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Articles 18721 through 18820 of 31829:
- Bush Sr. Hopes Air Strike Will Not Hit Ties (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jan 18, 2006)
Ex-U.S. President in Pakistan to review quake relief operations
- A Working Mother, At The Head Of A New Chile (Indian Express, Patrick J. McDonnell, Jan 18, 2006)
Michelle Bachelet, a socialist who was jailed and went into exile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, was elected the first female president of Chile on Sunday in a historic vote that underscored a leftward drift in the region.
- A Dangerous Incoherence At The Core (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 18, 2006)
Even after 20 months in office, the ruling dispensation at the Centre is yet to acquire any kind of political coherence. There is a lack of political synergy between the Congress party and the Government.
- United States Of Jammu & Kashmir And Self Rule (Daily Excelsior, O P Modi, Jan 18, 2006)
Readers may recall that around third week of November 2004 an article titled "United States of Jammu & Kashmir; A resolution" written by me was published in these columns. The idea of a unified federal J&K was mooted for the first time in this paper.
- World Powers Split Over Iran (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
World powers appeared split on Tuesday on how to handle the crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme, with Russia and China resisting European and US pressure for UN action and Tehran threatening reprisals.
- Trouble All The Way On Delhi Metro Railway (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Thousands of commuters travelling on the newly opened Barakhamba-Dwarka Line III of the Delhi Metro were greatly inconvenienced on Tuesday as a number of trains plying on the corridor were delayed by up to two hours due to a "point'' problem . . .
- Puzzles Aren’T Paradoxes (Telegraph, Tapas Majumdar, Jan 18, 2006)
Happily, many among our economists are now coming out to share their professional woes through the columns of India’s leading national weeklies and dailies.
- Iran: India Reacts With Caution (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
India a responsible nuclear weapons state: New Delhi
Four days after top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani made a reference to India during a CNN interview, the External Affairs Ministry spokesman on Monday regretted the comments.
- Tamil Nadu Can "Impact India's Trade With Britain" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Chennai's robust industry makes it important for U.K. to maintain ties with State, says U.K. Minister
- Eighty Plus Club (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 18, 2006)
Some time back we had referred in these columns to quite a few veterans above the age of 80 years who are still active in public life and continue to enrich our environment especially in this region. Many younger people have telephoned us to convey their
- Why Wish Happy New Year? (Greater Kashmir, MUHAMMAD ABD AL-HAMEED, Jan 18, 2006)
What do we mean by Happiness when we wish it to others, writes
MUHAMMAD ABD AL-HAMEED
- Coming To Terms With A Disturbing Past (Telegraph, Sanjib Baruah, Jan 18, 2006)
Ordinary Cambodians as well as members of the international community have mixed feelings about the trial of the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders beginning this year, writes Sanjib Baruah The author is visiting professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delh
- Role Of Sociologists Vital To Tackle Hiv (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Ways to create AIDS - free society discussed
Care and effective communication are necessary for efficient tackling of the HIV disease. Role of sociologists was indispensable to contain this killer disease, said. Dr. Lalitha Kabilan, Director, . . .
- Alarums & Excursions (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 18, 2006)
Iran’s removal of UN seals from the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz has sparked an international outcry, with a predictably knee-jerk reaction from the White House.
- Fair Victory (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jan 18, 2006)
Lowering the bar for women
If the spirit is willing the flesh can overcome any challenge. This is borne out by two
women graduates in hotel management, among others, successfully suing to win the right for the female of the species to work as bartender
- Musharraf’S Demilitarisation Balloon (Tribune, Gen V.P. Malik (retd), Jan 18, 2006)
Disappointed at the lack of progress in resolving the Kashmir issue through the Indo-Pak composite dialogue, Gen Pervez Musharraf is reported to have said, “Let me give another bombshell, I propose, one way of moving forward.... Take three towns, . . .
- Good Press Is A Legitimate Weapon (Tribune, Michael Schrage, Jan 18, 2006)
Precision-guided munitions and night vision are terrific military technologies, and no one would deny them to our soldiers in Iraq.
- India's Factories Are Booming, But Not Enough (Reuters, Terry Friel, Jan 18, 2006)
India's booming manufacturing sector is a major engine of growth for one of the world's fastest growing economies, but still has to pick up dramatically to hit the country's 10 percent growth target and take on rival China.
- Nepal Parties Vow To Defy Protest Ban (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Nepal's main political parties said on Tuesday they would go ahead with an anti-King rally in Kathmandu despite a ban on protests by the royalist government.
