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Articles 2821 through 2920 of 9581:
- Us Allays Fears On N-Deal Deviation, Favours Nailing Dawood (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
The US on Friday allayed India's fears over possible changes in the civil nuclear deal and hoped the US lawmakers would adhere to the spirit of the agreement between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- Intelligence Warns More Terror Strikes (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Aug 05, 2006)
With intelligence agencies warning of fresh terrorist strikes in the country, especially in Maharashtra, the Centre has summoned Chief Secretary of Maharashtra D Shankaran, Director General of Police PS Pasricha and the chief of . . .
- Tackling Terrorism (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Aug 05, 2006)
Nothing effective can be done to tackle terrorism unless people rise as one man to help law enforcement.
- A Disastrous Model (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Aug 05, 2006)
Those advocating armed attacks on Pakistan in response to the Mumbai bombings wish to emulate Israel's aggression. That is the worst model India could follow.
- 'Free-Market' Propaganda Through 'Planning'? (News International, Praful Bidwai, Aug 05, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi
- The Bravest Of The Voices (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Aug 05, 2006)
In an auditorium in Delhi, usually filled with the sounds of classical music and dance, I heard the voices, last week, of India’s poorest, bravest, most exploited citizens.
- Navy War Room Case: Breach Of Trust, Conspiracy Included In Cbi . . . (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
The CBI on Friday included two more sections to the chargesheet filed in the Navy War Room case, being heard in a city court.
- India: Empowerment Via The Kitchen (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 05, 2006)
Can the tedious task of making rotis (Indian bread) help in fighting discrimination? Amita Khaparde, a Dalit, believes so. "Especially if those rotis stand for self-respect and social acceptance for a class of marginalised women." She says, "Dalit . . .
- Twin Evils (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 05, 2006)
As often stated in these columns Naxalism and terrorism have emerged twin threats to the country. Our State has been a major victim of militant activities. It is only too well known that perpetrators of violence invariably come from the other side . . .
- Care For Them (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 05, 2006)
How does one describe the fact that 34.5 per cent of children below three years of age are underweight in Jammu and Kashmir? By no yardstick can it be called a happy position.
- Cover For Malls & Halls (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
Post-7/11, Mumbai’s malls and cinemas will have to upgrade their security and will be subject to surprise checks by police.
- Muslims Must Isolate Fundos (Pioneer, Khwaja Ekram, Aug 05, 2006)
The collaboration of local Muslims with global jihadi outfits enlarges the scope of the fight against terrorism. This poses threat not only to the country's stability and integrity, but also the innocent Muslim community ----- When Mumbai, the . . .
- Sorry, Asma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 05, 2006)
Asma Jahangir, a noted human rights activist of Pakistan, should have been an honoured guest in the Indian Capital. Instead, the Delhi police searched her room and subjected her to questioning, ostensibly as part of increased surveillance against . . .
- Internal Security Situation Deteriorating: Experts (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
Security experts yesterday came together on a platform to express worry over the deteriorating internal security situation and said there was need to whip up a level of concern about whether “we were going in the right direction”?
- Cm Flags Off Direct Flight To London (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
Taking a serious view of illegal construction on the periphery of Rajasansi International Airport, Capt Amarinder Singh, Chief Minister, said builders would have to adhere to the norms prescribed by the Airport Authority of India.
- Poonch Youth Held For Mumbai Blasts (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
A joint team of the Mumbai and the J&K police has arrested a terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Abdul Hameed, from a border village of the Poonch district in connection with the serial train blasts in Mumbai that claimed about 190 lives last month.
- Spirit, Sure. What About Funds? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 05, 2006)
Mumbai is a tiny sliver of land but its problems are epic as are its aspirations. No one says the living is easy in India's commercial capital and no one expects it to be.
- Bjp Singles Out Aamir For Soft Drink Ads (Times of India, Mohua Chatterjee, Aug 04, 2006)
With Coke and Pepsi coming under the pesticide scanner again and Parliament debating the issue with full steam, BJP on Thursday used the opportunity to attack actor Aamir Khan for appearing as the brand ambassador for Coca Cola.
- 2 Tourists Held For 'Shooting' Gateway (Times of India, S. Ahmed Ali, Aug 04, 2006)
In a shocking indictment of the Mumbai police's knee-jerk reactions post-7/11, two tourists from Saharanpur, UP, who were clicking photographs of the Gateway of India, were arrested on grounds of suspicion and forced to spend a night in the lock-up.
