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Articles 18321 through 18420 of 26693:
- The Difference Between India And Pakistan (Rediff on the Net, VIJAY DANDAPANI, Oct 20, 2005)
If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry.
- If India Had Abstained... (Indian Express, Subrahmanyam, Oct 20, 2005)
It is amazing to see the tons of newsprint devoted to the Iran issue in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in this country without any focus on the real issue.
- China Redraws Its Roadmap (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Oct 20, 2005)
As New Delhi hotly chases the unprecedented economic strides being taken by its big neighbour, China — which recorded two straight years of an annual growth exceeding nine per cent — the Asian dragon has realised its folly. It has decided to scrap the....
- India's Iaea Vote Helped Gain Support For Nuclear Deal, Says Us Official (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
On the eve of his visit to New Delhi, US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns has said that with India voting in favour of the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] resolution on Iran's nuclear programme,
- To Mitigate And Prevent Disasters (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Extracts from the government of India’s status report on Disaster Management in India, August 2004
- An Exercise In Futility (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
No wonder, the debate among the Congress, the Akali Dal and other political parties over terrorism degenerated into an inane blame game. The whole idea of discussing “roots and causes of terrorism” was an exercise in futility which would not have served a
- Where Reason And Religion Clash (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Oct 20, 2005)
An American raised an interesting question in Dawn’s letters column (Oct 11). Hurt by remarks from “Muslims worldwide” who saw a relationship between the Katrina disaster and America’s war on Iraq, Steve Elisha, from Colorado Springs, Co., asked whether
- Mps Flout Election Laws (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 20, 2005)
It must have come as a shock to the people of Pakistan that the Election Commission had to issue suspension notices to 21 members of the National Assembly and 71 members of the Provincial Assemblies for disregarding the legal provision of declaring . . .
- Won’T She Learn? Mamata Must Change Her Tactics (India Daily, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 20, 2005)
In a few hours, and then over the next couple of days, it will be clear just how far Miss Mamata Banerjee is prepared to go in registering her party’s protest at the visit of a team from Indonesia’s Salim group.
- After The Verdict By Subroto Roy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 20, 2005)
The last and only time a Head of State of India “resigned” was when Edward VIII (uncle of the present Queen of England) abdicated in 1936 because he wished to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American, and the British Government under Stanley Ba
- Mitrokhin’S Revelations (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Oct 20, 2005)
Vasily Mitrokhin, who died in 2004, was a KGB operative, who worked in the intelligence agency’s archives from 1956 to 1985. He copied documents and defected to the West in 1992, just after the Soviet Union disintegrated.
- Managing Security Through Fixed Tenures? (Hindu, N.N. Vohra, Oct 20, 2005)
All security-related posts must be manned by those chosen from a dedicated pool of officers selected and trained for the specific purpose.
- Chandrika Extends "Full Support" To Rajapakse For November Polls (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Oct 20, 2005)
Denies differences within the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
- Defiant Saddam Pleads Not Guilty (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
A defiant Saddam Hussein on Wednesday refused to give his name and challenged the legitimacy of the court, but then pleaded “not guilty” as he went on trial for crimes against humanity allegedly committed two decades ago.
- Bjp Demands Removal Of Two Ministers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
On Election Commission orders, police team formed to probe release of Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate
Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav "pressured" police to release his brother on bail
Two senior CRPF officials met Lalu Prasad "surreptitiously" in Patna
- Bihar Second Phase Polling On Nov 13 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Bihar Governor Buta Singh on Wednesday issued notification for the third phase of polling in 72 constituencies of 12 districts on November 13.
- Living Together (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Oct 20, 2005)
Both leftist leaders and investors in Bengal know that Citu and the CPI(M) are inseparable, argues Sumanta Sen
- Uma To Continue Bihar Campaign (Deccan Herald, CP Bhambri, Oct 20, 2005)
The Madhya Pradesh BJP chief, however, claimed that the crisis triggered by Uma loyalists stood resolved.
- Bihar: Repoll Begins In 18 Booths (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Repolling began this morning in 18 booths in extremism-hit Gaya, Jehanabad and Buxar districts of Bihar from where complaints of electoral malpractices and other problems were reported during the first phase of polling on October 18, . . .
