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Articles 6821 through 6920 of 53943:
- Proxy War Shows No Signs Of Abatement (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 26, 2006)
On July 26, the nation will pay its homage to martyrs of the Indian Armed Forces who made the supreme sacrifice during the Kargil operations seven years ago. Will the nation observe it as the final Vijay Diwas ? Unlikely.
- Creating More Jobs For The Unemployed (Daily Excelsior, Sisir Basu, Jul 26, 2006)
A matter of serious concern is the long-term trend regarding the link between the growth rate of the economy and the growth of employment.
- Cry For Evidence Only A Cover Up (Daily Excelsior, Sarla Handoo, Jul 26, 2006)
So, for now, the Indo- Pak peace process remains impacted, whatever the Pakistan Government or for that matter the US may say.
- Southerly Trade Winds (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 26, 2006)
Doha round talks are off, and any progress seems unlikely for months, if not years. With this goes some of our hopes of boosting growth through increased trade.
- Churning Process (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 26, 2006)
Will the India-Pakistan peace process be gravely jeopardised because of recent developments?
- Government To Tone Up Intelligence To Combat Terror (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
The government on Tuesday said it would raise the strength of security and the police forces, tone up intelligence from the village level and improve coordination between different agencies to counter terrorism in the country.
- Un Straw Poll: Tharoor Gets Second Highest Endorsements (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
India's candidate for the post of UN Secretary-General, Shashi Tharoor, has got the second highest endorsements in the first informal poll held by the 15-member Security Council for the top post.
- Israel Sets Up Security Zone (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Israeli defence minister, Mr Amir Peretz, said today that Israel will maintain a security zone in southern Lebanon until an international force arrives there.
- Trade Through Nathu La Begins (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Trading finally commenced today between India and China through the recently re-opened Nathu La Pass on the Indo-China border.
- Tharoor Trails ‘Big Ban’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
South Korean foreign minister Mr Ban Ki-moon has emerged top of the heap among the four declared candidates for the United Nation’s top post in the first informal “straw poll” held by the 15-member Security Council. India’s nominee for the . . .
- Hezbollah Chief Vows To Fire Beyond Haifa (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Wednesday that his guerrillas will fire rockets on Israel beyond the northern city of Haifa and counter Israeli military advances inside southern Lebanon.
- Bush, Maliki Agree On More U.S. Troops For Baghdad (Reuters, Steve Holland, Jul 26, 2006)
President George W. Bush and Iraq's prime minister agreed on Tuesday that more U.S. and Iraqi troops will go to Baghdad to try to curb sectarian violence that has raised fears the country is sliding into full-scale civil war.
- On The Rise (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 26, 2006)
The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to hike its reverse repo and repo rates by 25 basis points was widely expected by the markets, which had priced in the increase.
- Bush Knew Of Pak N-Reactor Plan (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jul 26, 2006)
The Bush administration on Monday acknowledged it had long known about Pakistan’s plans to develop a large plutonium production reactor and urged Pakistan not to expand its nuclear weapons programme.
- Congressman To Block Sale Of F- 16s To Pak (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jul 26, 2006)
A close friend of India and the Indian American community, Congressman Gary Ackerman, has introduced a legislation in Congress to block the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan.
- Israel Zone To Bar Rebels (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Israel said today it was determined to pursue its war against Hizbollah and would establish a no-go zone for the guerrillas in southern Lebanon until an international force arrives.
- India Signs Convention On Nuclear Terror (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
India has signed an international convention requiring states to make punishable as serious offence under their domestic law, terrorist acts involving use of nuclear material.
- Beyond The Ceasefire (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jul 26, 2006)
The hostilities in west Asia make it imperative that the prime minister, Manmohan Singh travel to Havana in September to attend the next non-aligned summit.
- Pakistan Nuclear Expansion Raises U.S. Concerns (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Jul 26, 2006)
Pakistan is building a new nuclear reactor that could produce enough plutonium for 40 to 50 nuclear weapons a year in what would be a major expansion of its nuclear program and could prompt an intensified arms race in South Asia, a report said Monday.
- Jehadi Outlook (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Jul 26, 2006)
Fawaz Gerges is a scholar and commentator who has written extensively on West Asia and U.S. foreign policy.
