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Articles 7221 through 7320 of 31829:
- Nepal Army Chief To Be Quizzed By Judicial Commission (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
A high-level judicial commission has summoned Nepal Army chief to question the military's role in crackdowns on pro-democracy rallies earlier this year.
- Hounded In Nepal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 03, 2006)
Maoists train guns on Indians ---- News coming out of Nepal about Indian workers, traders and industry owners being threatened and hounded by Maoists will surprise only those who have chosen not to read the writing on the wall for the past decade.
- Australia To Host Conf In Bid To Salvage Doha Trade Talks (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The world's largest trading powers will meet in Australia next month in a bid to salvage failed global free trade talks, the government said today.
- N-Deal: Atal Puts Weight Behind Party Resolution (Indian Express, ANANDA MAJUMDAR, Aug 03, 2006)
The BJP has made up its mind to settle for nothing less than a resolution to get a ‘‘sense of Parliament’’ on the nuclear deal with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself backing such a course.
- Lanka Water Battle Rages; 40 Ltte Men Die (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The Sri Lankan defence ministry said its forces have repulsed Wednesday's attacks by Tamil Tiger rebels around a strategic northeastern port, killing 40 insurgents and wounding 70 others.
- Out Of The Blue (Indian Express, S Krishnaswamy, Aug 03, 2006)
September, 1965. The time had come for us fighter pilots to prove our worth. Six months earlier I was posted from a Hunter Squadron to 23 Sqn Ambala, to fly the Gnats. I found the air combat skills in the Gnat Squadron to be distinctly . . .
- Unsc Talks On West Asia Crisis (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
As violence continued unabated in West Asia, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council discussed ways to stop hostilities, effect a ceasefire and reach a political framework for a settlement to the crisis.
- A Pox On Stem Cell Research (Deccan Herald, DEBORAH BLUM, Aug 03, 2006)
The US lost a good opportunity due to the influence of clerics on its President.
- What Happens After Fidel Castro? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 03, 2006)
Even in a country which has its own 120 Club for those who reach that remarkable age, it has been accepted that the days of Fidel would one day end.
- Saarc Summit Fails To End India-Pakistan Tariff Row (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
India on Wednesday accused Pakistan of jeopardising the fledgling South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) deal by failing to fully implement key tariff cuts, as a two-day foreign ministers’ summit of the South Asian Association for Regional . . .
- Backing For The N-Deal (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
The nuclear deal between the US and India has received attention in the Urdu press as well. National Herald group’s Qaumi Awaz, in its editorial dated July 29, has hailed it, supporting the deal.
- When Shareholders' Agreement Is Enforceable (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Aug 03, 2006)
Hallmark of a public company is free exit, where a shareholder can dispose of holdings to anyone of his choice
- Changing With Times (Frontline, Ravi Sharma , Aug 03, 2006)
Challenges in the form of liberalisation and global competition have steeled the units' resolve to surge ahead.
- Whither Cuba After Castro? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Aug 03, 2006)
The hospitalisation of Fidel Castro, the world’s longest serving political leader, has provoked sharply contradictory reactions from those expecting fundamental changes once the Cuban leader has passed on.
- Expansion And Division Games (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 03, 2006)
The Moily Oversight Committee, entrusted with coming up with a strategy to implement the proposed OBC quotas in Central institutions, had a thankless task: to come up with a plan to expand current institutional strength by almost 30 per cent within . . .
- Chemical Weapons Used By Israelis? (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The Israeli military may have used chemical weapons against civilians in last Sunday’s deadly bombardment of an apartment block in the southern Lebanese city of Qana, a senior local Lebanese medic has told Adnkronos International (AKI).
- Cooperation And Hurdles (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Aug 03, 2006)
The U.S. administration initiates moves towards opening up international nuclear cooperation and trade with India.
- A Choice For The Rogues (The Financial Express, Thomas L Friedman, Aug 03, 2006)
The Bush team needs to resolve a contradiction that has been at the heart of its administration: Is it for a change of regime or a change of behaviour in Iran and North Korea?
