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Articles 20421 through 20520 of 53943:
- Shaukat’S Principled Stand On Iran (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan is opposed to military action against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme and called for diplomatic solution to the crisis over Iran’s uranium enrichment issue.
- Power Moves In Asia (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Mar 09, 2006)
The US pursues goals of nuclear non-proliferation and counter terrorism in South Asia
- Ard Decisions (The Nation, Editorial, National Post, Mar 09, 2006)
DECISIONS relating to the elections scheduled for 2007 taken at a meeting of the ARD on Tuesday, were announced by its chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim.
- A New South Asian Order In The Making (Dawn, Sherry Rehman, Mar 09, 2006)
Despite the concessions made by Pervez Musharraf for Washington, President Bush’s approach to South Asia indicates very clearly a major shift in US policy, refracted most sharply by his visit to the region.
- Assam: Most Pol Parties Yet To Finalise Poll Nominees (Press Trust of India, Sukhendu Bhattacharya, Mar 09, 2006)
With barely a month to go for the Assam assembly elections, the scene remains hazy without formation of any major alliance by political parties and most of them not even finalising their list of candidates.
- 'We Want To Demystify Careers In Networking’ (Deccan Herald, Sangeetha Chengappa, Mar 09, 2006)
While the Internet has revolutionised the way we deliver and receive information and the way businesses are conducted, more than 80 per cent of the world has never heard a dial tone, or sent an e-mail or even surfed the Net.
- Burns Says India Not Recognised As Nuclear Power (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
US Under Secretary of State Nicolas Burns has said that Washington has not recognised India as a nuclear power, ARY Television reported.
- Russian Majors Eye Indian Ore (The Financial Express, SUBHASH NARAYAN, Mar 09, 2006)
: Russia’s leading metal companies Rusal and Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Company (MMK) have zeroed in on India for big-ticket investments in the aluminium and steel sectors.
- Is The Bird Flu Over? (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Don’t just have it on your mind. Have it on your plate too!” So runs one of the series of advertisements that the ministry of health and family welfare and the department of animal husbandry are putting out in newspapers.
- Vive La Difference! (The Economic Times, Rama Bijapurkar, Mar 09, 2006)
The two of us, writing this piece, are battle hardened though somewhat exhausted sufferers of a debilitating physical and mental condition.
- It's Big Game: Desi Breed Much Ahead Of Mncs (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 09, 2006)
Despite the rapid growth, both organic and inorganic, over the past three years, MNC software services vendors are still not able to compete head on with Indian vendors on the offshoring front.
- Mumbai Breathes Again (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 09, 2006)
SC judgment on mill land is a blessing
- Pak Rejects Indian Protest On Construction Of Basha Dam (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan today rejected India's assertion that the construction of Bhasha Dam in Northern Areas would inundate large parts of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the dam was being built for welfare of the people of the area.
- India Protests Pak Dam Plan Over Indus (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
India has protested the construction of Bhasha dam on the Indus river in Gilgit, claiming that it would inundate large parts of land in Pak-controlled part of Kashmir.
- Don’T Let The Nuke Hype Cloud The Big Story (The Financial Express, TALMIZ AHMAD, Mar 09, 2006)
One of the important aspects of the Indo-US nuclear deal is the emphasis it has placed on the development of nuclear energy to generate power in India.
- Indian Docs To Need Work Permit In Uk (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The string of bad news for doctors from India or any non-European Union countries continues. Now, all doctors wishing to work in the UK from outside the European Union will be required to have a work permit from July 2006, . . .
- World Condemns Varanasi Blasts (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The Varanasi serial blasts have evoked strong condemnation from across the world, including the US, Britain and Australia, which noted the continued danger posed by terrorism and underlined the need for collective fight against it.
- Bush Discusses Indo-Us Nuclear Deal With Top Lawmakers (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Mar 09, 2006)
Swinging into action to secure Congress approval for the Indo-US nuclear deal, President George W Bush had an hour-long focussed discussion with top lawmakers to know their major concerns and sought their backing for the pact.
- Varanasi Is Us (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Mar 09, 2006)
In that umbra moment after the blasts, when the television screens suddenly spewed out images of blood-stained floors, panic-stricken crowds and strewn personal belongings, a stone seemed to settle on the chest.
- The Nuclear Plan’S Hurdle Race (Indian Express, G. Balachandran, Mar 09, 2006)
At last one can heave a sigh of relief of sorts. Even though a lot remains to be done to give practical effect to the July 18 India-US statement on nuclear cooperation, the “successful completion of discussions on India’s separation . . .
