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Articles 20721 through 20820 of 31829:
- Launching Edusat In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Dr Renu Nanda, Dec 09, 2005)
Due to globalisation, the world is going through rapid changes where national boundaries of production and distribution and the quality of life are giving way to global trends and standards.
- Cong Seeks To Take Volcker Battle Into Bjp Camp (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Congress today sought to take the Volcker battle into the BJP camp by demanding that the Pathak Inqui should also take go into accusations that an unnamed "very close" associate of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was involved in the Iraqi . . .
- Violence Simmers In Sri Lanka's Multi-Ethnic East (Reuters, Peter Apps, Dec 09, 2005)
Ethnic tension between Sri Lanka's minority Tamil and Muslim communities is rising in the island's east after a November grenade attack on a mosque killed seven and as observers fear the island's 2002 truce is falling apart.
- U.N. Talks Support Clean Energy In Poor Nations (Reuters, Alister Doyle, Dec 09, 2005)
Negotiators at U.N. talks agreed to speed investments in clean-energy projects in the Third World on Thursday but remained deadlocked on ways to enlist the United States in a long-term fight against global warming.
- U.S. May Offer India Top Radar In Fighter-Jet Bid (Reuters, Jim Wolf, Dec 09, 2005)
The United States may offer India advanced Raytheon Co. radar as part of a bid for a multibillion-dollar fighter-jet contract, the head of the Pentagon agency handling the matter said Wednesday.
- 'United States Of Kashmir’ (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Washington has reportedly urged India and Pakistan to find solution to the core issue of Kashmir within the parameters of APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s proposal for ‘the United States of Kashmir’.
- Hubris Of The Humanities (Indian Express, Nicholas D. Kristof, Dec 09, 2005)
The best argument against “intelligent design” has always been humanity itself. At a time when only 40 per cent of Americans believe in evolution, and only 13 per cent know what a molecule is, we’re an argument at best for “mediocre design”.
- Nato Plan To Operate In Southern Afghanistan (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2005)
Foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) approved on Thursday a plan to expand the alliance’s peacekeeping force in Afghanistan into the volatile south of the country, after overcoming concerns about troop safety.
- View From The Left (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 09, 2005)
Uma throws a tantrum and all’s well with India
- Hong Kong Ministerial: Much Ado About Something (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Dec 09, 2005)
The Ministerial meeting of the 149 countries of the World Trade Organisation(WTO) will take place in Hong Kong (HK) a weekfrom now.
- Of Captors And Their Captives (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Dec 09, 2005)
India must remain watchful of American designs in South Asia in the guise of friendship, says Anuradha Dutt.
- Anatomy Of A Botch-Up (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Dec 09, 2005)
Kalyani Shankar says amidst the brouhaha surrounding Natwar Singh, the question remains: Where did the money go?
- World Can't Watch Dhaka Fall (Pioneer, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Dec 09, 2005)
As the region's biggest power, "larger than all the rest combined" as Junius R Jayewardene reminded the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's inaugural conference in Dhaka 20 years ago, India might expect to enjoy the same . . .
- Democracy Calling (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 09, 2005)
The latent desire for democracy that exists in mainland China and Hong Kong remains undiminished though daunting memories of the Tiananmen Square massacre are yet to fade from public memory.
- Parliament On Hold (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 09, 2005)
PARLIAMENT’S time is precious. It cannot be wasted on flimsy grounds. The Opposition had every right to raise the issue of the Volcker committee report that mentioned the former External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh and the Congress . . .
- Nothing Really To Crow About? (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Dec 09, 2005)
What makes people go gaga over a peacock rather than a crow? It couldn’t be just the mindless explosion of colour in the former because then black panthers wouldn’t excite anyone either. Obviously it has something to do with rarity . . .
- Bitter Medicine Beneath The Sugar-Coated Diplomacy (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 09, 2005)
FRESH on the home-page of the WTO (www.wto.org) is the December 6 decision on changes to the WTO Agreement on TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). It informs that cheaper generic versions of patented medicines . . .
- Can There Really Be Peace With Ariel Sharon? (Hindu, Gerald Kaufman, Dec 08, 2005)
The Gaza withdrawal has been a veil for continued persecution and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
- Rain Spreads Cheer In Andhra Pradesh (Hindu, M. Malleswara Rao, Dec 08, 2005)
The agriculture sector has received a boost and power generation has improved.
- Inside The Lashkar-E-Taiba's Network (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 08, 2005)
Top Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Shabbir Bukhari's story offers unprecedented insight into the organisation's working — and raises disturbing questions about the threat it holds out to the India-Pakistandétenteprocess.
