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Articles 6121 through 6220 of 26855:
- Iranian Students Leave To Fight Israel (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Say they are not backed by state authorities
* The volunteers lack military training to challenge a professional army
- Times Change (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jul 27, 2006)
Newspaper reports about National Conference leaders including their young party president lauding the late Ghulam Nabi Wani Sogami on the occasion of his 25th death anniversary make an insightful reading.
- Sex Scandal Reveals The Seedy Side Of Indian Rule In Kashmir (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jul 27, 2006)
The two-year criminal investigation of a Srinagar brothel, allegedly protected and patronised by top Indian and state officials, could undermine what faith Kashmiris have got left in the Indian government.
- After Serial Blast (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 27, 2006)
After Srinagar-Bombay serial blasts, it is becoming increasingly clear that the terrorist organizations based in Pakistan have played the key role in planning and executing the serial blasts.
- Pak N-Stockpiles (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2006)
The report that Pakistan is building a new 1000-MW plutonium-based nuclear reactor at Khushab is a very alarming development.
- A Call To Action (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 27, 2006)
India is a country of powerful business minds. We need to provide them with a vision to build large businesses. My vision 25/25 calls for 25 large manufacturing and 25 large infrastructure projects every year (Nehru’s ‘temples of modern India’).
- Musharraf Rules Out Political Change (News International, Azfar-ul-Ashfaque, Jul 27, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any change at the Centre and provincial level and declared that the current political set-up would continue working till the holding of 2007 general elections.
- The Perils Of Estrangement (The Economic Times, Pothik Ghosh, Jul 27, 2006)
In this rather prolonged season of cold-blooded terror and irrational bombing of soft targets, the idea of backlash appears to have caught the imagination of middle India.
- No Change In Federal Or Sindh Setup (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
President tells Sindh PML members to get behind Arbab
* Says united PML would rout ARD and MMA in elections
- Bpo Firm Employee Murdered, Body Found In Shiradi Ghats (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Police Commissioner says needle of suspicion points towards colleague
The victim was stabbed in the neck, chest and abdomen
Tania's friends received SMS saying she was going to Kolkata
She was not using the company vehicle to come to work or go home
- They All Came To Parliament (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 27, 2006)
At the end of Sholay, Amitabh as Jai cashes in his cheques while his boozing buddy Veeru (Dharmendra), fulfils his promise to his friend of “Ek, ek ko, chun, chun kar maroonga!”
- New Vistas In Micro Finance (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 27, 2006)
Finally, there seems to be a will to take a re-look at financial services for the poor. Much lobbying with the government and the RBI by those who work with financial services for the poor resulted in the government announcing on June 26 that it had . . .
- Big Lessons From Small Institutes (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jul 27, 2006)
Several educational centres in Maharashtra have gone off the beaten track on industry-academia linkage.
- Israel Bomb Un Post, 4 Observers Killed (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Hezbollah inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli troops as they battled for a key hilltop town in southern Lebanon for a fourth day Wednesday, with as many as 14 soldiers reported killed.
- The Oppressed Of The World (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
Like most Muslims around the world, one, after 9/11, had become convinced of the existence of a well-conceived international conspiracy to destroy Muslim states, subjugate Muslim populations mentally and economically, poison Muslim youth by . . .
- Improving Pakistan's Image (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
When Pakistan emerged on the world map, it had the image of a modern, liberal and progressive Muslim state founded by a leader who was educated in England and whose lifestyle too was that of a British gentleman.
- Time For The Oic To Wake Up (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
While Israeli jets continue to pound innocent Lebanese on the false pretext of tracking down Hezbollah, the Muslim countries' watchdog body, the OIC, has as usual not yet come up with a unified stand nor has it given any signal of doing so.
- Pawns In A Game Of Giants (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor
- Offence Against Israel (Pioneer, B Raman, Jul 27, 2006)
If India's anger against Pakistan is justified, so is Israel's ire against Iran, Syria and their surrogates ----
- ``Sense Of House Resolution Will Spell Government's End'' (Hindu, K.V. Prasad, Jul 27, 2006)
This is Pranab Mukherjee's message on nuclear deal; But Left says the move is not against UPA Government
Karat: It will provide framework for moving ahead on deal
BJP not for resolution
- An Outlandish Option (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
It is highly irresponsible for a sovereign state to be talking of 'hot pursuit' options of striking another country to take out suspected, or should one say imagined, enemies.
- None Of Your Business (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jul 27, 2006)
Like all clubs, the Sabarimala temple in Kerala also has its own rules — some written, some unwritten.
- The Irreligious Custodians (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Jul 27, 2006)
The scandal involving the chief priest of Ayyappa temple underscores the need for religion to break free from priestly stranglehold, says Anuradha Dutt
- 3 Jawans In Terror Link (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
For the first time in 16 years of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army has arrested three of its soldiers in Jammu for their alleged links with pan-Islamic terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba.
- Plot Thickens: More Mole Sightings (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
More evidence has emerged of the existence of a mole in the upper echelons of the Government of India during the PV Narasimha Rao regime.
- A Batman Salutes His Major (Pioneer, ASHOK MALIK, Jul 27, 2006)
In November 2005, I got a call from Jaswant Singh's office asking if I was interested in helping the former Foreign Minister edit his memoir. I jumped at the offer; the chance to beat others to reading a book I would have read anyway was too . . .
- Is Up Going Mayawati's Way? (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 27, 2006)
National and international issues hardly ever influence elections in Uttar Pradesh and 2007 is unlikely to be any different, says CP Bhambhri.
- Resurgent Bengal (Business Standard, Sunil Jain, Jul 27, 2006)
While the National Council of Applied Aconomic Research’s (NCAER’s) Business Confidence Index (BCI) as well as Political Confidence Index (PCI) have both fallen in July, the sole exception this time around seems to be the eastern region that . . .
