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Articles 2121 through 2220 of 26855:
- All Geared Up For Bathukamma Festival (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
District gears up for a smooth sail of the fest
Bathukamma is a Telangana-specific festival coinciding with Dasara
Conical arrangement of colourful, native flowers shapes the Bathukamma
Bathukamma is immersed in water at the end of the day.
- Drop In Number Of Pilgrims Visiting Durga Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Goddess Kanakadurgamma gave darshan to her devotees as `Annapurnadevi' on Indrakeeladri here on the fourth day of the Dasara Navaratri festival on Tuesday. Carrying rice bowls on their heads, women from different places paid their obeisance to the . . .
- Quiz Competition To Promote Tourism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Three-member teams from six colleges will be participating
- Five Policemen Convicted For 1993 Mumbai Blasts (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
A court convicted five policemen on Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and abetment of the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and wounded hundreds.
- Fact And Fiction (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Sep 27, 2006)
So far, Nazi leader Josef Goebbels was considered the ultimate propagandist, who could project black as white and vice versa.
- Mumbai Blasts: Flawed Justice (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 27, 2006)
A Mumbai court convicts some of the accused in the March 1993 serial bombings, but the key perpetrators are still safe in Pakistan.
- Court Sets Date For Parliament Attack Hanging (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
An Indian court fixed Oct. 20 as the date for executing a Muslim man convicted for his role in the 2001 militant attack on India's parliament.
- Karzai Turning Blind Eye To Alienation: Musharraf (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Ahead of the Bush-Musharraf-Karzai trilateral meeting, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has slammed his Afghanistan counterpart for "purposely turning a blind eye" to so-called alienation in his country.
- Special Article (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Sep 27, 2006)
A newspaper report sourced to French intelligence quoting Saudi sources claimed that Osama bin Laden died of typhoid on August 23 in Pakistan.
- Line Of Fire, Circle Of Unreason (Indian Express, Murtaza Razvi, Sep 27, 2006)
Everyone in Pakistan has high expectations of General Musharraf’s In the Line of Fire: the liberal urban minority, the silent majority, the religious fanatics. The book will be interpreted variously as coming from a prophet of boon or of doom, . . .
- Bush Seeks Mush's Advice On Kashmir (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
US President George W Bush has sought advice on how he could contribute towards resolution of the India-Pakistan disputes, Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf has said.
- Puja Budgets Soar, Artisans Languish (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
The annual extravaganza of the Bengali community, Durga Puja, is round the corner and Puja organisers across the Capital have launched preparations on a war footing. The budget for the Pujas is skyrocketing with a array of sponsors stepping in.
- Mamata Beaten Up Over Singur Landgrab (Pioneer, Saugar Sengupta, Sep 27, 2006)
Even as 300 farmers received compensation cheques on Tuesday for their lands to be acquired for the Tata Motor factory, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who had on Monday night gheraoed the BDO's office at Singur, where the project was to . . .
- Pervez For Joint Control Bodies (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Sep 27, 2006)
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has proposed to make the Line of Control (LoC) irrelevant and set up join management bodies in Kashmir.
- Easy Target (Frontline, Anupama Katakam, Sep 27, 2006)
Despite its history of communal tension, Malegaon has remained calm in the wake of the blasts.
- Is Osama Dead? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 27, 2006)
A newspaper report sourced to French intelligence quoting Saudi sources claimed that Osama bin Laden died of typhoid on August 23 in Pakistan.
- Lt. Governor Reviews Tsunami Rehabilitation Work (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Also inspects 500-acre site for the proposed growth centre
- It Has To Be Equal Rights For Men And Women’ (Deccan Herald, PUJAA AWASTTHI, Sep 26, 2006)
There are so many organisations working for the uplift of Muslim women, but they have achieved nothing because the word of the Maulanas is supreme.
- Special Legislature Session In Belgaum Off To A Great Start (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Sep 26, 2006)
Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi's `parallel session' sees boisterous participation
People support Government's objectives
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister takes part in MES session
- Brajesh Says Vajpayee Was Not Humiliated At Agra (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Disagreeing with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's view that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee felt humiliated at the 2001 Agra Summit, his top aide Brajesh Mishra said on Monday the Pakistani leader was ``doubly humiliated'' in Islamabad in . . .
- Ysr Presents Silk `Vastrams' To Lord At Tirumala (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Monday presented a pair of silk `vastrams' to Lord Venkateswara on the occasion of the annual Brahmotsavam.
