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Articles 5321 through 5420 of 26855:
- Israeli Troops Enter Lebanese Town Of Marjayoun (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
Israeli troops, backed by tanks and armored vehicles, entered the key south Lebanese town of Marjayoun early on Thursday hours after the Israeli Cabinet approved a plan to expand a ground offensive in Lebanon.
- Buffett And Hezbollah (The Financial Express, Thomas L Friedman, Aug 10, 2006)
The most important thing you need to know about Israel today and how it has performed in the war with Hezbollah is Warren Buffett.
- Basohli's Bad Luck (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 10, 2006)
Despite its idyllic location, school of painting and pashmina shawl industry Basohli in Kathua district is very rarely in the news. Its proximity to the Jammu-Srinagar national highway has not earned for it any additional value.
- Kurseong Diary (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 10, 2006)
For a place that was founded by the Brits and is steeped in Raj history, Kurseong has surprisingly few churches -- just two of them, in fact. British planters in the Darjeeling hills discouraged the clergy from proselytizing the tea garden workers...
- Derailed Ties (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 09, 2006)
The expulsions will slow down the people-to-people contact.
- Three Conflicts, One Solution (Deccan Herald, Marwan Bishara, Aug 09, 2006)
The cause for unrest in West Asia is misunderstanding of each others’ sentiments.
- Rakhi Brings Tears Of Joy From Jail Inmates (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Call it the magic of kinship or a touch of homesickness, many a stone heart melted on Tuesday when a group of students from the Ranchi Women’s College tied rakhis around the wrists of inmates languishing at the Birsa Munda Central jail here.
- Tatas Plan To Raise Holding In Group Cos. (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Tata Tea explores acquisition in U.K. and U.S.
Revamp in North Indian gardens taking shape
Pilot project for growing vegetables launched
- ‘India Proposed More Autonomy For Kashmir’ (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Prior to the Mumbai blasts, India had proposed to Pakistan large doses of autonomy to Kashmir within constitutional limits, freedom for non-terror detainees and troop reduction in the valley if militancy ended, a newspaper claimed yesterday.
- In Afghanistan, A New Crackdown (Tribune, Pamela Constable, Aug 09, 2006)
Behind an unmarked door on a quiet residential street, a half-dozen young Chinese women in miniskirts shimmy to disco tapes or sit with beefy European men. Next to the fully stocked bar, a plastic Christmas tree pulses with tiny lights.
- Seminar On India-Us Ties (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
The Preston University organised a seminar on ‘Indo-US Strategic Relationship’.
- Bill On Prevention Of Violence Against Women: (Daily Times, Irfan Ghauri, Aug 09, 2006)
PPPP proposes amending PPC to help women
Bill proposes one meal at weddings
Walkout against Haj fares
- Deja Vu On Israel ? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 09, 2006)
All Urdu dailies continue to give extensive coverage of the war in west Asia. India’s policy on Israel has got a special mention in many papers.
- Politics Of Aggrandisement (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 09, 2006)
I have nothing against the MPs who have prevailed upon the government to curtail parliament’s session by three days. My worry is over the cause for which they have done so.
- Sonia’S Hoarding Evokes Protest (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Aug 09, 2006)
The launch of the Congress campaign for the Vidhan Sabha elections at the “Nav Nirman” rally here got entangled in a controversy over party president Sonia Gandhi’s depiction as Durga on a massive hoarding near the rally venue.
- You Cannot Kill Ideas With Guns (Hindu, Jackie Ashley , Aug 09, 2006)
Bush and Blair's belief that Islamism could be bombed into submission was deluded. We need to find a middle way.
- Keeping A Watch For The Big One (Hindu, N. Gopal Raj , Aug 09, 2006)
India's tsunami warning system, intended to prevent a repeat of December 26, 2004, is expected to become operational by September 2007.
- Very Cross (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 09, 2006)
Art, in its engagement with religion, has always relished hell-brink blasphemy. And Madonna is one contemporary artist whose appetite for it remains insatiable.
- Portrait Of The Goddess As Sonia (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Aug 09, 2006)
Goddess Durga has descended in Kanpur a full month and a half before she is due. In the avatar of Sonia Gandhi.
A cloth banner with a figure of the goddess as Sonia has been blowin’ in the wind at Phoolbag over the past two days. Full with the . . .
