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- Nam Condemns Israeli Attacks, Supports Iran: Havana Declaration (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 18, 2006)
Representatives of 118 Non-aligned Movement nations condemned Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and supported a peaceful resolution to the US-Iran nuclear dispute in the final declaration on Saturday of a summit that brought together some of . . .
- The Great Land Grab (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Sep 18, 2006)
Huge swathes of land are being handed over to corporations in `sweetheart' deals and scams centred on Special Economic Zones.
- Two Countries Called India (Frontline, Bhaskar Ghose, Sep 18, 2006)
In a world of distorted priorities, a wealthy person's needs are of more consequence than those of a poor person.
- Revisit Growth, Oil Prices And Inflation (The Financial Express, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Sep 18, 2006)
That high oil prices did not dent growth is important, not because it proves past research wrong, but because it affirms how the world is growing with productivity gains from globalisation.
- Balochistan Blaze (Frontline, Nirupama Subramanian , Sep 18, 2006)
The killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti gives Baloch nationalism a martyr around whom to build itself and galvanise the Opposition in Pakistan.
- Beyond Powerpoint (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 18, 2006)
Powerpoint presentations are a torture for most audiences. Some executives are aware of the monotony that these cause.
- Convertibility Ruse? (Frontline, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Sep 18, 2006)
The recommendation of the FCAC committee to push ahead with capital account convertibility seems as unwarranted today as it was in 1997.
- Living Under Constant Terror (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Sep 18, 2006)
After the Mumbai serial explosions in July, we have witnessed blasts in Malegaon, Maharashtra, in which 38 innocent people were killed and hundreds injured.
- Iran President Cements Anti-Us Front With Venezuela (Reuters, Saul Hudson , Sep 18, 2006)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shored up opposition to a U.S. drive to curb Iran's nuclear program on a visit to Venezuela on Sunday that cemented an anti-American front with President Hugo Chavez.
- It' Time To Accelerate Us-India High Technology Trade (The Economic Times, Shyam Saran, Sep 18, 2006)
The US and India are on the brink of an historic opportunity. After decades of unfulfilled promise, followed by years of hard work and productive negotiations, we are ready to accelerate US-India high technology trade to its full potential.
- Resuming Talks (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 18, 2006)
The unreported story from Havana offers little reason to feel optimistic about the composite dialogue process between India and Pakistan taking us anywhere near an end to cross-border terrorism, aided and abetted by Islamabad, without which there . . .
- Has India Become More Inaccessible! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 18, 2006)
There is this American saying that the real champion is ultimately she or he who walks that extra mile.
- N Korea Slams Us, Says No Talks Under Sanctions (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
North Korea on Saturday charged that the United States left it no option but to secure nuclear arms as a deterrent and pledged that as long as it was hit by US sanctions it would not be back in talks.
- A Prayer In Fudomyoo’S Shrine (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Harish Bhat tells us the story about how Naritasaan Temple, shrine of Fudomyoo in Japan was born.
- More Downs Than Ups (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 17, 2006)
With elections in Uttar Pradesh imminent, it’s high time the Chief Election Commissioner and his officials paid adequate attention to happenings in the state, where efforts to undermine the poll process have already begun.
- Us Is Nuke Threat: Iran (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that the United States was the real nuclear threat and reiterated his insistence that Tehran’s nuclear atomic programme had peaceful aims.
- Bp, Ongc, Cairn Bid For Oil, Gas Blocks (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Global energy giants BP, BG, and Italy's ENI are among the bidders for oil and gas exploration rights in the latest and largest yet licensing round, government officials said on Friday.
- India, Us, China Agree To Sign New Energy Pact (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Sep 17, 2006)
For the first time, the world’s five major crude oil buyers, including India, United States and China, are likely to meet next month to sign a pact on “collective efforts” to check the recent price volatility in crude oil.
- Not So Close And No Cigar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 17, 2006)
For his supporters, he is an icon who defied the might of the US. His critics lambast him as a bloody-minded dictator living in the stone age. Perhaps no other head of government, other than George Bush, divides public opinion so squarely down the . . .
- Nam Change, Anyone? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 17, 2006)
On the eve of the NAM summit in Havana, that Vatican of anti-Americanism, go to Google and see how many cities in the entire world still have a boulevard, or a landmark named after Tito.
- European Diplomats Consider Holding Meeting With Iran, Without U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
European diplomats are considering a meeting with Iran on the sidelines of next week's U.N. General Assembly in hopes of de-escalating the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program -- but the United States won't be getting an invitation.
