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Articles 3821 through 3920 of 26855:
- Us Military Confronts Shiite Militia In Iraq (News International, Peter Symonds, Sep 02, 2006)
Two days of fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Diwaniyah is one more sign that the US military is preparing for a bloody showdown with the militia forces of Shiite cleric Moqtada . . .
- Hal's Sukhoi Indigenisation Plan Grounded (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
In the face of escalating costs, Hindustan Aeronautics (HLL) has scrapped the plans for full indigenisation of Sukhoi fighter aircraft. A Russian daily on Friday reported that Sukhoi manufactuer will deliver aircraft three years ahead of schedule.
- Conquering The World (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Sep 02, 2006)
Scenes of prayer in the Kaaba, and of course of the Hajj in Makkah, witnessed over television are an inspiring sight.
- Cbi Seeks Documents In Bogus Insurance Claim Cases (Hindu, K.T. Sangameswaran, Sep 02, 2006)
As part of its probe into the bogus insurance claim cases, the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation has sought original documents from the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunals (MACTs).
- Cross-Border Terrorism To Figure In Talks (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Sep 02, 2006)
Meeting expected to inject life back into the peace process
- A 1,000-Year-Old Temple In Ruins (Hindu, K. Manikandan, Sep 02, 2006)
The list of historical monuments in and around Chennai is not restricted to Kancheepuram and Mamallapuram towns.
- Death And The Devi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Stop at Maranakatte if you are headed for Kollur.
- How To Reach There (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
From Bangalore take NH 4 up to Nelamangala, follow NH 48 to Mangalore and then get on to NH 17 to Kundapur. Then take a deviation to Kollur on SH (590 km).
- Nooyi, Sonia Among World’S Powerpuff Women (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi has been listed as the 13th most powerful woman in the world in the annual Forbes listing, headed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
- The `War On Terror' And West Asia Circa 2007 (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Sep 02, 2006)
The U.S. approach has been uniformly unsuccessful and raises questions about its major and minor premises, the efficacy of its methodology, and, in the final analysis, of its intent.
- Pakistan In Crisis (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Sep 02, 2006)
The killing of Bugti has provided a martyr for the Baluch nationalism. The movement will only intensify.
- Grab In The Name Of God (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Sep 02, 2006)
This kind of grab in the name of God is not limited to any one community.
- Fatwa Against Insurance: Another Storm In A Tea Cup (Deccan Herald, Puja Awasthi, Sep 02, 2006)
A fatwa declaring life insurance “un-Islamic” has thrown the community into consternation.
- Islam In China: No Longer Insulated (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Sep 02, 2006)
Greater orthodoxy amongst Chinese Muslims is on the rise. Nonetheless, they retain unique characteristics.
- Government Buries Bugti (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 02, 2006)
No family member attends burial
Nobody shown Bugti’s face except for DCO and prayer leader.
- Supreme Court Upholds Death For Two Killer Sisters (Times of India, Dhananjay Mahapatra, Sep 01, 2006)
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the death penalty to two sisters who killed nine of 13 children they kidnapped during 1990-96. The court described the duo as a menace to society.
- Seniority Could Be The Key To Natwar Successor (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Sep 01, 2006)
By appointing Shiv Shankar Menon as the country’s new foreign secretary today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chose ‘competence’ over ‘seniority’; but the same principle is unlikely to be applied when filling in the vacant slot of External Affairs . . .
- Believe In Yourself (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 01, 2006)
What we all need is a basis in life that will bring us courage, resourcefulness and a feeling of sacrifice for others.
- Image And Reality (Times of India, RONOJOY SEN, Sep 01, 2006)
In the aftermath of the Mumbai blasts, there has been a good deal of introspection about the alienation of Muslims in India. But in the capital of new Europe the EU headquarters in Brussels the buzzword is Indian multiculturalism and its apparent success.
- History As Farce (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 01, 2006)
After more than a week of intense debate over whether it should be compulsory for schoolchildren to sing Vande Mataram on September 7, we now know that this particular date has no significance.
- Harsh Lessons In College Politics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2006)
When I made Haasil in 2003, I was drawing on my immediate environment but I never anticipated that student politics would become politicised to this extent.