- Construction Of Drains, Roads No Longer On Ntc’S Plate (Indian Express, SUMANT BANERJI, Aug 04, 2006)
The change in stance comes as a shot in the arm for the PSU, which is banking on the sale of defunct mills
- Fis Take Hit In Morepen’S Rs 750-Cr Debt Revamp (Indian Express, George Mathew, Aug 04, 2006)
At a time farmers are committing suicide across the country over loan repayment, banks and financial institutions have written off a huge amount of nearly Rs 400 crore in the debt reschedulement of Morepen Laboratories which defaulted over Rs 900 . . .
- Mole Draws A Hole (Daily Excelsior, Indranil Banerjea, Aug 04, 2006)
Accusations without substance are irresponsible. An accusation to play petty politics is another name for opportunism.
- Worst Foot Forward (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Aug 04, 2006)
The vote of the Jewish community is of crucial importance in a number of key states in the American elections. Equally important is the size of campaign funds Jewish business tycoons are capable of contributing.
- Why We Need To Be On Our Toes (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 04, 2006)
On an average the terrorists inflict two heart-rending tragedies in the country every month.
- Let Ultra Nabbed For Serial Train Blasts (Daily Excelsior, Sanjeev Pargal, Aug 04, 2006)
Mumbai Police and CID (Counter Intelligence) sleuths tonight arrested a suspected militant of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) from Surankote tehsil in Poonch district, who was allegedly involved in serial blasts in trains at Mumbai in which over 200 persons . . .
- Mist Lifts But Hurdles Remain For India-Pak Peace (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 04, 2006)
It was one of the briefest winters in the traditionally tumultuous relations between India and Pakistan.
- Tribes Stranded As Sardar Sarovar Dam Drowns Valley (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Aug 04, 2006)
Kishore Solanki picks up a rock on the banks of the swollen Narmada river, gesturing towards land, now submerged, where once he grew enough wheat and vegetables to make a comfortable living.
- Foster's Exits Asia Brewing, Sells Vietnam, India Ops (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Foster's Group Ltd., Australia's biggest alcoholic drinks company, is selling its brewing businesses in India and Vietnam in deals worth US$225 million, completing its exit from Asia brewing amid a shake-up of its underperforming international beer . . .
- Silent Partitions (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 04, 2006)
The divisions caused by decades of communal strife are partly responsible for the terror in Mumbai.
- Harnessing Hate (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Aug 04, 2006)
Lashkar terrorist Syed Abdul Karim `Tunda' has vanished after the Mumbai explosions, but his legacy refuses to disappear.
- Disney Will Go To Bollywood Soon (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Aug 04, 2006)
Rajat Jain, managing director of World Disney Company (India) Pvt Ltd, has big plans to build the Disney brand in India. The acquisition of Hungama TV and a strategic stake in UTV is only the beginning. Excerpts from Jain’s conversation with Business . .
- Rs10,000 For Doctor’S Service To ‘Beggar Maf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Unemployed? ‘Get your limbs amputated. Become a beggar’. If this was the latest from India’s national capital, where a thriving ‘arms for alms’ trade has left even the most corrupt and mendacious head hanging in shame, it is the shocking silence of . . .
- Safta Trade Dispute (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 04, 2006)
India's criticism of Pakistan that the latter is trying to scuttle the recently launched South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement by not reducing duties on imports from India has been . . .
- Combat Fatigues To Corporate Warriors (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Generals in the armed forces, including vice-chief of army staff Lieutenant General S. Pattabhiraman, are enrolling themselves in management schools for corporate jobs after a new law that paves the way for them to don business suits after years . . .
- Bjp Targets Aamir Khan For Cola Ads (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
The BJP on Thursday launched a fresh attack on Bollywood star Aamir Khan and ridiculed him for being a brand ambassador of the soft drink Coca-Cola, which the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), an NGO, claims contains a high quantity of pesticide.
- Digital Drive Password For New-Age Terrorism (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 04, 2006)
Not just zealots but also computer savvy. That is how the Crime Branch, Mumbai would like to describe the arrested “LeT members” and their mentors since the method of communication devised by them marked their ingenuity.
- Visual Radio: Powerful Interactive Medium (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Aug 04, 2006)
With the possibility of unusual applications, this next generation radio recently debuted in India
- The No Festival Month (Deccan Herald, Padma Ramachandran, Aug 04, 2006)
In Ashada, South Indians refrain from celebrations and indulge in spiritual activities.
