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Articles 9621 through 9720 of 43820:
- Pointless Savagery (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 13, 2006)
Bombay's return to work yesterday after one of the worst terrorist attacks in Indian history was admirable. The stock market, almost perversely, even rallied by more than two per cent.
- Mumbai, Show Me The Way (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
I have been to all the major cities and towns of India. I have met the people, lived with them and have been fortunate enough to witness fantastic displays of the human spirit.
- Communal Riots Would Be Precisely What The Terrorists Want (Rediff on the Net, editoral, rediff on the net, Jul 13, 2006)
Having just returned from a 'Peace Delegation' visit from Karachi, one had a sense of foreboding about coming events. Exploding population, rampant religious fundamentalism, spiralling prices, unemployment, a money order economy, violence in . . .
- How Much Will India Endure? (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Jul 13, 2006)
Yesterday's awful rush-hour bombings of trains in Bombay raise an important and ominous question: How far can India be pushed?
- Pointless Savagery (Telegraph (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Bombay's return to work yesterday after one of the worst terrorist attacks in Indian history was admirable. The stock market, almost perversely, even rallied by more than two per cent.
- Editorial: World Stands With People Of Mumbai (Toronto Star, Editorial, Toronto Star, Jul 13, 2006)
A day after seven bombs ripped through Mumbai's commuter rail system, leaving at least 200 dead and more than 700 injured, the trains were running again yesterday in India's commercial capital.
- World Stands With People Of Mumbai (Toronto Star, editoral, toronto star, Jul 13, 2006)
A day after seven bombs ripped through Mumbai's commuter rail system, leaving at least 200 dead and more than 700 injured, the trains were running again yesterday in India's commercial capital.
- Former Aide Suspects Role Of Dawood In Serial Blasts (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
The Mumbai bomb blasts was probably the handiwork of Dawood Ibrahim.
- Empty Rhetoric (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 13, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s promise to ensure the autonomy of the country’s science and technology institutions cannot be taken at its face value.
- Israel Terms Capture Of Soldiers Act Of War (Financial Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed up to seven Israelis in violence on either side of the Lebanese border on Wednesday, further inflaming West Asia tensions.
- Thinking The Unthinkable (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
This time of year, a thoughtful observer might wonder if the border we need to close is not to the south, but to the north.
- Seek Consensus On Mine Bills (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
initiative before voters that improves on the Defend Colorado Now effort shot down by the state Supreme Court, GOP leaders have eliminated a loony clause that invited lawsuits. Politicians of all stripes should be able to agree with that.
The GOP also i
- South Africa's Optimism (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
America could use a Nelson Mandela. The former South African president, 88 next month, is universally revered in his country.
- Legislature Has Georgia On Its Mind (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Colorado lawmakers are looking to Georgia during their special legislative session as they craft laws that restrict access to government services for adult illegal immigrants and crack down on employers who hire them.
- Seek Common Ground On Immigration (Denver Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Colorado lawmakers who reconvene today for an unprecedented special session to deal with illegal immigration have been given a special opportunity.
- Bush's Style Of Diplomacy Texas Plain Talk (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
President George W Bush, who irked key allies with his war in Iraq, is pushing diplomacy more in his second term and will use his penchant for Texas plain talk and slapping backs on visits this week to Germany and Russia.
- Mumbai Bloodied By Blasts But Back At Work (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jul 13, 2006)
Millions of people in India's financial capital returned to work on Wednesday a day after a wave of bombings, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the country would not kneel to terrorism.
- New Income Tax Form (Daily Excelsior, K R Sudhaman, Jul 13, 2006)
Finance Minister P Chidambaram once quoted famous Tamil saint Poet Thiruvalluvar during a budget speech to say that taxes should be collected without pain like a bee collects nectar from a flower.
- A Summit For Global Security And Stability (Hindu, JACQUES CHIRAC, Jul 13, 2006)
We must seize the opportunities of globalisation in this extraordinary period of growth while correcting its unacceptable social and ecological excesses.
- 'Offering Low Fares Is Not Enough' (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 13, 2006)
Air Deccan has been pioneer of low-cost airlines in India. It is pursuing its vision of “empowering every Indian to fly” by providing low airfares and linking unconnected cities.
