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Articles 12521 through 12620 of 26693:
- Anatomy Of A Partnership (International Herald Tribune, Henry A. Kissinger, Mar 11, 2006)
President George W. Bush's visit to India has brought relations between the United States and India to an unprecedented level of cooperation and interdependence.
- Hamas Presents Coalition Proposals To Fateh (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Islamic group Hamas presented Fateh Thursday with proposals for forming a Palestinian coalition government, in the search for an elusive deal on sharing power, an official said.
- Vulgarity Of The Nouveau Riche (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Mar 11, 2006)
On Diwali day a Sardarji rang me up to say he had met God face to face and wanted to tell me about it.
- Science And Society (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Mar 11, 2006)
Developmental activity should not degrade the environment but has to sustain the earth
- White House Defends India N-Pact (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
No intention to pursue a similar civil cooperation with Pakistan
- Budget Low On Fdi Initiative (Business Line, S. Majumder , Mar 10, 2006)
Growth in FDI has been catalysed by the general spurt in the economy and not by special measures in the Budget. The Finance Minister should ponder over fiscal incentives to woo foreign investors.
- Positive Fallout (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 10, 2006)
The US President, Mr George Bush's public denial of a civilian nuclear deal to Pakistan has led to a positive development that escaped many.
- Us Has No Hopes For Democracy’S Return In Nepal: Special Bush Emissary (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Mar 10, 2006)
President George Bush’s special emissary to Nepal has said that the return of democracy in the kingdom does not seem imminent.
- Whose Welfare? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 10, 2006)
The Punjab Budget for 2006-07, the last one presented by the Amarinder Singh government before the state goes to the polls in February next year, has earmarked Rs 25 lakh for each MLA to carry out development works in his or her constituency.
- Election Notification Likely Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Congress, Janata Dal (Secular) yet to initiate any move on candidates
Elections to the Upper House scheduled for March 28
Four seats from the State Assembly vacant
M. Rajashekaramurthy resigned from Rajya Sabha and joined the Janata Dal (S)
- Poll-Bound Up To Be Centre Of Bjp Yatras (Times of India, Mohua Chatterjee, Mar 10, 2006)
The twin "national integration yatras" planned by Leader of Opposition L K Advani and party chief Rajnath Singh seem to indicate that Uttar Pradesh occupies considerable mindspace of the BJP brass.
- Bush To Gyanendra: Patch Up (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Less than a week after US President George W Bush’s visit to India, his envoy, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs Mr Donald Camp flew to Kathmandu to reiterate the message sent out . . .
- Jaya At The Exit Door (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 10, 2006)
She ought to have known the law
- India, China To Talk Boundary Issues From Tomorrow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
In working through the second stage of a very complex issue, India and China will hold another round of talks between the Special Representatives (SRs) on the boundary issue from March 11 to 14 in New Delhi, Kottayam and Cochin.
- Iaea Report Sent To Security Council (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Mar 10, 2006)
Iaed Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei transmitted his report on Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council, at the close of the Agency´s Board of Governors meeting in Vienna today.
- Admk Complains To Ec Against Chidambaram (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The AIADMK submitted a petition to the Election Commission seeking ‘‘stern action’’ against Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Communication Minister Dayanidhi Maran and two Ministers of State from Tamil Nadu E V K S Elangovan . . .
- State And The Nation (Indian Express, SAUBHIK CHAKRABARTI, Mar 10, 2006)
Don't read this if you are a spiritual tourist.
- Chariots Of Ire? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 10, 2006)
To the BJP, it must appear as if circumstances have fuelled its rath. While its leaders were concentrated on the shake-out in the party organisation, issues close to the party’s agitational heart were piling up.
- Rhetoric Clouds Peace Process In Sri Lanka (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Mar 10, 2006)
Negotiations to resolve the ethnic conflict have again run into trouble with both the Sinhala and Tamil camps taking increasingly confrontationist positions.
- Wrong Agenda (Times of India, Sakina Yusuf Khan, Mar 10, 2006)
Will the Indian Muslim please stand up and be counted? At stake is your commitment to secularism and loyalty to the nation.