- White House: Indo-Us N-Deal Will Not Fuel Arms Race (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Mar 09, 2006)
In an exercise aimed at silencing critics of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the Bush administration has rejected charges that the pact would fuel an arms race in South Asia and set the stage for recognition of India as a nuclear weapons state.
- Cm Lays Foundation For Bhaderwah University Campus (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
It looked as if entire Bhadarwah had come out on roads to receive their beloved leader, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, on his arrival in the town today to lay foundation of Bhadarwah Campus of Jammu University and address a public gathering . . .
- Bilateral Trade Arrangements Are The Way To Go (The Financial Express, JAYANTA ROY, Mar 09, 2006)
The recent nuclear deal with the US is a historical landmark.
- Organic Agriculture (Daily Excelsior, Dr K C Bhagat, Mar 09, 2006)
Agriculture is the key human profession as it is linked with the entire process of environment (that is comprising air, water, land, climate, biodiversity, forest etc) on the one hand and constitutes the life line of human species . . .
- Bird Flu Kills Chinese Girl, Sparks Fresh Fears (Reuters, Ben Hammersley, Mar 09, 2006)
A nine-year-old girl has died of bird flu in China, state media said on Wednesday, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said action was needed now to prepare for an influenza pandemic.
- Bush Sells India N-Deal To Lawmakers (Hindustan Times, S Rajagopalan, Mar 09, 2006)
In the first push for congressional nod for the Indo-US nuke deal, President George W Bush held discussions with a group of leading lawmakers on Tuesday and sought their support for the measure.
- In For A Meltdown (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The latest report from scientists studying glacial movement in Greenland says that the ice melt is so high that current predictions of how quickly Earth’s oceans will rise over the next century have become obsolete.
- Pleasures Of Separation (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The formal outline of the nuclear separation plan presented before Parliament seems to have been designed to keep virtually everyone happy.
- Communal Ammunition (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The bomb blasts in Varanasi, coming a little over four months after a similar attack in Delhi, are yet another attempt to incite communal violence in the country.
- Musharraf Wants More Security On Afghan Border (Daily Times, Rana Qaisar, Mar 09, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday told US Central Command (Centcom) chief General John P Abizaid that there was an urgent need to reinforce security on the Afghan side of the border to stop “miscreants” sneaking into Pakistan’s tribal areas.
- Left Points Out Holes In N-Deal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Left parties today expressed apprehensions in the nuclear separation deal reached between India and the USA by asking the UPA government whether it has decided to close down CIRUS (Canadian-Indian-US) nuclear reactor by 2010 and shift Apsara . . .
- Smouldering Yet (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 09, 2006)
Four years, two inquiry commissions and reams of literature later, no one is ready to say what caused the fire on the Sabarmati Express as it pulled out of Godhra station.
- Holy Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 09, 2006)
The combination of holiness and terror is likely to be a dangerous one for India.
- Family Matters (Telegraph, Malavika Karlekar, Mar 09, 2006)
The author’s recent book is Re-visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915
- Un: Women Denied Representation (Tribune, Maxine Frith, Mar 09, 2006)
Millions of women around the world, are being denied effective representation because of the low numbers of female politicians, judges and employers, the United Nations has warned.
- Making Panchayati Raj Effective In Haryana (Tribune, Ranbir Singh, Mar 09, 2006)
THE enactment and implementation of the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, for restructuring the system of decentralised rural governance in Haryana in accordance with the provisions of the 73rd Amendment Act (1993), the devolution of functions . . .
- Bush Visit To South Asia (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 09, 2006)
Some change in US thinking on Pakistan
NEVER before has the visit of an American President to South Asia created such a political storm as the recent one by President George W. Bush to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
- Bush Gone, Now Chance To Reassure Beijing (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Mar 09, 2006)
When the Chinese Special Representative Dai Bingguo arrives here on Friday for the next round of talks on the boundary dispute, India will have an opportunity to convey to China at the highest level that its growing relationship . . .
- Bsnl Cuts Isd Tariff (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
BSNL today slashed international long-distance call rates to Rs 6 a minute, with 10 seconds pulse, for users opting One India tariff plan.
- Let Ultra Shot As Cops Probe Varanasi Blasts (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Mar 09, 2006)
Even after 24 hours the Special Task Force entrusted to crack the Varanasi serial blasts killing about 20 and injuring 100 could claim only leads.
