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Articles 25521 through 25620 of 53943:
- U.S. Document Slams Iraq Situation (Hindu, Julian Borger , Jan 19, 2006)
Widespread lawlessness is curtailing civil liberties, says the paper
An official document issued by the U.S. foreign aid agency depicts the security situation in Iraq as dire, with constant militant attacks ``significantly damaging'' . . .
- Dialogue On Kashmir Issue To Continue (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 19, 2006)
Commitment on bus service reiterated
Truck service on the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar route for trade in permitted goods
India wants Pakistan to do more to tackle terrorist activities
Manmohan says he is keen on visiting Islamabad
- Multiple-Feed Bio-Diesel Plant To Be Set Up In Mysore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
It will have the capacity to produce ten million litres a year
The proposed plant is an Indo-U.S. venture
It will be able to process a wide variety of feedstock into bio-diesel fuel
- Panel Tours Haveri To Review Scheme (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Panel comprised members of World Bank and European Commission
The members visited block resource centres and some schools in villages
Final review meeting in State to be held in Bangalore on January 20
- Pakistan, India To Ease Tensions Over Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan agreed on Wednesday to implement fresh measures to lower tensions over Kashmir and confirmed their commitment to keep their stuttering peace process on track.
- Tourism Wing To Launch Road-Cum-River Cruise (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Discount of 20 per cent to be offered till April 15
One can enjoy the panoramic view of the picturesque Godavari valley on a cruise along the river for a wallet-friendly budget, with the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC) . . .
- Killing Made Easy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 19, 2006)
With pitifully little notice paid, another rash of year-end homicide statistics points up the madness of America’s fascination with handguns.
- New Delhi Told Balochistan Our Internal Matter: Fo (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Meanwhile talking to a private television channel, Pakistan’s foreign office spokesperson Ms Tasneem Aslam has said that Pakistan made it clear upon India that Balochistan was the internal matter of Pakistan and Islamabad will not discuss the . . .
- It-Enabled Revenue Raising (The Economic Times, KIRAN KARNIK, Jan 19, 2006)
System improvements for efficiency, monitoring for accountability and results, technology for productivity and analysis: the combination of these will help cut costs and raise revenues on a substantial scale,
- Land-Locked (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 19, 2006)
Reliance’s Rs 1,104 crore bid for a 7.5-hectare plot in Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai, once again underscores how irrational policy eats into India Inc’s competitiveness.
- Singh ‘Very Keen’ To Visit Pakistan (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday he was “very keen” to visit Pakistan and wanted it to be “substantive”. Singh conveyed this when Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan renewed the invitation to visit Pakistan extended . . .
- Time Ripe To Take Up Kashmir, India Told (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Jan 19, 2006)
India and Pakistan wound up their two-day foreign secretary-level talks to unveil the third round of composite dialogue here on Wednesday, with the doves and hawks both finding reasons to claim victory.
- Seismic Factor Goes Against Kalabagh (Dawn, Fatehyab Ali Khan, Jan 19, 2006)
This article is not a comment on issues pertaining to the rights of riparians and the political and social repercussions of the construction of dams. The main aim of this endeavour is to highlight the technical, . . .
- Why A Special Ril Trading Session? (The Economic Times, ARNAV PANDYA, Jan 19, 2006)
The Reliance demerger issue has been at the centre of stock market activity for the past many days and now that the special trading session is over and the price discovered, it is time to reflect and ask whether the entire sequence of events was
- Finally It Is Bhasha (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 19, 2006)
FINALLY, the government has opted for the Bhasha-dam-first strategy, lumping the Kalabagh dam with the other three — Munda, Akori and Kurrum Tangi — to be built later.
- Sbi Finds Credit Spike A Nightmare (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The 30 per cent growth in credit offtake that the country is seeing is unsustainable as it could lead to concerns about loans turning into bad and resource crunch, said A K Purwar, chairman, State Bank of India (SBI).
- Indian-American Scholar Given Key State Department Assignment (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jan 19, 2006)
A leading Indian-American academic has been co-opted by a senior State Department official to advise him on India for the next two months.
- India Must Address Issues To Fulfil Global Ambitions (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jan 19, 2006)
India still needs to address numerous political and economic challenges to fulfil its global ambitions, according to a new study.
- Eu3 Draft Opens Door To Un Sanctions On Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
France, Britain and Germany began circulating a draft resolution on Wednesday that asks the UN nuclear watchdog to report Iran’s nuclear programme to the Security Council, opening the door to possible UN sanctions.