- Death For Child-Smash Sisters (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Two sisters who kidnapped children and killed them by smashing their heads against walls or electricity poles could become the first women to be hanged in Independent India.
- Heathen Under Every Bed (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Sep 01, 2006)
We have, seemingly, already arrived at that situation. The Western world, led by the United States of America, has chosen.
- Baluchistan Heading For Federal Rule (Tribune, Muhammad Anis, Sep 01, 2006)
Pakistan largest, yet poorest province of Baluchistan is almost certainly heading for federal rule, with a majority of Pakistan's opposition parties saying on Thursday that their members were ready to resign from the Baluchistan provincial . . .
- Saran To Act As Special Envoy For N- Deal (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Sep 01, 2006)
India's high commissioner to Pakistan Shiv Shankar Menon, who will take over from Shyam Saran as foreign secretary, has enjoyed a consummate trajectory through the foreign service Austria, Israel, Sri Lanka, China and Pakistan under his belt in . . .
- Sonia, Nooyi Find Place In Forbes Most Powerful List (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Indian women seem to be on the move. PepsiCo's Chief Executive-designate Indra Nooyi is the fourth most powerful woman in the world while Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is at 13th position, according to Forbes Magazine.
- Govt Claims Bugti’S Body Found, Will Be Buried In Dera Bugti Today: (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Son-in-law says body should be given to family
Bugti’s body badly damaged and no other body retrieved yet: ISPR
Govt might hand body to tribal jirga for burial
- Campus Sport (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 01, 2006)
To the innumerable factors that threaten life in India, add another — student politics.
- Terror Firma (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 01, 2006)
In his Independence Day speech, Manmohan Singh linked Naxalism with Islamic terrorism. Someone else has made the connection before the PM did: the Naxals and the Islamic terrorists.
- Alas, There's No G-Spot! (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 01, 2006)
Research can't get more esoteric than this. One only has to visualise the picture of 15 nuns in a lab trying to get connected with God to understand that the research would have got nowhere.
- Intelligence To Counter Terror (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 01, 2006)
The serial blasts in Mumbai that resulted in the death of nearly 200 train passengers has been ascribed to an intelligence failure.
- Look Within (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
Deepti Naval may not have reached the status of Shabana Azmi or Smita Patil but nobody can deny that she is a highly sensitive actress.
- Sonia, Nooyi Among 100 Most Powerful Women In The World (Press Trust of India, DHARAM SHOURIE, Sep 01, 2006)
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Chief Executive-designate of PepsiCo Indra Nooyi and ICICI Bank's Lalita Gupte and Kalpana Morparia, are on Forbes magazine's list of 100 most powerful women in the world.
- China Media Censors "Blacklist" Tibetan Princess (Reuters, Benjamin Kang Lim, Sep 01, 2006)
China is censoring media reports about the daughter of Tibet's 10th Panchen Lama, industry sources said, apparently worried that her popularity would eclipse that of her father's disputed successor.
- Keep Bad Guys Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
Something is happening at a regular frequency these days that should bother us. More police parties from other states have started visiting our State in recent times than ever before.
- Sri Lankans Flee Horror For Poverty, Safety In India (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Sep 01, 2006)
Fisherman Chinnathambi Ravikumar was returning home from a fishing trip when a sea-battle broke out between the Sri Lankan navy and Tamil Tiger rebels.
- Time Ripe For Normal Ties Between Israel, Lebanon: Annan (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Thursday that the time was ripe for normal relations between Israel and Lebanon following the cease-fire that ended the recent 34-day war."
- Israel Kills Top Palestinian Commander (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Israeli troops killed a top Palestinian commander in the West Bank on Thursday, while freedom fighters in Gaza renewed rocket attacks that had largely stopped during Israel’s Lebanon war. There were no reports of casualties from the rocket barrage.
- Shiv Shankar Menon Named Foreign Secy (Pioneer, Shobori Ganguli, Sep 01, 2006)
Shyam Saran special envoy on Indo-US N-deal
- J&k Needs Balanced, Equitable Development (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Sep 01, 2006)
The relevance of 'Development' as an instrument of change particularly to build on peace dividends is widely recognized.
