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Articles 17521 through 17620 of 31829:
- Wto Condemns Eu Over Gmo Moratorium (Reuters, Sophie Walker, Feb 08, 2006)
The World Trade Organization ruled on Tuesday that the European Union and six member states had broken trade rules by barring entry to genetically modified crops and foods.
- Run Up To Iran War? (Daily Times, Manzur Ejaz, Feb 08, 2006)
President Bush briefly touched upon domestic issues in his State of the Union demagoguery. His speechwriters could not find any bright spots of his performance last year.
- India-Afghan ‘Action’ In Balochistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 08, 2006)
Balochistan Governor Owais Ghani has accused Afghan warlords and drug barons of arming the tribal militants in Balochistan, and India of financing them.
- Us Working For Win-Win N-Deal (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Feb 08, 2006)
A senior Bush administration official has indicated that while progress is being made to iron out details of the civilian nuclear agreement between the United States and India lingering issues will "take time to resolve."
- British Cop-Out (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 08, 2006)
Which of the two – the media and the police – in Britain is more racist? The answer is a cop-out. The British media says the police force is racist, while the latter asserts that the accusation fits the media better. Perhaps, there is truth ...
- Many Ways, No Will (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 07, 2006)
Listening to President Bush’s State of the Union address, you’d think the United States has reached bottom in its addiction to foreign oil and is so desperate to break free that it will take the ultimate step — investing in research — to find a way out.
- Iraqi Forces Arrest Top Al-Qaeda Leader (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
Iraqi forces have arrested a top leader of the Al Qaeda terror network, General Mahdi Sabeh Hashim of the interior ministry said in press remarks published on Monday.
- Munabao Rail Link Meaningless (News International, Ammara Durrani, Feb 07, 2006)
It’s a classic case of putting the cart before the horse. Would-be passengers of the Thar Express would have to temper their enthusiasm for the opening of the Khokhrapar-Munabao border next week, because the historic moment is likely to come without . . .
- Bush’S Choice On Iran (Dawn, Jackson Diehl, Feb 07, 2006)
The debate on Iran is drifting toward the ugly question that the Bush administration would most like to avoid.
- Wave Of Protests Over Cartoons (Dawn, Robert Fisk, Feb 07, 2006)
After Syria, the fires have spread to Lebanon with sectarian intensity. As 2,000 Lebanese troops battled Islamist demonstrators in the heart of Christian Beirut on Sunday, the Danish consulate was set on fire and a large church attacked . . .
- Water: The Coming Crisis (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Feb 07, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf was unable to sell the Kalabagh dam project to Pakistan’s smaller provinces.
- Hamas And The Palestinian Gridlock (Dawn, Shameem Akhtar, Feb 07, 2006)
The Palestinian people have rejected the Fatah party that ruled the embattled occupied West Bank and Gaza in favour of the fundamentalist Hamas in January 26 elections which were monitored by foreign observers.
- False Rhetoric Of Histories (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Feb 07, 2006)
Those who shirk from condemning Zionists cannot condemn the political ideology of Hamas
- Afghans, India Accused Of Fuelling Pakistan Unrest (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
The governor of Pakistan's western Baluchistan province on Monday accused Afghan warlords and drug barons of arming tribal militants and India of financing them, a day after 21 people were killed in the latest round of violence.
- The Export Growth Story (Business Standard, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Feb 07, 2006)
Recent increases in exports have been hailed as indicating the emergence of India as an internationally competitive economy. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine recent patterns of external trade, . . .
- Kashmir Battling Low Literacy And High Corruption As Conflict Continues (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Feb 07, 2006)
The Indian-administered part of Jammu and Kashmir is one of the least literate in India, its rate of 54 percent being well below the national level of 65 percent. Ironically, it is the only Indian state where education at all levels is free.
- Russia Ready For N-Venture If Iran Resumes U-Freeze (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
French FM says int’l community not seeking confrontation with Iran
A top Russian diplomat said on Monday it would be possible to create a joint venture to enrich uranium for Iran in Russia only if Tehran resumed its moratorium on enrichment activities,
- Adjusting To The New Textile Order (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2006)
It is just over a year since the quotas under the Multi-fibre Agreement of 1974 were done away with. Countries with a strong tradition in textiles such as India and China, constrained by the discriminatory trade agreement, were unable to export . . .
- Pm Keeping Foreign Ministry Port Folio (Daily Excelsior, Sita, Feb 07, 2006)
It should come as no surprise that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has chosen to be his own external affairs minister. Not having inducted a successor to Kunwar Natwar Singh in the last Sunday's cabinet changes, he also said that he is ''not overburdened''.
