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Articles 621 through 720 of 26855:
- Iran, Hezbollah Charged In 1994 Argentine Bombing (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Prosecutors formally charged Iran and the Shiite militia Hezbollah on Wednesday in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish charities office in Argentina, which killed 85 people and injured 300.
- India Expels Pakistani Embassy Worker (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
India has ordered the expulsion of a Pakistani working at Islamabad’s embassy in New Delhi for taking secret documents from an Indian army sergeant, a Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday.
- Terrorism: It Can Be Anyone’S Son (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 28, 2006)
The gang which nearly set off rockets near the Presidency turned out to be local boys led by a retired brigadier’s son.
- Limits Of Reservations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 28, 2006)
Merely enhancing the scope of reservation can do nothing to address the basic question of deprivation.
- Diversion Of Borrowed Funds (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam , Oct 28, 2006)
It is for the assessee-company to prove that the borrowals were utilised for its own business and that the diversion to the sister firm was out of its capital.
- It Staff Union: Jyoti Basu Preaches Middle Path (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu on Friday offered a compromise formula on the issue of forming trade unions in the state’s IT sector and on IT employees participating in the nationwide general strike on December 14.
- Iran Expands N-Network (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Iran has expanded its controversial nuclear programme by injecting gas into a second network of centrifuges and successfully enriching uranium, a semiofficial news agency reported today.
- Top Australian Muslim Sorry For Rape Remark (Chicago Sun Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Australia's most prominent Islamic cleric vowed Thursday to stand strong against outrage over his description of women who don't wear head scarves as ''uncovered meat'' who invite rape.
- Guilty Of Complicity (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 28, 2006)
It is truly astonishing that a man who has lied so often and so obviously on the subject, should still be constantly sought out for his opinion and assessment on the course of terrorism in the South Asian region and, in fact, the world.
- Taliban Accuse Nato Of Genocide, Bus Bombing Kills 14 (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
At least 50 civilians killed in NATO airstrikes in Kandahar on Tuesday
Canada brands Hekmatyar’s Hezb-i-Islami a terrorist group
- Cm Gives Clean Chit To Health Dept (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, gave a clean chit to the state Health Department but an inquiry conducted by the police detected the involvement of a senior IAS official, five Health Department employees and a middle man in the . . .
- Questions, No Answers (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 28, 2006)
It happens that when the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan was winding down I was among those journalists who travelled to Peshawer from time to time to see what the Mujahideen were up to.
- On The Brink Again (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 28, 2006)
Bangladesh has witnessed the twisting of every moral of statecraft for the self-preservation of the ruling coterie
- East Pakistan-Ii (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Oct 28, 2006)
With another Bangladesh general election 90 days away, policy-makers in New Delhi are well advised to compare the existing situation with the run-up to the 1970 polls. Reason: The two poles of Bangladeshi national politics are locked in a war which . . .
- Email Threat To Kill Pm Sets Off High Kerala Alert (Asian Age, K. Venugopal , Oct 28, 2006)
The Kerala police went on high alert after top police officers, including the director-general of police, received emails threatening to kill Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he visits the state next week.
- ‘Pakistan Prez Hedges In Talks With India’ (Asian Age, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Oct 28, 2006)
Noting that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is clearly "hedging" in talks with India by allowing Kashmiri militant groups to continue to operate, a leading US think tank has asked Washington to send a consistent message to Islamabad to deny safe . . .
- Security Council Should Act On Burma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 28, 2006)
Last month the U.N. Security Council formally discussed the situation in Burma, also known as Myanmar, for the first time. For Burmese people such as us, who live under the country’s oppressive regime, this was a welcome development.
- Musharraf’S Faux Pas (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Oct 28, 2006)
General Musharraf providentially escaped two attempts on his life but has shot himself in the foot “In the Line of Fire”. Writing of events in 1983, he blandly asserts that the Siachen glacier “belonged to us”.
- Infiltration Must Return To The Agenda (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 28, 2006)
The danger posed by illegal migrants from Bangladesh can be gauged from the fact that they have become the deciding factor in elections to more than 40 of the 126 Assembly seats in Assam
- Support To Kashmiris Will Continue: Aziz (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has assured that Pakistan would continue to support the oppressed Kashmiris in their struggle for their legitimate rights.
