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Articles 6421 through 6520 of 23072:
- Nepal To Set Up Interim Government With Rebels (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Jun 18, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebel leader held ground-breaking talks on Friday with the government, which agreed to dissolve parliament and set up an interim administration to include the rebels.
- Bush Rejects Demand Of Lesser Us Role In Iraq (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Rejecting lesser US role in Iraq, US President George W. Bush promised the Iraqi people that the United States would not "abandon them after we have come this far," even as the US lawmakers debate pulling out troops.
- The Politics Of Gas Pipelines (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 18, 2006)
THE Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project has received a shot in the arm with the Russian president’s offer to participate in the venture.
- Sonia In Attack Mode (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Jun 18, 2006)
Lashing out at the Mulayam government for removing Rae Bareli from the VIP list for uninterrupted power supply a day after her victory, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today asked “kya yeh insaaf hai?”
- Fierce Battle In Lanka Kills 52 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 18, 2006)
Tamil tigers and security forces on Saturday fought land and sea battles in Sri Lanka’s northwest leaving at least 52 people dead, further rupturing a ceasefire that was hanging in balance.
- Sea Tigers Clash With Sri Lankan Navy (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked two naval craft off Sri Lanka's north-western coast today, inflicting casualties on both sides, military sources said.
- Woman Army Officer Commits Suicide (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 17, 2006)
The Army today dismissed allegations that the young woman Army officer, who shot herself to death at the Northern Command headquarters in Udhampur last night, wanted to leave the Army as she was unhappy with the job “but had no money to repay the . . .
- Palestinian Freedom Under Israeli Guns (News International, IMTIAZ GUL, Jun 17, 2006)
Once again Palestine finds itself in extremely hot water. President Mahmoud Abbas has announced a public referendum on the Prisoners' Document to be held on July 26.
- Sonia, Pranab To Flag Off Poonch-Rawalakot Bus (Daily Excelsior, Sanjeev Pargal, Jun 17, 2006)
UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee will flag off Poonch-Rawalakot bus service in Poonch on June 20.
- Serious Fungal Infections Of The Eye On The Rise (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Health Investigators in Miami and San Francisco describe clusters of a serious eye infection called ulcerative keratitis, an ulceration of the cornea, among soft contact lens wearers caused by the fungus Fusarium, which until this year had been . . .
- Badal Calls For Free Access To Sikh Shrines In Pakistan (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday sought free access by Indian pilgrims to Sikh shrines in Pakistan besides easing of visa restrictions for them.
- Tharoor's Time (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jun 17, 2006)
Shashi Tharoor's name had been doing the rounds for the UN's top job, which will fall vacant when Kofi Annan steps down at the end of this year. Now the MEA has confirmed that New Delhi will officially back Tharoor.
- Spare Soft Targets (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jun 17, 2006)
In a young nation, the aged suffer. Young India’s growth story has been built on the back of the efforts of the preceding generation.
- Army To Protect Nation’S Wildlife (Tribune, Vibha Sharma, Jun 17, 2006)
Besides protecting the country’s borders, the Army is now being armed with legal powers to guard the nation’s rich flora and fauna as well.
- Volvo To Buy More Truck Parts From India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Swedish truck and bus maker Volvo said on Friday it will buy more components from India and that it expects the country's improving infrastructure to boost demand for its trucks.
- Nepal To Set Up Interim Government With Rebels (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Jun 17, 2006)
Nepal's Maoist rebel leader held ground-breaking talks on Friday with the government, which agreed to dissolve parliament and set up an interim administration to include the rebels.
- Nepal Maoists Agree To Join Govt (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
The Maoists in Nepal, who have waged a decade-long war to seize control of the Himalayan nation, agreed on Friday to join an interim government to be formed within a month, the rebels' leader Prachanda said after his talks with PM Girija Prasad Koirala.