- Another Low Called Qana (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Aug 03, 2006)
Over the years, philosophers have tried to evolve rules for the conduct of war .
- Nearly 30 Legislators Resign In Somalia (Asian Age, Mohamed Olad Hassan, Aug 03, 2006)
Somalia’s government was trying to regroup on Wednesday after nearly 30 legislators resigned in less than a week, saying the virtually powerless administration has failed to reconcile with Islamic militants who have taken over the capital.
- Of Moles And Other Species (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Aug 03, 2006)
As Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Jaswant Singh must take the nation into confidence, says Anuradha Dutt
- Change Pse Pay System (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 03, 2006)
Public sector enterprises (PSEs) are competing in a globalised environment. Most of these, particularly navratna and mini-ratna central PSEs, have consistently demonstrated good performance in a dynamic and uncertain business environment.
- Name The `Mole': Manmohan (Hindu, GARGI PARSAI and SUNNY SEBASTIAN , Aug 02, 2006)
I have given "explicit and implicit" information, says Jaswant
- Ordnance Board To Produce `Cargo Ammunition' With Israeli Company (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Ministry sees substantial export potential; rights group against cargo ammunition
- A Pointer To What? (News International, M.B. Naqvi, Aug 02, 2006)
Several former lieutenant generals, MPs, ministers and some academics have written a letter to the president with copies to the PPP and PML-N chiefs. What they say is common ground among democrats; the only remarkable thing about it is who said it.
- Mole Still Wrapped In Intrigue (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Aug 02, 2006)
The identity of the alleged American informers in the P V Narasimha Rao regime continues to remain a matter of speculation but the identity of the American official who authored the secret letter based on which BJP leader Jaswant Singh claimed he . . .
- Satellite Pictures `Show' Pakistan Has Terror Camp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan's claim that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory has been strongly contested in the United States.
- Challenges Of Consumerism (News International, Tayyeba Ali, Aug 02, 2006)
In today's technological boom, where inventions consistently outdo one another, it is difficult to keep pace.
- Satellite Pictures Show Terror Camp In Balakot (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s claims that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory is being strongly contested by FBI which has told a US court that satellite pictures pointed towards such a camp.
- Unsc Becomes More Partisan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 02, 2006)
AS Lebanon is being reduced to rubble and its citizens are forced to live in a state of limbo due to intense Israeli air strikes over the past three weeks, the UN Security Council has failed to even formally call for cease-fire by Tel Aviv.
- A Storm Hits Brick Lane (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 02, 2006)
Monica Ali’s Brick Lane is a fine novel...After Bengalis in Tower Hamlets succeeded in moving the filming of the book away from their back yard because they object to the picture it paints of their neighbourhood, Brick Lane joined a depressing . . .
- Kissinger, Nixon Had A Plan To Nuke N Vietnam (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Former US President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry A Kissinger, had contemplated using nuclear weapons power against North Vietnamese, at the peak of the Vietnam War, recently declassified documents reveal.
- Signals From G8 (Frontline, Vladimir Radyuhin , Aug 02, 2006)
The G8 summit proves that the West needs Russia more than Russia, with its vast oil reserves and booming economy, needs the West.
- Eating Cues From Surroundings: Study (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 02, 2006)
How much candy is enough? It depends on how big the candy scoop is. At least that is a key factor, says a study that offers new evidence that people take cues from their surroundings in deciding how much to eat.
- Fbi Has Images Of Terror Camp In Pak (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s claims that it does not have terrorist training camps in its territory has been strongly contested by the FBI which has told a US court that satellite pictures pointed towards such a camp.
- Israel And America (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 02, 2006)
Who is responsible for the second Qana massacre?
- India's Limited Options In Middle East (Daily Excelsior, M. A. Ansari, Aug 02, 2006)
The Left, which has a fondness for the enemies of the US and Israel, is putting pressure on the Manmohan Singh government to treat the latest conflict in West Asia as an Israel-Arab conflict. In the process, the Left and the 'secular' parties have . . .
- Bush Authorizes Graphite Export To China (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
President George W Bush authorized the export to China of 907,200 kg of bulk graphite for making plastics and said he did not believe it would prove detrimental to the US space launch industry.
