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Articles 3121 through 3220 of 31829:
- South Africa Backs India (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Oct 03, 2006)
South Africa declared today that once the US Congress cleared the Indo-US nuclear accord and it reached the nuclear suppliers’ group, it would fully support India’s case.
- An `Alternative History' (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Oct 03, 2006)
A fervent plea to freedom-loving people to reject the logic of armed, competitive capitalism
- On The Roof Of The World (Hindu, Padma Ramachandran, Oct 03, 2006)
The Kailash-Mansarovar trip is a tough one, but it is worth it.
- Gujarat Madrasas: An Education In Terror? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 03, 2006)
Investigations into a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Gujarat cast new light on the Islamist networks that carried out the Mumbai serial bombings — and raise hard questions about the State's madrasas.
- Abe And Japan's Moment Of Choice (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 03, 2006)
The new Prime Minister has a challenging task if he wants to reshape his country as a post-modern state.
- Isi: In The Firing Line (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's remarks against the intelligence agency have created a stir.
- Some Weight-Loss Moments Are Hard To Stomach (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Oct 03, 2006)
Gut feeling tells us you don’t have it. Intelligence suggests that if you do have it, you’d rather not. Not some dreadful disease (though obviously, that too) but this thick, spongy substance on your waist.
- Russia Restarts The Mindgames (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
On March 23, police and emergency medical personnel stormed Marina Trutko’s home in Dubna, Russia, breaking down her apartment door and quickly subduing her with an injection of haloperidol, a powerful tranquilizer.
- The Best Medicine, Minus The Humour (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 03, 2006)
Humour as inspiration for laughter may not always be necessary.
- Not So Fine Print (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
That there is a strong bipartisan political support in Washington for the nuclear deal with India is of no satisfaction to New Delhi, if it falls through because of squabbling between Republicans and Democrats on procedure.
- War And Embryos (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
It was, I believe, Rep. Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, who first made the excellent, bitter, and terribly unfair joke about Ronald Reagan: that he believed in a right to life that begins at conception and ends at birth.
- Cotton’S Other Reality Check: Boom May Take India Past Us (Indian Express, VIKAS DHOOT, Oct 03, 2006)
For those who thought India’s cotton story was only about farmer suicides, attributed to failed crops despite the Centre clearing a Rs 17,000-crore package for distressed farmers in four states on the back of the Vidarbha package announced by . . .
- Lives In Search Of Lost Worlds (Hindu, Suchitra Behal, Oct 03, 2006)
The Inheritance of Loss is written with joy, compassion and a rare candour.
- Kabul Another Baghdad (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Oct 03, 2006)
US President George Bush’s dinner diplomacy between Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai and Gen Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has not worked. But on the ground, NATO commanders are claiming success.
- Afterlife Of Sherlock Holmes (Hindu, MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE, Oct 03, 2006)
Both the books are playful and ingenuous pastiches, recreating familiar voices from the past.
- How To Avoid The Oil Slick Of Volatile Prices (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Oct 03, 2006)
One month is a long time in today’s oil industry. My last column, four weeks ago, was written against the background chatter of $100/barrel oil and deepening concern that the government’s refusal to allow their marketing companies to recover the . . .
- Gandhi Peace Prize For Tutu (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2005 in recognition of his "invaluable contribution towards social and political transformation through dialogue and tolerance", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Monday . . .
- Challenge To World Peace (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Oct 03, 2006)
The South Block is drawing up a strategic road map to welcome the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in November.
- India Slips On Diplomatic Stage (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Oct 03, 2006)
Aiming big in foreign policy, the Manmohan Singh government has lost out on what was within its reach on the international arena.
- N-Deal: A Setback To Indo-American Lobby (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 03, 2006)
Indian diplomats in Washington are tight-lipped and South Block experts in Delhi are privately gnashing their teeth after the US Senate’s failure to move the civil nuclear deal with India.
- Letting The Light In (Hindu, S. JAGADISAN , Oct 03, 2006)
V.P. Ranga Rao, novelist and scholar, talks about the nature of R.K. Narayan's artistic vision.
