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Articles 521 through 620 of 26855:
- Alienation Of Europe’S Muslims (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 31, 2006)
A year ago this week, riots erupted in mostly Muslim suburbs of Paris and other French cities, underlining the alienation of a subculture that makes up 8 per cent of the country’s population but has suffered from chronic unemployment and discrimination.
- Mna Resigns In Protest Against Air Strike (Dawn, Zulfiqar Ali, Oct 31, 2006)
Sahibzada Haroonur Rashid, MNA from Bajaur Agency, resigned from the National Assembly on Monday to protest against the bombing of a ‘madressah’ in his constituency, claiming 82 lives.
- Unravelling The Superstar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
An attempt to present Amitabh Bachchan analytically and academically
- 82 Die As Missiles Rain On Bajaur: Pakistan Owns Up To Strike; Locals . . . (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 31, 2006)
Eighty-two people were killed, 12 teenagers among them, in an air strike at a religious seminary in Damadola in the Bajaur tribal region on Monday morning.
- Pamuk In A Nutshell (Hindu, KALA KRISHNAN RAMESH , Oct 31, 2006)
Know why he won the Nobel for Literature
- When News Value Overrides Reader Sensitivities (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2006)
Has the publication of visuals come under your scanner at any point of time after your taking over as the Readers' Editor, asked Vasudevan Sundaram of Secunderabad a few months ago. It has, and it continues to.
- My Kind Of Place - Shivkumar Sharma (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Bharat's mastak (India's forehead), mera janmasthan (my birthplace) and jannat dharti par (paradise on earth), that's Jammu and Kashmir — my kind of place. Though far away in Mumbai, I am still a mountain man and my music reverberates with the pahadi flav
- Ode To The Sun In Stone (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Nandini nair takes a look at a fine architectural example on the outskirts of Ahmedabad
- Blood Test Kit Scam: Thousands In Bengal Face Health Risk (Deccan Herald, Prasanta Paul, Oct 30, 2006)
Has West Bengal been struck by a lethal hand of a fraud who did not hesitate to ruin the lives several innocents including children? In a shocking discovery, more than a lakh blood test kits supplied to 75 state-run and private blood banks . . .
- A Crisis In Bangladesh (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 30, 2006)
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's authoritarianism and reactionary manoeuvring in the face of a tide of popular discontent has created a dangerous stalemate in Bangladesh.
- Gun-Battle In Mysore (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 30, 2006)
The arrest of two Pakistani terrorists after a gun-battle in Mysore on Friday has an important lesson to learn.
- Breeding Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 30, 2006)
Bangladesh’s fledgling democracy is on trial once again. This is not the first time that the animosity between the two major political groups has spilled on to the streets.
- Sandinista Comeback Alarms U.S. (Hindu, Rory Carroll , Oct 30, 2006)
Daniel ortega is a hair's breadth from regaining power in Nicaragua and staging one of Latin America's most remarkable political comebacks, according to new opinion polls.
- Poison As Prescription (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 30, 2006)
It was the ancient Fifties. A venerable academic used to preside over the School of Economics and Sociology of the University of Bombay at its magnificent Churchgate campus.
- Tunnel To Shorten Distance To Vaishno Devi (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Pilgrims trekking to the Hindu shrine of Vaishno Devi in the Himalayan foothills of Jammu and Kashmir will be able to breathe easy when a tunnel with electro-rail comes up to shorten the distance and also protect them from the vagaries of nature.
- President Takes Over In Bangladesh (Hindu, HAROON HABIB, Oct 30, 2006)
Opposition terms it `most unfortunate'
Dr. Ahmed's move may plunge the country into further chaos, say analysts
Dhaka under siege by opposition for the second day.
- Minor Irrigation Tanks To Be Rejuvenated Across The State (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Oct 30, 2006)
Rs. 500 crore to be spent on the scheme in the next few months
- Farmer Reaps It Harvest Of Crores (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Oct 30, 2006)
As he sits on a wooden cot under a tamarind tree in front his two-room house, surrounded by his flock of buffaloes and cows, Koti Reddy’s placid life disguises the dilemma posed by a windfall.
- Gathering Storm (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 30, 2006)
There is never a silly season in Bangladesh, a small country with big obsessions.
- Turn In The South (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 30, 2006)
The news about two Pakistani terrorists affiliated to Al Badr Mujahideen being arrested by the police in Mysore last Thursday night indicates the extent to which jihadis have infiltrated India's southern States, especially Karnataka.
