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Articles 13821 through 13920 of 26693:
- Iaea Inspectors Due In Iran To Oversee Enrichment (Indian Express, Paul Hughes, Feb 07, 2006)
Iran said on Monday inspectors from the UN’s nuclear watchdog will visit in the next few days to oversee the resumption of uranium enrichment—a process that can be used to make bomb-grade material.
- It’S All About Politics, Mr Pm (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Feb 07, 2006)
Judge me by my actions. That was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s response in his press conference last week to the argument that he was the weakest prime minister India had ever seen.
- Lighter On The Environment (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 07, 2006)
Sometimes solutions to large problems can be fairly simple.
- Government Doctors To Be Appointed On Contract (Hindu, A.V. Ragunathan, Feb 07, 2006)
The medical consultants will get a consolidated pay for six months
Nearly 600 vacancies to be filled
Waiting list will be maintained
Service can be terminated anytime
- Bjp Asks Navin Chawla To Step Down (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Feb 07, 2006)
The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that Election Commissioner Navin Chawla "step down" from his office or "face action" by the party. It would do "whatever was necessary" to "get him out" of that job.
- Don’T Try This At Home (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 07, 2006)
If our prime minister announces that he will abstain from sex, chances are that we will be choking on our morning tea to know that he has a libidinal side to him at all.
- Growing Closer Apart (Hindu, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Feb 07, 2006)
Essays debating the issues of syncretism and pluralism in the sub-continent today to objectively reassess their importance in coping with the political and cultural future
- Sc Panel To Submit Report On Clemenceau Soon (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
SDI, a French company which bought the carrier, has already told the apex court that it will abide by the committee's interim recommendation that the ship should not enter India’s 220-mile exclusive economic zone until the matter is disposed of.
- Us Dependence On Oil (Dawn, GWYNNE DYER, Feb 06, 2006)
“America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world,” said President George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday.
- Spying By Another Name (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 06, 2006)
With polls showing the American public increasingly sceptical about the need to abridge core constitutional freedoms to wage the war on terrorism, the Bush administration launched a major PR offensive recently to justify its decision to . . .
- Iran Moves To Resume Uranium Enrichment (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
A defiant Iran moved on Sunday to block snap UN nuclear inspections and kick-start sensitive fuel work after being reported to the Security Council, deepening a crisis over its disputed atomic ambitions.
- Where Campaigns Fall By The Wayside (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Feb 06, 2006)
The old English saying ‘Well begun is half done’ apparently doesn’t apply to the people who handle administrative matters in Karachi. That, at least, is the impression one gets after reading the final chapter of the sordid tinted glass saga enacted . . .
- Indian Pm Considers Talks With Leftists (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was mulling on Sunday whether to hold crisis talks with leftwing allies that are angry at his government’s vote against Iran over its nuclear programme and its airport privatisation plans.
- Lost For Ideas (The Week, R. Prasannan, Feb 06, 2006)
FOR the next few months, the Bofors-armed, Rajnath Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party won’t be enemy number one to the Congress. It will be the CPI(M) and its Leftist comrades.
- Rallies Call For End To Indian Rule In Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Several thousand people held rallies on Sunday in Islamabad, Peshawar and Azad Jammu and Kashmir to demand an end to Indian rule in held Kashmir.
- Iran Vote Comes Back To Haunt Manmohan (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Feb 06, 2006)
India’s decision to vote in favour of reporting Iran to the United Nations Security Council has started to become a major problem for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
- Back To The Wto Doha Round (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 06, 2006)
The good thing about the Davos meeting is that it has straightaway injected a sense of urgency into the negotiating process. A detailed, though informal, timetable is being circulated of what has to be accomplished and by when.
- Left In The Lurch (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Feb 06, 2006)
THE Left parties can no longer put off devoting a couple of days in a quiet retreat to intense introspection, reviewing the effect of developments in India and abroad on their movement.
- Musharraf Weakening Kashmir Stance (Daily Times, Ghafar Ali, Feb 06, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf has weakened Pakistan’s principled stand on Kashmir by initiating ‘confidence-building-measures’ (CBM) with India which has shown no flexibility on its stance, said Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) president.
- The Chairman Is Watching (Telegraph, ARITRO GANGULY, Feb 06, 2006)
K.J. Rao’s rechristening is an indication of Mao Zedong’s place in the Bengal communist pantheon
- Towards Corruption Free Society (Daily Excelsior, Tahir Khurshid Raina, Feb 06, 2006)
The change of guards in the State at the political level brought a glaring change in the issues to be addressed by the Government. The new incumbent Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad as the Chief Minister of the State has come up with the slogan of good governance.
