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Articles 2621 through 2720 of 9581:
- Is There Too Much Time To Fill? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 10, 2006)
"There are too many channels, not enough news and reporters just out of their teens."
- Mumbai Blasts Verdict Likely Today (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
The city of Mumbai has barely recovered from its month-old trauma of the serial bombing of commuter trains and now it is tensely bracing for the court verdict due on Thursday on the 1993 explosions that killed 257 people, police and human rights . . .
- Delhi Police Seeks Details On Fazlu From Gujarat, Mumbai (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 10, 2006)
"Was into hawala operations to receive protection money in Dubai, Malaysia, Nepal"
- Cops Don't Know What’S In The Powder Seized From Suspect (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Twenty days after arresting Kamal Ahmed Ansari in connection with July 11’s serial blasts in Mumbai, the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) still doesn’t know what’s in the 500 grams of black powder it seized from his house in Basupatti village in Bihar’s . . .
- Little Respite For Surat, People Take Refuge On Rooftops (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Aug 10, 2006)
People were either on rooftops or forced to leave the city and take refuge on highways .
- Maharashtra Flood Death Toll 118 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Situation grim in Surat; Gujarat seeks Rs. 2000 crore Central assistance
Sonia, Patil conduct aerial survey in Andhra Pradesh
Manmohan's visit postponed to August 11
Over 5,000 people were rescued by the Army, SRPF, CRPF
- Long-Awaited Judgment Today In 1993 Mumbai Blasts Case (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Aug 10, 2006)
Special Court to decide fate of 123 accused, including Sanjay Dutt
Nearly 250 were killed and 700 injured on Black Friday
Dawood, Anees Ibrahim, Tiger Memon still out of India
- Memons Had A Blast In Pakistan (Times of India, Pranati Mehra, Aug 10, 2006)
Tiger Memon's brother, Yakub, was arrested dramatically in Delhi with six members of his family, including three women, in August 1994, nearly 17 months after they fled just before the 1993 blasts rocked Mumbai.
- India Will Not Intervene Directly In Sri Lankan Peace Process: . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Karunanidhi briefed on discussions between the two countries .
- Rewards Programme For Consumers Launched In Bangalore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Loyalty Solutions and Research Ltd. (LSRL), a company funded by ICICI Venture, has launched "i-mint", a rewards programme for consumers, in Bangalore.
- 13 Years Through Trial And Terror (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Aug 10, 2006)
Today, after 13,000 pages of evidence and 686 witnesses, it’s judgment day for the 123 accused in the Bombay Blasts Case of 1993. But a verdict already seems to have been passed on the Mumbai Muslim, targeted over and over again
- 1993 Blast Case: Court To Deliver Verdict Today (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
The 1993 serial bomb blasts case has finally come to an end with a TADA court all set to start dictation of its verdict from today in the presence of all the 123 accused, including actor Sanjay Dutt.
- Rain Drain As Ongc, Ril Plants Still Shut (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Gujarat Inc worst hit in rain fury; diamond trade suffers, power supply to North may be hit
- Do Not Look (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 10, 2006)
In a democracy, policemen should not have to enter art galleries unless they like looking at pictures.
- '93 Serial Blasts: Judgement Today (Times of India, Bachi J Karkaria, Aug 10, 2006)
Today, Justice P D Kode will commence delivery of judgement on the accused in the 1993 blasts. But, in the 13 years since those 13 bombs RDX-ed their way path through the city, Mumbai has already stood in the dock. The sentence has already been delivered.
- Judgment Day (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 10, 2006)
The long-awaited verdict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, which is expected to be delivered by special judge P D Kode in the TADA court beginning today, could not have come at a more critical time for a city freshly wounded by terror.
- Mahesh Bhatt Leads Muslim Protest (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Aug 10, 2006)
With the Mumbai police summoning scores of Muslim youths for questioning in the wake of the serial bomb blasts, community leaders are coming together to protest, what they call, harassment of innocent people.
- Boucher Pak Pitch To Muslims (Asian Age, Ramesh Ramachandran, Aug 10, 2006)
United States assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher kept a busy schedule in New Delhi but found time to hardsell Pakistan to the Muslim intelligentsia of India.
