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Articles 9821 through 9920 of 31829:
- Across The Nathu La (Tribune, Lieut-Gen Baljit Singh (retd), Jun 27, 2006)
Three sovereign nations, China, India and Bhutan, have a common meeting ground at Nathu La - Jelap La.
- Nuke Deal Faces First Vote In Us Congress Today » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
Indian circles are guardedly optimistic on the eve of the first vote in the US Congress on the Indo-US nuclear deal.
- G8 To Press Iran On N-Row: Japan (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
The Group of Eight foreign ministers will urge Iran this week to accept a proposal for talks on its nuclear drive unless Tehran responds first, a Japanese official said on Monday.
- Politics And Profligate States (Daily Excelsior, Kedar Nath Pandey, Jun 27, 2006)
After Independence the states have evolved on two different tracks. One, with the departure of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, the two most charismatic and centralising Prime Ministers, the states have acquired increasingly greater autonomy, . . .
- Kalidas Or Bust (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 27, 2006)
It may not be the best way to go about finding out how a person once looked, but the Kalidas Academy in Ujjain seems to have hit upon a novel idea.
- Indian Americans Do Their Bit For Indo-Us Nuke Deal (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
While the Bush administration is busy trying to get the Congress to clear the nuclear deal with India, Indian American interest groups are doing their bit by lobbying lawmakers across the US.
- Drug Abuse : More A Health Problem (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Jun 27, 2006)
The involvement of a high profile deceased politician's son in an alleged drug abuse case has focussed attention on the sale of narcotics in the country.
- Another Step Forward In Strengthening Ties (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jun 27, 2006)
For India and China, resolving the border issue remains the key to developing a truly strategic partnership.
- Sri Lanka's Forgotten War Displaced Long To Start Over (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Jun 27, 2006)
Odd-job man Krishnaswamy Rajah has spent most of his adult life in a decrepit camp for thousands of ethnic Tamils displaced by Sri Lanka's two-decade civil war, and can see no way out.
- Tanuvas Aims To Be Research And Training Hub In South Asia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Signs an MoU with American university for exchange programmes
- Mittal Arcelor Merger To Begin Global Consolidation (Indian Express, DEV CHATTERJEE, Jun 26, 2006)
The merger between Mittal Steel and Arcelor will ignite a global consolidation in the highly fragmented steel industry and will also bring down the price volatility in the commodity, say analysts.
- Strike Over Killing Of 2 In Police Firing (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
The entire Pattan town in north Kashmir observed a complete strike today in protest against the killing of a student and a woman, allegedly in firing by the security forces during demonstrations yesterday, even as the mourners attacked the Pattan . . .
- Test Of Will (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 26, 2006)
It's not so much that Afghanistan is a success and Iraq a failure in taking on the forces of global jehad, but rather that the failure in Iraq is causing Afghanistan itself to unravel.
- Three Palestinians Killed In Anti-Israel Attack (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Three Palestinian activists were killed early on Sunday in an attack on an Israeli military post on the border between Israel and the south of the Gaza Strip, the group Committees of Popular Resistance announced.
- At Least They Agree On The Colour (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 26, 2006)
Diplomacy, they say, is war by other means. So the Arab and Israelis have been slugging it out at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) with Israel demanding recognition of the Red Star of David as an ICRC symbol since 1949.
- Hardening Interest Rates On Top Of India Inc’S Wishlist For Fm Meet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
The prolonged volatility in the stock market, rising interest rates and inflation, as well as flexible labour policy are some of the major issues that will be deliberated upon in the meeting between the Finance Minister and the three apex . . .
- Us Plans For Big Troop Cuts In Iraq (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
The top US commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects steep reductions in the US military presence there by the end of 2007, The New York Times has reported.
- Tata Coffee To Buy Us Company (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Signs Rs 1,015-cr deal for Eight O'Clock Coffee
- Demolishing Circles Of Domination (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 26, 2006)
I am tired of America bashers. They send me the latest by Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, et al, by the email box-full.
- Getting India Into Innovative Mode (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jun 26, 2006)
If India is to innovate, the only way is to create competition for the IITs. As IITs are tightly controlled government monopolies, such competition has to come from . . .
