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Articles 17421 through 17520 of 31829:
- Tata-Bangla Talks Falter Over Gas Price (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
The latest rounds of talks between the Bangladesh government and the Tata group for the latter's Rs 9,000 crore investment in the country did not make any headway with both the parties failing to reach an agreement on the pricing of gas.
- Fbrs Not To Be Put In Civilian N-List, Us Told (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Feb 10, 2006)
India has never proposed or indicated to the US that it would put its Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs) programme under the civilian list of nuclear facilities since the two countries are engaged in negotiations on implementation of the July 18 Indo-US . . .
- Bush Visit To India — For A New Strategic Partnership (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Feb 10, 2006)
Working towards stability in West Asia and the possibilities for greater cooperation in hi-tech transfers and Defence equipment are important issues for India and the US to discuss during the forthcoming visit to India of the US President, Mr George Bush.
- Thackeray Eggs Sainiks On (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
Shiv Sena chief Mr Bal Thackeray today complimented his “vigilant” sainiks for their last evening’s attack on Zee network’s office at Worli in central Mumbai.
- Preparing To Buy Combat Aircraft (Tribune, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Feb 10, 2006)
One is not on technical specifications or the superiority thereof in the choice of 126 combat aircraft (i.e. multirole fighter) of the Indian Air Force. One only needs to explore the depth as to who has what plan up his sleeves for choosing from . . .
- Jaswant In Advani’S Footsteps (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Feb 10, 2006)
Only a few newspapers in this country have taken note of BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s overland pilgrimage to various shrines in Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan, and that too to record the host country’s surprise at his decision to . . .
- Pm To Be Focus Of Budget Session (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, rather than Finance Minister P Chidambaram, is likely to be the focus of the budget session of Parliament, beginning next week, as the opposition and the left, besides the Samajwadi Party, . . .
- Telling Message (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 10, 2006)
That the Army's recruitment drive in the Valley has drawn an overwhelming response sends a significant message. It puts the harsh economic truth in right perspective.
- Atomic Reactors Plan: Top Scientists Back Aec Chief (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
Top nuclear scientists and experts have come out in full support of Atomic Energy Commission(AEC) chief Anil Kakodkar’s stand that putting the fast breeder reactor programme under IAEA safeguards will jeopardise the country’s strategic interests.
- He Refused To Be “Purchased” (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Feb 10, 2006)
The refusal to accept a dowry-hungry boy as her husband by Navneet, the courageous girl of Assandh (Karnal district) in the news today, reminds me of an interesting story. But it is of another kind.
- A Brain Drain Threatens Afghanistan's Future (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
On the eve of the Soviet invasion almost 26 years ago, I left Afghanistan as a young man in search of a better life.
- Dogmatic Certitude (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Feb 10, 2006)
What began as an act of not-so-innocent bravado in Denmark last September has ceased to be a laughing matter.
- Counter-Terrorism Forces In Kashmir Not Reduced (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Feb 10, 2006)
Rashtriya Rifles replaces troops sent to northeast
Brigade completed relocation a month ago
Rashtriya Rifles holds out no offensive threat
Announcement a foreign policy imperative
- Suicide Attack, Shooting, Kill 35 In Pakistan (Reuters, Ali Imam, Feb 10, 2006)
At least 35 people were killed and dozens wounded in Pakistan on Thursday in a suicide bombing on a Shi'ite Muslim procession and subsequent violence on the holiest day of the year for the religious minority.
- India's Morality Police Send Bored City To Sleep (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Feb 10, 2006)
Nightlife in India's entertainment capital has become deadly dull, youngsters in Mumbai complain, as the authorities continue a crackdown on discos and bars that they accuse of corrupting impressionable young minds.
- India's Aids Vaccine Trials Enter Crucial Stage (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
India has put a group of volunteers on a year-long watch after giving them a trial vaccine against the HIV virus, marking a key phase in the search for a drug to prevent AIDS, a scientist said on Thursday.
- India-U.S. Nuclear Deal Runs Into Troubled Waters (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Feb 10, 2006)
A landmark nuclear cooperation deal between India and the United States has run into serious trouble, with Washington playing hard ball and India's atomic energy establishment raising objections to the terms of the deal.
- Bangladesh Pm To Discuss Terrorism In Pakistan (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2006)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia will discuss cooperation on tackling terrorism with her counterpart during a two-day visit to Pakistan next week, a senior foreign ministry official said on Thursday.
- The Ayatollah Joke Book (Washington Post, MICHAEL KINSLEY, Feb 10, 2006)
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the noted wit, expert on freedom and unelected religious leader -- the leader who counts -- of Iran, observed the other day that in the West, "casting doubt or negating the genocide of the Jews is banned but insulting the . . .