- ‘Sex Scam’ Accused Dysp Had Info Of Mumbai Blasts (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Aug 10, 2006)
A junior Police official, handling counter-intelligence in Jammu & Kashmir Police, had warned the State Government on June 14th about the Mumbai serial blasts that left nearly 200 people dead and hundreds wounded on July 11th.
- 'Mumbai, Delhi Cheapest Cities, Workers Among Least Paid In World' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
In an interesting new revelation for Indian urbanites - Mumbai and Delhi are among the world's least expensive cities and so people living in two of the biggest cities in India can shop till they drop.
- Are Indian Muslims Getting Radicalised? (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Aug 10, 2006)
The Mumbai bomb blasts of July 11 “underscored a gathering threat for India: a small but increasingly deadly cadre of young and often educated Indian Muslims who are being drawn directly into terrorist operations,” according to a report in the New . . .
- Indian Floods Worsen, 4.5 Mln People Homeless (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Swollen rivers swamped thousands of villages and towns across India's south and west on Wednesday, forcing 4.5 million from their homes as rescuers struggled to bring them food and drinking water, officials said.
- Ici India Paints New Growth Plan On Core Focus (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Paints and chemicals maker ICI India Ltd. plans to use funds from recent divestments to push an aggressive growth strategy and widen its presence in the Indian market, a senior company official said on Wednesday.
- Derailed Ties (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 09, 2006)
The expulsions will slow down the people-to-people contact.
- Don’T Bow To M’Rashtra, Hdk Tells Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
An all-party delegation led by chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday and urged him not to yield to the pressure being exerted by Maharashtra on the boundary issue
- Only Women Judges To Try Rape Cases? (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 09, 2006)
The proposed amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), making it mandatory for rape cases to be tried only by women judges seems to be based on some superficial and erroneous notion.
- ‘India Proposed More Autonomy For Kashmir’ (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Prior to the Mumbai blasts, India had proposed to Pakistan large doses of autonomy to Kashmir within constitutional limits, freedom for non-terror detainees and troop reduction in the valley if militancy ended, a newspaper claimed yesterday.
- Ongc Stops Gas Production, As Hazira Flooded (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Floods in Gujarat reduced India's gas supplies by about half and cut crude output by 20,000 barrels a day, as state-owned ONGC shut wells after its facilities were inundated by up to 10 ft of water.
- India Accuses Isi Of Recruiting Youths From Five States (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
India on Tuesday alleged that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has spread its reach to recruit youths from five Indian states besides Jammu and Kashmir.
- Ongc Board Approves Development Projects (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The Board of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. (ONGC), in its 158th meeting on Tuesday has approved development of C-series in Mumbai offshore and Dahej Petrochemicals Complex in Gujrat.
- Compensate Indians Displaced From Lebanon (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 09, 2006)
The CPM does not merely want India to stop buying arms from Israel because that helps in “enriching the coffers of a country which attacks with impunity its neighbours and massacres their people”.
- Deja Vu On Israel ? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 09, 2006)
All Urdu dailies continue to give extensive coverage of the war in west Asia. India’s policy on Israel has got a special mention in many papers.
- Politics Of Aggrandisement (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 09, 2006)
I have nothing against the MPs who have prevailed upon the government to curtail parliament’s session by three days. My worry is over the cause for which they have done so.
- Manmohan To Visit Gujarat, Maharashtra (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Andhra Pradesh gets Rs. 135.48 crore and Gujarat Rs. 96.86 crore from the Calamity Relief Fund
- Delhi Eye On Ulfa Border Camps (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Four new Ulfa training camps have reportedly been sighted on the Indo-Bhutan border in Nalbari district but Delhi is “withholding” information on the location of these hideouts from the Bhutanese government to keep the possibility of talks with . . .
- Urban Legends (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 09, 2006)
India is undergoing a radical makeover. According to projections by the census office, large chunks of the country are going to be urbanised over the next two decades.
- Hung Up (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 09, 2006)
Mumbai's moral police are at it again, hauling up a group of artists displaying at the Jehangir Art Gallery because an irate viewer felt that the exhibits, which included nude male and female mannequins, were too erotic to be displayed.
- Water, Water Everywhere But Not Where Needed Most (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 09, 2006)
Half-way through the monsoon, the country’s 76 major reservoirs are almost full. Last weekend’s rain meant that some of the dams in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh had to release their excess . . .
