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Articles 1321 through 1420 of 9581:
- Manmohan Vows To Work With Pakistan (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Sep 16, 2006)
Says India and Pakistan should work together to safeguard nuclear installations
Will meet Musharraf in Havana today
- '93 M'bai Blasts: Cbi Seeks Death Rap For Memons (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
The CBI today sought the death penalty for Yakub Memon, brother of absconding prime accused Tiger Memon, who was found guilty in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, even as the accused pleaded for leniency in punishment.
- India Moving Forward `On A Remarkably Stable Trajectory' (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 16, 2006)
Edward Luce's book In Spite of the Gods takes one on a quick ride across an India characterised as much by a `schizophrenic economy' and shrewd businessmen as by vedantic detachment and Gandhiji's legacy. D. MURALI recommends this meandering read.
- A New Triangle Of Trust (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 16, 2006)
A diplomatic success, the IBSA summit would be more useful if it leads to greater corporate interaction and technology-transfer deals.
- Students' Forum Condemns Terrorism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
Takes out a rally protesting against recent blasts in Maharashtra
Government urged to act firmly against terror outfits
Ensure innocent are not targetted .
- Cbi Seeks Death Penalty For 3 Memons (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
The CBI on Friday demanded that no mercy should be shown to the guilty in the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings case and sought death penalty for the three Memon brothers convicted for their involvement in the “rarest of rare case” in which 257 . . .
- Nam Summit: Secretary-Level Talks May Be Revived (Times of India, Arindam Sen, Sep 16, 2006)
PM Manmohan Singh would be meeting Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf here on Saturday amid indications he might agree to revival of foreign secretary-level talks in exchange for a promise of a sincere attempt to clamp down on terror groups . . .
- Repeating Mandal Mantra (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 16, 2006)
As expected, the Bill for OBC quotas was finally introduced in the Lok Sabha on August 25. After going to the Standing Committee, it is expected to be passed in the winter session of Parliament later this year. It is likely to come into effect from . . .
- Deprivation’S Real Language (Indian Express, MADHU PURNIMA KISHWAR, Sep 15, 2006)
Suggestions, both private and official, have inundated the Moily Oversight Committee on OBC reservations in institutions of higher education. The commerce ministry’s call for a liberal education order is the latest in a long line of varied advice.
- Harmony: There’S One Way (Deccan Herald, Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Sep 15, 2006)
One could argue that it is a peculiar sense of siege that has played on the Muslim psyche forcing the community to become defensive – and insular.
- Man Who Had Put Bomb In Zaveri Bazar Is Convicted (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
Mohammed Shoaib Ghansar, accused of planting the bomb at Zaveri Bazar in south Mumbai on March 12, 1993, was pronounced guilty by a Terrorism and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court on Thursday.
- Court Rules Memon’S ‘Planter’ Guilty (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
Mohammed Shoeib Ghansar, a foot soldier of the 1993 serial bombings mastermind Tiger Memon, was held guilty by the special TADA court here on Thursday, for planting an RDX laden scooter at Zaveri Bazaar on the fateful day...
- I Did Not Connive With Tiger: Yakub (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
Yakub Memon, held guilty of conspiring to commit terrorist acts during the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, on Thursday told a TADA court that he was dragged into the case only because he was the brother of prime accused Tiger Memon who is absconding.
- Are You Still There? (OutLook, V. Sudarshan, Sep 15, 2006)
Barely two months after the Mumbai bomb blasts, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be meeting the man whom India has been subtly trying to blame for the diabolic acts—General Pervez Musharraf.
- Into The Void (Telegraph, AVEEK SEN , Sep 15, 2006)
Vikram Chandra’s masterly new novel — exactly 900 pages long — starts with a white pomeranian, Fluffy, flying out of the window in upper-middle-class Mumbai: “Fluffy screamed in her little lap-dog voice all the way down, like a little white . . .
- Malegaon Blasts: Basu Blames Intelligence Failure (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
Veteran communist leader Jyoti Basu on Wednesday said that intelligence failure had led to the Malegaon blasts in Maharashtra that claimed 38 lives.
- Trio In Cry For Council Berth & Nuke ‘Right’ (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Sep 15, 2006)
India, Brazil and South Africa have agreed that no reform of the UN would be complete without a decision on the expansion of the Security Council.
- Falling Immunisation Rates In States A Worrying Factor: Experts .... (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
Falling immunisation rates has emerged as a worrying factor in many states as only 47 per cent of the children in the age group of 12 to 35 months in 43 districts surveyed received full immunisation coverage, say experts.