- Us Upbeat On India N-Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The United States is confident of reaching a deal with India on nuclear cooperation even though differences remain over plans to separate India’s civil and military programmes, a top US official said on Wednesday.
- Bypassing The Nfc Logjam (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 19, 2006)
Using his constitutional powers, the president appears to have bypassed, for the time being, the NFC award logjam.
- Civil War Threat In Sri Lanka (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Jan 19, 2006)
An unfortunate feature of politics in the South Asian region during the last 50 years has been the birth of separatist movements based mostly on ethnic and linguistic basis and complicated by majority-minority politics.
- Us Must Facilitate Kashmir, Palestine Solutions: Pm (News International, Salim Bokhari, Jan 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan and the United States have evolved a transformed relationship and there is a strategic convergence between the two countries on regional and international objectives.
- 'Top Al-Qaeda Bomb-Maker Killed In Bajaur Attack’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
A top Al-Qaeda bomb maker with a $5 million reward on his head was killed in the last week’s CIA missile strike in Bajaur, ABC News reported Wednesday.
- Time To Address Issues: Riaz (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan on Wednesday said it would be better to reach settlement of the Kashmir issue, acceptable to India, Pakistan and the people of Kashmir.
- Indian Idle (Tribune, Chetna Keer Banerjee, Jan 19, 2006)
Gone are the days when the common man had to wait for five years to cast that one vote. The man in the street now has a chance to vote almost five days a week.
- Preventing Power Losses (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jan 19, 2006)
Talk to a Japanese official and he invariably comes up with a reply that Pakistan is potentially a very rich country with large natural resources, unlike Japan with its narrow strip of hilly land. All we have to do, he says, is to develop those . . .
- The Measure Of All Things Ken Alder (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 19, 2006)
We often hear that science is a revolutionary force that imposes radical new ideas on human history. But science also emerges from within human history, reshaping ordinary actions, some so habitual we hardly notice them. Measurement is one of our . . .
- Economic Implications Of Terrorism (Business Line, Asuri Vasudevan, Jan 19, 2006)
To counter terrorism, governments and businesses have to incur additional expenditure on arrangements for safety and security, insurance payments, surveillance and intelligence gathering and training and equipping anti-terror squads.
- India And Pakistan Agree On Second Kashmir Bus (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jan 19, 2006)
* India says Pakistan must do more to stop terrorism
* Both discuss Kashmir troop redeployment
- New Partnerships (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 19, 2006)
Clearly, There has been a careful calibration of the process of cementing a relationship in the latest announcement of what the Italian car major Fiat and Tata Motors jointly plan to do.
- High Cost Health Holds World In Bind (Daily Excelsior, Suraj Saraf, Jan 19, 2006)
High cost of health is dogging the whole world not sparing even the developed nations. Conditions in India are among the worst as revealed in recent studies. With an increasing realisation that health is a crucial asset in the economic development, . . .
- The Illusive Us Arms Bazaar (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Jan 19, 2006)
Two roadblocks await the forward move in the Indo-US bilateral relations early in 2006.
- Burns In India To Discuss N-Deal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Less than a week after a meeting of the Indo-US ‘Civil Nuclear Energy Working Group’ here, U S Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R Nicholas Burns today said implementing the deal of nuclear cooperation between the two countries is . . .
- Lessons In The Pipeline (Telegraph, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Jan 19, 2006)
The author is a former ambassador and is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi
- Additional Troops Deployed In Sri Lanka's Trincomalee District (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Sri Lanka today deployed additional security forces in the strategic Trincomalee port district which was put on maximum alert amid fears of more 'spectacular' attacks by Tamil tigers, as Scandinavian truce monitors indefinitely suspended work in the troub
- Parties, King Head For A Showdown In Nepal (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Jan 19, 2006)
King Gyanendra and the seven pro-democracy political parties are inching for a showdown, and political pundits predict a catastrophic defeat for the 59-year-old monarch nursing ambition for absolute powers.
- India, Pakistan Agree On Opening Of New Bus Link, Trade Routes (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Taking a tough stand on terrorism, India today bluntly told Pakistan that continuance of acts of terror and violence would hit the peace process as the two countries agreed on a slew of measures including opening of new bus link and trade routes.
- Pakistan Names 3 Al Qaeda Believed Killed In Strike (Reuters, Simon Cameron, Jan 19, 2006)
Pakistani intelligence sources on Thursday identified three of four al Qaeda members believed to have been killed by a U.S. airstrike last week, though they have yet to recover the bodies.