- South Africa Backs Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 03, 2006)
It will help India seek access to advanced civilian nuclear technology from the NSG
- Issue To Be Raised With Pakistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
'New evidence on ISI involvement'
Pakistan to be judged by action on terrorism
Hopeful of India-U.S. nuclear deal
- `Dadri Project Accord Details Confidential' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Citing the confidentiality clause, the Uttar Pradesh Government has refused to disclose the details of its agreement with Reliance Energy on the controversial Dadri power project signed on June 16, 2004.
- An Outsider’S View (Deccan Herald, C Sriram , Oct 03, 2006)
This book is almost entirely based on the musings of the protagonist, 24-year-old Partha Sarma who is the quintessential ‘outsider’.
- No Change (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 03, 2006)
It is unfortunate that the latest assertion of Hizbul Mujahideen supremo Syed Salahuddin eliminates the possibility of truce now or later.
- Saving Agriculture (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 03, 2006)
The news from the agricultural sector is getting from bad to worse.
- Satyagraha Won't Help Bring About Un Reforms: Mbeki (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Oct 03, 2006)
Satyagraha may be an immaculate value system in principle but civil disobedience is certainly not a medium for democracies like India and South Africa to make their voices heard in the international arena.
- White House Upset With Indo-Us Nuke Deal Failure (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The White House said on Monday, it was disappointed the US Senate failed to approve a landmark US-India nuclear deal before adjourning, but expressed optimism it would be approved during a "lame duck" session in November.
- Kofi Annan’S Successor Soon (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 03, 2006)
A final straw poll will be held at the United Nations in New York on Monday to determine a likely successor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
- New Storm Brewing (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Oct 03, 2006)
“We just ignore them”, said the man at the think -tank in Beijing, a senior adviser to the Chinese foreign ministry, and burst out laughing.
- Sallekhana And Suicide (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Oct 03, 2006)
Jains who have compromised their spiritual honour by demanding minority status must explain why 'fellow minorities' did not support 'Jain personal law' when two women recently undertook 'sallekhana', one of whom is alive at the time of writing this piece.
- America Grateful To Pakistan, Says Bush (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
US President George Bush on Friday praised Pakistan as a strong and steadfast ally in the war against terrorism and vowed to stand with President Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- Congress Restricts Bush From Building Mily Basis In Iraq (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
The U.S. Congress on Friday moved to block the Bush administration from building permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or controlling the country’s oil sector, as it approved $70 billion for funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- In America, They Crossed The Durand Line (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 30, 2006)
It wasn’t quite a replay of the nervy Yitzhak Rabin-Yasser Arafat handshake of 1993, with Bill Clinton playing an amicable friend with hands outstretched in the middle
- Foreign Hand (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 30, 2006)
Prime Ministers of India who have also held the portfolio of external affairs
- Arms Imbalances In The Subcontinent (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
The supply of non-nuclear technology to India under the Indo- US Agreement on Nuclear Cooperation gives India access to hundreds of nuclear labs and nuclear R&D institutions in the United States. The significance should be obvious.
- London’S Embarrassment And Pakistan’S Isi (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 30, 2006)
A paper written by an officer of the British MI6 for the Defence Academy, a British Ministry of Defence think-tank, has alleged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is indirectly supporting . . .
- The Harsh Realities (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2006)
We have to concede that our friendly, neighbourhood military dictator sure knows how to sell a book. In the days preceding the release of his autobiography last week he made headlines across the world as he dropped one bombshell after the next.
- Failure Of Both Engines Led To Mig Crash (Deccan Herald, Vijay Mohan, Sep 30, 2006)
Failure of both engines in the IAF MiG-29 fighter aircraft led to its crash near Ambala yesterday.
- Ban Scandal Keeps Tharoor's Bid Alive (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Sep 30, 2006)
India's and Shashi Tharoor's bid for the UN Secretary-General post, which was flickering to an end, might come alive following an unexpected report that the South Korean front-runner has used monetary clout to pull in support.
