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Articles 13721 through 13820 of 31829:
- Fuel Rations In Nepal, Anti-King Strike Hits Prices (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Hundreds of cars and motorcycles queued up at gas stations in the Nepali capital on Monday as fuel supplies dwindled on the 12th day of a general strike called by anti-monarchy activists.
- Left, Congress In State Poll Standoff (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Apr 17, 2006)
Millions of people will vote in West Bengal on Monday as part of elections in five states whose results could further strain ties between the left and the national ruling coalition it backs.
- Time To Restore (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2006)
Autocratic rulers make two mistakes — they overestimate their own powers and they underestimate the people’s power to change things.
- What Next, If Indo-Us Nuclear Deal Fails? (Daily Excelsior, T.P. Raghavan, Apr 17, 2006)
If we scrutinise the ongoing debate in the US Congress, the Indo-US civil nuclear deal is in danger of falling apart.
- Pm To Embark On Foreign Tour From Apr 22 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Having successfully clinched the nuclear deal with US President George W Bush in March, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves here for Germany and Uzbekistan on Saturday to garner support for the historic accord in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
- Social Networking Through The Web (Deccan Herald, James Harkin, Apr 17, 2006)
Social networks are the perfect accompaniment to globalisation
- Nuke For Nuke (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Apr 17, 2006)
As long as the arms race between India and Pakistan continues, the dialogue will not make much progress
- Kashmir Militants Coming Home, Says India General (Reuters, Sheikh Mushtaq, Apr 17, 2006)
India's most senior army general in Kashmir said on Sunday that militants based in Pakistani Kashmir have been giving up arms and returning to their homes in the Indian part of the Himalayan region following last year's devastating earthquake.
- King Gynandra's Elections Ploy (Daily Excelsior, Rajkumar Vijayveer Vikram Singh, Apr 17, 2006)
Gyanendra, Nepal's monarch, who imposed absolute rule on his country 14 months ago, in a surprise move, has announced that elections to parliament will be held soon.
- Top Hamas Mp Briefly Arrested In Jerusalem (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
The newly elected parliamentary deputy Mohammed Abu Teir was among seven Hamas members briefly arrested by Israeli police in annexed east Jerusalem on Monday, security sources said.
- Red Mark For India On Green Issue (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Apr 17, 2006)
The latest international summary for policy makers on environment, the Pilot 2006 Environment Performance Index, has ranked India almost at the bottom among 133 countries in the world as far as its environmental policy making and performance . . .
- Siege Spreads To Nepal Lifelines (Telegraph, J. HEMANTH, Apr 17, 2006)
King Gyanendra held talks with diplomats from India and the US amid a call for full-blown civil disobedience and speculation about the likely imposition of emergency in Nepal.
- Pact With Us To Close Weapon Door (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Apr 17, 2006)
India is about to sign a bilateral agreement with the US, which will require New Delhi to give up the option of testing a nuclear weapon forever.
- Three Protesters (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2006)
It has become easy to dismiss or trivialize public protest in India. ‘Activism’ is perceived as falling into one of three . . .
- Taliban Rebels Clash With Coalition Forces (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Taliban fighters attacked two police checkpoints simultaneously on a southern Afghan highway, killing or wounding up to 14 militants, an official said today. Coalition and Afghan troops shot dead three insurgents in central Afghanistan.
- Experts Worried About Iran's Enrichment Powers (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
A one-sentence assertion made by the Iranian president has provoked such surprise and concern among international nuclear inspectors they are planning to confront Tehran about it this week, The New York Times reported on Monday.
- Reading China (Tribune, Lanxing Xiang, Apr 17, 2006)
The world’s preoccupation with China’s sudden rise as an economic superpower is a matter of some bemusement among Chinese political leaders and intellectuals.
- Orientalia (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Apr 17, 2006)
Tagore inscribed the Orient into the trajectory of humanism
Telling Tales Amit Chaudhuri Part 2 of a six-part essay. The third part of this essay will appear next sunday
- No Decision To Stop Work On Dam: Pmo (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Apr 17, 2006)
Coming together against any move by the Centre to suspend the Narmada Control Authority decision to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam, BJP and Congress MPs from Gujarat today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying the project was . . .
