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- Why Did Krishna Return The Dance Bar Ordinance? (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Jun 27, 2005)
Publicly the Congress may be all for the ban, but it would be happy to see the NCP humiliated and egg on young Patil's face.
- Naipaul’S Challenge (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Jun 27, 2005)
The year 2005 will be remembered for, among other things, V.S. Naipaul’s milestone speech in which he challenged Indians to come up with a contemporary intellectual discourse.
- Russia Ambivalent On U.N. Reform (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Jun 27, 2005)
Even as Russia supports India's bid for a Security Council seat, Moscow's position on United Nations reform is ambivalent.
- Executive Defense Industry Round Table (Indian Embassy, Pranab Mukherjee , Jun 27, 2005)
I am indeed honoured to be here today to address this august gathering of leaders of the Indian and US defence industries. I must congratulate the US India Business Council for organizing this event.
- `Great Potential For India-Singapore Trade' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2005)
Singapore's Prime MinisterLee Hsien Loongsees the prospective Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between India and Singapore as "a very big psychological step" for New Delhi. In a wide-ranging interview toP.S. Suryanarayana, he also spoke on the
- Kashmir: A New Perspective (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Jun 27, 2005)
Despite the unfortunate controversy between New Delhi and Islamabad regarding the travel of Hurriyat leaders beyond Azad Kashmir, the two-week visit of the nine-member Hurriyat delegation has been a positive development for the resolution of the Kashmir..
- Pleasure From Others’ Misery (Deccan Herald, Janaki Murali, Jun 27, 2005)
The emotion Germans call schadenfreude is no doubt negative but it falls short of being vile
- Shining A Light On Turkish-Japanese Ties (Japan Times, HIROAKI SATO, Jun 27, 2005)
Selcuk Esenbel was in town. For many years now a professor of history at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Selcuk was, when I met her more than 30 years ago, studying Japanese history at Columbia University
- A Serious Setback To The Eu (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Jun 27, 2005)
The EU’s current president is reported to have remarked after the latest EU summit this week, that “Europe is not in a state of crisis — it is in a state of profound crisis.”
- Sectarian Violence Is Shattering Iraq's Hopes (Hindu, Peter Beaumont, Jun 27, 2005)
When they killed Abdul Sattar Saffar al-Khazraji, he was waiting for the minibus that would take him to his work as a laboratory supervisor at Nahrain University. As the 30-year-old stood with other workers commuting from the Harriya district of Baghdad,
- Us Determined To Stay The Course (Deccan Herald, L K Sharma , Jun 27, 2005)
Americans have started seeing in the Iraqi sands a “quagmire” but Bush is determined to carry on regardless
- Rumsfeld’S Concerns (Dawn, Fred Hiatt, Jun 27, 2005)
Earlier this month Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld questioned the priorities of editorial pages in some newspapers.
- Growing Discord In Europe (Dawn, Shadaba Islam, Jun 26, 2005)
The recent ill-fated European Union summit will probably be remembered as one of the worst in the bloc’s history.
- Issues Of Identity (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Jun 26, 2005)
I have been reading a volume, entitled, “The Final Settlement,” prepared by a think-tank in Mumbai, called “Strategic Insight Group.”
- Call Them Illegal, But They're Also Heroic (Japan Times, DOMENICO MACERI, Jun 26, 2005)
Santa Maria, Calif. -- "Being that you are an alleged expert in language, you should know the difference between legal and illegal," the reader stated in his e-mail, as he reacted angrily to one of my articles on immigration.
- Curbing Antiquities’ Smuggling (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
The seizure on Thursday of Dubai-bound antiquities worth Rs 700 million by the customs at Karachi port points to the long prevailing problem of historical relics being smuggled out of the country.
- Reining In The Taliban (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 26, 2005)
In one of the biggest attacks in the last two years, 130 Taliban fighters were killed in three days by Afghan and US-led coalition forces determined to put an end to the insurgency prior to September’s presidential elections.
- India Disappointed With Offer Made By Us (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Jun 26, 2005)
New Delhi had sought unlimited H1B visas for temporary relocation of software engineers, but Washington refused to indicate anything.
