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Articles 14221 through 14320 of 27031:
- Commute To Another World (Deccan Herald, Barbara Demick, Mar 15, 2006)
It takes barely an hour to drive from downtown Seoul to the other side of the demilitarised zone, but the culture shock is such that you might as well be commuting to the moon......
- Death Of A Mass Murderer (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Mar 15, 2006)
THE death of Slobodan Milosevic, in his cell at the Hague, where he was undergoing a trial at an International Criminal Court since 2001, for crimes against humanity, including genocide, has left incomplete a process that would have delivered the . . .
- Significant Steps (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 15, 2006)
Mr Kalam’s visit to Myanmar is historic...
- Mystical Experience (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Spiritual experience is a one-to-one communion with God and hence even the great sages who were fortunate to have this experience did not generally speak about it.
- India And Nuclear Proliferation Issues (Hindu, R. Ramachandran, Mar 15, 2006)
Is a report by a Washington-based think tank a desperate attempt by the U.S. strategic community to torpedo the nuclear agreement with India?
- One Nuclear Deal, Two Narratives (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Mar 15, 2006)
That the Western media have savaged the Bush visit and the nuclear deal shows India acted in its national interest. Yet looked at another way, India is befriending a world leader seen to pursue an agenda against Muslim countries.
- Myanmar To Inform India On Suu Kyi (Hindu, Sandeep Joshi, Mar 15, 2006)
Myanmar, Mauritius visit important: Kalam
India will be happy to push Parliamentary system in Myanmar as far as possible: Kalam
He meets Myanmar leader, Senior General Than Shwe
- ‘Us Gave Too Much To India’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 15, 2006)
One of the most trenchant critics of the nuclear deal says he believes it will be approved by the US Congress.
- Unclear Policy (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 15, 2006)
The Left's gyrations on Indian nuclear policy may have been mildly diverting, had they not come so transparently at the expense of the country.
- Manmohan: Not Kowtowing To U.S. (Hindu, Crisil Marketwire, Mar 15, 2006)
"Nuclear agreement is not a surrender "
Judge us by our results
It is in national interest to engage with U.S.
Pro-active role to be pursued with neighbours
- Israeli Soldiers Storm Jail On West Bank (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Mar 15, 2006)
Militant jailed for murder of Israeli Minister seized; attack triggers abductions in Palestinian territories
- Indonesia, India To Cooperate In Defence Sector (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Indonesia and India are probing a possible strategic defence partnership, including cooperation between their state-owned weapon industries, Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono said on Tuesday.
- No Investment Without Security (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 15, 2006)
Us Energy Secretary Samuel W Bodman, visiting Pakistan for consultation on non-nuclear energy resources, made a profound statement on Monday:
- Diplomats Vs Scientists (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Mar 15, 2006)
AN unfortunate fallout of the negotiations on the implementation of the US-India nuclear deal was the impression created by certain analysts, including retired nuclear scientists, that the diplomats and scientists were at loggerheads over the . . .
- Crackdown In Bangladesh (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Mar 15, 2006)
IN quick succession, Bangladesh’s crack anti-crime force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), arrested Sheikh Abdur Rahman and Saddiqul Rahman, alias Bangla Bhai. Each carried a reward of 50 lakh takka on his head as they were the . . .
- Us Versus Them (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 15, 2006)
Paranoia has no place in FDI policy
- Us Nuke Deal: Unfolding Future Events (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Mar 15, 2006)
At the India-Japan symposium in Tokyo on Friday last, the outlook on the India-US nuclear power agreement ranged between cautious and negative.
- Taliban Office In Miranshah (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
22 Afghans held
Govt releases Rs 213m for families
Missing soldiers return to base
- Us House May Tie Conditions To India Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The US Congress may attach conditions for any approval of a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with India, a senior lawmaker said on Monday as he announced congressional hearings later this month on the controversial deal.
- Reuniting Parliamentary, State Elections (Daily Excelsior, Aditya Nath Dar, Mar 15, 2006)
The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Mr. Lalkrishna Advani, while delivering a speech at India Today conclave, surprised most of his listeners when he said that he was in favour of reuniting the parliamentary and state assembly elections.
- Security Forces Arrest Lashkar Terrorist In J&k (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir have averted a major tragedy by detecting and defusing two powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs), official sources said in Jammu on Tuesday.