- Modi Begins Fast; Medha Patkar’S Effigy Burnt (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
After taking blessings of several religious leaders, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today began his 51-hour hunger strike in protest the Centre’s stand on the Sardar Sarovar Dam height issue.
- Beheaded ‘Us Spy’ Found On Pak Border (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
Residents of a troubled Pakistani border region found the beheaded body of a man with note saying he was an American spy and a warning others would face the same treatment, an official said on Sunday.
- Pentagon Attacks Rumsfeld Critics (Times of India, Mark Mazzetti, Apr 17, 2006)
The US Defence Department has issued a memorandum to a group of former military commanders and civilian analysts that offers a direct challenge to the criticisms made by retired generals about Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld.
- Chamba Is 1,000 (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Apr 17, 2006)
Few towns in the region, let alone Himachal Pradesh, can claim to be as old as Chamba, which is now in the midst of millennium celebrations.
- Sonia To File Nomination On Monday (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 17, 2006)
When Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrives in Rae Bareli to file her nomination papers for the parliamentary by-election to the constituency, she will be accompanied by her family members, party sources said on Sunday.
- Road Jesus Trudged (Indian Express, John Dayal, Apr 17, 2006)
I am a convert. Not in the sense that the newly enacted Freedom of Religion Bill in Rajasthan would perhaps like, for I was born to Christian parents, and they in turn to parents in the Faith. But as someone who spent a quarter of a century or so . . .
- Dam: Doable And Must Be Done (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Apr 17, 2006)
To scale the heights of Sardar Sarovar, keep your feet planted on facts
- Best Numbers Game (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Apr 17, 2006)
It’s all very simple: If you want more medals at the Olympics, cut down on the syllabus at school.
- Pentagon Attacks Rumsfeld Critics (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
The US Defence Department has issued a memorandum to a group of former military commanders and civilian analysts that offers a direct challenge to the criticisms made by retired generals about Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld.
- In Search Of Nirvana (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
Despite the local govt’s code of conduct for foreigners, Pushkar retains its spiritual appeal, says Shishir Prashant
- Reality Check (Hindu, TARAN N. KHAN, Apr 16, 2006)
Siddiq Barmak on how his films are drawn from what's happening in Afghanistan
- Push And Pull Of The Mba Bull Run (Deccan Herald, RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY, Apr 16, 2006)
The book offers a peep into the frenetic environment of Wharton business school and the lives of its highly ambitious students.
- The Pentagon Preps For Iran (Washington Post, William M. Arkin, Apr 16, 2006)
Does the United States have a war plan for stopping Iran in its pursuit of nuclear weapons?
- Drumbeat Of War Is Drowning Out Wiser Counsels (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 16, 2006)
The neo-con regimes in Washington and Tehran are on collision course after last week's announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that his country has 'joined the nuclear club'.
- Infy Logs Into $2 Billion League (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
It took software major Infosys 23 years to reach the $1 billion milestone in revenues and just 23 months for it to reach the $2 billion mark.
- India, The New Stop For Americans (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
For decades, a significant section of Indian students' dream was to study in the United States and work there.
- Weapon Against Assault (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Apr 15, 2006)
There is a single important reason why the country sat up and took notice of the conviction and sentencing of B.H. Mohanty, accused of rape, by a Jaipur fast-track court this week.
- Peace Returns To Jama Masjid (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The Jama Masjid returned to its routine on Saturday after a day of panic sparked by twin bomb blasts that injured a dozen people but caused no damage to the mammoth 17th century structure.
- 5 Civilians Killed, 44 Injured In 7 Blasts (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Apr 15, 2006)
Amid the festival celebrations of Eid-e-Milaad-un-Nabi, Baisakhi and Good Friday, which also coincided with the arrival of an intellectual delegation from Pakistan and ‘Pakistan occupied Kashmir’, militants today struck a wave of terror with . . .
- Any Doubt? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 15, 2006)
Sheikh Rashid Ahmad is not the best advertisement for Pakistan. Not very long ago Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik had spilled the beans about the support he had extended to the Kashmiri militants in the neighbouring country.
