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Articles 1621 through 1720 of 31829:
- India, Us To Meet On Wto Trade Talks In November (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
India and the US have agreed to meet next month for resolving differences on farm subsidies and industrial tariffs as part of efforts to resume the deadlocked global trade negotiations.
- Face Off (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 28, 2006)
The procedure is complicated and could go either way.
- Iraq Reality Check (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 28, 2006)
If there was good news from President Bush’s news conference Wednesday, it’s that the president is not adopting a bunker mentality and is addressing the deteriorating conditions in Iraq.
- Robert Fisk: Mystery Of Israel's Secret Uranium Bomb (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
- Bush Seizes On Gay Marriage (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
President George Bush is seizing on a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling this week offering full marriage rights to gays and lesbians in hopes of galvanising the dispirited conservative base of the Republican Party just 10 days from crucial mid-term . . .
- U.S. Urged To Begin 'Talking To Enemies' (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Ever since President George W. Bush proclaimed there to be an "axis of evil" in 2002, pundits, diplomats and politicians have urged him to talk to its members.
- Lithuania Suspects Russian Oil Grab (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Moscow The Russian government has never been straightforward about its plans to take control of the oil and natural gas business.
- Nato Blames Taliban For Deaths (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The NATO secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, blamed the Taliban on Friday for NATO killings of Afghan civilians, saying the Islamist militia was taking "human shields" to ward off attacks, the White House said.
- End Of An Era As Ghulam Ishaq Khan Laid To Rest (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: Former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan died here Friday morning at the age of 91. He was suffering from Pneumonia for the past three months.
- Us Now Ranks 53rd In World Press Freedom (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The news media advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders released their fifth annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index this week, and it shows that the United States has dropped 9 places since last year, and is now ranked 53rd, alongside . . .
- For Many Americans, The Voting Is Already Over (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
It's nearly Election Day, and campaigns are strategizing about last-minute tactics. In some races candidates are preparing for their final debate.
- U.S. To Return Yokota Airspace Near Haneda (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The United States agreed Friday to return to Japan about 40 percent of the airspace adjacent to Tokyo's Haneda airport that is currently under the control of the U.S. Air Force's Yokota base in western Tokyo, Japanese government officials said Friday.
- Japan Must Do More To Accept, Aid Refugees: U.S. Ngo Reps (Japan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The government's support for refugees has made considerable progress compared with the 1990s, but it must do more and assist those who have already been granted asylum, according to the International Rescue Committee, a major U.S. nongovernmental . . .
- Killing The Planet (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 28, 2006)
Runaway consumerism is literally eating away at the planet. The earth’s resources are being depleted faster than they can be regenerated, so much so that “large-scale ecosystem collapse” may be imminent in the foreseeable future.
- Centre Defers Decision On Wheat Msp (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The Centre today deferred a decision to fix the minimum support price (MSP) for wheat as Finance Minister P. Chidambaram was not in town to attend the meeting.
- Afghanistan Update: Taliban Comeback Linked To Poor Governance . . . (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Oct 28, 2006)
There is a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan because of the failure of the government in Kabul to provide essential services to its people, ensure their security and eliminate corruption, which is rampant, according to a veteran American journalist . . .
- Iran Reports More Progress On Uranium Enrichment (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Iran has started to feed gas into a second cascade of centrifuges, an Iranian news agency reported Friday, a step that indicates that the country is moving ahead with its uranium-enrichment program despite the threat of UN sanctions.
- Iran Expands N-Network (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Iran has expanded its controversial nuclear programme by injecting gas into a second network of centrifuges and successfully enriching uranium, a semiofficial news agency reported today.
- Former Pak Army Chief Tells A Cia Tale (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 28, 2006)
Pakistan’s former chief of army staff Mirza Aslam Beg has revealed that he was among a group of army officers trained by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the 1950s as a “stay behind organisation” that would melt into the population if ever . . .
