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- Woman Threatens Suicide Amid Travel Chaos (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2007)
A woman threatened to kill herself after her Air Deccan flight from New Delhi to Kashmir was cancelled due to bad weather, airline officials said on Saturday.
- Ordinary Heroes (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2007)
Postman's Park holds some of the city's most heart-warming stories.
- Unfolding Tragedy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jan 02, 2007)
Perversity of crime is compounded by police indifference.
- Somali Islamists Flee Defences (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2007)
Defeated Somali Islamists fled their defences near a southern town and headed towards the Kenyan border on Monday in what looked like the end of a nearly two-week war with the Ethiopian-backed government.
- 90 Feared Killed In Indonesia Jetliner Crash (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2007)
Rescuers on Tuesday found the smouldering wreckage of an Indonesian jetliner that went missing during a storm, and officials said 90 people were killed while the remaining 12 aboard survived.
- Air Force Guards Fire To Stop ‘Drunk’ Driver Near Pm’S Residence (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2007)
New Year celebrations laced with alcohol and fog ended in jail for a 24-year-old man who entered the high-security air force zone opposite the Prime Minister’s residence and was stopped when guards fired to deflate his car’s tyres.
- Organ Smugglers? (Pioneer, Kriti Nath Jha/ Noida, Jan 02, 2007)
More skeletons, with chest parts missing, dug out from Noida house of horrors
- Saddam Buried After Four-Day 'Siege' In Tikrit (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2007)
Hundreds of Iraqis flocked to the village where Saddam Hussein was born on Sunday to see the deposed leader buried in a religious compound 24 hours after his execution. Dozens of relatives and others, some of them crying and moaning, attended the . . .
- Hindutva, Again? (Pioneer, RAHUL RAMAGUNDAM, Dec 30, 2006)
All over Sitamarhi minors are seen doing odd jobs instead of studying, which is in violation of the Child Labour Act, says Rahul Ramagundam.
- Bmw Donates For Tsunami Reconstruction (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2006)
Auto major BMW has donated a sum of Euro 1,50,000 towards reconstructing houses in tsunami-hit South India. The amount has been channelised through German World Hunger Aid to reach Cuddalore, and the Dalits of the area who were affected.
- 'Inordinate Delay' In Submission Of Proposals Deplored (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2006)
`Certain departments' utilised less than 65 per cent of plan allocations: CM
Planning panel approves Rs.1,410 crore for current fiscal
Rs. 303 crore for reconstruction programmes in tsunami-hit areas
- Ntpc Power Project In Trincomalee (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 30, 2006)
Signs pacts with CEB, Sri Lanka Government
Plant location to be finalised in 2-3 months
Project will involve an investment of $500 m
- Why Mumbai's Municipal Elections Count (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Dec 30, 2006)
For Mumbai's citizens, the elections are a chance to assert their right to better governance. For the major political parties, this is virtually a mini State election.
- Such A Serious, Reasonable Year (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 30, 2006)
We spent five years acting hysterically, like a nation that was in a fight with Ricky Ricardo.
- Sick! Sordid Tale Of Blood And Lust (Pioneer, Kriti Nath Jha/ Noida, Dec 30, 2006)
More skeletons, with chest parts missing, dug out from Noida house of horrors
- U.K. Pays Off Second World War Loans (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 30, 2006)
For most people the Second World War is a distant memory or relived through books or television.
- Summing Up 2006 (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Dec 30, 2006)
It’s been a good year, arguably the best since we became an Independent nation. We have never been as well-off as we are today.
- Snapped Links (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 30, 2006)
A local quake can shake the whole wired world.
- We Celebrate Survival (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 30, 2006)
I gave up on New Year’s Eve parties a few years ago.
- What The Urdu Press Is Saying (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 29, 2006)
The forthcoming Uttar Pradesh elections have triggered a full-scale campaign through Urdu papers already.
- The Rs 1 Lakh Question (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Dec 29, 2006)
Ratan Tata has told NDTV, “Let me just say it (the Singur controversy) is not just political, because I happen to know that some of our competitors are also fuelling some of this fire.
