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Articles 31821 through 31920 of 53943:
- Annan: Volcker Report Only Fact Finding Not Judicial (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today assured full cooperation to India in its probe into the findings of the Volcker committee which named Congress party and K Natwar Singh as beneficiaries in the Iraqi oil deals and said the report was only . . .
- Suicide Bombers Kill 77 At Iraqi Shi'ite Mosques (Reuters, Faris al Mehdawi, Nov 19, 2005)
Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives killed 77 people and reduced two crowded Shi'ite mosques to rubble during Friday prayers in a northeastern Iraq town, deepening the country's sectarian conflict
- Fossilized Droppings Found In India Show Dinosaurs Grazed (Reuters, Maggie Fox, Nov 19, 2005)
Fossilized dinosaur droppings found in central India show that giant dinosaurs known as titanosaurs ate grass, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday.
- Daunting Tasks Ahead For Rajapakse (Deccan Herald, S Murari, Nov 19, 2005)
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse of the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance, who has scraped through one of the closest elections...
- Glaxo Starts Development Of New Drugs And New Test Centers In India, South Asia (India Daily, Babu Ghanta, Nov 19, 2005)
Glaxo plans to open six centres on the Indian subcontinent to test promising products such as Lapatinib for breast cancer and Cervarixits,
- Iran’S A Q Khan Link Up On Vienna Radar (Indian Express, DAVID E SANGER, Nov 19, 2005)
US President George Bush told President Vladimir V. Putin today that the United States was willing to accept a nuclear compromise—rejected by Tehran in recent days—that would move all of Iran’s enrichment of uranium to Russia.
- All-Out Vigil On Many Fronts For Avian Influenza (Hindu, Bindu Shajan Perappadan, Nov 19, 2005)
Keeping a strict vigil to check entry of avian flu into the country, the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests and the grand old Bombay Natural History Society (BHNS)-India have identified for monitoring 173 sites across India, all known points ....
- Touch Me Not (Deccan Herald, CLIFFORD MARTIS, Nov 19, 2005)
Some people are too wary of a harmless deed and suspicious of helpful gestures
- Open Borders (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Palestinians in Gaza will now have access to the world outside
- For View Form The Right (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 19, 2005)
Excerpts from Organiser, the mouthpiece of the RSS, issue dated November 20
- Suicide Bombers Kill 74 In Iraq Mosques (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Two suicide bombers killed at least 74 people when they blew themselves up inside two crowded Shi'ite mosques in the northeastern Iraqi town of Khanaqin on Friday, police said
- Don’T Bridge The Persian Gulf (Indian Express, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Nov 19, 2005)
Don’t bridge the Persian Gulf
Why show solidarity with Iran in the name of non-alignment when India has always opposed the NAM consensus on nuclear issues?
- What Happens In Bihar Affects Us All (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Nov 19, 2005)
If you are fortunate enough to have never needed to travel to Bihar you cannot begin to imagine what towns like Jehanabad look like. You cannot picture the abysmal poverty of the thatch and mud villages that surround it,
- Nato’S Changing Role (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Nov 19, 2005)
The earthquake that hit Pakistan’s northern areas and Azad Kashmir on October 8 has left in its trail death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. The physical landscape of the affected area has undergone a dramatic change that will have major . . .
- Our Own Grey Zone (Indian Express, Ananya Vajpeyi, Nov 19, 2005)
Naxalites capture and torture, sometimes on camera, those they perceive to be enemies of the people. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq says he will take up human rights violations by security forces in Kashmir with the National Human Rights Commission.
- The Price Of `Fee' Ill-Defined (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the taxability of fees for technical services to non-residents
- Iran Hands Over Suspected Atom Bomb Blueprint To Iaea (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Iran has handed over a document which describes how to make what could be the explosive core of an atom bomb, the UN atomic agency said in a report on Friday, adding that its inspectors were being blocked from crucial military sites.
- Reality Bites After Annan Surveys Scenes From Hell (News International, Mariana Baabar, Nov 19, 2005)
UN chief flays ‘weak’ world response; says UN wants to maintain long-term contact for reconstruction; Musharraf promises transparency in relief, rehabilitation
- 77 Killed In Iraq Suicide Bombings (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives killed 77 people and reduced two crowded Shia mosques to rubble during Friday prayers in a northeastern Iraqi town, deepening the country’s sectarian conflict.