- Cuba After Castro (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 09, 2006)
Dissidents like Oswaldo Paya say Fidel Castro's illness has changed the Communist country forever by exposing a system ruled by one man for nearly half-a-century to the influence of others - even if only temporarily.
- Israeli Warning Freezes Aid (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
UN relief aid in southern Lebanon was completely frozen today, aid agencies said after an Israeli warning that it would attack any moving vehicle south of the Litani River.
- West Asia: Use Crisis As An Opportunity (Pioneer, BULBUL ROY MISHRA, Aug 09, 2006)
Israel and Palestine can yet find a solution by hypothetically inter-changing their traditional positions, says Bulbul Roy Mishra
- Who Killed The Vidarbha Farmers? (OutLook, Smruti Koppikar, Aug 09, 2006)
Heartbreaking as they are, suicides - over 90 last month - are only a symptom of the larger and deep agrarian crisis, reminds the award-winning journalist, touching on the role played by our policy-makers and politicians - from Montek Singh . . .
- 'Inshallah, Kashmir Will Become Part Of Pakistan' (OutLook, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
In her first major interview to the mainstream Indian media, the Dukhtaran-e-Millat leader reveals the Talibanesque mindset of a woman who's known as Malka-ul-Maut (Angel of Death)...
- Reject Maharashtra's Claim Over Our Villages, State Urges . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
30-member all-party delegation led by Kumaraswamy calls on Manmohan Singh .
- Pre-'53 Status For Kashmir? (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Aug 09, 2006)
The UPA Government is reported to have submitted a 'non-paper' for Gen Musharraf's consideration, offering to roll back Jammu & Kashmir's integration with India ----
- Act Or Perish (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Aug 09, 2006)
The world is not against Islam but the ongoing terrorist strikes in the name of global jihad can be best defined as World War IV, says Prafull Goradia
- Lebanon Offer Boosts Ceasefire Diplomacy (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Aug 09, 2006)
Hizbollah agrees to Beirut proposal to deploy 15,000 troops on the border with Israel
- Tata Acquires Eight O'clock Coffee (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Company bought from venture capital fund Gryphon Investors for Rs. 1,015 crore Company bought from venture capital fund Gryphon Investors for Rs. 1,015 crore
More manned level-crossings also planned
Bangalore division of SWR has proposed 20 overpasses
- Reject Maharashtra's Claim, Karnataka Urges Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
"Implement Mahajan Commission recommendations on border dispute"
- Court Bars Hymn Recitation At Temple (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
"It will affect sanctity of the place, cause law and order problem"
- Where Terrorists Eclipse Criminals (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Though relentlessly threatened with terrorism, Kashmir’s crime rate is quite low. In the past five years, only 95 murders were reported, the chief minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, informed the state’s Legislative Council.
- Will Pakistan Ever Stop Its Terror Tap? (Daily Excelsior, J N Raina, Aug 09, 2006)
Pakistan stands fully exposed. It has flaunted its insidious role of sponsoring genocide of common people in India.
- A Many-Sided Threat (Tribune, Balraj Puri, Aug 09, 2006)
The Government of India has postponed the scheduled talks between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan and so is the proposed visit of the Prime Minister to Pakistan.
- Floods Maroon Thousands In India; 150 Killed (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Swirling floodwater inundated several towns and cities in western and southern India on Tuesday as the military deployed helicopters and boats to help hundreds of thousands of marooned people.
- A Convenient Blinker (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 09, 2006)
Anti-semitism is a very convenient phrase. Once it used to stand for philosophies and state policies that tended to persecute or discriminate against the Jewish people in Europe.
- Dalai Lama "Unworthy" Of Being Called A Religious Leader (Press Trust of India, Anil K Joseph, Aug 09, 2006)
Tibet's Communist Party chief has accused the Dalai Lama of being a "double dealer" who is engaged in separatist activities in collusion with anti-China forces, making him an "unworthy" religious leader for devout Tibetans.
- People's Power Struggle (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 09, 2006)
Anyone who pays attention to the trajectory of politics in Pakistan -- and its attendant media blitzes -- is aware that there is an astounding consistency with which 'national issues' become front page news and then just as quickly fade into oblivion.
- Towards A Nuclear-Free South Asia (News International, M B NAQVI, Aug 09, 2006)
The writer is a veteran journalist and freelance columnist.