- ``Pakistan A Nursery Of Global Terror'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakistan "remains a nursery" of global terrorism, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday. Islamabad had done "precious little" to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism on its eastern borders with India.
- Cia Paid Pakistan For Al-Qaeda Men (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 26, 2006)
The CIA secretly paid "millions of dollars'' to the Pakistan Government as a reward to Islamabad for handing over hundreds of Al-Qaeda suspects to America, The Times reported on Monday claiming that the "revelation'' came from the Pakistan President . . .
- A Scam In The Making (Deccan Herald, Alok Ray, Sep 26, 2006)
People think SEZ is just a ploy for land grab by developers in connivance with government officials.
- The Pursuit Of Peace (Hindu, V. Suryanarayan, Sep 26, 2006)
Lessons from the efforts taken to bring about a political solution to the conflict in the emerald isle.
- Brown Ready To Step Into Blair Shoes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
"I am confident that my experience and my values give me the strength to take the tough decisions." Gordon Brown, Foreign Minister
- Demythologising The Nation (Hindu, Ashokamitran , Sep 26, 2006)
The stuff of human thinking contains more abstractions than one would like to admit. Freedom, justice, society, anti-people, anti-labour, and government — all float about meaning different things to different people.
- 1993 Blast Verdict: Key Aides Of Tiger Memon Convicted (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Two key aides of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts mastermind Tiger Memon, Mohammed Iqbal Mohammed Yusuf Shaikh and Nasim Ahmed Shaikh Ali Barmare, were convicted by a special TADA court here on Monday for their complicity in the crime that claimed 257 lives.
- India’S Nuke Tech Indigenous: Dae (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Responding to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s charge that New Delhi’s uranium enrichment technology “could be a copy” of Islamabad’s centrifuge design, India on Monday asserted its ...
- Telugu Litterateur (Hindu, V. Gopalakrishna, Sep 26, 2006)
Kannada Translation by S. Biligirivasan of K.K. Ranganathacharyulu's Telugu monograph, Sahitya Akademi, Ravindra Bhavan, 35, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 25.
- Karnataka Special Legislature Session Off To A Great Start (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Sep 26, 2006)
Boisterous participation at Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi's `parallel session'
- Biography Of A Mystic Poet (Hindu, Sarojini Premchand, Sep 26, 2006)
Telugu translation by Rajeswari Diwakarla of G.S.Kapase's Kannada Monograph; Sahitya Akademi, 35, Rabindra Bhavan, Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 25.
- Congress Conclave (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 26, 2006)
Anyone present at the Congress party’s conclave in Nainital must have heaved a sigh of relief at its conclusion.
- Story Of A Bestseller: Fact Or Fiction? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 26, 2006)
The story of Kathy O'Beirne has a lot to do with a market driven by an almost obsessive interest in personal accounts of abuse, pain, and hurt.
- Indiscretion Or Publicity Coup? (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Sep 26, 2006)
There is an interesting line in President Pervez Musharraf's book In the Line of Fire, well before it begins.
- Singh Sincere In Addressing Kashmir Issue: Musharraf (Daily Times, Rana Qaisar, Sep 26, 2006)
President says Havana meeting sowed seed for resolution of Indo-Pak disputes
Says he introduced sustainable democracy in Pakistan
No problems in Balochistan
‘Army likes me and follows me’
- Delhi Cabinet Nod For New Entertainment Tax Policy (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Reduction in the rate of tax on paid programmes
- Mush Metamorphosis (OutLook, B. Raman , Sep 26, 2006)
There seem to be two clear shifts - the first relates to the on-going US-led war against international terrorism and Pakistan's role in it and the second to Pakistan's stand on jihadi terrorism in Indian territory.
- Deccan Aviation: Turbulent Weather (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Sep 26, 2006)
The Street was expecting Deccan Aviation to turn in a loss of around Rs 150 crore for the 15 months ended June 2006. But the amount has been more than twice the estimate at Rs 340 crore.
- It's Not A Plan To Hand Over Wanted People: Pakistan (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Sep 26, 2006)
"Mechanism is only to help prevent terrorism"
- Mush Trading Qaeda Suspects For Cia Dollars (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Sep 26, 2006)
Supplying the US with wanted al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists has turned out to be a profitable venture for Pakistan, earning it millions of dollars in bounty.