- India Offers Myanmar Help To Restore Democratic Govt (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The MoU was signed by Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Prabh Das and Director-General of Energy Planning Department of the Ministry of Energy of Myanmar, sources said.
- Should Tv Channels Play An Activist Role? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Mar 10, 2006)
Although President A. P.J. Abdul Kalam is said to have promised “necessary action” after accepting an SMS petition from a news channel’s viewers asking for justice in the Jessica Lal case, a point to ponder is: is it really the media’s . . .
- Winds Of Insecurity In The Land Of The Brave (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 10, 2006)
The threat to US security from Dubai’s takeover of a few US ports is negligible
- Local Flavour (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2006)
People try to rediscover their identities in many ways. Reviving old names is often the politicians’ way of gaining popular support.
- Chandigarh: Tale Of Two Cities (Tribune, Ashok Kundra, Mar 10, 2006)
Chandigarh has undergone rapid transformation during the nineties.
- New Logic For New India (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 10, 2006)
Even after he fell from grace and spent his last years in disgrace, there was one country where Richard Nixon was always welcome. For all its other angularities, China never forgot its indebtedness to the man who in 1971 began the process of extricating t
- To Court Trouble (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2006)
History is made in unexpected ways.
- Middle East In Black And White Terms (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Mar 10, 2006)
Washington's refusal to deal with the new Hamas government together with a policy of isolating Teheran will only strengthen the hand of hardline Islamists.
- The Writing Is On The Wall For Poll Graffiti (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Mar 10, 2006)
A West Bengal Government directive on ridding walls of poll graffiti has sounded the death knell for a popular means of communication.
- Election Commission To Look Into Complaint Against Bsnl (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Allegation that advertisement attached to latest phone bills violates model code
Ad claims reduction in subscriber trunk dialling rates under `OneIndia plan is an achievement
It carries pictures of Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Karunanidhi and Dayanid
- Kalam Addresses The Last Mughal's Lament (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Mar 10, 2006)
President brings a bunch of flowers and lights a candle for Bahadur Shah Zafar
- Rajya Sabha Elections Likely To Throw Up Some Surprises (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Mar 10, 2006)
but the three major parties say they are not keen on fielding a second candidate
A candidate needs a minimum of 45 votes for victory
The BJP, the Congress and the JD(S) have 79, 64 and 59 seats respectively in the Legislative Assembly
- Dmk Seals Seat-Sharing Agreements With Congress, Cpi(m), Iuml (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The party will hold discussions with the PMK today, says Karunanidhi
Congress to contest 48 seats, CPI (M) 13, IUML 3
IUML to contest on the DMK's symbol
Congress chief "pleased" with the outcome
- Blasting Through Peace (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 10, 2006)
A colonial power was dismissed from a fragmented subcontinent.
- Sonia Calls Truce In Lucknow (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The Congress has said it will do nothing to “destabilise” the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh.
- Iran Unites On Nuclear Programme (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Mar 10, 2006)
Iran is digging its heels after its nuclear file on Wednesday was transferred from the IAEA to the powerful United Nations Security Council.
- Grief’S Defeat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2006)
Rabindranath Tagore’s Jogajog was published, in book-form, in 1929. This was the year Thomas Mann got the Nobel prize and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own was published. While Tagore’s novel was being serialized in Bichitra . . .
- Fight It Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 10, 2006)
It is just a coincidence that the reopening of educational institutions in the Valley has coincided with step-up in militant violence.
- Ec Bans Services Of Govt Staff On Extension For Poll Duty (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
In a fresh directive, the Election Commission has asked the West Bengal government not to requisition services of government officials on extension for the ensuing state assembly elections.
- The Great Deception (Statesman, D BANDYOPADHYAY, Mar 10, 2006)
Sunanda Sanyal’s “Fake ration cards” (28 February-1 March) is an eye-opener on the fraud perpetrated on genuine electors in West Bengal.