- Ongc, Gail, Ril Hit By Heavy Rains In Gujarat (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Operations of state-run ONGC, GAIL India and corporate giant Reliance Industries' have been severely hit due to heavy rains in Gujarat, during the last week as various plants have been shut down temporarily.
- Who Killed The Vidarbha Farmers? (OutLook, Smruti Koppikar, Aug 09, 2006)
Heartbreaking as they are, suicides - over 90 last month - are only a symptom of the larger and deep agrarian crisis, reminds the award-winning journalist, touching on the role played by our policy-makers and politicians - from Montek Singh . . .
- Treehouse Stay In Dandeli (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
We continue our reader-driven getaway series.
- A Statue For The Mittals (Deccan Herald, S T BEURIA, Aug 09, 2006)
This 67-year-old artist has won several national and international awards for his achievements in the field of stone carving.
- Reject Maharashtra's Claim Over Our Villages, State Urges . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
30-member all-party delegation led by Kumaraswamy calls on Manmohan Singh .
- Pre-'53 Status For Kashmir? (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Aug 09, 2006)
The UPA Government is reported to have submitted a 'non-paper' for Gen Musharraf's consideration, offering to roll back Jammu & Kashmir's integration with India ----
- Reject Maharashtra's Claim, Karnataka Urges Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
"Implement Mahajan Commission recommendations on border dispute"
- Distress Compounded (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 09, 2006)
A comprehensive study of the socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS in six high prevalence Indian States has yielded compelling data.
- Over 2.5 Lakh Evacuated As Floods Wreak Havoc In Gujarat (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Aug 09, 2006)
Diamond city reels as most telephone lines go dead and power is cut off .
- Sonia Asks Mulayam To Quit As Cm (Asian Age, Amita Verma, Aug 09, 2006)
Without mincing any words, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday asked UP chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav to quit his chair and pave the way for a "new and better Uttar Pradesh". "Unko gaddi chhodni padegi (He will have to quit)," she emphasised.
- 33-Lakh Affected By Floods In Ap, Gujarat (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The flood situation was grim on Tuesday in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, with nearly 33 lakh people affected by rains and swollen rivers in both states even as an alert was sounded in Maharashtra's Marathwada and Vidarbha regions after 70 people died . . .
- Bofors & Volcker (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 09, 2006)
Last week the Pathak Commission probing the Volcker Report gave the Congress party a clean chit. Also last week, Mr Arun Singh emerged from the shadows after two decades to remind us of Bofors.
- Will Pakistan Ever Stop Its Terror Tap? (Daily Excelsior, J N Raina, Aug 09, 2006)
Pakistan stands fully exposed. It has flaunted its insidious role of sponsoring genocide of common people in India.
- No One Can Hand Me Over To India: Hizb Chief (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
With India seeking his deportation from Pakistan in the aftermath of Mumbai blasts, Hizbul Mujahideen Chief Syed Salahuddin has said nobody could hand him over to India.
- A Many-Sided Threat (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Aug 09, 2006)
The Government of India has postponed the scheduled talks between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan and so is the proposed visit of the Prime Minister to Pakistan.
- India Floods Close Energy Plants (British Broadcasting Corporation, bbc correspondent, Aug 09, 2006)
Floods in western India have forced the closure of a natural gas plant and some petrochemical factories, officials say.
- Floods Maroon Thousands In India; 150 Killed (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Swirling floodwater inundated several towns and cities in western and southern India on Tuesday as the military deployed helicopters and boats to help hundreds of thousands of marooned people.
- Sinking Governance (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 09, 2006)
The floods in various parts of western India and Andhra Pradesh are, at one level, an annual occurrence.
- In Reverse Gear? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 09, 2006)
Not very long ago three journalists belonging to this city had participated in a lively debate organised by a leading private television channel of Pakistan. It was at the peak of bonhomie between India and Pakistan.
- Flood Situation In Country Finds Echo In Rs (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The worsening flood situation in various parts of the country and the plight of farmers had its echo in the Rajya Sabha today with members from various parties asking government to declare it as a national calamity.
- Floods Maroon Thousands In Indian Cities, 200 Killed (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Swirling floodwaters inundated several towns and cities in western and southern India on Tuesday as the military deployed helicopters and boats to help hundreds of thousands of marooned people.