- Atal Exposed Pak Role In Encouraging Terror: Bjp (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
The BJP on Monday trashed Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf claim that Kargil conflict had compelled India to take initiative on resolving the Kashmir dispute.
- Us 'Onslaught' Fear Forced Mush To Join Terror War (Pioneer, PAUL GARWOOD, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf said in his memoir released on Monday he had no choice but to switch support from the Taliban to the US-led war on terror or face an American "onslaught" and a possible Washington-backed Indian incursion into . . .
- The Pope Is Not Alone (Pioneer, A Surya Prakash, Sep 26, 2006)
After launching a sustained and multi-pronged attack on Pope Benedict XVI, radical Islamists have managed to extract a partial retraction from the head of the Roman Catholic Church for his recent remarks on Islam, but the central point made . . .
- Making Of Poverty (Pioneer, RAHUL RAMAGUNDAM, Sep 26, 2006)
Manipur's weaving culture will be destroyed due to unfair trade practices and cause large-scale unemployment, says Rahul Ramagundam
- Musharraf: Vajpayee & I Insulted By Higher Power (Asian Age, K.J.M. Varma, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is of the view that both he and the then Indian Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, had been "humiliated" at the Agra summit in 2001 "by someone above" the two of them.
- Pope: Future Lies In Good Christian-Muslim Ties (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Pope Benedict XVI told Muslim diplomats on Monday that "our future" depends on good relations between Christians and Muslims as he sought to put to rest anger over his recent remarks about Islam and violence.
- 'India Developed N-Technology Indigenously' (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Responding to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's charge that New Delhi's uranium enrichment technology "could be a copy" of Islamabad's centrifuge design, India on Monday asserted its "entire nuclear technology has been developed indigenously and . . .
- Pfa Fights Animal Cruelty (Pioneer, Maneka Gandhi, Sep 26, 2006)
The recent amendments made in the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 this year have suggested the formation of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau.
- Dead Or Alive? (OutLook, B. Raman , Sep 26, 2006)
Osama bin Laden will have to be presumed alive until proved to be dead. That proof is yet to come. If the report about his death is incorrect, one can shortly expect another audio message from him to prove to his followers that he is alive.
- Preposterous & Absurd (OutLook, G. Parthasarathy, Sep 26, 2006)
By equating India and Pakistan as "victims of terrorism" in Havana, India has seriously undermined what has been its consistent stand that Pakistan should end terrorist violence unconditionally.
- Musharraf Airs Doubt Over Singh In Memoir (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
In a book released just over week after agreeing with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resume a stalled peace process, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf described his fears that the Indian leader had fallen under the influence of New Delhi's old guard
- An Unwinnable War (Dawn, Max Hastings, Sep 26, 2006)
The Labour party has so much to make itself unhappy about in Manchester this week that only the demonstrators outside the hall will give Iraq, Afghanistan, George Bush and the “war on terror” the attention they deserve.
- Indians Support Repealing Anti-Gay Law (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
A campaign to repeal an Indian law that makes homosexuality a crime has split young people in New Delhi and Mumbai, with about half of them in favour of scrapping the legislation, according to a survey published on Monday.
- Which Taliban Are We Talking About? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 26, 2006)
It is our misfortune that the word ‘Taliban’ can now mean both citizens of Afghanistan fighting the present Kabul regime, and the Pushtuns of Pakistan who seem bent upon pushing the country back into the dark ages through their brand of sharia.
- Psychology Of Coup Rumours (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 26, 2006)
The country remained in the grip of rumours throughout the day on Sunday, the nature of some of them was hilarious as well as agonizing.
- Lessons Of Power Breakdown (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 26, 2006)
The countrywide power breakdown after the national grid was knocked out on Sunday calls for serious stocktaking.
- Blessings Of Judicial Activism (Dawn, Sajjad Ali Shah, Sep 26, 2006)
Before partition, the judicial system in the subcontinent was provided by the British government that did not interfere with the personal laws of its subjects.
- Let Gen Mehmood Comes Out With His Version (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 26, 2006)
A CONTROVERSY has been generated in Pakistan and US about the language used by the then US official Richard Armitage to coerce Islamabad in to supporting American plans to dislodge Taliban in Afghanistan following President Musharraf’s CBS interview.
- Terror Test: Pervez Rebuffs Pm (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakis-tan President Pervez Mush-arraf, currently in New York, has made it clear that the joint terror mechanism was not just a test for Islamabad but "a test for both sides".
