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Articles 3021 through 3120 of 43820:
- Warning To North Korea Statement Of Policy: Us (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
A day after bluntly telling North Korea that it can either have a future or nuclear weapons but not both, the United States has toned down its rhetoric, saying what Pyongyang was told was not an "ultimatum" but a statement of "policy".
- This Is No Way To Fight Terror (Pioneer, Maninderjit Singh Bitta, Oct 07, 2006)
It is very unfortunate that we have not learnt lessons from history. The decade-long festering wound in Punjab was cured with firm commitment, political will and non-interference under the leadership of then Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, then . . .
- Slow And Steady Wins The Race (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 07, 2006)
The Independent Monitoring Commission supervising the Stormont Agreement to end the Northern Ireland dispute has reported that the Irish Republican Army’s violent campaign against British rule “is over”.
- Sabarimala Suit Threat (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Kannada actress Jaimala is considering suing the Kerala government for maligning her name in the Sabarimala row.
- Nato Bosses: Pak Helping Taliban (Telegraph, AHMED RASHID, Oct 07, 2006)
Commanders from five Nato countries whose troops have just fought the bloodiest battle with the Taliban in five years, are demanding their governments get tough with Pakistan over the support and sanctuary its security services provide to the Taliban.
- Pak Admits Having Helped Militancy In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Pakistan has admitted that it might have helped insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir at "some time" but claimed it is now "trying our best" to prevent infiltration of militants into India.
- Estranged Bedfellows (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Oct 07, 2006)
Despite the histrionics of this week, the Shiv Sena and the BJP cannot afford to break their alliance. It is perhaps recognition of this reality that has led to the uneasy truce on the Chimur assembly seat that both parties were laying claim to.
- A Fast Move In Delhi (Indian Express, Kartyk Venkatraman, Oct 07, 2006)
For the past 30-odd years Manipur, home to over 30 militant groups and bitter ethnic strife, has known just one way to settle disputes: through the barrel of the gun.
- ‘Visibility For Real Issues Tough’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 07, 2006)
In India, it is hard to get visibility for ‘real issues’. The bombing of Hiroshima-Nagasaki is accepted as a crime against humanity, but not as systemic and systematic crimes against Dalits.
- Foley’S Folly & Other Monkey Business (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2006)
In 1998, Bob Livingston won the Republican Party’s blessing to succeed Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House. But Livingston, of Louisiana, never served a day in the job.
- Sting Operation (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2006)
The country is suddenly looking at the Aedes aegypti mosquito a little more closely than it has in a long, long while.
- Victims Of A Trust Deficit (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 07, 2006)
The J.M. Lyngdoh Committee on electoral reforms shows complete lack of comprehension about the philosophical postulates that underly the system of democratic elections in India’s colleges and universities.
- Uk Government Funds Robot To Help Treat Baldness (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The British government is providing $3.5 million of funding to a Cambridge-based company that is building a robot to help treat baldness.
- Poverty Of Congress (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 07, 2006)
LESS than two decades after promising to lead India to the 21st century, going back to the 1970s — and resurrecting the Garibi Hatao and the 20-point programme — is resounding proof of the Congress party’s poverty of policies.
- Hidden Agenda (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 07, 2006)
Musharraf has a tough job ahead as he wants to continue as the President of Pakistan.
- Us Cybersex Scam Heating Up (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Investigations by the federal government and the House ethics committee into the unfolding page cybersex scandal are gathering steam, and House Speaker Dennis Hastert seems to be weathe ing the political storm at least for now.
- Soft Power (Times of India, PAVAN K. VARMA, Oct 07, 2006)
On the eve of the Festival of India in Brussels an event of this nature has been reinstated after a hiatus of almost a decade and a half it is important for us to re-look at what constitutes our identity as a nation and as a people, and to understand . .
- Poverty Of Ideas (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 07, 2006)
Under what circumstances can slogans like 'Garibi Hatao' work time and again, as the UPA government seems to think when it resurrects this hoary phrase that powered Indira Gandhi's electoral triumph in 1971? Only when poverty is an enduring . . .