- Lubricating The Consumer Boom (Daily Excelsior, M.N. Minocha, Sep 15, 2006)
Much has been said about the boom in the consumer goods industry in India. Along with manufacturers of various consumer durables, finance companies are also getting into the act. Great fortunes have been made in fuelling and lubricating the . . .
- Terrorism The Biggest Challenge, Says Ncc Commanding Officer (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
550 cadets from three districts attend training camp at Kurnool
- M’Rashtra: The New Bihar (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 15, 2006)
Sure, Maharashtra isn’t a basket case, but cut through the legacy of social progressiveness and rapid industrialisation, and the bright lights of the Mumbai-Pune-Nashik golden triangle rapidly begin to dim.
- A Smart Gang Of Three (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 15, 2006)
Finally, the public sector banking industry seems to have found a way to blunt the political opposition to consolidation. The Mangalore-based Corporation Bank has informed the stock exchanges that the chiefs of three banks—namely the Oriental . . .
- Badal's Appeal To Include Farmers In Obituary References (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
While Chief Minister Amarinder Singh did not attend the proceedings on the first day of the monsoon session of the Punjab Assembly on Thursday, the Leader of the Opposition, Parkash Singh Badal, sought that as part of the obituary references, . . .
- 1993 Blasts:memon Family Seeks Lenient Punishment (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
Essa Memon and Rubina Memon, held guilty by a TADA court for the 1993 bomb blasts here, today sought leniency in punishment saying they were not involved in the conspiracy, while Yakub Memon told the judge that he had been framed because he was the . . .
- Special Article (Statesman, YP GUPTA, Sep 15, 2006)
In the recent past, there has been a wave of suicides by farmers in different parts of the country, prompting the Supreme Court to ask the Centre to review its farm policy.
- Next In Line: Plaza Bomb Accused (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
The man who allegedly planted the bomb outside Plaza theatre in central Mumbai is the 10th in the line of the 123 accused and the next one likely to face a verdict in the Tada court.
- Pak Firm Slammed For Using Big B's Voice (Times of India, Kounteya Sinha, Sep 15, 2006)
It's a measure of Amitabh Bachchan's popularity across the border that average Pakistanis were willing to pay Rs 14 a minute for the chance to talk to him over the phone.
- Tada Court Holds Ghansar Guilty Of Planting Bomb (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
He planted RDX-laden scooter in Zaveri Bazaar on March 12, 1993 that killed 17 people
- Satisfaction Over Stand Of Brazil, S. Africa (Hindu, N. Ravi, Sep 15, 2006)
IBSA summit to explore cooperation in peaceful uses of nuclear energy
- Pakistani Firm Slammed For Using Big B's Voice (Times of India, Kounteya Sinha, Sep 15, 2006)
It's a measure of Amitabh Bachchan's popularity across the border that average Pakistanis were willing to pay Rs 14 a minute for the chance to talk to him over the phone.
- En`titling' The Farmers (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 15, 2006)
Conferring land titles on landless peasants could be the starting point of attempts at eradication of poverty at the grassroots level. Emphasis will have to be placed on the marginal land and a strong support structure would have to be provided . . .
- To Reap Bigger Wheat Harvest, Government Plans To Sow . . . (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Sep 15, 2006)
Forced to import wheat for the first time in six years, the Government has unveiled plans to boost wheat output by about 7 million tonnes in the coming season through a plan that’s entirely subsidy-driven — costing the government Rs 2,482 crore . . .
- Mumbai Serial Blasts: Court Holds Ghansar Guilty (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 15, 2006)
The special TADA court hearing the 1993 serial Mumbai blasts on Thursday, deliver its verdict on accused number 9, Mohd Shoaib Kasam Ghansar.
- Telengana Tantrum (Frontline, S. Nagesh Kumar, Sep 15, 2006)
The Telengana Rashtra Samithi seeks to force the statehood issue with the resignation of its two leaders from the Union Cabinet.
- In A State Of Un-Realty (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 15, 2006)
Poor land-use policy has created a demand-supply gap, sending real-estate prices to unrealistic highs. If the Government is serious about pricking the real-estate bubble, it has to contemplate certain tough measures, even if not to the extent of . . .
- Enduring Freedom Or Enduring Musharraf? (OutLook, B. Raman , Sep 15, 2006)
Under the US leadership, the so-called war against terrorism has essentially become a war against Al Qaeda, but there are other adversaries too. To win against them all, US has to realise that freedom and Musharraf do not go together.