- Indians Create Web Tool To `Search Less, Find More' (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Feb 09, 2006)
It is powering leading comparison shopping and medical information services in the U.S.
- Coretta Scott King's Gandhian Ideals (Hindu, Shelia M. Poole, Feb 09, 2006)
Coretta Scott King sometimes referred to Mahatma Gandhi as "Gandhiji." By placing "ji" after Gandhi's name, she followed the traditional Indian practice of showing reverence.
- Israel, Hamas Not For Compromise (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Feb 09, 2006)
Israel and the Palestinian Islamic group, Hamas, have aired their deep differences on ways to settle their conflict revolving around the status of the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as the right of war-displaced Palestinian refugees to return . . .
- Danish Editor To Publish Holocaust Cartoons Also (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
The Danish Editor behind the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammed that ignited deadly riots in the Muslim world said on Wednesday he's trying to coordinate with an Iranian paper soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust
- Save The Whales (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 09, 2006)
The "prince of whales," the northern bottlenose that wandered off from its deepwater habitat and perished in the Thames, has become a poignant symbol of all endangered whales and dolphins.
- India Infoline Opens Second Branch (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
Company official upbeat on bull-run
India Infoline Ltd, a share broking firm, on Wednesday opened its new branch at Gajuwaka, the second in the city and 18th in the State.
- Hamas Offers Truce, Sets Rider (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Feb 09, 2006)
Mishaal’s words indicated a readiness by Hamas to accept the two-state solution agreed by the secular Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), Israel and the international community.
- The Complicated World Of Nuclear Deals (Hindu, R. Ramachandran, Feb 09, 2006)
Safeguards are only one of the fallouts from the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal. Several issues need to be considered before tying down the DAE's hands.
- Us Offers India Bigger Global Role In N-Research (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Feb 09, 2006)
The US today put India in an elite and small club of nations by offering membership of President George W Bush’s ambitious scheme called Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP).
- 'Meddling’ Fuel Feeds Nuclear Fire (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Feb 09, 2006)
In pursuing the Indo-US nuclear deal, the government has departed from its decades-old practice of encouraging indigenous nuclear capabilities and keeping bureaucrats from meddling in nuclear affairs, a former atomic energy official said today.
- Us N-Deal Will Affect India’S Development Of Warheads’ (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Feb 09, 2006)
Former Indian national security advisor (NSA) Brajesh Mishra has said that the US-India civilian nuclear deal will affect India’s development of nuclear warheads, and has asked the government to re-negotiate the deal to protect its strategic interests.
- Us Hopes For Progress On N-Deal With India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
The United States on Wednesday said that it has been working very closely with India to ensure the implementation of the civilian nuclear deal at the earliest, while approving India’s decision to vote in favour of an IAEA resolution to report . . .
- Triumph Of Truth (Dawn, Jauhar Ali, Feb 09, 2006)
R and resurgence of Islam is bound up with the struggle and sacrifice of the highest order.
- From Korea, With Love (Deccan Herald, R Akhileshwari , Feb 09, 2006)
The Cold War politics that kept Korea out of India’s radar is in the past now. The two countries have discovered each other and this information has percolated to a few of us, Indians and Koreans, alike.
- 3 Killed In Cartoon Protests (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
French Muslim organisations tried to prevent the weekly Charlie-Hebdo from reprinting the 12 cartoons, which were first published by the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten, but a court rejected their suit on Tuesday on a technicality.
- Malabar Mahotsavam Begins Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
Shovana Narayan to perform Kathak at the inaugural function
Shovana Narayan, a name synonymous with Kathak, will perform at the inaugural function of the Malabar Mahotsavam at the main venue of the Kozhikode beach on Thursday evening.
- Cottoning On To Suicides (Deccan Herald, Prem Shankar Jha, Feb 09, 2006)
What farmers need is not so much a partial job guarantee as cheap credit and insurance
- Scholarly Issues (Deccan Herald, Bhagyalakshmi Venkatesh, Feb 09, 2006)
If someone appears serious, don't be alarmed too much! They must be scholars.
- Long And Winding Road To G8 Membership For China, India (Daily Times, Peter Harmsen, Feb 09, 2006)
Russia is now heading the G8 for the first time, inevitably triggering questions about why the two Asian giants have not joined long ago
- Tolerating Tolerance (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 09, 2006)
We need to be upfront at the outset: the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were needlessly provocative and should not have been published.
