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Articles 7621 through 7720 of 31829:
- Rice To N. Korea: Rejoin Nuke Talks (Asian Age, Jun Kwanwoo, Jul 29, 2006)
US secretary of state Condoleezza Ms Rice urged North Korea to rejoin negotiations on its nuclear programme on Friday as ten world powers held Asian security talks without the communist regime.
- Israel Disgraces Itself (News International, Praful Bidwai, Jul 29, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi
- Bush, Blair Speed Up Diplomacy On Lebanon Crisis (Reuters, Steve Holland, Jul 29, 2006)
President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pressured for a Lebanon cease-fire, sped up diplomacy on Friday for a U.N. resolution aimed at halting the violence and establishing a multinational force.
- U.N. Looks To Vote Next Week On Iran Nuclear Measure (Reuters, Evelyn Leopold , Jul 29, 2006)
France introduced a draft resolution to the full U.N. Security Council on Friday that demands Iran suspend nuclear activities by Aug. 31 or face possible sanctions.
- Left Says Sense Of Parl Should Be Conveyed (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Reconciling differences, Left parties today mounted pressure on the UPA government for a threadbare discussion on the landmark Indo-US nuclear deal in Parliament which should spell out its opinion on the sensitive issue of vital national importance.
- Bush Backs International Force In Lebanon (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jul 29, 2006)
Backing an international force to return peace in Lebanon, US President George W Bush today said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would visit the region tomorrow for talks with the warring countries.
- Sri Lanka Keeps Up Air Attacks For Third Straight Day (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
Sri Lanka's air force bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in the northeast of the island for the third straight day amid a deepening crisis over water.
- Terrorists And Fellow Travellers (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Jul 29, 2006)
There are, it is often remarked, none so blind as those who will not see.
- U.S. To Impose Sanctions On Two Indian Firms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
The Bush administration has decided to impose sanctions on two Indian firms for missile-related transactions with Iran, U.S. officials said.
- Bush Govt Tries To Pacify Accord Adversaries (Pioneer, PTI, Jul 29, 2006)
As concerns were raised in India over some provisions of the Senate bill on Indo-US nuclear deal, the Bush administration has said it is trying to ensure that there is nothing done to "distort, change and re-negotiate" the arrangement reached between . .
- Us: No Change In Nuke Deal (Asian Age, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jul 29, 2006)
As concerns were raised in India over some provisions of the Senate bill on Indo-US nuclear deal, the Bush administration has said it is trying to ensure that there is nothing done to "distort, change and re-negotiate" the arrangement reached between . .
- Un Asks Us To Shut Down Secret Detention Facilities (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
The US should immediately shut down any secret detention facilities and grant prompt access to the Red Cross to any person detained in connection with an armed conflict, a UN rights panel said in a report released on Friday.
- Government Not Interested In Truth (Pioneer, Murli Manohar Joshi, Jul 29, 2006)
The Memorandum of Action Taken Report by the Home Ministry over the 600-plus page report submitted by a reputed former judge of the Supreme Court is plainly arbitrary.
- Pakistan Is Not Lebanon (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 29, 2006)
When one thinks of terrorism and Pakistan, one is reminded of the husband who complains against a neighbour for making eyes at his wife. It never occurs to him that it is his own responsibility to command the loyalty of his spouse.
- Congress Follows The Us Establishment (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 29, 2006)
Ignoring voices of sanity, the US House of Representatives has voted to allow shipments of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India.
- Power-Sharing Among The Provinces (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 29, 2006)
The question of Pakistan’s constitutional make-up and power-sharing among the country’s four provinces and ethnic minorities is once again coming under intense debate.
- Peace Process Sidelined (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Jul 29, 2006)
The multiple bomb blasts in Mumbai on July 11 resulted in the death of nearly 200 people.
- Us House Vote (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 29, 2006)
The overwhelming vote in the US House of Representatives ratifying the India-US nuclear deal is a reflection of America's blatant double standards.
- N Korea Threat To Quit Asean (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
North Korea warned today that it could quit the Association of South-east Asian Nations’ Regional Forum (ARF) if the organisation condemns the communist regime’s missile tests, a South Korean official said.
China and South Korea do not recognise . . .
