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Articles 1821 through 1920 of 26855:
- No Proof Of Isi’S Involvement Received: Pm (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday rejected Indian allegations of Inter Services Intelligence’s involvement in the Mumbai blasts and said Pakistan had received no evidence so far to support this allegation.
- Mufti Heads Non-Official Team To Unga (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Oct 03, 2006)
Former J&K CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed will lead the non-official delegation from India to the UN General Assembly this year. The delegation includes Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who is already in the US.
- Pak Hand In Mumbai Blasts Vindicates Maha Govt Stand (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
With investigations into the Mumbai serial train blasts pointing towards a Pakistani hand, the Maharashtra Government's view that the recent terror trend was part of Islamabad-sponsored jehadi terrorism stands vindicated.
- 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 . . . .
- Tragedy Of Women (Hindu, Prema Nandakumar , Oct 03, 2006)
Aconversation-gripped novel that seeks to give a complete view of Islamic existence in contemporary Tamil Nadu, Irandaam Jaamangalin Kathai has chipped a crevice to allow some fresh breeze into a psychological cellar.
- Announcement (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Authors and publishers are welcome to send copies of their books to The Hindu for review.
- 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 . . .
- 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.
- Temples In And Around Chennai (Hindu, V.N. Vedanta Desikan, Oct 03, 2006)
Hnduism attaches great importance to idol worship for practical observance, especially Vaishnavism which, systematically ratiocinates to the effect that Archa (a material image, an icon in stone, wood, or metal , commonly worshipped with great . . .
- Print Pick (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The first thing I did with Sacred Games was cut it in two, so that I could carry one half of its 900 - page hardboundedness with me to read on the ride to and from work, or lying in bed, or leaning against a wall.
- There Is No Viable Alternative (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 03, 2006)
As Kofi Annan’s tenure as UN secretary-general limps to its inglorious close, the prestige and even the future of the world organisation he came into office determined to revitalise could scarcely seem bleaker.
- Gandhigiri Is The Rage Now But For How Long? (Deccan Herald, Janaki Murali, Oct 03, 2006)
There’s a fervour across the country in the wake of the film ‘Munnabhai...’ And the findings: It’s not Gandhiism or Gandhivaad but Gandhigiri.
- The Bane Of Indian Society (Hindu, S. Viswanathan, Oct 03, 2006)
Noted social historian Dilip M. Menon endorses in his introduction a pertinent question often raised by many India watchers and also echoed by Dalit activists: how is it that caste-related violence . . .
- 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.
- Unacceptable Conduct (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 03, 2006)
The wholly uncalled for incident in Islamabad on Saturday involving the official car of the minister of state for communications Shahid Jamil Qureshi and the Islamabad traffic police (ITP) is regrettable to say the least.
- Temples In Distress (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The ancient temples of Keshava and Someshwara in Haranahalli are in a dilapidated state and require urgent attention, writes I Sesunathan.
- 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.
- 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
- Isi Mark (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 03, 2006)
The Mumbai Police naturally did not share with the media the details of the evidence regarding the ISI involvement collected by them.
- 'Sick Of War, Young Americans Are Drawn To Gandhi (OutLook, Ashish Kumar Sen, Oct 03, 2006)
Democrat Congressman from Georgia, USA, on the Civil Rights Movement and the need to use non-violence as a tool of foreign policy and fighting terror
- 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
- Indian Propaganda Helping Bail Out Their Terrorists, Says Fo (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Says Pakistan will cooperate if India gives evidence
Foreign secretaries likely to meet after Ramazan
- Hope For A Heavy Price (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Oct 03, 2006)
Sick state enterprises need more than money
- 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:
- 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.
- Rope In Us (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
It's too early to write off the joint anti-terror mechanism agreed to in Havana, as many are wont to, with the Mumbai police uncovering Pakistani links to the 7/11 attacks.
- 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.
- Yours Faithfully (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 03, 2006)
There is only one caste and that is the caste of humanity.
- Pak Not To Hand Over Any Suspect (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
A day after New Delhi said it would confront Islamabad with the evidence of its involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan today promised it would take action against any of its nationals having links with the attack if provided information about it . . .
- 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.
- For The Sheer Love Of Art Alone (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Two immensely readable books address a range of art-related issues.
- Medical Seats In For Quantum Jump In A.P. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
With three new colleges coming up, 450 seats are added
The total number of seats in the State now will be 4,700 in 14 Government medical colleges
The total number of engineering seats to go up to 99,000 with addition of two JNTU colleges
- Another `Symbolic Start' For Much-Awaited Metro Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Bescom begins shifting of cables on Mahatma Gandhi Road
- 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.
- Mosquito Control, Vietnamese Style (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Oct 03, 2006)
A community-based approach using biological control, rather than insecticides, can be effective against the mosquito that spreads the virus causing chikungunya.
- Nation Pays Tributes To Gandhi, Shashtri (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
All-religion prayer meets marked the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri today as prisoners in Pune’s Yerawada jail earned diplomas in Gandhian ideology and leaders asked militants to follow the path of nonviolence.
- 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 . . .
- 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.
- Silence Rules (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
Something was certainly wrong. We could make this out through the chinks in the door. It looked as if someone was running to and fro to save his life.
- Good, Not Great (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Drizzle of yesteryears and other stories; M K Ajay, Frog Books, 2006, pp 113, Rs 195.
- 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 . . .