- In Reverse Gear? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 09, 2006)
Not very long ago three journalists belonging to this city had participated in a lively debate organised by a leading private television channel of Pakistan. It was at the peak of bonhomie between India and Pakistan.
- Lebanon - Israel Conflict - A Proxy War? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 09, 2006)
Before analyzing the more than three weeks old Israel attacks on Southern Lebanon, three factors in the global security environment needs to be taken into consideration.
- All Is Not Well In Balochistan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 09, 2006)
According to Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao's statement given to the Senate on Monday, the government is of the view that everything is hunky-dory in Balochistan. In his speech, the minister had said that the government had regained . . .
- Gujarat Riot Victims Hunt For Bodies, Justice (Reuters, RUPAM JAIN NAIR, Aug 09, 2006)
After a tip from a local streetsweeper, Amina Habib Rasool and a few friends began digging through a rubbish tip, looking for the remains of sons and husbands four years after they were slaughtered by a Hindu mob.
- Floods Maroon Thousands In Indian Cities, 200 Killed (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Swirling floodwaters inundated several towns and cities in western and southern India on Tuesday as the military deployed helicopters and boats to help hundreds of thousands of marooned people.
- Make Love: Kerala Church (Times of India, P K SURENDRAN, Aug 09, 2006)
The Catholic Church in Kerala has given out a call to the laity to go "back to basics" and have more babies if they are economically well-off.
- Dalit Autobiography (Hindu, B.R.P. BHASKAR, Aug 08, 2006)
What does one say of a 25-year-old who attempts an autobiography? That he has not lived long enough to write the story of his life? The argument does not hold good in the case of Sharankumar Limbale, the Marathi writer.
- Devotion Only Matters (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The lives of devotees have been documented in scriptural texts like the Puranas and biographies. What differentiates works like the Bhakta Vijayam from the Puranic accounts is the description of the Lord's intercession in the lives of these . . .
- Holidays For Women (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Tired of watching men doing all the travelling? Women on Wanderlust (WOW) is organising a holiday to Egypt exclusively for women groups.
- Themes In Art And Mysticism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
This volume is a tribute to Bettina Baumer, a renowned Indologist, one of the foremost expounders of Kashmir Saivism and a well-known figure in the field of inter-religious dialogue.
- Waiting For The General's Story (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Aug 08, 2006)
There is already a buzz about Pervez Musharraf's soon-to-be-released autobiography,In the Line of Fire.
- Hc Rejects Plea For Security Of Kanchi Seer (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed as 'withdrawn' a petition seeking restoration of 'Z' category security to Kanchi Seer Jayendra Saraswathi.
- Inspiring Lives Of Preceptors And Saints (Hindu, CHARUKESI, Aug 08, 2006)
The first book covers the lives and times of four Acharyas of the Sringeri Sharada Peetham namely, Sacchidananda Sivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati (33rd), Chandrasekhara Bharati (34th), Abhinav Vidyathirtha (35th) and the present head Bharati Thirtha by . . .
- Mastermind Behind Aligarh Riots Arrested In Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Wasim was nabbed from Connaught Place in the Capital Wasim had allegedly killed three local leaders in Aligarh in May
- No Need To Get Mushy (Times of India, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 08, 2006)
All over the world, but notably in the Islamic countries and Europe, the ongoing conflict in Lebanon has become the occasion for another outburst of visceral anti-Americanism.
- Uncalled-For Expulsions (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
The writer is editor current affairs, The News, and editor
- "Give Us A Price, Not A Package" (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Aug 08, 2006)
Vidharbha's farmers are unhappy with the "relief packages" announced by the State and the Centre. They want the larger issues driving the suicides addressed.
- Ex-Servicemen To Help Boost Tourism In State (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Veterans' home-stay project becoming popular
Aimed at establishing a chain of home-stays
Plans to set up 1,000 of them in three years
- War And War Crimes (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Aug 08, 2006)
Human Rights Watch has published a report that documents Israel's actions against Lebanese civilians.
- Guided Development Of Sabarimala Mooted (Hindu, Roy Mathew, Aug 08, 2006)
Proposes strategy to minimise future disasters
- The Buddha Of The Fast Lane (Indian Express, SUBRATA NAGCHOUDHURY, Aug 08, 2006)
Six months is an extraordinarily long time in politics. On January 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had held US President George W. Bush guilty of the world’s “worst organised murder” during a massive election rally at . . .