- New Clear Deal (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 09, 2006)
After weeks of intense diplomatic activity, India and the US have reached an agreement on implementation of the nuclear deal struck last year.
- Varanasi Wakes Up To A New Dawn (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Life goes on. And with vigour in Varanasi. If the 3/7 serial blasts in the temple town were meant to create panic and hatred, its perpetrators were given a royal rebuff.
- Pakistan Rejects Indian Protest Over Bhasha Dam (News International, Khalid Mustafa, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the Indian protest against construction of Diamer-Bhasha dam saying it is building the reservoir within its water resources management policy.
- Iaea Sending Iran Report To Unsc Today (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
VIENNA MEET Tehran warns Washington of ‘harm and pain’, White House calls statement provocative
- 'Indo-Us N-Pact Doesn't Hamper Dealing With Iran' (Hindustan Times, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Mar 09, 2006)
The Bush Administration has rejected the notion that proceeding with the civilian nuclear energy agreement with India undercuts America's dealing with Iran on the issue, stressing that the US looks at both the cases differently.
- Lie Is A Lie Is A Lie (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
Perjurers sometimes face tough circumstances. But perjury’s cost must be made forbiddingly high
- Growing Up (Indian Express, JYOTSNA DIWAN MEHTA, Mar 09, 2006)
The young have a careless attitude towards life. They plunge head-long into life’s challenges, without caution, responsibility, or the proverbial second thoughts! That is why they say the young can conquer the world.
- Remembering Golwalkar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
Underplaying the big ticket items of the last week — Budget and Bush visit —the latest Organiser chooses to focus on the ‘‘scintillating launch’’ of the centenary celebrations of the second sarsanghchalak and premier ideologue of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar.
- Strategic Interests Safe (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 09, 2006)
N-deal has made no such compromise
- Ec’S Disqualification Move Opens A Pandora’S Box (Deccan Herald, B S Arun, Mar 09, 2006)
Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan is in the spotlight for holding an office of profit
- Bush Seeks Congress Backing For India Deal (Indian Express, LALIT K JHA, Mar 09, 2006)
US President, George Bush, who has made Congressional approval of the Indo-US nuke deal as a “high priority” for his administration, on Tuesday met influential members of the Congress seeking their views and soliciting support on the civilian nuclear . .
- Us, Europe Tell Iran To Reverse Nuke Policy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
An Iranian collision course with the Council looks more likely after Tehran brushed aside a tentative Russian offer on Tuesday to let it do limited atomic research if it refrained from enriching uranium on an industrial scale for 7-9 years.
- In Islamabad, On A Turning Wicket (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says HUSAIN HAQQANI
- Kite-Flying Deaths (The Nation, Editorial, National Post, Mar 09, 2006)
IT is unsettling to note the controversy raised by the recent wave of kite-flying related deaths.
- Prime Minister's Statement On Discussions On Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation With The Us (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
In my Statement on February 27, 2006, I had provided an assurance that this august House will be informed of developments in our discussions with the United States on separation of our civilian and military nuclear facilities.
- Roads In The Air: City’S Flight From Chaos (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
These elevated expressways are stand-alone projects without any conflict with other transport options like Metro Rail and Inner Core Ring Road that are being planned for the City.
- Us, World Leaders Condemn Terror Attacks (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 09, 2006)
Fighting terror is our common struggle, and we stand with the people of India as they bring to justice those responsible for these cowardly acts”.
- You Are Greedy, India To Us, Eu (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Mar 09, 2006)
India, on Tuesday, told the trade majors – United States and European Union – that they are getting much more “greedy” in the critical Doha trade negotiations by insisting on more onerous concessions than what is agreed in the mandate, sources said.
- Iran's Threat Of 'Harm And Pain' (San Francisco Chronicle, Edotorial, San Francisco Chronicle, Mar 09, 2006)
The Rhetoric is rising in the war of wills between Washington and Tehran.
- Woman Molested At Delhi Secretariat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
International Women's Day is celebrated in India with pomp and show where achievements of a few celebrated Indian women - past and present - are cited proudly. In such gatherings, heart rendering sufferings and exploitation being undergone by Indian . . .
- Oh India! Do Not Beat Around This Bush (Times of India, AMJAD K. MARUF, Mar 08, 2006)
It is too early for us to rejoice at the fact that Bush visit has turned out to be in India’s favour.