- Mumbai Bounces Back (Deccan Herald, Parag Rabade, Jul 13, 2006)
The megapolis was back on its feet on Wednesday even as the toll in Tuesday’s serial blasts on seven suburban trains on Mumbai’s Western Line rose to 200 killed and 714 injured.
- Thailand Investigates Reports Of Plot To Harm Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Thai authorities were investigating reports of a plot to "harm" the prime minister, the intelligence chief said today, as security around Thaksin Shinawatra was significantly increased.
- India Slams Polls In Pok (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
India said the entire election process in ‘‘Azad Jammu and Kashmir’’ part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir demonstrated a “lack of credibility” with the authorities rejecting most of the candidates who did not sign a declaration ascribing to . . .
- Muslims Can Be Given Reservation: Arjun (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
In the midst of the controversy over OBC quota in elite educational institutions, Union HRD minister Mr Arjun Singh today said that Muslims could be given reservation under the Constitutional norms of backwardness.
- Private Ports (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2006)
There is a trend all over the world to decentralise direct government control and to place the ports on a more commercial footing.
- Welfare Of Unorganised Workers (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 13, 2006)
Welfare of the workers of un-organized sector who constitute about 93 percent of the work force in India has been a major concern for the successive governments at the Centre and States.
- Tackling Terror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 13, 2006)
Are we condemned to live in conditions that permit terrorists of all inclinations to strike at will?
- Let Logic Reign In Tricky Situation (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 13, 2006)
Hardly a day passes without a loud voice being heard for and against demilitarisation in the State especially the Valley.
- Ice-Cool Under Terror Attack (TIME, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 13, 2006)
Unlike the hysterical reaction of America and Spain, India's restraint under pressure is exemplary
- The Mumbai Spirit Must Prevail (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 12, 2006)
The first thing which needs to be said about Tuesday evening bomb blasts is that the spirit of Mumbai will prevail again, as it always has.
- Parochial Ministers (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 12, 2006)
Many of the public statements of Ms Jayalalithaa, based as they are on her own 10 years' experience as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, hit the bull's eye as regards both content and reasoning. She recently went for . . .
- Peaceful Voting In Pok (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Voting began on Tuesday in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to choose a new regional legislature that will face the . . .
- Sri Lankan Multi-Ethnic Panel Begins Work (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jul 12, 2006)
I will not impose a solution, says Sri Lankan President
- The Realpolitik Of India’S ‘New Deal’ (The Financial Express, Sauvik Chakraverti, Jul 12, 2006)
The curse of ‘politics’ combined with ‘socialism’ and ‘democracy’ has made the state a clientelistic affair
- Defending Humanity’S Larder (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 12, 2006)
The earth will need to feed an additional 1.5 billion people by 2050
- Fokker Crash And The Problem Of High-Risk Technologies (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 12, 2006)
The tragic crash of a PIA Fokker F-27 in Multan on July 10 has predictably revived the debate about the safety of the aircraft inducted in the PIA fleet some 40 years ago.
- Us Opposes India Joining Npt As N-Weapon State (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
“Let me be clear: We do not support India joining the Non Proliferation Treaty as a nuclear weapon state. Rather, the goal of our initiative is to include India, for the first time ever, in the global nonproliferation regime,”
- The Rise Of Asia (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Jul 12, 2006)
The implications of the Mittal-Arcelor story needs to be understood
- Mayhem In Mumbai (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 12, 2006)
Anti-socials shouldn’t be allowed to hold city to ransom
- Oh, My Lords! (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 12, 2006)
The Chief Justice may have to resolve the dispute
- Where's The Steel In Our National Character? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 12, 2006)
Why doesn't our Government respond with the vehemence of Israelis when our jawans are abducted and mutilated,
- The Left’S Plan~b (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Jul 12, 2006)
The Left Front knows how to bark. Will it ever bite? Starting tomorrow for a whole week it will launch a nationwide protest movement against the . . .
- Message From The Mumbai Blasts: Don't Get Close To The Us (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
If ever there was a demonstration that cross-border terrorism remains a pertinent threat to freedom-loving people everywhere, it happened on 7/11 in Mumbai, the financial capital of India.
