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Articles 5121 through 5220 of 53943:
- Pm’S Absence From Senate, Na Criticized: Debate On Psm Privatisation (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 19, 2006)
Opposition Leader in the Senate Raza Rabbani on Friday criticised Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for not attending the parliament session to defend himself during the debate on the detailed judgment of the Supreme Court in the Pakistan Steel Mills . . .
- Israel Objects To Malaysian, Indonesian Participation (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations told the BBC on Friday they would have difficulty accepting nations that do not recognise the Jewish state as part of a peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
- Plan To Put Metro On Fast Track Between Cp And Igi Airport (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
The line is expected to be completed ahead of the Commonwealth Games
- Nato Appeals For Help In Curtailing Afghan Drugs (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
NATO’s top general appealed to the international community on Thursday to do more to curb Afghanistan’s growing drug trade, which he said is helping finance a resurgent Taliban and fueling instability.
- Need For A Probe (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 19, 2006)
One is again constrained to remind the government that for its own sake and to establish its own credibility and impartiality it should immediately institute an independent . . .
- Is It A Solution To Kashmir? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 19, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has come out with yet another option for resolution of the thorny Kashmir dispute. Suggesting that there should be joint management of the territory, he has expressed the opinion that the proposal of the Indian Prime . . .
- Not A Sustainable Growth (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 19, 2006)
Economic growth is a complex phenomenon. How much growth is achieved by a country for how long, using which strategies, emerging from which sectors and is shared by whom are all inter-related questions.
- Bush Warns N. Korea Against Nuclear Test (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
President George Bush on Friday warned that North Korea would pose a threat to the world if it tested a nuclear bomb for the first time, following reports that the reclusive government was considering such a move.
- Housing Project For Tsunami Victims (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living Foundation, inaugurated a tsunami housing project at Periyamanickapangu coastal village near Tharangampadi in Nagapattinam district on Friday.
- How We Built The Bomb (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 19, 2006)
If India ever decided to single out a date for marking some sort of an anniversary of its nuclear weaponisation, March 18, 1989 will be a pretty good choice, probably even more fitting than the two dates of May 1974 and 1998, Pokharan I . . .
- Will The Fragile Peace Last In Lebanon? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Aug 19, 2006)
The prospective members of UNIFIL have failed to agree on or even properly discuss the exact nature of UNIFIL's mandate.
- The Two Faces Of Pakistan (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 19, 2006)
The West tends to see the Musharraf regime as the last barricade against an Islamist coup, but Islamabad continues to support terrorism.
- What The U.S. Is Doing To Pakistan (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 19, 2006)
Washington's influence in "core" areas of Pakistan's security seems to be growing. And this is not restricted to mere cooperation in anti-terrorist actions.
- Sri Lanka Troops Consolidate As West Urges Restraint (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Sri Lankan troops consolidated their defence lines in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Friday, the defence ministry said after a week of heavy battles left more than 500 dead on both sides by official count.
- Not An Orphanage But An Ltte Training Camp: Colombo (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
`The structure is not orphanage but an LTTE training camp'
- Cpi(m): Abide By Word On Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
PM's detailed reply in Parliament a healthy precedent: Yechury
- Father Of British Bomb Plot Suspect In Pakistani Custody (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Pakistani authorities are holding the father of alleged London airline bomb plotter Rashid Rauf in custody, security officials have said.
- Muslims: Smell The Coffee (Pioneer, Khwaja Ekram, Aug 19, 2006)
The community is stigmatised by jihad. It's time educated Muslims come forward to replace the traditional leaders
- Musharraf Angry, Hurt Over India's Bomb Allegation (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he was angry and disappointed that India had blamed his government for last month's bomb blasts in Mumbai, which he said was the work of "freelance terrorists".
- Hizb Chief Ready For Peace Talks (Asian Age, Yusuf Jameel, Aug 19, 2006)
Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin told a Srinagar-based news agency, Kashmir News Service, on Thursday that his organisation was ready to talk to India and that ceasefire from either side should not be a precondition for starting the . . .
- Unravelling Of Hope (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Aug 19, 2006)
The government is drifting on numerous issues ranging from economic to foreign and security policy, and from handling of terrorism to the right to information.
