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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- Analysing Violence And War (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 18, 2007)
THE questions people ask about violence and war are phrased by their preconceptions. Why are some developing countries prone to violence?
- Law Vs People’S Will (Dawn, I.A. Rehman, Oct 18, 2007)
QUITE a few political crises in Pakistan have been caused by its rulers’ use of legal instruments to defy the demands of propriety in a society that professes to be democratic.
- Country With A View (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 17, 2007)
I was delighted to visit India last week. I greatly enjoyed working with my Indian colleagues in my last job as deputy secretary general at the UN.
- Iraq To Crack Down On Foreign Security Guards (Hindu, Julian Borger , Oct 17, 2007)
Firms will be made liable under Baghdad law: Minister
- Economic Intelligence Vital In Tackling Organised Crime: Ib (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
Organised crime networks like the D-Company of Dawood Ibrahim (designated by the US as global terrorist) have made inroads into the economic framework of the country by entering into diverse activities such as infotainment sector . . . . . .
- Nuclear Power Will Hurt India’S Development (Asian Age, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 17, 2007)
The independence that India gained sixty years ago had a mission beyond liberation from the British.
- Scourge Of Private Security (Asian Age, Inder Malhotra, Oct 17, 2007)
Does anyone remember that after the thunderous cries of "Shock and Awe" at the start of the invasion of Iraq, there followed, at the time of that country’s occupation, the boasts about the "Mission" having been "Nearly Accomplished"?
- Winter Balm (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 17, 2007)
As time moves towards dusk these days, the sky looks benevolent and forgiving, almost melancholic.
- Profits Of Doom (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Oct 17, 2007)
AT around noon on Sunday, Sept 16, an Iraqi doctor was on her way to pick up her pathologist husband from a Baghdad hospital. Her 20-year-old son was behind the wheel.
- ‘National Reconciliation’, Really? (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
South Africans, who coined the words ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ to make peace between the enforcers of the apartheid regime and the majority black population so that, in the words of the incomparable Nelson Mandela, ‘we might . . . .
- Fight For Equality (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 17, 2007)
A commemorative stamp released by the United States Postal Service highlights a quiet, defining moment when American public schools shifted toward racial equality.
- A Penological Barbarity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 17, 2007)
Death sentence on death sentence is an inviolable command of a compassionate culture.
- Army Scores Propaganda Points Against Ulfa (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 17, 2007)
The Army has repelled an ULFA strike in Assam, not in a battle of bullets or bombs, but in a war of propaganda.
A woman, who accused a soldier of molesting her, has now agreed to withdraw the complaint she lodged in the local police station.
- Sri Lanka Clashes May Intensify (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 16, 2007)
The Sri Lankan military on Monday claimed that 137 LTTE cadres had been killed and many more injured in the last two weeks in battles in the north and the east. It said it lost 10 personnel.
- Unbeatable Logic (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 16, 2007)
There are not too many bedroom secrets that India’s married couples can share with the world.
- Reconciliation Without Truth (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 16, 2007)
ONE of the successes of political liberalism is that it can coerce consumers to buy a shiny apple with a worm in its centre and convince them that it is still a delicious treat.
- Eu Meet To Focus On Myanmar, Iran (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
European Union foreign ministers meeting on Monday will assess ways to punish the military junta in Myanmar for its crackdown on opposition forces and to sway Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.
- Land-Grabbing Bonanza (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 16, 2007)
LAND-GRABBING around the metropolitan suburbs in developing countries is commonplace.
- Nuclear Deal & A Snap Poll Option (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Oct 16, 2007)
Many commentators are disappointed and bewildered by the government’s failure to risk a snap poll in an effort to save face as well as the N-deal.
- Ec Shifts Top Gujarat Officials (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Taking a serious note of representations followed by its own fact-finding, the Election Commission on Monday ordered the transfer of eight top Gujarat police and civil officers, including director-general of police P.C. Pande.
- Your Slip Is Showing (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2007)
Central banks are expected to be like Caesar's wife, completely without blemish. By and large the Reserve Bank of India too fits into that mould.