- Full Sc Bench To Review 9th Schedule Scope (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Oct 30, 2006)
For the first time in the recent past Supreme Court is expected to sit in a constitutional Bench for five days in a row to decide the scope of judicial review of laws placed under the Ninth Schedule.
- Al Badr Resurfaces (Pioneer, B Raman, Oct 30, 2006)
The arrest of two terrorists in Mysore proves that the ISI is using Al Badr, one of the oldest jihadi outfits, to spread mayhem in south India, says B Raman
- No Cause For Muslim Grievance (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 30, 2006)
During my recent visit to Pakistan, I made sure, as I always do when I travel abroad, that I read the local newspapers, to discover the issues that concern people in that country.
- Right Conduct Is Key To Spiritual Bliss (Pioneer, Onkar Singh, Oct 30, 2006)
People lose sight of god due to greed and superstition. The relevance of Nanak lies in the fact that he set out a list of new rules to bring us closer to the supreme being
- History Of J&k~ii (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 30, 2006)
Gulab Singh, an in-trepid soldier, by 1820 had Jammu conferred upon him by Ranjit Singh with the title of Raja, while Bhimber, Chibal, Poonch and Ramnagar went to his brothers.
- Transcending Karma And Retribution (The Economic Times, K VIJAYARAGHAVAN, Oct 30, 2006)
Homer wrote (Iliad): “No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun destiny.” The ancient Persian thinker, Omar Khayam also noted in his Rubaiyat: “The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, / Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit/ Shall lure it . . .
- Stay, But Change The Course (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Oct 30, 2006)
As coalition policy reaches a crisis, may I resurrect an idea I have been flogging since April 2003? It offers a way out of the current debate whether to "stay the course" (as US President George W Bush has long advocated) or to withdraw troops on . . .
- Bangla Prez Is New Caretaker Chief (Deccan Herald, Hassan Shahriar, Oct 30, 2006)
Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed on Sunday night took oath as the chief of the “neutral” caretaker administration with opposition parties and leading lawyers charging him of violating the nation’s constitution.
- Sonia: I’Ll Convince Opponents (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Admitting that there was opposition to the women’s reservation bill from "some colleagues in the Congress" and other constituents of the UPA, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said she would make efforts to convince those were against the measure.
- Needed: A South Asian Economic Union (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, Oct 30, 2006)
Bangladesh is rowdy, boisterous and drenched in fundamentalism. But it is a democracy all right. Liberals are divided but they speak out against fanaticism in one voice.
- High Ratio Of Muslims In Indian Jails (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
India’s jails hold a disproportionate number of the country’s minority Muslims, a sign of discrimination and alienation from the Hindu majority, according to a report published on Sunday.
- India Enshrines Buddha’S Remains After 2000 Years (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Thousands of Buddhists gathered in India’s western city of Mumbai on Sunday to lay to rest part of the ashes and bones of Lord Buddha in a ceremony resurrected after almost 2000 years.
- I Love Being A Pioneer. We Have Come To A Point Where Telecom Is On Autopilot. The Next Big Wave Is Farming’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 30, 2006)
Hello and welcome to Walk The Talk. I am Shekhar Gupta and what am I doing in a college called Arya College, Ludhiana? It is no IIT, IIM or St Stephens, Xaviers, Elphinstone or Loyola, but a small, modest college in smalltown Punjab in Ludhiana.
- Indian Jails Hold 'Unfair Proportion Of Muslims' (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
India's jails hold a disproportionate number of the country's minority Muslims, a sign of discrimination and alienation from the Hindu majority, according to a report published yesterday.
- Swaziland Abuzz About Aids (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
This tiny kingdom's new anti-AIDS campaign arrived without warning one day in July, featuring a slogan both unusually explicit and dripping with implied accusations: Makhwapheni Uyabulala.
- Nigerian Plane Crashes With 104 People Aboard (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
A Nigerian airliner carrying 104 people, including the man regarded as the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Sunni Muslims, crashed in a storm Sunday after taking off from the airport in Abuja.
- Cpm To Scan Govt Style (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
The CPM state committee will review the functioning of the Bengal government in view of differences among ministers as well as within the party over land acquisition for industry.
- Al Badr In Mysore (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 30, 2006)
Karnataka Police claims the arrest of two Pakistani terrorists belonging to Al Badr—the oldest of the existing jihadi terrorist organisations of Pakistan, considered as close to Pakistan's ISI as the LET.
