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- Tiger Airways Launches First Service To India (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Budget carrier Tiger Airways launched its first flight to India and a fifth service to southern China from its Singapore base Sunday.
- Trai Okays Cable Landing Rates Of Rcom, Vsnl And Bharti (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Trai has approved the Reference Interconnect Offer (RIO) of the three undersea cable owners — Reliance, Bharti and VSNL— paving the way for long distance operators and Internet Service Providers to access the trios’ cable landing . . . .
- Pak Vows To Go Ahead With Iran Gas Pipeline F.P. Report (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan said Monday that it would go ahead with the multi-billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project.
- Pride And Joy In India Over La.'S Bobby Jindal (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
U.S. politics aren't usually the subject of gossip in the homes of this sleepy rice- and wheat-growing village in northern India. But when Bobby Jindal, an American of Indian descent, was elected governor of Louisiana this month, the residents . . .
- Argentina’S First Lady Now President (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner rode an economic boom and her husband's popularity to victory in a presidential election on Sunday to become the country's first elected woman leader.
- When Pilots Qualify For Sainthood (Business Line, A. Ranganathan, Oct 30, 2007)
The saintly soul, Mother Theresa, is yet to be ordained as a saint. Her followers have to establish that she saved lives by performing miracles. Pilots, on the other hand, do not have to undergo this ordeal.
- Higher Education: The Quality Issue (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 30, 2007)
When an individual falls sick, only he and his family are affected. When institutions are affected, the ramifications are much more.
- Inflation, Current Account Deficit To Trouble Economy (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Curbing inflation and bringing down the current account deficit will be the biggest challenges for the country’s economic managers in the current fiscal year, but the targeted economic growth rate of 7 percent or more is likely to be . . . .
- Sensex Becomes World's 33rd Index To Scale 20k (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
India on Monday became the 20th nation in the world to have seen its stock market benchmark enter the league of bourses that have touched the 20,000-point milestone.
- Two Options, One Future (Pioneer, ASHOK MALIK, Oct 30, 2007)
In the end, the nuclear deal asks India an existential question -- does it want to be the US or the EU? Does it want to be a power player or does it only want to pretend?
- Delhi Stalls Protest By Thousands Of Landless (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Thousands of landless workers, indigenous people and "untouchables" from the bottom of Indian society were yesterday prevented from taking their demands to the country's parliament - the final leg of a month-long protest march.
- India's Landless Prevented From Marching On Parliament (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Thousands of landless workers, indigenous people and "untouchables" from the bottom of Indian society were today prevented from taking their demands to the country's parliament - the final leg of their month-long protest march.
- India-Usa Interests (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible military threat . . .
- Special (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible . . . . .
- The Original Sin Of Politics (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 30, 2007)
Some political scientists consider violence to be the ‘original sin’ of politics. Political leadership ritualises death as sacrifice — for a cause and higher purpose.
- Maruti To Invest $1.8 Billion (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
29: Maruti Suzuki India, the country's biggest car manufacturer on Monday said that it will invest $1.8 billion for setting up a research and development (R&D) unit at Manesar, as well as marketing and production expansion.
- Dirty Business (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 29, 2007)
There is déjà vu about the report that the government is preparing to remove the hurdles to the entry of Dow Chemical, which has bought Union Carbide into India in a big way.
- It’S India Time, Folks (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
When I came to India in September, the immigration official while checking my passport asked me about the book I was carrying. And then went on to ask if it was good.
- Unaware Of Gold (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 29, 2007)
Britannia has long ceased to rule the waves. No matter, thanks to the American century, English has retained its dominance on the global stage.
- Globalisation:new Challenges (Deccan Herald, MARIO SOARES, Oct 29, 2007)
Recent developments show, the world is now on the way to a multi-polar arrangement.
- Bangalore It Show Takes Off Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
It promises to be bigger and grander this year. Over 200 top information technology companies, 60 of them global majors, will converge for BangaloreIT.in, arguably Asia’s largest IT and telecom annual event, to take off at the Bangalore . . . .