- All States Must Implead Themselves In The Reservation Case: . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
"Apex court verdict runs against the spirit of the Constitution of India"
Backward classes were under yoke for several centuries
The ladder provided to them by reservation is pulled down
3 Supreme Court judgements have become a great shock.
- Dvac Raids Houses Of Former Ministers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Nearly 40 places searched in connection with graft cases
- Treat It As Essential Service: Basu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, on Friday, defended the setting up of trade unions in the Information Technology sector. He said there was a need to consider the sector as an essential service where the right to strike should not be abused.
- From An Unknown Name To An Emerging Nightmare (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 28, 2006)
Al-Badr has for long harboured ambitions of taking its terror campaign to major cities across India
Al-Badr traces its origins to a quasi-fascist militia set up by Pakistan's armed forces in 1970
Fought against the Soviet Union's forces in . . .
- Mysore Terror Threads Were Spun In Kashmir (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 28, 2006)
Commander of Al-Badr cell was shot dead in Srinagar on October 20
Over Rs. 3,00,000 given to finance a Srinagar-based terror cell
Several Al-Badr operatives despatched to execute terror strikes outside J&K
- Arrested Pakistani Nationals Lived All By Themselves (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The local people were unaware of their antecedents and activities
- 16 Killed In Rohri Accident (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
At least 16 people, including eight women and four children, perished and 50 others received injuries, as a result of an accident near Rohri bypass at the National Highway, on Thursday afternoon.
- Ghulam Ishaq Khan Passes Away (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
From an extra assistant commissioner to one of Pakistan’s most powerful presidents, who dismissed two democratically-elected governments, Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s eventful life spanning over 92 years came to an end here on Friday.
- E-Mail From Kochi Threatens Pm, Prez (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Top Kerala Government officials, including senior police officers, have gone into a tizzy after receiving threats via e-mail that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President APJ Abdul Kalam would be "assassinated" to avenge the death sentence passed . . .
- Keep Out Creamy Layer (Tribune, Ranjit Singh Ghuman, Oct 28, 2006)
The social and economic upliftment of the backward classes and castes is the moral, social, political and constitutional responsibility of the State. But the question which every conscious citizen of the Indian Republic should ask is: To what . . .
- Dealing With Dhaka (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 28, 2006)
Events in Bangladesh kept foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee busy on his second day in office. The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party has been hit by the formation of a separate party by disaffected BNP leaders. Coming on the eve of elections . . .
- Us Tries To Reassure India Over N-Deal (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
The United States has reassured India it would try its best to get a landmark nuclear deal approved by a “lame duck” session of Congress next month amid fears the agreement could be slipping away.
- 'Mush Hedging In Talks With India' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 28, 2006)
Noting that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is clearly "hedging" in talks with India by allowing Kashmiri militant groups to continue to operate, a leading US think tank has asked Washington to send a consistent message to Islamabad to deny safe . . .
- Thousands Flee As Nagaland Militants Clash (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Oct 28, 2006)
Over 4,000 people have fled their houses in Nagaland's Zunheboto district after a gunbattle broke out between the rival militant factions — National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak Muivah) and the NSCN (Khaplang).
- Muslim Cabbies Create New Controversy (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Oct 28, 2006)
As if the current controversies over niqab and hijab were not enough, Muslim cabdrivers in Minneapolis, Minnisota, have created a new one by refusing to take passengers carrying alcoholic beverages on their person or in their baggage.
- Keep The Faith (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 28, 2006)
If suspected Pakistani militants nabbed in Mysore had been planning to attack the Vikas Soudha a newly built government administration block that is part of the state secretariat in Bangalore that's more evidence that it's not just Kashmir, Mumbai . . .
- Kasuri Hopes To Strike The Right Note With Pranab (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 28, 2006)
Hails appointment of Foreign Minister, says "it takes two to tango"
A positive development
Plans to visit India in November for personal reasons
- Party Has A Right To Speak Out On Issues, Says Sonia (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said that she shares a relationship of mutual trust with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. But she also believes that as president of the Congress party, it is her duty to convey the party’s feelings on such issues as . . .