- India Expects (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 19, 2006)
There is little that can be done to help an organization which does not know its own importance.
- Children Of A Lesser God (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jan 19, 2006)
Extracts from the ILO’s regional high-level tripartite meeting on the Role of Labour Inspection in combating Child Labour, Harare, 2001
- That Education Pill (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 19, 2006)
The Annual Status of Education Report was conceived by an educational NGO as a citizen’s audit when it embarked on its survey of 9,252 rural schools in 28 states, with villages chosen at random.
- India, Pak Agree On Opening New Bus Link (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Taking a tough stand on terrorism, India on Wednesday bluntly told Pakistan that continuance of acts of terror and violence would hit the peace process as the two countries agreed on a slew of measures including opening of new bus link and trade routes.
- Sebi To Use Benami Act (Indian Express, DEV CHATTERJEE, Jan 19, 2006)
Stock market regulator Sebi is planning to enforce the Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Act 1988 to book the culprits who cornered shares meant for small investors in IDFC and Yes Bank initial public offers.
- Pm For Pro-Active Approach To Tackle Terrorism (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today suggested a pro-active approach to tackle terrorism in view of the various tactics adopted by terrorists often with assistance of State-sponsors, an apparent reference to Pakistan.
- U.S. Upbeat On India Nuclear Deal Despite Problems (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The United States is confident of reaching a deal with India on nuclear cooperation even though differences remain over plans to separate India's civil and military programmes, a top U.S. official said on Wednesday.
- India, Pakistan Agree On Peace, Differ On Process (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Jan 19, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Wednesday made a fresh commitment to push forward a fragile peace process but the nuclear-armed neighbours reiterated their differences over ways to end nearly 60 years of enmity.
- Grey Area Busted (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 19, 2006)
Fixed wireless phone is limited mobile: TDSAT
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) judgement declaring Reliance Infocomm’s fixed wireless terminals (FWTs) as a “limited mobile” service has resolved one of the biggest . . .
- Russia Proposes Delay In Un Action On Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Russia has proposed a delay in confronting Iran at the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme, European Union diplomat Javier Solana has said.
- Defusing Iran With Democracy (Los Angeles Times, Shirin Ebadi, Jan 19, 2006)
Lost in the international fury over Iran's partial restart of its nuclear energy program, and the deplorable statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regarding Israel, has been the fact that respect for human rights and a democratic political . . . .
- Have A Brisk Walk (Deccan Herald, M K RATHISH, Jan 18, 2006)
A walk every day is enough to keep us healthy, but, as a culture, do we like the idea?
- India And Taiwan: Moving Closer (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Jan 18, 2006)
India should reconsider its approach to Taiwan in terms of foreign
India has been developing ties with Taiwan ever since the two countries established unofficial linkages with each other a decade ago.
- Pak Floats A New One To India: Let Strike Forces Not Be Eyeball To Eyeball (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Jan 18, 2006)
suggestion that has set South Block thinking, Pakistan today proposed that military strike formations on either side should not be ‘‘permanently relocated’’ to forward locations.
- Bullet-Proof ‘Monks’ (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 18, 2006)
Even by Jammu and Kashmir standards, this is an alarming turn in the battle against militancy. For the first time in 15 years, investigations into fidayeen attacks in the state are increasingly pointing at the involvement of elected representatives . . .
- West, China Split On Iran (Hindu, Ewen MacAskill, Jan 18, 2006)
Beijing says referring nuclear issue to U.N. will complicate the crisis
- India Requires A Creative Leader: Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
In another appeal to CII, President Kalam urged the organisation to create a directory of existing partnerships commencing from 2000 and publish it giving all details of scope and progressive financial performance. c
- Congress Plenary To Deliberate On Cmp, Disinvestments (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
It is said the two issues need focus in view of Centre's problems
- Clemenceau: Egypt Didn't Consult India (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 18, 2006)
No effort made to get fresh certificates that would have highlighted the present situation
Old certificates issued by the Indian authorities and sent by a tugboat company relied upon
- Waiting For Iran (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 18, 2006)
China and Russia’s agreement with the US, Britain, Germany and France, that Iran must completely suspend its nuclear enrichment activities is a positive development.
- Can Do Without Chaotic Decision-Making (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Jan 18, 2006)
The Red Queen advised Alice: ‘If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.’
