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Articles 2021 through 2120 of 22138:
- U.S. Envoy Sees Senate Approving India Nuclear Bill (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Sep 14, 2006)
A controversial India-U.S. nuclear cooperation deal is expected to be approved by a big majority in the Senate, which is likely to vote on it this month, Washington's envoy to New Delhi said on Wednesday.
- 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.
- Musharraf In Kabul (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 13, 2006)
Pashtunistan, Balochistan being ravaged by war An air of unreality and contradiction, even dark humour, marked General Musharraf’s summit meeting with Mr Hamid Karzai in Kabul. “Let me say neither the Government of Pakistan nor ISI is involved . . .
- 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 . . .
- U.S.-India Nuclear Deal Faces New Hurdles (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Sep 13, 2006)
President George W. Bush's vaunted nuclear cooperation deal with India is facing new difficulties which may prevent it taking effect this year, U.S. officials and experts said on Tuesday.
- Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-Level Talks May Be Resumed (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
On Board PM's Special Flight, Sept 12 (PTI) The recent chill in Indo-Pak relations could see a thaw with the possible resumption of Foreign Secretary-level talks between the two countries after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with President . . .
- An Emerging Economic Order (Business Line, AJAY KHANNA, Sep 13, 2006)
India, Brazil and South Africa Association meet
The coming together in Brasilia of the three key economies of Asia, South America and Africa signals the first step towards looking at sustainable and inclusive model of globalisation. A great leap . . .
- Manmohan Not To Oblige Karat & Co Over Us Relations (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Even as Venezuela’s tinpot dictator Hugo Chavez and his host plan to use the NAM’s Havana pulpit to sharpen their anti-US rhetoric, prime minister Manmohan Singh has indicated that India was not enthusiastic about this project.
- A New Paradigm On Defence Deals (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Sep 13, 2006)
The recently announced Defence Procurement Policy (DPP), followed closely by the Defence Procurement Manual, is an indicator of a new direction being set in defence preparedness. There are several fresh features in the policy that signify a new . . .
- Art Of Public Posturing (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 13, 2006)
At the Rio, on Monday, the meeting of the G-20 group of developing countries — which have formed an effective bloc in the ongoing WTO negotiations on the Doha Round — ended (not surprisingly) on a lacklustre note with no progress being made that . . .
- Cpi(m) Polit Bureau Meet Begins (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Organisational note on consolidating party's strength to be finalised
- Quota Panel Report Likely By Month-End (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
We need more time to address issues: Moily
- New Delhi Metro Line By Mid-November (Hindu, Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, Sep 13, 2006)
A bit late in coming, but it will still be a record of sorts
- Auschwitz Cannot Be Forgotten (Deccan Herald, Terry Reis Kennedy, Sep 13, 2006)
I was on a personal mission when I left the city of Krakow and headed towards Auschwitz. I wanted to pay tribute to all those who had suffered and died there, especially my relatives.
- Manmohan Singh To Raise Issue Of Support For Terrorism With Musharraf (Hindu, N. Ravi, Sep 13, 2006)
"I cannot carry Indian public opinion with me if terrorist acts continue to plague our polity"
- Dissent Over Expert Committees (Business Standard, A K Bhattacharya, Sep 13, 2006)
The traditional view on expert committees on important economic policy matters is that they are desirable and serve a very useful purpose in a democratic system.
- Need To Revitalise Kashmir Issue (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that he will focus on the Kashmir issue in his interaction with the leadership of European Union and European Parliament.
- India, Pak May Resume Foreign Secy-Level Talks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
India and Pakistan may resume foreign secretary-level talks after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s meeting with Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf on the margins of the NAM summit, later this week.
- The Bigger Judgment (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 13, 2006)
The end of the tortuous and torturous Mumbai blasts case is in sight; over the next few days and weeks the fate of the 123 men and women who stand accused of involvement in one of India’s largest terrorist attacks on home soil will be known.
- Change In Chennai (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 13, 2006)
It is natural, given the position taken by them, that Left union leaders and Airports Authority of India (AAI) employee activists would want to persuade M. Karunanidhi to opt for an AAI-led revival package for the Chennai airport. But it is vital . . .
- Ramani Taken To Goa For Questioning (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
Socialite Bina Ramani, a key witness in the high-profile Jessica Lall murder case and accused of forgery and cheating, was brought to Goa this morning for further interrogation in the forgery case. Police sources disclosed that Delhi Police’s . . . .