- Jaswant Singh's 'Pmo Mole' Theory Rubbish: Narayanan (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
It has been almost a week since former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh referred to the existence of a mole in the Prime Minister's Office in 1991, who was allegedly funnelling nuclear secrets to the United States of America.
- Oic Wakes Up Ultimately (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 29, 2006)
In a belated move, a summit of OIC leaders has been convened to discuss the burning issue of Israeli aggression against Lebanon.
- Government’S Dilemma In Fata (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 29, 2006)
Major General Shaukat Sultan, the Inter-Services Public Relations director general, has said that the extension of adult franchise in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has created the problem of Talibanisation.
- Tsunami And The Tide Of Globalisation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
Before your research in oceanic history, you also wrote about the 1857 Uprising. South Asia is now preparing to mark its 150th anniversary. Would you say that 1857 saw the beginnings of a pan-Indian consciousness?
- When Onions Brought Some Governments Down (The Financial Express, S Narendra, Jul 28, 2006)
Its shortage in 1998 brought grief to many BJP-led state governments, who lost elections
- Political Correctness (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 28, 2006)
It looks like a distinctly untranquil monsoon session for Parliament, and debatable if pending (old and new) legislation will reach their logical conclusion.
- Why Israel Is On Warpath (Times of India, DAVID DANIELI, Jul 28, 2006)
With the flurry of news updates and analyses, the plain truth behind the crisis in Lebanon is blurred, if not lost. Hezbollah's war of terror against Israel is neither about the occupation of Lebanon nor about Palestinians' right to have their own . . .
- Q&a: Options Against Pakistan (OutLook, B Raman, Jul 28, 2006)
Is hot pursuit an option? Targeted killings of jihadi terrorist leaders? Air strikes on training camps in Pakistan? US and Israel models? Why does US not act on evidence against Pakistan? And many more questions - is cover action the only practical . . .
- Questions Arise On Reprocessing Restrictions (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jul 28, 2006)
Spent fuel treatment will require separate U.S. consent.
- Cops Arrest Mumbai Lashkar Chief, He’S ‘Brother’ Of Bangalore Techie (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Anti-Terrorist Squad tonight arrested Faizal Atur Rehman Sheikh (27), who Crime Branch officials say heads the Lashkar-e-Toiba’s Mumbai operations. ATS officers are now investigating how involved he is in the serial blasts of Terrible Tuesday.
- Clearing The Cloud Around The N-Deal (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 28, 2006)
After the thumping vote on Wednesday night in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal in the House of Representatives, you might think a happy ending is at hand.
- Advantage Lebanon (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 28, 2006)
Half-time score in the Middle East
Israel had well-laid well-rehearsed plans to attack Lebanon aiming to permanently destroy Hezbollah.
- Legalising The Illegal (Statesman, SANKAR SEN, Jul 28, 2006)
It is learnt that the Government of India is debating the issue of legalisation and decriminalisation of prostitution. Some feminine groups as well as human rights activists are aggressively campaigning for legalisation of prostitution.
- Calibrated Incursion Attempts: Army (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jul 28, 2006)
A day after the Union home minister Mr Shivraj Patil said that infiltration from across the Line of Control had picked up in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army in the terrorism-hit state today said that there were ‘‘calibrated’’ attempts of infiltration . . .
- Numbers In Search Of Concepts (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Jul 28, 2006)
"Economists must accept that much of what they have been writing and saying about fiscal policy has been an exercise in linguistics, not economics."
- Israel Not To Expand Offensive (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Top Israeli Cabinet ministers today decided not to expand the country’s Lebanon offensive, but ordered the call up of thousands of additional reserve soldiers to boost the campaign, officials said.
- Salwa Judum Will Be A Watershed (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 28, 2006)
The police term Salwa Judum as the people's response to the Left-wing extremist group.
- Taliban Returning Via Pakistan: Un Envoy (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is backed by foreign money, terror networks and fighters coming over the border from Pakistan, the top UN envoy in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
- Centre Feels The Heat On N-Deal, Opp Walks Out (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The UPA Government faced rough weather in Parliament on Thursday from opposition BJP as well as the Left and Samajwadi Party on the Indo-US nuclear deal despite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assertion that the final vote by the US Senate would be . . .
- Centre Waits For N-Deal Act Details (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The passage of the US-India nuclear cooperation Bill in the House of Representatives has been hailed as a big foreign policy victory for the Bush administration.
