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Articles 4621 through 4720 of 53943:
- India Stands By Baloch People (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Armed with yet another opportunity to give Pakistan a dose of its own medicine, India on Monday said the killing of veteran Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was "unfortunate" and that it underlined the "need for peaceful dialogue to address the . ..
- Moscow's Pessimism About West Asia (Pioneer, Marianna Belenkaya, Aug 29, 2006)
Although neither Israel nor Hizbullah is interested in resuming hostilities any time soon, peace remains fragile in West Asia, says Marianna Belenkaya
- Capitalism With A Human Face (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
An account of modern economic policy from a classical liberal perspective — a contribution to the globalisation debate .
- Propagation Of Tamil (Hindu, S. N. Kandaswamy, Aug 29, 2006)
Membaadu + Payanpaadu = Valarchi: V.C. Kulandaiswamy, Bharathi Pathippagam, 126/108, Usman Road, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017. Rs. 190.
- Killing Won’T Affect Ties, Says Us (Dawn, Anwar Iqbal, Aug 29, 2006)
The United States would like to see the Balochistan dispute settled within the framework of a strong and unified Pakistan, the US State Department said on Monday.
- New Delhi Slams Gen Over Bugti Killing (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
India has called the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti ’unfortunate’ and a ’tragic loss’ for Balochistan and Pakistan, while urging Pakistan to use dialogue and not military force to solve political problems.
- 28 Killed In Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 29, 2006)
Thousands of displaced persons in the east of Sri Lanka, lodged in schools and colleges of Trincomalee district, are facing yet another displacement with the educational institutions scheduled for reopening. In the east alone, there are over . . .
- All Flyers Under Watch (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, Aug 29, 2006)
Unknown to most, the airport security in India has started to conduct passenger profiling. Even before the trans-Atlantic air terror plot prompted UK to introduce its new security measure of seeking in advance the profiles of all air passengers . . .
- Defiant Iran To Continue N-Activities (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
:Iran will pursue its nuclear fuel activities despite mounting international pressure to halt the disputed operations, chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani was quoted on Sunday as saying. Production of nuclear fuel is our strategic aim, state . . .
- Cutting Through The Spin On Sin (Indian Express, ANURADHA MASCARENHAS, Aug 28, 2006)
Mussa ‘Queen’ Njoko is a jazz artist and one of the first women to disclose her HIV status in South Africa. She has been living positively with HIV for seven years and all the challenges that the virus brought into her life have not stopped her . . .
- India Must Help Sri Lanka (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 28, 2006)
New Delhi, one wishes, had made serious efforts to stop the flare-up in Sri Lanka.
- Cag Taking ‘Narrow View’; Finance Minister Fair: Shourie (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Stung by the Comptroller and Auditor General’s criticism of PSUs sell off, Arun Shourie, Disinvestment Minister in previous NDA regime, today hit back saying CAG had taken a "very narrow" perspective but thanked Finance Minister P Chidambaram for . . .
- Syria Will Talk Peace ‘When Israel Is Ready’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Syria is ready to resume the peace process with Israel whenever the Jewish state is ready, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad said on Sunday.
- The Semantics Of Terror ‘ (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 28, 2006)
What do Nelson Mandela, Michael Collins, Archbishop Makarios, Menachim Begin, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Shamir, Eamon DeValera and Jomo Kenyatta have in common?
- Us And Our N-Plan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 28, 2006)
On July 26, 2006, The Washington Post reported: “Pakistan is building a new powerful nuclear reactor for producing plutonium”.
- Our Energy Interests~ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 28, 2006)
This is where the oddities arise and a disjoint becomes apparent between what the Government of India is saying and what American and Indian businessmen have been doing.
- Cant Log In (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 28, 2006)
E-governance still a half-baked endeavour
- Us Diplomat Charged With Trading Visas For Jewellery (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
A senior US diplomat has been indicted on charges he traded work visas for an Indian American jeweller's employees in return for lavish dinners, jewellery and Las Vegas trips with exotic dancers.
- Peacekeepers To Be Deployed In Lebanon Within A Week (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Ahead of his visit to the Middle East this week, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has assured Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that international peacekeepers will be deployed in Lebanon within a week.
- Governor Not In Favour Of Self-Rule In J&k (Tribune, Ehsan Fazili, Aug 28, 2006)
Asserting that democracy was thriving in Jammu and Kashmir, Governor S.K. Sinha said here today that the idea of self rule would not be introduced though there was scope of improvement in different ways.