- Kalam Witnesses True Face Of Goa Politics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Kalam’s roadmap for Goa envisaged a trebling of tourist arrivals. Every tourist national or international generated at least four jobs, he said.
- Mitrokhin Archives — Politics In The Cold War Years (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Oct 20, 2005)
The more important question that arises from Vasily Mitrokhin's revelations is not whether any individual or political party received money from one or the other superpower, but whether their foreign links compromised national security and sovereignty.
- Promises Galore (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 20, 2005)
It is the Muslim month of Ramzan and the season for iftar parties. Elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly are just a few months away. What better time to hold out promises?
- Deal With India Won't Weaken Non-Proliferation: Burns (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 20, 2005)
To ask Congress for legislative changes for civilian cooperation
Indian vote at IAEA meeting a "dramatic example"
U.S. to approach NSG allies to help India
Ties between two countries have transformed into "nascent strategic partnership"
- Notification Issued (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 20, 2005)
Bihar Governor Buta Singh on Wednesday issued notification for the third phase of State Assembly elections in 72 constituencies on November 13.
- Pm Lays Stress On Role Of States In Rural Employment (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Stating that NREGA is to be extended across the country within five years, Dr Singh stressed the importance of public accountability in the implementation of the programme.
- If India Had Abstained... (Indian Express, Subrahmanyam, Oct 19, 2005)
It is amazing to see the tons of newsprint devoted to the Iran issue in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in this country without any focus on the real issue.
- Supreme Court Declines To Stay Bihar Elections (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
"Reasons for not reviving dissolved House will be recorded "
Poll will mean having two sets of legislators: petitioner
October 7 order a conscious decision: Bench
Seeking stay amounts to challenging EC notification
- 10-Year Jail Term For Human Rights Activist (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
A Maldives court has sentenced a human rights activist to 10 years in prison for ``instigating terrorism,'' a government spokesman said. Jennifer Latheef (32) was sent to jail after being identified as ``one of the instigators''
- Terror Aftershock: J&k Minister Killed At Home (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
AS if replying to the buzz here over the past few days that many terror camps were destroyed by the earthquake, militants chose high profile targets early on Tuesday morning as a reminder of their presence.
- Pakistan’S Image Problem (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Oct 19, 2005)
Another year has gone by in our country’s chequered history as an independent state.
- Mitrokhin Papers: Ambika Soni Defends Congress (Tribune, Rashme Sehgal, Oct 19, 2005)
The controversy over Christopher Andrews’ recently released book titled “Mitrokhin Archive 11” refuses to go away. The Mitrokhin papers reveals how the KGB’s first prolonged contact with Indira Gandhi occurred way back in 1953.
- A Poor Picture (Tribune, J.L. Gupta, Oct 19, 2005)
My father’s friend was a good painter. Long back, he had painted a life-size portrait of Sardar Patel. The childhood memories of the painting are still vivid. The Sardar looked serious, stern and straight.
- 3 Cheers For 2 Articles (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
At the Bombay High Court, while arguing for Environmental Action Group, Mr I. M. Chagla clarified that he was not seeking a freeze on all development in the mill land.
- Distant Neighbours (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 19, 2005)
Sufferings efface identities. I thought something like that would happen when the earthquake struck Islamabad and both sides of Kashmir, causing more death and destruction in the areas under Pakistan’s control than in India.
- The Larger Gameplan (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Oct 19, 2005)
Despite the potential of her anti-Salim stand, Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to earn long-term dividends from it, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
- Land Eight Times The Size Of Nariman Point (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
Money buys land, and wives are sold by fate, wrote the Bard in Merry Wives of Windsor. But it looks like the fate of land sales is bleak considering how NTC's plans have crash-landed.
- Bihar: Notification For 3rd Phase Of Polls Issued (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Bihar Governor Buta Singh today issued notification for the third phase of state assembly elections in 72 constituencies on November 13.
- The Cloud Of Environment Clearance (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
One of the objections raised by Mr I. M. Chagla, while arguing against the thirty-plus parties before the Bombay High Court was that none of the respondents who have started construction of residential/commercial premises have obtained the mandatory. . .