- Venod Sharma Quits (Tribune, Yoginder Gupta, Oct 07, 2006)
After dithering for several days, Haryana Power Minister Venod Sharma today put in his papers. He submitted his resignation from the Cabinet to AICC president Sonia Gandhi in Delhi this morning.
- Bjp-Sena Alliance Survives Crisis (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance survived its worst-ever crisis on Friday with the two parties reaching an amicable settlement over the Chimur assembly seat.
- Manmohan Promises To Step On Reforms Pedal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has revived hopes of reforms in labour policies. "There are difficulties but I am very hopeful," he said here on Friday.
- Singh, Blair To Discuss Trade, Security Next Week (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Trade and security are expected to be on top of the agenda when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets his British counterpart Tony Blair in London early next week during a three-day visit.
- Son-Struck (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 07, 2006)
NO tears are likely to be shed over the resignation of Mr Venod Sharma from the Haryana Cabinet.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Oct 07, 2006)
Rarely if ever has India had as impressive a debate as the recent one on the Indo-US “nuclear deal”.
- Siachen “Likely To Be Resolved” During Pm’S Pak Visit (Tribune, Anwar Iqbal, Oct 07, 2006)
Pakistan and India may resolve the Siachen dispute during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s expected visit to Islamabad but there could be little progress on the Kashmir issue, says Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
- Following Fashion (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Oct 07, 2006)
If “there is no such thing as Gandhism”, as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi claimed in a statement to the Gandhi Seva Sangha in 1936, how can one explain a cult like Gandhigiri? The word’s etymological similarity with Dadagiri and Goondagiri offers an . . .
- Dangerous Precedent (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 07, 2006)
Populism is permanent. It is the first article of the Indian politicians’ creed, and also their last resort.
- Sri Lankan Forces Kill 22 Tigers In Fierce Battle (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Twenty-two Tamil Tiger rebels were killed and five soldiers injured on Friday in a major pre-dawn assault by Sri Lanka Army in eastern district of Batticaloa.
- 22 Tigers Killed In Heavy Fighting, Says Army (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Oct 07, 2006)
LTTE "defence council" to discuss developments
- Main Sri Lankan Parties Agree To Reach Consensus On Ethnic Issue (Hindu, S. Dorairaj , Oct 07, 2006)
MoU on October 15
Accord will impart greater credibility to peace process
- India Needs To Correct Course (News International, Praful Bidwai, Oct 07, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi
- Violence Wracks Mangalore (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
Arson, looting and group clashes continued unabated for the second consecutive day on Friday in many parts of the Dakshina Kannada district, forcing the administration to impose a curfew on Ullal and certain parts of Konaje and Mangalore Rural police . .
- Musharraf-Benazir Deal In The Offing? (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 07, 2006)
The buzz is that Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is trying to rope in Benazir Bhutto's PPP to shore up the credibility of his regime.
- Developing Northeast The Yunnan Way (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Oct 07, 2006)
As Beijing has done with Yunnan, New Delhi should develop trade infrastructure in the Northeast and give it a stake in India's economic growth.
- Talks On Quota From October 18 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 07, 2006)
The UPA Government’s endeavour to have another round of consultations with the states to evolve a consensus on the proposed legislation to extend the quota in unaided educational institutions has been delayed by a week and will now be held for three . . .
- Eu For Building Multipolar World (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Oct 07, 2006)
Strategic partnership with India needs more substance: Josep Borrell
- Pakistan's Bhutto Presses To Return For Elections (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto said on Thursday she wants to return to run in 2007 elections and accused the country's military ruler of failing to tackle religious schools that promote global terrorism.
- Stand Up For The Loved Ones (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
Inter-Religious Marriages Among Muslims: Negotiating Religious and Social Identity in Family and Community Edited by Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, Global Media, Rs 650
- India's Has An Edge Over China (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Oct 06, 2006)
In the corridors of international power, there is a new discourse emerging. It is about the inexorable rise of China and India. Neither ascent is viewed as certain, but the odds are high that both nations, desperately poor until recently but now . . .