- Another Vietnam (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 26, 2005)
PRESIDENT Bush has refused to set a timetable for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq because ‘it would allow Iraqi insurgents to wait us out’. Speaking at a joint Press conference with the visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari at the White House
- Outcome Of Iranian Elections (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 26, 2005)
Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has obtained a clear majority in the run-off presidential elections in Iran. Despite some complaints of voter intimidation, aides of veteran leader Akbar Hashmi Rafsanjani have conceded his defeat.
- Justice Above Prejudice (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Jun 26, 2005)
The current world perception is that it is General Musharraf at one end and fundamentalists at the other who dominate the community life in Pakistan to the exclusion of law and reason.
- Representations Of India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Various voices reveal encounters that mostly hang on the common thread of western cliche that surrounds India.
- Entire Environmental Clearance Process Has Been Subverted, Says Jayalalithaa (Hindu, CP Bhambri, Jun 26, 2005)
Chief Minister expresses inability to participate in the inaugural function
- Sethu Project: Mou On Dredging Signed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Tuticorin Port Trust allotted 13.57 km to Dredging Corporation of India
- Borrowing To Fund Welfare Schemes To Continue: Ysr (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
The Congress Government will not hesitate to borrow any amount to implement the welfare schemes for the poor and farmers to honour the priorities it has set for the growth of Andhra Pradesh, the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, said here on Saturda
- ``Ministry Bulldozed Into According Clearance'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Startling, unseemly haste to organise launch function of Sethu Canal Project: Jayalalithaa
- The Beginning Of Empathy? (Japan Times, BRAD GLOSSERMAN, Jun 26, 2005)
Honolulu - The strains in the Japan-South Korea relationship are far too deep-rooted for any single summit meeting to assuage.
- Clio And The State (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 26, 2005)
The relationship between the state and the writing of history has always been difficult and fraught with contradictions.
- How Best To Tackle The Problem Of Suicide (Tribune, Shalini Marwaha , Jun 26, 2005)
OF late, there has been an increasing number of suicides. The reasons are many — marital discord, dejection in love, failure in the examination, unemployment and non-repayment of loans.
- Lost Energy (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Jun 26, 2005)
Here's a Prediction : At some point -- maybe 10 years from now, maybe 20 -- the energy bill currently wending its way through the Senate will be seen as an enormously significant lost opportunity.
- Sheikh Rashid Deprived Of Visit To Ihk (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 26, 2005)
India has refused permission to Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed to visit occupied Kashmir by the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar peace bus, an Indian External Affairs Ministry announcement in New Delhi said.
- Eu Seeks More Tariff Concessions From India (Hindu, SUSHMA RAMACHANDRAN , Jun 26, 2005)
Important ally in WTO trade talks; the two sides are in agreement on many issues"
- Older Than Us, Still Going Strong (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Usha Kris discovers the Narasimha Jayanthi, which has been celebrated every year for the past 364 years at Tanjavur.
- Bharat Forge Acquires Us Firm For $9.1 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL), the flagship company of the US $1.25 billion Kalyani Group, has acquired US-based Federal Forge Inc through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bharat Forge America Inc, in all cash deal worth US $9.1 million (about Rs 40 crore).
- Whither European Unity? (Hindu, Shelley Walia, Jun 26, 2005)
The recent referendum in France and the Netherlands is the biggest crisis to engulf the E.U. Final breaks have been put on the process of integration which now stands hindered.
- Master Of Miniature (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Artist Vijay Hagaragundgi steadfastly pursues traditional miniature painting in the near-extinct Surapura style, discovers Giridhar Khasnis.
- Advani Sees Nazi Analogy (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
BJP President L K Advani, then Jan Sangh leader, was taken into police custody on June 26, 1975 in Bangalore soon after the imposition of Emergency by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
- Burns Finalises Agenda For Pm’S Us Visit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns continued his discussions with Indian leadership for the second day on Indo-US bilateral ties.
- Jayalalitha To Boycott Sethu Project Inauguration (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 26, 2005)
Jaya maintains that further studies are needed before undertaking projects that may pose a threat to the bio-diversity of the region.