- Russia, China Favour Talks In Tehran, Not Un Sanctions (Indian Express, OLEG SHCHEDROV, Jan 18, 2006)
Russia and China made it clear today that they did not favour UN sanctions to induce Iran to scale back its nuclear programme, advocating more negotiations.
- Gang Wars (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Jan 18, 2006)
Is history repeating itself as farce? In 1975 Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency.
- ‘Quattrocchi Accounts Defrozen’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of Britain has informed the CBI that the accounts of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, having nearly Rs 21 crore, have been defrozen...
- Israel Will Not Allow Iran To Obtain Wmds: Olmert (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Iran on Tuesday that Israel would not let anyone who threatened its existence obtain weapons of mass destruction as officials headed to Moscow for talks over Tehran's nuclear programme.
- Cheaper Servers In India By June (Hindustan Times, Shailesh Shekhar, Jan 18, 2006)
The Government is working on a plan to create speedier and cheaper servers to host websites and also create an Indian language translation browser.
- Pakistan, India Say Peace Process Yielding Dividends (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Tuesday said a two-year-old peace process had helped build trust between the nuclear-armed rivals after their senior officials met to review progress.
- Crossfire Kills 2 Civilians In Lanka (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Unknown gunmen shot dead Batticaloa district representative Joseph Pararajasingham when he was attending the Christmas mass in the town.
- Cm Takes Bmp To Task (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Chief Minister N Dharam Singh donned the role of a hard taskmaster on Tuesday, unleashing his fury at the “erring” Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) for not meeting the deadlines for road improvement.....
- Iran Plea For More Nuke Talks Gets Cool Response (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Iran urged EU today to resume talks on its nuclear dispute with the West, drawing a chilly response from Britain and Russia. An Iranian source in Vienna said Iran had written to the EU trio proposing that talks restart immediately and saying . . .
- Indo-Pak Dialogue Resumes Amid Negative Publicity (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jan 18, 2006)
The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan, Messrs Shyam Saran and Riaz Muhammad Khan, met on Tuesday to start the third round of the so-called composite dialogue after days of bilateral “misgivings” about each other’s real intent.
- Madrassa Reform In India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Madrassas cater to only a relatively small proportion of Muslim children. The temptation to present madrassa education as the preferred alternative to general schooling for Muslim children must be guarded against.
- India, Pakistan Forward Proposals To Avoid War (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jan 18, 2006)
The Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries kick-started the third round of the composite dialogue process on Tuesday and forwarded several new proposals to avoid risks of nuclear and conventional war and also to increase people centric . . .
- 'Indian And Pakistani Punjabs Can Help Agriculture Together’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
* Agriculture universities of Faisalabad and Ludhiana to sign MoU
* Cheque for Rs 0.3m for earthquake victims
- Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Russia And China Favour Negotiations, Not Sanctions (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
* Powell describes situation in Iran as ‘potentially very dangerous’
* Blair’s spokesman says Britain still open to negotiated solution with Iran
- Australia-India Partnership — Natural Complementarities (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 18, 2006)
Energy and resources are the drivers of the India-Australia relationship, with India importing billions of dollars worth of gold and coal, apart from diamonds and food items.
- What Lies Beneath The Economy (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Jan 18, 2006)
Every economic activity in the informal sector does not always result in tax evasion. Thus, while tax evasion may be evil, all unreported incomes and assets cannot be tarred with the same brush. says T. C. A. Ramanujam.
- Iran’S Growing N-Crisis (Dawn, Najmuddin A, Shaikh, Jan 18, 2006)
Earlier this month the Iranians, in the presence of IAEA inspectors, broke the seals on some of the equipment in the Natanz facility to recommence what they said was research activity on the nuclear fuel cycle.
- Early Learning In Mother Tongue (Dawn, Zubeida Mustafa, Jan 18, 2006)
On October 22, the federal education minister, Lt Gen (retd) Javed Ashraf, made a presentation on the “Education scenario in Pakistan” to the president and prime minister.
- 100 Days After The Quake (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 18, 2006)
One hopes that after visiting the quake-hit areas and seeing firsthand the extensive damage and human misery prevalent there, former US president and UN Special Envoy for Pakistan Earthquake Relief, Mr George Bush, will press the international . . .
- The Afghan Mess (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Imagine a 15-year-old blowing himself up for a cause he had no idea of. He was one of the two suicide bombers whose attacks in Kandahar and Spin Boldak on Monday killed 26 people in what was one of the worst days for Afghanistan in terms of death
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