- Don’T Let New Planets Overwhelm Your World! (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
There is nothing to be concerned of if new planets are added to the solar system after a change in the definition of a planet, a professor of physics has said.
- N-Deal Clarified (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's detailed response to the Opposition's concerns over the perceived shifting of goal posts by the US Congress, thus changing the parameters of the proposed India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement, should serve . . .
- Russian Surprise (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Aug 19, 2006)
On a completely new kind of detective fiction from Russia, one that entertains without assaulting the intelligence of the reader.
- Real Estate Rush (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
The unprecedented growth of the real estate business has changed Chennai's reputation as a relatively sober market.
- Data For Leverage (Frontline, Sarah Hiddleston, Aug 19, 2006)
A new front has opened in the attack on generic drugs in the pharmaceutical industry, which could push up the prices of medicines.
- The Green Way To Energy Security (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 19, 2006)
India and the United States share a deep and abiding interest in assuring reliable and abundant energy to power our economies and provide a basic foundation for the prosperity of our citizens.
- India In Dilemma Over Lanka Crisis (Asian Age, M. R. Narayan Swamy, Aug 19, 2006)
India finds itself in a bind vis-a-vis Sri Lanka’s collapsing peace process, unable to prevent the outbreak of another war that is bound to have major strategic, diplomatic and political fallouts.
- Drug Trade Questions ‘Integrity’ Of Afghan Government: Us (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2006)
The US State Department said on Friday that a sudden increase in the production of illicit drugs in Afghanistan was ‘a problem for the integrity’ of the Afghan government.
- Same Old Tune Of Violence (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 18, 2006)
One will not say that the India-Pakistan relations have nosedived after more than two years of remarkable bonhomie.
- Buddhist Enclave May Hold Key To Sino-Indian Border Row (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 18, 2006)
At first sight, a 400-year-old Buddhist monastery, tucked deep in the Himalayas in a remote corner of India's northeast, hardly seems like a highly coveted piece of real estate.
- ‘There Are No Limits To What You Can Do’ (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Aug 18, 2006)
For Indra Nooyi (50), who hails from a traditional, well-to-do Tamil Brahmin family in Chennai, the rise to the top position of American cola giant Pepsico has been a hard journey that has taken nearly 30 years.
- Pluto’S Brave New Worlds (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 18, 2006)
Pluto has become the butt of jokes lately, replacing Uranus as the solar system’s laughing stock — and all because scientists find themselves forced, at last, to come to terms with the meaning of the word “planet.”
- Aiadmk,mdmk Seek Discussion In Assly On Killing Of 61 Children (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
The AIADMK and its ally the MDMK today sought to move an adjournment motion in the Tamil Nadu assembly on the killing of 61 Tamil schoolchildren in strikes by the Sri Lankan Air force at Mullaitheevu in the Tamil areas of the island nation.
- Linking N-Deal To Growing India’S Energy Hunger, Pm Says Trust Me, Won’T Bend (Indian Express, VIKAS DHOOT, Aug 18, 2006)
Aware that the dissent in the Opposition and within his Left allies on the nuclear deal had as much to do with politics as strategy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today invoked his personal credibility and reputation as a reformer in an . . .
- Will It Be Space For Peace? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 18, 2006)
Outer space does not fall under any agreement, this is seen as an unresolved legal issue.
- Us Eavesdropping Program Ruled Unconstitutional (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
The US federal judge on Thursday ruled that the U.S. government's domestic eavesdropping program is unconstitutional and ordered it ended immediately.
- Iskcon Blast: Cops Still Groping In The Dark (Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik , Aug 18, 2006)
A day after a deadly explosion at the premises of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Imphal killed four devotees and injured altogether 66 others, the police are yet to ascertain the identity of those who masterminded it.
- N-Deal: Bjp Demands Resolution (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
The much-awaited short-duration discussion on the India-US nuclear deal in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday expectedly saw the BJP attacking the UPA government...
- Crisis Of Development Economics (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 18, 2006)
As the Planning Commission is busy in preparing the draft of the 12th five -year plan, it has to take into account the uneven growth in the states, region -wise, state-wise and area-wise even within districts.
