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Articles 6221 through 6320 of 53943:
- Tata Group In Make’S Top 20 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
In a leading achievement, Tata Group, India’s largest private sector conglomerate has made it to the list of 20 top winners from 49 finalists of 9th annual Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study – the international benchmark for best . . .
- Chaos Looming Within, Outside Help Doesn’T Seem So Bad (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Aug 03, 2006)
Nepal has become almost a pilgrimage spot for experts in conflict management. The UN took the lead last week with the visit to Kathmandu of a high-powered seven-member team headed by Staffan De Mistura; the week before, a team from the Carter Center . . .
- In Praise Of Salwa Judum (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
A lengthy editorial in this week’s Organiser accuses the UPA government of joining hands with ‘‘left and civil liberty groups’’ in giving a bad name to Chattisgarh’s controversial Salwa Judum movement and warns that ‘‘any rethinking on its efficacy . . .
- Inflation, Welfarism And Public Sector (Daily Excelsior, M. N. Minocha, Aug 03, 2006)
In the past inflation was associated with wars and the extraordinary influx of gold and silver. It ended with the disappearance of these specific causes. But inflation after World War II has been both universal and persistent. It must, therefore, . . .
- Unsc Talks On West Asia Crisis (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
As violence continued unabated in West Asia, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council discussed ways to stop hostilities, effect a ceasefire and reach a political framework for a settlement to the crisis.
- What Happens After Fidel Castro? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 03, 2006)
Even in a country which has its own 120 Club for those who reach that remarkable age, it has been accepted that the days of Fidel would one day end.
- Pro-Ltte Groups Fume As Crpf Trains Lankan Cops (Indian Express, JAYA MENON, Aug 03, 2006)
A few pro-LTTE political parties in Tamil Nadu are furious over reports of the CRPF providing training to a batch of 44 Sri Lankan policemen in suburban Coimbatore. Leading the protest is MDMK chief Vaiko, who, in a strongly-worded letter to Prime . . .
- Changing With Times (Frontline, Ravi Sharma , Aug 03, 2006)
Challenges in the form of liberalisation and global competition have steeled the units' resolve to surge ahead.
- Whither Cuba After Castro? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Aug 03, 2006)
The hospitalisation of Fidel Castro, the world’s longest serving political leader, has provoked sharply contradictory reactions from those expecting fundamental changes once the Cuban leader has passed on.
- Expansion And Division Games (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 03, 2006)
The Moily Oversight Committee, entrusted with coming up with a strategy to implement the proposed OBC quotas in Central institutions, had a thankless task: to come up with a plan to expand current institutional strength by almost 30 per cent within . . .
- Chemical Weapons Used By Israelis? (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The Israeli military may have used chemical weapons against civilians in last Sunday’s deadly bombardment of an apartment block in the southern Lebanese city of Qana, a senior local Lebanese medic has told Adnkronos International (AKI).
- Secrets Of Comet Tempel 1 (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The NASA space mission to investigate the composition of Comet Tempel 1 brings revolutionary findings.
- Cooperation And Hurdles (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Aug 03, 2006)
The U.S. administration initiates moves towards opening up international nuclear cooperation and trade with India.
- A Choice For The Rogues (The Financial Express, Thomas L Friedman, Aug 03, 2006)
The Bush team needs to resolve a contradiction that has been at the heart of its administration: Is it for a change of regime or a change of behaviour in Iran and North Korea?
- Another Low Called Qana (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 03, 2006)
Over the years, philosophers have tried to evolve rules for the conduct of war .
- Domestic Slaves (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Aug 03, 2006)
Child domestic workers are victims of various forms of abuse but the government is yet to come up with a law to protect their rights.
- A Reality Cheque (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 03, 2006)
An intensification of efforts for free trade agreements across countries is logical after the inconclusive Doha round.
- Kabul To Join Saarc In April (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Afghanistan will join the south Asian economic grouping at its next summit meeting in New Delhi in April, India’s foreign secretary said on Wednesday.
- Name The `Mole': Manmohan (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI and SUNNY SEBASTIAN , Aug 02, 2006)
I have given "explicit and implicit" information, says Jaswant
- A Muslim's Shame And Outrage (News International, Shireen M Mazari, Aug 02, 2006)
The angry helplessness keeps growing as one watches the murder of the Lebanese people by the criminal Israeli state, aided and abetted by the US.