- Nuclear Deal (Tribune, Major-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Apr 15, 2006)
According to the US establishment, the geostrategic benefits of the nuclear deal with India (which is likely to sail through Congress) outweigh any risks of proliferation.
- Rival Armed Factions Seizing Pieces Of Gaza (Christian Science Monitor, Joshua Mitnick, Apr 15, 2006)
Fatah and Hamas militias train in old Israeli settlements as anxiety grows over instability.
- Spies Failed To Warn Of Indian N-Tests (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
US intelligence failed to warn of India’s nuclear tests conducted in 1974 and 1998 despite tracking the Asian giant’s atomic weapons potential for nearly half a century, according to documents declassified on Thursday.
- Whitewash By Us Senator (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 15, 2006)
American Senator Chuck Hagel has said that the United States may sign a civil nuclear agreement with Pakistan in future. Addressing a news conference, he termed it a complicated issue and added that a responsible approach should be adopted to work out a s
- Wahhabism Rejects Al Qaeda Violence, Says Saudi Envoy (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Apr 15, 2006)
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, has said that Wahhabism rejects the type of violence advocated by Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda terrorist network.
- Digging In For The Long War (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 15, 2006)
Reports speak of American military policy-makers preparing for what they call a “long war”.
- Balochistan Policy (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 15, 2006)
High level government officials have expressed the view that Baloch Sardars have lost their support and the government would now hold talks only with genuine political forces.
- Hazy Picture (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 15, 2006)
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei's characterizing the Iranian nuclear deadlock as "the picture is still hazy" is apt, since both negotiations and threats (of sanctions as well as military force) have failed to budge Tehran from its original line,
- China Wants India In Unsc But Not Till It Is With Japan (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Extending conditional support to India's bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council, China today virtually asked it not to make a claim jointly with Japan as part of G-4 if it wanted Beijing's backing.
- New Gold, Copper Deposits (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 15, 2006)
The report about the discovery of huge gold and copper deposits in the Rekodiq area in Balochistan is a matter of joy mixed with political concern because of the current situation in the province.
- Blasts At Jama Masjid Wound 10 People (Reuters, Himangshu watts, Apr 15, 2006)
Two small bombs exploded in the Jama Masjid, the largest mosque in India, just after Friday prayers, wounding at least 10 people, police said.
- Srinagar Blasts Kill Five, Wound 40 People (Reuters, Sheikh Mushtaq, Apr 15, 2006)
A series of grenade attacks by suspected Muslim militants killed five people, including two women, in Indian Kashmir's main city on Friday and wounded 40, police said.
- U.S.-China Ties Under Strain Ahead Of Hu-Bush Summit (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Apr 15, 2006)
U.S. ties with China are becoming strained over security and economic issues after a relative calm, presenting a difficult challenge as President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao meet next week.
- Private Water, Public Misery (Frontline, AMAN SETHI, Apr 15, 2006)
Privatisation of water is taking root in India, often aided by political and bureaucratic corruption. Alongside, resistance to this is also building up.
- 5 Grenade Blasts Kill Five Civilians In J&k (Pioneer, Khursheed Wani, Apr 15, 2006)
A series of grenade blasts rocked Srinagar City on Friday killing five civilians including two women and injuring 30 others .
- Friday Blasts Rock Jama Masjid, Srinagar (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
In a chilling reminder of the October 29 serial blasts last year, two low-grade bombs exploded in Jama Masjid complex on Friday evening injuring 13 people.
- A Spiritual Model (Statesman, Samares Kumar Das, Apr 15, 2006)
We are living in an era when there is revolution taking place in every sphere of life ~ green revolution (foodgrain production), white revolution (milk production), red revolution (meat production), yellow revolution (poultry production),
- Infosys Q4 Profit Up 21 Pct, Outlook Strong (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar, Apr 15, 2006)
Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's second-largest software exporter, reported a 21 percent jump in quarterly profit on Friday and forecast better earnings ahead on an outsourcing boom.
- Mac’S Window Of Opportunity (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Apr 15, 2006)
IT is a window into a forbidden castle. Apple Computer has released Boot Camp, a software programme that will allow Apple Macintosh computers to run the Windows XP operating system and associated programs. For decades, Macintosh computers were . . .