- Nuclear Deal On Course (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Aug 28, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on August 17 outlined his government’s stand on the U.S.-India civilian nuclear agreement in an effort to allay critics from the Left and the BJP.
- Britons Seek Online Tuition From India (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
In the latest example of growing online interaction between Britain and India, British pupils are paying nearly 10 pounds an hour for online tuition on various subjects from teachers based in India.
- Iran Determined To Produce N-Fuel (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Iran underscored on Sunday its determination to produce nuclear fuel just four days before a UN Security Council deadline to freeze the sensitive work or face the risk of sanctions.
- Lions Club Launches Project In Ajk (Dawn, TARIQ NAQASH, Aug 28, 2006)
The Lions Clubs International has initiated a project for rehabilitation of earthquake victims which envisages construction of 150 model houses, mosques and schools in mountain villages of district Muzaffarabad.
- Rules Vs Principles (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 28, 2006)
One of the major debates regarding convergence of accounting standards internationally, is whether they should be rules-based or principles-based. The style and culture in the US, in respect of such regulatory documents, prefer extremely detailed . ..
- Understanding & Fighting Terrorism (Dawn, Talat Masood, Aug 28, 2006)
The news of the terror plot in Britain in which some British citizens of Pakistani origin and a few Pakistanis were allegedly involved came soon after the regrettable Mumbai train explosion that had the Indian leaders and media pointing fingers . . .
- Us Perspective On Lebanon (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Aug 28, 2006)
As the tenuous ceasefire in Lebanon holds, there is constant evaluation going on in the US about the brutal war in Lebanon that was allowed to go on for five weeks to enable Israel to achieve its strategic goals.
- Paying A Tribute To Castro (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Aug 28, 2006)
Every once in a while a writer gets the urge to fly off the handle and have a crack at his critics, especially when he believes they have been unfair and unnecessarily provocative.
- Iran Test Fires Sub-To-Surface Missile (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Iran insisted it remained determined to produce its own nuclear fuel, just four days before a UN Security Council deadline to freeze the sensitive work or face the risk of sanctions.
- 49 Die In Us Passenger Plane Crash (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
A Comair flight carrying 49 people crashed a mile from Lexington’s airport Sunday morning shortly after takeoff, the Federal Aviation Administration said. At least one person survived.
- Un Volte-Face On Aids (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 28, 2006)
After three years of throwing money at AIDS treatment programmes while ignoring the vital task of prevention, the head of UNAIDS announced this week that prevention is the key to defeating AIDS pandemic.
- The Good Neighbour (New Indian Express, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 28, 2006)
It would perhaps not be outrageous to suggest that had the authorities in Pakistan been as forthcoming with information to India, as they were to the British Intelligence, the July 11 carnage in Mumbai may have been averted.
- Exotic Dancers For Us Visas (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Aug 28, 2006)
An Indian jeweller with a worldwide business network stretching from Japan and Thailand to the UK and Brazil is on the run for bribing a US state department official with free flights, exotic dancers and hotel rooms in exchange for American visas.
- War With Lebanon: Israel Prepares For Next Round (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Olmert mulls state commission to examine conduct of war
- India, Bangladesh To Set Up Mechanism To Fight Terror (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India and Bangladesh on Sunday decided to set up a bilateral mechanism to combat terrorism and agreed to intensify efforts to counter arms smuggling and illegal immigration across their 4,200-km border.
- Time To Rethink Policies (News International, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 28, 2006)
The dramatic return last week of the Northwest Airlines flight from the German airspace to Amsterdam’s Schipol airport, because a multiple ‘terrorist threat’ on board targeting 12 Indian nationals — all of them Muslim — has given a new dimension to . . .
- Is There Life After Cbms? (Pakistan Observer, Khalid Saleem, Aug 28, 2006)
Has the peace process been dealt a death blow by the stand-off engendered in the wake of Mumbai blasts? Are the two sides at all interested in reviving the moves towards a meaningful peace?
- Regulate The Tariff For Premium Sms? (The Economic Times, MAHESH UPPAL, Aug 28, 2006)
SMSes to short, three- or four-digit numbers to participate in polls, games, quizzes, etc., are premium messages that can cost anywhere between Rs 3 and Rs 6.
