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- Bjp-Jds Coalition Govt Unveils Common Minimum Programme (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
Six weeks after assuming office, the BJP-JDS coalition government today unveiled its Common Minimum Programme, pledging to remove poverty, initiate steps to better the lives of farmers and build on the 'Bangalore Brand' to make the city a . . .
- Assam: Cong Shies Away From Fielding Hiv+ Woman (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
The Congress has finally backtracked from picking up a HIV-positive woman as one of its candidates for the assembly polls in Assam.
- Iran? Hardly Israel's Problem Alone (Jerusalem Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2006)
As the world ponders what to do about Iran's nuclear ambitions some talking heads claim they have found the perfect solution.
- Violence Not To Hurt Ties With Pakistan: Singh (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
India would not allow attacks by militants to hurt a peace process with Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.
- Ex-Ias Officer To Fight Bhattacharjee (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Mar 15, 2006)
Cpi (M)’s pillar of success and the Marxists’ proud ‘face of Bengal’ Buddhadev Bhattacharjee will face a retired IAS officer and Trinamool Congress candidate Dipak Ghosh in his bid to gift the ruling Left Front a record seventh successive term in office.
- 46 Poll Related Petitions Filed In Hcs: Bhardwaj (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
As many as 46 petitions related to the 2004 Lok Sabha elections were filed in various High Courts across the country, Law and Justice Minister H R Bhardwaj informed the Rajya Sabha today.
- Yatra To Change Course Of National Politics: Advani (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The BJP parliamentary party on Tuesday endorsed the controversial ‘national integration yatra’ of Leader of Opposition L K Advani, who declared that “it would change the course of national politics”.
- Competing Ideas Of The Sacred (Hindu, Karma Nabulsi, Mar 15, 2006)
The crisis occasioned by the Danish cartoons, which depicted the prophet Muhammad as a terrorist, has become a microcosm of the wider conflict between Islam and the Western world.
- Significant Steps (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 15, 2006)
Mr Kalam’s visit to Myanmar is historic...
- Dry And Dreary (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Roderick Buchanan's History Painting churns out nothing but a monotonous parade of youthful faces
- Jaya Takes In Rebel Fb Leader (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and ruling AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalitha on Tuesday allotted one seat to rebel All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) legislator K Santhanam .....
- One Nuclear Deal, Two Narratives (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Mar 15, 2006)
That the Western media have savaged the Bush visit and the nuclear deal shows India acted in its national interest. Yet looked at another way, India is befriending a world leader seen to pursue an agenda against Muslim countries.
- Myanmar To Inform India On Suu Kyi (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Mar 15, 2006)
Myanmar, Mauritius visit important: Kalam
India will be happy to push Parliamentary system in Myanmar as far as possible: Kalam
He meets Myanmar leader, Senior General Than Shwe
- `Preserve Environment To Protect Poor People' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Vice-Chancellor worried over pollution in Tunga
- Ec Guidelines Shock Parties (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
"No wall writing, pasting of posters" .
EC should not approach the election mechanically: CPI
CPI (M) says the fresh notification would undermine democracy
"Politicia
- Kannappan's Party Merges With Dmk (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
His supporters will work for achieving the DMK's ideals
- No Fresh Ec Directive In Assam (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Execution of non-bailable warrants against former militants
- 'Cpi-M Leaders Involved In Lavalin Case' (Times Union, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The Congress on Tuesday accused the central leadership of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) of involvement in a controversial deal with SNC-Lavalin, a Canadian firm.
- Jaswant Targets Foreign Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Only India has unsettled borders
Government must choose between idealism, realism: Jaswant
Surrendering to U.S. hegemony cannot be called realism: Yechury
- Veerappa Moily To Hold Talks With Dic(k) (Hindu, Gita Dewan Verma , Mar 15, 2006)
The Congress on Tuesday deputed its Working Committee member Veerappa Moily for negotiations with the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) with the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) as the mediator.