- Poll Pull Out On As Bandh Begins (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Fear, defiance and desperation reigned in Nepal today, the first day of the week-long bandh called by the Maoist guerrillas, with over two dozen candidates, including many who were declared winners uncontested, resigning and distancing themselves . . .
- Twin Challenges: Clear Reflection In The Governor’S Address (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 06, 2006)
A legislative speech by a constitutional head is almost invariably scripted by the political establishment. The customary Opposition cavil is only for the record.
- My Days In Chandigarh (Tribune, KTS Tulsi, Feb 06, 2006)
I came to Chandigarh at the age of 10 in 1957. My school, college, law studies, failures and achievements, hopes and disappointments, struggles and successes were all at Chandigarh. The best of friendships and the greatest of heartbreaks were made and ...
- Son In The Saddle (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 06, 2006)
Tasks before Kumaraswamy
THE installation of the H.D. Kumaraswamy government marks a new beginning in Karnataka.
- Iran In The Dock (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 06, 2006)
Defiance won’t work
AS expected, the efforts to avoid a vote on the Iranian nuclear issue at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s extraordinary session that ended on Saturday did not succeed.
- Pranab Defends Centre’S Stand On Iran (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
The Defence Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, today defended the Centre’s stand on Iran, adding that it had been a wise decision for it to go along with other non-aligned countries.
- Buckling Buta (The Week, Debashish Mukerji, Feb 06, 2006)
It was a judgment the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in Delhi had been awaiting with dread. Last October, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court called the decision to dissolve the Bihar Assembly on May 23, 2005 ‘unconstitutional’, . . .
- In A Difficult Phase (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Feb 06, 2006)
The author is an independent researcher. He has recently co-edited the book, Battles over Nature
- Take The Lead (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 06, 2006)
Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq has talked a lot of sense about the return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley. His view especially that his faction of the Hurriyat Conference wants the KPs to go again to their original homes with . . .
- Left Seeks Debate On Iran Issue (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
CPM to discuss support to UPA
The UPA government embarked on a damage-control exercise with the Left parties and the NDA strongly opposing India’s stand on the Iran nuclear issue and a CPM Politburo meeting this week slated to discuss . . .
- Iran Vote Against National Interest: Fernandes (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Attacking the Manmohan Singh government for becoming a "direct party to the designs of the US" in voting against Iran on the nuclear issue, the Janata Dal (United) today said the move was against national interest and it would launch an nationwide . ..
- Maoist Strike Paralyses Life In Nepal (Press Trust of India, Shirish B Pradhan, Feb 06, 2006)
A general strike called by Maoist rebels in Nepal to disrupt the upcoming local body polls paralysed normal life across the Himalayan Kingdom with educational institutes and businesses remaining close on the first day of the week-long stir today.
- Left Protests Iran Vote, To Boycott Upa Meeting (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
The Left parties on Sunday said they would boycott an upcoming coordination meeting with the ruling coalition to protest Iran vote.
- Fear, Desperation Mark Nepal's First Polls In Years (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Feb 06, 2006)
When Govind Prasad Bashyal came to file his papers for polls at the municipal office, he did not expect troops to hold him there for two weeks.
- Nepal Grinds To Halt As Rebel Strike Takes Effect (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Feb 06, 2006)
Hundreds of soldiers and riot police guarded government buildings and patrolled deserted streets across Nepal on Sunday, the first day of a week-long general strike called by the Maoist rebels.
- There Is Life After Fossil Fuels (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 06, 2006)
Budget 2006 must help to rearrange India’s energy basket, says VIKRAM SINGH MEHTA
- Hamas Asserts ‘Right To Self-Defence’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Hamas, under mounting international pressure to renounce violence, asserted the Palestinians’ “right to self defence” on Sunday after the first Israeli air raids since its election victory last month.
- Who Will Lobby Best To Succeed Kofi Annan? (Indian Express, RICHARD HOLBROOKE , Feb 06, 2006)
Almost invisible to the general public, a major international election campaign is underway.
- Iran Vote Fallout: Left ‘Defers’ Meeting Upa (Indian Express, ANANDA MAJUMDAR, Feb 06, 2006)
Snubbed by the UPA on the Iran vote issue, privatisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports and FDI in retail, Left parties today handed out a threat to the ruling coalition by deciding to “defer” the UPA-Left coordination meeting slated for Wednesday.
