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Articles 17621 through 17720 of 31829:
- Iran Halts Iaea Inspection (Indian Express, PARISA HAFEZI , Feb 06, 2006)
A defiant Iran on Sunday ended snap UN checks of its nuclear sites and said it was resuming uranium enrichment, a day after being reported to the Security Council over suspicions it is building nuclear weapons.
- Iran Ends Un Inspections, Resumes Enrichment (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
A defiant Iran on Sunday ended snap UN checks of its nuclear sites and said it was resuming uranium enrichment, a day after being reported to the Security Council over suspicions it is building nuclear weapons.
- Iran Resumes Uranium Enrichment, Ends U.N. Checks (Reuters, PARISA HAFEZI , Feb 06, 2006)
A defiant Iran on Sunday ended snap U.N. checks of its nuclear sites and said it was resuming uranium enrichment, a day after being reported to the Security Council over suspicions it is building nuclear weapons.
- Nepal Grinds To Halt As Rebel Strike Takes Effect (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Feb 06, 2006)
Hundreds of soldiers and riot police guarded government buildings and patrolled deserted streets across Nepal on Sunday, the first day of a week-long general strike called by the Maoist rebels.
- There Is Life After Fossil Fuels (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 06, 2006)
Budget 2006 must help to rearrange India’s energy basket, says VIKRAM SINGH MEHTA
- As India Twiddles Thumbs, Us, Russia Unveil Nuclear Deal (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Feb 06, 2006)
As it continues to dither on a plan to separate its civilian and military nuclear facilities, India is in the danger of losing out on a new partnership being launched by the US and Russia to promote an expansive global nuclear industry.
- Indian-American Leaders Rush To Join Bush’S Tour (Indian Express, LALIT K. JHA, Feb 06, 2006)
With US President George Bush’s India visit scheduled for March first week, speculation is rife on who all among the Indian-Americans would join him on the historic trip.
- Who Will Lobby Best To Succeed Kofi Annan? (Indian Express, RICHARD HOLBROOKE , Feb 06, 2006)
Almost invisible to the general public, a major international election campaign is underway.
- On Ftv And ‘American Idol’, Gain It All In Translation (Indian Express, Shailaja Bajpai, Feb 06, 2006)
Some people have a problem understanding the English language. Take, for instance, the word “midnight”. It means 12 o’clock at night. However, for some it means 10.15 p.m. or 9.30 p.m and anything in between.
- Us Shifting Goalpost On N-Deal: Atomic Energy Chief (Indian Express, PALLAVA BAGLA, Feb 06, 2006)
With work on the landmark Indo-US nuclear deal going right down to the wire, the well-entrenched nuclear-scientific-military establishment is getting increasingly wary. Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar has said that Washington’s ....
- ‘Chanting Easier Than Words’ (Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik , Feb 06, 2006)
In the mid-1980s, a young monk from Arunachal Pradesh joined the Drepung Loseling monastery in Mundgod in Karnataka. Very soon he caught the attention of the monastery’s Principal Chant Master who asked him to join the chanting group.
- A Country Wedded To Violence (Deccan Herald, BOB HERBERT, Feb 06, 2006)
There is nothing more American than brutal violence, something the country is built on
- Rising Water Threatens Great Temples (Hindu, Robin McKie, Feb 06, 2006)
The most important threat involves the widespread planting of sugarcane
Swedish engineers are building a vast drainage system
- Iran Ends Cooperation With Iaea (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Feb 06, 2006)
Teheran will begin full-scale production of enriched uranium
Ready for exploratory talks with Russia
No more inspection of nuclear facilities
"India not under any pressure"
- Hamas Victory: Need For Flexibility (Dawn, Mansoor Alam, Feb 06, 2006)
The recent Hamas victory in the Palestinian election has stunned everyone including Hamas itself. Although pre-election opinion polls had indicated that Hamas would give a close fight, most analysts had predicted a narrow Fatah victory.
- Let Parliament Debate Iran Issue: Left (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Feb 06, 2006)
Says India's vote against Iran "not in conformity" with the pursuit of an independent foreign policy
- "Ours Is A Fight Against Terrorism" (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Feb 06, 2006)
Mahendra Karma, the key figure behind the anti-Maoist civilian initiative, says the Maoists are now on the `defensive.' Excerpts from a recent interview in Hyderabad:
- Muslims And Media Frenzy Over Cartoons (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Feb 06, 2006)
The issue is not whether Muslims are right or wrong to be upset but whether or not they have the right to peaceful protest when they feel, rightly or wrongly, that their religious feelings have been hurt.