- A Pointer To What? (News International, M.B. Naqvi, Aug 02, 2006)
Several former lieutenant generals, MPs, ministers and some academics have written a letter to the president with copies to the PPP and PML-N chiefs. What they say is common ground among democrats; the only remarkable thing about it is who said it.
- Mole Still Wrapped In Intrigue (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Aug 02, 2006)
The identity of the alleged American informers in the P V Narasimha Rao regime continues to remain a matter of speculation but the identity of the American official who authored the secret letter based on which BJP leader Jaswant Singh claimed he . . .
- No Purges Please (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 02, 2006)
Scattered reports have come in of harassment of Indians in Nepal by Maoists. The ministry of external affairs has not taken a public position so far, but it must act before such complaints become a deluge.
- Challenges Of Consumerism (News International, Tayyeba Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
In today's technological boom, where inventions consistently outdo one another, it is difficult to keep pace.
- Give Specific Information On Mumbai Blasts: Pakistan (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 02, 2006)
We reject Indian attitude of instinctive reactions: Riaz Mohammad Khan
- India Raises Differential Treatment Issue (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 02, 2006)
Domestic notification does not contravene the letter and spirit of the SAFTA Agreement, says Pakistan
- Unsc Becomes More Partisan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 02, 2006)
AS Lebanon is being reduced to rubble and its citizens are forced to live in a state of limbo due to intense Israeli air strikes over the past three weeks, the UN Security Council has failed to even formally call for cease-fire by Tel Aviv.
- Signals From G8 (Frontline, Vladimir Radyuhin , Aug 02, 2006)
The G8 summit proves that the West needs Russia more than Russia, with its vast oil reserves and booming economy, needs the West.
- Israel And America (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 02, 2006)
Who is responsible for the second Qana massacre?
- The Best View (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 02, 2006)
It depends upon the guide one has.
- India's Limited Options In Middle East (Daily Excelsior, M. A. Ansari, Aug 02, 2006)
The Left, which has a fondness for the enemies of the US and Israel, is putting pressure on the Manmohan Singh government to treat the latest conflict in West Asia as an Israel-Arab conflict. In the process, the Left and the 'secular' parties have . . .
- Bush Authorizes Graphite Export To China (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
President George W Bush authorized the export to China of 907,200 kg of bulk graphite for making plastics and said he did not believe it would prove detrimental to the US space launch industry.
- Sri Lanka Rebels Attack Army Camps Near Eastern Port (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Aug 02, 2006)
Sri Lanka's army and Tamil Tigers battled with mortars and artillery on Wednesday after rebels attacked three eastern military camps, a day after suicide bombers tried to sink a troop transport ship with 850 aboard.
- Israeli Commandos Snatch Hizbollah Members In Raid (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Israeli commandos snatched at least three Hizbollah members from a stronghold deep inside Lebanon on Wednesday, in a raid Lebanese security sources said killed at least seven civilians.
- Changing Goalposts (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 02, 2006)
IN principle I am against the bomb. When India exploded it, I paraded on the streets of Delhi, along with 5,000 people, to register protest.
- Barnes Rebuts Jaswant: Never Wrote Or Got Note (Indian Express, PALLAVA BAGLA, Aug 02, 2006)
Another hole in mole story: Ex-US envoy Barnes says I wasn’t even in India, don’t know anything about ‘leak’
- Israel’S New Plan: Push Hizbollah Out Of Backyard Before The World Steps In (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 02, 2006)
Less than a mile from the Israel-Lebanon border, the fog begins to lift on Israeli intentions as ground troops pour in to start what is a “clean up” of the Hizbollah from the area between the border and the Litani river, 20-25 km into Lebanese territory.
- Pak-India Auto Project Delayed (News International, Imran Ayub, Aug 02, 2006)
Uncertainty about South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) has put a halt to a joint venture between the auto industries of India and Pakistan, which had targeted July 2006 to initiate a motorcycle and rickshaw assembling project in Lahore.
