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Articles 3221 through 3320 of 43820:
- Iraq’S Pm Announces Plan To Unite Parties (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Iraq's prime minister announced a new plan Monday aimed at ending the deepening crisis between Shiite and Sunni parties in his government and uniting them behind the drive to stop sectarian killings that have bloodied the country for months.
- Attacks On Religion: A One-Sided Affair (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Oct 03, 2006)
Muslims and European Christians have interacted now for more than 1,400 years in both war and peace, and it goes without saying that both sides have committed what we today call war crimes.
- Citizenship Classes (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2006)
IT’S always salutary to ponder what fragments of all the myriad information so painfully acquired at school are actually going to be useful afterwards.
- India Escalates Pak Bashing (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 03, 2006)
Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon has said that Pakistan ‘will’ be provided evidence of ISI’s involvement in the Mumbai trains bomb blasts.
- Remnants Of Soviet Aggression (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Oct 03, 2006)
Categorically stating that the country’s intelligence service (ISI) has played no role in propping up the renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf has disclosed that he is investigating possible support . . .
- Fighting Terrorism Together (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2006)
For years charges have been levelled against Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, that it has been involved in the terrorism that has destabilised South Asia.
- The Isi, Once More (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 03, 2006)
The ISI is once again in the eye of a worldwide media storm. Over the last couple of weeks, the country's premier secret agency has repeatedly grabbed the headlines, being accused of a catalogue of alleged misdemeanours by a variety of familiar sources.
- Urban Chaos And Official Apathy (Business Standard, M GOVINDA RAO, Oct 03, 2006)
Even when we focus only on fiscal issues, there are a variety of structural problems.
- A Multilateral Initiative To Combat Corruption (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Oct 03, 2006)
There may be protests from member-countries if the international financial institutions' initiative to combat corruption leads to new lending conditionalities.
- Nation Pays Tributes To Gandhiji, Shastri (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam, Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi led the nation in paying respects to Mahatma Gandhi on his 137th birth anniversary and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 102nd . . . .
- Of Indian Bureaucracy From Far And Wide (The Financial Express, Subhash Agrawal, Oct 03, 2006)
The plethora of mindless rules is a big barrier to progressive change and the way others see us
- Headless Chicken (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 03, 2006)
Not just the state, or business, NGOs need Gandhigiri too
- Not By Fiat (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Oct 03, 2006)
Three months ago, President Bush issued an order stating that the US government must limit its use of the doctrine of eminent domain, which allows the state to compulsorily take over private property, such as land.
- Patil Asks Rbi To Go Soft On Ucb Loans (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
State finance minister Jayant Patil has held talks with officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to seek that loans made by urban co-operative banks (UCBs) to sugar and weaving co-operatives for which the state government has given guarantees . . .
- We All Have Our Individual Grief Briefs (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Oct 03, 2006)
I simply can’t bring myself up to grieve for people who’ve died.
- Send A Strong Message (Pioneer, Vivek Gumaste, Oct 03, 2006)
The clamour for clemency for Mohammed Afzal Guru, the terrorist convicted for masterminding the December 2001 attack on Parliament, brings to the fore a vital issue:
- Travel In Tigerland (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The tiger is the world’s largest cat. Sadly, relentless poaching and habitat loss threaten their very existence. Jayalakshmi K travels to the Bandipur National Park to do a reality check.
- Planning In Conditions Of Oil Price Volatility (The Financial Express, Vikram S Mehta, Oct 03, 2006)
Our oil companies need to adopt scenario planning, a widely used tool amongst global players today
- Railways Must Go Global To Boost Exports, Says Lalu (Asian Age, Ramesh Ramachandran, Oct 03, 2006)
Indian Railways is giving wheels to New Delhi’s Neighbourhood Policy and Africa Policy by making forays into countries that have of late been looking beyond New Delhi for appropriate technology and funds.
- Why Does Gandhi Remain Relevant? (Pioneer, Kishore Gandhi, Oct 03, 2006)
The conditions that created Gandhi continue to exists; the reason why every passing generation has time for him, says Kishore Gandhi
- The Evil That We Live With (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Oct 03, 2006)
Why is it that instead of reining in crime, our social and political leaders readily resort to the 'root cause theory', asks Bulbul Roy Mishra
- Socialist Mona Lisa (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 03, 2006)
Segolene Royal sometimes breaks into a "Mona Lisa" smile: Enigmatic, lips curved slightly.