- Afghans Give Britons, Indian Suspended Sentences (Reuters, Reuters, Dec 08, 2005)
An Afghan court gave two Britons and an Indian two-year suspended jail sentences on Wednesday after convicting them of illegally possessing firearms, but acquitted an American who stood trial with them.
- Insat’S Home Launch In 2006 (Deccan Herald, Vijesh Kamath, Dec 08, 2005)
The year 2006 will witness the first ever launch of an Insat series satellite from home soil. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch Insat-4D by the indigenous developed Geo-synchronous Satellite....
- U.S. Trade Chief Rejects "Watered-Down" Wto Deal (Reuters, Doug Palmer, Dec 08, 2005)
Countries must agree to big market openings in agriculture, manufacturing and services if world trade talks are to benefit poor nations, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
- Natwar Attacks Un And Us After Stepping Down (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Natwar Singh, who had to resign from the Union Cabinet in the wake of UN-appointed Volcker Committee report, today attacked the world body, terming it as a "quasi-bankrupt" organisation with no ability to carry out its political responsibilites efficientl
- Iraq: Hostages Appeal For Pull Out (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Dec 08, 2005)
Fears are mounting for the safety of the Canadian NRI and three other Western hostages held in Iraq following the release of a new video footage on the internet featuring two ...
- Crimes, Chew'd, Swallow'd And Digested, Appear Before Us (Business Line, D. Murali , Dec 08, 2005)
KING Lear says, "Tremble, thou wretch, that hast within thee undivulged crimes." In Hamlet, one comes across, "Feats, so crimeful and so capital in nature." And in King Richard II, the Bard writes about "These accusations and these grievous crimes...
- Management Lessons From Dunlop (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Dec 08, 2005)
An important object of this column is to draw, to the extent possible, generalisable managerial lessons from recent happenings in the business world.
- India To Blame: Infy's Murthy (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
America is at war and Bill Gates, worth $39 billion in packaged software, wants it to merge with China and India.
- Microsoft To Invest $1.7 Bln In India (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar and Kirstin Ridley, Dec 08, 2005)
Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $1.7 billion in India over four years to deepen its presence in the fast-growing software powerhouse, Chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday.
- ‘Osama Is Still Leading Jihad’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Al-Qaeda’s leader, Osama bin Laden, is alive and well and leading the holy war against the West, the terrorist group’s second-in-command reportedly said in a videotape broadcast on Wednesday.
- Untenable Methods (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Dec 08, 2005)
America’s means of fighting terrorism are suspect
- Al-Qaeda’S Abu Hamza Is Alive? (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
President Pervez Musharraf declared his 200 percent certainty that Egyptian-born Abu Hamza Rabia had been killed. Headline stories in the world media proclaimed he was in a house in Isory village, North Waziristan near the Afghan border, . . .
- New Breed Of Suicide Bombers (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 08, 2005)
AT least 36 Iraqi Police officers and cadets were killed and 72 others wounded on Tuesday when two women suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Baghdad Police Academy classroom on Tuesday. The two females, each wearing a suicide vest, walked into a . . .
- Us Congress Threatens To Throw Out India N-Deal (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The chairman of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee warned on Tuesday that Congress would throw out any ‘opaque’ plan by the Bush administration to forge unprecedented civilian nuclear cooperation with India.
- Galvanizing The Muslim Countries (Dawn, Fateh M. Chaudhri, Dec 08, 2005)
An extraordinary summit of the 36-year-old Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is being held in Makkah at the invitation of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to define the Ummah’s response to the multiple challenges it faces internally and externally.
- Why Support To R&d Is Crucial (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Dec 08, 2005)
If India is to compete in the international markets for goods and services, it must give top priority to high quality advanced education in science and technology with a sharp focus on research and development.
- Saran: No Promise To Burns On Iran Energy Deals (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 08, 2005)
"I do not know who assured him because it certainly was not us"
LNG deal with Iran on the cards
"We have told the U.S. that Iran is our strategic partner"
Russia's interest in pipeline project allays fears of financial viability
- Ups And Downs, Part Of Politics: Natwar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
"From tomorrow, I shall be writing a book and having a damn good time"
- U.S. May Offer India Top Radar In Fighter-Jet Bid (Reuters, Jim Wolf, Dec 08, 2005)
The United States may offer India advanced Raytheon Co. radar as part of a bid for a multibillion-dollar fighter-jet contract, the head of the Pentagon agency handling the matter said on Wednesday.
- What Has Been Ailing The Tax-Gdp Ratio? (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Dec 08, 2005)
The more you earn, the less you keep.
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take, if the
tax-collector hasn't got it `fore I wake.
Ogden Nash
- Al Queda Focuses On Oil Installations In The Middle-East? (India Daily, Sonia Joshi, Dec 08, 2005)
Al-Queda may be pushing terror towards the oil installations in the middle-east. The oil shock in the already scarce market will cause chilling effects in the world economies.