- Blood On The Tracks (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 16, 2007)
West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday met Rizwanur Rahman's family.
- Deal Of The Week (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
The Grand Nirvana Lake Resort situated on National Highway 47 is 16 km. from Alleppey and 65 km. from the Cochin International Airport.
- East With Bits Left Out (Telegraph, Sanjib Baruah, Oct 15, 2007)
Most countries do public diplomacy abroad. In its standard use, the term refers to cultural and educational programmes, radio and television broadcasts, and citizen exchanges to promote foreign policy goals.
- Indian Tv And The Pull Of Scandal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Anyone who remembers the recently fabricated television 'sting' on Delhi school teacher Uma Khurana and the waves of scandal that subsequently lapped around her, has to find a deep and abiding resonance in Britain's newest, most savage . . . .
- Myanmar: Un Envoy Heads Back To Asia, To Rope In Neighbours (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
The ruling junta on Sunday lashed out at global efforts to bring democracy to the tightly controlled nation, timing its message for the day a UN envoy headed to Asia to rally Myanmar’s neighbours for help with the country’s crisis.
- Land-Grabbing Bonanza (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 15, 2007)
Land-Grabbing around the metropolitan suburbs in developing countries is commonplace. This happens principally in two ways.
- Reconciliation Without Truth (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 15, 2007)
One of the successes of political liberalism is that it can coerce consumers to buy a shiny apple with a worm in its centre and convince them that it is still a delicious treat.
- The Myanmar Crisis And The U.N. Way (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 15, 2007)
With China and Russia continuing to rein the U.S. in, the Security Council has now moved away from its January posture of no collective action and towards a politically non-prescriptive stand on the Myanmar issue.
- Morality Should Trounce Economic Justification (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 15, 2007)
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, met with the Dalai Lama last week.
- Nepali Cong Slams Maoists (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala-led Nepali Congress (NC) has slammed the Maoists for their "continued acts of intimidation and violence" despite signing a number of peace deals with the Government.
- Nuclear Winter (Asian Age, M.J. Akbar, Oct 15, 2007)
The government’s retreat on the Indo-US nuclear deal, after three years of do-or-die bravado, can only be explained by that old adage: He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
- The People Win (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 15, 2007)
The media and the politician. Or to fine-tune this, the media and the politician in power. There used to be a disconnect, but no longer.
- Junta Slams Global Pro-Democracy Efforts (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
The military junta detained six more key pro democracy activists over the weekend, while slamming on Sunday the global support the protestors have received.
- Puja Wishes For A ‘Liberal’ State (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
On this day next week, the terribly liberal city of Calcutta will still be bathed in the magic of Durga Pujo.
- Brutal Weapon Of War (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 15, 2007)
Eastern Congo is going through another one of its convulsions of violence, and this time it seems that women are being systematically attacked on a scale never before seen here.
- 'It's Possible For Us To Have Military History Written Without Carrying Sensitive Material' (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 15, 2007)
Let me tell you the story of two young officers commissioned in the army of two neighbouring countries in 1964. They both should have retired.
- Rizwanur Riddle (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2007)
How involved were West Bengal police officers in the death of the promising young graphics designer, Rizwanur Rahman, whose body was found on the railway tracks in Dum Dum three weeks ago? This is a question that requires a convincing . . . . .. .
- A Different View (New Indian Express, GEETA DOCTOR, Oct 15, 2007)
In the way of back-handed compliments Ashvin Mehta used to be described as the “Indian Ansel Adams” when he produced the images of the Himalayas, the coastline and ocean fronts of the Indian sub-continent and other carefully compiled portfolios.
- Racism Noose Tightens (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
The graduate school where a noose was found on the door of a black professor turned over a security videotape, but police were dismayed that they had to get a subpoena to acquire the evidence.
- South Block's Lowest Hour (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Oct 13, 2007)
Some FAQs on Burma that the foreign policy establishment would duck in the 'national interest'
- Burma Quagmire (Pioneer, Bibhu Prasad Routray, Oct 13, 2007)
When starting a car, the driver never has a view of what lies just an inch ahead of the front wheel. India's 'Look East' policy is something like that -- we don't have a clear policy on Burma, but we have plans all the way up to glitzy Singapore.
