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Articles 2321 through 2420 of 43820:
- Cpi(m) Charge Against Dmk (Hindu, S. Dorairaj , Oct 16, 2006)
"It unleashed violence during phase I"
- Conspiracy Exposed (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 16, 2006)
The ham-handed attempt of the UPA Government to controvert the basic facts of the Godhra carnage in February 2002, in which a coach of Sabarmati Express packed with Hindu pilgrims was set ablaze by a Muslim mob, has come a cropper, with the Gujarat . . .
- Ideological Bankruptcy (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Oct 16, 2006)
Using a 30-year-old slogan to win votes shows the Congress is going backward, not forward,says Ajoy Bose
- Proliferation Unlimited (Pioneer, Cecil Victor, Oct 16, 2006)
China has played the same card as the US by winking at proliferation while stating to be working against it, says Cecil Victor
- Unity Of Formand Content (News International, Prof Khwaja Masud, Oct 16, 2006)
There can be no form without content and there can be no content without form. One cannot exist without the other.
- Getting Out Of Iraq (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 16, 2006)
The new UK army chief’s remarks about a British withdrawal from Iraq “soon” have caused a political storm across the Atlantic, even though Gen Richard Dannatt said nothing that could be called dramatic.
- ‘Vision For Balochistan’ (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 16, 2006)
Balochistan's troubles stem primarily from the neglect it has suffered over the years.
- Liaquat & The Objectives Resolution (Dawn, Sharif al Mujahid, Oct 16, 2006)
Jinnah’s “right hand man” and heir apparent — that’s how Liaquat Ali Khan is often referred to, and rightly too.
- Balochistan Package (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 16, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz unveiled his “Vision for development in Balochistan” on Friday and announced a package of Rs19.5 billion for the province.
- ‘Realignment’ Of Political Forces Augers Well (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 16, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has admitted that a “realignment of political forces before the 2007 general election” is in the offing. He said so to various editors and senior columnists in Karachi because he wants the message to go down loud and clear.
- The Baloch Jirga (News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai, Oct 16, 2006)
The most significant backlash of the killing of Nawab Mohammad Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti at the hands of the Pakistan Army in August has been the revival of the traditional Baloch national jirga.
- Taliban Insurgency Slows Drugs War: Afghan Minister (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2006)
Says it may take more than ten years to quell the insurgency if security remains dismal in poppy-growing areas
- Nuclear Dominos (News International, Nasim Zehra, Oct 16, 2006)
analyst and adjunct professor at SAIS Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC
- In Search Of Rock Bottom (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Oct 16, 2006)
Incidents of past few weeks - from daily killings in Iraq to nuclear tests in North Korea - indicate the world is today a much more dangerous place
- Nobel For Grameen & Yunus (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 16, 2006)
Sometimes, the Nobel Prize Committee shows imagination and bestows its peace prize on men and women who have tried to find an answer to non-military forms of violence:
- On The Consequences Of Our Actions (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2006)
‘People don’t believe in consequences anymore’.
- India Will Burn If Afzal Is Hanged: Farooq Abdullah (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2006)
India will "go up in flames" if it hangs a Muslim militant convicted for his role in an attack on parliament in 2001, former Chief Minister of Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah was quoted as saying.
- Ban Ready To Meet Nkorea's Kim Jong-Il To Solve Nuke Issue (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 16, 2006)
UN Secretary General-elect Ban Ki-Moon has said he was prepared to take the initiative to solve the North Korean nuclear crisis by going to Pyongyang and meeting the country's reclusive President Kim Jong-Il, once he assumes charge of the world . . .
- Thinking Out Of The Fiscal Box (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 16, 2006)
The RBI and the Centre should put on their best thinking caps and arrive at reasonable limits which take into account the various implications of a rigid fiscal cap.
- State Of The India-Eu Dialogue (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Oct 16, 2006)
Where do Brussels and New Delhi go from here? Will the "advancement" of bilateral relations be in the garb of a free trade arrangement or take the form of a wider CECA?
- Public Services Bill (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 16, 2006)
The Government has invited the comments and suggestions of the public on a draft Bill to make public services in India, a professional, politically neutral, merit-based, and accountable instrument for . . .