- India’S Vote At Iaea (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Feb 07, 2006)
THE International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decided by 27 votes in favour to three against with five abstentions to refer the case of Iranian noncompliance with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards to the Security Council.
- Indian Experts See Trap In N-Deal With Us (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Feb 07, 2006)
Indian scientists engaged in the country’s nuclear weapons programme have expressed fears over a civilian nuclear deal with the United States because they see a possible trap in it to curb New Delhi’s sovereign quest for future research, . . .
- Why Berlusconi Must Lose (Hindu, Tristram Hunt, Feb 07, 2006)
In Typically vulgar style, Silvio Berlusconi committed himself last week to sexual abstinence until the Italian general election on April 9.
- War On Terror And Rights Violation (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 07, 2006)
A Negative linkage between human rights and the war on terror is something against which rights groups in the West, especially the US, have been agitating for quite some time.
- Question Mark Over Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 07, 2006)
Unless Washington blinks on the fast-breeder reactor and voluntary safeguards, the agreement will not fly in India
- Israel Too Threatens Iran (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 07, 2006)
Israel’s Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said tht Iran will be made to pay a high price if it doesn’t halt its uranium enrichment plans for development of nuclear weapons.
- At Close Quarters (Hindu, V. R. Lakshminarayanan, Feb 07, 2006)
A close-up view of India's first Prime Minister provided by his security officer
- Yemeni Al-Qaeda Detenus Escaped Through Tunnel (Hindu, Brian Whitaker, Feb 07, 2006)
Fugitives include convicts in USS Cole, Limburg attacks
Thirteen Al-Qaeda militants convicted of attacking the American warship USS Cole and French supertanker Limburg have escaped from jail in Yemen along with 10 other prisoners, . . .
- "Make Public The Nuclear Deal With U.S." (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 07, 2006)
The Government of India should put aside its present policy of reticence and share with the people of India all that they are legitimately entitled to know.
- Extraordinary Mission, Extraordinary Auction (Hindu, Mandira Nayar, Feb 07, 2006)
The stars of this "Mission Kashmir" will be some of the biggest names in the art world.
- Iran Tells Iaea To Remove Nuclear Monitoring Gear (Reuters, Paul Hughes, Feb 07, 2006)
Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove some surveillance equipment from its nuclear facilities by mid-February, a defiant response to an IAEA vote reporting Tehran to the U.N. Security Council.
- Manuscripts Vital For Identity Of Tamil: Vc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
Dr.U.Ve.Swaminatha Iyer's role in preserving manuscripts praised
- Us Keeping Watch On Al-Qaeda Escapees In Yemen (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
The US is keeping a close watch on the jail escape in Yemen of 23 al Qaeda operatives, including one of the masterminds of the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 that left 17 American sailors dead.
- ''No Group Can Veto Foreign Policy'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
The Congress on Monday said it respected the allies and supporting parties' views but "no single group can or should have a veto of any kind" especially on the foreign policy.
- Sri Lanka, Rebels To Talk Peace In Geneva Feb 22-23 (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Feb 07, 2006)
Sri Lanka's government and the Tamil Tiger rebels will hold peace talks in Geneva on Feb. 22-23 seen as a last chance to avoid a slide back to a two-decade civil war.
- New Clear Policy (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 07, 2006)
Time India’s atomic programme was audited. Civilian nuclear energy shouldn’t be a DAE monopoly
- Israeli Experts Say Can ‘Cripple’ Iran’S N-Infrastructure (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
With Iran saying it would resume its nuclear enrichment programme in defiance of global calls to halt it, Israeli defence experts have claimed that their Air Force has the ability ‘‘to cripple’’ Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure by striking at the ‘‘weak’’
- Israeli Envoy Upbeat On Solving Iran Nuclear Issue (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Feb 07, 2006)
The Israeli Ambassador to the United States expressed optimism on Monday that international diplomacy in the next few months could curb Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program.
- Danish Embassy In Tehran Pelted With Rocks (Hindustan Times, Nasser Karimi, Feb 07, 2006)
Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones and fire bombs at the Danish Embassy in the Iranian capital to protest publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
- It’S All About Politics, Mr Pm (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Feb 07, 2006)
Judge me by my actions. That was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s response in his press conference last week to the argument that he was the weakest prime minister India had ever seen.
- Abide By Dharma (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
When upholding dharma, two vital aspects stand out for consideration. Scriptures enjoin that the conviction in the cause of dharma is as important as the sincerity of purpose that governs one's acts while following the code.