- Reviving The Iraqi Army (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 19, 2005)
The iraqi government this month belatedly got around to reversing one of the worst errors of the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran the country after the invasion:
- Expenditure Cuts Can Meet Relief Cost (Dawn, Kaiser Bengali, Nov 19, 2005)
November 19 will go down as an discomforting day in the country’s history. It is a day on which General Musharraf and his prime minister will ask invited delegations from over 70 countries and international organizations to fill the country’s kashkol.
- Safe Disposal Of Waste (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 19, 2005)
Time and again, the need for proper hospital and solid waste management has been stressed but its need has never been more urgent than now in the quake-hit areas, already vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases.
- Experimenting With Languages (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Nov 19, 2005)
The federal education minister has informed the Sindh education authorities that his ministry is revising the education curricula with a view to introducing changes in the education sector all over the country.
- Pakistan Still A Primary Threat: Indian Air Chief (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
The Indian air chief has said that Pakistan remains a primary threat to India despite a number of confidence-building measures between the two countries, the Times of India reported on Friday.
- ‘Loc Opening A Stimulus For Kashmir Settlement’ (Dawn, Ihtasham ul Haque, Nov 19, 2005)
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Friday that opening of the Line of Control (LoC) following last month’s earthquake provided Pakistan and India a “historic opportunity” to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
- The Earthquake And Its Lessons (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Nov 19, 2005)
The earthquake that hit Pakistan’s northern areas and Azad Kashmir on October 8 has left in its trail death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. The physical landscape of the affected area has undergone a dramatic change that will have major . . .
- Rajapakse New Sri Lankan President (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapakse, was proclaimed winner of the presidential election on Friday and vowed to forge a “honourable peace” with Tamil Tiger rebels.
- Glimmer In Heart Of Darkness (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Nov 19, 2005)
On the last day of polling in Bihar, the question you are asked, particularly if you are just back from there, is still the same that you would have been asked in the past many elections: is Bihar ready for a change?
- A Great Eastern Story (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Nov 19, 2005)
Better late than never. Better something than nothing. Better a Left-ruled government shows dogged persistence in the face of union pressure than it giving up and spinning the retreat as an advance for socialism
- Tehran Has Handed Over ‘N-Bomb Blueprint’: Iaea (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Confirms processing new batch of uranium
- Mild Quake Hits India-Myanmar Border (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
An earthquake of moderate intensity occurred in the India-Myanmar border region in the wee hours on Saturday.
- 83 Killed In Iraq Suicide Bombings (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives killed 77 people and reduced two crowded Shia mosques to rubble during Friday prayers in a northeastern Iraqi town, deepening the country’s sectarian conflict
- Situation In Quake Areas Serious, Enormous: Annan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Asks donors to respond generously
* Musharraf points to funds’ audit by foreigners
- Gats' Mode 4 Rule — Imperative That India Takes Firm Stand (Business Line, Pratap Ravindran , Nov 19, 2005)
The significance of Mode 4 inheres in the fact that its scope is not restricted to the IT sector alone and it holds immense potential with regard to a range of activities that have `knowledge' in common: Finance, accountancy, health services, consultancy,
- The Answer Lies Somewhere Between Conversation And Chocolate (Business Line, D. Murali , Nov 19, 2005)
When Kellogg India Private Ltd went to the Bombay High Court recently, with the Excise Department in and `Chocos' in tow, the dispute was not about sharing of the crispy eats. It was about the classification of the company's product — whether under 1904.1
- Pak Primary Threat To India: Air Chief (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Inspite of the confidence-building measures, Pakistan would remain a primary threat to India, Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi said here today.
- Pak Ministry For Liberalising Trade With India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Pakistan's ministry of industry and production has strongly advocated liberalising trade with India, saying the country should "at once" move to trade based on Most Favoured Nation status (MFN) before the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFMA) comes int
- Centre, State Discuss Regional Air Services (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Karnataka and other state governments are in talks with the Ministry of Civil Aviation on intra-state air connectivity, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel said on Friday.
- An Extravaganza Of Epic Proportions (Deccan Herald, Shiva Kumar N D, Nov 19, 2005)
Director and Principal of the International Centre for Kathakali, New Delhi, Balakrishanan was in the City with his 17-member troupe to perform at the Mahabharata Utsav being held at the National College Grounds.
- Dayal To Meet Paul Volcker (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
India’s special envoy Virendra Dayal, appointed to look into allegations made against Union Minister K Natwar Singh and the Congress in a UN-sponsored report, is expected to meet the author of the report, Paul Volcker, on Friday or Monday.