- India And Myanmar Sign Natural Gas Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
India and Myanmar agreed Thursday to consider ways of transporting natural gas from fields off western Myanmar to the energy-hungry giant next door, officials said.
- Hospital Hoodlums (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
The sight of political parties and social activists targeting the superintendent after an incident as ghastly as the one that took place at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital last week is a familiar one.
- Why The Federation Is At Odds With Provinces? (Dawn, Zamir Ghumro, Mar 10, 2006)
Against the backdrop of a raging controversy and widespread protests in the country in general and in Sindh in particular over the construction of mega dams, the federal cabinet decided on January 1 to revive the Council of Common Interests under . . .
- Pak-Afghan Tension (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
That the main issue during talks between General Musharraf and CENTCOM Commander Gen John Abizaid was the situation on Pakistan's western border indicates that differences between Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached a point where a third . . .
- Horse-Trading And Legitimacy Of The Senate (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 09, 2006)
Appearing on a TV channel on Tuesday, opposition politicians complained of the buying and selling of votes in the provincial assemblies on the occasion of elections to the Senate on March 6, 2006.
- Ard’S Undemocratic Demand (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 09, 2006)
Opposition parties’ conglomeration ARD has said that it will not accept elections under the present set-up and demanded formation of national or caretaker government to hold free, fair, transparent and honest polls.
- Power Moves In Asia (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Mar 09, 2006)
The US pursues goals of nuclear non-proliferation and counter terrorism in South Asia
- Ard Decisions (The Nation, Editorial, National Post, Mar 09, 2006)
DECISIONS relating to the elections scheduled for 2007 taken at a meeting of the ARD on Tuesday, were announced by its chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim.
- A New South Asian Order In The Making (Dawn, Sherry Rehman, Mar 09, 2006)
Despite the concessions made by Pervez Musharraf for Washington, President Bush’s approach to South Asia indicates very clearly a major shift in US policy, refracted most sharply by his visit to the region.
- Assam: Most Pol Parties Yet To Finalise Poll Nominees (Press Trust of India, Sukhendu Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
With barely a month to go for the Assam assembly elections, the scene remains hazy without formation of any major alliance by political parties and most of them not even finalising their list of candidates.
- Pension Bill May Get Green Signal After Assembly Polls (The Economic Times, Sidhartha Kanungo, Mar 09, 2006)
Hoping for an end to the opposition to pension reforms after the state assembly elections, the finance ministry has drawn up plans to introduce the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill during the second half of the budget session.
- Don’T Let The Nuke Hype Cloud The Big Story (The Financial Express, TALMIZ AHMAD, Mar 09, 2006)
One of the important aspects of the Indo-US nuclear deal is the emphasis it has placed on the development of nuclear energy to generate power in India.
- Marxist Vs Maoist (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 09, 2006)
The most striking feature of the continuing wave of Maoist killings is its anti-establishment character.
- Varanasi Is Us (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Mar 09, 2006)
In that umbra moment after the blasts, when the television screens suddenly spewed out images of blood-stained floors, panic-stricken crowds and strewn personal belongings, a stone seemed to settle on the chest.
- Organic Agriculture (Daily Excelsior, Dr K C Bhagat, Mar 09, 2006)
Agriculture is the key human profession as it is linked with the entire process of environment (that is comprising air, water, land, climate, biodiversity, forest etc) on the one hand and constitutes the life line of human species . . .
- Govt-Left Relations Getting Worse (Daily Excelsior, Sondip Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
Relations between the Left parties and the Manmohan Singh Government are set to get more fractious in the days to come over India’s ties with the United States
- Communal Ammunition (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The bomb blasts in Varanasi, coming a little over four months after a similar attack in Delhi, are yet another attempt to incite communal violence in the country.
- Left Points Out Holes In N-Deal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Left parties today expressed apprehensions in the nuclear separation deal reached between India and the USA by asking the UPA government whether it has decided to close down CIRUS (Canadian-Indian-US) nuclear reactor by 2010 and shift Apsara . . .