- Nuggets Of Judicial Wisdom (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 19, 2005)
"The most vital `community need' at present is the reversal of the environmental degradation. There are virtually no `lung spaces' in the city. The Master Plan indicates that about 34 per cent of recreational areas have been lost to other uses," ...
- Bangladesh Government Bans Harkat-Ul-Jihad (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Oct 19, 2005)
Harkat has been involved in carrying out terrorist activities in Bangladesh for half a decade
- Past Lady (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 19, 2005)
No worse fate can befall a politician than increasing irrelevance. Ms Mamata Banerjee has placed herself in that hapless plight.
- Two Congressmen Shot Dead By Tdp Gunman (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2005)
Trouble during filing of nominations for PACS elections
- How They All Stack Up (Telegraph, Sanjay Kumar, Oct 19, 2005)
Two things hold the key to success in Bihar —political alliances and voter turnout.
- Farce Or Fraud? (Statesman, Bibhuti Bhusan Nandy, Oct 18, 2005)
The inept handling of the public hearings by the Delimitation Commission at Siliguri, Durgapur and Kolkata exposed the inadequacies of the commission as much as the politicised West Bengal administration.
- A Question Of Ethics (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Nobody likes to see a congressman indicted for criminal conspiracy. So all of us in Washington were bereft when Tom Delay was charged with an alleged scheme to funnel illegal corporate campaign funds to Texas Republicans running for the . . .
- Editorials (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 18, 2005)
Cracking up and wilting in the wilderness after the last Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party seems to be floundering in its quest for a leader.
- Some Misjudgments (Dawn, Mahdi Masud, Oct 18, 2005)
In one of his most radical pronouncements on the Iraq war, President Bush declared at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington on October 5 that Muslim militants were battling to “establish a radical Islamic empire extending from Spain to Indone
- Intellectuals Raise Voice For Pollution Free Deepavali (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Form a group in each area and burst crackers together in open fields, instead of disturbing peace in residential areas.
- A Sanyasin’S Anger (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 18, 2005)
Signals from Bhopal suggest that Ms Uma Bharati is no pushover. Even if the assertion that 80-85 BJP legislators have written to party chief L.K. Advani to requisition a meeting of the state legislature party to elect a new leader is exaggerated,
- 70 Iraqis Killed In Us Airstrikes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
A local doctor has claimed that he received the bodies of 25 men, apparently killed in aerial attacks.
- Us To Open India’S Nuke-Case At Nsg Meet Today (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 18, 2005)
Taking matters forward on a key aspect of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Washington will soon open negotiations formally in the 44-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to carve out a special status for India.
- E-Waste: A Global Problem (Daily Excelsior, Dr Pragya Khanna, Oct 18, 2005)
E-waste or electronic waste includes computers, entertainment electronics, mobile phones and other items that have been discarded by their original users.
- Stuck In The Middle (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 18, 2005)
Uma Bharti has now openly asserted her strength and is making a concerted bid to get back into the gaddi.
- New Access (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 18, 2005)
The symbolic force of laws may sometimes be more meaningful than their presence.
- ‘Yes’ Vote In Iraq (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2005)
Even though the official results in Iraq’s referendum will take some time to come, all indications are that the constitution has been approved by the Iraqi people.
- Wetlands In Dire Straits (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2005)
One hopes that the approval of a Rs 700 million project for conserving Pakistan’s wetlands will result in a new lease of life for the country’s water spots, many of which are drying up or are heavily polluted, . . .
- Voting Starts In Bihar (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Thousands of policemen, backed by helicopters, patrolled the lawless state of Bihar on Tuesday as voting began in a state poll that will decide the fortunes of a key member of the Congress Party-led federal coalition.
- Left Back (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 18, 2005)
Should the UPA be celebrating the return of the Left to the coordination committee? Or should it now give up any attempts at proposing economic reforms and prepare, instead, to tailor all its policy initiatives
- Bihar Poll: One Killed, 10 Per Cent Voting Till 1000 Hrs (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
One person was shot dead by unidentified assailants as around 10 per cent of nearly 1.23 crore voters exercised their franchise by 1000 hrs today amid reports of faults in electronic voting machines (EVMs) during polling in 57 assembly constituencies.....