- Punjab’S Rs 3,772-Crore Special Term Loan Waived (Tribune, Sarbjit Dhaliwal, Dec 29, 2006)
The Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, today thanked the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, for getting waived the pending special term loan worth Rs 3,772 crore against Punjab. Capt Amarinder Singh said the decision to waive the loan was taken . .. .
- Us Reservist Goes Berserk, Cops Kill Him (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
An Army Reservist despondent about being sent to Iraq was killed by police during a 14-hour standoff that began Christmas night when family members told authorities he was armed and threatening to kill himself.
- Iaf Provides Jobs For Quake-Affected (Tribune, Vijay Mohan, Dec 29, 2006)
After having provided succor to people of Jammu and Kashmir devastated by a powerful earthquake which rocked north India last year, the IAF has now provided a source of employment to some persons from the effected areas.
- 'Failed' Agni-Iii Ready For Re-Test (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
India is planning to test fire again the country's most potent 3,000 kms range surface to surface missile Agni-III early in the New Year as Defence scientists make a bid to wash out failures which plagued the missile programme in 2006.
- Hasta La Vista, Xp? (Pioneer, Surajit Dasgupta, Dec 29, 2006)
Business users love its connectivity and security, parents love its child censors, but Windows Vista is no revolution, says Surajit Dasgupta
- Russian Plane Makes Emergency Landing (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
A possible hijacking attempt on a Russian plane with 170 people on board on Thursday ended after the pilot made an emergency landing in Prague.
- Desert Storm (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Dec 29, 2006)
Developments in Somalia suggest that the East African country’s slide into anarchy is accelerating.
- Sri Lanka: Uncertainty As De-Merger Nears (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 29, 2006)
With a war-like situation and no prospects for talks in the near future, the timing for effecting de-merger of the North and the East could not have been more inopportune.
- Quick Relief, Slow Rehabilitation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 29, 2006)
Democratic governments tend to be good at rescuing, and providing life-saving relief to, citizens during times of disaster.
- Put Demerger On Hold, Says Tulf (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 29, 2006)
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) president V. Anandasangaree has urged Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to put the de-merger of the north-east province on hold on the plea that it would only strengthen the Tamil Tigers.
- Somalia's Troops Enter Mogadishu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Islamists flee, call it tactical
Fears of chaos in Somalia amid gunfire
All probelems will be solved, says President
- Ford Disagreed With Bush Over Invading Iraq (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Former president Gerald Ford had said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified.
- The Rose (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Dec 29, 2006)
Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise — We who dwell in the true ecstasy can forget their vase-tamed bouquet. In our hall of mirrors, the map of the one Face appears As the sun's splendour would spangle a world made of dew.
- Nine Killed And 10 Injured In Indian-Held Kashmir Violence (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Five suspected militants, including two LT members, killed
Militants kill former insurgent and police informer
Locals accuse police of killing Muslim man in custody
- Thinking About The Next Election (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Dec 29, 2006)
The minister of state for information and broadcasting, Senator Tariq Azeem, ‘hinted’ on Wednesday that the prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, would seek a second term after the next elections, which would be held by January 15, 2008.
- Somali Troops Enter Mogadishu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Somali government troops entered the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu on Thursday after Islamist rivals abandoned the city to chaos in the face of an Ethiopian-backed advance.
- Know It By Heart (Deccan Herald, ROGER COHEN, Dec 29, 2006)
A first step in mummification for the ancient Egyptians was the removal of the brain from a dead body, a process involving the use of hooked instruments to extract tissue through the nostrils.
- Story Of Strength Lost In Translation (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
This is the stuff sagas are made of. A tale of injustice, crime, dishonour, and a long fight of determination and courage towards freedom, respect, honour and empowerment. This is the story of a woman who didn’t let circumstances hinder her quest . . .
- Scramble To Repair Asia Telecom Lines After Quake (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Telecommunications operators in Taiwan and Hong Kong have dispatched workers to repair quake-damaged undersea cables, as much of Asia remained without Internet access, officials said today.
- 500 Charred In Lagos Pipeline Blast (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Up to 500 people were burnt alive on Tuesday when fuel from a vandalised pipeline exploded in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, emergency workers said.
- Indonesian Flood-Hit Get Aid (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Government and aid agencies were moving food, water and medical aid on Thursday to hundreds of thousands forced into temporary shelters by floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island.