- President Kalam Presents Blueprint For Virtual University (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam today proposed an ambitious blueprint for a tele-education revolution in the country with Rashtrapati Bhavan as the nodal hub of the project to link all major universities across India.
- Us Strike Damages Musharraf’S Image (Tribune, James Rupert, Jan 18, 2006)
Friday’s U.S. airstrike on a Pakistani village has disrupted America’s efforts to improve its image in this country, one of its most important Muslim allies, and has turned glaring publicity on a part of the “global war on terror” that the . . .
- Iran Wants Renewed Nuclear Talks (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Iran on Tuesday urged the EU trio of Britain, Germany and France in a letter to immediately return to the negotiating table over its nuclear programme, . . .
- Un Closes Units In Pak (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
A threatening phone call that forced the United Nations to temporarily close offices in southwestern Pakistan, said al-Qaida would attack the world body’s offices there, the top UN official in Pakistan said today.
- Wise King, But Foolish Subjects (Indian Express, Ananya Vajpeyi, Jan 18, 2006)
Time was when I was proud to own a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, given how much furore the book occasioned in the life not just of its author, but of India, Iran, the UK, and of the larger world of Islam.
- Rebranding Of Bihar (Indian Express, Shaibal Gupta, Jan 18, 2006)
On the face of it, Bihar continues to make news for the same reasons — another schoolboy was abducted even as an abducted businessman was reportedly freed on Tuesday.
- Lifetime Worries Of Indefinite Validity (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 18, 2006)
We arejust past the middle of January, and the telecom regulator has been busy taking the call on one issue or the other. TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has issued the fourth consultation paper this year, in comparison to the ten papers . .
- Decongesting Mumbai (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jan 18, 2006)
Subash Saha looks barely 18 though he claims to be 24 years old. He has been driving an autorickshaw in Mumbai during night hours for the past six years. Which means he could have started driving either at 12 or 18. In all probability, . . .
- A Few Good Men (Indian Express, SUBHASH GATADE, Jan 18, 2006)
Remembering Hugh Thompson, who spoke up against the My Lai massacre
- The West Has Picked A Fight With Iran That It Cannot Win (Guardian (UK), Simon Jenkins, Jan 18, 2006)
Never pick a fight you know you cannot win. Or so I was told. Pick an argument if you must, but not a fight. Nothing I have read or heard in recent weeks suggests that fighting Iran over its nuclear enrichment programme makes any sense at all.
- Doing Nothing In Iran Is Not An Option (Telegraph (UK), editorial, telegraph UK, Jan 18, 2006)
As we survey, with appropriate unease and foreboding, the events now unfolding in Iran, we might like to reflect on one of Enoch Powell's less well-known, but most universal, obiter dicta. "The supreme function of statesmanship," he once wrote, "i . . .
- The Iran Charade, Part Ii (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Jan 18, 2006)
"It was what made this E.U. Three approach so successful. They [Britain, France and Germany] stood together and they had one uniform position."
- What The Constitution Really Says (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
While I'm here in the opposite hemisphere, The Debate is going to be a little more free form. Today, we have a thought-provoking post from Guest Blogger Jason Scorse, a professor who decided to take a closer look at the document that provides the. . . . .
- Delhi Points To Npt As Tehran Pulls Up Indo-Us Nuke Deal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Upset over Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani’s reference to the Indo-US nuclear deal as a case of US ‘‘dual standards’’ compared to Tehran’s nuclear programme, India today said as a ‘‘responsible nuclear power’’, it adhered to . . .
- Canadian Envoy Killed In Afghan Attack (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
A senior Canadian diplomat died in Afghanistan on Sunday in a suicide bomb attack which also killed two others and injured 12, Canada's Foreign Affairs Department said.
- West To Blame For Iran Crisis: Riyadh (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 17, 2006)
As representatives from America, Russia, China, France and Germany gathered here on Monday to formulate a common response to the controversy over Iran's nuclear programme, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said it was for Teheran to assure the . . .
- A National Aptitude Test Is The Answer (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Jan 17, 2006)
The Centre must fulfil its obligation of bringing in a law on professional courses.
- Chile Elects Its First Woman President (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Chile elected socialist Michelle Bachelet to be its first woman president on Sunday, making her only the second woman elected to head a South American state as Latin America cements a shift to the left.
- New Global Human Rights Body In Offing (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jan 17, 2006)
Erring nations have to fear the new global human rights council
With freedom, democracy, and human rights having come to the centre stage the world over, the burning question facing members of the United Nations is how to create . . .
- Speeding Up Bus Rapid Transit (Hindu, G. ANANTHAKRISHNAN, Jan 17, 2006)
Rail-based systems may be necessary in the metros, but bus systems offer solutions for all Indian cities staggering under the effects of unsustainable automobile use.