- India Should Not Join Race For Biological Weapons (Hindu, Sujatha Byravan, Sep 30, 2006)
New Delhi has the opportunity to step up as the global leader it aspires to be by taking a practical approach and the moral high road on the subject.
- ‘Doubt Is The Way In Which You Change Things’ (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Sep 30, 2006)
John Ralston Saul’s immensely popular books are in persistent battle against today’s slide towards technocracy.
- Islamabad, Kabul Agreed To Avoid Verbal Attacks: Us (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to maintain regular contact over the issues that caused verbal spats between their leaders during their two-week stay in the United States, the White House has said.
- Creative Cooperation (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 30, 2006)
Do inventors, discoverers and scientists like to work alone or in collaborative pairings and groups? Historically it would appear that the overwhelming majority of them, from Aristotle to Einstein, have preferred to exert their grey cells on their own.
- Suicide Rates Drop Among Young & Old (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Suicide rates among the youngest and oldest Americans have steadily declined since the late 1980s, US researchers reported on Thursday in a finding that contradicts popular conceptions that rates were rising.
- Us To Help Set Up 100 Outposts On Pak-Afghan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 30, 2006)
The United States is providing funding for setting up 100 outposts on the Pak-Afghan border, President George Bush revealed on Friday as he lavishly praised General Pervez Musharraf for saving American lives by fully cooperating in the war against terror.
- Strike Hits Normal Life In Kashmir (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Sep 30, 2006)
Protest against court order to execute Afzal in Parliament attack case; 60 injured in clashes.
- "The Goalposts Haven't Been Shifted And They Will Not Be Shifted" (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Sep 30, 2006)
With the congressional elections scheduled to take place in November 2006, time appears to be running out for the passage of the legislation that will give effect to the nuclear co-operation deal between India and the United States.
- No Secret Agenda To Cap India's Strategic Programme: Mulford (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Sep 30, 2006)
``U.S. administration committed to getting nuclear deal done''
- Al- Qaeda’S New Offensive In Iraq (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Sep 30, 2006)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq proclaimed a new offensive on Friday, the first day of prayer and reflection in the fasting month of Ramadan.
- Leaving Their Marx (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 30, 2006)
There are three good reasons to welcome the CPM speaking up for good relations with Beijing and ending security-related restrictions against Chinese companies.
- Plotting A Future (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Sep 30, 2006)
This newspaper has been looking at the serious issues of land and water scarcity. Apart from my commentaries on these pages, I have dealt with these issues in lectures and academic contributions.
- U.N. Envoy For Tsunami Recovery Seeks Revival Of Talks In Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 30, 2006)
"Recovery process has ground to a halt in parts of north and east"
Reported Defence Ministry letter asks journalists not to disseminate news without confirmation from Media Centre for National Security
Move unnecessary and tantamount to . . .
- Bathukamma: Festival Of Mother Goddess (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Songs sung by women during the Bathukamma festival are essentially an appeal to goddess Gauri to come back to the earth
- Cpi Opposes Taking Over Of Farmland By Posco In Orissa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Despite objections, Commerce Ministry sanctioning SEZs, it says
- South Korean Leads Race For Un Secretary General’S Post (Deccan Herald, COLUM LYNCH, Sep 30, 2006)
The leading candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea’s minister of foreign affairs and trade, has at least one potential advantage over his rivals in the election race for the world’s top . . .
- Mumbai-Malegaon Blasts (Deccan Herald, P.C. Dogra, Sep 30, 2006)
O July 11, seven blasts in seven suburban trains of Western Railway, Mumbai, killed over 229 persons and wounded over 700. Then came Malegaon blasts in a mosque, killing 37 Muslims and injuring many more, who were in the congregation of the devouts . . .
- Patch-Up At White House (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
It has happened many times in the past. Presidents Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai have met, pledged to bury the hatchet and fight terrorism jointly.
- Sezs: Pil Filed In Supreme Court (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
They will create shortages: petitioner
Land is being acquired with the help of police
Quash all acquisitions and return land to farmers, court urged.
- Feeling Grounded? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
What would you do when your kid chooses to be anything but cooing and cute on board an aircraft?