- Returning Officers For Pondy Appointed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Each officer will be in charge of three constituencies Election expenditure of political parties in each constituency has been fixed at Rs 5 lakh and squads have been formed to monitor the functioning of parties
21 constituencies under seven officers
- Sushma Files Papers For R.S. (Hindu, CP Bhambri, Mar 15, 2006)
`Party high command consulted before finalising names'
- Wrong Remedy (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 15, 2006)
The clamour for fatwas against the perpetrators of the twin blasts in Varanasi is gaining ground. It is not just intellectuals and activists, but Muslim religious heads who are making the demand.
- Manmohan: Not Kowtowing To U.S. (Hindu, Crisil Marketwire, Mar 15, 2006)
"Nuclear agreement is not a surrender "
Judge us by our results
It is in national interest to engage with U.S.
Pro-active role to be pursued with neighbours
- Dmk Accuses Tn Govt Of Poll Code Violation (Tribune, Arup Chanda, Mar 15, 2006)
The Dmk yesterday alleged that the state government had violated the model code of conduct by “giving pre-dated” sanction to several projects, including a knowledge-based technological park. It demanded that the Election Commission should depute . . .
- Why American Cats Are Fat And Dogs Lean (The Financial Express, Alok Sheel, Mar 15, 2006)
Having lived in India all my life and used to seeing lean cats, imperious of temperament and only partially tame, and well-fed corpulent dogs, short on exercise, I was puzzled to find that cats in America were fat, while dogs were lean.
- Ec Rescues Nokia (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 15, 2006)
The inauguration of Nokia’s handset manufacturing plant near Chennai had its brass in a dilemma. Whom to invite as chief guest— chief minister and AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa or Union IT minister Dayanidhi Maran, from the DMK? Both had taken . . .
- America’S Democracy Project (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The “democracy backlash” is in full swing, largely because of the carnage in Iraq and the electoral success of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority. In the past week our op-ed writers have expressed doubts about, or opposition to, the Bush administration’s
- Assam: Cong Releases List Of Candidates For Polls (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
As many as 12 sitting MLAs, including a Minister, were dropped by the Congress as it announced a list of 120 candidates for the Assam Assembly elections in which Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and PCC Chief Bhubaneswar Kalita are prominent among those nominat
- Thanks, Jessica (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 15, 2006)
Her case underlines the power of public opinion
- Budget Lays The Foundation For Building Castles (Business Standard, Alok Ray, Mar 15, 2006)
It is good to think ambitiously so long as the ground is laid for achieving the objectives. Budget 2006 goes quite a way in doing just that for the country to achieve 10 per cent growth, says ALOK RAY.
- Mma’S Mediation Offer (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 15, 2006)
The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s offer to the government to mediate in the Balochistan situation deserves to be considered.
- Reuniting Parliamentary, State Elections (Daily Excelsior, Aditya Nath Dar, Mar 15, 2006)
The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Mr. Lalkrishna Advani, while delivering a speech at India Today conclave, surprised most of his listeners when he said that he was in favour of reuniting the parliamentary and state assembly elections.
- Deadlock On Hr Body (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 15, 2006)
THE United Nations’ role as a human rights watchdog could be in jeopardy. On Monday the UN Human Rights Commission was suspended for a week because of a deadlock over the reform plan that seeks to create a 47-member Human Rights Council that . . .
- War Clouds Over Iran ? (Daily Excelsior, Syed Ali Safvi, Mar 15, 2006)
Iraq under Saddam Husain did not pose threat to the U.S. but it did to Israel.",
- India Says Violence Not To Hurt Ties With Pakistan (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
India will not allow attacks by Islamist militants known to have their bases in Pakistan to hurt a peace process with Islamabad, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.
- Concentration In Ownership Of Media (Daily Excelsior, Swati Ganeshan, Mar 15, 2006)
The power of communication and Information today's competitive world is a huge driving force.
- Iraq Unravelling (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The American game plan in Iraq seems to be coming badly unstuck. Sectarian violence has grown in frequency and scale, and there is talk increasingly of the country heading for civil war between rival militias.