- From Irrational Exuberance To Deep Despair (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Jun 26, 2006)
"Architectural weaknesses in the system" are blamed for the stock market crash. Besides more reforms, there is a need to create a deeper bond market.
- Iraq’S Victims Of Violence Doubt Maliki Peac (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s national reconciliation plan is a hard sell on Karrada Inner street, where a roadside bomb left Akram Jabaar with a painful limp and little faith in his government.
- Iraqi Pm Offers Olive Branch To Insurgents (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Iraq’s prime minister presented a plan for national reconciliation to parliament on Sunday, but Nuri al-Maliki was short on detail of how he aimed to end what he called the “ugly picture” of life in Iraq.
- Pakistan’S Energy Needs (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 26, 2006)
Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam has said that energy talks between Pakistan and United States will begin in Washington today and that Pakistan will raise the issue of its energy needs with emphasis on equal treatment with India on account . . .
- Worsening Situation In Afghanistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 26, 2006)
The coalition and Afghan forces killed about 82 militants in multiple assaults across southern Afghanistan on Friday, bringing the tally to over 200 killed since the launch of the Operation Mountain Thrust earlier this month.
- Common Enemy: Syria, Iran Bolster Ties (Times of India, Michael Slackman, Jun 26, 2006)
For a long time, the top-selling poster in Hassan al-Sheikh's gift shophere showed president Bashar al-Assad of Syria seated beside the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
- Qazi Hussain Ahmad Versus Mqm (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 26, 2006)
At an all-parties conference (APC) called by the Jamaat-e-Islami, a joint resolution has demanded that the government drag Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain back to the country . . .
- Capitalism For The Poor (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Jun 26, 2006)
When the poor are losing their land, it is impossible to justify their loss in monetary terms
- Listening To Readers — And Convincing Them (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 26, 2006)
Falling circulations and increasing disconnect with readers have newspapers in the United States worrying and looking for ways to improve coverage.
- "We Are Trying To Find An Alternative Path For Our Own Development" (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Jun 26, 2006)
The Left Front in West Bengal entered its 30th year in power on June 21. In an interview toThe Hindu, Chief MinisterBuddhadeb Bhattacharjeespeaks of the changing perspectives over the last three decades, the new Left alternative being considered . . .
- Last Chance Saloon For World Trade (Hindu, Heather Stewart, Jun 26, 2006)
The future of the WTO is in the balance unless nations rich and poor reach a deal soon.
- U.S., Pakistan Talks On Energy (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 26, 2006)
Islamabad for civilian nuclear pact
- Ignore The Youth At Your Peril (Deccan Herald, Gary Younge, Jun 26, 2006)
Recently, as Hispanics throughout the US took to the streets to protest punitive immigration legislation, the Spanish teacher Hilda Sotelo was called into the principal's office at Austin high school, in El Paso.
- Iran Urges Patience On Response To N-Package (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Iran urged the United States and its European allies on Sunday to be patient for its response to a package of incentives aimed at persuading Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment.
- Iraq Germ War Threat: Cia Questioned, Us Believed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
The USA had cited mobile germ warfare labs in Iraq, which were never found, as one of the justifications for invading the country despite a former CIA officer’s warnings that the man who gave information on it was suspected to be “mentally . . .
- Palestinian Parents Wage War Against Us Company (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jun 26, 2006)
Three years after their daughter was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying to protect a Palestinian home, Rachel Corrie's parents are waging a war she would be proud of.
- Japan To Explore 'All Options' If N Korea Tests Missile (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Japan warned today it would consider "all options" - including severe sanctions - in response to a possible missile test by North Korea, and accused the communist country of intimidation.
- Jammu's Plight (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 26, 2006)
A Jammuite who is apparently settled in the United States has poured his heart out in a letter on this page recently.
- The Death Of Innocent Visitors (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 26, 2006)
How difficult and heartchurning it is to see the violent death of own child in front of you and still you are unable to do anything positive.