- Iran Begins Processing Second Batch Of Uranium (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Nov 19, 2005)
Teheran move may complicate the issue at Vienna meet
- It Smes: Efforts On To Tap Funds From Europe For Joint Ventures (Hindu, R. Chandrakanth, Nov 19, 2005)
Indian platform formed to coordinate with companies looking for partnership in Europe; 3 proposals submitted
INCITE to help raise resources
Funds available are put at 17.3 b euro
Scope for participation in European research projects
- 55 Killed In Suicide Attack On Mosques (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Nov 19, 2005)
Baghdad apartment collapses after car bombs explode outside prominent hotel nearby; six killed
- Murky Situation (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Nov 19, 2005)
All situations of prolonged conflict give rise to vested interests.
- Pak Scribe Among 25 Repatriated (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
In yet another boost to the ongoing confidence building measures (CBMs) between India and Pakistan, 25 Pakistani civil prisoners were handed over to Pak authorities at the Wagah Joint Check Post on Friday.
- Intolerance That Is Intolerable (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 19, 2005)
The harassment and unseemly protests against opinions expressed by actor Kushboo and by Suhasini Maniratnam who expressed solidarity with her demonstrate a disquieting tendency to shut out free speech that no democratic society can countenance.
- Not In Front Of The Children (Hindu, Mark Lawson, Nov 19, 2005)
That popular politeness, "not in front of the children" — employed to protect offspring from knowledge of family deaths and divorces — can now be applied to children's entertainment.
- Iraq Dogs Bush As He Crosses Asia (Hindu, DAVID E. SANGER, Nov 19, 2005)
The U.S. President and his aides are busy trying to justify the war on Iraq.
- President Mahinda Rajapakse (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Nov 19, 2005)
The election of Mahinda Rajapakse as Sri Lanka's seventh President heralds a new chapter in the country's troubled history.
- Us Casualties Mounting In Iraq (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 19, 2005)
Six us soldiers were killed in bombing incidents in different parts of Iraq on Thursday. This was the second major number of US casualties in one day in recent months.
- Cell By Date Research (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Nov 19, 2005)
The latest breakthrough in stem cell research by scientists at the Imperial College in London spells good news for organ transplantation.
- Bihar: Admin Panel Begins Probe Into Jehanabad Naxal Attack (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
The two-member administrative team constituted to go into the audacious attack by naxalites on Jehanabad jail today began its probe.
- Terrorists Can’T Browbeat Me With Blasts: Azad (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Nov 19, 2005)
Talking tough of militancy, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today asserted that his Government was committed to restoration of peace in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Iaea Blames Khan For Iran Problems (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Iran obtained detailed instructions on how to set up the complicated process of enriching uranium, which can be used to make nuclear arms, from the black market network of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, the UN atomic monitoring agency said on Frid
- Rajapakse Declared Winner Of Sri Lankan Presidential Polls (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Giving him a birthday gift, Sri Lankans today elected Marxist-backed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse as President of the island nation in a tightly contested election and his first priority would be to address the burning issue of ethnic conflict.
- Annan Tours Pok, Appeals For Aid (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Nov 19, 2005)
Seeking urgent international aid for "gigantic task" of reconstruction of quake-hit Pakistan, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, accompanied by President Pervez Musharraf, today toured affected areas in PoK, where he found military and civilians making ...
- Newsmaker - Sri Lanka Pm's Gamble On Marxist Allies Pays Off (Reuters, Kesara Abeywardena, Nov 19, 2005)
Mahinda Rajapakse staked his bid for the Sri Lankan presidency on pacts with hardline Marxists and Sinhalese nationalists opposed to the island's Tamil Tigers. On Friday the prime minister's gamble paid off.
- Godfather Iii: The Terrorist (Hindu, Vir Sanghvi, Nov 19, 2005)
Frankly, I thought it would never happen. The government of India — and its law enforcement agencies.
- Pak Is Still Enemy No 1: Air Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Despite the confidence-building measures that Islamabad and New Delhi are attempting to implement, Pakistan remains the primary threat to India, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi, said here on Friday
- Girl, If Lone Child In Family, Will Get Fee Waiver In Cbse Schools (Deccan Herald, Vijesh Kamath, Nov 19, 2005)
The modified rules indicate that the eligible child will be entitled to waiver of all fees except meals and transport.
- Sri Lanka's Hawkish Pm Wins Presidency, Vows Peace (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Nov 19, 2005)
Sri Lanka's hawkish prime minister, Mahinda Rajapakse, won the island's presidency on Friday after a Tamil Tiger boycott torpedoed his main rival, and vowed to forge an "honourable peace" with the rebels.