- When The Lights Stayed On (Hindu, Meena Menon, Feb 09, 2006)
One Evening, two years ago, Bhimrao Baburao Pawar, a lineman with the then Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), faced the wrath of school children who stopped his vehicle and deflated its tyres.
- Us Asks India To Join New N-Order (Hindustan Times, PRAMIT PAL CHAUDHURI, Feb 09, 2006)
Nuclear energy’s GenNext has been put on offer before India. US officials made an extended briefing on the new Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) in New Delhi at the second meeting of the Indo-US Energy Dialogue steering committee on Wednesday.
- What Bush Said To Morales (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
Losing control in its own backyard, the US launches a counter-offensive
- India Visit Only Solace For Bush (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Feb 09, 2006)
A bribery case and wire-tapping scandals can snowball into a major crisis for Bush
- India-U.S. Nuclear Deal Runs Into Troubled Waters (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Feb 09, 2006)
A landmark nuclear cooperation deal between India and the United States has run into serious trouble, with Washington playing hard ball and India's atomic energy establishment raising objections to the terms of the deal.
- India, China Will Lead Green Tech Demand - Uk Report (Reuters, Jeremy Lovell , Feb 09, 2006)
Capturing carbon from burning fossil fuels can be a quick fix to the problem of global warming and Britain can take a world lead in the technology, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday.
- Indian Satellite Can Identify Quake Prone Regions Globally (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
Indian remote sensing satellite (IRS) has shown the potential for mapping the stress field of the earth's crust that will help to predict areas where powerful earthquakes are most likely, a leading geologist has said.
- Repealing Hudood Laws (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 09, 2006)
Finally, we have a bill in the National Assembly seeking to repeal the Hudood ordinances.
- Playing Ducks And Drakes With The Water Issue (Dawn, Ameer Bhutto, Feb 09, 2006)
The opponents of Kalabagh dam have been accused of turning a “technical” matter into an emotional political debate.
- India May Get Us To Soften Stand On Nuke Reactors (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
It now looks like the nuke deal might, indeed, be on the table when President George Bush comes calling on March 2.
- New Delhi Committed To Pipeline: Minister (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 09, 2006)
The new Indian oil minister reiterated New Delhi’s commitment to a multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline from Iran and said talks with Pakistan on the project would resume next week.
- India-Us Nuke Deal Runs Into Troubled Waters (News International, Simon Denyer, Feb 09, 2006)
A landmark nuclear cooperation deal between India and the United States has run into serious trouble, with Washington playing hard ball and India’s atomic energy establishment raising objections to the terms of the deal.
- The New Year Spread (Telegraph, NEHA SAHAY, Feb 09, 2006)
The Chinese New Year holidays have just ended. This is the time every year that expat homes in China begin filling up with Chinese delicacies.
- Indian Nuke Scientists Go Ballistic (Times of India, Srinivas Laxman, Feb 09, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear deal is getting more explosive with each passing day.
- N-Deal With Us Could Compromise India’S Interests (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
India’s concessions to the United States under a landmark nuclear agreement between the two countries could compromise New Delhi’s strategic interests, the country’s top nuclear scientist was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
- India Almost Invaded Pakistan In 2002 (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Feb 09, 2006)
India was all but ready to invade Pakistan in 2002 but was only held back because some of its leaders felt that the war might spin out of control and because the United States, afraid that it would become nuclear, exerted its influence on both . . .
- Uk Failed To Act On Damning Evidence Against Hamza': Report (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
Indian remote sensing satellite (IRS) has shown the potential for mapping the stress field of the earth's crust that will help to predict areas where powerful earthquakes are most likely, a leading geologist has said.
- Gm Food Must Be Allowed Into Europe, Wto Rules (Tribune, Stephen Castle , Feb 09, 2006)
Europe faces new pressure to open its markets to genetically-modified food from the US after the World Trade Organisation ruled that the EU broke international rules with its moratorium on new licences.
- Us N-Deal Could Compromise India’S Interests: Top Scientist (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2006)
India’s concessions to the United States under a landmark nuclear agreement between the two countries could compromise New Delhi’s strategic interests, the country’s Atomic Energy Commission chief was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
- Right Way To Rightsizing (Tribune, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 09, 2006)
The following are excerpts from the “World Public Sector Report 2005” published by the UN:
- Keep The Trust (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 09, 2006)
It may be premature to expect the guns to fall silent in Assam. But the second round of talks between New Delhi and the interlocutors of the United Liberation Front of Asom can justifiably be seen as a step forward.