- India Votes For Shashi Tharoor (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Jun 26, 2006)
If the election of the UN Secretary General were to be held in India today, Shashi Tharoor would win by acclamation.
- Mittal Finally Pockets Arcelor (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
The merger will combine Arcelor — a symbol of successful, pan-European cooperation and economic revival, with operations that span Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Spain — with a fast-growing conglomerate founded by an Indian, Lakshmi . . .
- Class Action Needed To Restore Investor Confidence (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jun 26, 2006)
While the Indian capital market seems to be recovering from a savage correction, the mega issue of DLF Universal may have run into bigger trouble.
- Auto Majors' Bid For Sustainable Mobility (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Challenge Bibendum of Michelin is the annual forum to focus on issues relating to clean, safe cars of today and tomorrow
The automobile industry already has the technologies needed to reduce pollution and improve safety, without compromising mobility.
- Iraq’S Accord Plan May Not Douse Terror (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jun 26, 2006)
The 24-point reconciliation plan presented on Sunday to parliament by Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki is unlikely to extinguish the violence in Iraq.
- Quietly, In English (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Jun 26, 2006)
A Harvard undergraduate, daughter of Indian expatriates, was recently in the news.
- Tata Coffee To Buy Us Firm For $220m (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
The Tata group-owned Tata Coffee Limited on Sunday said that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the United States-based Eight O’Clock Coffee (EOC) company for a consideration of $220 million (about Rs 1,000 crores) from private equity . . .
- No One Cares! (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 26, 2006)
No one seems interested in helping Saiqa Ghulam Nabi, a resident of Kana Mohri tehsil, to expedite her father’s release from a jail in Saudi Arabia.
- Media Circus Goes On (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Jun 26, 2006)
The Left parties are clearly getting more aggressive and the meeting between Mr Prakash Karat and Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav cannot be ignored as they jointly represent close to 105 MPs.
- Emergency Button (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 26, 2006)
Iraq needs time, not Allied pull-backs ---- In declaring a state of emergency and imposing curfew in parts of the national capital, the Iraqi Government has upped the ante in its struggle against Islamist insurgency.
- City Gas Distribution Within Its Rights: Rel (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Anil Ambani Group company on Sunday accused Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries of spreading falsehoods and disinformation about breach of non-compete agreement by it and said it was well within its right to enter gas pipeline, exploration and . . .
- Need For A Policy Re-Think (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 26, 2006)
The landmark decision of the Supreme Court annulling the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills provides the government much-needed pause to re-think its privatisation policy.
- Iraq Pm Offers ‘Olive Branch’ To Rebels (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki unveiled to MPs today a long-awaited national reconciliation plan to quell insurgent attacks and sectarian violence.
- Bush's Balancing Act Needs Putin's Backing (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
It was five years ago on Monday when President George W Bush peered into Vladimir Putin's eyes for the first time and got "a sense of his soul," pronouncing the Russian president "straightforward and trustworthy."
- British Media Seek New Readers On U.S. Shores (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
When Americans talk about the British Invasion, they often mean the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
- Nri Student Gets Newsweek Award (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2006)
Indian-American Benita Singh, a Yale university student, is among 15 US citizens and organisations chosen by 'Newsweek' magazine for its annual 'Giving Back Awards' - honouring those who use fame, fortune and heart to devote themselves to helping others.
- Mirror, Mirror On The Wall? (Business Standard, T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan, Jun 25, 2006)
If you can't get it right after 16 attempts, how can you say your method works?
- Villagers Oppose Proposed Waste Treatment Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
A large number of them led by Sajjan Kumar meet Deputy Commissioner
- Aditya Birla Group Buys Canadian Bpo Firm (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Pact signed for Rs 575-cr acquisition; process to be completed by Aug
- Parties Criticise Nalco, Nlc Divestment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Departure from National Common Minimum Programme: CPI (M)
Left against attempts to privatise public sector enterprises: CPI(M)
Adhere to policy that shares of profit-earning PSUs will not be divested: Ramadoss
- ‘Us Not Addressing Roots Of Terrorism’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Experts say failure to improve infrastructure and rise in drug trade helping Taliban to regain strength
- Iraqi Sunni Leader Detained (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Sunni groups today complained that the US troops detained a top Sunni religious leader in Tikrit, while a US soldier was killed in a bomb blast during a foot patrol in Baghdad at the end of a particularly deadly week for the US forces in Iraq.