- Plight Of South Asian Workers In Lebanon (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 04, 2006)
Many illegal immigrants have faced abuse, exploitation
- Bridging Urban-Rural Divide (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 04, 2006)
If you are a member of a political family which has taken turns to rule the state, the Karnataka model could teach you how to woo the rural masses even while living with the urban elite and bashing them!
- Hot Pursuit (Tribune, Gen Ashok Mehta (retd), Aug 03, 2006)
Has hot pursuit become hot air? Gen Pervez Musharraf’s latest warning to India against hot pursuit is that it will be “paid back in the same coin”. The Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson even said: “This could trigger a nuclear war”.
- Us Official’S Visit To Focus On Pakistan Terror Support (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 03, 2006)
The issue of Pakistan’s support to terrorism will come under deep focus this weekend when a key State Department official holds talks here with senior Indian officials.
- An Opportunity For Muslims: Bitta (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
All India Anti-Terrorist Front chairman and former Youth Congress president Maninderjit Singh Bitta on Wednesday called upon Muslim organisations to register protest against terrorists perpetrating violence in the name of their religion and defaming . . .
- Gas Hydrates - The Fuel Of The Future (Daily Excelsior, G V Joshi, Aug 03, 2006)
As of today, the world is dependent on oil and coal but these resources are finite and once they are depleted there has to be a different source to meet the increasing global energy needs.
- ``Manmohan, Musharraf Can Meet On Nam Sidelines'' (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 03, 2006)
Meeting between Foreign Secretaries a "positive development,'' says Kasuri
We will join your probe if there is evidence: Kasuri
No stalemate in bilateral relations; evidence already provided to Pakistan about terrorism, says Saran .
- Humbling Hill (Indian Express, SAPNA SHARMA, Aug 03, 2006)
Girnar, the 3,100 ft hill, situated in Junagadh, Gujarat, is part of the folklore of Saurashtra. Since time immemorial Buddhist, Jain and Hindu monks have found sanctuary there. A stone edict of Asoka can be seen at the foot of the hill.
- Gulbarga Ryot Washed Away (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
A farmer has been washed away in swirling waters in Surpur in Gulbarga district even as the flood situation continued to be grim on the third day on Wednesday with the water level in the Krishna river rising by two feet in the last 24 hours.
- No Evidence Of Qaeda Presence In Kashmir, Says India (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Aug 03, 2006)
Minister charges Pakistan with hosting 52 terrorist training camps
Jaiswal says 56 spies including 21 Pakistanis arrested
- Forex Firm Employee, His Wife Survived Blast, He Didn’T (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
They say, home is where the heart is. For Delhi boy Chetan Sharma, his heart was where his mother was.
- Tale To Remember (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 03, 2006)
It should not surprise anyone that a group of Kashmiri militants has surrendered to the Army.
- `Pesticide Levels In Soft Drinks Too High' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
New study indicates pesticides 24 times higher than Bureau of Indian Standards norms
"The levels in some samples exceeded the BIS standards by 140 times for the deadly pesticide Lindane, a confirmed carcinogen"
"Heptachlor, banned in India, . . .
- Sbi Does A Yeoman`s Job For Vidarbha Farmers (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
State Bank of India (SBI) has embarked upon a unique project to educate and empower farmers in two talukas of Wardha district in the Vidarbha region.
- Perpetuating Mediocrity (Business Standard, Arvind Singhal, Aug 03, 2006)
A week after the Mumbai blasts, I had to take a flight out of Delhi to travel to Hong Kong and Singapore.
- Jaswant Faces Privilege Notice (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
A day after being pilloried and savaged by an aggressive Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and his Congress colleagues in the Rajya Sabha over his inability to identify the “mole” in the Narasimha Rao PMO, the senior BJP leader, Mr Jaswant . . .
- Cocktail Of 3-5 Different Pesticides (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
Three years after the CSE released its findings on pesticide residues in soft drinks, a new nationwide study shows nothing much has changed: branded soft drinks remain unsafe and unhealthy, severely compromising public health.
- If Not Moles, Catch The Rats (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 03, 2006)
Political parties in India are well aware of the large number of foreign infiltrators entering the nation through the open borders of Bangladesh and Nepal, but they are brazenly indifferent to taking any concrete step to check it.
- Tackle Terror Sternly (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Aug 03, 2006)
The Government has no clearcut policies to fight terrorism sponsored by neighbouring nations.
- In Praise Of Salwa Judum (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 03, 2006)
A lengthy editorial in this week’s Organiser accuses the UPA government of joining hands with ‘‘left and civil liberty groups’’ in giving a bad name to Chattisgarh’s controversial Salwa Judum movement and warns that ‘‘any rethinking on its efficacy . . .