- Healthy Societies May Not Be God Given (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Sep 01, 2006)
Religious leaders belonging to different religions actually have one thing in common (besides of course their belief in God) and that is, they think atheists are a corrupting influence on society.
- What’S The Truth Behind The Heathrow Plot? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 01, 2006)
A report in The New York Times says that the “Heathrow plot” may have been overblown because there is no evidence that the suspects taken into custody on August 10 in the UK were preparing to strike aircraft over the Atlantic en route to America.
- Urdu & Secularism (Frontline, A.G. NOORANI, Sep 01, 2006)
A clutch of new books focus on the progressive nationalist tradition of Urdu poetry.
- Has Peace Returned To Waziristan? (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 01, 2006)
Contrary to what the government seems to be claiming, normality does not seem to be returning to the restive region of Waziristan.
- Divine Guidance On Wealth (Dawn, Haider Zaman, Sep 01, 2006)
The Quran provides guidance to human beings in respect of every aspect of life.
- Murder Most Vile (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 01, 2006)
The death of an Ujjain college professor after he was brutally set upon by a group of students suspected to be from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is a grim reminder that in Bharatiya Janata Party-run Madhya Pradesh, elements of the Sangh . . .
- The Lord's Descents (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The Almighty incarnates in the world with the purpose of reinstating Dharma in the world by vanquishing those who pose a threat to it and to protect the righteous. So destruction of those who transgress Dharma happens as a consequence and is not . . .
- 2 Ministers Miss Lokayukta Deadline (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
Two JD(S) ministers – Mr Alkod Hanumanthappa, Minister for Youth Services and Sports and Mr Sharanabasappagouda Darshanapur, Minister for Agricultural Marketing, feature in the list of . . .
- Stumbling Towards Peace (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 01, 2006)
Last week Somalia’s major port — in the capital, Mogadishu — saw an unusual scene: a cargo ship unloading there for the first time in more than a decade.
- Election Commission Votes Out Microsoft (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The Election Commission will bid adieu to Microsoft-Office to embrace the Open Document Format (ODF) in its offices throughout the country from September 1.
- Institutions Told To Sing It On Sept 7 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The order signed by secretary, Department of Public Instruction on August 21, has directed educational institutions to make the students assemble at 11 am on September 7 and sing two stanzas from Vande Mataram.
- Pak Militants In Uk Are Biggest Threat’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 01, 2006)
UK-based Pakistani extremists pose a bigger threat to America than their counterparts in Iraq, Iraq or Afghanistan, according to US-based experts on Islamic extremism.
- The Grey Shade Of Life (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 01, 2006)
Can brands and advertising dare explore this side.
- More Than A Song (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 01, 2006)
Though the song 'Vande Mataram' was mired in controversy during the freedom movement and in later years, it was first thought to be inspirational in its native Bengal and across the nation.
- Law Commission For Witness Protection Programme (Hindu, J. Venkatesan, Sep 01, 2006)
To prevent them from turning hostile under threat from the accused
- Tales The Dead Tell (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The book under review goes beyond headstones; it is an invaluable source of historical information accessible to scholars.
- Fire In Balochistan (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Sep 01, 2006)
The escalation of violence in Pakistan following the death of Nawab Bugti could become a source of worry for India as well
- In Death, An Islamist (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 01, 2006)
Egypt's outlawed Islamist opposition on Thursday joined leading Muslim clerics in mourning for Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, some of whose work was condemned by Islamist extremists as sacrilegious during the writer's lifetime.
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Opposes Fdi In Retail Trade (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
"But we want private investment in West Bengal"
- Corporate Design (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The growing trend of corporate bigwigs entering Parliament has become a matter of serious discussion.
- Funds For Parties (Frontline, V. VENKATESAN, Sep 01, 2006)
Legislative changes brought by the NDA government have failed to ensure transparency in corporate funding of political parties.
- Crying Wolf Over 'Terror' (Frontline, Editorial, Frontline, Sep 01, 2006)
Drastic security curbs around Independence Day and the claim of Al Qaeda's arrival in India put a question mark over the country's `anti-terrorism' strategy.