- Keeping The Minority Investor Out (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Aug 28, 2006)
Too many companies are constantly attempting to keep retail investors from getting their fair share of growth in market valuation and regulators seem unable to do much on this
- Maran`s New Deal (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Aug 28, 2006)
This is the ultimate irony. The company that just last year challenged Trai’s decision to slash bandwidth tariffs (a major determinant of long-distance tariffs), not once, but twice, on the grounds that it was making just . . .
- Bangladesh Promises To Plug Terror (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India and Bangladesh have decided to set up a mechanism to combat terrorism and organised crime during the home-secretary level talks that ended in Dhaka.
- N Korea Calls China, Russia Unreliable (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
North Korean leader Mr Kim Jong Il has criticised close allies China and Russia as unreliable, a news report said, while South Korea mapped out counter-measures in preparation for a possible nuclear test by Pyongyang.
- India Gives Evidence To Bangladesh On Terrorism Links (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India has pointed out to Bangladesh that the recent terrorist incidents, including the Mumbai serial blasts, had "clear links" with individuals and outfits in that country, Union Home Secretary V K Duggal said today.
- Pakistan Struggles To Identify Taliban (Christian Science Monitor, David Montero, Aug 28, 2006)
Imadad Ullah isn't afraid to talk about being a Taliban student, even after two of his friends walked away when the topic came up. They might have good reason: Mr. Ullah says that Taliban members are arrested every day in this region.
- Strange But True (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 28, 2006)
This may sound strange but it is true. This information does not come from Transparency International that has rated Jammu and Kashmir as the second most corrupt State after much-maligned Bihar in certain public services.
- Hizbollah Hints At Talks On Prisoner Exchange (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The leader of Hizbollah said on Sunday that "contacts" had been made which might bring talks on an exchange of prisoners held by the Lebanese guerrilla group and Israel.
- S Korea To Offer Firms Incentives To Cut Emissions (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
South Korea plans to offer financial incentives to local companies to encourage them to put more resources into cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the budget and energy ministries said today.
- Musharraf Regrets Indian Refusal To Accept Kashmir Options (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has reiterated that peace and stability cannot be restored in the region without the resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
- Pakistan Not Colluding With Taliban: Abizaid (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2006)
The Pakistan government is not colluding with the Taliban, although some militants come from across the border to fight in Afghanistan, the US commander for the region said on Saturday.
- Reviving Wto Talks Are Bleak, India To Asean (Deccan Herald, Kuala Lumpur, Aug 26, 2006)
India, on Friday, said the chances of getting stalled WTO talks restarted are “limited” unless the US changed its stance, even as New Delhi along with New Zealand, Japan and Australia exchanged views on getting the discussions back on track.
- Gifted Awardee (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The conferring of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award on cue sport ace Pankaj Advani is more the beginning than the end.
- Sun Micro Launches Controlcentre (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 26, 2006)
Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd., has launched its third ControlCentre across the globe and the first in the Asia Pacific region in Chennai.
- Hutch Launches Gprs Service (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Hutch, pure play cellular service provider, on Wednesday announced the launch of PlaneHutch, an interactive GPRS-based service, for its customers in the State.
- Memories Of Mother Teresa (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 26, 2006)
"One of the miracles that occurred over the years," Mother Teresa once told me, "is that no one is allowed to die on streets; someone, somewhere brings the person to us." A biographer's tribute on her 96th birth anniversary.
- India, Asean To Stay The Dialogue Course (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Avert a looming crisis in their difficult trade talks; negotiations to centre on tariff concessions . . .
- Hard-Hearted Astronomers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Alas, poor Pluto! The little runt among the nine planets thought to make up our solar system is no longer to be counted among the Sun's immediate family.
- The World Of Those On The Move (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The greatest percentage increase in the unauthorised immigrant population to the US between 2000 and 2005 was from India reveals World Migration 2005: Costs and Benefits of International Migration. International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Progra
- "Bush Dedicated To Moving Forward On Nuclear Deal" (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Aug 26, 2006)
Agreement not [merely] between two leaders but a lasting agreement between two countries
"Beauty of democracy is that we have debate"
Hydrogen economy: U.S. committed to providing $7 billion
- Russia Rules Out Sanctions Against Iran (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Russia rejected on Friday any talk for now of sanctions against Iran and France warned against conflict with Tehran, raising doubts whether it will face swift penalties for not halting nuclear work by an Aug 31 deadline.
