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Articles 5521 through 5620 of 43820:
- Iraq, Us Talks Deadlocked (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Talks between the United States and Iraq over the transfer of operational command of Iraq’s armed forces were deadlocked on Sunday, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanding more independence from the US military.
- Bugti’S Killing: Apc Demands Judicial Probe (Dawn, Ashraf Mumtaz, Sep 04, 2006)
Leaders of the main opposition alliances, the MMA and ARD, and senior lawyers on Sunday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to set up a judicial commission to look into the Kohlu tragedy.
- Indian Author Taps Outsourcing Boom To Weave A Tale (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
It’s a story basically saying that globalisation works in mysterious ways and in India it is causing a lot to change’
- Using Terror To Seek Concessions (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Sep 04, 2006)
Two days after British authorities broke up an alleged plot to blow up multiple aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean, the "moderate" Muslim establishment in Britain published an aggressive open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
- Not Expected (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 04, 2006)
False prestige has been officially documented ~ Form 2F. That is the upshot of the adviser to the finance minister summarily rejecting the findings of a Mumbai survey establishing that less than two per cent taxpayers volunteered for the multi-page . . .
- India Matters (Tribune, B.G. Verghese for and Sanjay Sangvai , Sep 04, 2006)
The monsoon session of the Lok Sabha concluded far from proudly, with something approaching fisticuffs. Nothing warranted or can ever justify such disgraceful conduct.
- Until They Fight Again (Tribune, Robert Fisk, Sep 04, 2006)
After the war in Lebanon, comes the hypocrisy, the mendacity, the threats, the sheer brazen lies. Let’s start with the man with the burning eyes, Hizbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah.
- Listing Her Support (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 04, 2006)
Lists, like opinion polls, should not be read at face value but for clues.
- Mma’S Ultimatum To Musharraf (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The Secretary General of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazlur Rehman today issued a final ultimatum to General Pervez Musharraf telling him unless a political dialogue is started . . .
- First Principles (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2006)
The Bharatiya Janata Party treated its arrival on Raisina Hill as an occasion for a party; for the first five years in power, it splurged on programmes proper and improper.
- Showcause Slapped On Natwar & Co (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Suspended Congress leader K. Natwar Singh today found himself in more trouble after the Enforcement Directorate served him a showcause notice in the oil-for-food scam.
- Preventive Detention (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 04, 2006)
It is not strange that the Lahore High Court has ruled that the Punjab home department has detained the chief of Jamatud Dawa without producing convincing grounds for its action.
- Pondy Assembly Speaker All Praise For Members (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Before adjourning the budget session of the Pondicherry Assembly on Friday (September 1), the Speaker, R. Radhakrishnan, was all praise for members for maintaining decorum during the entire session.
- Teaching Schools A Lesson (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 04, 2006)
To see private schools citing the fate of students, in an attempt to be spared MCD’s sealing drive, is an approach one would associate with wily politicians. Some 1920 private pre-primary, primary and secondary schools have been listed by the MCD . . .
- Pak: 6 Hurt In Blast, Rebels Bomb Gas Pipeline (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Six people were wounded in a grenade attack while insurgents bombed a gas pipeline in southwestern Pakistan as unrest continued over the killing of a rebel chieftain, police said.
- People Vs. Army (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 04, 2006)
If one goes to Pakistan and meets the members of Ms Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) one will hear an interesting observation. One will be told: "There are only two parties in Pakistan.
- Musharraf Desperately Seeks Baloch Solution (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has discussed with his confidantes initiatives to tide over the crisis in Balochistan following tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti's death in an Army raid, as nationalist parties today rallied in the restive . . .
- Lingua Franca (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 04, 2006)
And a committee too many
The repeated formation of textbook review committees, depending on the political colour of the ruling dispensation, would have been a farcical exercise were it not fraught with serious implications for the student.
- Don’T Take Support For Granted: Karat (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
The CPI-M here today warned the UPA government it will have to pay a price if it deviated from the common minimum programme or did not meet the demands of the Left parties.
- Punjab Polls: Manmohan To Be Congress Trump Card (Pioneer, Akhilesh Suman, Sep 04, 2006)
With Chief Minister Amrinder Singh battling against five years of anti-incumbency, the Congress plans to project Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "pride of Punjab" to turn the electoral tide.