- Rice's Concern Over Lebanon Suffering (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Israeli troops move in deeper to besiege ``capital of the resistance''; Arabs pile pressure on Syria
- Bomb Factory (Tribune, Joby Warrick, Jul 25, 2006)
Pakistan has begun building what independent analysts say is a powerful new reactor for producing plutonium, a move that, if verified, would signal a major expansion of the country’s nuclear weapons capabilities and a potential new escalation in . . .
- Catholic Syrian Bank Launches Global Support Card (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Offered in association with VISA, it has a card-to-card money transfer facility
- Entering Into A Treaty (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Jul 25, 2006)
Recently the question has been raised whether the Constitution should not be amended to provide that Parliament should have a role in pre-ratification in the treaty-making power of the Central government.
- Not By Musharraf Alone (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 25, 2006)
After the Mumbai blasts and the meandering investigations by the government, one thing stands out. India has no easy options in dealing with either of the twin challenges that confront the nation — terrorism and relations with Pakistan.
- Pakistan Downplays Nuclear Report (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jul 25, 2006)
Islamabad expanding facility: U.S. newspaper
- Battling The Economic Gender Bias (Deccan Herald, Sakuntala Narasimhan, Jul 25, 2006)
Conventional economics may have ignored the woman's perspective, but the IAFFE is highlighting the issue.
- 'We Want India To Play A Major Role In Talks' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 25, 2006)
Though perceived as a Sinhala nationalist, Sri Lanka's fifth president, Mahinda Rajapakse — the first from outside the Bandaranaike family — says he is a Sri Lankan seeking peaceful coexistence among Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and other communities . . .
- Jaswant Confidently Responds To Pm’S 'Mole' Dare (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh is understood to have forwarded to the Prime Minister the name of a 'mole' in PMO who he alleged had leaked India's nuclear test plans to USA, a day after Manmohan Singh dared him to name the person.
- Prospects Abroad (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
There is an overwhelming preference among Indian students to pursue engineering courses in the United States.
- Fallout Of Climate Change (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Jul 25, 2006)
Latest scientific findings on the impact of climate change on biodiversity
- Trade Talks Collapse (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jul 25, 2006)
India, on Monday, squarely blamed ‘one country (United States)’ for the failure of a crucial meeting to decide figures to liberalise global farm and industrial trade in Doha trade negotiations, arguing that New Delhi will strive hard to show flexibility f
- Fencing With Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 25, 2006)
Two weeks after Mumbai’s Terrible Tuesday, investigators are hardly surprised by the emerging links between local terror groups, the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the ‘signature’ of the Pakistani mastermind, the Inter-Services Intelligence.
- ‘The Only Time I’Ve Slept Badly In My Life Was In Gujarat. Just . . . (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 25, 2006)
‘The only time I’ve slept badly in my life was in Gujarat. Just hearing the descriptions. Never before, never after’
- Pak Building Powerful N-Reactor: Report (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Pakistan is constructing a powerful new reactor for producing plutonium leading to apprehensions that this could signal a fresh arms race in the South Asian region, a media report said today.
- Passed By (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 25, 2006)
One measure of a government’s strength is how it is perceived at home and abroad.
- Sbi To Raise Rs 3,000 Cr (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
State Bank of India (SBI) which has been awaiting response of the finance ministry on its prayer to go for a rights issue, will be raising close to Rs 3,000 crore in the present fiscal through hybrid bonds and the Tier II route, bank’s Managing . . .
- Kashmir Policy Won’T Change, Says Kasuri (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Pakistan will not change its Kashmir policy after India postponed a meeting of foreign secretaries scheduled for July 21-22, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Monday.
- Syria’S Stern Warning To Israel (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 25, 2006)
Syria has issued a stern warning that Israeli invasion of Lebanon will drag it into the serious Middle East conflict. ‘Israel will be just within 20 kilometres of Damascus if it enters Lebanon and we will not watch . . .
- Where Is Humanitarian Law? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 25, 2006)
Restrained perhaps by the mandate of his office, the UN’s emergency relief coordinator was non-committal when asked on Sunday if Israel was guilty of war crimes in its on-going assault on Lebanon.
- A Letter Of Good Intent? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 25, 2006)
Variant interpretations have been placed on the intent behind the letter written by a group of well-known citizens to President Pervez Musharraf, advising him to separate his contentious offices and ensure free and fair elections in 2007.