- Ahead Of Foreign Secy Visit, Us Senate Panel Chief Seeks Credible India Plan On N-Separation (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Dec 08, 2005)
As India prepares to discuss its plans to separate civilian and military nuclear facilities with the Bush Administration later this month, an influential Senator has urged New Delhi to put as many reactors as possible in the non-military category.
- Navy Eyes Tech Link On Us Aviation Project (Indian Express, Shiv Aroor, Dec 08, 2005)
For all the talk about the IAF looking to purchase 126 fighters which Washington is keen to sell, it is the Indian Navy that is on track for an agreement that would for the first time make New Delhi a scientific and financial partner in a . . .
- Afghan Court Gives Indian Suspended Sentence For Illegal Arms (Indian Express, Reuters, Dec 08, 2005)
An Afghan court gave an Indian and two Britons two-year suspended jail sentences on Wednesday after convicting them of illegally possessing firearms, but acquitted an American who stood trial with them.
- Osama Alive And Leading Jihad, Says His No 2, Calls For Attacks On Pro-Us Gulf Oil Sites (Indian Express, HEBA KANDIL, Dec 08, 2005)
Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has urged militants to attack oil targets in Muslim states and said Osama bin Laden was still leading its battle against the West.
- Us In Policy Change To Ban Cruelty To Detainees Abroad (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The United States, seeking to defuse European criticism over reports of abuse of prisoners, said on Wednesday that it had changed its policy on interrogating detainees, even as US President George W. Bush denied that his his administration was . . .
- A Strange Turn In Cold War – Russia Defeating America In Geopolitics – America May Have Made Mistakes In Iraq, India And China (India Daily, Sunil Razdhan, Dec 08, 2005)
Russia is slowly turning the geopolitical chess board on America.
- India Becomes Partner In Multinational Nuclear Fusion Reactor Project (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
India will become a partner in a multinational project to build an experimental nuclear-fusion reactor, the Indian government said Wednesday.
- The Queen’S English (Tribune, Shailaja Chandra, Dec 08, 2005)
BBC News online has a story about an author Adam Jacot de Boinod who after pouring over 280 dictionaries and 140 websites has prepared an impressive collection of words and phrases from around the world.
- India May Get Top Radar From Us In Fighter-Jet Bid (Hindustan Times, Reuters, Dec 08, 2005)
The United States may offer India advanced Raytheon Co radar as part of a bid for a multibillion-dollar fighter jet contract, the head of the Pentagon agency handling the matter said on Wednesday.
- Bill Rings In Christmas: $1.7 Bn-Plus On India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
With a $1.7 billion budget, Microsoft Corp, the world’s biggest software company, signed up on Wednesday for a major role in India’s drive to modernise and take IT to rural areas
- Deplorable! (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 08, 2005)
Yet another blasphemous act and yet again the Muslims across the globe feel psychologically shattered. It seems the unscrupulous elements target the towering personality of the perfect and the best creation of all times with a purpose.
- Nonalignment Today (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Dec 08, 2005)
One unintended outcome of the Volcker report is the debate it has sparked off on whether, in the 21st century, India should continue to define its foreign policy as a nonalignment country.
- Fusion Partner (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 08, 2005)
India has joined the worldwide effort to harness thermonuclear fusion and create a potentially endless, and environment-friendly, source of energy. The consortium building the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) has admitted India ....
- A Taste Called Strawberry (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Dec 08, 2005)
It has got taste, use, beauty and more. In J&K the fruit is grown in a small scale as it doesn’t last longer Syed Mudasir Shafi writes on the history, botany and agronomy of a fruit called strawberry
- Us Classes Now In Indian Colleges (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Next time you may not have to fly to the US to have a Harvard professor lecturing you. You could well be sitting in your college in India. Fifteen leading American universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Texas, Illinois and California, . . .
- Who Cares About The Litigant? (Indian Express, Fali S. Nariman, Dec 08, 2005)
The statement of the chief justice of India about there being 27 million pending cases has set off alarm bells. First, about what society expects from lawyers and from judges, and next, about the so-far-neglected plight of litigants.
- A Letter To Mr Gates (Indian Express, Ravi Agarwal, Dec 08, 2005)
Bill Gates has joined the illustrious list of American businessmen philanthropists, from Rockefeller to Ford. With over 200 million USD to be given for the health sector alone and an expected over 1 billion USD investments in India, . . .
- Manmohan Calls For Strong Health Set-Up (Indian Express, Toufiq Rashid, Dec 08, 2005)
A decentralised need-based mechanism which does not work top downwards and a strengthened public health system is Manmohan Singh’s prescription for India’s ailing immunisation programme.
