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Articles 6821 through 6920 of 31829:
- Try Bush, Blair For Crimes: Iran (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Aug 08, 2006)
British and U.S. leaders had foreknowledge of Israeli plans
- War And War Crimes (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 08, 2006)
Human Rights Watch has published a report that documents Israel's actions against Lebanese civilians.
- U.N. Warns Of Iraq-Like Situation In Lebanon (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Aug 08, 2006)
It is always the same when you have to fight against guerillas
- When Self-Defence Becomes Lawlessness (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 08, 2006)
Israel's right to self-defence has never been the issue. The issue is whether its response has been proportionate.
- Cob Cornucopia (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 08, 2006)
As the cloudy skies break into a shy shower I creak open the refrigerator, putting a stubby cob of corn upon the gas grill.
- Now, Police Focus On Blasts Suspect’S Dance Bar Visits (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Faizal Ataur Rehman Sheikh, the man police claim is Lashkar-e-Toiba’s Mumbai chief, spent a lot of time at dance bars, say sources.
- Nepal Maoists Say Peace Talks Close To Collapse (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Senior Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai said on Monday that peace talks with the government were close to breaking down over the two issues of rebels surrendering their arms and the future of the monarchy, but also ruled out a return to war.
- Filters Of American Objectivity (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
You neither need to work in an American newsroom nor need to visit this country to understand its media's objectivity. Here is a simple formula. Just read what its press wrote after 9/11 and before the Iraq war.
- Us Alters Tune On Pak Proof (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Backtracking on its claim that India does not have enough evidence to link Pakistan with the July 11 Mumbai blasts, the US today acknowledged that anti-India terror groups were operating in that country.
- Are Us-Iraq Ties On Cusp Of Change? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Aug 08, 2006)
Americans believe that the time has come to stop wasting American lives and money.
- Badminton For Birdies (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 08, 2006)
Those geese have been slaughtered by the millions to contain the virus, causing a feather shortage that has unnerved the badminton world.
- Punjab Cabinet To Take Up New Pay Panel (Tribune, Ajay Banerjee, Aug 08, 2006)
The much-awaited assured promotional scale for employees, popularly known as the ‘‘4-9-14’’ promotion benefit, will not come up for formal approval at the meeting of the Punjab Council of Ministers scheduled for August 10.
- Young Ny Singer Builds Big Following With Web Exposure (Reuters, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 08, 2006)
Inside a disheveled Long Island beach cottage on a muggy summer day, Jamie Kristine Seerman sings into a microphone, strumming a battered guitar, recording on a computer a song that she hopes will be a hit.
- Crop Diversification Vital For Distress Alleviation (Tribune, S.S. Johl, Aug 08, 2006)
Since the submission of the report on restructuring of agricultural production patterns for productivity and growth in Punjab in 2002, some hard-boiled opponents of diversification are putting forth arguments that are not tenable in any respect.
- U.S. Says Could End Trade Benefits For India, Brazil (Reuters, Doug Palmer, Aug 08, 2006)
The United States will review whether to withdraw longtime trade benefits for India, Brazil and 11 other advanced developing countries, U.S. trade officials said on Monday.
- Pakistan Floods Kill 140, One Mln Homeless In India (Reuters, Kamran Haider, Aug 08, 2006)
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed more than 140 people in Pakistan's northwest, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes in neighbouring India, officials said on Monday.
- Indian Consulate In Iran Aiding Baloch Rebels: Pak (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Pakistan has asked Iran to monitor the Indian consulate in the Iranian border city of Zahidan, alleging it was aiding nationalist rebels in the southwest Balochistan province.
- New Sri Lanka Refugees Shelter Under Sheets, Carts (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Overflowing from desperately crowded temporary camps, hundreds of displaced Sri Lankan Muslims hide from the baking sun in the shade of bullock carts, walls and plastic sheeting.
- Us Looks Forward To Greater Partnership With India (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The United States today said its civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with India was on track and moving swiftly towards conclusion.
- Nuclear Blackmail (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 08, 2006)
The Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Mr Mahmud Ali Durrani, has made it clear that the new plutonium-producing reactor coming up at the Khushab complex in Pakistan is intended to increase Pakistan’s arsenal. Pakistan’s repeated . . .