- America, Britain Have No Place On U.N. Council: Ahmadinejad (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Hugo Chavez suggests setting up a bank for developing nations
- Forced Departures (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 17, 2006)
When women, of whatever class, are forced by circumstance to migrate, they expose themselves to new forms of violence and exploitation.
- Taliban On The Rise Again In Afghanistan (Hindu, Declan Walsh, Sep 17, 2006)
Afghanistan has just gone through a summer of chaos. In the south war has gripped Kandahar and Helmand provinces, where British and Canadian troops are stationed. In the past fortnight NATO has launched a blistering offensive, killing more than 500 . . .
- Beyond The Urgent (Hindu, Anita Joshua, Sep 17, 2006)
Edward Luce, former South Asia bureau chief of Financial Times, talks about his book on India and on aspects of modern Indian political life.
- Protracted Dawn (Hindu, Mike Marqusee, Sep 17, 2006)
While there is no end in sight to the war on terror, the living conditions of the Afghans have only worsened in the last five years.
- Box-Office Suicide (Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi, Sep 17, 2006)
Often simple moments are the most revealing. In 1993, I made a film called Tales from Planet Kolkata and was invited to show it at the Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany.
- On Cloud Nine (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 17, 2006)
Whatever the dispute about the origin of phrase "on cloud nine" one finds its meaning "blissfully happy" coming true during a drive through the Sanasar hills. One literally floats through heavy fog in a salubrious environment soon after crossing Kud.
- A Native In Alien Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Rajesh Bhat, Sep 17, 2006)
Visiting Kashmir is always an obsession for any Kashmiri Pandit in exile.
- Sexual Abuse 'A Cancer' In Congo:un Official (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
A senior UN official has called sexual abuse a ''cancer'' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and told military and civilian leaders they had to condemn it publicly and prosecute offenders.
- The Necessity Of Inequality (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Sep 17, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh quoted Pandit Nehru in his Independence Day address to the nation to the effect that "the two challenges before a free India was to end the ancient scourge of poverty, ignorance and disease and end the inequality of . . .
- Medicine Prices A Bitter Pill To Swallow (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Lack of control on prices of many drugs and loopholes in the regulations which govern the prices of those under control are adding to the woes of patients.
- U.S. Foes Bash U.S. And U.N At Cuba Summit (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Washington's biggest enemies, from communist Cuba to North Korea, called on developing nations on Saturday to challenge U.S. dominance through a revived Non-Aligned Movement labeled a Cold War relic by critics.
- Reading Webster Between The Lines (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 17, 2006)
As the world commemorated the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center earlier this week, English language speakers and readers around the world may have been subliminally reminded how Americanised we have . . .
- Pope Is Right On Islam (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 17, 2006)
At the height of the war in Lebanon two months ago, an assortment of Arabs, British Muslims, radical socialists and bleeding heart liberals marched through the streets of London with placards proclaiming "we are all Hezbollah." Since Pope Benedict . . .
- I, Me, Mine (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2006)
The ascension of Mr Madhu Koda, an Independent MLA, to the office of Jharkhand's Chief Minister, may appear no more than a quirky aberration in India's politics.
- War On Terrorism Is Equally Poised (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 17, 2006)
India's campaign to expose Pakistan as a terror source has met with mixed results. There is enough evidence that Islamabad is the hub of terrorism, yet it continues to remain an ally of the US
- Crybaby India (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Sep 17, 2006)
If India is, as its leaders like to say, the "biggest victim of terrorism", why doesn't the wide world know about it? It's a story of a diplomatic McFailure.
- Terror's Forgotten Victim (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Sep 17, 2006)
Between 2001 and August 2006, India lost 23,753 people to terrorism. Tens of thousands of others were maimed and injured. Hundreds of thousands were bereaved. Millions of lives were disrupted. The direct and developmental costs of this terrorism . . .
- Don't Look To Politicians For Peace (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Sep 17, 2006)
Despite the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, the risks of a widening war in the Middle East remain.
- Hunting Dawood (OutLook, B. Raman , Sep 17, 2006)
In their happiness over the conviction of some of the accused involved in the Mumbai explosions of March 1993, the Indian Police and other security agencies should not forget that the mastermind of this act of mass casualty terrorism continues . . . .