- Facilitating Return Of Bhutto (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 13, 2007)
AN assault on people’s intelligence, disservice to the English language and insulting serious political undertakings elsewhere in the world are among the three side effects of governance in a country where the ruling class is riddled with contradictions.
- Shiny On The Outside (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Oct 13, 2007)
Among the many puzzles of China, what strikes a visitor from India is, where are all the people in the world’s most populous country?! In India, you throw a stone in any direction and a group will surface from nowhere.
- No Action Against Cops Now (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
The cover-up in the Rizwanur Rehman case acquired a new twist today when Mr Jyoti Basu announced that the chief minister had on “the advice of the advocate-general” decided not to take any action against senior police officers, including the . . . .
- Rights Panel Summons Five Officers (Hindustan Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 13, 2007)
The West Bengal Human Rights Commission on Friday summoned five police officers in connection with the mysterious death of Muslim computer graphics designer Rizwanur Rehman.
- 11 Tigers Killed: Colombo (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 13, 2007)
The Sri Lanka military on Friday claimed that at least 11 cadres of the LTTE and a soldier were killed in clashes across the northern region. The fighting raged on even as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour . . . .
- Getting Bloodier And Messier (Dawn, S. Mudassir Ali Shah, Oct 13, 2007)
SENSELESS suicide attacks, relentless bombings and ubiquitous insurgency-related violence across Afghanistan — claiming thousands of lives during the last nine months — have made 2007 the most deadly year for a war-weary nation since the ouster of . . . .
- Conspiring Ngos (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 13, 2007)
BANGLADESH’S shrimp exports seem to be running into a deep conspiracy. It appears that some NGOs have launched a smear campaign against the sector by raising slogans against what they call labour rights violations in the industry.
- 2 Nationalists Produced In Atc (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
Following a warning given by the Chief Justice of Pakistan that he would summon heads of intelligence agencies if the missing persons are not released, Sindh police on Friday produced two missing nationalists in the anti-terrorism court here on Friday.
- Un Flays Hired Muscles (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The United Nations urged US authorities on Thursday to hold private security firms accountable for unjustified killings of Iraqi civilians and warned against increasing reliance on the heavily armed guards.
- Rising Violent Crime (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The brutal policing of yesteryear can hardly produce results in these days of high ingenuity among criminals. The need of the hour is application of the mind.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 12, 2007)
By its insistence that HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular) abdicate chief ministership of Karnataka in favour of his deputy, BS Yediyurappa of the BJP, on 3 October itself in accordance with the agreement the two parties had entered . . . . .
- Reflections On Burma (Pioneer, Vinayshil Gautam, Oct 12, 2007)
There is something happening in our foreign policy which marks a departure from how it has been conventionally handled. This needs to be understood and assessed.
- Too Young A Breadwinner (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 12, 2007)
More than 2.5 million children aged between six and l2 are in full-time work. This figure, courtesy of the Central Auditing Agency, is rising for many reasons. However, the biggest motive for sending pre-teens out to work is poverty.
- Checking On Cheques (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 12, 2007)
ACCORDING to the current Jordanian law, an individual may be jailed for paying with a “bad” cheque.
- Wars Devastate African Nations, Wipe Out Aid Gains (Hindu, Chris McGreal, Oct 12, 2007)
Conflicts in Africa since the end of the cold war have cost the continent £150-billion, equivalent to all the foreign aid it has received over the same period, according to a report released by Oxfam on Thursday.
- ‘Incredible India’ Right Here At Home (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 12, 2007)
The week-long ‘Incredible India’ campaign in New York aimed at boosting the vibrant image of an emerging, powerful India at 60 and showcasing its diversity. But the real action was at home.
- Rizwanur-Priyanka And Today’S India (Indian Express, NANDITA PATEL, Oct 12, 2007)
Although the law, as is its wont in India, will take its time to deliver justice in the Rizwanur Rahman-Priyanka Todi case, there is little disagreement in ongoing public debate that, prima facie, Rizwanur was discriminated against on religious . . . ..