- Panchayat Land Worth Rs 2500 Crore ‘Grabbed’ (Tribune, Ajay Banerjee, Oct 27, 2006)
In what may turn out to be one of the biggest ever land scams in this region, about 2,870 acres of land located just on the boundary of Chandigarh has been usurped by influential people reportedly in connivance with some revenue officials of Punjab.
- Heading For A Repeat Of The Riots? (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Oct 27, 2006)
There are ominous signs that Paris could witness violence similar to last year's clashes.
- A Socio-Political Institution (Hindu, A. Srivathsan, Oct 27, 2006)
In her presentation, Champakalakshmi viewed temples as a part of a larger historical progress.
- Cm Son, Hotel Staff Rumble In The Night (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
In a political and personal embarrassment to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, his 19-year-old son, Nikhil Gowda, along with his two friends, was allegedly involved in a brawl with a City hotel staff in the wee hours of Thursday.
- Mrpl To Pull Out Of Kakinada Project (Deccan Herald, Aditya Raj Das, Oct 27, 2006)
state-owned oil exploration major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) – is seriously contemplating to pull out of the oil refinery plant in Kakinada as well as the Kakinada Special Economic Zone (SEZ) project.
- Special Festival Editions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
These colourful issues are something to look forward to.
- Return To Afghanistan (Tribune, Sebastian Rotella, Oct 27, 2006)
The conflict in Iraq is drawing fewer foreign fighters as Muslim extremists turn their attention back to the symbolically important and increasingly violent turf of Afghanistan, say anti-terror officials in Europe and the United States.
- A Celebration, In The Literal Sense (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
The Suvarna Karnataka celebrations that will kickstart on November 1 will see new editions and revisions by the publication divisions.
- Ulfa Group To Discuss Peace Initiative Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
CPI (M), AGP call for unconditional talks
No stalemate in peace process: Rebati Phukan
All-party meet will discuss deadlock: Gogoi
- Karunanidhi Writes To Chief Ministers On Quota Issue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
Requesting all Chief Ministers to oppose the trend against reservation and social justice, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said that States should implead themselves in the Supreme Court case on the issue.
- Be Lenient To Indian Students, Australia Urged (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 27, 2006)
Many are detained for contravening rules on part-time jobs
- Caste Not A Permanent Identity (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Oct 27, 2006)
The damage caused by deep-rooted caste system is now being felt in the form of quotas and extension of privileges, says Anuradha Dutt
- Skin Transplanting The Calendar Jesus (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 27, 2006)
It's a familiar image for millions of Christians: Jesus, with a crown of thorns, hanging from the cross.
- Merajuddin Patel Likely To Be Karnataka Jd(s) Chief (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Oct 27, 2006)
Party may make a formal announcement tomorrow
- Nuke Walmart Blues (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 27, 2006)
Nervousness mounts in Pakistan that fresh enquiries by the US might bring out hitherto unknown (to the international community) information relating to co-operation between Pakistan and North Korea in the nuclear and missile fields.
- Beach-Hopping In Vizag (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
They say you find India’s best beaches in Goa. Well, not if you take into account the many resorts and shacks mushrooming on the sands there.
- What’S Nectar For Secular Us Is Toxin For Secular India! (New Indian Express, S Gurumurthy , Oct 27, 2006)
Just a century ago, Max Weber, declared that the Hindus and Buddhists remain backward because they believed in their ancient, faulty faiths!
- The Pilgrim’S Progress (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
One of the most ancient and significant pilgrim centres in the country, Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges, is famous for its temples and ghats.
- Dalit Constituencies: (Frontline, S. Viswanathan, Oct 27, 2006)
For the first time in 10 years, caste Hindus participate actively in the poll process in the four "rebel" villages.
- U.S. Deaths In Iraq Near Peak (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 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 . . .