- When The Enemy Lies West (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Pankaj Mishra dredges up gigantic civilisations locking horns with the West in his ‘angry’ book.
- Diy Hinduism (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
Dalits in UP villages are reinventing Ambedkarism in the golden jubilee year of Bhim Rao Ambedkar's conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism.
- Q&a: 'Bombard The Government With Rti Queries' (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
For the last three years, Shailesh Gandhi, 59, has been spreading awareness about Right to Information (RTI) Act across Maharashtra.
- Geelani Resolves To Fight For Afzal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
While the hardline APHC leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has resolved to continue the protests against the death sentence to Mohammad Afzal Guru, the underground women’s outfit, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, took out a protest demonstration here today.
- Musharraf’S Kargil Account Wrong: Aziz (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Rejecting President Pervez Musharraf’s claims on Kargil, Pakistan’s former foreign minister Sartaj Aziz has said the conflict disrupted the Lahore peace process.
- Abe To Visit China (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Oct 03, 2006)
Beijing: The Japanese media have reported that the country's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit China to meet President Hu Jintao on October 8, in what would be a breakthrough in mending the worsening ties between the two countries.
- On The Roof Of The World (Hindu, Padma Ramachandran, Oct 03, 2006)
The Kailash-Mansarovar trip is a tough one, but it is worth it.
- Afzal's Family Seeks Time From Kalam (Times of India, Himanshi Dhawan, Oct 03, 2006)
The family of Mohammad Afzal Guru arrived in Delhi on Monday to seek clemency for the Parliament attack mastermind, in a development which can force Centre to make a couple of difficult choices.
- Kashmir Boils Over Death To Afzal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Protests over a Delhi court order to hang till death Mohammad Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail on October 20 continued in many parts of Kashmir today. However, the protests were by and large peaceful.
- Gujarat Madrasas: An Education In Terror? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 03, 2006)
Investigations into a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Gujarat cast new light on the Islamist networks that carried out the Mumbai serial bombings — and raise hard questions about the State's madrasas.
- Abe And Japan's Moment Of Choice (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 03, 2006)
The new Prime Minister has a challenging task if he wants to reshape his country as a post-modern state.
- British Conservatives Bury Thatcherism (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 03, 2006)
In a symbolic break with its traditional Right-wing agenda, the Conservative Party has decided to bury Thatcherism and move to the Centre ground of British politics as it steps up its campaign to return to power.
- Old Order (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
The Congress party’s plan to groom its young ones is a fine idea. Imagine a small army of national Youth Congress office-bearers shadowing party seniors while they go about their work as Union ministers.
- Breakdown Of Peace Process In Assam (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Unlike the Naga peace talks and the related ceasefire for more than a decade, the apparent lack of confidence and resultant absence of mutual trust between the Centre and the ULFA presumably led to the premature collapse of the peace process in . . .
- Another Tiger In The Cross-Hairs (Indian Express, Amar Farooqui, Oct 03, 2006)
Not much ingenuity is required to grasp the divisive political agenda that prompted D H Shankaramurthy, Karnataka Minister for Higher (!) Education, to declare recently that all references to Tipu Sultan should be deleted from school textbooks . . .
- Not So Fine Print (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
That there is a strong bipartisan political support in Washington for the nuclear deal with India is of no satisfaction to New Delhi, if it falls through because of squabbling between Republicans and Democrats on procedure.
- Politics And Postures In The Heartland (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Oct 03, 2006)
Madhya Pradesh Governor Balram Jakhar used an apt phrase to characterise the Madhya Pradesh government’s lifting of the ban on government employees joining the RSS.
- War And Embryos (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
It was, I believe, Rep. Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, who first made the excellent, bitter, and terribly unfair joke about Ronald Reagan: that he believed in a right to life that begins at conception and ends at birth.
- Iraqis Take Up Security In Own Hands Amid Insurgency (Indian Express, Thomas E. Ricks, Oct 03, 2006)
The Strategy in Iraq, President George W Bush has said often over the past year, is to stand down the U.S. military as Iraq’s security forces stand up.