- Betty Friedan And The Problem That Had No Name (Indian Express, PATRICIA SULLIVAN, Feb 07, 2006)
Betty Friedan, the writer and activist who almost single-handedly revived feminism with her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, died of congestive heart failure Saturday, her 85th birthday, in Washington.
- When Alan Meets Gordon (Dawn, Niall Ferguson, Feb 07, 2006)
They really are the odd couple of economic policy. On one side of the Atlantic is Alan Greenspan, who last week stepped down as chairman of the Federal Reserve after nearly two decades of mastering the financial universe.
- Kannada In Times Of Americanisation (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
The demands and issues raised by the 72nd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana need to be discussed at all cultural forums and the government must muster political courage to resolve seemingly intractable problems, writes Ramesh Mysore.
- India To Gain In Changed Weltanschauung Of Us (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Feb 07, 2006)
India is being projected as the principal beneficiary of the US State Department’s imminent re-organisation of its South Asia bureau.
- Let People Know About Nuclear Deal With U.S.: Former Ambassadors (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
Eight former Bangalore-based Ambassadors have expressed disquiet over the secrecy surrounding the negotiations with the United States on separation of civilian and military nuclear facilities.
- A Succesful Fight Against Bird Flu (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 07, 2006)
Pennsylvania researchers have produced a bird flu vaccine made from a genetically engineered human cold virus which has provided cent percent protection to vaccinated mice and chickens.
- Iran Will Get The Bomb, Sooner Or Later (Deccan Herald, DAVID E SANGER, Feb 07, 2006)
Hours after the United States and Europe prevailed in a contest over officially reporting Iran’s history of clandestine nuclear activity to the United Nations Security Council, US President George W Bush issued a statement on Saturday from his ranch, ...
- 3 Myths About The Iran Conflict (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Feb 07, 2006)
Is there anything the West can do, short of a highly dangerous military option, to prevent Iran from going forward with its nuclear program? The answer is clearly yes.
- Why Bush Has To Deliver In India (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Will President George W Bush deliver? Will India-US negotiations on the civilian nuclear deal yield something before the American leader lands in New Delhi on the evening of February 28?
- Nato-Isaf To Attend Rawalpindi Meeting (Dawn, Qudssia Akhlaque, Feb 06, 2006)
The Tripartite Commission comprising senior military and diplomatic representatives from Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States will hold its 17th meeting in Rawalpindi on June 5-6, it is learnt.
- Us Dependence On Oil (Dawn, GWYNNE DYER, Feb 06, 2006)
“America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world,” said President George W. Bush in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday.
- Spying By Another Name (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 06, 2006)
With polls showing the American public increasingly sceptical about the need to abridge core constitutional freedoms to wage the war on terrorism, the Bush administration launched a major PR offensive recently to justify its decision to . . .
- Where Campaigns Fall By The Wayside (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Feb 06, 2006)
The old English saying ‘Well begun is half done’ apparently doesn’t apply to the people who handle administrative matters in Karachi. That, at least, is the impression one gets after reading the final chapter of the sordid tinted glass saga enacted . . .
- On To A Broader Horizon (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Feb 06, 2006)
My previous article tried to sketch a framework of geo-strategic and geo-economic concerns that determine the new bearings of the Saudi foreign policy.
- Indian Pm Considers Talks With Leftists (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was mulling on Sunday whether to hold crisis talks with leftwing allies that are angry at his government’s vote against Iran over its nuclear programme and its airport privatisation plans.
- Lost For Ideas (The Week, R. Prasannan, Feb 06, 2006)
FOR the next few months, the Bofors-armed, Rajnath Singh-led Bharatiya Janata Party won’t be enemy number one to the Congress. It will be the CPI(M) and its Leftist comrades.
- Terror? We Are Better Off (The Week, Sachidananda Murthy, Feb 06, 2006)
Shivraj Patil has been a key member of the Congress think tank ever since Sonia Gandhi became Congress president. His long experience as Speaker, Deputy Speaker and deputy leader of the opposition has made him a leading light of the Manmohan Singh . . .
- Not End Of The Road: Iran (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Iran said today that it was still willing to negotiate with the international community over its nuclear programme while the President mocked the referral by the UN nuclear watchdog to the Security Council.
- Mma Condemns India, Us, Israel At Kashmir Day Rally (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) organized a rally on Sunday to express - primarily - its solidarity with the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir, condemn the Western media's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and . . .