- In France, Affairs Of State And Of The Heart (Deccan Herald, ELAINE SCIOLINO, Oct 27, 2006)
Sex and politics- A new book throws light on the peccadilloes of French politicians
- Focus On Nepal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 27, 2006)
The UPA Government suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to foreign policy.
- Unions In It Sector (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 27, 2006)
Perhaps it's simply a case of a man's past catching up with him. The Democratic Youth Federation of India secretary who once breathed hell fire and brimstone against "blood sucking capitalists" now finds the same hate language used against him.
- Too Soft To Take Stand On Terror (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Oct 27, 2006)
Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, American author John Steinbeck once said.
- Dutch Dilemmas (Frontline, RAFIA ZAKARIA, Oct 27, 2006)
A thought-provoking account that makes readers question Enlightenment values that are politically tainted.
- German Connection (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
The books under review showcase the reshaping and re-centring of the long tradition of German Indology.
- Trouble Sealing Egypt-Gaza Border (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
Just under a year ago, Middle East peacebrokers reached what was heralded as a relative breakthrough in the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate: an agreement on border crossings in and out of the Gaza Strip.
- Cardin Skips Debate In Charles County (Washington Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
U.S. Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin last night skipped an NAACP-sponsored debate in Charles County, Md., a day after the Democratic Senate nominee stammered and stumbled during a faceoff with the Republican nominee, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele.
- Row Over Meat Gibe By Spiritual Leader (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2006)
The most senior Muslim cleric in Australia was fighting to keep his position yesterday after likening women who did not wear veils to uncovered meat that attracted predators.
- Pranab For Peace With Pak (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2006)
Taking over as external affairs minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee today sent out a message to Pakistan and other neighbours that a “tension-free” situation should be created on the borders to enable countries of the region to live in peace.
- Must Secularists Be Anti-Hindu? (Pioneer, MC Joshi, Oct 26, 2006)
Hindu bashing seems to have become the definition of secularism among the so-called secular politicians, journalists and intelligentsia of this country.
- Teach Religion For Tolerance (Pioneer, JS Rajput, Oct 26, 2006)
In an ever-shrinking world, many unexpected and unnoticed things are happening all around.
- Tension-Free Borders Desirable, Pranab Hints To Neighbours (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2006)
Aware of the confusion created by the recent statements of the Prime Minister, the National Security Advisor and the Home Secretary on the nature of evidence on Pakistan's complicity in July 11 Mumbai blasts, newly appointed External Affairs . . .
- Karva Chauth Capitalism (Times of India, Mohan Rao, Oct 26, 2006)
There has been a steady decline in India's overall sex ratio (SR) over the 20th century.
- Ril Cushioned By Recent Insurance » (Hindustan Times, Arun Kumar, Oct 26, 2006)
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is safe from financial losses arising out of a fire that broke out on Wednesday at its petroleum refinery in Jamnagar, having renewed insurance for the entire plant only earlier this month.
- Ambareesh To Begin Work At I&b Today (Asian Age, Venkat Parsa, Oct 26, 2006)
Union minister of state for information and broadcasting M.H. Ambareesh is likely to assume charge on Thursday.
- Parochial Freedoms (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Oct 26, 2006)
In the latest issue of The Economist, the columnist Charlemagne (named, appropriately enough, after the fiercely Christian 8th-century king who defined the frontiers of Western Europe) argued against formal restrictions on free speech.
- What Is Good For China Is Good For Us (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 26, 2006)
This is a humble attempt to analyse the recent changes in the approach of the CPI-M in line with that of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
- All About India (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 26, 2006)
India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the 'I'.
- Poetic Justice For Modi (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 26, 2006)
The Gujarat High Court’s dismissal of the U.C. Banerjee Committee — set up by the union railway ministry to probe the fire on the S-6 coach on the Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27, 2002 — as illegal is cause for much joy in the Organiser . . .
- Courage And Prophecy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 26, 2006)
His life is one of the most magnificent examples of courage — it has been the privilege of mankind to behold this…
- Orissa’S Fight Against Naxalites (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 26, 2006)
That the gunning down of Orissa Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Jaswinder Singh was attributed first to Naxalites and then to errant security personnel can and has raised facile questions about managing information.
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