- Why Are Investors So Complacent? (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Sep 17, 2006)
My last piece on September 2nd was on investor complacency. I expand on the theme here. In these two weeks, the Mumbai Sensex index has barely moved. With the summer months behind them, investors have to reassess the outlook for the last four months . . .
- Dynamics Of Corporate Governance Premium (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Sep 17, 2006)
The idea of corporate governance premium gained prominence with the famous McKinsey survey in 1996, which concluded that institutional investors were willing to pay an average of 11% more for well governed companies.
- On Illusion And Love (New Indian Express, K. Kunhikrishnan, Sep 17, 2006)
An Indian Nobel laureate in literature? Yes, Prem Rustum, the main character, a reclusive Indian septuagenarian, in Abha Dawesar’s latest novel; (the other two: Miniplanner and the Stonewell Book Award winning Babyji).
- Bp, Cairn, Ongc Bid For Indian Oil, Gas (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Global energy firms BP, BG, and Italy’s ENI are among bidders for oil and gas exploration rights in India’s latest and largest ever licensing round, government officials said on Friday.
- Befitting Honour For Shabana Azmi (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 17, 2006)
Shabana Azmi looked different than other members whenever she raised an issue or participated in a debate in the Rajya Sabha.
- Huge Pc Hardware Deficit To Stare At Indian It: Study (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
A study on ‘India’s IT hardware future prospects’ by Assocham projects that India’s hardware demand levels will grow to $93 billion by 2010 against its projected production levels of $23 billion and leave a deficit of $70 billion in next four years.
- Ravages Of The War Against Terror (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Sep 17, 2006)
With every successive 9/11 anniversary, the triumphal-cum-superconfident note struck by President Bush on day one has been gradually muted.
- Battle With Darkness (News International, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 17, 2006)
When they, the recipients of donated kidneys, lit their candles and raised them in the courtyard of the Karachi Press Club on Friday evening, the sight was truly inspiring.
- Noam Chomsky On The Origins Of Terrorism (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 17, 2006)
Mi linguist and perhaps the best known critic of US policies of the current generation, Noam Chomsky, speaks to Saad Sayeed on, among other things, the origins of terrorism, Kashmir, Lebanon, his friendship with the late Eqbal Ahmed and the role . . .
- Back To The Future (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
The ill-fated Women's Protection Bill has created quite a stir. The genesis of the bill, according to the cynics, is that the president wanted it passed before he arrived in the United States so that he could show the world just how well stocked . . .
- Over The Top (News International, Masood Hasan, Sep 17, 2006)
To use such a title for what is essentially the country we now live in would be doing a grave injustice to the many intelligent, humane and largely peaceful apes that inhabit this world with us, though had they been located in our territories we . . .
- Nam Backs Movements For Self-Determination (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 17, 2006)
Representatives of 118 Nonaligned Movement nations condemned Israel's attacks on Lebanon and supported a peaceful resolution to the U.S.-Iran nuclear dispute in the final declaration of the Havana summit.
- Absence Of Good Governance (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Sep 17, 2006)
Embarking on his civil career almost seven years ago, General Musharraf promised to strive for the creation of a society that was tolerant and justly administered.
- Concepts Of Justice (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Sep 17, 2006)
The likes of Robin Hood, who rob the rich and give to the poor, believe that their transactions are just.
- What Ails Our Foreign Policy (Dawn, Javid Husain, Sep 17, 2006)
Pakistan's foreign policy currently suffers from problems of substance and image, a combination that has made the country vulnerable to the challenges of the 21st century.
- Wanted: A Cadaver Law (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 17, 2006)
Since its inception 20 years ago the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation has performed 1,800 successful kidney transplants, all of which were donated by patients’ families.
- Major Setback For Bush (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 17, 2006)
President Bush can do no right these days, even on home turf. An already tottering White House suffered a telling body blow on Thursday when the US Senate Armed Services Committee rejected the president’s plan to try foreign terrorism suspects in . . ..
- Panipat`s Never-Ending Battle (Business Standard, Geetanjali Krishna, Sep 17, 2006)
Legend has it that Panipat has the dubious distinction of having the largest number of flies in the world. A Sufi saint Bu Ali Shah Qalandar once came to Panipat and saw that locals were being bugged by flies. He offered to get rid of all of them in . ..
- The Power Of `Theta` (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Sep 17, 2006)
Chances are you wouldn’t remember this basic physics equation that determines the amount of power that actually flows into the wires going into your house/office. For the capital’s power thieves, located in industrial areas like Bawana to . . . .