- Happiness And Beauty (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 15, 2006)
In the more than half a century since the Lalit Kala Akademi was set up, Sankho Chaudhuri was only the second Bengali to be invited to be its chairman. His passing last month evoked sorrow all over the country.
- Defeating Terrorism (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Sep 15, 2006)
Nostradamus’ prophecy that “two metal birds would crash into two tall statues and the world will end soon after” appeared to have come true on September 11, 2001. The world as we knew it certainly ended on that day.
- Lng For Dabhol Project In Doubt (Hindu, Meena Menon, Sep 15, 2006)
REC to give Rs. 15,000 crore for Maharashtra power turnaround
Power Finance Corporation to grant up to Rs. 10,000 crore
By 2012 each home will have electricity: Shinde.
- India, Pakistan Set For Summit Talks In Cuba (Reuters, Paul Eckert, Sep 15, 2006)
The leaders of India and Pakistan will hold weekend talks in Cuba, hoping to ease tensions after a year of recriminations over terror attacks and Kashmir, Indian and Pakistani officials said.
- Rise Of Gandhigiri (Times of India, SHARMISTHA GOOPTU, Sep 15, 2006)
Bande Mein Tha Dam (The guy had guts), Bandemataram! goes the opening line of a song saluting Mahatma Gandhi in Lage Raho Munnabhai, the immensely enjoyable second part of Munnabhai MBBS, which made the inimitable crooks Munna and Circuit a rage.
- All The Bidders For A Troubled Bank (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Sep 14, 2006)
Just a fortnight ago, when United Western Bank (UWB) topped the first-ever customer satisfaction survey of banks, the findings and timing of the survey seemed outlandish.
- Icai Is Not Averse To Opening Up Of The Accounting Sector' (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 14, 2006)
The Indian CA is second to none and we will help our members gear up to face competition not only in the domestic turf but also abroad
- Bomb Found In Indian Town Hit By Attack On Mosque (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
Bomb disposal experts Wednesday were examining a suspected explosive device found at a shopping centre in an Indian town hit by the serial blasts last Friday that killed 31 people, police said.
- Bomb Scare In Malegaon (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
Security agencies in the state continue to have a tough time. On Wednesday, a bomb was found at a shopping complex near the Mohammedia Madrasa Centre in Malegaon.
- Rbi's Choice (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 14, 2006)
With IDBI still finding its feet as a commercial bank, can it turn around UWB?
- Corporation Labourer’S Son, Was Trying To Go To Us For Studies (Indian Express, Divya Sama, Sep 14, 2006)
“Don’t be afraid, I will get much more than what you have spent on my studies. A job in the US as a software engineer isn’t far away. You don’t have to be insecure for our family’s future.” Rahul Kamble can almost hear . . .
- A Welcome For Indian Migrants (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 14, 2006)
There’s a large number of Indians – the fastest-growing group of migrants – heading to Australia.
- Still On Trial (Telegraph, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 14, 2006)
There seems to be no way in which this long story can be cut short.
- Long Way To Go (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 14, 2006)
It has taken 13 years for the special TADA court to give its verdict on the 1993 Mumbai blasts that killed 257 persons and injured over 700. The entire judgment for the 123 accused, which will be given in phases, is likely to take several weeks . . .
- Ahead Of Cuba Meet, General Gets Mushy (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
Just days before he is to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf appears to have changed his tune, suddenly saying relations with India have never been this good.
- 'America Biz Coming To India' (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
A large group of American businessmen are planning to visit India in November to look for opportunities to invest in the country, US Ambassador David Mulford told a gathering of Indian and American businessmen on Wednesday.
- Obc Numbers Reach 40%, Says Survey (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Sep 14, 2006)
There is a marked increase in the population of other backward classes (OBCs) and scheduled castes (SCs) in the country.
- Review Internal Security Now (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Sep 14, 2006)
Liberal Muslim leaders must join the Government's efforts to identify and isolate radical Islamists in India
- Musharraf Should Help Singh (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 14, 2006)
The Indian prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has signalled that the issue of terrorism will top his agenda of talks with General Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement conference in Havana later this week.
- The Malegaon Blasts (OutLook, B. Raman , Sep 14, 2006)
The government should act with equal firmness against whoever indulges in acts of terrorism/, irrespective of the community--Muslim or Hindu--to which he or she belongs. There cannot be one law for the Muslims and another for non-Muslims.