- Nuke Scientists Welcome Pm's Assurances (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Top nuclear scientists today welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's detailed assurances on concerns raised by them about the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Lebanese Army Moves South, Hizbollah Lies Low (Reuters, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 18, 2006)
Lebanese troops deployed in south Lebanon on Thursday, linking up with U.N. peacekeepers to take control of Hizbollah strongholds as Israeli forces pulled back after their 34-day war with the guerrillas
- India Warns U.S. Against Changes In Nuclear Pact (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 18, 2006)
India warned the United States Congress on Thursday not to tinker with a controversial civilian nuclear cooperation deal and said it would not accept any significant changes to the agreement.
- Haunting Terror Threats (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Aug 18, 2006)
The war against terror continues and we see 'new' innovative methods deployed by terror groups and clearly the intelligence agencies have foiled and prevented a terror act which cuts across nations, religion and beliefs and is little more than . . .
- A Dog Chasing Its Tail (Business Line, Jamal Mecklai, Aug 18, 2006)
Looking at the recent rise in foreign currency reserves makes it apparent that the last sharp fall in the rupee was engineered by the RBI.
- Lebanese Army Takes Over In Hizbollah Areas (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Lebanese troops, tanks and armoured vehicles deployed south of the Litani river on Thursday, a key provision of the UN ceasefire plan that ended fighting between Israel and Hizbollah.
- Do We Have To Play, Come Rain, Sunshine Or War? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 18, 2006)
Team India could rethink its cricket concerns while bombs explode in Sri Lanka
- Salman Refutes Allegations Regarding Stock Market Crash (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Aug 18, 2006)
Dr. Salman Shah, Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs and Statistics has said that the Ministry of Finance had absolutely no role in the creation or precipitation of the Stock Market crash in March 2005.
- Reliance Pitches For Kerala Port Upgrade (Business Line, P R Sanjai, Aug 18, 2006)
Reliance Industries has proposed to develop the Rs 4,500-crore Deepwater International Container Trans-shipment Terminal at Vizhinjam in Kerala.
- Israeli Soldier May Be Exchanged For 600 Pal (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
An Israeli soldier taken captive by Gaza militants in June could be freed in exchange for 600 Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian authority's diplomatic envoy in Moscow said Thursday.
- Braving All Odds (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 18, 2006)
Shilpi’s achievement in tennis is commendable.
- Haryana Reels Under Power Cuts (Tribune, Ruchika M. Khanna, Aug 18, 2006)
The severe power shortage in Haryana has forced Haryana Power Utilities to spend an additional Rs 16 crore a day for purchasing power through bilateral arrangements from other state electricity boards, through Unscheduled Interchange (UI) and . . .
- Pm’S Reply Mellows Cpm On N-Deal (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 18, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight accomplished his domestic political mission at the end of his 85-minute reply to the eight-hour-long short-duration discussion on Indo-US nuclear deal — the CPM dropped its demand for a “sense of Parliament” . . .
- Germany Won't Send Troops To Lebanon (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany would not send combat troops as part of the contemplated international peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but may offer naval assistance to help secure the country's coastline.
- Us Flies In Special Envoy To Push For Truce In Lanka (Hindustan Times, PK Balachandran, Aug 18, 2006)
The United States on Thursday sent a special envoy to Colombo to ask the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to immediately cease hostilities and return to the negotiating table.
- No Compromise On National Interests In Nuke Deal: Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Strongly ruling out the possibility of accepting anything that undermines the country’s nuclear programme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Government will not accept any conditionalities that go beyond the last year’s deal with the US . . .
- Lebanese Army Troops Move Into South (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 18, 2006)
Beirut says the soldiers will neither disarm nor fight Hizbollah; Premier lauds militia fighters
- China Claims Success In Developing Aids Vaccine (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Clinical trials indicate China's first AIDS vaccine is safe and possibly effective, a government official claimed here today.
- Beckham’S Bender (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 18, 2006)
It could be argued that David Beckham was not the greatest footballer of his time, there would be other valid claimants to that accolade.