- India Says Russia To Supply Fuel To Atomic Plants (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
India will receive uranium from Russia to run two atomic power plants that have struggled to find fuel after the United States stopped supplies more than three decades ago, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
- War Clouds Over Iran ? (Daily Excelsior, Syed Ali Safvi, Mar 15, 2006)
Iraq under Saddam Husain did not pose threat to the U.S. but it did to Israel.",
- Belated Recognition For China's 'Schindler' (International Herald Tribune, Howard W. French, Mar 15, 2006)
From the outside it does not look like much: the shell of a two-story brick building with scaffolding running up its sides and, on this drizzly winter day, a pair of construction workers kicking around in a courtyard littered with building materials.
- Iraq Unravelling (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The American game plan in Iraq seems to be coming badly unstuck. Sectarian violence has grown in frequency and scale, and there is talk increasingly of the country heading for civil war between rival militias.
- Chinese Military Trains In West (Washington Times, Bill Gertz, Mar 15, 2006)
China is stepping up military training in Latin America because of a law that limits U.S. military support to nations in the region, the general in charge of the U.S. Southern Command told Congress yesterday.
- Congress May Set Terms On Indo-Us N-Deal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Congress may seek to put unspecified conditions on a landmark U.S.-India nuclear-energy agreement despite Bush Administration warnings that such moves could scuttle the deal, a key lawmaker said.
- Russia, Iran Talks On N-Venture Today (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Russia and Iran will hold another round of talks tomorrow on the setting up of a uranium enrichment joint venture on the Russian soil as part of the package to resolve the vexed issue of Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme.
- Sugar Crisis Inquiry (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 15, 2006)
IT bears noting that in an action that defies common logic, NAB has opted to close investigation into the ongoing sugar crisis apparently "to avoid further instability" in the market.
- Us Discusses Arms Purchase Norms (Hindustan Times, Sutirtho Patranobis, Mar 15, 2006)
Barely days after US President George Bush left India, a high-level defence delegation from the United States flew in for a five-day visit to discuss procedures and protocol followed in arms purchases.
- Fm's Feel-Good Defence Bounty (Daily Excelsior, Brigadier (Retd.) S. N. Sachadeva, Mar 15, 2006)
Fulfilling a promise made to the Armed forces more than five years ago, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in his 2006-07 budget, unveiled a big gift to them: the Defence Moder- . . .
- How To Nip Iran's Designs (Gulf News, Editorial, Gulf News, Mar 15, 2006)
Remember Donald Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns"? The US Defence Secretary used the phrase in 2003 in the context of the controversy over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
- Afghans Ordered To Leave N Waziristan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Authorities claim families start returning to Miranshah; power, phone restored
- Harper Makes Surprise Visit To Afghanistan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit on Sunday to Afghanistan’s most volatile region to show support for Canadian troops deployed there as part of an international force, officials told AFP.
- Fm's Feel-Good Defence Bounty (Daily Excelsior, Brigadier (Retd.) S. N. Sachadeva, Mar 14, 2006)
Fulfilling a promise made to the Armed forces more than five years ago, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in his 2006-07 budget, unveiled a big gift to them: the Defence Moder- nisation Fund.
- Congress May Set Terms On U.S.-India Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Mar 14, 2006)
Congress may seek to put unspecified conditions on a landmark U.S.-India nuclear-energy agreement despite Bush administration warnings that such moves could scuttle the deal, a key lawmaker said on Monday.
- U.S. Wants To Help Pakistan On Energy, But Not Nuclear (Reuters, SIMON CAMERON-MOORE, Mar 14, 2006)
Barring nuclear power, or a gas pipeline from Iran, the United States wants to help its ally Pakistan develop potential energy sources, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said on Monday.
- Chhattisgarh Tribe Takes Up Bows, Arrows To Fight Maoists (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 14, 2006)
Clutching their bows and arrows, a group of tribesmen and young boys mill around outside a crude refugee camp in the forests of central India.
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam returned here this morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- India Tightens Rules For Nuclear Export (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
India has tightened the screw on export of nuclear equipment and technology in a move that seems to be a fallout of its recent deal with the United States.