- Centre Of Controversy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
Kerala wants out of the Centre’s fiscal responsibility law that was incentivised for adoption by states. Gujarat and MP want flexibility in terms of deciding whether they must follow, as is the custom, the Centre when it restructures government pay.
- Apartment — ‘To Let’ (Deccan Herald, NUGGEHALLI PANKAJA, Jul 28, 2006)
A small advertisement to rent out a place attracts several, curiously different, inquiries!
- Tiger’S Trail (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2006)
The legendary golfer is not just perfect, he is human too
- Dealing With Art (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2006)
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath is in a poor light
- Trick, Tax And Trade (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2006)
If you thought that the new electronic meters cannot be tampered with, think again.
- The Publizen’S Life? It’S An Open Blog (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 28, 2006)
The me decade- It’s the age of the publizens who are of all ages and both sexes, and quite young.
- Nuclear Deal Wins Washington As It Continues To Battle New Delhi (Indian Express, LALIT K JHA, Jul 28, 2006)
Surprising even many of the Indian supporters and those in the State Department, the House of Representatives last night passed the civilian nuclear agreement between India and the United States with an overwhelming majority.
- Much Heat, Little Light On Nuclear Deal (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Jul 28, 2006)
While New Delhi can say it is not bound by any "Sense of the Congress" provisions in the legislation, it must recognise that nuclear cooperation with the US will end if it tests a `nuclear device'. Therefore there is merit in the criticism that . . .
- ‘Pak Has 25 To 50 Modest Nukes’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan currently has between 25 and 50 nuclear weapons, mostly relatively simple uranium arms with ‘‘modest’’ yields—around the size of the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the journal Nature claimed on Thursday.
- House Warming (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
The expansive support — more than three-fourths in a chamber of 435 — to the Indo-US nuclear deal from the House of Representatives in Washington surprised both the pros and the antis.
- Doing The Moonwalk (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 28, 2006)
A new documentary, called Apollo 11: The Untold Story, shows the United States was so impatient to beat the Soviet Union in putting a man on the Moon that it launched the historic 1969 mission before it was completely prepared and without adequate . . .
- Learn To Change (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 28, 2006)
The key to a nation's future is in its schools. If that is so our future is bleak. The World Bank's Development Policy Review for India gives two interesting facts.
- Goalposts In Nuclear Accord Intact: Pm (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Asserting that the goalposts will be there and not shifted, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the Rajya Sabha today that if the end product of the American legislation was inconsistent with the July 18, 2005, agreement on the Indo-US nuclear deal . . .
- Moving Ahead (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 28, 2006)
The Indo-US civilian nuclear deal is moving towards becoming a reality. It has crossed another hurdle with the US House of Representatives giving its seal of approval after an intense debate lasting nearly five hours.
- Foreign Policy Tangles (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Jul 28, 2006)
The writer is a former member of parliament and a freelance columnist based in Lahore
- A Positive Step Towards Helping Hiv-Infected (Hindu, Ramya Kannan , Jul 28, 2006)
A support and recovery group aims at forming a network for them to share concerns
- Bush Lauds House Of Rep. On Passage Of Bil (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Lauding the House of Representatives on the passage of legislation providing New Delhi greater access to civilian nuclear technology, President George W Bush has said the development of nuclear power in India would benefit America.
- The Neocon Resurgence (Hindu, Sidney Blumenthal, Jul 28, 2006)
The delusional U.S. mindset that made the Iraq war a disaster has resurfaced in Lebanon.
- U.S. Sanctions Two India Firms For Transfers To Iran (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Bush administration has decided to impose sanctions on two Indian firms for missile-related transactions with Iran, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday.
- No Preferential Trade For India: Us (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The head of the powerful Senate Finance Committee has said the United States should not extend preferential trade treatment to India and Brazil, which he accused of blocking a move to liberalise the World Trade Organisation.
- Indo-Us Deal Crosses Another Hurdle (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 28, 2006)
With the US House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal another hurdle has been crossed in a process that promises to be a major test of India’s diligence. The process has several imponderables built into it.
- Zawahri Spits Fire At Israel (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Al Qaida’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said his group would not stand by and watch Israel bombard Lebanon and the Palestinians, calling on Muslims in a video aired today to fight those who support the attacks.