- Communal Riots Would Be Precisely What The Terrorists Want (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Having just returned from a 'Peace Delegation' visit from Karachi, one had a sense of foreboding about coming events. Exploding population, rampant religious fundamentalism, spiralling prices, unemployment, a money order economy, violence in . . .
- How Much Will India Endure? (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Yesterday's awful rush-hour bombings of trains in Bombay raise an important and ominous question: How far can India be pushed?
- Britain-U.S. Row Over Extradition (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jul 12, 2006)
Britain is embroiled in a quiet diplomatic tussle with America over the extradition of three high-profile British bankers wanted in the U.S. on fraud charges in connection with the collapse of the erstwhile energy giant, Enron.
- Dozen More Reasons (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 12, 2006)
To ask: just what is this government doing about terror, why can’t it even get its rhetoric right?
- Surge And Plunge Of The Paris Club (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jul 12, 2006)
By design or chance, the Paris Club forged links with most other agencies and groups and played the role of a mysterious broker. It had to imbibe the changes in debt regime and operational styles.
- Nuclear Power Is Safer Now, But We Still Don't Need It (Hindu, George Monbiot, Jul 12, 2006)
It's true that another Chernobyl couldn't happen in a new reactor, but the case against nuclear power is as strong as ever.
- Grenade Attacks May Derail Tourism Industry (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jul 12, 2006)
Blasts won't affect tourist influx: traders
Sixth attack on tourists since beginning of this year's tourist season
Mainstream, separatist political parties condemn attacks
Perpetrators of violence will only invite people's wrath: Azad
- Assembly To Discuss Bribery Charge Against Kumaraswamy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
In thelegislature Discussion will not be in the form of an adjournment motion
Government gives in after two days of stonewalling
Discussion to be taken up under Rule 69
Opposition asked to give separate notice
- A Tragedy Foretold (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 12, 2006)
It could take months to identify the perpetrators of the Mumbai bombings, but the recent past holds some clues.
- Domestic Imperatives In Iran's Foreign Policy (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jul 12, 2006)
A new exercise in consensus building is under way. The purpose is to present a unified approach and deny the interlocutor space to exploit internal disagreements.
- Cpi (M) To Make Maiden Foray Into Cantonment Board Polls (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Four party candidates file nominations for wards II, IV and V
Congress has reigned supreme in the Board
Time ripe for us to make an entry: CPI (M)
Cantonment residents are unhappy
- Aiadmk, Allies Hold Aloft The Banner Of Revolt (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Cadres stage demonstration , demanding upgrading of hospital
- 147 Dead, 439 Injured As Blasts Rock Mumbai Trains (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
At least 147 people were killed and 439 injured in a string of seven terror blasts that tore through first class compartments of suburban trains around 6 pm during the peak hour traffic here today.
- Politics Overtakes Secretary General's Contest (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Jul 12, 2006)
India seems to have raised many hackles by announcing that Shashi Tharoor, UN under secretary general for communications and public . . .
- J & K Government And Common Man's Self-Determination (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 12, 2006)
Ghulam Nabi Azad sat patient as per the power-sharing agreement reached between the PDP and the Congress after the Assembly polls in 2002.
- Will They Make It? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 12, 2006)
Believers in democracy in the sub-continent should feel encouraged by reports that opposition parties in Pakistan have stepped up their offensive for the restoration of popular rule.
- America Props Up Shaky Leaders (Daily Excelsior, Rajesh Khajuria, Jul 12, 2006)
The situation the United States and its allies face in Afghanistan and Iraq is one almost without precedent.
- 8 Killed, 43 Injured In 5 Grenade Attacks In Srinagar (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jul 12, 2006)
Eight persons died and 43 sustained injuries when suspected militants carried out a series of grenade attacks, targeting domestic tourists in Dalgate and Lalchowk areas of Civil Lines in this capital city today.
- Facing Extinction (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 12, 2006)
Despite being home to one of the most celebrated sanctuaries, Uttaranchal's efforts to protect wildlife are proving inadequate, says Hiranmay Karlekar.