- Law For The Jungle (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 03, 2006)
The report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill, 2005 was tabled on the last day of the Budget session of Parliament.
- Isi Man Held With Military Info (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 03, 2006)
The police arrested a suspected ISI agent from Manmad in Nashik district late on Tuesday night. The man — identified as Arif Lakhani — was allegedly feeding sensitive military information to a Pakistani handler, operating out of New Delhi.
- Expansion And Division Games (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Aug 03, 2006)
The Moily Oversight Committee, entrusted with coming up with a strategy to implement the proposed OBC quotas in Central institutions, had a thankless task: to come up with a plan to expand current institutional strength by almost 30 per cent within . . .
- Ethnic Indian Beats 'Em All (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 03, 2006)
Bollywood is not just the world’s ultimate fantasy factory, churning out more movies than even Hollywood. Indians are also the world’s ultimate movie fans.
- Domestic Slaves (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Aug 03, 2006)
Child domestic workers are victims of various forms of abuse but the government is yet to come up with a law to protect their rights.
- Now A Different Feast Every Day Aboard The Rajdhani (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Aug 02, 2006)
Travelling by Rajdhani Express trains turned into a whole new experience for passengers on Tuesday.
- A Pointer To What? (News International, M.B. Naqvi, Aug 02, 2006)
Several former lieutenant generals, MPs, ministers and some academics have written a letter to the president with copies to the PPP and PML-N chiefs. What they say is common ground among democrats; the only remarkable thing about it is who said it.
- Give Specific Information On Mumbai Blasts: Pakistan (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 02, 2006)
We reject Indian attitude of instinctive reactions: Riaz Mohammad Khan
- Saudi-Based Nris Funded Mumbai Blasts, Says Ats (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
More than nine lakh riyals - nearly Rs 1.2 crore - were transferred from Saudi Arabia to Mumbai in the past one year for the 7/11 blasts, said anti-Terrorists squad sources on Tuesday.
- Nri In Search Of Her Father (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Thirty-six years may seem like a long time to wait for someone. But Freda Sarita has been waiting for her father since 1970, from the day he went missing hours before his wife’s funeral.
- Pakistan Urges India To Deal With Festering Issues (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Aug 02, 2006)
Pakistan and India should stop bickering in public and resolve longstanding disputes over Kashmir and other issues instead of learning to live with problems, a top Pakistani official said on Tuesday.
- Sonia To Convene Meeting Of Cong Cms On Farm Sector (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has decided to convene a meeting of Congress chief ministers that will focus only on agriculture.
- Peace Talks’ Resumption (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 02, 2006)
EVEN though it cannot be called a breakthrough, it is a matter of some satisfaction that the secretary-level talks between Pakistan and India in Dhaka have been described as “positive” by Foreign Secretary Riaz . . .
- Kashmiri Women Lift The Veil In Silent Awakening (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Aug 02, 2006)
Twenty-five-year-old Saima Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has shunned the veil and set out to discuss dating in a region where cinemas showing Bollywood romances are hard to find and beauty parlours scorned upon.
- Sonia Blames Nda Govt's Decisions For Price Rise (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 02, 2006)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today expressed concern over the rising prices of essential commodities but sought the put the blame for that on some of the previous NDA government's decisions.
- Third-Class Governance Can’T Give First-Class Response To Terrorism (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 02, 2006)
By the end of 2003, we were being told that our agencies had neutralised over 160 ISI modules — counting only those outside Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast. Since then, up to July 11, 2006, again counting only those outside Jammu and Kashmir . . .
- Progress At Dhaka (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 02, 2006)
In April last year, President Musharraf and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had declared after signing a joint statement in New Delhi that peace between their two countries was "irreversible". It appears that that optimism was not misplaced.
- When Is Violence ‘Terror’ And When Is It Not? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2006)
There was nothing ‘natural’ about the slaughter of Sikhs in 1984, and nothing ‘natural’ about Gujarat 2002.
- Grim Situation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 02, 2006)
Karnataka must evacuate people from low-lying areas.
- Price Of Power In Delhi (Frontline, AMAN SETHI, Aug 02, 2006)
Tribunal strikes down Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission move to create "regulatory assets" and avoid a tariff hike.
- Somalia's Road To Anarchy (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 02, 2006)
The Ethiopian bid to remove the Union of Islamic Courts from power in Somalia risks destabilising the entire region.
- Leadership Failure (Frontline, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Aug 02, 2006)
The Indonesian leadership suffers a loss of face in its failure to set up a tsunami warning system.
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