- Bangla Oppn Defy Govt Crackdown (Deccan Herald, Hassan Shahriar, Feb 06, 2006)
Carrying banners and chanting slogans, men and women from every corner of the country voiced their opposition to Begum Khaleda Zia’s four-party coalition government.
- An Unnecessary Escalation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 06, 2006)
The International Atomic Energy Agency's decision to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council has opened a new and dangerous chapter in the crisis sparked by Western insistence that Teheran abandon its legitimate rights to the civilian nuclear fuel cycle.
- Boxed In (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 06, 2006)
The Manmohan Singh government surprised none when on Saturday for the second time in less than five months’ time it cast an affirmative vote against India’s traditional friend Iran in the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
- India's First Moon Mission On Schedule For 2007 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 06, 2006)
'It is well on its way towards its target' `The lunar spacecraft is well on its way towards its target'
- Major Kashmir Study Sees Trade As The Road To Peace (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Feb 05, 2006)
A new study released on Friday proposes the creation of a special economic zone in all of Kashmir, with duty free access to India and Pakistan, along with an institutional framework for joint investment.
- Iaea Refers Iran To Unsc (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Ahmadinejad halts snap UN nuclear inspections
The UN nuclear watchdog voted on Saturday to report Iran to the Security Council over fears it was trying to build atomic bombs and a defiant Tehran said it would end snap UN inspections of its nuclear . . .
- Never-Ending Narratives (Hindu, MAITREYEE SAHA GANAPATHY, Feb 05, 2006)
The Inheritance of Loss is about poverty and patterns that repeat across generations, says Kiran Desai.
- India Votes Against Iran At Iaea (Indian Express, Reuters, Feb 05, 2006)
The UN nuclear watchdog voted on Saturday to report Iran to the Security Council over suspicions it plans to build atomic weapons, and Tehran responded it would start enriching uranium fuel that can be used in bombs.
- Promoting The Reading Habit (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Feb 05, 2006)
Book buying is not common. Prices are too high for most people. Publishers are cautious, and most of them are reluctant to publish serious books. Normally, they will print no more than a 1,000 copies of any title, and often only 500, . . .
- Democracy’S Consequences (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 05, 2006)
Opponents of US policy in the Middle East have described Hamas’s victory in last week’s Palestinian elections as a disaster that proves that President Bush was wrong to insist on elections in the West Bank and Gaza.
- Danish Cartoons: Provocative And Perverse (Dawn, Robert Fisk, Feb 05, 2006)
This is not an issue of secularism versus Islam. For Muslims, the Prophet is the man who received divine words directly from God. We see our saints and prophets as faintly historical figures, at odds with our high-tech human rights and freedoms, . . .
- Iaea Refers Iran To Unsc (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
* 27 members vote in favour, Cuba, Syria and Venezuela oppose resolution
* NAM states’ attempt to soften resolution’s text rejected
- Iaea Reports Iran To Un Security Council (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
The UN nuclear watchdog Saturday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council in a resolution expressing concern that Tehran’s nuclear programme may not be “exclusively for peaceful purposes.” Iran retaliated immediately, saying it would resume . . .
- Another Milestone In Pak It (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 05, 2006)
A Pakistan IT firm – TRG – having presence in countries like the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, has established its office in Manila. It was inaugurated by the President of Philippines.
- Kashmir Solidarity Day: President, Pm For Peace In Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have emphasised the need to end violence and human rights abuses in held Kashmir.
- Musharraf Needs His Own Party (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Feb 05, 2006)
Having dominated the national scene longer than any of his chief rivals, Gen Musharraf should go to the people in 2007 with his own, new party rather than continue to rely on the defectors from other parties.
- Iran Leading Terror Sponsor: Rumsfeld (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
US Defence Secretary Mr Donald Rumsfeld today urged the world to work for a “diplomatic solution” to halt the nuclear programme of Iran, a nation he called the “leading state sponsor of terrorism.”
- Of Graven Images (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Feb 05, 2006)
It is a fallacy of our narcissistic age to expect images of what supreme leaders of thought may have looked like; their teachings and deeds are unaffected by our erroneous expectations
- Iaea Refers Iran To Security Council (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Feb 05, 2006)
India again voted against Iran as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today referred the Iranian nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council which has the power to impose crippling political and economic sanctions on Tehran.
- Some Prime Ministerial Initiatives (Indian Express, N K Singh, Feb 05, 2006)
There is a raging controversy on how ‘‘weak’’ is the Prime Minister. Fresh from Davos, this is a bit bizarre because India was being felicitated by the global community as the emerging economic power and the relative strength of India vis-a-vis China . .