- Chinese Military Trains In West (Washington Times, Bill Gertz, Mar 15, 2006)
China is stepping up military training in Latin America because of a law that limits U.S. military support to nations in the region, the general in charge of the U.S. Southern Command told Congress yesterday.
- The Culture Of Conspiracy (Tribune, William Weir, Mar 15, 2006)
Since the US vice president shot one of his hunting buddies, a number of alternate theories have been bubbling beneath the official version of events.
- How To Nip Iran's Designs (Gulf News, Editorial, Gulf News, Mar 15, 2006)
Remember Donald Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns"? The US Defence Secretary used the phrase in 2003 in the context of the controversy over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
- Call To Abandon Diamer-Bhasha Dam Project (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Speakers at a conference here on Monday asked the government to stop work on the “controversial project”, and sought UN intervention as according to them the dam site falls in the terrotory of the disputed Gilgit-Baltistan region.
- Harper Makes Surprise Visit To Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit on Sunday to Afghanistan’s most volatile region to show support for Canadian troops deployed there as part of an international force, officials told AFP.
- Concentration In Ownership Of Media (Daily Excelsior, Swati Ganeshan, Mar 14, 2006)
The power of communication and Information today's competitive world is a huge driving force.
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam returned here this morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- Reuniting Parliamentary, State Elections (Daily Excelsior, Aditya Nath Dar, Mar 14, 2006)
The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Mr. Lalkrishna Advani, while delivering a speech at India Today conclave, surprised most of his listeners when he said that he was in favour of reuniting the parliamentary and state assembly elections.
- War Clouds Over Iran ? (Daily Excelsior, Syed Ali Safvi, Mar 14, 2006)
Iraq under Saddam Husain did not pose threat to the U.S. but it did to Israel.",
- Advani At It Again (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Mar 14, 2006)
Yatras will harm party’s interests
- Congress Finalising Rs Nominees, Indicates Sonia (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today indicated that the party was in the process of finalising its nominees for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, but gave no clue as to whether there would be any surprises.
- How Not To Play The End Game (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Mar 14, 2006)
The disunited opposition in West Bengal seems ill-prepared to reap any benefit from the measures taken by the Election Commission to cleanse electoral politics in the state.
- Post Haste To The Past (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 14, 2006)
The latest farce being enacted by the government at the Centre is structured around ‘courier services’.
- Hawkers Again (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 14, 2006)
Hawkers are not the only people who are used as pawns in the games that politicians play.
- It Stealth Slur On Jaya Govt (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
The DMK today accused the Jayalalithaa government of violating the model code of conduct by doling out land at huge concessions to at least five software firms.
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam returned in New Delhi on Tuesday morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- Will Bush Visit Trigger New Thinking? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 14, 2006)
A military dictatorship in Islamabad will always come out worse compared with the flourishing democracy in India
- Beware The Nuclear Ayatollahs (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Mar 14, 2006)
Thomas Friedman of The New York Times is known in this country as a great admirer of our democracy and a strong advocate of outsourcing of tasks related to information techno-logy to India.
- Shifting Allies (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 14, 2006)
Predicting the winner in Tamil Nadu in the coming assembly elections has just become risky. With Vaiko jumping the fence to join Jayalalithaa, the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance which swept the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 no longer . . .
- Red Alarm: Comrades To Join 'Like-Minded' Parties (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
CPM has expressed its strong displeasure with the direction India's foreign policy is taking.
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam returned to New Delhi on Tuesday morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- Democrat Asks Senate To Censure Prez Bush (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
In a development that turns the heat of an intelligence scandal directly on George W Bush, who is already at an all-time low in public approval ratings, a leading Democratic lawmaker has asked the Senate to censure the US President for . . .
- Jaya Govt Violated Poll Code: Dmk (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Dmk President M Karunanidhi has alleged that the Jayalalitha government violated the model code of conduct by “giving pre-dated” sanction to several projects, including a knowledge-based technological park, and demanded that the Election . . .