- The ‘Dying City’ Vis-A-Vis The ‘National Capital’ (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 02, 2006)
Sir, ~ I have just shifted to Delhi after living in Kolkata for the last forty years and I would like to make a comparative study of the so-called “Dying city of Calcutta” and our “National Capital ~ Delhi”.
- Israeli Commandos Snatch Hizbollah Members In Raid (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Israeli commandos snatched at least three Hizbollah members from a stronghold deep inside Lebanon on Wednesday, in a raid Lebanese security sources said killed at least seven civilians.
- Death Returns To Qana (News International, Hamid Mir, Aug 02, 2006)
A half-crazed woman was running through the devastated streets of Qana. At times, she would cry then go silent. In my broken Arabic I tried to ask her who she was looking for. She told me that she was searching for her home.
- Changing Goalposts (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 02, 2006)
IN principle I am against the bomb. When India exploded it, I paraded on the streets of Delhi, along with 5,000 people, to register protest.
- Barnes Rebuts Jaswant: Never Wrote Or Got Note (Indian Express, PALLAVA BAGLA, Aug 02, 2006)
Another hole in mole story: Ex-US envoy Barnes says I wasn’t even in India, don’t know anything about ‘leak’
- Hospitals In Lebanon Ill-Prepared For Long War (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 02, 2006)
Supplies of saline water and glucose are beginning to run out "The last thing I remember was that an explosion had hurled me high in the air after which I fell heavily to the ground"
- Pak-India Auto Project Delayed (News International, Imran Ayub, Aug 02, 2006)
Uncertainty about South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) has put a halt to a joint venture between the auto industries of India and Pakistan, which had targeted July 2006 to initiate a motorcycle and rickshaw assembling project in Lahore.
- Being Open With Regional Trade (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 02, 2006)
The approval by the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) Negotiating Committee on Rules of a new transparency mechanism for regional trade agreements (RTAs) is a development that is inevitable in the context of the proliferation of RTAs.
- Pak Rejects Indian Allegation Over Safta (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan Tuesday rejected the Indian allegation that Pakistan was not implementing SAFTA in letter and spirit.
- Bush Fundamentalism Is Courting Disaster (Hindu, Karen Armstrong, Aug 02, 2006)
Affinity with the Christian Right has led to banning stem cell research and turning a blind eye to civilian deaths in Lebanon.
- Indian Banks Face Stiff Us Curbs: Fm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Indian banks are facing restrictions in opening new branches in the United States, Finance Minister P Chidambaram told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
- Us Rejects Calls For Ceasefire (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Aug 02, 2006)
As France, Russia, Indonesia and Italy emerged as possible contributors to a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, the US has rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire with President Bush saying he first wanted a “sustainable” end to the violence.
- To Know ‘You’ Is To Love ‘You’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2006)
It’s a spin on the classic tale of assimilation, when two cultures meet and create something unique.
- Big Role Awaits Arab Street (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Aug 02, 2006)
The Islamic countries have been following double standards regarding the Hezbollah issue.
- Nuclear Weapons: A World Gone Mad (Deccan Herald, BOB HERBERT, Aug 02, 2006)
More and more nations are in the race for nuclear weapons. NPT has been a failure.
- Rwanda Striving For A High-Tech Future (Hindu, Xan Rice, Aug 02, 2006)
If successful, the percentage of Rwanda's workforce involved in farming will drop from 90 per cent to 50 per cent in 15 years
- U.S.' Latest Plans On Cuba (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The latest U.S. scheme for Cuba has classified sections that are believed to contain plans of attack and assassination.
- Karnataka's Mining Scandal (Frontline, PARVATHI MENON, Aug 02, 2006)
Charges of corruption against the Chief Minister forces the government to order an inquiry into the irregularities in iron ore mining.
- Jaswant Was "Irresponsible" In Handling Security: Dasmunsi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
From where did he get the document on the "mole"?
- Somalia's Road To Anarchy (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The Ethiopian bid to remove the Union of Islamic Courts from power in Somalia risks destabilising the entire region.