- Shiv Sena Threat Reflects Indian Mindset (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 06, 2006)
Hindu fundamentalist outfit Shiv Sena has threatened to prevent Pakistan from playing cricket in India in the Champions Trophy Tournament scheduled to start coming Saturday. Its Executive President Udhav Thackeray said the decision is in response . . .
- A Marriage On The Rocks (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Oct 06, 2006)
Like the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray is wont to shout “Off with his head!” while settling all difficulties, great or small.
- Net Gains (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
Political rivalries in India often blur the distinction between politics and governance.
- Intelligent Observation (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Intelligence services are undergoing something of a renaissance in these dangerous times, recovering from the battering they took because their own careful work was “spun” too often by unscrupulous politicians.
- Sad Realities (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 06, 2006)
General Musharraf's book 'In the Line of Fire' has occupied much space in the Pakistani as well as US media. It is clear now that the book reveals much on subjects that are better kept out of media attention, be it Dr A Q Khan's alleged role in . . .
- Defying The Ban On Jirgas (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 06, 2006)
It is shocking to see sections of people continuing to defy court judgments, especially when some liberal and fair-minded judges give verdicts against retrogressive tribal customs.
- A Hundred Beats (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 06, 2006)
A hundred beats of the heart, my heart.
How else can I tell you the things I see and feel?
Through every closing and opening of my eyes I promise to be true and open, looking at the world at home and ahead of us so that I may show you the . . .
- Mirwaiz Raises Issue With U.S. (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and leader of his faction of the Hurriyat Conference alliance, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has taken up the issue of Mohammad Afzal Guru’s death sentence with senior functionaries of the Bush administration in New York.
- Everyone Is In The Line Of Fire (News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai, Oct 06, 2006)
It is becoming impossible to ignore President General Pervez Musharraf's autobiography, In the Line of Fire.
- Night, Day Scares For Pervez In Two Cities (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Oct 06, 2006)
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and his colleagues spent a sleepless night between Wednesday and Thursday following a mysterious blast near Army House in Rawalpindi, where the general resides.
- Edits (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 06, 2006)
Welcome indeed would be the setting in motion a system of regular meetings to ensure that defence modernisation remains on a presumed fast-track, yet it is truly curious that the Cabinet Secretary was required to call a high level interaction to get . . .
- On Internal Security (Daily Excelsior, Arun Nehru, Oct 06, 2006)
There have been many events in the past few months relating to matters of Internal security that should draw our attention and time for us to reflect on immediate future and our relations with the countries around our 'borders'.
- Another Sex Scandal Rocks Usa (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Just as US President Mr George Bush sharpens his party’s election rhetoric on terrorism, a Congressman’s sexual Internet adventures threaten to put off some of its most fervent voters.
- Rehab Deal For Farmers Won’T Stem Suicides (The Financial Express, Jayaprakash Narayan, Oct 06, 2006)
The fundamental issues that have for long fettered the agriculture sector need to be addressed
- Story Of A Failed State (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
The world had not taken much notice of Bangladesh since the birth of the new nation in 1971.
- High Alert (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
Does a city running on compressed natural gas and sycophancy require mosquitoes to play the great leveller? Perhaps not. But the vulnerability of the prime minister’s near relatives to the dengue scourge in New Delhi has communicated a message . . .
- Disease In The Polity (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Oct 06, 2006)
Dengue and Chikunguniya are as dreaded today as tuberculosis and polio, small pox and malaria were in the not-so-distant past.
- Tailored Truths (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 06, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf has not got his autobiography ghost-written for posterity. It is meant for a specific contemporary audience in the United States of America and in the West.
- Guru Fate Hangs In Imbalance (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 06, 2006)
The issue of clemency for Parliament terror attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru has sharply divided the Congress Party, which is now speaking in different voices on this issue.