- Bengal Cm Makes New Offer To Fasting Mamata (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Fasting Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Thursday evening received a fresh letter from the West Bengal government inviting her for talks on a car project she is opposing, even as President APJ Abdul Kalam spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan . . .
- Somalian Troops Enter Mogadishu Outskirts (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
Somali government troops entered the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu today after Islamist rivals abandoned the city in the face of an Ethiopian-backed advance.
- The Day Nature’S Fury Froze The Digital World (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2006)
It was a natural disaster for the digital age that radiated through much of Asia and beyond after an undersea earthquake late Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan.
- Where Discovery Of India Is Delayed (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Dec 28, 2006)
Despite the ancient connections of Buddhism, geographical proximity, and an increasing economic engagement, Sino-Indian tourism remains something of a non-starter. In 2005, India was able to attract a grand total of 35,000 Chinese travellers.
- Jallianwala Massacre In Uk Syllabus Causes Big Furore (Times of India, RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL, Dec 28, 2006)
Britain is to teach its schoolchildren about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in an optional curriculum course offered nationally for the first time ever, 87 years after trigger-happy General Dyer ordered a peaceful, unarmed, pro-independence meeting . . .
- 2 Let Militants Among Five Killed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
Five persons, including two militants of Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Toiba (Let) outfit, were killed and five injured while two militants were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir since last night, a police spokesman said today.
- Not So Friendly: Hydropower Adding To Climate Change (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 28, 2006)
Except for a handful of fossil-fuel-funded lobbyists who deny the reality of global warming, we all agree that we urgently need to “green” our energy sources.
- Ensuring Global Uranium Supplies (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 28, 2006)
An insurance would not stop a country from developing nuke technology for bombs.
- Eight Killed As Bus Falls Into River (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
Eight persons were killed and 23 others injured when a State Transport Corporation bus going from Nagapattinam to Thondi fell into the Nasuviniyar river at Anaikadu, eight km from Pattukottai, in Thanjavur district, in the early hours on Wednesday.
- Soldier, Taxi Driver Killed In Kashmir Gunbattle (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
An Indian soldier and a civilian were killed in a gunbattle between suspected Islamic rebels and government forces in Indian-held Kashmir, the army said on Wednesday.
- Tsunami Anniversary (Singapore Times, Editorial, The Singapore Times, Dec 28, 2006)
Two years have passed since the tsunami triggered by the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake killed more than 220,000 people in nations along the Indian Ocean. Vegetation has returned to devastated communities that were once reduced to rubble and piles of mud.
- Wolfowitz Owes Us An Explanation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 28, 2006)
Accountability is one of those ideals, like justice or the triumph of right over might, that are wonderful in principle but usually disappointing in practice.
- Bjp Fires First Salvo In The Battle For Lucknow (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 28, 2006)
The BJP has opened the battle for the UP Assembly by going back to its Hindutva mantra, which might send the Congress and the Left seeking the Muslim vote. The principal players — Mr Mulayam Singh's Samajwadi Party and Ms Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party —
- From Bad To Worse (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 28, 2006)
Somalia has impinged on the consciousness of sated westerners over Christmas because Ethiopia’s intervention has now added a dangerous new dimension to an already protracted crisis.
- Ppp Issues Conditional Threat Of Poll Boycott (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) has indicated that it may change its strategy and boycott the forthcoming general elections, if it gets information about government’s moves to rig the poll.
- Cost Uncertainties Of Nuclear Plants (Business Line, SANKAR RAY, Dec 28, 2006)
Controversies about nuclear vs. coal-fired technology aside, the more pertinent issue is comparative costs between the two, especially the hidden future costs.
- Coping With Criticism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 28, 2006)
The first step in coping with criticism is to pray for our critics. Bless the critics that hurt you. This may sound very difficult. But the amazing truth is that it does relieve the hurt.
- Capitol Hill Sex Scandal Heads For Trial (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
When Robert Steinbuch discovered his girlfriend had discussed intimate details about their sex life in her online diary, the Capitol Hill staffer didn't just get mad. He got a lawyer.
- No Water For A Day As Mumbai Upgrades Pipes (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
Mumbai's 16 million residents were left without running water for 24 hours yesterday as the supply was turned off to upgrade the system.