- The Question Of Image (Dawn, S.M. Naseem, Jun 25, 2005)
The way the Pakistani government has handled the case of the gang-rape victim Mukhtaran Mai reflects the gulf between high-sounding aims and ground realities.
- Religious Scholar’S Murder (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 25, 2005)
Yet another religious scholar has been shot dead in Karachi.
- Comrades Conspiring To Create Chaos? (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Jun 25, 2005)
The comrades claim to speak for the ‘people’ but they have never led an agitation demanding that the people get that most fundamental of human needs: water
- Taking The High Road (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 25, 2005)
The Bush administration is finally preparing to set new fuel economy rules. That’s reason to cheer, even if this hardly represents leadership.
- Moments That Matter (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 25, 2005)
IN a memorable 1980 episode of Yes Minister, the wily mandarin Sir Humphrey Appleby explains to hapless minister Jim Hacker that the purpose of British foreign policy for the past 500 years has been to create a disunited Europe.
- Dabhol Re-Powered (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 25, 2005)
If There are no further hitches, the 740 MW Dabhol power plant on Maharashtra's Konkan coast should once again begin generating by the end of 2005, under new owners.
- Scars Of Emergency (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 25, 2005)
Some scars do not go away. They remind a nation of the rough period it has gone through.
- Outsourcing Crime (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 25, 2005)
CALL centre work is actually the low-rung business in the IT hierarchy. But since it gives employment to over 3.5 lakh people in India,
- Layers Of History (Japan Times, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Jun 25, 2005)
The histories of Indian cities are contained in the names of their streets and squares.
- Price Of Cracking Confidence (Tribune, Roopinder Singh, Jun 25, 2005)
Two security breaches have highlighted international vulnerability,
- Emergency: Memories Of The Dark Midnight (Business Line, R. C. Rajamani, Jun 25, 2005)
Indira Gandhi, on the night of June 25, 1975, took away, in one stroke, what her father had pledged his countrymen 28 years before at the dawn of Independence.
- Eu: Clash Of Fundamentals (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jun 25, 2005)
The European Union is dead. Long live the European Union." To enthusiasts of the Union of Europe, nothing could be more welcome at this point of time than this slogan,
- No Easy Fix For Reapportionment Wrongs (Japan Times, BOB KEEFE, Jun 25, 2005)
Among the issues that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will take to a special referendum election next fall is that of reapportionment. Specifically,
- Loan, Cash Credit: No Source, Will Tax (Business Line, H R RANINA, Jun 25, 2005)
Where adequate explanation is not provided for loans, cash credits and unsubstantiated investments, they are taxable and the court would also uphold such an assessment. This provision in the Income-Tax Act is an excellent tool against evasion, ....
- Us ‘disliked’ Everywhere, Except In India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2005)
Nearly seven of ten US citizens felt their country was ‘generally disliked’, a finding which is ‘the most self-effacing assessment’ of global popularity.
- India Has Right To Unsc Seat: Us (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 25, 2005)
Stopping short of endorsing India’s bid for a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council,
- Taliban In The Footsteps Of Iraqis (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 24, 2005)
AS many as 76 people were killed in military operations launched by Afghan and US troops with warplanes’ support in the Mian Nishin district in Kandhar province that the Taliban had taken over last week.
- Door Wide Open For Resolving Korean Nuclear Issue (Japan Times, JAMES A. KELLY, Jun 24, 2005)
There is no country in Asia, indeed in the world, that behaves like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
- A Slice Of India In A Corner Of China (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 24, 2005)
The ease with which foreign companies manage to set up shop has encouraged some 50 Indian names to venture into eastern China.
- That Long Night Of Knives (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 24, 2005)
When India’s democratic structure was shaken to its roots
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- A Tribute To George Dantzig — To Him, Impossible Was Nothing (Business Line, Niranjan Krishnan, Jun 24, 2005)
A YOUNG student walks into the classroom. He is late and finds the professor well into his lecture. He notices two problems written on the blackboard. He thinks they are routine assignments and copies them down in his notebook.