- Sezs: How To Land A Good Deal (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Oct 16, 2006)
If SEZ developers plan large, comprehensive settlements, of a thousand hectare or more, on uncultivable or degraded land, and introduce quality transport services, build hospitals, schools, and offer such other services, they will be welcomed with . . .
- Failed Mediation (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Oct 16, 2006)
Afghanistan’s rejection of the Duran Line and claim on Pakistan territory upto Indus river is unrealistic.
- Why Corruption Does Not Hurt Economic Growth (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 15, 2006)
Germany-based Transparency International has found in a worldwide survey of more than 11,000 Company Executives that Indian companies were most corrupt in their foreign operations.
- Why Not Education For All? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 15, 2006)
If the concept of `free and compulsory' education is to become a reality, the big losers will be those who depend on cheap labour.
- Chance For Peace (Hindu, Bill Kirkman, Oct 15, 2006)
With the dismantling of all its military structures by IRA, the way is open for a final peace settlement in Northern Ireland.
- Military Imbalance With Pakistan....? (Daily Excelsior, Chandra Mohan, Oct 15, 2006)
There is a sudden spate of "hard luck" stories (including a letter written by Chief of Air Staff to the Defence Minister) highlighting how there is a slump in ratio of India's conventional military capability vis-a-vis Pakistan.
- The Centre Cannot Hold (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 15, 2006)
Take a look at the broad thrust of headlines in India's national dailies on any representative day, and you will find a litany on lawlessness, crime, terrorism, disease, corruption, core shortages, and the ambience of a headlong hurtling towards disorder.
- Party's Still Rocking: Sensex And Dow Tango (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 15, 2006)
On Dalal Street, the party is still rocking. And how! On Friday, the 30-share sensex rose to an all-time high of 12,756, before closing at a record 12.736.42, up 198 points from Thursday’s close. In the process it eclipsed the previous high of 12,612 . .
- Turkish Delight (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 15, 2006)
Orhan Pamuk starts his novel Snow with the Stendhal quote: “Politics in a literary work are a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, a crude affair, though one impossible to ignore.
- A Matter Of Public Convenience (Hindu, K. Balakesari, Oct 15, 2006)
Located Near a traffic intersection, which I pass regularly, is one of a chain of public toilets set up all over the country by an NGO.
- Prize Money (Business Standard, T N Ninan, Oct 15, 2006)
The Nobel Peace Prize does not usually go to a businessman, but Mohammed Yunus is a money-lender with a difference, and so is his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.
- Land Grab Or Great Expectations? (Business Standard, Surjit S Bhalla, Oct 15, 2006)
One can’t fool mother nature—you cannot get away from a fair market determined price of land.
- Do Governments Learn? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 15, 2006)
Keeping the problem alive and blaming the previous government is seen as politically more profitable than solving it
- Yunus Says Bangladesh's New Found Unity Must Extend To . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2006)
The nation rejoices the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the "banker to the poor"
- Central Districts Geared Up For Second Phase Of Polls (Hindu, Syed Muthahar Saqaf, Oct 15, 2006)
429 candidates in the fray in 60-ward Tiruchi Corporation.
- Limited Aims (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 15, 2006)
The all-party resolve to have the 2009 general elections held on the basis of fresh delimitation of constituencies should return sanity to discussion on a slew of political reforms.
- What Is The Pm Up To? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 15, 2006)
It is unfortunate that we have a Prime Minister who refuses to listen to the voices of crores of Indians against the killing of innocent Indians by terrorists aided and abetted by Pakistan.
- Violence Planned By Aiadmk: Karunanidhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2006)
"This time it was less compared to 2001 polls"
- From Courts, With Conviction (Indian Express, T. R. Andhyarujina, Oct 15, 2006)
The judgments of the Supreme Court delivered on October 11 on the scope of the president’s, or the governor’s, power of pardon or remission should dispel much of the ill-informed debate surrounding the use of the power by the president in the case . . .
- Mere Condemnation Does Not Serve The Purpose (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 15, 2006)
Kim Jong-il’s “ultimate goal” is to bring about direct bilateral talks with America, meanwhile seeking and even obtaining nuclear security as the only insurance it has against a hostile move by the United States.