- Iran, Hezbollah Charged In 1994 Argentine Bombing (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Prosecutors formally charged Iran and the Shiite militia Hezbollah on Wednesday in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities office in Argentina, which killed 85 people and injured 300.
- Terrorism: It Can Be Anyone’S Son (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 28, 2006)
The gang which nearly set off rockets near the Presidency turned out to be local boys led by a retired brigadier’s son.
- Mistaken Liberals (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 28, 2006)
have been living in the eastern United States this fall, at a time when the botched invasion of Iraq dominates the public discourse. I am based in a (mostly liberal) university, where defenders of the war-makers — George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, . ..
- Karzai Criticises Nato Over Deaths Of Up To 85 Civilians During Battle (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
President Hamid Karzai has condemned the killing of scores of civilians in a Nato operation against the Taliban as more details emerged about the incident.
- A Check On Arms Trade (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 28, 2006)
The international community is now set to begin work on drawing up an international arms trade treaty.
- 'Iraqis Hit If They Forgot Nicknames' (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Iraqi prisoners allegedly abused by British soldiers in a holding centre in Basra three years ago were nicknamed after famous footballers and beaten if they could not remember them, a court martial was told yesterday.
- The Wrong Lessons Of The 1970s (Business Line, Shanmuganathan N, Oct 28, 2006)
The relatively low-impact oil crises of the 1970s may have lulled the world into believing that the problems of high oil prices will somehow get solved. But, SHANMUGANATHAN. N says, it should be remembered that the world was relatively . . .
- Where Is The Freedom To Choose? (The Economic Times, V RAGHUNATHAN, Oct 28, 2006)
It Appears that free market and its apparatus like the WTO, are mostly driven by the interests of industry, and seldom by those of consumers.
- Bush Oks 700-Mile Security Fence (Chicago Sun Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they're tough on illegal immigration.
- And Vvip Ones (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 28, 2006)
Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, who is also a Kannada film producer of note, has a ready-made script for use.
- The Swinging 60s (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 28, 2006)
One has often marvelled at the many grey-haired gentlemen and gentlewomen, with their day-job days behind them, who are still willing to work.
- Guilty Of Complicity (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 28, 2006)
It is truly astonishing that a man who has lied so often and so obviously on the subject, should still be constantly sought out for his opinion and assessment on the course of terrorism in the South Asian region and, in fact, the world.
- India Must Distance Itself From Usa: Karat (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Alleging there are “determined lobbies” in India’s foreign policy and defence establishments to make the country a junior partner of the United States of America, the CPI-M today asked the UPA government to distance itself from Washington and revive . . .
- Cm Gives Clean Chit To Health Dept (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, gave a clean chit to the state Health Department but an inquiry conducted by the police detected the involvement of a senior IAS official, five Health Department employees and a middle man in the . . .
- Questions, No Answers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 28, 2006)
It happens that when the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan was winding down I was among those journalists who travelled to Peshawer from time to time to see what the Mujahideen were up to.
- Nuke Deal Or No, Us Ties Safe: Carter (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Former US President Jimmy Carter feels relations between America and India will remain strong even if the civilian nuclear deal does not go through.
- East Pakistan-Ii (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Oct 28, 2006)
With another Bangladesh general election 90 days away, policy-makers in New Delhi are well advised to compare the existing situation with the run-up to the 1970 polls. Reason: The two poles of Bangladeshi national politics are locked in a war which . . .
- Gov's Campaign Donor Pleads Guilty To Fraud (Chicago Sun Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
A millionaire businessman who funneled thousands of dollars into Gov. Rod Blagojevich's campaign fund pleaded guilty to using his position on two state boards in a plot to get payoffs and kickbacks.
- Pranab May Curb Pmo Power (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 28, 2006)
The Prime Minister’s Office, which has been handling crucial aspects of foreign policy, including relations with the United States and Pakistan, is likely to find its authority being curtailed by an assertive foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee who . . .
- Security Council Should Act On Burma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 28, 2006)
Last month the U.N. Security Council formally discussed the situation in Burma, also known as Myanmar, for the first time. For Burmese people such as us, who live under the country’s oppressive regime, this was a welcome development.