- Playing By The Ear (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Feb 06, 2006)
The Pakistan constitution, bureaucracy and citizenry are too weak to keep the Army subordinate to the govt
- Hamas Victory: Need For Flexibility (Dawn, Mansoor Alam, Feb 06, 2006)
The recent Hamas victory in the Palestinian election has stunned everyone including Hamas itself. Although pre-election opinion polls had indicated that Hamas would give a close fight, most analysts had predicted a narrow Fatah victory.
- Muslims And Media Frenzy Over Cartoons (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Feb 06, 2006)
The issue is not whether Muslims are right or wrong to be upset but whether or not they have the right to peaceful protest when they feel, rightly or wrongly, that their religious feelings have been hurt.
- Trouble For The Centre On The Wheat Front (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI, Feb 06, 2006)
Wheat stocks in FCI godowns have touched perilously low levels
The centre's decision to import five lakh tonnes of wheat to augment the domestic availability is expected to have a sobering effect on market prices.
- Making Of Independent Governors (Indian Express, Jagmohan , Feb 06, 2006)
Over the years, much criticism has been levelled against the manner in which a few governors have acted in discharge of their constitutional functions. They have been accused of playing a partisan role and favouring the Centre.
- Bangla Oppn Defy Govt Crackdown (Deccan Herald, Hassan Shahriar, Feb 06, 2006)
Carrying banners and chanting slogans, men and women from every corner of the country voiced their opposition to Begum Khaleda Zia’s four-party coalition government.
- An Unnecessary Escalation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 06, 2006)
The International Atomic Energy Agency's decision to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council has opened a new and dangerous chapter in the crisis sparked by Western insistence that Teheran abandon its legitimate rights to the civilian nuclear fuel cycle.
- Kumaraswamy Favours Consolidation Of Anti-Congress Forces In State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Chief Minister favours merger of Janata Dal (U) with Janata Dal (S)
- Karnataka Cabinet Expansion After Trust Vote (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
All 16 JD(S) Ministers to be appointed at one go
With another round of pujas and ceremonies, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy moved into his home office "Krishna", with wife Anita and other family members on Sunday.
- Congress Remarks On `Padayatra' Irks Tdp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Selection of job scheme beneficiaries by Congress alleged
Congress urged to stop campaign against TDP
NREGP termed a modified version of several schemes
- Left Front To Name Poll Candidates On Feb. 16 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
There will be no formal mahajot in the polls, says CPI leader
Mamata fails to reach agreement with Congress on Mahajot
We will go our own ways, says Pranab Mukherjee
Election Commission move to take corrective steps in deletion of names welcomed
- Boxed In (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 06, 2006)
The Manmohan Singh government surprised none when on Saturday for the second time in less than five months’ time it cast an affirmative vote against India’s traditional friend Iran in the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
- Mplads Should Not Be Scrapped (Tribune, Puran Singh Yadav, Feb 05, 2006)
The objective of the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) is to facilitate developmental works with an emphasis on the creation of durable community assets in MPs’ constituencies. It can also be sanctioned for disaster relief.
- India Votes Against Iran At Iaea (Indian Express, Reuters, Feb 05, 2006)
The UN nuclear watchdog voted on Saturday to report Iran to the Security Council over suspicions it plans to build atomic weapons, and Tehran responded it would start enriching uranium fuel that can be used in bombs.
- Danish Cartoons: Provocative And Perverse (Dawn, Robert Fisk, Feb 05, 2006)
This is not an issue of secularism versus Islam. For Muslims, the Prophet is the man who received divine words directly from God. We see our saints and prophets as faintly historical figures, at odds with our high-tech human rights and freedoms, . . .
- Musharraf Needs His Own Party (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Feb 05, 2006)
Having dominated the national scene longer than any of his chief rivals, Gen Musharraf should go to the people in 2007 with his own, new party rather than continue to rely on the defectors from other parties.
- Regulatory Body Needed (Tribune, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Feb 05, 2006)
In the history of game shows on Indian television, no season has witnessed as many controversies as the current one.
- Iaea Refers Iran To Security Council (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Feb 05, 2006)
India again voted against Iran as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today referred the Iranian nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council which has the power to impose crippling political and economic sanctions on Tehran.
- Tehran To Tarmac, Left Lashed (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
The airport ceasework has been called off without achieving its original objective and India has voted with the US against Iran, making it a Black Saturday for the Left.
- Learn We Must (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 05, 2006)
Why do we revel in making our environment filthy? We throw garbage wherever we like.