- Howard Warns Of Lasting Damage: Australian Muslims Face Backlash (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Prime Minister John Howard warned on Sunday comments by Australia’s top Islamic cleric about women and rape could do lasting damage to the Muslim community’s relations with the rest of the nation.
- King, Queen On Netherlands State Visit (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
King Abdullah and Queen Rania on Sunday left for the Netherlands on a three-day state visit. The King and the Queen were expected to meet with Queen Beatrix.
- Indian Muslims Over-Represented Among Prison Inmates (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Indian jails hold a disproportionate number of the country’s minority Muslims, a sign of discrimination and alienation from the Hindu majority, according to a report published on Sunday.
- Iran's Political Clerics (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 30, 2006)
Iran's theocratic regime appears more confident than ever. Its standoff with the West over its nuclear programme, together with its growing influence in Lebanon and Iraq, suggest the emergence of a strong regional power.
- Naac Move To Make Accreditation Mandatory For All Colleges, Varsities (Hindu, K. Ramachandran, Oct 30, 2006)
"Process helps an institution evaluate its strength, weaknesses"
- Pak Promised To Fight Terror, Took Several Billion Dollars From Us (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Pakistan has received billions of dollars in reimbursement for its support of US-led counter-terrorism operations, while US Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to pay Pakistan for its support.
- Uk: Leaked Memo Links Iraq Policy With Terror (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
A leaked cabinet memo has linked Britain’s foreign policy with terrorist attacks in the country, dealing a severe blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s public denials of a connection between the two.
- Talks On To Defuse Bangladesh Political Crisis (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed consulted feuding party leaders today to try to defuse a mounting crisis over forming a caretaker government to steer the nation through to January general elections.
- Fight To Information (Indian Express, Maja Daruwala & Navaz Kotwal, Oct 30, 2006)
The popular perception is that it is impossible to gain convictions in riot cases.
- Taliban Has Winter Plans To Storm Kabul (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
The Taliban are planning a major winter offensive combining their diverse factions in a push on the Afghan capital, Kabul, intelligence analysts and sources among the militia have revealed.
- Cops: Kalam E-Mail Threat Sender Is A Jilted Lover (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Kerala Police have taken into custody a youth from Cherthala for sending a e-mail threat to the President and the PM. The provocation for the e-mail, police said, was a failed love affair.
- As 'Goblins' Knock, Evangelicals Answer (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Bruce Watters used to simply hand out candy on Halloween, just like his neighbors in St. Petersburg, Fla., until he decided the holiday's ghoulishness really diBruce Watters used to simply hand out candy on Halloween,dn't jibe with his Christian beliefs.
- India Wants Free, Fair Elections In Bangladesh (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Bangladeshi President Iajuddin Ahmed consulted feuding party leaders today to try to defuse a mounting crisis over forming a caretaker government to steer the nation through to January general elections.
- It Felt, Smelt Like Home (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 30, 2006)
Let’s go to Commercial Street!, my mother would call. The words would set off a ripple of excitement when I was a little girl when my mother would tell me she wanted to get me something new to wear.
- Which Party Can Get Voters To The Polls? (US News & World Report, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2006)
Here's Rick Santorum's plan to close his challenger's big lead in the polls and pull off a surprise win next week: a phone bank staffed with a half-dozen die-hard volunteers in this Philadelphia suburb.
- Tongue Twist Of Fate (Indian Express, JAITHIRTH RAO , Oct 30, 2006)
The familiar adage is that there are many Indias. Given our ancient Indic obsession with pairs of opposites, our academic and popular journals are full of bi-polar descriptions.
- A Stirring Lament (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
Dalrymple narrates the story of Delhi's capture and fall with a rare humanity.
- On Cloud 9 (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
For the Indians, Nepal would seem like a home away from home.
- Easy Come Easy Go (Deccan Herald, PRASENJIT CHOWDHURY, Oct 29, 2006)
This book of short stories is told in a simple style which also reflects the simplicity of its protagonists.
- Cryogenic Stage Tested Successfully (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Oct 29, 2006)
A major milestone in our rocket system development, testing, says Madhavan Nair
- For Nature-Loving Tourists (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
In hindsight, this has to be one of our best Nature trails ever. Our destination, a rock pool in Madhukatta, is just a 15-minute trek into the dense jungle. That's some relief for city slickers who are not in great shape.