- All States Must Implead Themselves In The Reservation Case: . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
"Apex court verdict runs against the spirit of the Constitution of India"
Backward classes were under yoke for several centuries
The ladder provided to them by reservation is pulled down
3 Supreme Court judgements have become a great shock.
- Dvac Raids Houses Of Former Ministers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Nearly 40 places searched in connection with graft cases
- Iran Steps Up N-Programme (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 28, 2006)
Iran has announced that it has stepped up uranium enrichment amid ongoing negotiations among the five Security Council members and Germany over the imposition of possible sanctions against Tehran.
- Carter Wants U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq In One Year (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 28, 2006)
The former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, who has consistently opposed the invasion of Iraq, said on Friday that American troops should be pulled out of the West Asian nation in one year.
- From An Unknown Name To An Emerging Nightmare (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 28, 2006)
Al-Badr has for long harboured ambitions of taking its terror campaign to major cities across India
Al-Badr traces its origins to a quasi-fascist militia set up by Pakistan's armed forces in 1970
Fought against the Soviet Union's forces in . . .
- Mysore Terror Threads Were Spun In Kashmir (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 28, 2006)
Commander of Al-Badr cell was shot dead in Srinagar on October 20
Over Rs. 3,00,000 given to finance a Srinagar-based terror cell
Several Al-Badr operatives despatched to execute terror strikes outside J&K
- Al-Badr Terrorist Plot Unearthed (Hindu, K.V. Subramanya , Oct 28, 2006)
Two Pakistani militants held in Mysore
- Cease Hostilities, Appeals E.U. (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 28, 2006)
Tigers want immediate reopening of Jaffna highway by Colombo
- Chirac For Sanctions If Talks Collapse: Iran Steps Up Enrichment (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
French President Jacques Chirac said on Friday that if a stalemate developed in the dialogue with Iran over its nuclear programme then sanctions should be imposed.
- Us Tries To Reassure India Over N-Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The United States has reassured India it would try its best to get a landmark nuclear deal approved by a “lame duck” session of Congress next month amid fears the agreement could be slipping away.
- Muslim Cabbies Create New Controversy (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Oct 28, 2006)
As if the current controversies over niqab and hijab were not enough, Muslim cabdrivers in Minneapolis, Minnisota, have created a new one by refusing to take passengers carrying alcoholic beverages on their person or in their baggage.
- Virtual Reality (Times of India, Gautam Bhatia, Oct 28, 2006)
Take the four-lane bypass near Moradabad that will one day merge with the Grand Quadrilateral a stretch of tar that curves and caresses the ground like any American expressway.
- Extends Anti-Terror Law (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 28, 2006)
In a gesture of sustaining a pro-United States policy, the Japanese Diet (Parliament) on Friday endorsed a one-year extension of a special anti-terror law.
- Farmers Urge Government To Take Action Against Polluters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Kalingarayan Farmers Association has urged the Government to take action against polluters who discharge untreated effluents into the Kalingarayan canal.
- Be Global, Be Mediocre (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 27, 2006)
Aggregate output generated by industries related to information technology, in the country, is likely to be around 35 billion dollars in the current fiscal year.
- Opening Doors (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 27, 2006)
It first took the government several years to imagine what forms violence could take within the confines of the home.
- Backpedaling On The Life Cycle (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2006)
What if we turned the life cycle upside down? I am sitting in the office of Laura L. Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and we’re exploring ideas for a new chronological agenda that would be more appropriate for a life span . . .
- S Korea Takes First Step In Sanctions On North (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
South Korea announced on Thursday it would ban the entry of North Koreans who are part of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme, the first step taken by Seoul to adhere to UN sanctions.
- Still The Second Sex (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 27, 2006)
May we have her back please? The Angry Young Woman. Currently, it is politically trendy for even pro-women activists to say that the feminist debate is past its sell date.
- Annan’S Goal Of “A Larger Freedom” (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Oct 27, 2006)
Kofi Annan became Secretary-General of the UN in 1997, placing administrative reform high on his agenda.
