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Articles 19521 through 19620 of 31829:
- U.S. Planning To Strike Iran's Nuke Facilities: Report (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
Military action against Teheran to foil its nuclear ambitions is one among several options being considered by NATO members, military Intelligence officials familiar with the Iran file told German daily Der Spiegel.
- A Slice Of Karnataka (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 02, 2006)
Two art and crafts exhibitions displaying the rich cultural heritage of Karnataka are on in Basavanagudi and Jayanagar.
- Sins Of The Clergy (Tribune, Pushpa M. Bhargava, Jan 02, 2006)
IT is a cliché that man has today all the means to destroy all of his species through weapons of mass destruction possessed by many countries led by the US. There is no country that can be trusted not to use them; in fact, the larger the stock . . .
- 2006 Promises Another Roller-Coaster Ride (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jan 02, 2006)
The Sensex touched a historic high in 2005. The economy grew at 8% and almost every sector of business and industry exuded enormous confidence.
- Call Up Ombudsman (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
The Ombudsman to redress complaints relating to banking services would start functioning from Sunday, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday.
- Only Network (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jan 02, 2006)
Remember how exercised our babus were over Google Earth's reach? Well, there are going to be more eyes in the sky now with Europe launching the first of 30 satellites of its Galileo navigation system.
- Happy New Year Of The Cabbage (Indian Express, ELISSA SILVERMAN, Jan 02, 2006)
Moon K. Yoon sensed something was up about two months ago when the 16-ounce jars of kimchi started moving quickly from the shelves of the Lotte Plaza International Supermarket in Fairfax, Virginia, a sign that interest in the spicy cabbage dish had . . .
- Ltte Is An Anti-India Force (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 02, 2006)
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's visit to India has reaffirmed the cordial relations and natural bonds between close neighbours. The visit came at a difficult time for Colombo. The ceasefire between the Government and the . . .
- New Year Resolutions (Hindu, Barbara Ellen, Jan 02, 2006)
And so New Year is upon us — the season to be disgusted with yourself. After several weeks of self-indulgence, you have realised too late that your Christmas gift to yourself is an Alfred Hitchcock silhouette, a hangover that keeps rolling over like . . .
- Ulfa Men Allowed To Meet Families (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Jan 02, 2006)
Entertainment on-the-go seems set to be the hottest new consumer technology trend this year
Most popular screen size is 7 inches and is adequate for good viewing
DVD player explosion in India
Chinese models are increasingly priced lower
- Automatic Weather Station At Ervadi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 02, 2006)
It has been installed by TVS Research Institute
- Resolution Of The New Year Resolution (Indian Express, PRIYA RAMANI, Jan 02, 2006)
Lofty resolutions. All part of year-end math right? Add all the Foster’s bottles consumed, divide by the number of hours you exercised.
- Year Of Inflexion (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jan 02, 2006)
Manmohan Singh has a feel for history. In his maiden speech as finance minister, he talked about India as an idea whose time had arrived. Now in the prime ministerial hot-seat, the time has arrived to propel this idea forward with greater impetus and ...
- Afghan Farmers Returning To Opium (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
For three years Gulam Gul has been growing wheat, rice, radishes and cauliflower - anything but the opium that his family once depended on.
- The Unintelligible American (Deccan Herald, M N Batra, Jan 01, 2006)
Accent can cause confusion, especially if people from different countries have a meeting.
- Terror Of 'War Against Terror' (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 01, 2006)
Is there room within this rapid "securitisation" of life for individual freedoms and civic concerns to assert themselves?
- Shaping New Lives In Kashmir (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jan 01, 2006)
In the absence of a cohesive response from society to the Kashmir earthquake, the challenge of rehabilitating the survivors remains an uphill task.
- Diversion Of Baloch Funds (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 01, 2006)
According to reports, the Federal Government, at the recommendation of the Asian Development Bank, has diverted Rs 3 billion meant for the National Drainage Programme (being financed by the ADB) to earthquake areas. This has caused surprise and . . .
- Sir, Are You Listening? (Hindustan Times, Karan Thapar, Jan 01, 2006)
The phone rang horribly late at night but, for reasons I cannot fathom, I responded in an attentive mood. Normally the hour and tone of the conversation would undoubtedly have put me off.