- Reuniting Parliamentary, State Elections (Daily Excelsior, Aditya Nath Dar, Mar 14, 2006)
The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Mr. Lalkrishna Advani, while delivering a speech at India Today conclave, surprised most of his listeners when he said that he was in favour of reuniting the parliamentary and state assembly elections.
- War Clouds Over Iran ? (Daily Excelsior, Syed Ali Safvi, Mar 14, 2006)
Iraq under Saddam Husain did not pose threat to the U.S. but it did to Israel.",
- Police Turn Gun On Jessica Judge (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Under fire for the wholesale acquittal of the accused in the Jessica Lal murder, police today went to court pleading that the evidence furnished by it had not received due consideration from the judge.
- Doublespeak (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 14, 2006)
It is possible to have one’s cake and eat it too provided one is the world’s solitary superpower.
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam returned in New Delhi on Tuesday morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- Will Bush Visit Trigger New Thinking? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 14, 2006)
A military dictatorship in Islamabad will always come out worse compared with the flourishing democracy in India
- Kalam Returns Home After Two-Nation Tour (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
President APJ Abdul Kalam returned to New Delhi on Tuesday morning after a six-day two-nation tour which took him to Myanmar and Mauritius.
- Afghan-Pak Rift Deepens (Tribune, Pamela Constable, Mar 14, 2006)
A rare suicide car bombing Sunday in Afghanistan’s capital, which killed four people and left former president Sibghatullah Mujaddedi with burn injuries, seemed likely to set back government reconciliation efforts with Taliban members . . .
- ‘Cemilac Has Certified Light Combat Aircraft’ (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Mar 14, 2006)
Cemilac plays an important role in airborne systems J K Sharma Chief Executive CEMILAC
- ‘N-Deal Is Unique As India Is Unique’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 14, 2006)
The nuclear agreement with India will strengthen international security, energy security and environmental protection, as well as fostering economic and technological development, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argues in an opinion . . .
- Focus Now On Nuclear Suppliers Group (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Mar 14, 2006)
After clinching a landmark deal with the United States on civilian nuclear energy cooperation, New Delhi is eyeing the Nuclear Suppliers Group which is due to hold a crucial meeting in May this year.
- Not Enough Money For Armed Forces (Tribune, P.K. Vasudeva, Mar 14, 2006)
The modernisation programmes that have been kick-started by the armed forces are set to continue as the defence budget for 2006-07 has been hiked by 8.9 per cent (Rs. 7,300 crore) to Rs. 89,000, as against Rs. 81,700 crore in 2005-06 on expected lines.
- Russian Pm Comes Calling Over N-Supply (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Underscoring the importance India continued to attach to its strategic ties with Russia, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had availed the first available opportunity to ring up Russian President Vladimir Putin and brief him about the outcomes . . .
- People Power In East Asia (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Mar 14, 2006)
Do the current attempts in the Philippines and Thailand to re-enact people power movements amount to bypassing the existing democratic systems?
- Of Manipulators And A `Bad Victim' (Hindu, Usha Ramanathan, Mar 14, 2006)
Sentencing a survivor, however opportunistic she may be, will have the unfortunate effect of punishing a `bad victim' while leaving the manipulators free and undeterred.
- Al-Qaeda To Blame, Says Al-Sadr (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose directives can send thousands of heavily armed militiamen spilling into the streets, called for calm on Monday and blamed Al-Qaeda in Iraq for the carnage in Baghdad's Sadr City slum that killed at least 48 persons.
- Over Time, 90 P.C. Of India's Nuclear Reactors Will Be Under Safeguards: U.S. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
"There's a commitment to place all future civilian reactors under safeguards in perpetuity" "That's a very important commitment because they intend to build very large reactors for power needs over the coming years."
- Congress Election Committee Reconstituted (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in five States, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday reconstituted the party's Central Election Committee (CEC), bringing in four new faces while retaining seven existing members.
- Saddam-Era Judge Admits Sentencing Shiites To Die (The Nation, Robert Fisk, Mar 14, 2006)
Baghdad A former judge in Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Court acknowledged Monday that he had sentenced 148 Shiites to death in 1984, but he said they had received a proper trial and had confessed to trying to assassinate the former Iraqi . . .
- Attack On Mujaddedi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
The law and order situation in Afghanistan, which was never very satisfactory, is taking a turn for the worse.