- Where Crime Does Pay (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 27, 2006)
Is Jeff Skilling, the former CEO of Enron more guilty than some Indian corporate chieftains? What was Skilling’s crime? More than just leading a financial fraud that destroyed a company, his crime was also to trigger a run on corporate . . .
- Peace At Cross Purposes (Indian Express, N. MANOHARAN , Oct 27, 2006)
Amidst continuing violence the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE are set to meet in Geneva on 28-29 October 2006 after nearly eight months. Both sides announced their respective delegations and laid out their focus, if not clear-cut . . .
- Open Door To Errata (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 27, 2006)
On a university trying to make a name for itself in the newspapers.
- Heading For A Repeat Of The Riots? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 27, 2006)
There are ominous signs that Paris could witness violence similar to last year's clashes.
- "Climate Change Poses Profound Threat" (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 27, 2006)
Fighting global warming can save the world's industrialised nations money.
- Can Vietnam Stave Off Bird Flu? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Oct 27, 2006)
The question is whether Vietnam's strategy of vaccinating all poultry can stop the virus from establishing itself again within the country. Besides, vaccination is not without its risks.
- Return To Afghanistan (Tribune, Sebastian Rotella, Oct 27, 2006)
The conflict in Iraq is drawing fewer foreign fighters as Muslim extremists turn their attention back to the symbolically important and increasingly violent turf of Afghanistan, say anti-terror officials in Europe and the United States.
- Quota: Mk Opposes Creamy Layer Concept (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Thursday wrote to all his counterparts asking them to implead their states in the case before the apex court to protect the existing reservation.
- But Lagging In Key Traditional Sectors (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 27, 2006)
With merchandise exports growing at nearly 23% in dollar terms in the first half of the current fiscal, India seems on course to achieve the enhanced $125 billion exports target in 2006-07 fiscal.
- Russia Opposes Iran Draft (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Oct 27, 2006)
Russia has signalled its opposition to a European-drafted U.N. resolution calling for sanctions against Iran.
- Future Shock (Frontline, C.T. KURIEN , Oct 27, 2006)
A grim prognosis on the world's march towards globalisation.
- Karunanidhi Writes To Chief Ministers On Quota Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
Requesting all Chief Ministers to oppose the trend against reservation and social justice, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said that States should implead themselves in the Supreme Court case on the issue.
- Exit Theatre (Frontline, Bhaskar Ghose, Oct 27, 2006)
This century is going to see the extinction of theatre as an art form in India, and our civilisation will be the poorer for it.
- Taming Microsoft (Frontline, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Oct 27, 2006)
Microsoft wants to muscle its way to domination of markets in areas other than operating systems and office suites.
- India Moves Up In Press Freedom Index (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
Journalists in South Asian countries enjoy lesser freedom than in 2002
- Skin Transplanting The Calendar Jesus (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 27, 2006)
It's a familiar image for millions of Christians: Jesus, with a crown of thorns, hanging from the cross.
- Pm Fears Report On Muslimswill Be Explosive (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 27, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not given time to Justice Rajinder Sachar (Retired), who had reportedly asked for an appointment to discuss the findings of the committee appointed last March to look into the social, economic and educational . . .
- Wake Up Call From Pyongyang (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 27, 2006)
The nuclear powers would be committing a colossal blunder if they do not respond to North Korea's test by reforming the global nuclear order.
- What’S Nectar For Secular Us Is Toxin For Secular India! (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Oct 27, 2006)
Just a century ago, Max Weber, declared that the Hindus and Buddhists remain backward because they believed in their ancient, faulty faiths!
- Advantage Dmk (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
Elections to the local bodies in Tamil Nadu were held in two phases on October 13 and 15.
- U.S. Deaths In Iraq Near Peak (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
Unrelenting daily attacks in Baghdad and the western province of Anbar have made October the deadliest month of the Iraq war for U.S. troops in combat since the all-out American offensives on Fallujah in April and November of 2004, according . . .
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