- Little Hope Ahead Of India-Pakistan Peace Talks (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Jan 17, 2006)
India and Pakistan begin a new round of peace talks this week but the nuclear-armed rivals are unlikely to end a stalemate that has tarnished the process, analysts say.
- U.N. Security Council Powers Meet On Iran Atomic Crisis (Reuters, MARK HEINRICH, Jan 17, 2006)
Key U.N. Security Council powers met on Monday to discuss how to curb Iran's nuclear programme and President Vladimir Putin said Russia had moved "very close" to the West's stance, which backs diplomatic action.
- Eu3 Launch Move To Refer Iran To Security Council (Reuters, MARK HEINRICH, Jan 17, 2006)
European powers on Monday began drafting a resolution to have Iran referred to the U.N. Security Council next month over its contentious nuclear work, diplomats said, after Russia and the West neared agreement on strategy.
- American Experiences (Deccan Herald, Kotera Ajit Aianna, Jan 17, 2006)
Discovering the way, so different from ours, that other people live, is interesting
- In The Hush After The Bombing (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 17, 2006)
The US must face up to it: in Pakistan the quarry escaped and innocents died, again
- Hrd Instinct (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 17, 2006)
Murli Manohar Joshi and Arjun Singh have more in common than you would imagine
- Given Our Resources, We’Ve To Adopt A Lifestyle That Leaves A Smaller Footprint On Nature Than West’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 17, 2006)
The greatest threat to our and future generations is not terrorism—it’s climate change. Dr R K Pachauri runs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and, yes, he’s a fellow Indian.
- Putin Urges World Leaders To Observe Caution On Iran Issue (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Russian President Vladimir Putin today urged world leaders to observe utmost caution on the Iran nuclear issue and expressed Moscow's willingness to cooperate with Washington and European partners.
- On The Brink Of Division (Hindu, Tariq Ali, Jan 17, 2006)
Had the Shia parties decided to give up their power struggles to resist the occupation, it would have been over long ago.
- Mini-Vietnam Syndrome (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 17, 2006)
Iran to gain as US plans Iraqi withdrawal
AS if by instinct, events are moving towards an era of inevitability in Iraq, the Bush administration having dramatically scaled down its bar for a “victory”.
- A Voice Called Arundhati Roy (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Jan 17, 2006)
Arundhati Roy’s turning down of Sahitya Akademi award should not surprise many. She has already denied to be a doll in the hands of those who reward their pets, reject their rivals.
- Rice Says World Must Act Fast Against Iran (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Jack Straw says Tehran bears the burden of responsibility in clarifying nuclear intentions
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday Iran ‘crossed the threshold’ with its recent nuclear actions and the world must act fast . . .
- Steel Industry: To Continue Shining In 2006 (Business Line, J. Mehra, Jan 17, 2006)
Global steel demand is set to grow at a scorching pace, though certain factors could be a cause for heartburn in the sector.
- Pak To Table Musharraf’S Proposals (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 17, 2006)
Pakistan is expected to formally put on the table President Pervez Musharraf’s Kashmir-centric proposals during the Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan beginning here tomorrow.
- Chile Elects Socialist President (Tribune, Patrick J. McDonnell, Jan 17, 2006)
Michielle Bachelet, a socialist who was jailed and went into exile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, was elected the first female president of this South American nation on Sunday in a historic vote that underscored a leftward drift . . .
- Al-Qaeda Leaders Killed: Us (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Rallies around Pakistan continued on Sunday to protest the United States airstrike on a Pakistani village that was intended to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, the No 2 leader of al-Qaeda, but instead killed at least 18 civilians, The New York Times reports.
- Irked India Lets Iran Have It (Hindustan Times, Nilova Roy Chaudhury, Jan 17, 2006)
The gloves are off. Or so it seemed on Monday when the Iranian National Security Adviser, Ali Larijani, sought to make an example of India's nuclear status as international double standards. India promptly hit back saying it regretted the reference.
- Going Up In Chalkdust (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jan 17, 2006)
India urgently needs to walk the talk about creating a knowledge-based economy. Last week’s conference of vice-chancellors of central universities was a continuing lament of why this is not happening.
- The End Of The Road (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Extracts from the World Drug Report, 2005, published by the United Nations Office of Drug and Crimes
- Iranian N-Official’S Comments Upset India (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
India on Monday expressed "regret" over comments made by Iran’s top nuclear negotiator that New Delhi received preferential international treatment on nuclear proliferation issues.