- The Enemy Within (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 08, 2006)
India is perhaps the only country where two forms of fanaticism is currently prevalent.
- India Tells Usa To Rein In Pakistan (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 08, 2006)
India today conveyed two things directly to the United States — neither being music to ears of the “strategic partner”.
- Boucher Wiser On Pak Terror Tap (Hindustan Times, Nilova Roy Chaudhury, Aug 08, 2006)
Hours of intensive talks with senior officials appears to have convinced US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher, that India’s concerns on terrorism emanating from Pakistan were justified.
- Legislation On Reservation For Christians, Muslims Coming (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Plan to provide quota in all educational institutions and employment
- Lebanese Objection Delays Vote At Un (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
UNSC to hold public debate on Lebanon today
Israel will expand ground offensive if no UN resolution passed
Israeli strikes kill 57, 3 Israeli soldiers killed
- New ‘Regional War’ In The Middle East? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 08, 2006)
The Syrian foreign minister, Wahid Muallam, said on Sunday that his country was ready for a ‘regional war’:
- India Bans Arab Tv Channels ‘Under Israeli And Us Pressure’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
India has reportedly ordered a nationwide ban on the broadcast of Arab television channels – apparently to ensure that Indians do not get to see the atrocities that are presently being committed by Israel in Lebanon and the occupied territories . . .
- Indian Dam Flooded By Democratic Values (Daily Times, Simon Denyer, Aug 08, 2006)
‘For the construction of the dam, some people will have to suffer but there will be many benefits’
- Rape, Murder In Iraq (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 08, 2006)
Horrifying war crimes have been a recurring feature of the US occupation of Iraq.
- American Hot Dogs In India, As Popular As Outsourcing (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Hot dogs, the American street food has started giving hunger pangs to many a young Indian, as food experts say "they gel well with the BPO and mall culture".
- The Indian Outsourcing Saga (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Aug 08, 2006)
Highlights the achievements of pioneers who put India on the world map of BPO
- Call For Nuclear Free World (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 08, 2006)
The Japanese city of Hiroshima has marked the 61st anniversary of the world’s first atomic attack by the United States with renewed calls for a nuclear-free world. Japanese Prime Minister promised to continue leading the international society to the . . .
- Bridge Tragedy (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
The deaths of at least 44 people in a bridge collapse in Mardan is heart-rending and a grim reminder of the fragile nature of much of the country's physical infrastructure.
- Trees Or Forest? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
The current process of amending the controversial Hudood Ordinances seems to be heading for a parliamentary debate in which the proverbial forest may well be lost while looking at the trees, instead of the other way around.
- Unadulterated Lies (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
'The attendant propaganda -the abuse of language and eternal hypocrisy - has reached its nadir in recent weeks,' says John Pilger of the undiluted lies discharged daily by the western media since the beginning of the Lebanon crisis.
- ‘Peace Mom’ Resumes Protest Against Bush (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Cindy Sheehan, nicknamed “the Peace Mom”, has resumed her protest against the Iraq war, in front of President Bush’s Crawford ranch where he is vacationing a year after her first such protest.
- Arabs Demand Israel Pullout As More Civilians Die (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Arab nations demanded Israel pull its troops out of Lebanon as part of any UN resolution to end a war in which at least 30 people were killed today by Israeli strikes.
- Too Interested (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 08, 2006)
What could be more bizarre than the Union finance ministry advising banks not to follow the monetary policy of the Reserve Bank of India?
- Is The Outsourcing Boom Over? (Daily Excelsior, Arvinder Kaur, Aug 08, 2006)
As companies start out sourcing more selectively and strategically and onshore providers face new pressures, questions are being raised over the future of outsourcing.
- Concentration In The Competitive Software Business (Business Line, Jayati Ghosh, Aug 08, 2006)
The success of India in the global market for software services has encouraged the view that software is a competitive industry with limited barriers to entry and space for new and small players. In actual fact, however, US firms dominate the . . .