- Cotton’S Other Reality Check: Boom May Take India Past Us (Indian Express, VIKAS DHOOT, Oct 03, 2006)
For those who thought India’s cotton story was only about farmer suicides, attributed to failed crops despite the Centre clearing a Rs 17,000-crore package for distressed farmers in four states on the back of the Vidarbha package announced by . . .
- Sarkar Can’T Be Zamindar (Indian Express, SHUBHASHIS GANGOPADHYAY, Oct 03, 2006)
Real estate has always been big business in India. It has also been a very emotive issue since most Indians do not have land.
- President’S Dilemma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 03, 2006)
The Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister has been apparently swayed by street protests and political compulsions in taking the highly unusual step of advocating mercy for terrorist Mohamad Afzal Guru, but the President of India will have to . . .
- Dreaded Dengue (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 03, 2006)
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has once again showed that it is incapable of pre-emptive planning and action in the discharge of its duties.
- Kabul Another Baghdad (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Oct 03, 2006)
US President George Bush’s dinner diplomacy between Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai and Gen Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has not worked. But on the ground, NATO commanders are claiming success.
- Bjp Slams Abdullah On Afzal Issue (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The BJP today asked the National Conference leader, Dr Farooq Abdullah, to shun opportunistic approach on the sensitive issue of the death sentence to Mohammad Afzal Guru.
- Leadership Failure (Tribune, Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Oct 03, 2006)
The most prominent impression of Thailand as a country in the world is of a very popular tourist destination.
- Stories Of Grit And Gumption (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The book highlights individuals, often ignored in studies of the violence in Assam.
- How To Avoid The Oil Slick Of Volatile Prices (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Oct 03, 2006)
One month is a long time in today’s oil industry. My last column, four weeks ago, was written against the background chatter of $100/barrel oil and deepening concern that the government’s refusal to allow their marketing companies to recover the . . .
- Gandhi Peace Prize For Tutu (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been awarded the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2005 in recognition of his "invaluable contribution towards social and political transformation through dialogue and tolerance", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Monday . . .
- Challenge To World Peace (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Oct 03, 2006)
The South Block is drawing up a strategic road map to welcome the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in November.
- A Strategy After Facts (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 03, 2006)
Shiv Shankar Menon, the new Foreign Secretary, has given some needed perspective to the issue of the new joint consultative mechanism on terrorism with Pakistan. Pakistan, he has pointed out, needs to be judged by its actions, not words.
- India Slips On Diplomatic Stage (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Oct 03, 2006)
Aiming big in foreign policy, the Manmohan Singh government has lost out on what was within its reach on the international arena.
- Stress On ‘Happiness’ Index (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Thailand’s military rulers unveiled a stopgap prime minister and constitution today, fulfilling a promise to step back in favour of civilians within two weeks of their coup against Thaksin Shinawatra.
- Letting The Light In (Hindu, S. JAGADISAN , Oct 03, 2006)
V.P. Ranga Rao, novelist and scholar, talks about the nature of R.K. Narayan's artistic vision.
- `Dadri Project Accord Details Confidential' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Citing the confidentiality clause, the Uttar Pradesh Government has refused to disclose the details of its agreement with Reliance Energy on the controversial Dadri power project signed on June 16, 2004.
- No Change (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Oct 03, 2006)
It is unfortunate that the latest assertion of Hizbul Mujahideen supremo Syed Salahuddin eliminates the possibility of truce now or later.
- White House Upset With Indo-Us Nuke Deal Failure (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The White House said on Monday, it was disappointed the US Senate failed to approve a landmark US-India nuclear deal before adjourning, but expressed optimism it would be approved during a "lame duck" session in November.
- Spirited Move (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 03, 2006)
Governments and politicians in India are known to use religion for narrow, sectarian purposes.
- Buddha Balm On Singur Cut (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has virtually regretted the police action against Mamata Banerjee and her colleagues in an unusual conciliatory gesture, but stopped short of handing the apology that Trinamul Congress is seeking.