- For Mps It Is Simple (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Sep 16, 2006)
As the turbulent monsoon session of Parliament neared its end it was very interesting to see Lok Sabha members spending an unusually quiet afternoon one day.
- Reading Webster Between The Lines (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 16, 2006)
As the world commemorated the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center earlier this week, English language speakers and readers around the world may have been subliminally reminded how Americanised we have . . .
- Crybaby India (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Sep 16, 2006)
If India is, as its leaders like to say, the "biggest victim of terrorism", why doesn't the wide world know about it? It's a story of a diplomatic McFailure. Instead of aggressively pillorying Pakistan, a project that could result in fewer Diwali . . .
- India Warns Against Use Of Illegal Immigrants For Terrorism (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Warning against illegal immigrants being used for cross-border terrorism and creating social tensions in the host country, India has asked the international community to take coordinated and concerted action against this scourge.
- Nam Change, Anyone? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 16, 2006)
On the eve of the NAM summit in Havana, that Vatican of anti-Americanism, go to Google and see how many cities in the entire world still have a boulevard, or a landmark named after Tito.
- Terror's Forgotten Victim (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Sep 16, 2006)
Between 2001 and August 2006, India lost 23,753 people to terrorism. Tens of thousands of others were maimed and injured. Hundreds of thousands were bereaved. Millions of lives were disrupted. The direct and developmental costs of this terrorism would . .
- War On Terrorism Is Equally Poised (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 16, 2006)
India's campaign to expose Pakistan as a terror source has met with mixed results. There is enough evidence that Islamabad is the hub of terrorism, yet it continues to remain an ally of the US
- Bush Pushing Senate To Vote On India Nuclear Deal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
President George W Bush has appealed to Republican leaders to ensure the Senate votes on a nuclear cooperation agreement with India before it adjourns this month, senior US officials said.
- I, Me, Mine (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 16, 2006)
The ascension of Mr Madhu Koda, an Independent MLA, to the office of Jharkhand's Chief Minister, may appear no more than a quirky aberration in India's politics.
- Bush Pushing Senate To Vote On India Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
President George W. Bush has appealed to Republican leaders to ensure the Senate votes on a nuclear cooperation agreement with India before it adjourns this month, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday.
- Iran, Venezuela Try To Forge Anti-U.S. Front At Summit (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Iran, Venezuela and other states opposed to U.S. policy sought to forge a common front on Friday at a Non-Aligned summit that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was too ill to chair.
- A Thought-Powered Arm (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 16, 2006)
American doctors have introduced the world’s first bionic woman and estimated the cost at just one per cent of the price tag for the fictional ‘Six Million Dollar Man’.
- The Widening Hole (Daily Excelsior, G L Khajuria, Sep 16, 2006)
Ozone layer, a protective sheath encircling the spaceship "Mother Earth" is fostering all the bio-life sustaining on it from ultraviolet rays of sun. The atmosphere surrounding this bio-cushioning life is being surrounded by two different . . .
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 16, 2006)
Do the UN, NATO, USA know what they are doing?
- Annan Calls For Reform And Expansion Of Unsc (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday called for expansion of the 15-member Security Council to give it legitimacy, warning that "perception of a narrow base" risks an "erosion" of the world body's authority.
- Bp, Ongc, Cairn Bid For Oil, Gas Blocks (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Global energy giants BP, BG, and Italy's ENI are among the bidders for oil and gas exploration rights in the latest and largest yet licensing round, government officials said on Friday.
- Colourful Beginning For Humanity (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 16, 2006)
Lawrence Barham has been studying tools and other artefacts left by ancient humans at a site in Zambia. He says the range of mineral pigments, or ochres, found there hints at the use of paint, perhaps to mark the body. If correct, it would push . . .
- India, Us, China Agree To Sign New Energy Pact (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Sep 16, 2006)
For the first time, the world’s five major crude oil buyers, including India, United States and China, are likely to meet next month to sign a pact on “collective efforts” to check the recent price volatility in crude oil.
- Boucher: Ibsa’S Nod Of Indo-Us Nuclear Deal Significant (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
The US today described as a “significant development” the endorsement of the Indo-US nuclear deal by South Africa and Brazil, key members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and said it is “actively” interacting with key members of the multinational . . .
- Stories On The Move (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Sep 16, 2006)
Midway through Kiran Desai’s Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Inheritance of Loss, a young Gurkha man in the process of being won over to the GNLF insurgency of the 1980s recalls meeting an old uncle.
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