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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- India Shuns Missile Defence System (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Oct 25, 2007)
In a significant change from recent policy Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday ruled out being part of the controversial US-led missile defence system, opposed by countries like Russia and China.
- Sonia, Rahul On Five-Day Visit To China (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi left for a five-day China visit with son Rahul Gandhi late on Wednesday night.
- Incentives Won't Do (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 25, 2007)
The Supreme Court's latest observations on the Union Government's schemes to provide maternity benefits to below poverty line mothers are sound common sense.
- Karnataka’S Thriving Tibetan Settlement (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
With heavy maroon robes flapping in the wind, auto-rickshaws speeding down an empty road, seated inside are three bald novices, Buddhist monks on their way to Kushalnagar to watch a film.
- China, India, Russia Urge Burma To Talk To Un Envoy (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Foreign Ministers from China, Russia and India on Wednesday urged Burma's military junta to engage in dialogue with a United Nations special envoy, but said they opposed UN sanctions against the regime.
- Rumblings At Bretton Woods (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The World Bank and IMF annual meetings, just concluded over the weekend in Washington D.C., were held against the tense backdrop of leadership issues and ongoing reforms at the two Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs) that are meant to reflect . . . . .
- Protests Over Land Rights In India (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
On a hot, dusty highway some 40 miles (70km) from Delhi, a human column snakes its way towards the Indian capital carrying a unique message of defiance to the country's leaders: "Give us back our land."
- Poor But Defiant, Thousands March On Delhi In Fight For Land Rights (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
On a hot, dusty highway some 40 miles (70km) from Delhi, a human column snakes its way towards the Indian capital carrying a unique message of defiance to the country's leaders: "Give us back our land."
- Un Envoy Set To Return To Burma (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The UN special envoy on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, will return to Burma for more talks in the first week of November.
- The Question Of Inequality (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 25, 2007)
Income and wealth inequalities are rising alarmingly in India but they barely figure in public discourse. Yet, they threaten to undermine social cohesion.
- Growing Russia, Iran Ties (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Oct 25, 2007)
MOST summit meetings these days are uneventful, because of the primacy given to protocol and publicity rather than to substance.
- Hu In Control (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 24, 2007)
Chinese President Hu Jintao has emerged stronger from the just-concluded 17th Communist Party congress. He has been re-elected for another term to its Politburo Standing Committee.
- Pranab Arrives In China For Third Trilateral Meet (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived China early Wednesday for the third stand- alone meeting of the foreign ministers of India-Russia-China scheduled for this afternoon.
- Sonia To Visit China (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
India’s ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi will visit China for five days as the two Asian giants seek to improve ties, officials said on Tuesday.
- Carbon Sequestration For Better Dryland Productivity (Hindu, William D. Dar, Oct 24, 2007)
The world rejoices over the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to those who focussed on climate change, yet even simple agricultural practices can greatly help mitigate this global challenge.
- India’S New Image Crisis In East Asia (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 24, 2007)
Now receding is the recently “rising” profile of India in Greater East Asia, which includes Australia and the South Pacific sub-region. This is largely traceable to the perception that India’s civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States . . . .
- China All Set To Launch Lunar Orbiter (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Experts said on Tuesday that though China’s Long March 3A had completed 14 successful launches in a row, there are three major factors that may affect its task of launching the nation’s first lunar orbiter.
- Myanmar Bows To World Pressure Over Un Envoy Visit (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Bowing to international pressure, Myanmar's rulers on Tuesday agreed to bring forward to early November a return visit by UN mediator Ibrahim Gambari.
- Sonia’S Kow-Tow (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Oct 24, 2007)
That Congress president Sonia Gandhi is heading to China later this week is good news.
- India Promises To Do More Against Myanmar: Un (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Giant neighbour India has given an undertaking to do all it can to push for democracy in Myanmar, a UN envoy said on Tuesday, amid growing pressure on New Delhi to take a tough line against its military regime.
- Tamil Nadu, Monsanto Ink Deal To Develop Gm Papaya Seed (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University on Tuesday signed an agreement with global seed major Monsanto for developing a GM papaya seed, resistant to Ring Spot Virus (RSV).
- Pm Says Fractured Mandate Ties Government Hands (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Days after he informed President George W Bush that his government was facing “certain difficulties” in operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that competitive politics and a fractured mandate made it . . . . .