- Twilight Of The West (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 05, 2006)
Niall Ferguson From the Daily Telegraph © Niall Ferguson
The author is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University www.niallferguson.org
- Call For Introspection (Hindu, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 05, 2006)
CERTAINLY, "Understatement" is not a word you'd associate with the self-proclaimed "Muslim refusenik", Irshad Manji.
- On Telling The Truth (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 05, 2006)
If David Mulford had met Charles Igoh things might have turned out differently.
- Hamas Expects To Form Palestinian Government (Reuters, Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Feb 05, 2006)
A Hamas leader said on Saturday that the Islamic militant group hoped to form a Palestinian government later this month after agreeing with President Mahmoud Abbas to convene parliament on Feb. 16.
- Iran And United States Square Up After Iaea Vote (Reuters, PARISA HAFEZI , Feb 05, 2006)
Defiant Iran said it would end snap U.N. nuclear checks on Sunday, a day after the U.N. atomic watchdog voted to report the Islamic Republic to the Security Council over concerns about its nuclear programme.
- Iaea Votes To Report Iran To U.N. Security Council (Reuters, MARK HEINRICH, Feb 05, 2006)
The U.N. nuclear watchdog voted on Saturday to report Iran to the Security Council over fears it is trying to build atomic bombs and a defiant Tehran said it would end snap U.N. inspections of its nuclear plants from Sunday.
- Nepal Grinds To Halt As Rebel Strike Takes Effect (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Feb 05, 2006)
Hundreds of riot police guarded government buildings and patrolled deserted streets across Nepal on Sunday, the first day of a week-long general strike called by the Maoist rebels.
- Pitfalls Of Imitating The American Dream (Indian Express, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , Feb 05, 2006)
Does good literature teach us anything about what constitutes good economics? Prevailing punditry on economic reforms says no.
- Us Sees Ally In India, Rival In China (Hindustan Times, S Rajagopalan, Feb 05, 2006)
A new US defence strategy document identifies India as “an emerging great power and a key strategic partner” and notes that the choices of three countries — China, Russia and India — will be key to the global security environment in the 21st century.
- Ally Left’S Sorry Saturday: Iran Goes To Un, Airport Staff To Work (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Feb 05, 2006)
Going along with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, including Russia and China, and concerned over Tehran’s A Q Khan link, India today voted in favour of a resolution by the nuclear watchdog agency IAEA to report the Iran nuclear . . .
- India Tries To Calm Iran After Nuclear Vote (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 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.
- Stage Set For Action Against Tehran (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
The wording of the final resolution recognised “that a solution to the Iranian issue would contribute to global non-proliferation efforts and... the objective of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction including their means of delivery”.
- Manmohan Compromising To Stick To Office: Advani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
But I gave up my party job to stand by my views on Jinnah
Kalam erred in agreeing to Assembly dissolution President's action should not become precedent I am not "minimalised" in party
- India, Philippines To Exchange Military Training Expertise (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Significant accord signed during President Abdul Kalam's visit
- India Drops Bombshell Again On Iran (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
India on Saturday voted in favour of an international resolution reporting Iran to the UN Security Council even as it repeated its commitment to “close and friendly ties” with Tehran and supported its right to civilian nuclear energy.
- Vote Not To Affect Ties With Tehran, Says New Delhi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
Within hours of its vote in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) governing body meeting in Vienna in favour of reporting the Iranian nuclear programme to the UN Security Council, the Manmohan Singh government asserted on Saturday that its . . .
- America Unplugged (Hindu, RUMINA SETHI, Feb 05, 2006)
IN today's globalised climate, the former colonies have ended up as the neo-colonial empire of the United States, complicit in global give and take, economic hegemony, and . . .
- Iran To Swiftly Begin Enrichment (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Feb 05, 2006)
Teheran rejects a Russian compromise offer
- Iaea Votes To Report Iran To U.N. Security Council (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
27 nations vote for the resolution in Vienna, three against, and five abstain
- Graphic Graffiti (Hindu, Aditi De, Feb 05, 2006)
Like a photograph, a brilliant drawing or a graphic impression can prove more eloquent, more potent and memorable than a thousand words. Poet-graphic artist Arun Kolatkar's offering — in visuals sans words this time — makes one do a double take . . .
- Pakistan Prepared To Show Flexibility On Kashmir Issue, Says Pervez Musharraf (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Feb 05, 2006)
"Rigidity and violence must give way to positive engagement"
President calls for enabling for the success of the peace process
Improve human rights situation in Kashmir: Aziz tells India
- Unpleasant Surprise? (Hindu, Bill Kirkman, Feb 05, 2006)
After the result of the Palestinian election, the fundamental question is about the values that underlie policy. Will Hamas renounce violence?