- Red Carpet For Bush (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Feb 09, 2006)
India has a tradition of welcoming foreign guests. Yet our communist parties believe that after irresponsibly disrupting air services throughout the country, they should hold demonstrations to disrupt the welcome to be accorded to President George W. Bush
- Grand Spectacle Unfolds At Shravanabelagola (Hindu, R. Krishna Kumar, Feb 09, 2006)
First Mahamastakabhisheka of the millennium to the monolithic statue leaves pilgrims spellbound
The anointing ceremony began at 10.35 a.m. with abhisheka and offerings
The first abhisheka was performed by Ashok Patni of Rajasthan
- Rich Man’S Game (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 09, 2006)
Mr Lakshmi Mittal is a rich man. And he likes not just to count his mohurs but to flaunt them too.
- Freedom With Prudence (Telegraph, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Feb 09, 2006)
The controversy that has erupted over various European newspapers publishing cartoons that have been deemed offensive by many Muslims contains some salutary lessons.
- Left Playing Cold War Politics (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Feb 09, 2006)
Comrades love conspiracy theories. Spokesmen of the Indian Left, over the last few months, have been vo-ciferous in their criticism of the UPA government's decision to vote against Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting.
- China - India: Uneasy Tango (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Feb 09, 2006)
Relations between In-dia and China are be-ing reshaped with the help of an ongoing dialogue process that is supposed to bring the two Asian countries, which together account for more than a third of world population, closer to each other.
- Points We Need To Consider (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 09, 2006)
The widespread anger and anguish expressed by the majority community in the State in protest against the publication of caricatures of Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers is perfectly justified. Normally the matter would have ended after .
- Sentence Remission: Supreme Court To Examine Governor's Power (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Feb 08, 2006)
The Supreme Court on Monday indicated that it would examine laying down the requirements to be adhered to by a Governor of a State for granting pardon or remission of sentence to convicts in jails.
- U.S., India To Fight Human Trafficking (Hindu, Special Correspondent, Hindu, Feb 08, 2006)
The United States and India on Tuesday agreed on starting a project to strengthen the system for tackling trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation more effectively.
- Not As Good As It Can Get (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 08, 2006)
The declaration by President George Bush that the United States must snap out of its dependence on oil holds the promise of many positive changes for America and the world.
- Musharraf's Brain-Waves (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Feb 08, 2006)
Pakistan’s military president has a very fertile mind and churns out ideas to resolve the Kashmir situation at an extremely....
- Govt, Assam Rebels Hold Peace Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2006)
The Indian government said on Tuesday it would examine human rights concerns and demands to free detainees in its bid to open direct talks with leaders of a powerful insurgent group from Assam.
- America's `Long War' On Terror (Hindu, Simon Tisdall, Feb 08, 2006)
The Bush administration's re-characterisation of its "global war on terror" as the "long war" will be seen by critics as an admission that the United States has started something it cannot finish.
- Take It Seriously (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 08, 2006)
Off and on one does come across remains of a bird or animal in out-of-the-way areas including forests.
- Indian Panel On Toxic Waste Divided Over French Ship (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Feb 08, 2006)
An Indian environmental panel is divided on whether to allow a decommissioned French warship to be scrapped in India, and has not made a firm recommendation to the the nation's Supreme Court, a member said on Tuesday.
- Iaea Vote On Iran Not Un Sc Referral: Putin (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2006)
The IAEA's decision on the Iran's nuclear issue is not a vote for referring the issue to the UN Security Council and Moscow intends to explain the "substance of the balanced decision" to its Iranian friends, Russian President Vladimir Putin today said.
- Battles Lost And Won (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Feb 08, 2006)
It is a worrisome possibility. Imagine Mulayam Singh Yadav as prime minister of India, heading a Third Front government last week, on the day the International Atomic Energy Agency was taking its vote on reporting Iran’s nuclear programme ...
- Moderate Islam Has Lost Its Voice (Hindu, Tabish Khair, Feb 08, 2006)
When I first saw them, I was struck by their crudeness. Surely the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, could have hired better artists. And surely cartoonists and editors ought to be able to spot...
- Catch The New Nuclear Moment (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Feb 08, 2006)
The United States is initiating — in cooperation with Russia, UK, France, China and Japan — a new era of nuclear energy.
- ‘The Fast Breeder Programme Just Cannot Be Put On The Civilian List’ (Indian Express, PALLAVA BAGLA, Feb 08, 2006)
Anil Kakodkar played a key role in the 1974 ‘peaceful nuclear explosion’ at Pokharan and was dubbed the ‘baby’ of that team. He subsequently rose among the ranks to be mission director for the 1998 nuclear explosions.
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