- Sonia Plans China Visit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Even as the Left parties are giving sleepless nights to the UPA government led by her party over the India-US civil nuclear agreement, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is embarking on a five-day goodwill visit to Communist-ruled China from Thursday.
- Breach Of Trust (Times of India, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 24, 2007)
Last week, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told President George W Bush that India wasn’t in a position to proceed with the nuclear agreement, at least not now, he didn’t break any treaty or contract. His crime was worse.
- In The Devil’S Company (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Oct 24, 2007)
The military crackdown on Buddhist priests and monasteries in Myanmar in the wake of the monks’ country-wide agitation against a repressive regime brings to mind the scenario in Saigon nearly four decades ago.
- Big Brother Is Watching... (Tribune, KIM MURPHY, Oct 24, 2007)
GLOUCESTER, UK – The closed-circuit television camera lurking just down the street from the fast-food restaurant bellows menacingly at the first sign of a cast-off cigarette butt or fast-food wrapper. “Pick it up,” commands a booming voice . . . .
- N-Deal Politics Reflect Divided Nationalism (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Oct 24, 2007)
Whether or not the Indo-US nuclear deal goes through, the bickering among the ruling Congress party, which wants to set the seal on the agreement, its coalition partner the CPM and the opposition BJP, unfortunately reveals sharp political . . . .
- Musharraf’S Largesse To Northern Areas (Tribune, Afzal Khan, Oct 24, 2007)
In a significant move, President Gen Pervez Musharraf today announced a package of reforms upgrading the status of Northern Areas by creating a legislative assembly.
- Improving Indo-Pak Ties Us Priority: Burns (Tribune, Afzal Khan, Oct 24, 2007)
In a significant move, President Gen Pervez Musharraf today announced a package of reforms upgrading the status of Northern Areas by creating a legislative assembly.
- Some In Congress Smile As N-Deal’S Put On Hold (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 24, 2007)
The Manmohan Singh government’s bid to put the Indo-US nuclear deal on hold, at least till the next meeting of the UPA-Left nuclear committee meeting, under sustained Left ultimatum and even pressure from its snap polls-wary UPA allies has. . .
- Pranab Leaves For Trilateral Meet, Focus On Better Ties (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
EIGHT MONTHS after their last session in New Delhi, India, China and Russia are set to hold their third standalone Foreign Ministers meeting in this northeastern Chinese city on Wednesday.
- Disturbing Statements (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Oct 24, 2007)
This is about two statements that India heard on the same day. They must have disturbed many Indians who value the country’s democracy, despite its various flaws.
- The Yasukuni 'Hero' (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Oct 24, 2007)
In a Japan of resurgent nationalism, Radha Binod Pal’s dissenting judgment in the Tokyo war trials wins easy admirers.
- Award For University Hall (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Oct 24, 2007)
“SUPERB interdisciplinary technical achievement … elegant renewal of one of the city’s finest Victorian buildings.”
- Mukherjee Arrives In China For Third Trilateral Meet (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived here early on Wednesday for the third stand- alone meeting of the foreign ministers of India-Russia-China scheduled for this afternoon.
- Quality Of Growth (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 24, 2007)
Two reports appearing in Tuesday’s newspapers show clearly that the quality of development in India is perhaps as satisfactory as the quantitative performance.
- Why Participatory Notes Are Dangerous (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Oct 24, 2007)
Participatory Notes (PN) — a general name used for the investment by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) through Offshore Derivative Instruments (ODIs) such as Participatory Notes, Equity-Linked Notes, Capped Return Notes and Participating. . .
- Time Running Out For Nuke Deal: Burns (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Time is running out for a landmark nuclear deal between India and the United States that has been stalled by opposition from four leftist parties in India, a top U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.
- Nuclear Power To Remain Important Energy Source: Iaea (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Nuclear power is to remain a major source of energy around the world in the coming decades, especially given the concerns over climate change and energy security, the UN nuclear watchdog said.
- Korean Entente (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 24, 2007)
A formidable tunnel, lighted up as a history-tourism site, has served for a number of years as a symbol of the political ethos of a divided Korean peninsula.