- Pakistan Warns India Against ‘Hot Pursuit’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
FO says Pakistan wants early resumption of peace process with India
69 Pakistanis evacuated from Lebanon so far
- Pakistan To India: Show Sagacity (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Pakistan’s defence minister, Rao Sikandar Iqbal, has said that India should show sagacity instead of hurling allegations.
- P-Bomb Takes Plutonium Leap (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Pakistan is building a powerful new reactor for producing plutonium, according to the Washington Post.
- Terror Thrives In Corruption (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Jul 25, 2006)
There is a popular saying in Bengali 'Sorseyr modhye bhoot' (The spook is in the mustard), suggesting that if the very mustard, used by the exorcist, shelters the ghost, how will there be a remedy? Hence exorcism must begin with exorcising the mustard.
- The Good Guys Rarely Win (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jul 25, 2006)
It speaks volumes for US priorities that the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbollah generated a quality of response that only makes sense if Washington itself was under siege from extra-terrestrial satanic forces.
- Us Embassy In Delhi On High Alert, Terror Group Plans Attack (Times of India, Sachin Parashar, Jul 25, 2006)
The next few days are likely to be very tense for the US embassy here. For a top IB official has sent a letter to security agencies with a chilling message the American embassy is expected to be targetted any time between now and July 30 by . . .
- No Beating About The Bush: A Hands-On President (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 25, 2006)
No one can accuse US President George W Bush of not practising hands-on diplomacy at the G-8 summit in St Petersburg on July 20.
- Pak Gets China's Help On Reactor (Times of India, SAIBAL DASGUPTA, Jul 25, 2006)
If Pakistan is under the scanner for trying to amass nuclear warheads, the world should also look at China's help to Islamabad in setting up a new nuclear reactor at its Khushab nuclear site, sources said.
- Costs Of Rejection (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Jul 25, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear deal under negotiation has been misunderstood as a bilateral engagement. Critics view the deal as a clever US attempt to entrap India into a junior partnership to serve US interests and cap India's strategic arsenal.
- India, Pakistan May Exchange Views In Dhaka (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jul 25, 2006)
SAARC a chance to re-examine relationship
- "Nuclear Policy Has A Purely Defensive Orientation" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
India changed its policy and developed nuclear deterrence only after powerful nations did not give up their nuclear weapons and its neighbours began taking strides in this direction, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Monday.
- Wracked By Inflation, Interest Rate Worries (Business Line, A. Seshan, Jul 25, 2006)
Rising domestic price levels and the increasing international interest rates are matters of concern to the Reserve Bank of India, which will review its Monetary Policy stance today.
- Fallacies, Silences In 11th Plan Approach (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jul 25, 2006)
In the previous edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh considered the macroeconomic implications of the Planning Commission's Approach to the Eleventh Plan and concluded that it was bereft of planning.
- Inflation Within Projected Range: Rbi (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Headline inflation remained within the indicative trajectory during the first quarter of fiscal 2006-07 despite higher oil and food prices, the Reserve Bank of India, said in its first quarter review of Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments.
- Jaswant Will Disclose Us Mole’S Name (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Picking up the gauntlet thrown by Manmohan Singh, former foreign minister Jaswant Singh has said that he is ready to tell the PM about the mole who snooped on the PMO a decade ago.
- 'F-16s To Pak Plus N-Reactor Equals Disaster' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
A prominent American lawmaker on Monday asked Bush Administration to scrap the sale of F-16s to Pakistan, saying the acquisition of the US-made fighter jets plus the plutonium reactor reportedly being built by Islamabad equals a "catastrophe."
- Pak Bombshell, Doubts In India (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Pakistan has begun building what independent analysts say is a powerful new reactor for producing plutonium sufficient for 40 to 50 nuclear weapons a year.
- Not Exactly Total Recall (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 25, 2006)
Jaswant Singh provides a partial account of a key period in Indian diplomacy
- Fault Lines Of Colonial System Of Policing (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 25, 2006)
The British left us saddled with a police structure vastly different from what they themselves had back home.
- Smoke Around Nuclear Real (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jul 25, 2006)
The pitch against the one-year old-Indo-US nuclear deal will undoubtedly rise manifold as Parliament began its monsoon session and the Left has put the UPA Government on notice over emerging contours of the agreement.