- India Votes Against Iran (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Closing ranks, India and 26 other countries today voted in favour of an IAEA resolution to report Iran’s controversial nuclear programme to the UN Security Council but a defiant Tehran declared that it would go ahead with full-scale Uranium enrichment.
- Twilight Of The West (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 05, 2006)
Niall Ferguson From the Daily Telegraph © Niall Ferguson
The author is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University www.niallferguson.org
- Battles At Home (Hindu, R. KRITHIKA, Feb 05, 2006)
`A TALE of war and peace', says the blurb of Nilita Vachani's HomeSpun. Well, the book does refer to the freedom struggle and the Indo-Pak war but the phrase seems to have more to do with the battles fought within the four walls of a home.
- Hamas Expects To Form Palestinian Government (Reuters, Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Feb 05, 2006)
A Hamas leader said on Saturday that the Islamic militant group hoped to form a Palestinian government later this month after agreeing with President Mahmoud Abbas to convene parliament on Feb. 16.
- Iran And United States Square Up After Iaea Vote (Reuters, PARISA HAFEZI , Feb 05, 2006)
Defiant Iran said it would end snap U.N. nuclear checks on Sunday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog voted to report the Islamic Republic to the Security Council over concerns about its nuclear programme.
- Nepal Grinds To Halt As Rebel Strike Takes Effect (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Feb 05, 2006)
Hundreds of riot police guarded government buildings and patrolled deserted streets across Nepal on Sunday, the first day of a week-long general strike called by the Maoist rebels.
- Ally Left’S Sorry Saturday: Iran Goes To Un, Airport Staff To Work (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Feb 05, 2006)
Going along with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, including Russia and China, and concerned over Tehran’s A Q Khan link, India today voted in favour of a resolution by the nuclear watchdog agency IAEA to report the Iran nuclear . . .
- Express Your Voice (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 05, 2006)
Thanks to Sudheendra Kulkarni for his timely reminder on Q and his links with the powers that be (‘Q marks dent the halo around a renunciant’, January 29). Perhaps now he will turn his attention to the perversions of justice in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat,...
- Manmohan Compromising To Stick To Office: Advani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
But I gave up my party job to stand by my views on Jinnah
Kalam erred in agreeing to Assembly dissolution President's action should not become precedent I am not "minimalised" in party
- Iran: Left To Take Stock (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Say it violates NCMP commitment to independent foreign policy
Economic policies of the Government will also come under the scanner at the proposed meet
The parties have also condemned stand on privatisation of airports as `adamant' and `unreasonable'
- India Drops Bombshell Again On Iran (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
India on Saturday voted in favour of an international resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council even as it repeated its commitment to “close and friendly ties” with Tehran and supported its right to civilian nuclear energy.
- Vote Not To Affect Ties With Tehran, Says New Delhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Within hours of its vote in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) governing body meeting in Vienna in favour of reporting the Iranian nuclear programme to the UN Security Council, the Manmohan Singh government asserted on Saturday that its . . .
- America Unplugged (Hindu, RUMINA SETHI, Feb 05, 2006)
IN today's globalised climate, the former colonies have ended up as the neo-colonial empire of the United States, complicit in global give and take, economic hegemony, and . . .
- `Karnataka Developments Augur Well For Bjp' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Party to go it alone in the forthcoming polls in two States: Venkaiah Naidu
- Asthma: No Permanent Cure (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
"Asthma needs to be treated regularly to control it," says the respiratory physician on our panel in response to readers' queries.
- Different Journeys And Destinations (Hindu, SOMA BASU, Feb 05, 2006)
Tabish Khair's latest anthology grew out of a casual lunchtime discussion with two of the other editors. "We started talking of Asian and African travel texts, and we listed almost 20 between the three of us. Later, research took us to a hundred, . . .
- Unpleasant Surprise? (Hindu, Bill Kirkman, Feb 05, 2006)
After the result of the Palestinian election, the fundamental question is about the values that underlie policy. Will Hamas renounce violence?
- Global Nature Of Protest (Hindu, Mike Marqusee, Feb 05, 2006)
A look at the significance of February 15, 2003.
Many demonstrators who hoped to deter the invasion of Iraq probably underestimated what they were up against ... ."
- Kumaraswamy Sets Tasks For Senior Administrators, Police Officials (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Make this coalition Government a model, says Yediyurappa
- Private Militia In Balochistan Must Disarm: Musharraf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
President unveils four-point solution to crisis;
condemns blasphemous cartoons
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday denied any military operation in Balochistan but said that the private local militia must disarm and stop hampering . . .
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