- 'Mush Behaving Like An Ostrich Over Kargil' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf is "behaving ostrich-like" by calling the 1999 Kargil operations "a landmark" when it was actually "the worst debacle in Pakistan's history," a superseded army colleague said.
- Women's Reservation Bill Likely Next Session (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
The Women's Reservation Bill is most likely to be introduced in the winter session of Parliament. This was decided at the Left-UPA coordination committee meeting, on Wednesday.
- On Social Mores And Gulfs Within (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Oct 06, 2006)
The writer is a former member of parliament and a freelance columnist based in Lahore
- Mlas Against Entertainment Centre At Old Gmc Land (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Want GMC land to be allotted to Hyderabad Collectorate
- "Adjudication Without Hearing Against Natural Justice" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Right to be heard is most elementary protection: court
Right to litigation is paramount
Even God did not pass sentence before Adam made his defence.
- Sezs: Panel Against Concessional Loan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Finance for SEZs is alright: Ahluwalia
- Solve Ulfa Issue Through Dialogue: Agp (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Oct 06, 2006)
Seeks halt to Army operations
- Modernisation Plans Of Iaf On Course, Says Air Chief (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
S.P. Tyagi dismisses concerns at combat worthiness of IAF fleet
- Past Perfect (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
Shikara Shinaganapracha Shambhu Mahadeva, which traces Shivaji's origins, is presented in an abridged version in Kannada
- The Hidden Cost In Safety Risks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2006)
The hidden cost in safety risks
- Urban Renewal Excludes The Poor (Deccan Herald, KATHYAYINI CHAMARAJ, Oct 06, 2006)
Unfortunately, land for the urban poor is not mandatory under JNNURM.
- Keynes And Karat (Times of India, VINAY BHART-RAM, Oct 06, 2006)
If Keynes were alive today he may well have written a tract titled 'The Economic Consequences of Mr Prakash Karat'.
- There’S No Gilt In Wealth Creation (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Oct 06, 2006)
At a board meeting in Mumbai last week, the discussion went beyond taking organisational decisions into the future of economic reforms. On top of the agenda was pension reforms.
- Kharge To Get New Team For ‘Battle’ Ahead (Deccan Herald, Ramakrishna Upadhya, Oct 06, 2006)
The Congress high command is all set to throw its weight behind the incumbent Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president Mallikarjun Kharge and strengthen his hands by appointing a new set of office-bearers later this month.
- Create Rehab Plan For Sez Oustees (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 06, 2006)
IN the name of development, the central government appears to be bent on reducing the area of agricultural land and hence curtailing the quantum of food production.
- Air Chief’S Anguished Cry (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Oct 06, 2006)
The biggest surprise about Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal S.P. Tyagi’s agonised and agonising letter to the Defence Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, is not that it was written but that so little notice has been taken of it and of the deeply . . .
- Consumer Versus Citizen (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 06, 2006)
The statement for Toyota in North America says: “As an American company, contribute to the economic growth of the community and the United States. As an independent company, contribute to the stability and well-being of team members.
- Reputation Risk (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 06, 2006)
Every year, the Berlin-based Transparency International comes out with various survey-based reports ranking the different countries on a corruption scale.
- `There Are Safeguards To Prevent Real-Estate Profiteering From Sezs' (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 06, 2006)
The Board of Approval for SEZs is aware of concerns of the farm sector and State governments have also been sensitised about adequate compensation for farmers. — MR GOPAL K. PILLAI, COMMERCE SECRETARY
- Runners Vs Travellers (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Oct 06, 2006)
After retirement, civll servants often find a sinecure. If they can in such positions take orders from juniors, then why the compunction about doing so when in regular service?
- People Can't Be Compelled To Participate In Bandhs (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 06, 2006)
In July 1997, the Kerala High Court delivered a path-breaking verdict declaring forced bandhs illegal.
- Clutching At Straws? Maybe, But It's Better Than Not (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 06, 2006)
It’s an infinitesimally small step forward. But given the odds against it, the Left parties’ willingness to consider the FM’s proposal to let public fund managers look after pension funds and invest in the public sector for three years is a definite . . .
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