- A Reverse For Terrorism? (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Sep 01, 2006)
This battle of wits can never end. But there is no reason why the fight should be given up, for that will strengthen the perpetrators of evil.
- Saran To Be Pm’S Envoy On Nuke Deal (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
The Union government on Thursday appointed Mr Shiv Shankar Menon as the new foreign secretary. The 57-year-old officer of the 1972 batch of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is currently India’s high commissioner to Islamabad.
- We Must Return To The Roots Of The Indian Press And Defend Its Strengths: N. Ram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 01, 2006)
There are people "constantly trying to confuse public opinion" by egging on the Government and pressurising it ideologically
- I'm British, But... (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Sep 01, 2006)
The book shows what attracts Muslims particularly those who live in Western societies, to a radical Islamic world-view.
- Iran Won't Back Down: Ahmadinejad (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Sep 01, 2006)
Declaration as deadline expires
- You Live Once You Know How To Deal With Death (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 31, 2006)
Isn't it amazing that we never think of death as a real possibility in our own lives? Coping with death — whether dealing with the possibility of one's own death or that of a loved one — remains one of the greatest challenges of our lives.
- Muslims Against Terrorism (Times of India, YOGINDER SIKAND, Aug 31, 2006)
The dastardly bomb blasts in Mumbai have been strongly denounced by scores of Muslim organisations and leaders across the country. The Urdu press has given wide coverage to their statements. Unfortunately, however, these voices have hardly been . . .
- Much Ado About A Song (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 31, 2006)
There is something mysterious about the current furore around the compulsory singing of Vande Mataram in schools. No mystery of course about why the BJP has enthusiastically taken up the issue, and already made it compulsory in Chhattisgarh, . . .
- People’S Poison (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 31, 2006)
Something as banal as breathing clean air is obviously not a priority in Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s Resurgent Bengal. Otherwise, why should Calcuttans be repeatedly denied that most basic of biological necessities, and by none other than the state . . .
- Clouds Over Iranian Pipeline (Daily Excelsior, Chandra Mohan, Aug 31, 2006)
Once again reports are floating that the 2600-km Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline is very much on, recreating the dream of energy Nirvana in India. Paeans are being sung about it in Islamabad.
- In Hinterland, Campuses On The Boil (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
Two days after a college teacher slapped a student for “daring” to speak on a mobile in her presence, the authorities and students have worked out a “truce” that allows restricted use of cellphones on campus.
- London Given A Kashmir Label (Telegraph, Amit Roy, Aug 31, 2006)
London, which is already called “Londonistan” in some circles, could also be disparagingly nicknamed “Kashmir on the Thames”, it was suggested by a writer who was given airtime on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme.
- Omar Heckled By Pdp Workers, Azad Intervenes (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
Opposition National Conference president Omar Abdullah was today booed at a function here, calling for Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s intervention.
- Nc For Early Resolution Of Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
Favouring early resolution of Kashmir issue, opposition National Conference today appealed to the Centre and Pakistan to address the long-standing problem without delay to "relieve" the people of Jammu and Kashmir from "sufferings".
- Mindtree Eyes $70 Mln Ipo In Early 2007 (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
Venture capital-funded MindTree Consulting, an Indian mid-sized software services exporter, expects to raise about $70 million through a local initial public offering early next year, its top official said.
- Lady Muftis Breach Male Bastion (Telegraph, G.S. RADHAKRISHNA, Aug 31, 2006)
Sania Mirza’s short skirts may have hogged global headlines, but city teenager Amina Batool perhaps better represents the rise of woman power in India’s Muslim society.
- Muslim Bodies Differ On Insurance Fatwa (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
Darul-Uloom Deoband, a top Islamic seminary in the country, has issued a fatwa (decree) declaring that life insurance was illegitimate in the eyes of Shariat (Islamic jurisprudence).
- Sc Warns Judicial Officers (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2006)
Exasperated over the conduct of some judicial officers in Uttar Pradesh who were occupying government bungalows in Lucknow without authorisation, the Supreme Court today warned them of even suspension if they failed to vacate the premises forthwith.
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