- Lata’S Marriage, Revisited (Indian Express, Rakesh Shukla, Aug 08, 2006)
The travails of Lata S. seem to overshadow the tribulations of Kafka’s Joseph K in The Trial. I remember hearing Lata recounting her tale a couple of years back. After six years of harassment, the Supreme Court judgment provides relief, which is of . . .
- International Community Has Failed Afghanistan: Pak (Press Trust of India, K J M Varma, Aug 08, 2006)
Amid criticism that it had done little to curb Taliban infiltration into Afghanistan, Pakistan today said the international community had "failed" to fulfil its commitments in the strife-torn country.
- Us Alters Tune On Pak Proof (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Backtracking on its claim that India does not have enough evidence to link Pakistan with the July 11 Mumbai blasts, the US today acknowledged that anti-India terror groups were operating in that country.
- Beautiful Creations (Deccan Herald, Archbishop Bernard Moras, Aug 08, 2006)
Many philosophers have written about aesthetics or beauty. There is no one standard definition about it. Is it simply what pleases one that makes it beautiful?
- Arab Nations Back Lebanon Over Full Israeli Withdrawal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The US on Monday agreed with India that there were anti-India terrorist elements in Pakistan, but at the same time reiterated the stand that Pakistan had turned its back on terrorism.
Assistant secretary of state Richard Boucher also said that . . .
- 'Who's For Conversion, Sonia Or Pope?' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Who said 'Christians have the right to convert?' - Sonia Gandhi, Sister Nirmala, Pope Benedict, Father Prakash.
- Muslim Women Against Cow Slaughter (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Cow slaughter is banned in the state, but it continues to flourish under the nose of police and administrative officials in Lakhanpur village on the outskirts of the city.
- General Anaesthesia (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 08, 2006)
Islamabad's brutal treatment of an Indian diplomat, who was hooded, handcuffed and confined at an undisclosed location before being expelled from the country, doesn't square very well with its insistence that the peace process must not be affected . . .
- Landslide Damages Hindustan-Tibet Road (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
A massive landslide, allegedly triggered by intense blasting at Pangi village, near Reckong Peo, district headquarters of Kinnaur, on Monday morning damaged a 200-m stretch of the old Hindustan-Tibet road, commonly known as the mule track, and . . .
- Indian Consulate In Iran Aiding Baloch Rebels: Pak (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Pakistan has asked Iran to monitor the Indian consulate in the Iranian border city of Zahidan, alleging it was aiding nationalist rebels in the southwest Balochistan province.
- Maharashtra Rain Toll 40 (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
At least 40 persons have lost their lives in the past two days across Maharashtra following heavy rain, according to the state police control room here, while the death count rose to 94 in Andhra Pradesh where three lakh people were marooned in . . .
- The Enemy Within (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 08, 2006)
India is perhaps the only country where two forms of fanaticism is currently prevalent.
- Suspense In The Sands (Tribune, MG Kapahy, Aug 08, 2006)
This relates to the period when villages in India were not connected with the outside world by pucca roads and my village, Kot-Isa-Khan Distt Ferozepore, was not among those fortunate ones.
- Legislation On Reservation For Christians, Muslims Coming (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Plan to provide quota in all educational institutions and employment
- Devi Shetty (Business Standard, Subir Roy, Aug 08, 2006)
He has already built four of the country's largest heart hospitals, but wants to do three more, all to cut costs.
- New ‘Regional War’ In The Middle East? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 08, 2006)
The Syrian foreign minister, Wahid Muallam, said on Sunday that his country was ready for a ‘regional war’:
- Diplomats’ Expulsion (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 08, 2006)
Well-wishers of South Asia the world over must now seriously doubt whether the normalisation process between Pakistan and India will continue.
- Israeli Warplanes Strike Beirut's Southern Suburbs, Kill 22 (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The Israel-Hezbollah conflict took another ominous turn when Israel hit close to to the heart of Beirut, killing at least 22 and wounding 60.
- Diplomatic Row (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
The tit-for-tat expulsions by Pakistan and India over the weekend -- after a passage of almost three years -- does not bode well for relations between the two countries, already rocked by New Delhi's allegations of Islamabad's involvement in the . . .
- Trees Or Forest? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
The current process of amending the controversial Hudood Ordinances seems to be heading for a parliamentary debate in which the proverbial forest may well be lost while looking at the trees, instead of the other way around.
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