- Sallekhana And Suicide (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Oct 03, 2006)
Jains who have compromised their spiritual honour by demanding minority status must explain why 'fellow minorities' did not support 'Jain personal law' when two women recently undertook 'sallekhana', one of whom is alive at the time of writing this piece.
- Minister Wins Ayodhya Reprieve (British Broadcasting Corporation, bbc correspondent, Sep 30, 2006)
The High Court in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state has deferred criminal proceedings against a cabinet minister charged with inciting Hindu mobs to destroy a mosque in Ayodhya in 1992.
- Cii’S Ruffled Feathers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
The government would find itself in quite a predicament were the members of the Council of Islamic Ideology to carry out their threat to resign collectively unless their reservations are addressed.
- London’S Embarrassment And Pakistan’S Isi (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 30, 2006)
A paper written by an officer of the British MI6 for the Defence Academy, a British Ministry of Defence think-tank, has alleged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is indirectly supporting . . .
- An Outbreak Of Peace (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
Margaret Thatcher’s Bournemouth party conference speech in 1990 was one of her best, all observers agreed. Her biographer John Campbell thought the speech “confident, wide-ranging, by turns scornful and visionary”.
- The Arts Of Humankind (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2006)
“For a sixteen-year-old youth who had yet to begin to shave,” writes Kumar Mukherji in his memoir of life as a music lover, “the winter of 1942 would best be remembered as the year when he heard Kesarbai [Kerkar], Roshanara Begum and Ustad Bade . . .
- J&k Cm Seeks Pardon For Afzal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Various political, religious and social organisations have expressed concern over the Delhi court order to hang Mohammad Afzal Gooru and have sought a reconsideration of the order.
- Build Economic Muscle (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2006)
At a time when the whole of Europe is integrating its economy, it is an anachronism that the various states of India should be acting as adversaries. Let alone the whole of the country, there is no synergy between the neighbouring states of . . .
- Bjp Justifies Death For Afzal (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Justifying the capital punishment awarded to Mohammad Afzal Guru in the Parliament attack case, the BJP today demanded that the Congress-led UPA government should make its stand clear on calls in Jammu and Kashmir for pardon to the convict.
- Cong Mum, Bjp Slams As Azad Pleads Pm To Pardon Afzal (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Rattled by the outrage and protests in Srinagar and other places in Kashmir over the scheduled hanging of Parliament attack mastermind Mohammad Afzal Guru on October 20, J&K CM Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday called up PM Manmohan Singh and pleaded for . . .
- More Political Space To Push Reforms (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
While it’s party time for the Indian economy as the UPA celebrates its half term in government, finance minister P Chidambaram has sought more leg room from political allies to push reforms.
- Attracting Tourists (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 30, 2006)
World Tourism Day was observed in Pakistan on September 27 with the federal tourism minister announcing that tourists from several countries could expect to get visas on arrival.
- ‘Doubt Is The Way In Which You Change Things’ (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Sep 30, 2006)
John Ralston Saul’s immensely popular books are in persistent battle against today’s slide towards technocracy.
- India Rising: Gdp Goes Up To New Height At 8.9 Pc (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
The gross domestic product clocked a robust growth of 8.9 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year over the same period last year, aided by a strong performance in the manufacturing sector, the government said on Friday.
- Passport Pluralism (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 30, 2006)
The number of countries offering dual citizenship is on the rise. In South Asia itself Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh allow dual citizenship. India, somewhat late off the blocks, has two schemes now for people of Indian origin living abroad: the . . .
- More Than Friends (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 30, 2006)
Mulayam Singh Yadav owes the public an explanation over his growing intimacy with George Fernandes.
- "The Goalposts Haven't Been Shifted And They Will Not Be Shifted" (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Sep 30, 2006)
With the congressional elections scheduled to take place in November 2006, time appears to be running out for the passage of the legislation that will give effect to the nuclear co-operation deal between India and the United States.
- Prof Thinks It’S Bad (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2006)
It is just as well that great artists seldom live to witness some of the banal critical debates inspired by their works from time to time. After the invention of Eng Lit, writers have had it particularly bad.
- Al- Qaeda’S New Offensive In Iraq (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Sep 30, 2006)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq proclaimed a new offensive on Friday, the first day of prayer and reflection in the fasting month of Ramadan.
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