- Civilian Nuclear Deal With Us (News International, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 25, 2006)
Pakistan is in need of having a civil nuclear energy agreement with the United States and the matter would be raised in the Pak-US energy dialogue scheduled to be held in Washington tomorrow (June 26), Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim . . .
- A Standard For Interrogation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 25, 2006)
IN the days and weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, senior Bush administration officials decided that harsh interrogation methods were necessary to prevent devastating attacks on the country — and that such methods could be carefully administered and . . .
- Grass Is Greener Here (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 25, 2006)
It's showtime folks in "Azad" Kashmir:
- How They Make A Mockery Of Democracy (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 25, 2006)
There are specific provisions in the Pakistani Constitution militating against the professions to independence for Kashmiris contained in practically every official claim emanating from Islamabad
- 82 Militants Killed In Afghan (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Afghan and coalition forces killed about 82 militants in multiple assaults across southern Afghanistan, the military said on Saturday.
- R.K. Raghavan: Profiling Terrorists (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Jun 25, 2006)
The life of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. attack in early June, is an index of the stuff of which terrorists are made.
- Nuke Deal Is Bush’S Top Priority (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Even as the US Congress prepares to vote on legislation for the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, the White House has said President George W Bush considered it a "top priority" and wants the Senate and House of Representatives to "act affirmatively" on it.
- Army Captain, 2 Hizb Militants Killed In Pulwama Gunbattle (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jun 25, 2006)
Schoolboy dies in exchange of fire, Baramulla protesters set fire to police station
Probe into killing of schoolboy
Many houses damaged in Mirbagh encounter
- No Comic Relief Here (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
The comic book is re-inventing itself with an imaginative plunge into the big, bad world of the adult.
- New Lens Implant Restores Vision By 30 To 40 Per Cent (Hindu, R. Sujatha, Jun 25, 2006)
In a rare surgery, a 65-year-old former Indian Airlines engineer was fitted with a mirror-telescopic intraocular lens on his right eye that has helped him see despite his scarred retina.
- Criminal Delay (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 25, 2006)
The Indian State has long been guilty of ignoring a terrible violation of human rights. In a country where those facing trial are to be presumed innocent until proved guilty, thousands of undertrials in our prisons have faced a worse fate than . . .
- Nuke Deal In Us Interests: Senator (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Maintaining that the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal was in the best interests of America, leading US Senator John Cornyn has urged fellow lawmakers to support legislation on the agreement and boost the strategic relationship between the two nations.
- Indonesia Rocked By Earthquake (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
An earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi early on Sunday, but there were no reports of damage or casualties, meteorologists said.
- Tata Group Bags Usibc’S Award (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
In yet another feather to its cap, the Tata Group has been awarded ‘India’s Most Respected Multinational Business Conglomerate” by United States-India Business Council (USIBC).
- Special Grant To Prevent Farm Suicides On Way: Pawar (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
The Centre will soon announce a special package, worth a few thousand crores, to initiate urgent measures to prevent suicides by farmers, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar announced here on Saturday.
- U.S. Warns Of Terror Cells (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
Seven men indicted in a conspiracy to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and five government buildings in Miami are ``homegrown terrorists,'' who have no links with the Al-Qaeda but had sought to wage a full ground war against the United States.
- Praful Bidwai: Bull-Headed About India (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Jun 25, 2006)
Current Western euphoria over India's growth betrays total ignorance of realities like the 100,000 farmers' suicides.
- Why Has Pm Confirmed Tharoor As Un Candidate? (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Jun 25, 2006)
Governments in New Delhi, whatever their ideological colouring, tend to jump the gun or procrastinate.
- Us-Led Forces Kill 70 More Taliban Rebels (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2006)
US-led forces killed around 70 Taliban rebels during clashes in southern Afghanistan, the US military said on Saturay, raising the number of insurgents killed to 100 over the past three days.
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