- Asian Nations Remember The 230,000 Killed In The Tsunami (Jerusalem Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
Thousands of people fled beaches in one of Indonesia's largest-ever tsunami drills Tuesday, kicking off remembrances across Asia two years after devastating waves crashed into coastlines and killed 230,000 people.
- Exports Grow At 39 Pc, Cross Usd 100 Bn Mark (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
The high rate of growth during 2006 will ensure that the export target of USD 125 billion for the year 2006-07 is reached, Kamal Nath, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, said, while indicating that exports during April-Nov 2006 have already . . .
- Curfew Clamped In Nepalgunj (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
Officials reimposed a curfew in a western Nepalese border town on Wednesday to prevent more deadly clashes between residents and rural migrants, an official said.
- Ratan Tata Blames "Competitors" For Singur Controversy (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
Ratan Tata on Wednesday blamed competitors for "fuelling" fire in the controversy over the proposed Rs one-lakh car project at Singur in West Bengal, but resolved not to pull out of the state.
- Law Isn't Taking Its Course (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Dec 28, 2006)
Disclosures made under the RTI Act reveal that wheels of justice often do not seem to turn at all, says Anuradha Dutt.
- The Unelected President (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 28, 2006)
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., who became the 38th president of the United States as a result of some of the most extraordinary events in US history, has died. He was 93.
- Starving On Soundbites (Indian Express, Inder Malhotra, Dec 28, 2006)
There is bound to be sympathy for Mamata Banerjee because her “fast unto death” over the issue of the Tata car factory at Singur in West Bengal, now in its fourth week, has started taking a toll of her health.
- ‘Bush Babies’ And The Nuke Deal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 28, 2006)
Organiser’s foreign affairs expert M.D. Nalapat’s relentless tirade against the Indo-US nuclear deal continues with a detailed article in the current issue that describes Manmohan Singh and Pranab Mukherjee as the “Bush babies in the union cabinet.”
- Nigeria Pipeline Blast Toll 265, Says Red Cross (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
Workers in Lagos carried away the last charred bodies of victims from a fire that swept through a crowd of Nigerians scrounging fuel from a ruptured gasoline pipeline, and the final death toll stood at 265, the Red Cross said Wednesday.
- Rudyard Tale (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 28, 2006)
Whatever his views on the East being the East and the West being the West, Rudyard Kipling’s fiction gives us a kaleidoscopic view of colonial India.
- Colombo, Ltte To Blame, Says Annan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Dec 28, 2006)
Amid a low-key second anniversary to mark the tsunami, the U.N.has blamed the violence in Sri Lanka for the slow pace of reconstruction as nearly 45 per cent of people continue to be housed in temporary shelters.
- Fast Hence Loose (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 28, 2006)
Mamata Banerjee’s prolonged fast over Singur is surely having the unintended effect of highlighting the extreme awkwardness and incongruity of the political method — in her hands, and in India today.
- Competitors Fuelling Singur Controversy: Ratan Tata (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2006)
The Tata Group chairman asserts that he will not pull out of West Bengal
Says West Bengal under Buddhadeb's leadership is investment friendly
``You put a gun to my head and pull the trigger or take it away, I won't move my head''
- Two Years After (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 28, 2006)
The disaster is human
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 28, 2006)
The disaster two years ago was natural, one of history’s worst catastrophes. The disaster today, on its second anniversary, is moral, almost a wilful failure of the human factor and quite as extensive as the tsunami.
- Risk Management Is A Key Post-Tsunami Lesson (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 27, 2006)
Today marks two years since the 2004 tsunami unleashed untold suffering and devastation upon Indian Ocean coastal communities.
- Tsunami Threat Does Not Materialise (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2006)
A powerful earthquake struck off south-western Taiwan on Tuesday, prompting fears of a potentially destructive tsunami on the second anniversary of the quake and deadly waves that killed thousands in south Asia.
- India Develops Tsunami Warning System (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2006)
Real time monitor will issue alert within 20 minutes
- Christmas Day Carnage 36 Killed As Blasts Rock West Baghdad (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2006)
At least 36 people died on Tuesday in coordinated car bomb attacks in western Baghdad, a doctor at a hospital said. At least 55 people were wounded, said the doctor at Yarmouk hospital, which received the victims.
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