- To One Who Outmeasures Space, Outlasts Time (Indian Express, SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI , Jan 01, 2006)
The new millennium’s fifth year is behind us, and the sixth has arrived — although late by a billion nanoseconds. It’s time to muse, well, on time itself. We say that 2005 has joined the Past and 2006, which was in the womb of the Future until yesterday,
- India Seen Unstoppable With New American Relationships – Terrorists Are Planning Break The Outsourcing Backbone Of India Through Massive Terror Attacks In It Hubs (India Daily, Babu Ghanta, Jan 01, 2006)
Pakistan’s ISI, silently sinister Al-Queda, Bangladeshi Jihadists – all are concerned about the new India – rich, powerful and a strong dependable ally of America and the Western Europe.
- Tech Hub: India Needs To Wait (Hindustan Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Jan 01, 2006)
When software giant Microsoft knocked on Indian techies' gates in December 2005, the world stopped to notice.
- Making A ‘Menace’ Of Migrants (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 01, 2006)
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants there are in India? Are there 30 million of them? What about 20 million? Or is the figure as low as 10 million?
- In Pakistan Quake Zone, Mild Optimism As Winter Closes In (Reuters, Robert Birsel, Jan 01, 2006)
Villagers in the remote Allai Valley in the high mountains of northern Pakistan are used to hard winters and this year they need to be.
- Mirwaiz For Consensus On Kashmir Issue (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Seeking a “solid and strong beginning” towards a final settlement of the Kashmir issue, the Hurriyat Conference chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, here today demanded demilitarisation on either side of the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. He urged the need . . .
- Human Rights And Their Protection (Daily Excelsior, Tahir Khurshid Raina, Jan 01, 2006)
Quoting ''Hamlet'' the celebrated literary creation of Shakespeare, the man has been beautifully described as :
- Ill-Timed Indian Statement On Balochistan (News International, Dr A R Khan, Jan 01, 2006)
India once again trying to vitiate the peace atmosphere in the region issued unwarranted and provocative statement that too on purely Pakistan’s internal matter.
- We Need Creative Leaders’ (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
In Indian history, very rarely has our nation come across positive situations all at the same time.
- Key North Korea Editorial Gives No Hint On Nuclear Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
North Korea pledged in a New Year message on Sunday to channel its resources into farming but made no mention of slow-moving six-country talks on dismantling its nuclear weapons programmes.
- Stem Cells, Singing Mice Herald New Era In Genetics (Hindu, Alok Jha, Jan 01, 2006)
Highlights of an eventful year for scientists who probed deeper into space and unravelled the secrets of DNA For the first time humans managed to hit asteroids. It happens with ease in Hollywood films but doing it is tricky in real life but scientists . .
- A New Year Beyond Resolutions (Indian Express, N K Singh, Jan 01, 2006)
We usher the new year with a nominal one-second adjustment to compensate for the wobbly planet. Unfortunately, a much deeper correction is necessary to compensate for our wobbly policies.
- Quake Monitor Brings Good Tidings (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Jan 01, 2006)
Roger Belham is the lone scientist who had proposed a study of the tectonics of the island 15 years ago from the “micro-atoll”environment which means a probe into sections of tiny systems around which corals grow.
- Monitors To Verify Iraq Results (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 01, 2006)
Findings of global panel could help ease Sunni-Shia tensions
- Mirwaiz-Led Delegation On Way To Pak, Pok (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
Chairman of the moderate faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, today left for New Delhi to complete his travel documents for a visit to Pakistan and PoK. He was accompanied by senior separatist leader . . .
- Inclusive Nationalism (Daily Excelsior, C.S. Pandit, Jan 01, 2006)
Nation-states have a logic of their own. So insidiously is this logic purveyed through the state's institutions that it becomes common sense, particularly among the educated. Perspectives that differ from this common sense are then easily seen . . .
- One Village No More? (Deccan Herald, Jaydeep Deosthale, Jan 01, 2006)
The author, while theorising that globalisation is on the decline as a phenomenon, classifies India among its success stories.
- India’S Irresponsible Statement (Pakistan Observer, Dr. A. R. Khan, Dec 31, 2005)
India once again trying to vitiate the peace atmosphere in the region issued unwarranted and provocative statement that too on purely Pakistan’s internal matters. The statement by the spokesman of India’s External Affairs Ministry is not only . . .
- Buddha's Relic To Add Attraction To State Archaeological Museum (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Archaeologists stumble upon five caskets at Bavikonda
Dalai Lama to inaugurate the 16th enclosure of the museum
A number of Union Ministers and Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to attend the inaugural
- India, Sri Lanka Deplore Violations Of Ceasefire By Ltte (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Agree that environmental implications of Sethu project must be studied
Ambitious plan for a number of joint ventures
Enhancing cooperation in the field of education
Setting up an Information and Communication Technology Park
- Reduce Terrorism In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
India hopes that in the new year, there will be a determined effort by Pakistan to reduce terrorism and take the peace process forward and if there are any fresh proposals for the proposed ‘self rule’ in Jammu and Kashmir, . . .
