement against the . . .
- Mongolia Marks Genghis Conquest Anniversary (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 12, 2006)
Mongolians today celebrated the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan’s march to world conquest with festivities that mixed commercialism with appeals to nationalism.
- Kashmir: Tourists, The New Targets (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Jul 12, 2006)
Serial grenade blasts in Srinagar were once again targeted at driving the tourists out of the Kashmir valley.
- Doubts Over Mexico Election (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 12, 2006)
There is evidence that Left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America.
- Cpi (M) To Make Maiden Foray Into Cantonment Board Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Four party candidates file nominations for wards II, IV and V
Congress has reigned supreme in the Board
Time ripe for us to make an entry: CPI (M)
Cantonment residents are unhappy
- Aiadmk, Allies Hold Aloft The Banner Of Revolt (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Cadres stage demonstration , demanding upgrading of hospital
- Congressmen Face Delhiites' Ire Over Poor Power Situation (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Jul 12, 2006)
Cadres have been faced with angry crowds forcing them to abruptly end the by-poll campaign for Subhash Nagar municipal seat
Sheila Dikshit, senior leaders have kept away from campaign
Party workers told to stop playing the `band and dhol'
- Same Group May Be Behind Both Attacks: Duggal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The Centre has pointed to the possibility of the same group perpetrating the blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai.
- Post-Poll Campaign (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 12, 2006)
B B Tandon may no longer be chief election commissioner but the CPM believes there should be no let up in the campaign against him.
- 147 Dead, 439 Injured As Blasts Rock Mumbai Trains (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
At least 147 people were killed and 439 injured in a string of seven terror blasts that tore through first class compartments of suburban trains around 6 pm during the peak hour traffic here today.
- Politics Overtakes Secretary General's Contest (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Jul 12, 2006)
India seems to have raised many hackles by announcing that Shashi Tharoor, UN under secretary general for communications and public . . .
- J & K Government And Common Man's Self-Determination (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 12, 2006)
Ghulam Nabi Azad sat patient as per the power-sharing agreement reached between the PDP and the Congress after the Assembly polls in 2002.
- Will They Make It? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 12, 2006)
Believers in democracy in the sub-continent should feel encouraged by reports that opposition parties in Pakistan have stepped up their offensive for the restoration of popular rule.
- America Props Up Shaky Leaders (Daily Excelsior, Rajesh Khajuria, Jul 12, 2006)
The situation the United States and its allies face in Afghanistan and Iraq is one almost without precedent.
- Nail In The Coffin (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
The corrupt do not spare even the dead. That is the lesson from the coffin scam, reported first by this newspaper, which rocked the nation soon after Operation Vijay in 1999.
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