- Themes Aesthetically Laid Out (Hindu, RUPA GOPAL, Oct 12, 2007)
Kalpakam Srinivasamurti’s displays emphasise the enduring beauty of our culture and heritage.
- Myanmar Lashes Out At Western Powers (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 12, 2007)
At least one anti-junta protester, a pro-democracy activist, has “died in custody” in Myanmar, according to dissident sources in neighbouring Thailand.
- Of Divine Forms (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday that by providing 27 per cent quota for backward classes in premier educational institutions it sought to produce highly qualified persons among OBCs, who otherwise would remain educationally . . . .
- Failing The Foreign Policy Test (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 12, 2007)
IF the real test of the short-term success of a nation’s foreign policy lies in its neighbourhood, rather than in distant lands or remote or rarefied international fora, then India’s policy has been something of a failure in recent years . . . .
- 3 Militants Killed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
Three militants were killed in encounters with the police and security forces in Pulwama district today.
- Truth Will Out (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 11, 2007)
High tech trumps human abilities in many ways - including developing methods for ascertaining the truth.
- Don't Sit And Watch (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 11, 2007)
The recent protests in Myanmar by monks against the excesses of the military junta have brought widespread international attention. India, a former champion of demo-cracy in Myanmar, has been conspicuously silent on the developments there.
- 6 Taliban Freed In Exchange For German (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in central Afghanistan in July were freed on Wednesday in exchange for six Taliban fighters, an Afghan official said.
- Washington Dissensus (Frontline, WALDEN BELLO, Oct 11, 2007)
The Washington Consensus has undergone a process of unravelling, and its former adherents have gone off in divergent directions.
- Hounding Teheran (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Oct 11, 2007)
THE last week of September witnessed frenetic diplomatic activity involving Iran and its friends and enemies. Most of the action was centred in New York where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was attending the annual summit at the United Nations.
- Time To Break The Silence (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 11, 2007)
IT is time the silence was broken on the issue of child domestic labour in Pakistan. Attiqa, a 10-year-old, has been tortured viciously by her employer, a well-off contractor in Badami Bagh. Her eyelashes, eyebrows and hair were chopped off. . .
- On How To Set Up Business In Brazil (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 11, 2007)
Brazilian companies, beyond paying dividends to their shareholders, may also pay interest on equity to them. And such interest is a deductible expense.
- Farm Policy Flurries (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 11, 2007)
While the hike in MSP for key crops is a positive, the blanket ban on export of all non-basmati rice varieties needs to be reviewed.
- Ambedkar's Conversion To Buddhism: An Epic Event (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 11, 2007)
Practice of Ambedkar's version of Navayana could be a powerful antidote to reigning consumerism, which is debasing life today.
- Just A Visit (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 11, 2007)
The state women’s commission of West Bengal has moved. Nine members of the commission went to visit Priyanka Todi in her father’s house when concern for the bereaved girl’s well-being was being expressed with increasing frequency by the people.
- U.N. Rights Official Visits Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 11, 2007)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, on a five-day visit for a first hand assessment of the human rights situation, exchanged views with Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday.
- Sri Lanka Bans Private Arms Deals (Hindustan Times, PK Balachandran, Oct 11, 2007)
The Sri Lankan government has gazetted a regulation banning Sri Lankans from entering into any arms deals whether in the country or abroad, Basil Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's Advisor, told parliament on Tuesday.
- Ulfa Eyes Gem Of An Investment (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
Stocks and mutual funds are for the taxpaying investor. For the extortionist Ulfa, the ideal investment is a piece of jade worth several crore rupees.
- The Mysterious Burmese Junta (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
These are supposed to be humbling times for foreign policy analysts – chaos in Iraq having made it harder to cast the United States as omnipotent, omniscient and self-actualising.
- The Dilemma In Fata (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 10, 2007)
One of the major issues in the war in Fata today is the question of collateral damage.
- Reliance: Stepping On The Gas (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Oct 10, 2007)
The government’s approval of Reliance’s pricing formula for gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin triggers a major controversy.
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