- Terror Spreading To New Areas, Rise In Infiltration: Centre (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Sep 04, 2006)
Ahead of the Tuesday conclave of Chief Ministers on internal security, the Centre has presented a grim picture by admitting that cross-border terrorism has spread to the hinterland and infiltration, in comparison to the same period last year, has trebled.
- Anomie In Ujjain (Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sep 04, 2006)
Those who remember bloody episodes of student politics across Indian universities during the 1970s and 1980s may be forgiven for thinking that the gruesome killing of Prof Sabharwal in Ujjain is not so much a marker of a new crisis of . . .
- Just Why Pns Attract Such Strong Views (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Sep 04, 2006)
The S.S. Tarapore Committee has drawn a 5-year roadmap for capital account convertibility with wide ranging suggestions and recommendations. However, the issue of Participatory Notes (PNs) seems to have once again attracted strong views and two of . . .
- Education Is Forgotten (Deccan Herald, K Sundara Raj, Sep 04, 2006)
‘Are we throwing our young minds to the unscrupulous wolves that the ruling classes are in a corrupt world? These are the issues that need to be addressed by teachers.’
- Promises Of Petrol Reforms Are Running On Empty (Indian Express, Vikram S Mehta, Sep 04, 2006)
The oil marketing companies are sliding towards financial ruin, the pathway to petroleum deregulation cluttered with broken assurances
- Public Health, Why Now? (Deccan Herald, Manu N Kulkarni, Sep 04, 2006)
The Govt’s public health initiatives seem to favour the MNCs more than the people.
- Free Float? (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 04, 2006)
Take safeguards before making rupee fully convertible.
- "Generational Change In Bjp" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
BJP, Left have structured set-up: Jaitley
- `Islam Does Not Preach Terrorism' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Education, hard work can end poverty of Muslims
- Pentagon Fears Another Vietnam In Iraq (Hindu, Paul Harris, Sep 04, 2006)
United States President George W. Bush on Saturday denied that Iraq was plunging into civil war, just a day after the Pentagon painted a bloody picture of a nation caught in a spiral of increasing violence.
- Centre Must Change Tax Structure: Karat (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Criticises Government for importing 55 lakh tonnes of wheat
- Pragmatism, Sanity: National Imperatives (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 04, 2006)
Balochistan Governor Owais Ghani has said that the defunct Soviet-made weapons captured in Balochistan during the last couple of months were enough to raise an Army Division.
- Pervez Faces Flak From Ex-Generals (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Sep 04, 2006)
Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, left virtually alone by the political establishment to handle the Balochistan crisis, has now come under strong attack from former generals for what they described as an "ill-conceived idea and badly handled . . .
- Bangladeshi Invasion (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 04, 2006)
After the periodic mauling of Border Security Force jawans at the hands of Bangladesh Rifles personnel - even as India's political Centre mutely watches the depredations - is it surprising that illegal Bangladeshi . . .
- These Teeth Aren’T For Biting (The Financial Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 04, 2006)
M Damodaran, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), is known for using his public speeches effectively to warn market participants on specific regulatory issues.
- Bangalore's Progress Tops Sonia Agenda (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday chose to hit out at the JD(S)-BJP government where it hurts: Bangalore's development.
- Redressing Balochistan’S Grievances (Dawn, Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Sep 04, 2006)
“I have spilt blood? I had to; I shall perhaps shed more, but without anger, and quite simply, because blood-letting is a component of (my) political medicine...I am not a man like other men and the laws of morality or custom cannot be applied to me.
- Opposition Politicizing Bugti’S Death: Durrani (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani Sunday said the opposition should rise above petty politics and stop politicizing the Kohlu incident for their personal gains.
- Al-Qaeda No 2 In Iraq Captured (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Baghdad announced the arrest of Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s deputy leader on Sunday, accusing him of masterminding an attack on a revered Shia shrine that triggered a brutal wave of sectarian killings.
- Sonia Dubs Jd(s)-Bjp Ministry Opportunist (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 04, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, making her first visit to Bangalore on Sunday after the JD(S)-BJP government was formed, described the coalition as “an opportunistic alliance for power” and asked her party workers to expose the new combine and . . .