- Defiant Postures Are No Good (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 24, 2007)
WHILE a direct or sponsored attack by the US on Iran’s nuclear assets may not appear as likely as it did until recently, hawkish statements and actions by the governments of both countries continue to add to current tensions.
- “We Would Like To See The Transition To A Democratic Government” (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 23, 2007)
Thant Myint-U, 41, grandson of the former United Nations Secretary-General U. Thant, was in New Delhi this week, having recently completed The River of Lost Footsteps, an account of the rise and fall of Burma from a histo rian’s perspective.
- Cpc Meet A Resounding Success: Hu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led the newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to meet the press here on Monday.
- Special Article (Statesman, Amulya Ganguli, Oct 23, 2007)
There is a saying in Bengali, pagoler go badhey ananda. It means that a mad man rejoices at the killing of a cow.
- Sino-Indian Strategic Ties To Gain Strength Under Hu (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
Sino-Indian strategic relations are expected to get further fillip during the second innings of Chinese Communist Party chief, Hu Jintao, who is all set to offer a red carpet welcome to Congress President Sonia Gandhi here this week.
- Assessing The World Export Boom (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 23, 2007)
There is much talk of a major boom in world exports, especially in this decade, yet the basic contours of this boom are rarely discussed. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh consider the main trends in the pattern . . . .
- N Korea To Act As Early As Next Week (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
North Korea could start disabling its nuclear facilities as early as next week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported today, quoting an official it did not identify.
- A Russian Economic Miracle? (Business Standard, Deepak Lal, Oct 23, 2007)
My wife and I were in Moscow last month for the launch of the Russian edition of my book Unintended Consequences.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 23, 2007)
The Bharatiya Janata Party has crossed the limits of civilised discourse. No one denies that Dr Manmohan Singh’s position as a titular Prime Minister has now declined to that of a weakling in the wake of a virtual capitulation to the Left on the . . . .
- Cost Of The Reverse (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Oct 23, 2007)
The prime minister’s abandonment of his campaign to take India into the nuclear club has been a sensation. Since he had himself initiated and steered the manoeuvre, the media have taken its abrupt termination to be a personal defeat for him.
- Power Play In China (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
President Hu Jintao of China has emerged as the man in total control of the Communist Party of China (CPC) after the conclusion of its 17th congress on Sunday.
- Hu Jintao Remains Boss (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
China’s ruling Communist Party today unveiled a new leadership line-up led by President Hu Jintao, who won a second five-year term as the party boss to forge ahead with reform and opening up, but apparently without letting him handpick a . . . .
- Behind The Tragedy In Africa (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 23, 2007)
Genius and malign idiocy often inhabit the psychology of a great man. Dr James Watson is one such individual. One of the outstanding scientists in history, his contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA won him the Nobel Prize and . . . .
- Dear Comrades (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 23, 2007)
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) extends its warm fraternal Communist greetings to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of China.
- ‘Germany Respects Any Decision Of The Indian Side Regarding The Specific Mix Of Energies Deemed Appropriate’ (Indian Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Oct 23, 2007)
Bilateral ties between India and Germany are closer than ever before. We have established a strategic partnership which is far more than establishing close economic ties that traditionally exist between our countries.
- Hu Heads China’S New Leadership As Cpc Unveils Likely Successors (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
China’s ruling Communist Party unveiled a new leadership line-up on Monday, including two men positioned to eventually succeed President Hu Jintao and government head Premier Wen Jiabao.
- Whose Bomb? (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Oct 23, 2007)
The tragedy that marred Benazir Bhutto’s triumphant return home reinforced several truths that have either been played down or simply ignored over the last several years.
- Indo-Us N-Deal & Indo-Pak Peace Process (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 23, 2007)
According to an eminent American scholar Noam Chamsky the ‘Indo-US nuclear deal may well reverse the progress India and Pakistan have already made in their bilateral relations and prevent the laying of the gas pipeline from Iran to India through . . . .
- Robust Cross-Border Flows (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2007)
Unctd’s World Investment Report 2007 released recently brings out the strong growth momentum in global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows during 2006.
- Singapore Can Be A Bridge Between India And Growing Economies: Nathan (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 22, 2007)
The City-State can “become a bridge between India and other fast-growing economies,” said Singapore President S.R. Nathan here on Saturday.