- The Solitary Traveller (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Travel Time to reflect, observe, recharge and simply revel in solitude is what travelling alone is all about .
- Is The Message Lost In The Medium? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2006)
Having got himself a breather, Mr Horatti will do well to discuss with the experts on how to take forward the education policy, which meets the concerns of both the medium and the message.
- Plea To Stop Acquisition Of Farm Land For Sezs (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
The Supreme Court was moved on Friday to stop the acquisition of agricultural and cultivable land from farmers in various states for setting up special economic zones (SEZs).
- Quake Generates Small Tsunami (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
A strong quake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit close to South Pacific nation of Samoa and triggered a small tsunami but there were no reports of damage, officials said. The centre of the quake was between . . .
- 'Us Paying Pak $70-80 Million A Month' (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Sep 29, 2006)
A British analyst has stirred a hornet's nest by revealing that the United States is bankrolling Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf to the extent of $70-80 million a month, adding fuel to the dictator's incendiary visit to the west this month.
- India`s Ambassadors In The Us (Business Standard, T Thomas, Sep 29, 2006)
If we can get American students to study here, it will prove to be a major advancement in diplomacy.
- Tharoor Stands Second In Un Informal Straw Poll (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
Indian nominee for the post of next United Nations Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor remained at the second position in the third informal straw poll conducted by the 15-member Security Council but with reduced number of positive votes compared with . . .
- Will We Survive? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 29, 2006)
Water is life. Only scientific harnessing, conservation and use of water will save life on earth.
- Siva, Indochina And The Geopolitics Of Peace (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 29, 2006)
Vietnam Airlines Flight 267 descended towards the airport over Cam Ranh Bay, a geopolitical relic of the Cold War where the Soviet Union built a major base for its Pacific Fleet. I, however, was flying into the area not to investigate . . .
- The Totally Tedious Nature Of Iniquity (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Sep 29, 2006)
A lot of people don’t choose the way of evil not because they intrinsically prefer good but because they fear the consequences — both earthly and perhaps divine — of doing bad things.
- In The Land Of Rising Nationalism (Business Line, J. Srinivasan, Sep 29, 2006)
Japan's Prime Minister-elect, Mr Shinzo Abe, thinks the country cannot continue the way it has, and wants to revise the pacifist constitution and education to emphasise moral values, patriotism, and tradition.
- Energy Security: An Urgent Priority (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 29, 2006)
Energy means the ability to do work. The word, though, is getting energetically overworked, if news headlines are any indication. For instance, "Russian deal will bring Iran nuclear energy," says www.iranmania.com. "EU Wants Energy Companies to . . .
- Msmed Act — Law With Large Impact (Business Line, Manasi Phadke, Sep 29, 2006)
The new MSMED Act can do more by providing SMEs with the most powerful tool: Regional information, data and value-added knowledge.
- My Friend Dilip, The Cable Operator (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 29, 2006)
One day, back in the Bad Old 1980s, Dilip, a young man from our neighbourhood in Bombay, knocked on the door of my apartment with an intriguing proposition: did I want to watch movies round the clock for less than fifty rupees a month?
- Auto Boom And The Talent Crisis (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 29, 2006)
Given the global nature of the automotive industry, the time is ripe for players in India to look outside for hiring talent — to "top up", so to speak.
- Musharraf, Karzai Shake Hands With Bush, Not With Each Other: (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Sep 29, 2006)
White House says leaders had constructive exchange on common challenges
- Offguard General (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 29, 2006)
The President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, has got into a problem with his defenders and detractors alike by ignoring, while writing his book, In the Line of Fire, an unwritten but essential convention observed by smart authors.
- The Trust Deficit (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 29, 2006)
President Bush's appeal to both Pakistan and Afghanistan to put their differences aside and cooperate in the struggle against the Taliban and Al Qaeda is timely and should be heeded.
- Another Army Man As Vc (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 29, 2006)
The appointment of a retired brigadier as the vice-chancellor of Bolan University by the Balochistan government is contrary to what FAPUASA and the HEC had expected.
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