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal Faces New Hurdles (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 13, 2006)
President George W Bush's vaunted nuclear cooperation deal with India is facing new difficulties, which may prevent it taking effect this year, US officials and experts said on Tuesday.
- A Man I Knew (Tribune, Raj Chatterjee, Sep 13, 2006)
Their father was a kulin Brahmin, born in 1847. At the age of 17 he decided to become a Christian while studying at the Scottish Mission College in Calcutta. As a result, he was disowned by his family and shunned by members of his community.
- A Dose Of Discipline Is Desirable (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 13, 2006)
It might just become tougher to get a pirated copy of Microsoft software, a fake Cartier or Benetton imitations at your local market. Indian courts are getting tough in dealing with intellectual property offences.
- Forgotten In Peace (Telegraph, BRIJESH D. JAYAL, Sep 13, 2006)
Government has recently announced its intention to form the sixth pay commission following which it is reported that the chairman chiefs of staff committee has requested the government to include a serviceman as a member.
- Shaky Beginning (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Sep 13, 2006)
“Our identity is under threat”, goes the cry whenever ethnic groups demand a state for themselves.
- Q&a: 'Archaeology Can Provide Continuous History' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 12, 2006)
Dilip K Chakrabarti is professor of South Asian Archaeology in Cambridge University. In New Delhi recently for the launch of his latest book, The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology, Chakrabarti speaks to Avijit Ghosh:
- Naidu's New Clothes (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 12, 2006)
The Telugu Desam Party's decision to refashion its economic policies is part of a strategy to reclaim the political space it once occupied in Andhra Pradesh.
- Musharraf For Results In Talks With Manmohan (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Sep 12, 2006)
Also to address Global Discourse on Kashmir Musharraf and Manmohan to have "detailed discussions on a broad agenda which will include Jammu and Kashmir, the peace process and whatever else they want to talk about" .
- National Employment Guarantee Inaction (Hindu, Jean Dreze, Sep 12, 2006)
A lack of steadfastness appears to mark the UPA Government's handling of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The silver lining is that the NREGA is becoming a matter of competition among political parties.
- Afghan Morass (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
The internal situation in Afghanistan and the geopolitics that envelop it have taken a turn for the worse in the last few months.
- After 22 Yrs, Uftaa’S Convention Returns To India (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
The adage ‘better late than never’ goes well with United Federation of Travel Agents Association (UFTAA) General Assembly and World Travel Agents Congress, which is being held in India after a gap of 22 years.
- 'Osama And Bush Have Made This A Very Dangerous World' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
About the time New Yorkers were observing a moment of silence Monday to mourn the deaths at the World Trade Center five years ago, air traffic controllers were in a tizzy diverting a flight after finding an unclaimed hand-held computer on . . . .
- Left Puts Third Front On Back-Burner (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Sep 12, 2006)
The CPI(M) seems to have decided to keep the much-hyped option of a Third Front other than the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress on the backburner at the cost of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, who had emerged as a . . .
- Adag Distances From Cbi's Action Against Ril Officials (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
Anil Ambani group (ADAG) on Monday distanced itself from CBI's action accusing top officials of Reliance Infocomm for illegal call routing (before the split between Ambani brothers) saying, "reported CBI criminal case relates to a period prior to . . .
- India -Desperate Need For Energy (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 12, 2006)
Just imagine that Nature took two hundred million years for the conventional fossil fuels like coal and oil to form, but this little ambitious nature of man took just two hundred years from 1850 AD to consume such natural resources to a point . . .
- Munda Govt Teeters On The Bring (Daily Excelsior, Ravindra Shukla, Sep 12, 2006)
The political crisis in Jharkhand depended with Opposition MLAs regrouping in New Delhi to demonstrate their strength before staking claim to majority support in the State Assembly.
- Lab Confirms Rdx Use In Malegaon, Widens Probe Scan (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 12, 2006)
Although investigators are not completely ruling out the hand of Hindu fundamentalists in the Malegaon blasts last Friday which killed 30 people, confirmation of the use of RDX and the discovery of an electronic circuit from the blast site have . . .