- North Korean Nodong Has Become Ghauri In Pakistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
Confirmation comes from President Musharraf himself
- Now Coming To India: A Muslim Woman Comic (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Oct 29, 2006)
A controversial stand-up Muslim woman comedian, criticised by her community for her jokes about hijab and Muslim fundamentalism, is to make her first-ever visit to India next month at the invitation of the British Council.
- The Snow Man (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2006)
At one level one should feel happy that an embattled writer such as Orhan Pamuk, fighting the fundamentalist forces in his country should get the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature.
- A Strategic Impasse? (New Indian Express, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 29, 2006)
India will soon have to fight its own war against a force oozing with confidence
- Fast Forward To Future (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 28, 2006)
I am now less skeptical of astrologers and tarot card readers.
- Chinese Christians Feel Let Down By Archbishop's Visit (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was criticised last night by Christians and human rights campaigners for failing to lobby China’s leaders hard on religious freedoms.
- Iraq Combat Deaths Spike (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Unrelenting daily attacks in Baghdad and the western province of Anbar have made October the deadliest month of the Iraq war for U.S. troops in combat since the all-out American offensives on Fallujah in April and November of 2004, according to U.S. . . .
- Muslim Groups' Suit Over Cartoons Rejected (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
A Danish court rejected a lawsuit yesterday against the newspaper that first printed prophet Muhammad cartoons, some of which depicted Islam as a violent religion.
- Iran Doubles Uranium Enrichment Capacity (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Iran has doubled its capacity to enrich uranium by successfully executing the process with a second network of centrifuges, a semiofficial news agency reported today, sending a defiant new message to the U.N. Security Council.
- ‘Someone I Don’T Recognise Looks Back At Me’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 28, 2006)
‘Vain as it may sound, I miss seeing my own face, my own shape. I miss myself. At the same time I feel completely naked.’
- Kin Of Blast Victims Given Relief (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Cinestar-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who is known to embarrass the BJP with his public outbursts, today once again came out with views at variance with the party on issues like Ayodhya.
- Staying The Course In Kashmir (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 28, 2006)
For decades, Indian policy-making on Jammu and Kashmir has consisted of doing the same things again and again — and hoping they will somehow have a different outcome.
- Bush Seizes On Gay Marriage (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
President George Bush is seizing on a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling this week offering full marriage rights to gays and lesbians in hopes of galvanising the dispirited conservative base of the Republican Party just 10 days from crucial mid-term . . .
- Afghanistan Update: Taliban Comeback Linked To Poor Governance . . . (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Oct 28, 2006)
There is a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan because of the failure of the government in Kabul to provide essential services to its people, ensure their security and eliminate corruption, which is rampant, according to a veteran American journalist . . .
- Mistaken Liberals (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 28, 2006)
have been living in the eastern United States this fall, at a time when the botched invasion of Iraq dominates the public discourse. I am based in a (mostly liberal) university, where defenders of the war-makers — George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, . ..
- Iraqis Opt For An Alternative Reality On Television (Independent (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
They play spin-the-bottle. They build barns on mountainsides and haul cargo across rivers. At home, they play happy families in a made-to-measure, ultra-modern hub of domesticity, as 24-hour cameras pick up their every move and word.
- End Of An Era As Ghulam Ishaq Khan Laid To Rest (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: Former President Ghulam Ishaq Khan died here Friday morning at the age of 91. He was suffering from Pneumonia for the past three months.
- Roadside Blast Kills 14 In Afghanistan (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
A roadside blast struck a pickup truck in southern Afghanistan Friday, killing 14 villagers who were traveling to a provincial capital for holiday celebrations, an official said.
- Nato Blames Taliban For Deaths (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The NATO secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, blamed the Taliban on Friday for NATO killings of Afghan civilians, saying the Islamist militia was taking "human shields" to ward off attacks, the White House said.
- In Land Of Many Wars, A Forgotten Conflict (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Ali Hamid Ahmed used to be the elder of a village full of green fields and thousands of goats.
- The Pakistan Connection May Jeopardise Peace Process (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
At A time when the credibility of evidence on Pakistani agencies’ role in the Mumbai blasts is being questioned, the arrest of two Pakistanis in Mysore — one of them with a Pakistani passport — in connection with a plot to bomb Vidhan Soudha in . . .
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