- Expand Upa-Left Coordination Panel: Ncp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
"Congress alone must not share burden"
- Koirala, Prachanda Reach Historic Accord (Hindu, Ameet Dhakal, Jun 17, 2006)
Both sides express commitment to human rights, press freedom in Nepal
- Pro-Poor Policy Shift In Governance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Governor's address says State mulls quasi-judicial body to help farmers in debt
Special attention to marginalised sections of society
Efforts to be made to mobilise additional resources
IT, biotechnology, tourism new growth sectors
Public . . .
- Need For Reconciliation In Waziristan (Dawn, Amir Usman, Jun 17, 2006)
Two meetings on the situation in the tribal areas, with particular reference to the conflict in Waziristan, were recently held in Islamabad and Peshawar, and attended by senior government officials.
- Nepal Govt, Maoists Reach Agreement To End Insurgency (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Nepal’s government and the Maoist militants reached an agreement Friday aimed at ending the decade-long insurgency after a day of unprecedented meetings between rebel leaders and the government, the home minister said.
- Minister, Sec Not To Leave Delhi Together: Pmo (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
The Prime Minister's Office has sent a directive that a minister and secretary of a ministry should not travel out of Delhi at the same time.
- Central Asia Rediscovers Islamic Roots (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 17, 2006)
Turkestan, Kazakhstan: In Soviet days, people walked past the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi mausoleum, a holy Muslim site in the steppe of southern Kazakhstan, and pretended it wasn’t there.
- Bush Advisers Rove, Bolten Are Millionaires (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's senior political adviser, reported assets of at least $1.8 million for 2005, while White House chief of staff Josh Bolten was worth at least $1.1 million, according to financial disclosure forms released by the . . .
- Caught Up In Circles (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 17, 2006)
Circles in Bangalore look similar and cause confusion to a newcomer
- Tata Consultancy Services Sets A Recruitment Record (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Over 2,000 students from 16 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu get job offers
- India To Review Non-Tariff Trade Barriers With Bangladesh (Indian Express, VIKAS DHOOT, Jun 17, 2006)
India is working towards dismantling the non-tariff barriers imposed on goods from Bangladesh, according to Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh. Speaking with The Indian Express, Ramesh said, ‘‘Jamdani sarees from Bangladesh being tested . . .
- ‘The Phobia Felt By Dalits Is Very Real’ (Deccan Herald, K S Narayanan, Jun 17, 2006)
Chandra Bhan Prasad is a Dalit columnist and writer. In his latest book, Dalit Phobia: Why do they hate us? he argues that Dalit phobia is passed on from generation to generation....
- Air India Or A Bongo-Bongo Carrier? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 17, 2006)
‘Market forces rather than the bureaucracy should shape the future of smiling Maharajah.’
- No Progress On The Ground (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jun 17, 2006)
New Delhi and Islamabad have to change their mindsets towards each other for promotion of peaceful relations
- Kuwait For Better Trade, Economic Ties With India (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Kuwait, on Friday, sought closer economic and trade relationship with India that can provide job opportunities and high living standards to the peoples of the two countries.
- Quota And Populism (Deccan Herald, Tavleen Singh, Jun 17, 2006)
By a happy coincidence I went to have coffee with Arun Shourie in his elegant Delhi home the day his new book came out. It is called Falling Over Backwards:
- Reading The Tea Leaves Amidst Storm In The Stocks Cup (Business Line, D. Murali , Jun 17, 2006)
"Investing without understanding the economy is like planning a beach trip without checking the forecast," alerts Richard Yamarone in The Trader's Guide to Key Economic Indicators. Over the past century, thousands of indicators have emerged, including . .
- From 'India Shining' To 'India Snorting' (News International, Praful Bidwai, Jun 17, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi
- Game In Shanghai (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 17, 2006)
In criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not attending the fifth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Indian Left has yet again made evident its craven surrender to blind anti-Americanism.
- Back To No Talks (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Jun 17, 2006)
National Security Adviser MK Narayanan is right in suggesting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh the futility of going to Pakistan, which has no intention of ending terror as an additionality to its diplomacy.