- Key Eu Powers Move To Refer Iran To Unsc (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
European powers on Monday began drafting a resolution to have Iran referred to the UN Security Council next month over its nuclear work, diplomats said, after Russia and the West neared agreement in dealing with Tehran.
- El-Baradei Says Iran Only Months Away From N-Bomb (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
The United States and its European allies pressed Russia and China on Monday to support bringing Iran before the UN Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
- Token Protests (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 17, 2006)
The price of duplicity
There would be several factors underlying Pakistan’s muted protest over a clear violation of national sovereignty by the CIA-directed aerial strike against a suspected meeting of Al Qaeda leaders in the tribal-dominated border ...
- Are Mps Worth Stinging? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 17, 2006)
England’s football coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has been the target of a sting operation. This only indicates that, in the land where it all began, MPs are no longer considered worth stinging, it being assumed that politicians do not quite match . . .
- February Date For Iran Fate (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Powerful members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany agreed today that Iran must fully suspend its nuclear program, Britain's Foreign Office said following a day long meeting in London.
- General Will "Hit Balochis Hard" (Daily Excelsior, K.N. Pandita, Jan 17, 2006)
"I will hit them so hard they won't know what hit them", thundered the General in Islamabad.
- Who Is 'Containing' Whom? (OutLook, Seema Sirohi, Jan 17, 2006)
All this neo-con talk of containing China by promoting India has only served to alert the dragon. Perhaps the most unfortunate formulation for India might have been the American offer to help it to become "a world power."
- Iaea Meeting (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Britain, France, Germany and the European Union told the United States, Russia and China they plan to call for an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Feb 2 and 3 to discuss Iran.
- Sri Lanka: Threat Of Civil War (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 17, 2006)
Once again, there are ominous signs that Sri Lanka, after nearly four years of an uneasy truce, is sliding back into civil war.
- Curriculum Change Controversy (Dawn, Omar R. Quraishi, Jan 17, 2006)
Curriculam revision seems to have become a very controversial issue in the country with not a month going by without some political or religious party objecting to a reported change in some textbooks or syllabus.
- Perils Of Unchecked Power (Dawn, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Jan 17, 2006)
The recent controversy over warrantless national security telephone taps, coupled with Martin Luther King’s birthday, remind me of my time in the Department of Justice in the 1960s.
- The Balochistan Crisis (Dawn, Ghayoor Ahmed, Jan 17, 2006)
The long simmering ethnic passion that resurfaced in Balochistan in 2004 and has recently resumed with greater intensity is a source of great anxiety to the people of Pakistan. The security forces are currently engaged in quelling the insurgency-like ...
- Attacking Iran? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 17, 2006)
According to the western media, Israeli plans for attacking Iran’s nuclear installations are ready, and it goes without saying who has supplied the bunker-bursting bombs, most probably free.
- Balochistan War (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 17, 2006)
As the iron curtain around Pakistan is falling apart one comes face to face with a blood-stained war in the neighbouring country. It is being fought in its Balochistan (with another popular spelling of Baluchistan) province.
- Iraq’S Uncertain Future (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Jan 17, 2006)
There are several reasons why what happened in Iraq over the last three years should matter for Pakistan. The reason — or reasons — why the administration of President George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq is a matter of concern for countries . . .
- Let's Give Iran Some Of Its Own Medicine (Telegraph (UK), Mark Steyn, Jan 17, 2006)
So let me see. On the one hand, we have a regime that is pressing full steam ahead with its nuclear programme and whose president has threatened to wipe another sovereign state off the map.
- Iaea Urges Iran To Allow Inspection (Dawn, Masood Haider, Jan 16, 2006)
Warning Iran over the confrontation with the international community on its nuclear programme , Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Sunday that despite intensive three years of verification of Irani
- Unchecked Abuse (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 16, 2006)
US Congress voted by an overwhelming margin last month to ban all US personnel from inflicting “cruel, inhuman or degrading” treatment on any prisoner held anywhere by the United States.
- Africa’S Tinderbox (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 16, 2006)
Africa's next war could be between two countries already in the middle of a devastating drought: Ethiopia and Eritrea. They are also bordered by violence and instability; to the east lies a deeply fractured Somalia, to the west is Sudan, . . .
- Self- Rule For Jammu And Kashmir....? (Daily Excelsior, J N Raina, Jan 16, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's proposal of 'self-governance' and 'demilitarization', to resolve the Kashmir issue, is ill-conceived, unintelligible and intended at balkanization of not only India, but Pakistan as well.
- Pattern In The Madness (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 16, 2006)
When the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed last Tuesday that Iran had broken the seals on its nuclear research facility at Natanz, many people reacted as if the next step was the testing of an Iranian nuclear weapon.
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