- More French Troops For Lebanon (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 26, 2006)
Chirac, Merkel criticise Assad's remarks on deployment of peace force on border . . .
- T N Ninan: Indian Mega-Corps (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Aug 26, 2006)
Ten years ago, on the back of over 7 per cent GDP growth in successive years, the big Indian companies (and some small ones too) were announcing grandiose projects.
- Military Commanders In War (Daily Times, Shaukat Qadir, Aug 26, 2006)
Let us first take up the question of why peacetime leadership does not necessarily succeed in war.
- Rights & Justice Must Go Together (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
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- The Options Narrow (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 26, 2006)
While our eyes have been fixed on Lebanon, the situation in Iraq has been deteriorating.
- India Protests To Netherlands Over Plane Detentions (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
India protested on Friday the Netherlands’ detention of 12 Indians following a mid-air security scare, saying it was ‘shocked’ at their treatment, but the Dutch government said it was just following procedure.
- 134 Terror Acts In 1st 5 Months Of 2006 (Daily Times, Shahzad Raza, Aug 26, 2006)
The Interior Ministry said on Friday that 134 incidents of terrorism had taken place in the country during the first five months of the year.
- Iran Wants Guarantees Against Sanctions... (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Iran wants guarantees that it won’t face UN sanctions before it is prepared to restart negotiations over its nuclear programme, Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday. He called the condition unacceptable.
- Detention Drama: India Fumes, Dutch Regret (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The growing sense of outrage among Indians at the shoddy treatment meted out to 12 Indians detained by Dutch security authorities provoked the Indian government on Friday to lodge a sharp protest with the Netherlands, virtually suggesting that the inciden
- Twelve Indian Passengers Arrive In Mumbai (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The 12 Indian passengers of a Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines flight, who were detained and later released in Amstredam following suspicious behaviour on a US airliner, arrived here early on Saturday.
- Palm Oil (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Exports of Malaysian palm oil products for August 1-25 stood at 1,113,624 tons, up 17 per cent from 954,687 tons shipped between July 1 and 25, cargo surveyor Societe General de Surveillance said on Friday.
- Dutch Envoy Summoned, (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Taking "strong notice" of the arrest and detention of 12 Indians from a flight in Amsterdam, the Government today summoned the Dutch Ambassador here today and conveyed its unhappiness over the incident.
- The Game Of The Rules (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Aug 26, 2006)
The bizarre end to the Test match between England and Pakistan at the Oval has followed a pattern that is becoming painfully predictable in the sub-continent.
- Flying In The Time Of Fear (Hindustan Times, Sanchita Sharma, Aug 26, 2006)
If you put aside having to place your passport and tickets in a ziploc bag and then take off your shoes and jacket for security checks, you might just discover the lighter side of travel in the shadow of terror.
- No Apology From Dutch On Detention Of Indians (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 26, 2006)
There has been no categoric apology from the Dutch for the detention of 12 Indian passengers on board a Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines flight that took off from Amsterdam on August 23.
- The Differently-Abled And An Indifferent Taxman (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The case of Kirti M. Kothari that came up before the Bombay High Court recently was different. On one side was `a disabled person suffering from polio, whereby his left arm was affected,' and on the other was the taxman, humanism-challenged.
- China, Venezuela To Jointly Develop 19 Oil Areas: Chavez (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
China National Petroleum Corp, the nation’s largest oil company, will cooperate with Venezuela to develop 19 oil-producing areas in the Latin American nation, President Hugo Chavez said.
- Plurality Of Views Aids Meaningful Consensus (The Financial Express, N K Singh, Aug 26, 2006)
The economic outlook for 2006-07 presented by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has no startling revelations.
- The Culprit Wants Proof (Pioneer, Sunita Vakil, Aug 26, 2006)
Even though relations between New Delhi and Islamabad have hit a new low after the Mumbai blasts, both are back to talking.
- Weather-Wary Nasa Clears Space Shuttle For Launch (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
With a wary eye on the weather, NASA managers on Friday cleared the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for launch from Florida on Sunday to restart construction of the International Space Station.
- No Chance Of Nukes Falling In Terrorists Hands: Durrani (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
There is a "zero chance" of Pakistani nuclear arsenal ending up in the hands of extremists in the event of an assassination attempt against President Pervez Musharraf succeeding, the country's envoy to the US said today.
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