- Offering Pain Relief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Living without pain is a basic human right but not many with grave illnesses like cancer have access to inexpensive palliative medication. Palliative care is today a distinct discipline and the benefits of oral morphine for pain relief . . . . .
- Contempt Of Court And The Truth (Hindu, Anil Divan, Oct 29, 2007)
The contest is between truth and its suppression. The choice then is between the plea of truth to expose judicial misconduct and the attempt to stifle such publication by the use of the contempt power.
- The ‘Resource-Curse’ Effect In Myanmar (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 29, 2007)
Last week, US President Bush announced new sanctions against Myanmar’s military government.
- Ltte’S Growing Air Power (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Oct 29, 2007)
Sri Lankan soldiers carry the coffin of an officer who was among the servicemen killed in the LTTE’s air attacks on a military air base.
- Be Practical On Burma (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Oct 29, 2007)
In stormy street protests in 1988 all across Burma that brought down the one-party Socialist regime of Gen Ne Win, over 3,000 people perished when the Army opened fire on peaceful demonstrators.
- 80 Taliban Killed In Afghan (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
US-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said on Sunday.
- Black, White And Coloured News (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 29, 2007)
A new study finds that White women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women.
- Drawing The Line Of Distrust (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
For observers and students of international politics, the final quarter of the 20th century was truly overwhelming.
- U.S. ‘Encouraging India’ To Go Ahead With Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
India will have to “work through its internal, political decisions” regarding the civilian nuclear deal. The U.S. government has been “encouraging it to go forward [with the deal] as quickly as possible,” U.S. Secretary of the Treasury . . . . . .
- ‘Nehru’S Policies Caused Kashmir Problem’ (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Accusing successive Congress governments of "inept handling" of internal security, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Sunday said the "faulty" policies of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru are responsible for the Kashmir problem.
- Memories Of Horror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 29, 2007)
The collector of Ahmedabad has ordered the blackout of TV channels beaming the sting operation of the post-Godhra pogrom.
- A Troubled Pakistan In A Troubled Region (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 29, 2007)
Faced with Russian and Chinese opposition to Chapter Seven sanctions at the UN Security Council, the United States has moved unilaterally to impose them on Iran to deter it from making a nuclear bomb which the IAEA says could be eight years away.
- India Must Move Ahead On Nuclear Deal: Us (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Visiting US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged India on Sunday to quickly implement a landmark civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States.
- Should Us Fix History? (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 29, 2007)
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives (lower house), on October 10, bravely passed a resolution that, among other things, a systematic campaign had been undertaken to kill Armenians in Turkey between . . . . .
- Role And Risks Of Sovereign Wealth Funds (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 29, 2007)
The latest issue of Finance & Development, an official publication of the International Monetary Fund, has an authoritative article on the rise of sovereign wealth funds — funds owned by State Governments of countries.
- Honouring Culture And Creativity (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
IN your presence, Pablo Neruda, and on the metallic chair that you have prepared to meet your visitors by the entrance of your house in Valparaiso (Chile); I recall what is stuck in my memory, of your personal life history and your poetic path.
- ‘Israel Planned To Hit Kahuta From India’S Jamnagar Base’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
India and Israel secretly planned to hit nuclear facility in Kahuta near Islamabad in 1983-84 but backed off when the CIA tipped off Pakistan’s then president Gen Ziaul Haq.
- Child Labour Versus Quality Clothing (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Amitosh concentrates as he pulls the loops of thread through tiny plastic beads and sequins on the toddler’s blouse he is making.
- Do Or Die (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
WE are living beyond our means and courting environmental, economic and human disaster.
- Code Of Conduct For Polls (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
ON Oct 24, the Election Commission circulated a document entitled ‘Draft Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Contesting Candidates for General Elections, 2007’ to all political parties for comments.
- Turkey May Launch Iraq Incursion (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Turkey said on Sunday that a military solution was still on the table to tackle Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, while Washington urged dialogue to avert an incursion it fears will destabilise the region.