- Missing? Misled? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 26, 2006)
Since the Herald magazine of the Dawn group of newspapers in Pakistan means well by its country and has a reputation for objectivity one must take all that it publishes seriously.
- An Occasion To Spread The Message Of Harmony (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Everything seems familiar yet it isn’t. For Bengalis in Thiruvananthapuram, there won’t be any pandal hopping or Puja shopping but there will be a food festival, cultural programmes and charitable action during this festive season.
- So Far, So Good (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 26, 2006)
Though the Congress party’s Nainital conclave was billed as a meeting of Chief Ministers belonging to the party, it turned out to be a good occasion to display the sound political health of the UPA coalition that governs the country.
- Musharraf: Terming Pak Bomb 'Islamic' Is Racist (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Sep 26, 2006)
Terming the Islamic tag given to Pakistan's nuclear bomb as "racist", President Pervez Musharraf has said nuclear testing by his country evoked a stronger protest from the global community as compared to India's test just because it was the first . . .
- Anti-Terror Mechanism Test For Both Countries: Musharraf (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that the Indo-Pak anti-terror mechanism was a test for both countries, responding to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that it was a test for Islamabad.
- Pak Remains A Nursery Of Global Terrorism: Pranab (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Stating that Pakistan "remains a nursery" of global terrorism, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asserted that Islamabad has done "precious little" to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism on its eastern borders with India and many . . .
- Cool It (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 26, 2006)
New signs of strain have surfaced in the Washington-Islamabad relationship. General Musharraf has revealed that the US threatened to bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age soon after 9/11, while President Bush declared at a press conference that Washington . .
- After The Lebanese War (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 26, 2006)
There are two ways of looking at Lebanon after the 34-day savage Israeli conflict with Hezbollah.
- Bush’S Bushy Deal (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 26, 2006)
Despondency hardly learns from experience: quite rightly so in case of Mr George W Bush, the all times hawkish, bullying and flamboyant President of the USA.
- Bangladesh Succumbing To Jihadis (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 26, 2006)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has taken one more retrograde step that will be under the scrutiny of international jihad watchers across the globe and have a far-reaching impact on her country’s future.
- Claims And Counters: Book Triggers Kargil Ii (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Copies of General Pervez Musharraf’s book being released tonight in New York reached Indian shores today to a noisy rebuttal of his claims on the Kargil war of 1999 even before In the Line of Fire could be displayed on shopfronts.
- General Admits: Pak Army Fought Kargil, Aq Khan Helped Iran (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Sep 26, 2006)
There may still be differences over the extent to which Pakistani regulars were involved in the Kargil conflict but for the first time in seven years Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has admitted — in an effusive tone — that the Pakistan Army . . .
- Victims At A Loss Over Pakistan’S Rape Law Reform (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
The 24-year-old Pakistani woman has medical reports saying she's been raped. What she hasn't got is four male witnesses that the country's Islamic law says she needs to prove it.
- I Dream Of A Ram Temple At Ayodhya: Advani (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Bharatiya Janata Party Leader LK Advani on Monday said that his dream is to see a Ram Temple built at Ayodhya.
- Why Ashrams And Satsangs Have A Different Feel (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 25, 2006)
Ashrams are centres of pilgrimage. Those who live in ashrams for short periods
- No Change In Stand On Terror: Pm (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Sep 25, 2006)
Rebutting the criticism from the security establishment and the BJP on the formation of a joint mechanism with Pakistan on fighting terrorism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it would actually test Islamabad’s assurance on not allowing . . .
- Don't Blame Simi (Times of India, IRFAN AHMAD, Sep 25, 2006)
There is little evidence to suggest that the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) is involved in plotting terrorist attacks. Yet, after the horrendous Mumbai blasts that claimed 200 lives, SIMI is being looked upon as one of the perpetrators.
- Be With Us Or Be Bombed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 25, 2006)
Is it any surprise that the Bush administration issued crude threats to Pakistan immediately after 9/11? In his 368-page memoir, In The Line of Fire, which is being launched today, President Pervez Musharraf narrates how, on September 12, 2001, U.S. . . .
- Only Devotion Matters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Devotion to God matures through different stages in the life of a devotee.
- Pak Troops Were Involved In Kargil, Says Musharraf (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
In the first official acknowledgement of involvement of Pakistan’s regular troops in the Kargil conflict, President Pervez Musharraf has described it as “a landmark in the history of the Pakistani army”.
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