- Pakistan Nuclear Expansion Raises U.S. Concerns (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Pakistan is building a new nuclear reactor that could produce enough plutonium for 40 to 50 nuclear weapons a year in what would be a major expansion of its nuclear program and could prompt an intensified arms race in South Asia, a report said Monday.
- Ch Pervaiz Deserves This Honour (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 25, 2006)
Punjab Chief Minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi has been elected unopposed as President of the Pakistan Muslim League, Punjab. No other candidate has filed nomination papers for the coveted post.
- 'More Than $10 Mn Needed To Help Lebanon' » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
The United Nation's humanitarian chief has said it would take more than $100 million to help the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who have been hurt or displaced since the Israeli bombings began more than a week ago.
- Ranbaxy, On Buying Spree, Eyes U.S. (Reuters, Lewis Krauskopf, Jul 25, 2006)
Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., which has been on a European buying spree, is also eyeing U.S. acquisitions as it seeks to become one of the five largest generic manufacturers within six years.
- Japan Tightens N Korea Sanctions Noose (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Japan is considering revisions of foreign exchange and trade laws as part of sanctions imposed on North Korea in response to its recent missile tests, a newspaper report said today.
- Public Space (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 25, 2006)
An unmanned, inflatable spacecraft financed by an American hotelier beamed back the first images since it slipped into orbit last week aboard a converted Cold War ballistic missile from Russia and expanded itself.
- Australian Oppn Leader For Liberal Uranium Export Policy (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
The leader of the Opposition in Australia, Kim Beazley, has withdrawn support for a long- standing ban on new uranium mines in the country and instead suggested a policy of liberal mining and exports.
- Differences In The Designs Of Development (Hindu, Amit Bhaduri, Jul 25, 2006)
Unless the course is changed from a corporate-led capitalism to decentralised employment-led growth, resistances will overwhelm the government.
- Hezbollah Rejects Conditional Ceasefire Proposal By Us (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
Lebanese parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri who is acting as an intermediary for Hezbollah in talks with US Secretary of State
- South Korea, Indian Rank First In U.N. Leader Poll (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 25, 2006)
South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon and U.N. official Shashi Tharoor received the most endorsements in the Security Council's straw poll for the next U.N. secretary-general, diplomats said on Monday.
- Time For Parliament To Step In (Hindu, K.C. Pant , Jul 25, 2006)
Rarely before has a bilateral accord carried such far-reaching implications for India as the nuclear deal with the United States. It threatens to compromise the country's freedom of action. An extraordinary situation calls for an extraordinary . . .
- Pm Not Keeping N-Deal Vows: Karat (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2006)
A day before monsoon session begins, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat widened the scope of opposition to Indo-US nuclear deal by issuing a detailed stand on how the promises made by PM Manmohan Singh in Parliament on the deal are being "changed . . .
- Israel Warns Of Full Scale Ground Invasion (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2006)
A besiged Lebanon continued to be bombed from air for the 10th day as Israel called up thousands of reserves after warning it could launch a full-scale ground invasion and airdropped leaflets warning civilians to leave border villages by 2 pm on Friday.
- Senators Rule Out Us Peacekeeping In Lebanon (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2006)
Top Senators have ruled out American participation in any international peacekeeping force for Lebanon saying that if indeed there are going to be troops in Lebanon they should come from other countries.
- Find & Destroy The Terrorists (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 24, 2006)
The Federal Assembly has approved the decision of the Russian President to find and destroy the terrorists who murdered the Russian diplomats in Iraq.
- Saviour Ships (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 24, 2006)
India, unostentatiously, moved a few places up the international power-scale when deploying four naval ships to evacuate its nationals stranded in the Lebanon conflict.
- Cpm To Be Vocal On N-Deal In Parliament (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2006)
The CPI-M will make the Indo-US Nuclear Deal the major weapon of its attack on the government in Parliament’s monsoon session, and wants all big parties to join in the chorus.
- To Catch A Fly (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 24, 2006)
One shouldn’t underestimate the daily challenges facing the modern CEO. Recently, our reporters were being briefed by a CEO on the master plan for a major project that involved studying similar international projects . . .
- United We Debate (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 24, 2006)
As the endgame on legislating a nuclear exception for India begins in the US, our Parliament has every right to hear from the government and discuss the agreement’s implementation.
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