- Nobelity 2006: Versatility Of The Genius (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2006)
In a country born in 1971 after a war of independence and with much of its history strewn with coups and natural disasters, some hoped the Nobel Peace Prize – the first in any category for a Bangladeshi – would help usher in a less troubled future.
- Bribery’S Dividends (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 15, 2006)
A futile trip to the police station to report a wallet picked, an agonising struggle to get a babu to issue me a new licence, a ten-rupee bribe to a bus ticket inspector for a wrongly issued ticket. Little wonder India is topping the bribery charts.
- At The Centre Of Status Quo (Indian Express, Santwana Bhattacharya, Oct 15, 2006)
That an exercise of what should be pure arithmetic can become a point of bitter contention proves that nothing in the subcontinent can be kept above or beyond political manoeuvres.
- Pope Meets Prodi And Dalai Lama (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2006)
Pope Benedict XVI met Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi for the first time on Friday since the Italian center-left government took office in May. The pontiff also met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, according to the Vatican . . .
- Power Of Freedom (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 15, 2006)
The Nobel Prize for literature, along with that for peace, has never failed to grab more headline and news space than that for medicine, science or economics.
- India Will Burn If Afzal Hanged - Farooq Abdullah (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Oct 15, 2006)
India will "go up in flames" if it hangs a Muslim militant convicted for his role in an attack on parliament in 2001, a former chief minister of Indian Kashmir was quoted as saying.
- Special Article (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Oct 15, 2006)
There is a difference between law and equity (or natural justice). The power of pardon is an equitable power. Commuting a death-sentence is a partial pardon
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 15, 2006)
Short of a formal acknowledgment, the Communist Party of China (CPC) is distinctly headed for a paradigm shift if the trend of the discussions at the recent meeting of the central committee is an indication.
- Nepal Govt, Rebels Try To Overcome Rift Before Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 15, 2006)
Nepali government negotiators and Maoist rebels raced against time to overcome rifts in their peace process on Sunday, hours before a meeting between Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and rebel leader Prachanda.
- To Hang Afzal Guru Or Not To Hang? (Daily Excelsior, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Oct 15, 2006)
The question is not whether to hang Afzal Guru or not to hang. The question is what are the basic issues that the various mutually contending parties are trying to debate or pretending to debate?
- Brothers Up In Arms (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 15, 2006)
Raj and Uddhav Thackeray: The first cousins of Mumbai’s first political family have fallen out over the Shiv Sena spoils.
- Getting Pakistan On Board, Without Scaring It Away (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 15, 2006)
United States Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns’ call on Pakistan to use its influence on “Kashmiri terrorist groups” to stop all attacks on India is an indirect way of telling Islamabad that it must stop all support to terrorism, period.
- Corrupt Officers Must Be Punished: Nanda (Tribune, V. Eshwar Anand, Oct 15, 2006)
Tackling corruption has been a big challenge for Mr Gopal Chandra Nanda, Director-General of Police (Vigilance), Orissa. He is indeed a crusader against corruption.
- Helping The Punjabi Farmer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 15, 2006)
Ruchika M. Khanna’s series, “Life on the edges” (Sept 25-28) does not present a true picture of the generations-old socio-economic relationship between a Punjabi farmer and farm labourer.
- State Of Denial (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 15, 2006)
Seven years after he took charge of the country, President General Pervez Musharraf is still engaged, in a sense, in replaying the opening sequence. It does seem a long time ago when he arrived on the scene as an admirer of Kamal Ataturk and was . . .
- Advice, Like Youth, Is Wasted On The Young (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 15, 2006)
Hindsight is always 20/20. Hindsight is another word for reflection. It's a review of all the years that have passed you by and all the things you have done, not done or, in retrospect, should have done.
- Liked Rang De Basanti? Prove It (Business Standard, Devangshu Datta, Oct 15, 2006)
Let’s start with a disclaimer—the last Hindi movie I watched through at a hall was Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak the day after it premiered. My niece, who has since completed her PhD, asked me to escort her to QSQT as a treat after she sat for a tough . . .