- Who Has The Right To The Child? (Tribune, Anil Malhotra, Apr 15, 2006)
The world is a far smaller place now than it was a decade ago. International and intercontinental travel is easier and more affordable than it has ever been. As a natural corollary,
- A Winner At The End (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Apr 15, 2006)
Why Amartya Sen should become the next president of India
- Showing The Way (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
Are we caught in a choice between public or private sector corruption and mismanagement? Is there a third option? People's protest movements against privatisation have evolved alternative ways to use and distribute water more efficiently.
- Cynical Politics Of Quota (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Apr 15, 2006)
Union Human Resource Development Minister and inveterate intriguer Arjun Singh has added a new ingredient to his toxic cocktail of 'secular' education by pushing for a 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes in institutions of higher learning,
- Privilege Is The Issue, Not Merit (Pioneer, D Shyam Babu, Apr 15, 2006)
The threat to merit has once gain started haunting the intelligentsia much more severely than the danger the H5N1 bird-flu virus could ever pose. Last year it was a different strain, coming in the form of reservation in the private sector.
- Us Mulls Un Sanction Options Against Iran (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The United States is mulling various UN sanctions against Iran for its controversial nuclear programme, including assets freezes and travel restrictions on its leaders, US officials has said.
- Jayalalithaa Lists Aiadmk's Achievements (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
All-India Muvendhar Munnetra Kazhagam leader joins AIADMK
- "State Preparing Itself For Programmatic Alliances" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is contesting 13 seats in alliance with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu. Its State unit secretary N. Varadarajan discusses a wide range of issues, from the need for a common minimum . . .
- U.S. Allies Are Behind The Death Squads (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Apr 15, 2006)
Iraq's U.S. overlords at last seem to have grasped the danger posed by their friends' militias. But it may be too late.
- Unlocking Afghanistan (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 15, 2006)
Karzai wants to move a political Hindukush
- China Not Keen On India’S Unsc Seat (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
China has not really been enthusiastic about the idea of India entering the UN Security Council as one of its new permanent members.
- Globalisation’S Second Death? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Apr 15, 2006)
Does the bee in the bonnet morph into to a full-scale political swarm?
- Not Being In Sync With The Times (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Apr 15, 2006)
The protests against Mandal II as Arjun Singh’s scheme has come to be known come as yet another example of how we the people of India have left the political class behind
- A Town Where The World Comes To Shop (Hindu, Pallavi Iyer, Apr 15, 2006)
Spread over 2.6 million square metres, the market in Yiwu in southern China's Zhejiang province has 50,000 stalls, selling 400,000 categories of products.
- A Feat At Tarapur (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, Apr 15, 2006)
The twin reactors of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station undergo modernisation, safety upgradation and life extension.
- R.K. Raghavan: An American Model (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Apr 15, 2006)
The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, which serves the law enforcement community effectively, has a lot to offer to the Indian Police.
- Jayati Ghosh: Guarding The Guardians (Frontline, Jayati Ghosh, Apr 15, 2006)
The State's response to the Narmada Bachao Andolan's agitation betrays its obsession with market-obsessed economic priorities.
- American Dream, Cost $35,000, Busted (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Apr 15, 2006)
Trust Indians and Pakistanis to demonstrate friendship across borders. Not just acrossthe line drawn by Cyril Radcliffe but even as far as the International Boundary, the famed soft border between the United States and Canada.
- Leader Article: Coming Of Age (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 15, 2006)
By now the almost scripted Bangladeshi fairy tale is a much-discussed subject in the cricket world. Even the local Bangladeshi Fish Corner, where I shop for my fish in Chicago, was all cricket this morning.
- Us Senator Hints At Civil N-Deal With Pak (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 15, 2006)
The United States may sign a civil nuclear agreement with Pakistan in future, visiting US Senator Chuck Hagel said on Thursday.
- Us Acts Tough As Iran Shuns Un Request (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Apr 15, 2006)
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday shunned a U.N. request to end uranium enrichment saying his country would not step back “one iota,” while in Washington Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Teheran “there will have to be some . . .
- The British Sleepwalk Into A Police State (Hindu, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Apr 15, 2006)
What is being implemented is a calculated, meticulous, and ruthless project to criminalise legitimate political dissent.
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