- Mumbai Blasts (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 03, 2006)
When the Maharashtra police on September 30 claimed to have found conclusive proof that Pakistan’s ISI was behind the Mumbai blasts on July 11, 2006, resulting in the death of as many as 187 train passengers, Pakistan’s immediate reaction was . . .
- Afterlife Of Sherlock Holmes (Hindu, MEENAKSHI MUKHERJEE, Oct 03, 2006)
Both the books are playful and ingenuous pastiches, recreating familiar voices from the past.
- Pak Response: If Proof There, Will Act But No Handing Over (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
A day after New Delhi said it would confront Islamabad with the evidence of its involvement in the Mumbai train blasts, Pakistan today promised action against any of its nationals with links to the attack if it’s provided information but said it . . .
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Let Militant Shot Dead (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Security forces gunned down one Lashker-e-Tayyeba (LeT) militant and arrested two militants of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami (Huji) outfit in Jammu and Kashmir since Sunday, official sources said here today.
- Spirited Move (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 03, 2006)
Governments and politicians in India are known to use religion for narrow, sectarian purposes.
- 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.
- We Won't Hand Over Anybody, Says Pakistan (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 03, 2006)
Mumbai Police Commissioner's statements "propagandistic"
- Afghan Blast Kills 12, Wounds 42 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2006)
A suicide bomber today blew himself up in front of the Interior Ministry in Kabul, killing 12 people and wounding 42, the Afghan government said.
- 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.
- India Convicts Five Over 1993 Mumbai Blasts (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
An Indian court on Friday convicted five more Muslim men of conspiracy in a series of bomb attacks on Mumbai 13 years ago.
- In America, They Crossed The Durand Line (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 30, 2006)
It wasn’t quite a replay of the nervy Yitzhak Rabin-Yasser Arafat handshake of 1993, with Bill Clinton playing an amicable friend with hands outstretched in the middle
- Durgashtami Today (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 30, 2006)
Durgashtami Today
The Primordial Power
is ever at play. She is
creating, preserving, and
destroying in play, as it were.
- 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 . . .
- The Harsh Realities (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2006)
We have to concede that our friendly, neighbourhood military dictator sure knows how to sell a book. In the days preceding the release of his autobiography last week he made headlines across the world as he dropped one bombshell after the next.
- "Community Involvement Must For Better Sexual Health Information" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Social taboo stops women from seeking reproductive, sexual health services
- Failure Of Both Engines Led To Mig Crash (Deccan Herald, Vijay Mohan, Sep 30, 2006)
Failure of both engines in the IAF MiG-29 fighter aircraft led to its crash near Ambala yesterday.
- 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 . . .
- 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.
- Islamabad, Kabul Agreed To Avoid Verbal Attacks: Us (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to maintain regular contact over the issues that caused verbal spats between their leaders during their two-week stay in the United States, the White House has said.
- Ethnic Hate Crimes On The Increase In Russia (Hindu, Marianna Belenkaya, Sep 30, 2006)
Religious and ethnic communities have a big role to play. They should not give in to provocations.
- India-Eu Pact Likely In Helsinki (Hindu, N. Ravi Kumar, Sep 30, 2006)
Free trade would be an important element
- Strike Hits Normal Life In Kashmir (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Sep 30, 2006)
Protest against court order to execute Afzal in Parliament attack case; 60 injured in clashes.
- No Secret Agenda To Cap India's Strategic Programme: Mulford (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Sep 30, 2006)
``U.S. administration committed to getting nuclear deal done''
- West Bengal Flood Situation Improves, Toll 78 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
The flood situtation in West Bengal improved marginally on Friday though it continued to be grim in Nadia, Howrah and parts of Hooghly with water level in both rivers rising as the death toll rose to 78.
- 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.
- Iran Rejects Terms For Nuclear Talks (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Sep 30, 2006)
Tehran not to suspend uranium enrichment
- Bathukamma: Festival Of Mother Goddess (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Songs sung by women during the Bathukamma festival are essentially an appeal to goddess Gauri to come back to the earth
- Mumbai-Malegaon Blasts (Deccan Herald, P.C. Dogra, Sep 30, 2006)
O July 11, seven blasts in seven suburban trains of Western Railway, Mumbai, killed over 229 persons and wounded over 700. Then came Malegaon blasts in a mosque, killing 37 Muslims and injuring many more, who were in the congregation of the devouts . . .
- Patch-Up At White House (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
It has happened many times in the past. Presidents Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai have met, pledged to bury the hatchet and fight terrorism jointly.
- The Solitary Traveller (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Travel Time to reflect, observe, recharge and simply revel in solitude is what travelling alone is all about .
- ‘Bomb Planters Were Locals, Makers Came From Nepal’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
With Friday’s arrest of four men under MCOCA, the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) seems surer about how the July 11 blasts on suburban trains were plotted and executed.
- Reservation In Premier Institutions (Hindu, Prabhudev Konana, Sep 30, 2006)
While reservation is a political hot button, it is about societal endurance, ethics, and value issues. If it is a pure political solution then, unfortunately, premier institutions will probably lose the battle.
- To Trick Or Teach? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 30, 2006)
The pervasive lack of quality at the base of India’s educational pyramid has had tragic consequences.
- Acid-Treated Ginger (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 29, 2006)
Just when one had thought that it was safe to buy ginger after a crackdown on ginger-processing plants three months ago in Islamabad, it appears that acid-soaked ginger is back in the market.
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