- Malik To Be New Pak Envoy To India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Mr Shahid Malik will be Pakistan’s new High Commissioner to India, reports here said.
- Passengers Evacuated After Threat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Australian police were investigating reports that a suspicious device may have been found aboard a Pacific Blue flight which landed at Sydney Airport from Fiji today.
- Nutritional Support For Aids Patients Vital:wfp (Hindu, Aarti Dhar, Aug 18, 2006)
The United Nations World Food Programme has called for action among all stakeholders in the fight against AIDS to make food and nutritional support part of the essential package of care for people affected by HIV.
- ``Deal Should Not Be Used To Browbeat India'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Address scientists' concerns: UPA allies
- Seize The Moment In Assam (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 18, 2006)
By reciprocating the Central Government's Independence Day-eve offer to hold its fire, the United Liberation Front of Asom has kept alive the possibility of its becoming a dialogue partner.
- The Tempest & The Templar Knight (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 18, 2006)
History does not repeat itself but it does rhyme” (Mark Twain), the rhyme of history with periodic repetitions is actually a divine benevolence to make with the deficiencies.
- An 'Honour Killing' In Italy (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 18, 2006)
The apparent 'honour killing' of a 20-year-old women of Pakistani origin near the Italian city of Brescia has understandably created quite a furore in that country, especially with reference to integration of ethnic minorities into the mainstream.
- India Not To Accept Us Changes In Nuclear Deal (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
The Indian government said it would not be cowed by the US into changing the terms of their civilian nuclear deal, amid concerns Washington was trying to cap India’s atomic weapons programme.
- Israel Fails In Lebanon: Envoy (Pakistan Observer, Mahmood Hussain, Aug 18, 2006)
Israel has failed to accomplish its objectives despite over a month long death and destruction it inflicted on the peaceful Lebanese nation.
- No Extraneous Conditions On N-Deal Will Be Accepted: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
India will not accept any “extraneous conditionality” under any circumstance that will adversely impact the country’s strategic nuclear programme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured Parliament on Thursday...
- Re-Forging Instruments To Meet Challenges (Hindu, Harish Khare , Aug 18, 2006)
The polity will have to promote a new way of conducting its internal disputes in a manner that will not distract the Indian state from dealing with new globally-inspired instigations.
- Only Democracy Can Break Pakistan Terror Link (Hindu, Benazir Bhutto, Aug 18, 2006)
A democratic Pakistan, free from the yoke of military dictatorship, would cease to be the petri dish of the pandemic of international terrorism.
- Yasukuni And Japan's World View (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Aug 18, 2006)
With the alarm bells being sounded in the region, Junichiro Koizumi will need to convince neighbouring states that the new brand-Japan is not minted in the old imperial yard.
- 100 Tigers Killed In Renewed Battle (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 18, 2006)
At least 100 cadres of the LTTE have been reported killed in fresh fighting with security forces in the Jaffna peninsula in the last 24 hours even as the area has remained virtually cut off from the rest of the world for the past six days.
- Terrorism And Counter-Terrorism Revisited (The Financial Express, RICHARD N. HAASS, Aug 18, 2006)
The arrests in London of 21 terrorists who appear to have planned to blow up a number of airplanes over the Atlantic reminds us of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11, 2001. 9/11 remains the date that has come to signify . .
- Manmohan: Deviation Not Acceptable (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Aug 18, 2006)
``No question of nuclear autonomy being compromised''
- National Centre For Nanosciences To Come Up In Chennai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
University Grants Commission gives in principle clearance to Madras University proposal .
- World’S Tallest Man Longs For Normal Life (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
When you stand 2.36 metres tall, you are going to stand out.
For a shy person like Mr Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, this can be a problem.
- India On The Right Track (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, Aug 18, 2006)
Interview with Dr. Georges Vendryes, French nuclear scientist.
- July 18 Or Bust, Assures Pm (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asserted that India would not accept any conditionalities outside the July 18 statement and that the Government will draw the necessary conclusions in case of any deviation from the joint statement.
- Data For Leverage (Frontline, Sarah Hiddleston, Aug 18, 2006)
A new front has opened in the attack on generic drugs in the pharmaceutical industry, which could push up the prices of medicines.
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