- Rash Of Indologists In Russia (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 14, 2006)
Russia should pay more attention to Indology, a science which studies about India and different aspects of its culture.
- Captured Live (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
Indian literature, both in English and in the regional languages, has recorded the practice of untouchability in great detail.
- The United (Western) Colours Of Idbi (The Financial Express, Sourav Majumdar, Sep 14, 2006)
Challenge for IDBI will be to convince its own shareholders that the decision was in their interest.
- Justice At Last (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 14, 2006)
The prime suspects must be brought back to stand trial.
- Our Men In Havana (Indian Express, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 14, 2006)
It would seem a pity that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has to travel half way round the world to meet Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf. But look at it differently; isn’t it better that the two leaders see each other in Havana than not at all?
- Indian Flight To Dubai Causes Security Scare (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Sep 14, 2006)
There was high drama at the Dubai airport late on Tuesday after a call that said an incoming Indian (formerly Indian Airlines) flight from Mumbai has armed extremists.
- Blasts Trial Verdict In Death Zone (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
The judgment in the Bombay blasts trial enters a phase tomorrow when the fate of 22 people charged with actually carrying out the attacks will be decided.
- Justice At Last (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 14, 2006)
The first convictions in the Mumbai 1993 blasts case evoke conflicting reactions.
- Towards A Doctrine For Internal Security (Hindu, Harish Khare , Sep 14, 2006)
There is a notion that all it takes is sturdy political will for the Indian state to defeat the increasingly lethal non-state actors. The result is ignorance about the nature of internal disorder.
- Mobile Revenue Falling, 6 Circles Buck The Trend (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
It's cell users in the richest and the poorest telecom circles who rang in some good news for mobile operators.
- Arguments Today On Sentencing Memons (Hindu, Prachi Pinglay, Sep 14, 2006)
Advocate seeks more time to discuss case
- City Of New Beginnings (Indian Express, SHANTANU DATTA, Sep 14, 2006)
Buses in Bombay, I had been warned, allow you to board only from the rear.
- Denial Over Delay (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 14, 2006)
It is somewhat easy to consider the incremental roll call of verdicts that has started in Mumbai as yet another case of justice delayed being justice denied. Coming as it does more than 13 years after Mumbai reeled under attack and more than . . .
- Coming From A Government Near You (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 14, 2006)
Sanjay Dutt had a grim look on his face as he walked out of the Tada court in Mumbai on Tuesday.
- Lucky Break Helped Cops (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 14, 2006)
Had it not been for one “lucky break", the police team investigating the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts would probably not have managed to nail the Memon family.
- Indian Plane Taken To High Security Area At Dubai Military Base (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
An Indian (previously Indian Airlines) flight from Mumbai to Dubai has been taken to a high security area at Dubai military base after landing.
- Terrorism Ended From Pakistan: Musharraf (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
The President General Pervez Musharraf has said that the scourge of terrorism was eliminated from the soil of Pakistan and efforts were underway to root out extremism, however, it will take some time.
- Rahul Gandhi To Campaign For Congress (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
The Congress Party now has the star campaigner it was desperately looking for to pep up its forthcoming election campaign in UP.
- ’93 Blasts: Memon’S Brothers Found Guilty (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Thirteen years after serial blasts killed 257 persons in Mumbai, a Tada court today finally pronounced its first verdict convicting three brothers and sister-in-law of prime accused Ibrahim Mushtaq, alias ‘Tiger’ Memon, who himself is absconding.
- Ramzan Truce On The Cards In J&k (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
If one believes the buzz in Kashmir political circles, then a Ramzan truce is on the cards in the violence-hit state of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Bomb Scare On Ia Mumbai-Dubai Flight (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
A bomb hoax call on the Dubai-bound Indian Airlines flight today created panic sending the authorities here into a high alert.
- 4 Memons Convicted In Mumbai Blasts (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Sep 13, 2006)
After an agonising 13-year wait, a special TADA court on Tuesday began delivering its verdict in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case in batches, convicting four members of the Tiger Memon family and acquitting three others.
- Being Watched? Ah! (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 13, 2006)
You are being watched. This is the message every entrant into a railway station or any other public place gets these days.
- Serial Judgement (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 13, 2006)
Thirteen years after India was stunned by its first encounter with mass terror in the form of serial bombings that left 257 people dead and 173 others injured, apart from destroying property worth Rs 27 crore, in Mumbai on March 12, 1993, a TADA . . .
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