- Sushma To File Papers For Rajya Sabha Seat Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
3 more BJP leaders nominated from M.P.
- People Power In East Asia (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Mar 14, 2006)
Do the current attempts in the Philippines and Thailand to re-enact people power movements amount to bypassing the existing democratic systems?
- Rooting For Sharia Laws In Bradford (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Mar 14, 2006)
It is one thing to demand the democratic right in an open and free society to practise one's faith, but to want to have a parallel religious legal system is quite another.
- Turmoil In House Over Yatra Plan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
BJP has no right to divide the country, says Basudeb Acharia
- Congress Election Committee Reconstituted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in five States, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday reconstituted the party's Central Election Committee (CEC), bringing in four new faces while retaining seven existing members.
- Indian And South Korean Coast Guards Sign Mou (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
The Coast Guards of India and South Korea signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on maritime cooperation in New Delhi on Monday.
- Bjp "Yatras" To Skip States Going To Polls (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Mar 14, 2006)
Meeting on March 17 to finalise details
Rajnath Singh, Advani to campaign in States going to polls
"No question of the RSS opposing the yatra"
Pledges maintenance of communal peace
- State Terrorism In Ihk (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
The Kashmir conference organized by the American think-tank Pugwash in Islamabad has echoed with cries of State terrorism and human rights violations in Indian occupied Kashmir. Many participants spoke of the horrible crimes being perpetrated . . .
- Senators Should Be Role Models (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
Rumpus stemming from the exchange of hot words between Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro and PPPP Senator Safdar Abbasi and Opposition’s walk-out marked the first session of the Upper House of Parliament on Sunday. Rowdyism, chaos and . . .
- Slow But Sure Steps Of Justice (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Mar 14, 2006)
IF there is justice there will be peace. Nine men from Baroda were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court in Mumbai for a massacre of innocents (known as the Best Bakery case) during one of the most terrible communal riots in our . . .
- Jd(s)-Bjp Coalition Plans A Populist Cmp (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Mar 14, 2006)
Vision Karnataka' outlined by the President included in it
CMP scheduled for release on Wednesday
Implementation of CMP to cost not less than Rs. 1,000 crores a year
- Saved From War, For Now (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 14, 2006)
Despite the war of words that has erupted between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam following the Geneva talks, the danger of a real war — at the brink of which Sri Lanka was teetering just a few weeks ago . . .
- Citizen First — Sampark Centres In India — Ishtiaq Ahmed (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 14, 2006)
Under the old bureaucratic system the individual was treated more as a subject on whom state functionaries exercised power to extract taxes, levies and other charges. In return some public services were provided, but since the state . . .
- Bush Administration Launches Campaign For Us-India N-Deal (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Mar 14, 2006)
The first high-profile administration attempt to ease the passage of the India-US nuclear agreement through Congress was in evidence on Monday, with the publication of a signed article by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the . . .
- The 400 Barrier (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 14, 2006)
In some ways it is a pity that the record-breaking series-decider at the Wanderers did not end in a tie.
- Bush In South Asia — Raising A Political Storm (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 14, 2006)
As the US President moved from Afghanistan to India and then Pakistan, he raised political storm clouds. If India was obsessed with the nuclear deal, Pakistan wanted similar treatment and Afghanistan worried about the . . .
- Pandemonium In Senate (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 14, 2006)
In an ominous turn of events soon after the swearing of the 49 newly-elected Senators, and Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the House, the first session of the Senate was marred by exchange of harsh words, unparliamentary language and walk out . . .
- Standstill In The Middle East (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
Going by the policies Mr Ehud Olmert is pursuing, it seems Mr Ariel Sharon is still very much at the helm of Israeli affairs.
- Hamas To Submit New Draft Gov't Plan (Jordan Times, Omar Karmi, Mar 14, 2006)
Hamas is set to submit a new draft government programme after talks with Palestinian factions proved inconclusive Monday. Hamas officials, however, vowed that coalition talks would be concluded by the end of the week.
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