- Now, Call A Spade A Spade (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 17, 2006)
Manmohan Singh would do well to reconsider his fetish for peace with Pakistan -----
- Debate And Debasement (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 17, 2006)
Geo TV has done a great public service by openly debating and discussing the Zina Ordinance, the most controversial part of the Hudood Ordinances, 1979.
- City Populations Set To Outnumber Country Dwellers (Hindu, David Adam, Jun 17, 2006)
Globally, the slum population will swell by 27 million people each year over the next 20 years.
- Swarajists At The Savoy (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jun 17, 2006)
In Paris, during the students’ riots of the late Sixties, a pretty young Indian girl, now high in the Communist hierarchy, smoked foul-smelling French Gauloise cigarettes because they reminded her of Char Minars.
- Maoists To Join Interim Govt (Tribune, Shirish B Pradhan, Jun 17, 2006)
Maoists in Nepal today agreed to join an interim government to be formed within a month, rebel leader Prachanda announced here after his first-ever face-to-face talks with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to resolve the decade-long armed conflict . .
- Pakistan Denies Reports Of Demolition Of Krishna Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
Pakistan has denied reports that the Krishna Mandir in Lahore had been demolished to pave the way for the construction of a shopping mall.
- Aids Treatment: Ima Takes Initiative To Train Doctors (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2006)
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has come up with a physicians training initiative aimed at equipping doctors to handle cases of HIV/AIDS.
- Govt, Maoist Reach Pact (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Jun 17, 2006)
The last time he was seen in Kathmandu was nearly 11 years ago when he came to visit his ailing mother.
- Ramadoss’S Aiims (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Jun 17, 2006)
My country has been kind to me and has asked me to do many things, but the job I loved the most was being vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
- Politics Above Law (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jun 16, 2006)
Recent goings-on in the country remind me of a saying in the United States, popular during the prohibition era there, “The administration’s folly makes you feel like crying into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into”.
- Art 370 Root Cause Of All Problems: Joshi (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
Terming the Special Constitutional position a root cause of present crisis in Jammu and Kashmir State, the senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union HRD Minister, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi today said that this was the reason that his . . .
- Sit And Watch Others (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Jun 16, 2006)
While watching a television programme on Abu Dhabi and its plans for development and growth, one realized how backward and silly India is being in relation to the tourism industry.
- Wonder-Kid (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 16, 2006)
Pelé — at least, the narratorial voice in The Autobiography — oscillates between self-abnegation and self-glorification.
- The Chalice Of Sports (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 16, 2006)
Why was Lev Yashin considered the finest of goal-tenders? Why does Garrincha still evoke awe and wonder?
- A Silver Lining? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 16, 2006)
It is a commentary on our times that the mere act of members of the Muslim majority organising and attending the funeral of a Kashmiri Pandit is enough to make news.
- Martyrdom Of Guru Arjan Dev (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 16, 2006)
The Sikh religion has unique history and tradition of martyrdom right from its inception.
- Blow To Harmony (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 16, 2006)
That a Hindu temple has been demolished in Lahore in Pakistan does not give a cause of comfort.
- Musharraf's Re-Election Plans "Immoral": Benazir (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
The Opposition Pakistan Peoples Party today denounced as a "monumental political fraud" President Pervez Musharraf's plan to seek another term in the office.
- Reservation Policy (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 16, 2006)
India’s first Census was conducted in 1901 under the leadership of WW Hunter.
- Mobile Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 16, 2006)
It is all very well to know that India now has more than 100 million mobile phone subscribers and has thus overtaken Germany, Italy and Brazil in the numbers game.
- Blood Of The Innocent (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 16, 2006)
The shock and awe over what was reckoned as the first-ever attack on tourists in Kashmir has given way to an unseemly shadow-boxing between tour operators.
- Researchers Find Missing Link In Bird Evolution (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 16, 2006)
Dozens of fossils of an ancient loon-like creature that some say is the missing link in the evolution of bird have been discovered in northwest China.