- Weakening Hezbollah May Take Weeks: Peres (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Israel might need "weeks" more of fighting to deal with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Wednesday despite growing calls for a
ceasefire in the Middle East conflict.
- Pak Rejects Indian Allegation Over Safta (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan Tuesday rejected the Indian allegation that Pakistan was not implementing SAFTA in letter and spirit.
- Indian Banks Face Stiff Us Curbs: Fm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Indian banks are facing restrictions in opening new branches in the United States, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
- Stick To Core Business, Ongc Told (Deccan Herald, Aditya Raj Das, Aug 02, 2006)
State-owned oil and gas exploration major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has been directed by the Petroleum Ministry to stick to its core competence of oil and gas exploration rather than diverting focus on retailing of petroleum products.
- Bts India Private Equity Fund Launched (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The fund will have a corpus of $80 m
- Us Rejects Calls For Ceasefire (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Aug 02, 2006)
As France, Russia, Indonesia and Italy emerged as possible contributors to a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, the US has rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire with President Bush saying he first wanted a “sustainable” end to the violence.
- Lebanon And Israel Clash At Un Council (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Lebanon and Israel have clashed at a special UN Security Council meeting on the new West Asia crisis with Beirut calling for an international investigation into the “crime of Qana” and Tel Aviv asking it to end the attacks by the Hizbollah militia.
- On The Runway And Ready For Take-Off (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Aug 02, 2006)
Given China's current airport infrastructure and its expansion plans, India's task of catching up becomes formidable.
- Nuclear Weapons: A World Gone Mad (Deccan Herald, BOB HERBERT, Aug 02, 2006)
More and more nations are in the race for nuclear weapons. NPT has been a failure.
- Rwanda Striving For A High-Tech Future (Hindu, Xan Rice, Aug 02, 2006)
If successful, the percentage of Rwanda's workforce involved in farming will drop from 90 per cent to 50 per cent in 15 years
- U.S.' Latest Plans On Cuba (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The latest U.S. scheme for Cuba has classified sections that are believed to contain plans of attack and assassination.
- Skewed Approach (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Aug 02, 2006)
The Planning Commission's blueprint for the Eleventh Plan reflects the reformer's mindset.
- Karnataka's Mining Scandal (Frontline, PARVATHI MENON, Aug 02, 2006)
Charges of corruption against the Chief Minister forces the government to order an inquiry into the irregularities in iron ore mining.
- Somalia's Road To Anarchy (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The Ethiopian bid to remove the Union of Islamic Courts from power in Somalia risks destabilising the entire region.
- Leadership Failure (Frontline, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 02, 2006)
The Indonesian leadership suffers a loss of face in its failure to set up a tsunami warning system.
- To India And Pakistan (News International, Amanullah Khan, Aug 02, 2006)
For most of the time during their 60-year-long history as free nations, India and Pakistan have been fighting against each other at national and international levels and on political, diplomatic, economic, military and media fronts.
- European Muslims & Crimes Within (Frontline, RAFIA ZAKARIA, Aug 02, 2006)
European Muslims remain silent on horrific crimes within the community citing fear of fuelling Islamophobia as the reason.
- The Indo-Us Deal (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Aug 02, 2006)
Two legislatures, separated by miles of land and sea, but inspired by the same ideals of freedom and democracy, presented two different spectacles on July 27 when they discussed their vision of the future of the relationship between their two countries.
- I Don't Know Mole's Name: Jaswant (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
After triggering a huge controversy, senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Tuesday night said he did not not know the name of the mole in the Prime Minister's Office, who had leaked nuclear secrets in 1995.
- New Vision (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2006)
By any measure, it is Bengal’s biggest leap forward into the future.
- Blood Wedding (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2006)
The Lebanese village of Qana is not a place of weddings, miracles and saviours any more.
- 24 Soldiers Killed In Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 02, 2006)
At least 24 personnel of the Sri Lanka Army and Navy were killed late on Monday night and Tuesday in presumed LTTE reprisal attacks involving the blast of an army bus and the main naval base in Trincomalee.
- Eu To Approach Wto To Cut Indian Duties On Wine (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The ongoing battle for access to India's vast whisky and wine market has entered a new phase with the European Union deciding to seek the removal of India's restrictive import duties under WTO's dispute settlement mechanism.