- A New Era In Non-Life Insurance (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2006)
Major, long overdue changes are on the anvil in the non-life insurance business segment, comprising fire, marine, and miscellaneous insurance products.
- Controlling Growth Of Disparity (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Sep 04, 2006)
In an FAQ on curbing variance, rich-poor, urban-rural, P. V. INDIRESAN suggests certain rule-based controls instead of the current ad hoc solutions that are neither transparent nor have in-built checks and balances.
- Blair Delay Could Provoke Leadership Challenge (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2006)
The British Prime Minister believes naming departure date would cause paralysis.
- In Search Of Balance And Fairness (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2006)
The comment in a recent column that critics outnumber admirers in the messages I get has been revalidated by the experience since these words appeared in print.
- Us Military Confronts Shiite Militia In Iraq (News International, Peter Symonds, Sep 02, 2006)
Two days of fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah is one more sign that the US military is preparing for a bloody showdown with the militia forces of Shiite cleric Moqtada . . .
- State Gets Copters To Fight Naxals (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Centre has decided to extend air support to six states for counter-Naxal operations.
- ‘Un Is Both Stage And Actor’ (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Sep 02, 2006)
Shashi Tharoor, India’s candidate in the race to replace Kofi Annan as the next Secretary-General, is busy knocking on the doors of key Security Council members for support.
- Conquering The World (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Sep 02, 2006)
Scenes of prayer in the Kaaba, and of course of the Hajj in Makkah, witnessed over television are an inspiring sight.
- Good Governance (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 02, 2006)
The remarks made by Dr Ishrat Husain, chairman of an official commission on government reforms, in a speech made at the recent launch of the Human Development in South Asia (2005) Report that a qualitative change in governance would help solve . . .
- Nawab Bugti Laid To Rest Without Family Members (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The veteran politician, Chieftain of Bugti tribe and Head of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at Dera Bugti here on Friday morning.
- Bugti Buried In Secrecy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Pakistan’s combined Opposition observed “a successful black day” in various parts of the country on Friday, even as the army buried the body of slain Baluch leader Akbar Khan Bugti at his ancestral Dera Bugti cemetery amidst tight security and . . .
- Tackling Terrorism (Tribune, Prakash Singh, Sep 02, 2006)
Let those who want to hurt us by inflicting a thousand cuts remember - no one can break our will or unity. No one can make India kneel.”
- The State(s) Of Employment (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 02, 2006)
In a year since the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREG) was passed by the Parliament, it is petty politics rather than corruption that is posing the biggest hurdle to the scheme’s successful functioning.
- Value Change Please, Not Regime Change (Indian Express, M Veerappa Moily, Sep 02, 2006)
With the Lebanon crisis resurfacing in West Asia and the Middle East, a strange phenomenon has emerged. Sunnis and Shias have converged in the cauldron called Lebanon.
- Plutonic Love (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 02, 2006)
Hi dear! As I am penning these few words, you must be shedding tears in your oblong orbit in the far away Kuiper Belt. I understand that 70 years of existence in the planetary list is too inconsequential a period in the cosmic calendar.
- No Political Meddling In Sex Scam Probe: Cbi (Times of India, Dhananjay Mahapatra, Sep 02, 2006)
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it has proceeded against the high and mighty found involved in the Jammu and Kashmir sex scandal case and that there had been no political pressure on it to act in a . . .
- Don't Need Censorship (Times of India, Mahesh Bhatt, Sep 02, 2006)
There comes a moment in the life of a nation when it has to decide whether it is going to be led by fears of alarmists or by the values of its founding fathers, who fought and died for its most prized value — that of free speech.
- Bsp Suspends Mp For Favouritism (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Once again reiterating her party’s stand against promoting dynastic rule, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) National President, Ms Mayawati, today suspended its Rajya Sabha member from UP, Mr Isam Singh, for “furthering dynastic rule”.
- Jews Who Hate The Jewish State (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." - Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah commander.
- Conform Or Fly Jihad Air (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Sep 02, 2006)
By lodging a protest with the Dutch Government over what happened on flight NW 0042 on August 23, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has made Indians of all genres possible suspects and therefore unwanted in the future.
- Not Allowed In The House (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2006)
Parliaments all over the world have their own protocol. The most important of these are the ones that regulate the use of language. Unparliamentary language has become synonymous with abuse.