- “Religion” Mentioned For First Time (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2007)
For the first time in its history, the CPC mentioned the word “religion” in an amendment to its Constitution adopted on Sunday.
- Cpc Constitution Adopts Scientific Development (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2007)
The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Sunday adopted a resolution to amend the CPC Constitution, enshrining “scientific outlook on development” and other strategic thoughts as enunciated by Party leaders since 2002.
- Understanding China (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2007)
The most important factors explaining China’s progress since the deaths of Mao Zedhong and Zhou Enlai have been the spread and quick absorption of modern Western technology under conditions of relative peace and tranquillity.
- Sonia To Meet New Cpc Leadership (Asian Age, Anil K. Joseph, Oct 22, 2007)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is set to be the first foreign political party leader to meet the new leadership of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), which will be revealed to the world on Monday, signalling the importance . . . .
- The Netherlands: Discovery Of A New India (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Oct 22, 2007)
India is shining in the Netherlands
which covets its market and workforce.
But Dutch society is in ferment over immigration, which begs the question:
How long before the Indian workforce
faces the integration test?
- North And South Korea Set To Discuss Nuclear Deal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2007)
North and South Korean officials were to meet on Monday to help prepare for upcoming multilateral talks on energy aid to the communist North under a February deal calling for the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions, an official said.
- Chinese Vice-President’S Wings Clipped (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2007)
Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong was today eased out from the ruling Communist Party’s powerful Central Committee, bolstering President Hu Jintao’s control over the party on the eve of the crucial election to select the new-generation leadership.
- Look Northeast Policy (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Oct 22, 2007)
Amidst the Incredible India@60 blitzkrieg in New York was an event that didn’t attract the attention it should have.
- A Veggie Around Vegas (Tribune, Shriniwas Joshi, Oct 22, 2007)
THE US is one country where the grass eaters like me have enough to eat to maintain the pressure of wind in stomach and the prestige of self-righteousness.
- Be Practical On Burma (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Oct 22, 2007)
In stormy street protests in 1988 all across Burma that brought down the one-party Socialist regime of Gen Ne Win, over 3,000 people perished when the Army opened fire on peaceful demonstrators.
- Chinese Vice-Prez, Top Politicians Quit (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 22, 2007)
Three of China's most powerful politicians, including Vice-President Zeng Qinghong, have stood down, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
- No Abating Of Terrorism (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 22, 2007)
The gruesome attack on the convoy of Ms Benazir Bhutto at Karachi makes one wonder why terrorism is showing no signs of abating and, on the contrary, is able to perpetrate such horrors at will and at the time and places of its choosing.
- Inflation: Lessons From China (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 22, 2007)
Some sections of the US media have been concerned about inflation in China.
- Always The Bridesmaid (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 22, 2007)
Our political practices are proving what has been a weak witticism to be a hard truth: we specialise in snatching defeat from the grasp of victory.
- Is It Pause, Halt Or End? (Hindu, M.R. Srinivasan, Oct 19, 2007)
A look at the possible scenarios in the event that the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal is put on the back burner.
- Left Parties Will Not Allow India To Be Junior Partner Of U.S., Says Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2007)
CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat said here on Thursday that the Left parties were firmly against the India-U.S. nuclear deal and would not allow India to be a junior partner of the United States.
- Arrival Of The 'Asian' Century (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 19, 2007)
The ultimate strategic effect of the Iraq war has been to hasten the arrival of the Asian Century.
- A Quiet Generation (Deccan Herald, Thomas L Friedman, Oct 19, 2007)
Activism can only be uploaded, the old-fashioned way - by young voters speaking truth to power, face to face, in big numbers, on campuses or the Washington Mall. Virtual politics is just that - virtual.
- N-Deal Apart, Left Has Some Other Peeves (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 19, 2007)
While showing no signs of budging from its opposition to the nuclear deal, the Left is expanding its areas of discord with the government. On Thursday, it demanded that the logistics support agreement with the US should not be signed and also . . . .
- Pm Reminds Partners: You Too Okayed N-Deal (Indian Express, Seema Chisti, Oct 19, 2007)
Conceding that the Indo-US nuclear deal was “something that didn’t work out the way you wanted it to” and that it did have an “effect” on his government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today reminded his UPA partners that “they were part and . . . .
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