- Tata Submission On Idea Incorrect, Say Birlas (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Continuing their tirade against the Tatas over Idea Cellular, the Birlas today dug out an old government communication to establish that their partner Tatas’ submission before telecom ministry was ‘‘incorrect’’ and ‘‘inconsistent’’ with license policies.
- The Other India (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 08, 2006)
George Bush is spending a day in Hyderabad during his three-day India visit. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, went to Bangalore and Mumbai when he came calling in 2000. So did Chinese prime minister Zhu Rongji in 2002.
- India Says To Complete Nuclear Separation By 2014 (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Mar 08, 2006)
India will open 14 of its 22 nuclear plants for international inspections by 2014 as part of a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation deal with the United States, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.
- N-Deal Doesn’T Recognise India As Nuclear Weapon State, Says Burns (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The US has made it clear that the Indo-US nuclear deal does not amount to recognition of India as a nuclear weapon state.
- Kalam Embarks On Myanmar Visit Today (Indian Express, Manraj Grewal, Mar 08, 2006)
A very important visit to a very important neighbour. That’s how Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran described President APJ Abdul Kalam’s visit to Myanmar, beginning tomorrow.
- Nuke Deal With India: Us Was Not Sure Till Last Moment (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, Mar 08, 2006)
The United States was not sure until the very last minute whether a civilian nuclear energy deal with India was going to be possible and if a "good deal" was not on the cards, Washington was going to walk away from it.
- Woes Of Women (Daily Excelsior, R P Shah, Mar 08, 2006)
International Women's Day is celebrated in India with pomp and show where achievements of a few celebrated Indian women - past and present - are cited proudly. In such gatherings, heart rendering sufferings and exploitation being undergone by Indian . . .
- Budget For Deceptions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 08, 2006)
An analysis of this year’s budget by JNU professor Prabhat Patnaik, a key figure in the CPM’s group on economic affairs, pinpoints inadequacies in the document from the Left’s standpoint:
- Australia Opens Door For Uranium To India - Analyst (Reuters, James Grubel, Mar 08, 2006)
Australia has opened the door to future uranium sales to India but would not want to consider the issue for several years and not until Australia has locked in lucrative sales to China, a leading analyst said on Tuesday.
- Up Didn’T Respond On Security Upgrade For Temple (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Mar 08, 2006)
Sankatmochan temple, the site for tonight’s terror attack, was one of the temples on the list of important religious places where the Centre had carried out extensive security surveys after the Lashkar-e-Toiba attack at Akshardham in Gujarat in September
- Kashmir Settlement Needs Sincerity: Cm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Winding up the discussion on the resolution regarding roundtable conference in Legislative Council today, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that persuasion of emotional slogans and beating about the bush, to led astray the people, who have shun . . .
- Annan's Plans For Un Overhaul Prompts Staff Outcry (Reuters, Evelyn Leopold , Mar 08, 2006)
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan outlined on Tuesday a radical overhaul of U.N. procedures, recruitment and training, prompting protests by staff on proposed outsourcing from New York headquarters.
- In A State Of Ruin (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 08, 2006)
The author is a former foreign secretary.
- Customer Is King (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 08, 2006)
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) notices to service providers on poor quality of service is just what was needed in the face of deteriorating mobile services in much of the country.
- Reading The Feminine Fine Print (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 08, 2006)
Last year’s literary lasses did not just muddy hemlines in dark myths and edgy fiction, but also refused to skirt issues of gender in the run-up from one International Women's Day to another.
- Mittal Chambers Not To House Pak Mission After All (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Even as the Pakistan high Commission was given permission to set up its office at Mittal Chambers in South Mumbai, despite stiff opposition from all other members of the building society, in a sudden move Ravi Singhal has cancelled the deal . . .
- This Land Is Our Land (Indian Express, RAJAN SASTRI, Mar 08, 2006)
The Supreme Court of India on March 7 held that the sale of surplus lands by National Textile Corporation (NTC) was legal. While allowing the appeal, the bench added that the environmental aspect and sustainable development has to go together.
- Discontented Docs And Sick Wards (Indian Express, SWATI ALI, Mar 08, 2006)
One slap by an irate relative on a resident doctor in Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial Hospital and, in a matter of hours, 2,000 resident doctors from 10 hospitals in the city were ready to go on strike.
- Mills Of Justice (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 08, 2006)
The Supreme Court ruling on the Mumbai mill lands case gives everyone breathing space.
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