- Leadership Failure (Frontline, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 02, 2006)
The Indonesian leadership suffers a loss of face in its failure to set up a tsunami warning system.
- European Muslims & Crimes Within (Frontline, RAFIA ZAKARIA, Aug 02, 2006)
European Muslims remain silent on horrific crimes within the community citing fear of fuelling Islamophobia as the reason.
- The Indo-Us Deal (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Aug 02, 2006)
Two legislatures, separated by miles of land and sea, but inspired by the same ideals of freedom and democracy, presented two different spectacles on July 27 when they discussed their vision of the future of the relationship between their two countries.
- Intelligence And Effort (Telegraph, André Béteille, Aug 02, 2006)
The government’s recent move to expand numerical quotas in the Central universities and institutions for teaching and research in engineering, management and medicine in favour of the other backward classes has led to much acrimony and some . . .
- New Vision (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 02, 2006)
By any measure, it is Bengal’s biggest leap forward into the future.
- Castro Steps Aside Temporarily (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, has temporarily handed over his presidential powers to his brother Raul after having surgery to stop gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Nuclear Deal: Bjp Not Lukewarm To Resolution (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The BJP will continue to make efforts for adopting a parliamentary resolution on the Indo-American nuclear deal, former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said here on Tuesday.
- Cbi Files Closure Appeal In Tughlakabad Land Grab Case (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Agency says probe has not revealed any worthwhile evidence against the accused
- Eu To Approach Wto To Cut Indian Duties On Wine (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The ongoing battle for access to India's vast whisky and wine market has entered a new phase with the European Union deciding to seek the removal of India's restrictive import duties under WTO's dispute settlement mechanism.
- Ulfa Should See Reason (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 02, 2006)
In June, when the People's Consultative Group (PCG) concluded the third round of talks with the Union Government on behalf of the United Liberation Front of Asom, the assumption naturally was that at long last direct talks between the Government . . .
- Did Wild Birds Bring Avian Flu To India? (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 02, 2006)
A "smoking gun" that could convincingly pin the blame on wild birds is lacking. Even at the global level, unravelling the role of wild birds in the spread of H5N1 is not proving easy.
- Of Old Strengths In A New Era (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Aug 02, 2006)
Interview with John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review.
- Militias Mar Lebanon’S Democracy (Indian Express, Shylashri Shankar, Aug 02, 2006)
The war between Israel and Lebanon raises an important question about democracy in the Middle East.
- Should India Move To Full Convertibility? (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 02, 2006)
Eventually it boils down to whether it is the lack of convertibility or the absence of other reforms that is holding back the deluge of dollars.
- Sonia Wants Tighter Norms For Futures Trading In Commodities (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The Congress, anxious to salvage its battered ‘aam admi’ plank, seems to have chosen to use commodity exchanges as a scapegoat. Congress president Sonia Gandhi today asked the government to stop futures trading.
- The Government Must Ensure Passage Of Hudood Amendment Bill (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 02, 2006)
The government has come up with a draft law seeking to amend the controversial Hudood Ordinances.
- Waiting For Iran (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 02, 2006)
The endgame in the Iranian nuclear imbroglio may have begun, going by the UNSC resolution passed last Monday, giving Tehran a month to suspend its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.
- Indian Imprint On Armenia (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
The remote village of Odzun reveals an Indian connection.
- Left Not To Join Hands With Bjp On Nuke Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Raising the government's comfort level, the Left parties on Tuesday night ruled out joining hands with BJP in the saffron plans to bring a resolution in Parliament against the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Carnage In Qana (Tribune, Robert Fisk, Aug 02, 2006)
They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. “Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana,” was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy’s body lay.
- A Call To Honour? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 02, 2006)
Rather than exposing the mole in the Prime Minister’s Office during the late P.V. Narasimha Rao’s regime, former Union minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh has been increasingly exposing himself as a fickle leader or someone trying to be clever . . .
- Massacre Of The Innocents (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Aug 02, 2006)
The world's anger should be directed not at any single party involved in the continuing West Asia problem but at all those who are playing a part in fuelling it.
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