- India Air Travel Sector Needs $50 Bln Over 10 Years (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
India's rapidly expanding air travel industry is likely to need $50 billion in investment in planes and infrastructure over the next decade to cope with rising demand, the civil aviation minister said on Friday.
- Natwar Singh & Dance (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Nov 19, 2005)
When you are a member of a choir, you must sing the same tune as the others. If you decide to sing your own tune, you create disharmony and must leave on your own or be thrown out by the conductor of the orchestra.
- Black Friday In Iraq -- 82 Die As Two Mosques Bombed (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
More than 60 people lost their lives in Iraq Friday in a series of suicide attacks that included the bombing of two Shia mosques near the border with Iran.
- Missing The 'Bengal Tiger' (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economist, Nov 19, 2005)
West Bengal urban development minister Ashok Bhattacharya obviously feels that playing the November 25th India-South Africa one-day international at the Eden Gardens without Sourav Ganguly would be like staging Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark!
- 'Russia Is The Next Energy Superpower' (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Stating that it was US leaders like Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney who had scripted the new geopolitics of the Caspian sea region, energy expert Dr S.K. Sharma claimed that it is Russia that is emerging as the next energy superpower.
- And, Icebergs Show Their Tips! (Daily Excelsior, Dr R L Bhat, Nov 19, 2005)
Bombs, explosions and killings are nothing new to this trouble-torn state.
- Natwar Singh's Name Not In "Original List" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Minister's name was first added by CIA-run survey group
The list was based on the documents leaked to al-Mada
Allegations totally escaped the attention of the Indian embassy in Washington
- India's 1bn-Rupee Tsunami Early Warning Systems Project Will Become Fully Operational By September 2007 : Department Of Ocean Development (Dod) (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
India's 1bn-rupee Tsunami Early Warning Systems project will become fully operational by September 2007,
- 'India Must Focus On Manufacturing' (The Economic Times, SHUBHREET OBEROI AND SHUBHAM MUKHERJEE, Nov 19, 2005)
Hari Shankar Singhania, chairman of the $2.5 billion J K organisation, has been on the centre stage of Indian Industry for nearly half a century. Apart from being at the helm of his own company, he has had presidential stints at Ficci and later . . .
- Saarc’S Sadness (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 19, 2005)
IF Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s message to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) business leaders’ conclave in New Delhi on Thursday had a tinge of exasperation,
- Of Leaders And Leadership (Tribune, Mahesh Chadha, Nov 19, 2005)
OUR President often recalls with pride the leadership of Prof Satish Dhawan, his chief at one time, when the former as the Director was saved the ignominy of a failed mission,
- Let Bhuppi Govern By His Rules: Ranbir (Tribune, Geetanjali Gayatri, Nov 19, 2005)
KHADI. It is one word that describes an entire spectrum — everything from Mahatma Gandhi to our freedom struggle, simplicity to nationalism, great Indian leaders and statesmen as also today’s power-hungry politicians. And, yes, of course, our story’s. . .
- Goa’S Ore Turns Fodder For China (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Nov 19, 2005)
Beyond the deceptively placid beaches of Goa dumpers and excavators are furiously ripping apart the verdant state’s bowels for iron ore to fill China’s insatiable appetite for iron ore.
- Why More Powerful Than The Rest? (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Nov 19, 2005)
I have memorised the principal power mantras of Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Sikhs by heart but have not been able to work out why followers of these religions endow them with powers above other mantras.
- Singh’S Veiled Threat (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Nov 19, 2005)
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has drawn the attention of the world community towards the colossal losses that Pakistan has suffered as a result of the October 8 devastating earthquake and urged the affluent nations to come forward with financial. . .
- Cause And Consequence (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Nov 19, 2005)
When armed people capture a town, storm a jail and bail out the inmates, as they did in Jehanabad in Bihar on Sunday night, several questions will be asked.
- Iran Gives U.N. Paper Diplomats Call Atom Bomb Outline (Reuters, Mark Heinrich and Francois Murphy, Nov 19, 2005)
Iran has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it received a black-market document with partial instructions for making the core of a nuclear bomb, diplomats said on Friday
- A U.S.-Japan Equation To Counter China (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Nov 19, 2005)
The move by the U.S. and Japan to strike a "joint-operations posture" is a qualitatively new feature of the East Asian security landscape. For China and others, this is an emerging reality to reckon with.
- Mr Pm... President (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 19, 2005)
Prime Minister Mr Mahinda Rajapakse today won Sri Lanka’s presidential election with one of the smallest ever majorities in the country’s electoral history.
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