- Marriage Tie (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2007)
This is the second time within a space of 20 months that the Supreme Court has directed states to ensure that all marriages in the country are registered. This is in conformity with international law.
- Class Apart, Some Mps (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 29, 2007)
What does globalisation have to do with caste relations in India? How does secularism differ from country to country? Can game theory be used to negotiate stable political coalitions? Read on.
- Academia And The Energy Sector (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
OVER the last couple of decades, the global energy scenario has been substantially transformed.
- Quit Iraq: Us Protesters (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
At the rallies, leaders spoke against military intervention in Iran besides chiding the Bush administration on its international policies which, they contended, were raising tensions across the globe.
- Sino-India Relations May Change Asia: Hu (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The new Chinese leadership on Friday rolled out the red carpet for Congress President Sonia Gandhi, as Beijing voiced its readiness to take Sino-India relations to a strategic level that could change Asia and the world in a “profound way”.
- Mulford Meets Brajesh Mishra, Talks Nuclear Deal (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
As part of efforts to mobilize political support for the Indo-US nuclear deal, US Ambassador to India David C Mulford today had a meeting with Brajesh Mishra who was National Security Adviser during NDA rule.
- N-Deal: Now, Mulford Meets Brajesh (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Oct 27, 2007)
As the nuclear deal comes under threat for political reasons, there is a sudden spurt in BJP-US engagement with US Ambassador David Mulford meeting former NSA Brajesh Mishra on Friday, two days after he met Leader of Opposition . . . .
- Punish The Guilty On Tehelka Tapes: Nris (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Reacting to the Tehelka sting operation on the 2002 Gujarat riots, a coalition of Indian-American organisations, the Indian National Overseas Congress and the Indian Muslim Council-USA have demanded action against the people who admitted on tape to partic
- Un Budget Is Technically Inadequate: India (Rediff on the Net, DHARAM SHOURIE, Oct 27, 2007)
In a sharp criticism of the US$ 4.2 billion United Nations budget presented by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for 2008-09, India has slammed its emphasis only on peace, security and human rights rather than on resolving the basic causes. . .
- Uk To Fight Forced Asian Marriages (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
After years of finding itself unable to deal with the phenomenon of South Asian families in Britain forcing their children to marry people from the Indian sub-continent, the British government has now stepped up measures to tackle the problem.
- You're Not Special (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 27, 2007)
Three cheers to the Delhi high court. By observing that our politicians are not "national assets" and cause great inconvenience to the public every time they step out of their houses — led by pilot cars and tagged by a bunch of gun-toting. . .
- Despair And Despondence (Pioneer, JS Rajput, Oct 27, 2007)
The Prime Minister is sad, and competitive politics and fractured mandate have been formally identified as the culprits.
- Us Wants Nuke Deal By Jan (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 27, 2007)
The Manmohan Singh government and the United States have not given up on the nuclear deal which is very much "alive" and on the cards. US undersecretary of state for political affairs Nicholas Burns, in an interview to National Public Radio. . .
- Pollution Threatens Beijing Olympics (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Children and the elderly in Beijing were advised to stay indoors as thick smog choked the city on Friday, a day after the top Olympic official warned pollution could disrupt next year's Games.
- Queen And Us (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 27, 2007)
This week a member of the Order of the Elephant came to visit the land of the elephants. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who belongs to this distinguished Order, is in India.
- Reforming? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 27, 2007)
The claim, at first, was that restrictions on participatory notes (PNs) were motivated by a desire to reduce capital flows. But the government quickly recanted and sang another tune.
- Turkey Sends More Troops (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Iraqi, Turkish and US diplomats have stepped up efforts to avert a large-scale Turkish incursion but Turkeys prime minister and president have repeatedly said their country would not tolerate any more PKK attacks from Iraq.
- Sonia Gandhi Meets Chinese Premier Wen (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
As both Sonia and Wen met here at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound, they went down the memory lane recalling late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's . . .