- With A Pinch Of Salt (Tribune, Saroop Krishen, Jun 24, 2005)
WHEN one is considering some of the age-old sayings of wisdom, it is advisable to have near at hand quite a lot of salt: a number of these sayings need to be taken with more than a pinch of salt.
- Pitfalls Of Brand Marketing (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 24, 2005)
THE DECISION OF India's largest sugar mill, Balrampur Chini, to retreat from marketing branded consumer packs is a valuable case-study in two different and significant ways.
- Israel’S Policy Of Murder (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 24, 2005)
THE report that Israel has “revived” its assassination policy implies that Tel Aviv had discontinued it.
- Towards A Better Informed Society (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 24, 2005)
The National Readership Study 2005, whose findings were released recently, shows a positive trend towards the still distant goal of creating a better-informed society with a richer public, social, and cultural life.
- Changing The Image (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 24, 2005)
GUANTANAMO Bay is getting a lot of attention lately. Some of it isn’t necessarily good. The Bush administration is now in high gear trying to change the public perception of the prison
- First Egalitarian Creed (Dawn, Jafar Wafa, Jun 24, 2005)
ISLAM, unlike some superstitious religions, introduced egalitarian creeds focussing on the uplift of society by ameliorating the lot of the slaves, the orphans and the poor as a first step to the ennoblement of human life.
- Sacred Space: Compassion Is Strength (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 24, 2005)
This wide and wind-swept fertile earth is witness to the truth
That misery is not for men who keep compassion.
Thiruvalluvar, Thirukural
- The Scourge Of Africa (Hindu, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jun 24, 2005)
There is a pain in the belly of Africa that just will not go away. It is gnawing at our development goals and undermining our economies.
- Another Vietnam In The Making? (Dawn, Sidney Blumenthal, Jun 24, 2005)
ON June 21, network news reported that the Pentagon had claimed that 47 enemy operatives had been killed in Operation Spear in western Iraq.
- N-Weapons In Emerging World Order — Symbols Of Power And Privilege (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jun 24, 2005)
The differences between the signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the absence of any consensus on nuclear disarmament have created a new situation in the global nuclear architecture for India.
- Capitalism"s Future On Trial (Deccan Herald, Jeremy Rifkin, Jun 24, 2005)
EU’s crisis has obscured the fact that it has come closest to balancing market dynamism and social protection
- Africa's Debt Deal: Not Out Of The Blue (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jun 24, 2005)
Africa is the flavour of 2005, described as a "make or break year" for the continent on which the UN, G-8 and international financial institutions are all focussed because it is where poverty is more intractable than in other parts of the developing world
- In The Name Of Security (Dawn, Tony Benn, Jun 23, 2005)
Since the attack on the twin towers, in which many innocent Americans were killed, we have been told that we are engaged in a war against terrorism that threatens our way of life and our liberties.
- The Law And The Golden Rule (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 23, 2005)
IMAGINE being arrested in a foreign country where you are unfamiliar with the language, the culture, the legal system or your rights, and never being allowed to contact a U.S. Consulate for help.
- Camel Kids’ Plight (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 23, 2005)
While it is a relief to know that the first batch of 22 Pakistani camel kids arrived in Lahore on Tuesday, after last month’s Unicef-UAE accord on the return of young jockeys in the Gulf to their home countries,
- Blow From Brussels (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 23, 2005)
Saving the EU now will depend on Britain
- Could The Next Pandemic Be Here? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 23, 2005)
A new strain of influenza could extract a toll similar to the 1918-19 attack
- Expanding Security Council (Business Line, T.P. Sreenivasan, Jun 23, 2005)
THE US announcement of possible criteria for new permanent members and the simultaneous indication that it might support Japan and a developing country for permanent membership constitutes a master-stroke to get the initiative on expansion back to . . .
- The Politics Of Arson And Violence (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Jun 23, 2005)
The Sindh government has constituted a committee to inquire into the Karachi police’s failure to control the acts of arson (and riots) after last month’s bomb blast in Madinatul Ilm in Karachi.
- India A Satellite Power? (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Jun 23, 2005)
There is no need to kowtow to the US. India should assert itself as a world power in its own right
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