- Should Shareholders Be Kings? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 08, 2006)
This concept needs to be re-examined following Mittal’s takeover of Arcelor
- Striking A Global-Local Note (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 08, 2006)
Gone with the wind are the days when exclusive clubs in this country sported signs saying “Indians and dogs not allowed”.
- Global Strategy: What's Different? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 08, 2006)
Bookshelves now bulge with books proclaiming the death of distance, the flattening of the world, and the disappearance of differences across countries. Such proclamations of apocalypse now or in the near term have proven to be effective . . .
- Anti-India Terror Groups Exist In Pak, Admits Us (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The US on Monday agreed with India that there were anti-India terrorist elements in Pakistan, but at the same time reiterated the stand that Pakistan had turned its back on terrorism.
- Natural Adversaries (The Financial Express, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Aug 08, 2006)
Differences between central banks and governments are inevitable. The only way out is for governments to give central banks independence in setting interest rates
- Pakistan Hopes Spy Row Won't Hurt India Peace Talks (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Pakistan said on Monday a tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats by Islamabad and New Delhi at the weekend should not derail a delicate peace process between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals.
- Mumbai: Probe Muslims Who Travel (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 08, 2006)
The Maharash-tra government has issued a directive to the state police to thoroughly investigate every Muslim who travels abroad.
- Put Ngos Under Rti Scalpel (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Aug 08, 2006)
The $50,000 Magsaysay Award was recently conferred upon Arvind Kejriwal, a former Indian Revenue Service officer campaigning for the Right to Information (RTI).
- Israel Will Not Capitulate (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Ben Caspit proposes the text of a speech by the Prime Minister that would explain to the world what exactly Tel Aviv is fighting for
- Sensex Struggles Hard To Keep Afloat; Ends Day In Negative (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The BSE sensitive index (Sensex) after opening in the red on Monday, struggled hard to break into positive territory, however it could manage to do so only once and that too in the opening session itself.
- Thousands Of Workers In Saddam's Regime Re-Employed (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
About 10,000 workers in Saddam Hussein's former regime have been re-employed as part of national reconciliation, reversing their purge after the March 2003 US-led invasion, an official said.
- When Frugal Germans Forced The Retail Gaint Wal-Mart Out (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
When Wal-Mart arrived in Germany eight years ago, it tried to introduce its new customers to an American custom...
- Arnie’S Dream Ticket For Re-Election (Deccan Herald, Dan Glaister, Aug 08, 2006)
Arnie, it seems, has friends in high places. Some leading Hollywood liberals – the mythic entity said to prowl the hills of Los Angeles dispensing money and influence – are siding with the Republican governor.....
- Iraq Not Sliding Into Civil War: Us (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
US president George W Bush's administration continues to insist Iraq is not heading toward a civil war, even as some senators and military leaders have expressed concerns that such a conflict may be inevitable.
- Ideology And Confusion (Statesman, DIPAK BASU, Aug 08, 2006)
Hinduism and India’s cultural heritage now have to contend with two major adversaries, apart from its traditional enemies such as the Islamic warriors and Christian missionaries.
- Bush Pushes For Lasting Peace (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
US President, Mr George Bush, said today he recognises that Israel and Hezbollah are objecting to parts of West Asia ceasefire resolution but said “we all recognise that the violence must stop.”
- At Least 40 Dead In Israeli Air Raids, Says Lebanon (Hindustan Times, Reuters, Aug 08, 2006)
An Israeli air raid killed more than 40 people in a Lebanese village on Monday, Lebanon's prime minister said, and other air strikes killed 19 after diplomatic efforts to end the 27-day-old war stalled.
- The Noose Of Debt (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Aug 08, 2006)
The single most important cause of farmer suicides is their inability to pay back the loans they have taken, often from private moneylenders. This age-old problem is yet to be resolved in a durable fashion.
- Pakistan Army Uses Fundamentalists, But Scorns Them, Says Cohen (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
“The fundamentalists are not really that strong in Pakistan; the army has contempt for them, but uses them.
- Kashmir, Terrorism Not Linked: Boucher (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Aug 08, 2006)
US Under Secretary of State Richard Boucher said on Monday that Kashmir and terrorism are not linked.