- Aziz Hints Political Forces To Be Realigned Before Next Elections (Daily Times, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Oct 15, 2006)
Says govt talking to ‘those who are opposed to us’
New ‘vision’ will bring progress and prosperity to Balochistan.
- A True Man Of Peace (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 15, 2006)
"I work with real people in the real world. The night before a woman is going to get her thirty-five dollars from the bank, she will be tossing and turning to decide whether she is really going to be able to repay the loan.
- The Truth About The Kargil Episode (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad, Oct 15, 2006)
We now have two clearly delineated and mutually dismissive versions of the Kargil episode — a controversial as well as painful saga of our history.
- An Honour For South Asia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 15, 2006)
In naming Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and his Grameen Bank as the joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, the Nobel selection committee has underscored an important point: that peace is not related to politics alone and is, in fact, . . .
- Outside The Media Glare (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 15, 2006)
The news from the India-Pakistan dialogue front is encouraging. The two countries have decided to revive their talks which have been stalled since July when bomb blasts in Mumbai led to horrific loss of life.
- Manmohan: ``Big Powers" Block U.N. Reform (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 15, 2006)
Reform process has a long way to go
Verifiable cross-border links
Strong support for India's plea
- Arduous Task Ahead For New Un Chief (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 15, 2006)
What should be the qualifications for outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, once described as “the most impossible job of the world”?
- What Ails The Police? (Tribune, S. S. Dhanoa, Oct 15, 2006)
There is an air of expectancy in the wake of what has been called as the pathbreaking judgement of the Supreme Court about the functioning of the police and the criminal justice system.
- Where The Politicians Call The Shots (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 15, 2006)
Today, the police are accountable only to the political executive at the district or state level. There is absolutely no departmental accountability whatsoever. Had the police been accountable to the law, there would have been no terrorism in Punjab . .
- India, Eu To Push For Big Trade, Investment Deal (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 14, 2006)
Reiterate commitment to multilateral trade
- A Salute To Orhan Pamuk (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 14, 2006)
The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 to Orhan Pamuk — "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"
- Bribery’S Dividends (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 14, 2006)
A futile trip to the police station to report a wallet picked, an agonising struggle to get a babu to issue me a new licence, a ten-rupee bribe to a bus ticket inspector for a wrongly issued ticket. Little wonder India is topping the bribery charts.
- Military Action Must Halt: Ltte (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 14, 2006)
Sri Lankan army acknowledges high casualties in Jaffna operations
- Nobel For A Writer, Not His Politics (Hindu, Maureen Freely, Oct 14, 2006)
For Orhan Pamuk, now, his books will come first.
- Minority Rights — And Wrongs (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Oct 14, 2006)
The provision to treat the minorities as a favoured category is not to hold them as a privileged class over the majority.
- "Kiran Has A Clear Vision Of Life" (Hindu, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Oct 14, 2006)
"There is no sentimentality. There is no hypocrisy. She is honest. She sees the complexity of life," saysAnita Desai.
- India Offers Itself As Partner Of Eu In Asia (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 14, 2006)
Manmohan speaks of region stretching from Gibraltar to Straits of Malacca
- Banerjee Panel On Godhra Riots Illegal: Gujarat Hc (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
In a significant development, the Gujarat High Court has declared as illegal the setting up of the UC Banerjee Committee by railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav to probe certain aspects of the Godhra train carnage.
- Respect Supreme Court's Verdict On Mohd Afzal (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
Amidst the raging debate stirred by the demand for granting clemency to Mohd Afzal Guru, who has been sentenced to death in the December 13, ’01 Parliament attack case, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has said the Supreme Court judgement . . .
- Human Rights A Victim Of Global Politics (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 14, 2006)
In the world today the issue of human rights is a factor of increasing importance in the conduct of international relations.
- Limited Aims (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 14, 2006)
The all-party resolve to have the 2009 general elections held on the basis of fresh delimitation of constituencies should return sanity to discussion on a slew of political reforms.
- Bannerjee Committee Illegal: High Court (Hindu, MANAS DASGUPTA, Oct 14, 2006)
Judge restrains Centre from tabling report
Ministry has no jurisdiction to issue notification
Report "contrary to facts"
Modi hails verdict.
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