- Russia Threatens To Cut Off Gas Supplies To Ukraine (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Dec 31, 2005)
Talks on prices fail as deadline approaches
- Salve On Pak Islamic Schools Before Salvo (Telegraph, IMTIAZ GUL, Dec 31, 2005)
In an apparent attempt to avoid confrontation with Islamic seminaries that host foreign students, the Pakistani government today said it is not cancelling the students’ visas but they have to leave the country “as soon as possible”.
- Super Bizarre (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Dec 31, 2005)
As far as common sense is concerned quantum mecha-nical theory is not just counterintuitive, it's way beyond weird. Einstein in fact famously described it as being downright "spooky".
- India Concluding Separation Of Civilian, Military N-Installations (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 31, 2005)
India is moving to conclude the separation of its civilian and military nuclear installations before the visit of US President George W Bush.
- Water-Rich, Yet Over-Stretched (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 31, 2005)
Water may seem too common a topic to write about, especially after floods have receded and the tsunami anniversary vigil has passed off peacefully. Yet, it is hot news all over the world.
- Year Of India (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 31, 2005)
It was the year of India. George W. Bush confirmed that he would make India a world power. WaterAid, the British charity dedicated to propagating proper (read Western) toilets, countered that India already leads the world in squatters in fields and . . .
- Battered But Unbowed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
The Indian Institute of Science campus, home to some of the finest minds in the country, is also not lacking in spirit, discover BHUMIKA K. and ANAND SANKAR in the aftermath of the dastardly act
- World Is More Terrorised Now (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Dec 31, 2005)
The world is entering the year 2006 more terrorised than it was on October 7, 2001, when the Untied States-led forces started bombing Afghanistan with a view to eliminate global terrorism. But the menace of terrorism has become at least four times . . .
- Sri Lanka: Towards An Enduring Solution (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Dec 31, 2005)
Environmental implications of the Sethusamudram project have to be studied and action taken.
- The Trend Of Re-Wilding (Hindu, Owen Bowcott and Bernard O Riordan, Dec 31, 2005)
Conservation groups are increasingly buying farmland to return it to vanished wilderness.
- U.S. Versus Iran In Iraq (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Dec 31, 2005)
Iran's influence over the SCIRI, a key constituent of the Iraqi Government, is setting up a confrontation with the United States.
- No Progress On Kashmir (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Dec 31, 2005)
For far too long, the progress on talks between the Government of India and Kashmiri leaders is in limbo. Though Indo-Pak talks are taking place on Sir Creek and Siachen glacier, they do not seem to have made any progress.
- India’S Space Science (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
A chance for rationality
The launch into space of India’s INSAT-4 satellite by a European rocket in French Guyana last week, and the prospect of our satellites being launched by the indigenous Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) . . .
- 2005 In Its Own Words (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 31, 2005)
Amid the dizzy year-enders, it’s best to do what the New York Times did. It tried to squeeze 2005 into a handy list of catchwords and phrases. The paper was not unaware that the exercise could turn out to be foolhardy.
- The Unintelligible American (Deccan Herald, M N Batra, Dec 31, 2005)
Accent can cause confusion, especially if people from different countries have a meeting.
- India Ready For Role In Lanka Peace Process (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
With the ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE rebels under ‘‘strain’’, India has indicated that it is ready to ‘‘encourage’’ parties to bring the peace process back on track.
- Pm Delivers On Relief (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 31, 2005)
Guilty must be punished
It has taken 21 years, but finally there is a measure of relief for the victims of the 1984 riots.
- Bsnl Cuts Fixed Line Rentals, Launches Lifetime Card In Mobile (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Taking the ongoing tariff war from mobile to fixed lines, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd today announced up to 28 per cent cut in the tariffs for fixed line telecom services by reducing the monthly rentals.
- Metro On The Fast Track (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Dec 30, 2005)
The New Delhi metro has set the benchmarks for the successful handling of a complex mega-project, without time and cost-overruns, and has become a model for other such projects in the country.
- India-Iran-Pak To Meet On Ipi Pipeline In Mar ‘06 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Iran today offerred to host the meeting of the tripartite joint working group comprising Pakistan, India and itself in Tehran in March next year to carry forward the negotiations on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, even as the vexed issue of gas . .