- Karnataka Sends Rs. 1 Cr. Relief To Quake Victims (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
The Karnataka Government on Monday despatched 43 tonnes of relief material, including food items, medicine and blankets, for the victims of the earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir, by an Indian Air Force cargo aircraft.
- Prodi Wins Nationwide Primary (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Italian Opposition leader Romano Prodi won overwhelming support in a nationwide primary that confirmed him as the Centre-Left candidate for Italy's general elections next year, results showed on Monday.
- Bihar Polls Begin Today (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 18, 2005)
Two top officers of the CRPF, which is in charge of security in Bihar polls, have been transferred for meeting Laloo Prasad Yadav.
- `Water Literacy Should Be New Mantra' (Hindu, A. A. Michael Raj, Oct 18, 2005)
After the literacy movement that brought enlightenment to many people, the country needs a National Water Literacy Movement to ensure that all citizens had access to adequate drinking water.
- Contemporary Islamic Law (Hindu, N.R. MADHAVA MENON, Oct 18, 2005)
Fyzee's contribution by way of consolidation and restatement of the law through cases is a major step forward in an otherwise dicey situation of orthodoxy, prejudice, inequality and fear
- End The Inequity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 18, 2005)
Promoted by A Parliamentary Standing Committee report, the Centre is considering a proposal to reduce the burden of the paying power consumer whenever the utilities raise tariffs.
- They Were Progressive (Hindu, S. SRINIVAS, Oct 18, 2005)
Councillors in the pre-Corporation era exhibited amazing sensitivity to issues far beyond their immediate geography
- No Respect For The Pm? (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Everyone in the Congress knows that Manmohan Singh holds the office of prime minister thanks to supreme leader Sonia Gandhi.
- The Race To Make India Contain China - Boeing Offers World’S Top-Of-The-Shelf Weapons Platforms To India With Indication Of Outsourcing From The Country (India Daily, Sonia Joshi, Oct 17, 2005)
It is clear now that India is a country that can eventually contain the Communist China right in Asia from further expansion.
- Bihar: Who Is The Culprit? (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Oct 17, 2005)
President Kalam could have avoided the current embarrassment by looking back at precedents
- Avenue Into Past & Present (Deccan Herald, T L Ramaswamy, Oct 17, 2005)
Avenue Road is one of the most prestigious streets of Bangalore City. From the days of the City's founder Kempegowda till today, this road remains as one of the main conduits of Bangalore’s business districts.
- Mrs Chancellor (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 17, 2005)
A “grand coalition’’ in Germany
- People’S Welfare (Statesman, AK BASU, Oct 17, 2005)
The Right of Citizens to Information has come into operation. Withholding information from natives suited the rulers of India before 1947.
- Coordinating Ritual (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 17, 2005)
Left does not have a choice
- Campaign For Phase I Ends In Bihar (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
Poll campaign in 57 Assembly constituencies in Bihar came to an end on Sunday. The first phase of polls is scheduled for October 18.
- Sonia’S Code (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2005)
The party may just need such counsel
- Troubled Land (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 17, 2005)
It is not always enough to wish very hard for democracy. The draft constitution in Iraq has angered the Sunni minority, and many of them went to vote in the referendum on it simply to say “no”.
- Just Impatient (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Oct 17, 2005)
Can a jurisprudence of exasperation sustain the court’s authority?
- Left Back (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2005)
Should the UPA be celebrating the return of the Left to the coordination committee? Or should it now give up any attempts at proposing economic reforms and prepare,
- Maintaining Judicial Decorum (Tribune, Rajinder Sachar, Oct 17, 2005)
Embarrassment abounding (though I would have said disgrace abounding, as would many in the legal profession) is the reaction to the spectacle of two former Chief Justices of India being virtually bundled out of the BCCI’s AGM.
- Bihar Polls: No Criminals As Ministers, Warns Bjp (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2005)
BJP president L K Advani on Sunday went on the defensive on the issue of NDA fielding of people with criminal backgrounds for the Bihar polls saying it would be ensured that such people were not made ministers it came to power.
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