- Visiting China Again (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
President Hu Jintao has sent a formal letter to President Pervez Musharraf inviting him to attend the sixth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Pakistan enjoys observer’s status with the organization that seeks to . . .
- Death Of A Tyrant (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
When the Bosnian journalist Mirna Jancic went to The Hague to report on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, she was repelled by the way in which the defendant, not infrequently, managed to turn the proceedings into a soap opera with himself as leading man.
- Us Wants To Help Pakistan On Energy, But Not Nuclear (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Barring nuclear power, or a gas pipeline from Iran, the United States wants to help its ally Pakistan develop potential energy sources, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W Bodman said on Monday
- Missing Indian Spy Found In Us (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 14, 2006)
Rabindra Singh, a senior Indian spy who went missing in May 2004 after suspected of becoming a double agent and passing on secret and classified documents to the Americans, has been ultimately traced in the countryside of Virginia state in the . . .
- Bush Administration Launches Campaign For Us-India N-Deal (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Mar 14, 2006)
The first high-profile administration attempt to ease the passage of the India-US nuclear agreement through Congress was in evidence on Monday, with the publication of a signed article by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the . . .
- N-Export Rules Tightened As Un Faults India’S Record (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 14, 2006)
The Indian government tightened rules on the export of nuclear equipment and technology on Monday, a day after the former UN weapons inspector David Albright faulted India’s non-proliferation record.
- Bush In South Asia — Raising A Political Storm (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 14, 2006)
As the US President moved from Afghanistan to India and then Pakistan, he raised political storm clouds. If India was obsessed with the nuclear deal, Pakistan wanted similar treatment and Afghanistan worried about the . . .
- Standstill In The Middle East (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
Going by the policies Mr Ehud Olmert is pursuing, it seems Mr Ariel Sharon is still very much at the helm of Israeli affairs.
- Advani Back In Favour (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Under attack from secular parties, the Sangh Parivar and the BJP today closed ranks and rallied behind Mr LK Advani on his proposed controversial ‘National Integration Yatra’ from 6 April announced in the wake of the Varanasi bomb blasts.
- Imperialism Redux (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Mar 14, 2006)
Business, Energy, Weapons And Foreign Policy
- India Not To Compromise Friendly Relations With Iran (Press Trust of India, Amitabha Roychowdhury, Mar 14, 2006)
Thamrait Air Base (Oman), Mar 13 (PTI) Maintaining that the Iran nuclear issue should be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy, India has said it would not compromise friendly relations with Tehran "at any cost."
- Tehran's Dangerous Influence On Iraqi Politics (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, Mar 14, 2006)
As The War of ever-escalating threats between Iran and the United States rages, the rest of the world watches with growing alarm as the battle of wills over uranium enrichment moves on into the UN Security Council.
- Our Opportunity With India (Washington Post, Condoleezza Rice, Mar 13, 2006)
The week before last President Bush concluded a historic agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation with India, a rising democratic power in a dynamic Asia.
- Qazi Criticises Musharraf’S Proposal On Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Ameer Jama'at-i-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that a proposal by General Pervez Musharraf to divide Kashmir into seven autonomous regions and give their joint control to India and Pakistan is a prelude to "United India" which the people on . . .
- Five Rockets Hit Bannu Garrison (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Five rockets fired by unknown people fell in different parts of Bannu city in the early hours of Sunday without causing any loss to life and property.
- Mujaddedi Survives Suicide Attack (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Former Afghan president Sibghatullah Mujaddedi was slightly wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on Sunday that officials said killed two bombers and two civilians.
- Separatists' Shenanigans In J And K (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Mar 13, 2006)
Current events in Jammu and Kashmir appear to be in consonance with Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf’s game plan for a regional splintering of the former princely State.
- U.S. Ties With India, Pakistan On Divergent Paths (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W. Bush's visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent U.S. approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- India Slow To Wake Up To Growing Maoist Menace (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 13, 2006)
Kanker, India (Reuters) - Shouting "commando", police in camouflage uniform and black bandanas pour down from the sky on ropes. Others clamber over rocks, shooting from the shoulder as targets pop up all around them.
- Saddam Feared Own Army As Us Invaded (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Saddam Hussein's fear of internal rebellion led him to distrust his military commanders even after US forces began their invasion in 2003, crippling the country's defenses, the New York Times reported in today's editions.
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