- Spare Soft Targets (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 16, 2006)
In a young nation, the aged suffer. Young India’s growth story has been built on the back of the efforts of the preceding generation.
- Rbi Employees To Oppose Outsourcing (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
The decision to outsource the Reserve Bank of India's core functions has met with strong opposition from the bank's employees and economists.
- Social Security In Islam (Dawn, Sidrah Unis, Jun 16, 2006)
An efficient system of social security is one of the main features of a welfare state.
- Iran, Uzbek Leaders Hit Out At Interference By Foreign Powers (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
Uzbek president under criticism from the US for his anti-democratic leanings
A strengthened SCO would be a new force against the West
- Pakistan-China Bus Service Inaugurated (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
Federal Communications Minister Shamim Haider Siddiqui on Thursday inaugurated a bus service between Gilgit and Kashgher, China. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, the minister said the bus service would help increase trade between the two . . .
- Kashgar Bus Service (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 16, 2006)
The introduction of a bus service between Gilgit in the Northern Areas and Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region could help reverse the sharp decline in international tourism in the country.
- Reliance’S Switch (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jun 16, 2006)
Outcome of battle for spectrum now sealed?
- Stock Market Scams (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Jun 16, 2006)
The writer is a former member of parliament and a freelance columnist based in Lahore
- India Lodges Protest Over Lahore Temple Demolition (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
India has lodged a formal protest against the demolition of a Hindu temple in Lahore which has agitated political parties and religious groups here.
- Nri Aviator Plans Us-India Airline (Times of India, Byas Anand, Jun 16, 2006)
An America-based entrepreneur is all set to join the burgeoning list of wannabe Indian aviators.
- Upa Couldn't Care Less (Pioneer, Surya Narayan Saxena, Jun 16, 2006)
Will the mandarins in the South Block heed the timely and proactive advice of your editorial, "Last chance saloon" (June 8), and make good in some measure the tremendous damage done to the national interests in their dithering on Nepal.
- Don't Talk To Ulfa (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 16, 2006)
By carrying out a series of terror bombings across Assam, targeting both innocent people, including school children, and symbols of the state, for instance oil . . .
- Bus Blast Kills 64 In Sri Lanka (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
A landmine which ripped through a bus has killed 64 passengers and injured 39 in the deadliest attack on civilians in Sri Lanka since a 2002 truce, sparking military strikes on Tamil rebel positions.
- Jihadi-Islamist Compact (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jun 16, 2006)
Former world chess champion and then Fidé president Max Euwe had reportedly exclaimed, after being defeated by a Nepalese competitor in the late 1970s, "Alekhine lives in Nepal!"
- Beyond Gesture Diplomacy In Nepal (Indian Express, Virendra Gupta, Jun 16, 2006)
Indian government’s offer of liberal aid package of Rs 1000 crore must have pleased the visiting Nepalese premier.
- Don’T Hedge Those Bets Off-Broadway (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 16, 2006)
Hedge funds, those investment vehicles for institutions and the very wealthy that have enjoyed explosive growth in recent years, are breaking out into popular culture.
- Sensex Posts Record Session Gain (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
The BSE Sensex, the barometer of the Indian share market, is going through a record breaking phase.
- Politics And World Cup: An Unbridgeable Divide? (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Jun 16, 2006)
I was in Europe the morning the newspapers headlined “US strike kills Zarqawi” and the general populace woke in eager anticipation of the commencement of the football World Cup.
- Hymns For Salvation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
The Nalayira Divya Prabhandam, a collection of the sacred hymns of the Azhwars, contains the essence of the esoteric truths of the Vedas.
- Development Plan For Malampuzha Gardens Gets Central Clearance (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2006)
The Rs.5.88-crore proposal includes renovation of Rock Garden
Illumination system to be revamped at Rs.3.38 crores
Tourist facilitation centre-cum-bus shelter to be built
A modern musical fountain to be set up
- Behind Mirrored Images (Hindu, BAGESHREE S. , Jun 16, 2006)
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