- In Love With A Stranger (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Mar 09, 2006)
The sight of a foreigner is no longer surprising in urban China, though Indians are still stared at as some exotic species. A sight now getting common is that of a white man with a Chinese girl, arm-in-arm. The man is often much older.
- Smouldering Yet (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 09, 2006)
Four years, two inquiry commissions and reams of literature later, no one is ready to say what caused the fire on the Sabarmati Express as it pulled out of Godhra station.
- Family Matters (Telegraph, Malavika Karlekar, Mar 09, 2006)
The author’s recent book is Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915
- Making Panchayati Raj Effective In Haryana (Tribune, Ranbir Singh, Mar 09, 2006)
THE enactment and implementation of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, for restructuring the system of decentralised rural governance in Haryana in accordance with the provisions of the 73rd Amendment Act (1993), the devolution of functions . . .
- Bush Visit To South Asia (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 09, 2006)
Some change in US thinking on Pakistan
NEVER before has the visit of an American President to South Asia created such a political storm as the recent one by President George W. Bush to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
- Yesterday’S Foe, Today’S Friend (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 09, 2006)
Vaiko walks into Jaya’s parlour
- Killers On The Prowl (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 09, 2006)
Communal harmony must be maintained
- To Keep The Flock Together (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Mar 09, 2006)
The anti-defection law needs to be amended if the political face of India’s largest state has to be changed.
- Kalam Reaches Myanmar On A Three-Day Visit (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam and a 40-member entourage arrived in Myanmar amid tight security on Wednesday for a three-day visit.
- Ec’S Disqualification Move Opens A Pandora’S Box (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Mar 09, 2006)
Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan is in the spotlight for holding an office of profit
- In Islamabad, On A Turning Wicket (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says HUSAIN HAQQANI
- Prime Minister's Statement On Discussions On Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation With The Us (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
In my Statement on February 27, 2006, I had provided an assurance that this august House will be informed of developments in our discussions with the United States on separation of our civilian and military nuclear facilities.
- Us, World Leaders Condemn Terror Attacks (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 09, 2006)
Fighting terror is our common struggle, and we stand with the people of India as they bring to justice those responsible for these cowardly acts”.
- Oh India! Do Not Beat Around This Bush (Times of India, AMJAD K. MARUF, Mar 08, 2006)
It is too early for us to rejoice at the fact that Bush visit has turned out to be in India’s favour.
- Kalam Seeks Legal Opinion On Jaya Issue (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
President Kalam has sought legal opinion on the issue of disqualification of Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan after the latter approached him on Monday explaining why she should not be unseated from the Upper House.
- Kalam Embarks On Myanmar Visit Today (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, Mar 08, 2006)
A very important visit to a very important neighbour. That’s how Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran described President APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to Myanmar, beginning tomorrow.
- Canada Moves To Revamp Air India Bomb Inquiry (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Canada's new Conservative government took a first, tentative step on Tuesday on its pledge to revamp the inquiry into the troubled Air India bombing investigation.
- Budget For Deceptions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 08, 2006)
An analysis of this year’s budget by JNU professor Prabhat Patnaik, a key figure in the CPM’s group on economic affairs, pinpoints inadequacies in the document from the Left’s standpoint:
- Jpc On Offices Of Profit Says Ec Can’T Do It (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
As President APJ Abdul Kalam seeks legal opinion on the Election Commission’s recommendation that Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan be disqualified for holding an office of profit, the focus is now on a grey area in Article 102 of the . . .
- Foreign Secretary Clarifies On Kalam's Visit To Myanmar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Visit not to gain influence in the region
Suu Kyi's release will be helpful in restoration of democracy
Myanmar important to India as it shares border with four States
- A Reminder From A Brother Judge (Indian Express, J.L. Gupta, Mar 08, 2006)
The Golden Jubilee celebrations of the high court at Chandigarh were grand. The hosts had arranged everything meticulously.
- Kalam Takes Jaya’S Rs Seat Row To Experts (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Tuesday began consultations with legal and constitutional experts over the issue of disqualification of Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan as a member of Rajya Sabha.
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