- Rallies Call For End To Indian Rule In Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
Several thousand people held rallies on Sunday in Islamabad, Peshawar and Azad Jammu and Kashmir to demand an end to Indian rule in held Kashmir.
- George Bush To Propose Nuclear Partnership With Russia (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
President George W Bush will propose funding for the creation of an atomic energy partnership with Russia in his upcoming fiscal 2007 budget, according to the New York Times.
- India Shocks Iran With Its Vote In Iaea (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 06, 2006)
India has voted for the IAEA resolution for Iran’s referral to the UN Security Council for its nuclear ambitions in Vienna on Saturday. The IAEA has been asked to report its chief Mohammed El Baradei’s assessment about Iran’s nuclear plans to the . . .
- Brazil: The Challenge Of Ecological Resource Use (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Feb 06, 2006)
Brazil's rainforest is considered the earth's most biologically diverse ecosystem. Unfortunately, about 16 per cent of this forest has been denuded in just the last four decades.
- The Need To Look Beyond Gdp (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Feb 06, 2006)
The point is not the replacement of GDP growth rate by the growth rate of educated rural population but to question age-old shibboleths, and look for alternatives. That kind of questioning, and the tolerance of such questioning are the basic . . .
- The Chairman Is Watching (Telegraph, ARITRO GANGULY, Feb 06, 2006)
K.J. Rao’s rechristening is an indication of Mao Zedong’s place in the Bengal communist pantheon
- Mittal Vs Rest Of Europe (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
When Rep. Walter Jones and Bob Ney announced the change on House Menus and put Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast in place of French Fries and French Toast they were riducled in every talk show and Saturday Night Live.
- Towards Corruption Free Society (Daily Excelsior, Tahir Khurshid Raina, Feb 06, 2006)
The change of guards in the State at the political level brought a glaring change in the issues to be addressed by the Government. The new incumbent Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad as the Chief Minister of the State has come up with the slogan of good governance.
- Pr Failure? It's A Bigger Mess, Don (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 06, 2006)
Without discounting the relevance of the information front in contemporary warfare, . . .
- The Slip Between The Cup And The Lip! (The Financial Express, TN THAKUR, Feb 06, 2006)
Importing coal for generating power has been a subject of headlines for a while now.
- Best Course For Danes (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 06, 2006)
Worldwide protest by the Muslims against publication of blasphemous cartoons by a Danish newspaper and its reproduction by several other newspapers in the European countries has gained ferocity due to the Danish authorities’ mishandling of the issue.
- Trial And Error (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Feb 06, 2006)
It’s easy to tell the difference between the trial of Saddam Hussein and the Nuremberg tribunal.
- Iran In The Dock (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Feb 06, 2006)
Defiance won’t work
AS expected, the efforts to avoid a vote on the Iranian nuclear issue at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s extraordinary session that ended on Saturday did not succeed.
- Now, Focus On Iran-Russia Nuclear Talks (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Feb 06, 2006)
The Iranian crystal ball turned denser and foggier today with Tehran’s announcement of ending all its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA in retaliation to the UN nuclear watchdog yesterday referring the Iranian nuclear file to the UN Security Council...
- Geopolitics In N-Ties (Tribune, O. P. Sabherwal, Feb 06, 2006)
Nuclear issues the world over have a habit of becoming contentious, enmeshed in nuclear weapon controversies.
- Pervez Prods Delhi On Kashmir (Telegraph, IMTIAZ GUL, Feb 06, 2006)
Cutting out the usual Kashmir Solidarity Day rhetoric, President Pervez Musharraf today exhorted India to show more courage and sincerity if it wished to see the stalemate over the disputed state broken.
- In A Difficult Phase (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Feb 06, 2006)
The author is an independent researcher. He has recently co-edited the book, Battles over Nature
- Old Friends (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 06, 2006)
The decision by the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency to report Iran to the United Nations security council, for its non-compliance on the nuclear issue, was inevitable.
- Let It Take Off (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
There is something strangely reassuring about the manner in which the government has stuck to its stand in the face of aggressive Leftist opposition to the privatisation of the airports
- Us To Withdraw Troops In Pak Quake-Hit Areas (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Feb 06, 2006)
Some 750 American troops in Pakistan's quake-hit areas will begin withdrawing from the middle of this month, bringing to a close the biggest ever external relief operations carried out by the US, officials said today.
- India Tries To Calm Iran After Nuclear Vote (Reuters, Reuters, Feb 06, 2006)
India said it was one of the countries which voted on Saturday to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear programme, but tried to calm its old ally by saying the move allowed for more negotiations.
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