- Irrelevant Borders (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 12, 2006)
Outgoing External Affairs Secretary Shyam Saran has once again echoed the nation's desire for making borders irrelevant between India and Pakistan. Speaking at a function in the national capital he has asserted: "We don't have any barriers.
- The Ruling Triumvirate In Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Sep 12, 2006)
The peace agreement signed on September 5 between Pakistan Government and tribal elders in Waziristan will allow militants to operate freely in one of Pakistan's most restive border areas, in return for a pledge to halt . . .
- U.S. Says Nuclear Double-Standard On Iran Justified (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
The United States acknowledged on Monday it was employing a double-standard in its divergent approaches to India and Iran's nuclear programmes, but said its policies were justified by the behaviour of the two countries.
- Govt Faces Hard Fight To Beat Aids In Uttar Pradesh (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Sep 12, 2006)
Sitting on a wooden bench under a slowly whirring fan, 43-year-old Prempal says he urgently needs anti-retroviral drugs to fight the HIV illness in his body.
- Azad Offers Conditional Ceasefire In Held Kashmir (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
Indian-occupied Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has offered a conditional ceasefire in the valley during the upcoming month of Ramazan.
- Dying Declarations (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Sep 12, 2006)
The Supreme Court recently (Indian Express New Delhi edition dated September 8) held that the dying man's declaration can be taken at its face value if it is to the satisfaction of the Court.
- Wheat Imbroglio (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 12, 2006)
Allowing wheat imports with two fungal pathogens not found in India is sacrificing food safety and plant protection.
- Mani Matters (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 12, 2006)
It’s been Mani Shankar Aiyar’s long-standing grouse that the ministry of panchayati raj has a paltry budget. His complaints have not reached the ears of the powers that be, but the minister has never been one to give up.
- Who Is Right, Who Is Wrong? (Pioneer, MC Joshi, Sep 12, 2006)
In the past few weeks, the nation has witnessed a debate on whether singing the National Song should be optional or compulsory.
- Home Ministry Go-Ahead To Greenfield Airport Operators (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
The Union home ministry wants to strictly keep out independent ground handling agencies as well as foreign airlines from ground handling operations at airports but is okay with the entry of greenfield airport operators and private domestic . . .
- Dmk Move Worries Left Tus (Asian Age, Sridhar Kumaraswami, Sep 12, 2006)
Left trade union leaders and Airports Authority Employees’ Union leaders visited Chennai recently to convince Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi to allow Chennai airport to be modernised by the state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) because . .
- Summer Of Dissent And Dispossession (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 12, 2006)
If there are slums in Delhi, the Government should be blamed as these structures cannot come into existence without its knowledge, says Suvrokamal Dutta.
- Toxic History Books (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 12, 2006)
Those seeking to cleanse history textbooks of toxic 'secular' content have scored an important victory last week with NCERT being instructed by Delhi High Court to issue an advisory against three passages which council officials and their . . .
- Praising Mother, Killing Daughter (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 12, 2006)
Despite taking great strides in almost all spheres of life, the disgraceful practice of female foeticide continues in the country, says Manisha Jain.
- Pm May Use Oil To Douse Sir Creek Fire (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
PM Manmohan Singh appears to be toying with the idea of dousing the Sir Creek fire by suggesting that India and Pakistan jointly tap the energy potential in the oil and gas rich region.
- Mcd Flayed Over Sealing, Demolition Drives (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
The Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, on Monday flayed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi over the ongoing sealing drive in the city, claiming that even legal shops and areas in West Delhi, South Patel Nagar and . . .
- Love, Not Just Passion (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 12, 2006)
Wright's account of his time in a land he obviously loves, and doing something that had its moments, both sublime and exasperating.
- Terror For Us, Ain’T So For India (Deccan Herald, K Subrahmanya, Sep 12, 2006)
A report released by a leading American think tank on South Asia, released late last week, has raised disturbing questions about the credibility of the Bush Administration’s post 9/11 resolve of leading an uncompromising global war on terrorism.
- A System For Subversion (Telegraph, Uttam Sengupta, Sep 12, 2006)
Inder Singh Namdhari has set his own rules and redefined the role of the speaker as visualized in the Constitution, writes Uttam Sengupta.
- Dangerous City (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 12, 2006)
Where there is a will, there is usually a way. West Bengal owes it to the boundless enthusiasm of the chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, that it has almost found the way in some matters.