- Snubbed, Cpm Looks At Next Best N-Shield (Telegraph, Monobina Gupta, Jul 28, 2006)
CPM general secretary Prakash Karat has said his party would not be satisfied with a voluntary statement by the Prime Minister on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- Going Soft In The Knee (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jul 28, 2006)
Who was the mole in P.V. Narasimha Rao’s office, and who cares about that past history? It is dead and gone, not relevant to the realities of today. And for the press to pursue, relentlessly, a non-story is even more farcical than the story itself.
- Indo-Us Nuke Deal: Pm Rejects Charge Of Left Parties (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Rejecting the charge by Left allies that he has violated assurances made in Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today made it clear that if the American legislation was "inconsistent" with the July 18 Indo-US nuclear deal, that would be . . .
- Bush Says He'll Seek To Revive Doha Trade Talks (Reuters, Caren Bohan, Jul 28, 2006)
President George W. Bush vowed on Thursday to try to press ahead with attempts to reach a global trade agreement, despite the collapse of the Doha round of trade talks earlier this week.
- Vice Admiral Js Bedi To Head S Naval Command » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Vice Admiral Jagjit Singh Bedi will take over as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Naval Command, Kochi, on July 31 from Vice Admiral SCS Bangara who retires from the service.
- To Find That Favourite Book (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 28, 2006)
For instance, where and how would you find these recent books? William Easterly:
- India, Us Working To Conclude N-Pact By Sept (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
India and the US are working towards concluding the bilateral civil nuclear agreement by September.
- Dishonourable Silence (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Behind the noise and scurry that has accompanied the ‘non-revelatory revelations’ made by Jaswant Singh in his memoirs, A Call To Honour, there lies the matter of serious irresponsibility.
- Pakistan Asks West Bengal To Help Reform Madrasas (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan has sought the help of a West Bengal to revamp its system of madrasas after accusations some of the Islamic schools teach religious hatred and are breeding grounds for militancy.
- Mole On The Nose (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 28, 2006)
Jaswant Singh is a gentleman fallen among politicians. We have been waiting for his memoirs ever since a south-east Asian summit when the post-banquet entertainment took the form of a skit that was a witty take-off of Lewis Carroll’s “You are Old . . .
- Of Growth And Deprivation (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 28, 2006)
The World Bank's Development Policy Review 2006, in its report in India, stresses "the importance of ensuring that public money is well spent through institutional reform of the public sector that creates effective systems of . . .
- Ethical Values In Business — The Tata Way (Business Line, R. M. Lala, Jul 28, 2006)
In the public mind, business ethics is mainly connected with financial integrity. Tatas are not the only ones to pursue ethical values in business. But their eminent position and tradition stretching well over a 100 years makes them distinctive and . . .
- Sbi Net Slides 35% On Swollen 2005-06 Base (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Lower treasury income and higher staff cost have pulled down the April-June quarter net profit of country’s largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India, by 34.70 per cent to Rs 798.57 crore against Rs 1,222.83 crore in the corresponding quarter . . .
- The Us And Muslims (News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai, Jul 28, 2006)
If the United States of America still hoped it would be able to win the hearts of minds of Muslims worldwide, its reaction to the events of the past few weeks in the Middle East should make it realise the futility of the exercise.
- Us-India Nuclear Deal Wins Big Vote Despite Dissent (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jul 28, 2006)
The US House of Representatives voted by 359 votes to 68 to approve the controversial US-India nuclear cooperation agreement despite several dissenting voices, with one member calling the deal a “historic failure” that “pours nuclear fuel on the . . .
- A Major Setback (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 28, 2006)
The world, especially the developing world, has been extremely concerned, at least since the Doha round of July 2003, over the way the global trade talks had progressed.
- Rate Hike Gets Good Billing (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The surest sign of the rise of the Great Indian Middle Class has been the coverage of the RBI’s latest interest rate hike in the regional press. A
- Other Alphabets Want A Slice Of Internet (Hindu, Kieren McCarthy, Jul 28, 2006)
The Internet is a global revolution in communication — as long as you use letters from the Western alphabet. A report on the growing pressure for a Net that recognises Oriental, Arabic, and Hindi characters, too.
- Cpi(m) Launches Signature Campaign Against Israel (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
To submit memorandum to the Prime Minister on Friday
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