- An Indian Faces Medieval Punishment In Saudi Arabia. What Kind Of Country Is It? (Indian Express, Shriya Anand, Dec 08, 2005)
The central institution of Saudi Arabian government is the monarchy. The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that the Holy Qur’an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari’a).
- Icici Prices Ads At $26.75, Share At Rs 525 (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
For domestic investors, issue price will be Rs 498.75 a share.
- Gates & Murthy: They Still Chase A Dream (Business Line, Thomas K. Thomas, Dec 08, 2005)
They are rich, have a good sense of humour and come across as down to earth. Even after 30 years of making it big in the global IT scene, both Mr Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation, and Mr N. R. Narayana Murthy, ...
- How Al Qaeda Uses The Internet (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Dec 08, 2005)
Al Qaeda’s sophisticated and fast-paced use of the Internet while effective in getting its message across is both risk-prone and challenging.
- Rahul Opens Bihar Window For Bill (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Told of kala-azar scourge, Microsoft chief wants to make a visit
- American Businesses Including Bill Gates And Microsoft Will Go Back As Fast As They Are Coming To India (India Daily, Babu Ghanta, Dec 08, 2005)
That is the way America operates. It is a free capitalistic country where people can choose what they want to do within the parameters of the law of land.
- No Substitute For Cutting Back (Deccan Herald, George Monbiot, Dec 08, 2005)
We have missed the fact that biodiesel is worse than the fossil-fuel burning it replaces
- Russian Model, European Bovine (Pioneer, Dmitri Kosyrev, Dec 08, 2005)
The price of one European cow symbolises the difference between global economic policies of the Pacific and Eurocentric West, says Dmitri Kosyrev.
- United States Looks To India As New Global Ally (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
The Bush administration is looking increasingly to India as a core ally as it seeks to engineer what could be a major diplomatic shift away from the power alignments forged after World War Two.
- Us: India Very Close Ally In War On Terror (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Describing India as a “very close partner” in the war against terror, the US has stressed the importance of sharing intelligence between the two countries to face the threat.
- Angry Hills (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 08, 2005)
There is no let up in ethnic violence in Assam with the hills of Karbi Anglong district continuing to blaze with burning tribal homes and men, women and children being killed by rival militias.
- No Visa Power For India Inc In Russia (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Dec 08, 2005)
Russia must ease up its visa regime for Indian businessmen if it is serious about enhancing the economic content of its relations with India. While Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have given a united call . . .
- Putin Signals Hope (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Dec 08, 2005)
In keeping with the tradition of annual summits, Tuesday's meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Vladimir Putin was not expected to yield any results of far-reaching consequences, either in terms of bilateral relations . . .
- Delhi To Be Thermonuclear Club Partner (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
India said on Wednesday it has been accepted as a full partner in the elite International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project by consensus. The foreign ministry said the decision was taken at a meeting of the ITER partner countries . . .
- A New Urban Lifestyle Lures India's Rural Poor (International Herald Tribune, AMY WALDMAN, Dec 08, 2005)
This western city has at least 300 slum pockets, with grimy industry, factory-fouled air and a spiraling crime rate. A 1994 epidemic - reported as pneumonic plague - that originated here caused national panic.
- The Wages Of Corruption (Pioneer, Hiranmay Karlekar, Dec 08, 2005)
Around 4.30 pm on Friday December 2, 2005, officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Subhash Bhowmik, football coach of Kolkata's famous East Bengal Club and a former international footballer, on the charge of accepting a bribe . . .
- Iraq War & Arab Media (Dawn, Ameed Shah, Dec 08, 2005)
It seems that the Americans are realizing the costs and effects of the venture they decided to take in Iraq. The strategy, which Bush administration is presenting to achieve the victory in Iraq doesn’t seem to even impress his own party members.
- Mou To Promote Higher Education (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Twenty universities in the United States will join the Mata Amritanandamayi Math's Amrita University, Indian Space Research Organisation and the Department of Science and Technology through TIFAC and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum for . . .
- Focus On Central Asia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 08, 2005)
Is Russia a partner of the United States in the war on terrorism? You wouldn’t know it from the bitter campaign Moscow is waging to thwart President Bush’s democracy agenda in Muslim Central Asia.
- Bjp Targets Sonia, Stages Walk-Out In Parliament (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 08, 2005)
Buoyed by Union Minister Natwar Singh's decision to resign on the Volcker controversy, an aggressive BJP-led opposition today targeted Sonia Gandhi in Parliament demanding her resignation as chairperson of the National Advisory Council, saying . . .
- Abu Salem, The Don (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Dec 08, 2005)
No one ever becomes awfully wicked suddenly. How we shape in life, or we have a good or evil name, depends upon our choice of associates and friends.
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