- Sanctions Doomed To Fail: Iran (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Oct 27, 2007)
An expression of U.S. hostility towards us, says Tehran
- Protest Sanctions On Iran: Cpi(m) (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has opposed the fresh sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Iran. The party said the unilateral sanctions, aimed at hitting at Iran’s financial system and economy, came in the wake of the continuing. . .
- Royal Treatment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Pamper yourself at The Ritz-Carlton Resort and Spa in Bali
- I Have The Blues (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
We first got peanuts. But we’re still making music. We’re not rich. But we’re rich musically.” Sitting in a dimly lit Blues club, appropriately called Haze, Rudy of Soulmate describes his musical passions.
- India Should Not Be Cynical (Pioneer, Radha Kumar, Oct 27, 2007)
There was solid basis for New Delhi's response to the blasts in Karachi. The two countries are in the process of evolving a mechanism for police cooperation against terrorism and it is in India's interest to make Benazir conform to the . . . .
- Britain At Sixes And Sevens Over Eu Treaty (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 27, 2007)
The debate on the EU Reform Treaty in Parliament is expected to be very stormy. But the agonising debate on Europe will not end until Britain is able to shed the historical baggage that fuels so much of the Euro-scepticism in the country.
- Merkel For Closer Ties With Asia (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 27, 2007)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday called upon the West to acknowledge “different structures” for resolving conflicts and be “open-minded” about religions from Asia. Calling on the West to be “more than willing to learn from . . . .
- China Sees Complications (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
China said on Friday the sanctions can only make the Iranian nuclear issue complicated.
- Sudan’S Other War A Threat To Darfur (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Oct 27, 2007)
Failures to keep the peace in the scarcely reported north-south conflict send a terrible signal as talks begin in Libya.
- India, Netherlands Sign Agreements (Hindu, Sujay Mehdudia, Oct 27, 2007)
India and the Netherlands have signed two agreements in the fields of culture, trade and economy aimed at giving a boost to the bilateral relations between the nations.
- No Adverse Impact Of Nuclear Deal Uncertainty: Us Trade Body (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The US trade organisation, Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce (APCAC), has ruled out any adverse impact of the Indo-US nuclear deal not coming through on the relationship between the two countries.
- Sonia’S Visit Will Boost Ties: Hu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
First foreign political leader to be received by new leadership
Visit a milestone in Sino-India relations, says Sonia
Progress made by China outstanding
- Other Voices - Bangladesh Press (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
IT comes as a great relief that anti-corruption task forces have started working at the Dhaka City Corporation and other public services agencies.
- Failure To Seal N-Deal Significant: Expert (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Terming opponents of the Indo-US nuclear deal as being unable to "grasp the magnitude" of policy change Washington was making for India, a leading expert on South Asia has said in order to end . . . .
- Set It Right Now (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Oct 27, 2007)
Why should the Indian Government and the national Opposition lose sleep if Pakistanis are getting killed in jihadi strikes? Well, isolationism is out of fashion now.
- Know Your Benazir (Pioneer, Wilson John, Oct 27, 2007)
After last week's suicide bombing in Karachi, a sympathy wave is sought to be manufactured in favour of the 'daughter of the East' even here in India. But does the lady deserve a second chance?
- Gandhi On Goodwill Visit To China (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The leader of India's governing Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, has met the Chinese president and prime minister in Beijing.
- Environment The Third Teacher (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 27, 2007)
During World War II, a future Nobel laureate as a starving, homeless four-year-old is forced to survive on the streets of Italy. The kid, Mario Capecchi, and his band of urchins eventually land up in a hospital, where the . . . . .
- S Korea, Usa Differ Over North Peace Talk Date (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
South Korea and the USA differed over when to launch talks with North Korea on a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War, with Seoul today apparently favouring an early start and Washington preferring a cautious approach.
- Iran Threatens To Strike Back (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards dismissed the possibility of a US military action against Iran and warned that his forces would respond with an “even more decisive” strike if attacked, an Iranian news agency reported today.
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