- Asia-Europe Club Opens Doors For India (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Sep 12, 2006)
Nearly 12 years after Europe and Asia together rejected New Delhi’s attempts to join the biggest biennial Asia-Europe summit, India has finally been invited to join the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem).
- India Probes Link Between Mosque, Rail Bombings (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Indian police said on Sunday they were questioning several people in connection with blasts that killed 32 people in a western town and were investigating possible links with train bombings in Mumbai in July.
- Bending The Law (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Three Murder cases — those of Jessica Lall, Priyadarshini Mattoo and Nitish Katara — have caught national attention since they focus on our criminal justice system.
- Save Our Cities (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 11, 2006)
To turn the national capital of India into the commercial capital of the country is something that one expects the people of Delhi to be enthusiastic about.
- Azad: Self-Rule, Demilitarisation Are Nothing But A Stunt (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
People's Democratic Party is likely to nominate Tariq Hameed Qarra as the State's new Deputy Chief Minister even as Abdul Aziz Zargar is likely to continue as Legislature Party leader.
- The Afghan: Forsyth Sees Kerala As Fertile Turf For Islamic Terror (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Superpower rivalry has always been a particularly fertile territory for the writer of the realpolitik thriller.
- Police Issue Sketches Of Two Men In Blast Probe (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Sep 11, 2006)
Police released sketches of two men on Sunday in connection with blasts which killed 32 people and wounded 100 others last week.
- Islamic Rage: A Clash Of Views (Deccan Herald, PRASENJIT CHOWDHURY, Sep 11, 2006)
Radical Islam has taken the place of Communist ideology for America.
- That Man From Gujarat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 11, 2006)
Who's going to lead the BJP in the next elections? Indications from Dehradun — the hill state meeting was perhaps an unwitting admission of the mountainous task ahead — were as follows: not even Rajnath Singh’s best friend would pick . . .
- Preoccupation With N-Deal Hampered Us Efforts (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Sep 11, 2006)
US preoccupation with a civilian nuclear deal with India has detracted from Washington's effort to improve ties between India and Pakistan, according to a South Asia analyst in Washington.
- Jharkhand Mlas Now In Rishikesh (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Away from the political unrest that has gripped their home state, Jharkhand, in the run-up to the trial of strength by the Arjun Munda-led NDA government either on September 14 or 15, 11 opposition MLAs reached Rishikesh on Saturday only to . . .
- Farmers Being Neglected, Says Sampat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Former Haryana Minister Sampat Singh said today that the Congress governments at the Centre and in Haryana were governments of the brokers, exporters and importers and farmers and people were a neglected lot in the present set up.
- Outrage At Faridabad (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Facilities for passengers at railway stations are not what they ought to be. Trains also have this habit of being late many a time.
- Pm Nominated Cpa Vice-Patron (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been nominated vice-patron of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has been elected its president at a meeting of the CPA General Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria.
- Pm Leaves For Brazil, Cuba (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today left for a nine-day visit to Brazil and Cuba to attend the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) and Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summits in Brasilia and Harana, respectively.
- Day Of Terror - A Grisly Reminiscence (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 11, 2006)
Exactly five years back, September 11, 2001 acquired historical significance as this day got christened as a Day of Terror.
- The One And The Many (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 11, 2006)
Amartya Sen writes in Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, “a Bangladeshi Muslim is not only a Muslim but also a Bengali and a Bangladeshi, typically quite proud of the Bengali language, literature and music, not to mention the other . . .
- Delhi Metro To Install Cameras (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
With terrorist threats looming large on packed commuter trains, Delhi Metro has decided to install security cameras inside coaches to keep a track of the activities of passengers.
- More Commuter-Friendly Coaches Coming For Metro (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
To have stronger air-conditioning, closed circuit cameras
- Cong Chants Satyagraha (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
With the BJP deciding to cash in on the Vande Mataram controversy by making it one the main planks of the party’s campaign during the forthcoming assembly elections in five states – Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Punjab Goa, and Manipur – the . . .
- Kochi In The List Of Unesco's Cities Of Living Heritage (Hindu, K.S. Sudhi, Sep 11, 2006)
UNESCO-supported network to be launched at a conference in Jaipur
- Trouble Feared In Jharkhand Today (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 11, 2006)
Jharkhand could well be heading towards imposition of President’s Rule.
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