- A Critique Of The Private Sector In Pakistan (News International, Mosharraf Zaidi, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan's favourite past-time is dissecting and criticising the government.
- Did Wild Birds Bring Avian Flu To India? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 02, 2006)
A "smoking gun" that could convincingly pin the blame on wild birds is lacking. Even at the global level, unravelling the role of wild birds in the spread of H5N1 is not proving easy.
- Of Old Strengths In A New Era (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Aug 02, 2006)
Interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review.
- Should India Move To Full Convertibility? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 02, 2006)
Eventually it boils down to whether it is the lack of convertibility or the absence of other reforms that is holding back the deluge of dollars.
- The New Face Of India`s Public Sector (Business Standard, A K Bhattacharya, Aug 02, 2006)
Indian Oil Corporation is now planning to enter the retail sector.
- Battle Rages As 20,000 Israeli Soldiers Enter Lebanon (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
EU fails to agree on immediate ceasefire, not to place Hezbollah on terrorist list
3 Israeli soldiers killed
Lebanon will reject ‘imposed’ UN resolution
- Waiting For Iran (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 02, 2006)
The endgame in the Iranian nuclear imbroglio may have begun, going by the UNSC resolution passed last Monday, giving Tehran a month to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.
- India, Pak To Continue Peace Talks (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
India and Pakistan have agreed to continue their composite dialogue peace process, which came to a halt last month following the serial blasts in Mumbai on July 11, for which India has blamed Pakistani radical groups.
- Wb Lends $225 Mn To Reduce Poverty In Orissa (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The World Bank has approved a $225 million loan and credit to support a reform programme designed to boost inclusive economic growth and achieve rapid poverty reduction in the Indian state of Orissa.
- Pm Turns Tables On Jaswant, Asks Him To Name 'Mole' (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday turned the tables on senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh, who again failed to name the mole, in the Rajya Sabha by asking him a point-blank question: ‘‘The honourable member should answer the simple question.
- No Clue Yet To Indo-Pak Dialogue Resumption (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Despite high-level meetings here to take stock of bilateral ties, there is no clarity yet when the Indo-Pak composite dialogue process hit by Mumbai blasts will resume but discussions at technical level will go ahead.
- India Urged To Deal With Festering Issues: Eu, Us To Be Saarc Observers (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan and India should stop bickering in public and resolve longstanding disputes over Kashmir and other issues instead of learning to live with problems, a top Pakistani official said on Tuesday.
- Annan Criticises Weak Unsc Statement On Qana (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has criticized a Security Council statement, which failed to condemn Israel over the killing of more than 50 Lebanese civilians in an Israeli raid.
- The Mole Letter: Disinformation (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 02, 2006)
Curiouser and curiouser. The Mole letter contains Indian spellings and many other curiosities: 'Shri Jaswant Singh may like to advise his publishers to suspend the sale of this book till the authenticity of the letter is established'.
- Iran Fm Blasts Un ‘Failure’ Over Israel War On Hezbollah (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday blasted the United Nations’ “failure to do anything” over Israel’s offensive on Hezbollah and vowed to continue backing the Lebanese Shiite militant guerrilla group.
- Horn Of Africa: A Perfect Storm (Pioneer, GWYNNE DYER, Aug 02, 2006)
Americans have created another first-rate crisis for themselves and Africa by backing the warlords in Somalia, says Gwynne Dyer
- Don't Compromise Nation's Security (Pioneer, Charti Lal Goel, Aug 02, 2006)
To overcome an enemy, who is at perpetual war with India and Indians, we have to put our own house in order first, says Charti Lal Goel
- India, Egypt To Discuss W. Asia (Asia Times, Ramesh Ramachandran, Aug 02, 2006)
After watching from the sidelines as Israel launched a series of attacks on Lebanon, India is expected to get a first-hand look at the unfolding situation in West Asia when New Delhi holds talks with Cairo on issues of mutual interest and concern . . .
- 2 Nato Soldiers Killed In Afghan (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Two British Nato soldiers were killed and another was presumed dead after an ambush in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a day after the alliance assumed command from the US-led coalition.
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