- Global Nature Of Protest (Hindu, Mike Marqusee, Feb 05, 2006)
A look at the significance of February 15, 2003.
Many demonstrators who hoped to deter the invasion of Iraq probably underestimated what they were up against ... ."
- Educating Mr. Modi (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Feb 05, 2006)
No one seems to care about providing appropriate sanitation facilities for women.
- Urban Transport Tangle: Some Solutions (Hindu, M. RAVIBABU, Feb 05, 2006)
To develop patronage for transit, private transport has to be restricted and made costly
- Kalam Unfolds India’S Agenda (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 04, 2006)
Indian President Abdul Kalam Azad is having day-dreaming as he sees emergence of Pakistan-India Federation in the next fifty years. Speaking in Bangkok, he argued that if the United States and Russian Federation can become friends and Germany . . .
- Private Militia In Balochistan Must Disarm: Musharraf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
President unveils four-point solution to crisis;
condemns blasphemous cartoons
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday denied any military operation in Balochistan but said that the private local militia must disarm and stop hampering . . .
- `Our Wto Negotiations Are Mainly About Making Russia An Equal Participant In Global Trade' (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Feb 04, 2006)
It is important that we complete the negotiations with India on Russia's WTO accession. We are sure that our fast accession would be in India's interests, too, because Russia honouring its agreed commitments would mean better and broader access of Indian
- Trade With India In Pak Interest: Ex-Minister (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Former minister of finance Shahid Javed Burki Friday said Pakistan must open trade with India and other South Asian countries as it is in Pakistan’s interest.
- Jaswant Stresses Need For Expanding ‘Constituency Of Peace’ (Dawn, Shamim-ur-Rahman, Feb 04, 2006)
India’s former external affairs minister and currently leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh has emphasized the need for a constant endeavour by India and Pakistan to “expand the constituency of peace”.
- India’S Newest N-Capable Icbm Ready For Action’ (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Feb 04, 2006)
India ‘s most ambitious intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear-capable missile Agni III is ready for launch. M Natarajan, the country’s top defence scientist, announced this on Friday. He said that his department was awaiting the political . . .
- India, Israel Sign Secret Deal On Anti-Missile System (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Feb 04, 2006)
India is said to have signed an agreement for the joint manufacture of the ship-borne Israeli Barak II anti-missile system at Hyderabad for both the Indian and Israeli navies.
- Pak Ultras Threat To S Asia Peace: Usa (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Pakistan-based militant groups operating in Kashmir pose a persistent threat to stability in South Asia, a top intelligence official of the USA has warned, even as he called India a “reliable ally” in the fight against global terrorism.
- Challenges For Growth In The It Landscape (The Financial Express, V SRIDHAR, Feb 04, 2006)
Recently announced Q3 results of Infosys, TCS, Wipro and other IT majors indicate that the IT-IT Enabled Service (ITeS) sector in India continues to grow at a scorching pace.
- Revolution, Shaken And Stirred (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Feb 04, 2006)
By all indications, Latin America is undergoing a leftist resurgence. The impressive electoral triumph of Evo Morales, who joked that he couldn't take Bolivia's presidential oath unless Fidel Castro attended, was followed in a few weeks by . . .
- Mittal Vs Rest Of Europe (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 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.
- It’S Time To Rethink That Gmail Account And Demand Safeguards From A Potentially Dangerous Company (Indian Express, FRIDA GHITIS, Feb 04, 2006)
A few years ago, I walked into an Internet room in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa. There were no Chinese soldiers in the room and no visible government censors nearby. A sign on the wall, however, reminded users that China’s all-seeing eye had not disappeared. ‘‘
- Bush Fuels The Debate (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Feb 04, 2006)
President Bush’s strong espousal of alternative fuels such as cellulosic ethanol as a way of weaning America off its dependency on Middle East oil should be warmly applauded.
- Muslim Radicals In Power (Dawn, David Ignatius, Feb 04, 2006)
Are Muslim radicals changed by the experience of sharing in the responsibilities of government? The world has a lot riding on the answer to that question, and I can offer a small vignette drawn from a conversation with Hasan Nasrallah, . . .
- Jewish Origin: Facts And Fiction (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Feb 04, 2006)
President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran is now the latest of the Muslim bad boys in the West and is being portrayed as a Muslim Nazi talking nonsense.
- Breaking The Oil Habit (Indian Express, R.K. PACHAURI, Feb 04, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear agreement is critical for an integrated energy policy, says R.K. Pachauri
- India, Russia May Sign Defence Deal (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Feb 04, 2006)
Russia has said that it is in advanced negotiations with India on a $ 10 billion deal to provide the country with an anti-missile and fool-proof air defence system encompassing the whole geographical area.
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