- Us Acknowledges Existence Of Anti-India Terror Groups In Pak (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The US on Monday acknowledged that certain terrorist groups having “designs” against India exist in Pakistan, virtually lending support to New Delhi's contention.
- No Need To Get Mushy (Times of India, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 08, 2006)
All over the world, but notably in the Islamic countries and Europe, the ongoing conflict in Lebanon has become the occasion for another outburst of visceral anti-Americanism.
- Uncalled-For Expulsions (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
The writer is editor current affairs, The News, and editor
- '93 Mumbai Blasts: Court Asks 3 Blasts Accused To Surrender » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
A designated TADA court on Monday asked three accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case, who are on interim bail, to surrender within three days or else it would cancel their bail.
- "India Offered To Restore J&k To Pre-1953 Status" (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Aug 08, 2006)
Prior to the Mumbai blasts, India told Pakistan that it was prepared to restore Jammu and Kashmir to its pre-1953 status, The Nation newspaper said on Monday.
- Cob Cornucopia (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 08, 2006)
As the cloudy skies break into a shy shower I creak open the refrigerator, putting a stubby cob of corn upon the gas grill.
- Now, Police Focus On Blasts Suspect’S Dance Bar Visits (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Faizal Ataur Rehman Sheikh, the man police claim is Lashkar-e-Toiba’s Mumbai chief, spent a lot of time at dance bars, say sources.
- Us Alters Tune On Pak Proof (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Backtracking on its claim that India does not have enough evidence to link Pakistan with the July 11 Mumbai blasts, the US today acknowledged that anti-India terror groups were operating in that country.
- The Security Rationale (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 08, 2006)
Watch its use to block deals
- 2 Nda Cadets Swept Away In Pune (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Two National Defence Academy (NDA) cadets were swept away by flash floods in the outskirts of Pune, while about 70,000 people were evacuated from across central and south Gujarat, where the Army was called in for the rescue operations on Monday.
- General Anaesthesia (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 08, 2006)
Islamabad's brutal treatment of an Indian diplomat, who was hooded, handcuffed and confined at an undisclosed location before being expelled from the country, doesn't square very well with its insistence that the peace process must not be affected . . .
- Underworld Don Arrested Near Nepal Border (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Fazal-ur-Rehman wanted in connection with several cases of kidnapping, was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell at Sanauli along the Indo-Nepal border on Sunday.
- Pakistan Floods Kill 140, One Mln Homeless In India (Reuters, Kamran Haider, Aug 08, 2006)
Flash floods triggered by torrential rains have killed more than 140 people in Pakistan's northwest, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes in neighbouring India, officials said on Monday.
- Maharashtra Rain Toll 40 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
At least 40 persons have lost their lives in the past two days across Maharashtra following heavy rain, according to the state police control room here, while the death count rose to 94 in Andhra Pradesh where three lakh people were marooned in . . .
- ‘Bihar Is Not Investor-Friendly’ (Deccan Herald, Abhay Kumar, Aug 08, 2006)
Shatrughan Sinha, has washed his hands off his own proposal to set up a 5- star hotel in Patna. In an interview with Deccan Herald...
- Over 1,500 Marooned Rescued By Army (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Over 1,000 soldiers deployed in Marathwada region, J&K and Dantewada
- Boucher Wiser On Pak Terror Tap (Hindustan Times, Nilova Roy Chaudhury, Aug 08, 2006)
Hours of intensive talks with senior officials appears to have convinced US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher, that India’s concerns on terrorism emanating from Pakistan were justified.
- Memories Of Bombay (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 08, 2006)
Mehta’s book has the silent intrusiveness, the busyness and ubiquity, the voraciousness of a book of pictures, as well as the largesse that prose gives. But Mehta doesn’t stand at the crossroads in which Singh found himself when confronted with . . .
- Diplomats’ Expulsion (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 08, 2006)
Well-wishers of South Asia the world over must now seriously doubt whether the normalisation process between Pakistan and India will continue.
- The Indian Outsourcing Saga (Hindu, Anand Parthasarathy, Aug 08, 2006)
Highlights the achievements of pioneers who put India on the world map of BPO
- Diplomatic Row (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
The tit-for-tat expulsions by Pakistan and India over the weekend -- after a passage of almost three years -- does not bode well for relations between the two countries, already rocked by New Delhi's allegations of Islamabad's involvement in the . . .
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