- Reap What You Sow (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 02, 2006)
Prem Kumar, son of my Dahi Bhalla friend, the late Kishen Lall, founder-proprietor of Hotel Rajdoot, is a very fat man.
- 6 Candidates Get Job Without Interview (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Incredible but true. Six candidates have been selected for the post of Supervisors in Social Welfare Department even without appearing for an interview.
- Crises All Around (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 02, 2006)
There is hardly any country that at some time in its existence has not been entangled in a crisis of one kind or the other. Such a crisis could be political, economic or security-related in nature. The afflicted country either tries to resolve . . . .
- Voyage Of Sugarcane (Daily Excelsior, G V Joshi, Sep 02, 2006)
In the early days, India was believed to be the country where sugarcane originated, as the oldest reports of extraction of sugar were found there.
- ‘‘Chalta Hai’’ Security (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Sep 02, 2006)
There are almost daily revelations that India's security apparatus has been penetrated at several different levels by US and Pakistani agents. Two ISI agents arrested in West Bengal in connection with the Mumbai blasts have disclosed that there are . . .
- 'Mush Has Knowledge About Qaida' (Times of India, RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL, Sep 02, 2006)
Pakistan president Gen Pervez Musharraf is seen in Western capitals as "not only a vital ally but someone with deep inside knowledge of the Taliban, Al Qaida and the jehadi movements — indeed, his army and intelligence services helped to create . . .
- Manmohan & Nam (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
Will the PM be able to define an Indian position?
The last job Dr Manmohan Singh held in his career as an Indian bureaucrat was to head the Geneva-headquartered “South-South” Commission conceived by Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.
- Admonition, Apology (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
Two trivial incidents that neither made headlines nor were they likely to accelerate relief and reconstruction efforts in flood-ravaged Barmer.
- Stocking The Arsenal (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 02, 2006)
More than ‘procedure’ needed
It is easy to understand Pranab Mukherjee’s sense of relief and satisfaction at finalising a revised Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP).
- Bugti Kin Shuns Coffin Burial (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
In what is being seen as yet another insult to the Bugti tribe in Balochistan, the burial of its slain leader, Akbar Khan Bugti, was done in secrecy at a cemetery at Dera Bugti, the ancestral town of the tribe, by the Pakistan Army.
- Not A Day Too Soon (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
There is no doubt that mounting public anger against the manner in which the perpetrators of the gruesome death of Professor Harbhajan Singh Sabharwal were let off, forced Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan to transfer . . .
- Congress Brass Rushes To Undo Baigh Crisis (Pioneer, Khursheed Wani, Sep 02, 2006)
Call it the arrogance of power or lack of political understanding on the part of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad - who summarily ignored the recommendations of his ally, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) - continues to hold . . .
- Feeble Response To Governance (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
Accidents of history often become intrinsic to the culture and thinking of a people. India secured its freedom through a process of non-violent confrontation with the British, and this has enormously encouraged a popular psyche that tends to . . .
- Forbes Lists Nooyi As More Powerful Than Sonia (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Chief executive-designate of Pepsico Indra Nooyi and ICICI bank's Lalita Gupte and Kalpana Morparia, are on Forbes magazine's list of 100 most powerful women in the world.
- Needed Dynamic (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 02, 2006)
It would be a pity if the various local initiatives to involve industry in upgrading skills of vocational students aren’t linked nationally. This is one of the more exciting developments in contemporary India, partly pushed by occasionally . . .
- Azad May Ask Deputy To Quit (Asian Age, Yusuf Jameel, Sep 02, 2006)
With the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leadership refusing to budge and options for chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad becoming dry, Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussein Beigh seems to have been left down on his luck.
- Congress Keeps Distance From Pdp (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
The Congress high command is closely watching developments in the People’s Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir after the latter "punished" deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh for being pro-Congress.
- China Media Censors "Blacklist" Tibetan Princess (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
China is censoring media reports about the daughter of Tibet's 10th Panchen Lama, industry sources said, apparently worried that her popularity would eclipse that of her father's disputed successor.
- Right Decision (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 02, 2006)
By deciding to bring in Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, at present India's High Commissioner to Pakistan, as the new Foreign Secretary, the Government has taken a right step.
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