- Reclaiming The Earth For All (Daily Excelsior, Deepti Priya Mehrotra, Dec 30, 2005)
Three decades after 1975 - the UN International Year of Women - women are still demanding equality and freedom, both goals having proved elusive! But they are asserting something else as well, even more passionately - the right to save humanity from destr
- This Happens Only In India (Daily Excelsior, Lt Col (Retd) Mukund Singh Jamwal, Dec 30, 2005)
Welcome to India, that is Bharat, the land of eternal contradictions. Blessed are the souls of this country who have the good fortune of living with contradictions from morn till eve with a majority of them even making a virtue out of this.
- Bundh In Orissa Against Animal Sacrifice (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
A bundh was observed in western Bolangir district in Orissa on Wednesday to stop animal sacrifice during a popular annual religious festival scheduled to be held early next month in one of the villages in the district.
- India-Iran Gas Pipeline Work May Begin By 2007: Pak (Indian Express, K J M Varma, Dec 30, 2005)
Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Amanullah Khan Jadoon, informed the Senate on Thursday that the multi-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project could take off from 2007 despite political and . . .
- Explosions Rock Balochistan (Daily Times, Azizullah Khan, Dec 30, 2005)
Two explosions jolted Nushki late on Thursday while explosions were also reported in Sibi and Hub.
- Tribesmen Hold Rally For Release Of Journalist (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Hurmaz tribesmen demonstrated in the Mirali town and called for the release of kidnapped journalist Hayatullah Khan, missing for the past 27 days. Protestors included elders and elites of the Hurmaz tribe.
- Musharraf Sees Foreign Hand In Balochistan (News International, Mayed Ali, Dec 30, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf has said that the recent Indian concern over the situation in Balochistan has revealed the channel providing funds for hiring mercenaries and supplying arms for carrying out subversive activities in the province.
- Munich Is A Prayer For Peace. It Also Captures The Sociology Of Terrorism (Indian Express, James P. Pinkerton, Dec 30, 2005)
Steven Spielberg, America’s most influential filmmaker, doesn’t just make movies. He makes statements — and takes risks, as with his latest movie, Munich.
- The Three R’S: What’S Religion Got To Do With It? (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Many ulema are open to curricular reform in madrasa education, says Yoginder Sikand. But the debate must be fairly structured.
- Telling It Like It Isn’T (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
You really have to reach for the good word while reporting from the Middle East, says Robert Fisk
- Intel Inside: Securing It Cities (Indian Express, C. Uday Bhaskar, Dec 30, 2005)
Bangalore's prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was the venue of an attack by an unidentified gun-toting killer on December 28. Delhi based professor, Professor M.C. Puri — participating in an international conference — was killed and . . .
- A Tangled Web Called The Bharatiya Janata Party (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Dec 30, 2005)
The BJP's Rajat Jayanti year finds the party bruised and bereft, and the Parivar at war with its own professed values.
- Chance To Lobby Putin (Hindu, David Clark, Dec 30, 2005)
International Diplomacy's game of musical chairs plays again at midnight on Saturday when Britain's G8 presidency comes to an end and leadership of the world's most exclusive political club passes for the first time to Russia.
- Concern In Russia Over Chinese Toxic Spill (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Dec 30, 2005)
The impact from a Chinese chemical plant accident on neighbouring Russian territories has proved less serious than expected, but Russian officials and environmentalists are sounding alarm over what they say is a looming ecological catastrophe.
- Of Holocausts, Past And Future (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Dec 30, 2005)
Despite its horrors, the Holocaust was not a singularity and was preceded by others of lesser or greater dimensions.
- Air Traffic Management Foggy (Hindu, A. Ranganathan, Dec 30, 2005)
The outdated procedures in vogue at Indian airports to tackle regular occurrences such as a fog have to be replaced with modern practices.
- Centre Urged Not To Extend Military Aid To Sri Lanka (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
"The Rajapakse Government has unleashed repression in Tamil areas"
Eelam Tamils Protection Meeting addressed by MDMK, PMK, DK
Colombo trying to make the New Delhi assume a leading role in the peace process
- Vajpayee To Keep Off Elections (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
Former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee announced his retirement from “power politics” on Thursday night and said he would “no longer contest elections."
- Taliban Commander Says Mulla Omar Alive And Well (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
A Taliban commander fighting US troops in Afghanistan appeared on US television, claiming that his troops had killed three US Navy seals and downed a Chinook helicopter.
- A Band For Defence (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 30, 2005)
Creating an exclusive spectrum band for Defence telecommunication, as suggested by the Parliamentary Standing Committee to the Government to enhance availability of spectrum for mobile service providers,
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