- War On Drugs In Afghanistan Has Failed: Un (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The war against drugs in Afghanistan is a failure and the strategy needs to be changed, the top United Nations official in the world’s biggest heroin-producing country said on Monday.
- Taliban Take Control Of Sangin Police Hq (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The Taliban took control of the police headquarters in the Sangin district of the Helmand province after the deputy police chief there surrendered to them along with 10 cops.
- Indian Jews Don Israeli Uniform (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Nine Indian Jews, who migrated to Israel from the northeast, are fighting for their new homeland in its war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to media reports here.
- Woman And Child As Merchandise (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 07, 2006)
Biswajit Ghosh and Ananda Mohan Kar
The problem of trafficking against women and children in India is now an important social issue. It refers to the movement of men, women and children from one place to another through force, coercion or . . .
- Half A Million Homeless In India Floods, Mumbai Hit (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Rescuers in India stepped up efforts on Sunday to help hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes by floods in a southern state as torrential rain hit the country’s financial capital.
- Hezbollah Hits Back (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
At least 10 people were feared killed today in northern Israel in the worst rocket attack by Hezbollah guerrillas as the UN considered a draft resolution aimed at ending the fighting in Lebanon.
- Israeli Strikes Kill 10 Lebanese; Un Split On Truce (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Israeli air strikes killed 10 civilians in Lebanon where Hizbollah battled Israeli troops on Monday as the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on a draft resolution seeking to end 27 days of fighting.
- Habitual Offenders (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 07, 2006)
State must face truth on custody deaths
A police administration that has recently been seen to be seriously concerned about the future of cricket in Bengal has generally not been as enthusiastic about cleaning up the mess in its own backyard.
- India: Human Trafficking Fuelling Hiv (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 07, 2006)
Images of guns, drugs and rebels have long defined India’s troubled northeast. Now, a study across eight states in this resource-rich, infrastructure-poor, conflict-scarred region seeks to highlight a new worry:
- Us Calls For Resolution Of New Row In S. Asia (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
The US advised India and Pakistan on Sunday to resolve the latest row over the expulsion of diplomats between themselves.
- Hiroshima Calls For N-Free World (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
The Japanese city of Hiroshima marked the 61st anniversary of the world’s first atomic attack on Sunday with renewed calls for a nuclear-free world.
- Iran Rejects Un Nuclear Deadline (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said today that Iran will expand uranium enrichment, in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution setting an 31 August deadline for the Islamic Republic to halt the activity or face the threat of political and economic . .
- Speak Turkish To Syrians (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Aug 07, 2006)
There will be an international force (in Lebanon), because all the key players want it," a US official asserted recently. He appears to be right, as even the Israeli Government embraced the plan, announcing it "would agree to consider stationing . . .
- Division In The House (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 07, 2006)
UPA will face trouble on the Indo-US nuclear deal in Parliament, with combined opposition pressure mounting against it, says CP Bhambhri.
- ‘N. Korea Missiles Successful’ (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
An analysis by Japan and the US has concluded that six of the seven missiles tested by North Korea last month fell within their targets, indicating the tests were successful, a major Japanese newspaper reported on Sunday.
- Do Mix Your Drinks (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 07, 2006)
Don’t mix your drinks, they used to say. Like all adages this one may be outdated. Coffee, Tea or Me was the name of a saucy book written by two air-hostesses in the 1960s era of civil aviation.
- Qin's English (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 07, 2006)
When the Chinese decide to put their minds to something, they usually end up doing a pretty good job of it. In a campaign that can only be termed as ‘Let Not A Thousand Englishes Bloom’, Beijing is on its way to eradicating ‘Chinglish’, the . . .
- Double Invasion (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 07, 2006)
It continues to be a sad commentary on our times that serious occurrences in remote areas don’t get timely notice. This is true of not only the administrative apparatus but of all spheres of society.
- The Good Side Of Global Warming (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 07, 2006)
We have had nine normal monsoons in a row. People of the country are happy. This fortunate circumstance owes itself partly to the rise in temperature of the earth due to global warming.
- Us Military Hearing On Iraq Rape Case Starts (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
A U S military court convened in Baghdad today to decide whether to court-martial four U S soldiers for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her family in March.
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