- Nail In The Coffin (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
The corrupt do not spare even the dead. That is the lesson from the coffin scam, reported first by this newspaper, which rocked the nation soon after Operation Vijay in 1999.
- Shadow Boxing (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
We've been here before. The government had to shelve its plans for a token 10 per cent disinvestment in PSUs like Nalco and Neyveli Lignite Corporation when leftist and Tamil allies protested.
- Saga Of Shame (Times of India, Manju Vaish, Jul 12, 2006)
The ugly brouhaha of the unceremonious sacking of AIIMS director, Dr P Venugopal, took me back a couple of years when Yanni performed in Agra with a moonlit Taj as a backdrop. The American team was meticulous in its attention to the smallest . . .
- Maximum City, Invincible People & Their Lifeline (Indian Express, FARAH BARIA, Jul 12, 2006)
Even at the best of times, there’s one scene that never changes: battered railway coaches packed with the human flotsam of a brutal city. Men, women, and children, travelling like concentration-camp refugees to do the only thing they know: survive.
- A Worrying Domestic Situation (News International, M B NAQVI, Jul 12, 2006)
These were two or three incidents that were quite unrelated to each other. They were symptomatic. In the first, a posse of ISI officials picked up a retired brigadier, his daughter-in-law and his grandsons from their Islamabad home and took them to . . .
- Spilling Palestinian Blood (News International, IMTIAZ GUL, Jul 12, 2006)
If somebody believes they can force us militarily, they are befooling themselves. We defeated them in the past and we will defeat them again.
- Diamer-Basha Dam Royalty Issue (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 12, 2006)
While addressing a public meeting in Gilgit on July 4, President Pervez Musharraf said that the Northern Areas (NA) would get royalty from the Diamer-Basha Dam.
- World Leaders Slam ‘Senseless Acts Of Violen (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
World leaders condemned blasts, which ripped through rush-hour trains in Mumbai on Tuesday as “senseless acts of violence” which could not be justified.
- ‘We Shall Overcome’ (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Even as the Opposition stepped in to mobilise public anger over the attack on Mumbai, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday refrained from employing rhetoric in his address to the nation.
- Widening The Gulf Of Mexico (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jul 12, 2006)
Last week’s presidential election in Mexico had for months been touted as a crucial stage in the phenomenon whereby Latin America has democratically been drifting leftwards during the past decade.
- Deadly Fokker Crash (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 12, 2006)
Monday’s plane crash near Multan has revived the debate over the airworthiness of the national carrier’s ageing fleet of Fokker F-27s. The PIA chairman has been quick to insist, no doubt out of the best of motives, that the fleet is fit and will . . .
- Fight The Tigers, Arm Sri Lanka (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jul 12, 2006)
The story of the Government's firefighting action in Nepal is instructive. While the crisis was brewing, BJP leader Jaswant Singh was invited to Kathmandu by King Gyanendra.
- Rice Urges Congress To Vote N-Deal Before August (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jul 12, 2006)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday urged both Houses of the US Congress to vote on the US-India civil nuclear cooperation before the month-long summer recess in August.
- Merci, Zizou... (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 12, 2006)
If you can't beat 'em, don't butt 'em ---- It was not just millions of people around the world who caught soccer fever the past six . . .
- Invest More Funds (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 12, 2006)
GSLV, Agni are bound to take off ---- Failure in a national endeavour can no doubt have a depressing impact on both Government and the people.
- 147 Killed As Ultras Target Suburban Trains (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
One hundred and forty seven persons were killed and 439 injured in Mumbai in a series of blasts late this evening in seven 'local' trains ferrying commuters home from work and a busy suburban subway.
- Blasts: Bid To Scare Tourists (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The serial grenade explosions in Srinagar are being visualised as an attempt of terrorists to cripple the economy of those connected with tourism by scaring away tourists.
- Tigers’ Tale Of Woe (Tribune, Brig Ranjit Talwar (retd), Jul 12, 2006)
During the follow-up discussions after the Sariska debacle, some senior forest officers had opined that Sariska was an exceptional case of management failure that could neither be explained nor justified.
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