- U.S. House Approves India Nuclear Deal (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Jul 27, 2006)
The U.S. House of Representatives gave overwhelming initial approval on Wednesday to a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation accord with India, an important but far from final step in making the agreement a reality.
- Taliban Returning Via Pakistan - Afghan Un Envoy (Reuters, Evelyn Leopold , Jul 27, 2006)
The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is backed by foreign money, terror networks and fighters coming over the border from Pakistan, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
- Filipino Students Hurt By Overcrowding, Underfunding (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
From overcrowded classrooms with children studying in shifts to a shortage of books and a weak grasp of English, mathematics and science, the education system in the Philippines is struggling to get a passing grade.
- Us Seeks 21 ‘Most Wanted’ From Pak (Telegraph, IMTIAZ GUL, Jul 27, 2006)
The US government has asked Pakistan to extradite 21 “most wanted” people so they can be put on trial for their crimes against America and its citizens.
- Pakistan Arrests Uzbek For U.S. Consulate Attack (Reuters, Aamir Ashraf, Jul 27, 2006)
Pakistani security forces have arrested an Uzbek al Qaeda militant suspected of helping to plan a suicide car bombing that killed a U.S. diplomat and three others outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi in March, officials said on Wednesday.
- Gods Don’T Vote (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2006)
BJP CMs should be obsessing over their relative economic success and not conversions
- Boy In A Spot Over Sulabh Stinker (Telegraph, RASHEED KIDWAI, Jul 27, 2006)
On July 17, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam had invited the people of Madhya Pradesh to write their grievances directly to him at presidentofindia.nic.in.
- Israel, Hizbollah Battle For South Lebanon (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Four UN observers killed in Israeli airstrikes, Tyre bombed; 13 Israelis killed: Hizbollah
- Soldiers Quizzed On Rebel Link (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The army today said three soldiers from one of its units in Kashmir were being interrogated and would face a court of inquiry on charges of collaborating with militants.
- Shots Outside The Book (Telegraph, Ashis Chakrabarti, Jul 27, 2006)
Two questions are being asked about next Sunday’s elections to the Cricket Association of Bengal. One, who will win — Jagmohan Dalmiya or Prasun Mukherjee? As in the run-up to any polls, the answer varies, depending on which camp in Maidan . . . .
- Lessons To Learn (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 27, 2006)
Sound personnel policy and strong political will is needed to bust terror modules and counter jihadi misadventures, says Hiranmay Karlekar.
- Climb To Heaven In The Garden Of Eden (Times of India, NARAYANI GANESH, Jul 27, 2006)
Everyone wants to go on pilgrimage to the island — whether Buddhist, Hindu, Christian or Muslim.
- Business Of Faith (Times of India, ARVIND KALA, Jul 27, 2006)
Estimated to cost between Rs 8 crore and Rs 10 crore, Amitabh Bachchan's intended offering of two diamond-studded ornamental palms to Tirupati temple is just one of many generous gifts that add to the temple's ever-growing treasure hoard.
- 'J&k Light Infantry Faces A Peculiar Problem' (Times of India, RAJAT PANDIT, Jul 27, 2006)
A "worried" Army HQ on Wednesday asked battalion commanding officers to keep "a closer tab" on their troops, especially those who hail from border areas along the LoC and even the international border.
- Quota For Muslims Against Law: Govt (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The Centre has turned down the demand for a separate job quota for Muslims on the ground that it would be antithetical to the Constitution.
- More On ‘That Shameful Chapter’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 27, 2006)
The Organiser’s editorial this week, just as last week, is on the challenge posed by terrorism to the country. But while the UPA government’s ‘‘soft line’’ continues to be targeted, the editorial subtly attacks the BJP leadership as well.
- Pondicherry Plans To Tap E-Learning For Toning Up School Education (Hindu, S. Nadarajan, Jul 27, 2006)
Infrastructure development to get priority; orientation courses for teachers planned
- Auto Fare Revision Soon: Letika Saran (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Greater Chennai Police Commissioner claims slight fall in crime rate
- Loyola College Launches Two New Journals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
A students' bi-annual `Loyalite' and `Transactions', featuring contributions by senior academics, launched .
- Threat To U.S. Embassy: Iranian Mission Denies Report (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Reacting to a newspaper report on Tuesday about a terrorist threat to the United States Embassy here, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran said the group mentioned had no connection with Iran.
- Kalam To Open J&k High Court Function (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Jul 27, 2006)
The diamond jubilee celebrations of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court are all set to begin here this coming Saturday with President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurating the gala event in which over 150 Supreme Court and High Court judges and eminent . . .
- Fundamentalism Versus Science (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jul 27, 2006)
With a stroke of the pen, President George Bush has dealt a body blow to science and dashed the hopes of countless human beings round the world who look to human embryonic stem cell research as a possible cure for their afflictions.
- Ensuring Elementary Education For All (Hindu, Krishna Kumar, Jul 27, 2006)
Indian society regards children not as a collective responsibility but as a parental burden. Few realise that the nation loses when children do not attend school.
- Varanasi: Cosmopolitan And A Role Model (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Jul 27, 2006)
The most spectacular yield of the recent affirmation of communal harmony in Varanasi is undoubtedly the Muslim effort at introspection — possible only because of Hindu support.
- For A Fair Deal In Higher Education (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 27, 2006)
To defile education as merchandise and colleges as lucrative teaching shops is vulgar.
- Plans Drawn Up To Promote Medical Tourism (Hindu, S. Anil Radhakrishnan, Jul 27, 2006)
Kerala Tourism initiates process of granting accreditation to hospitals
- Travel Advisories Upset Goa Tourism Industry (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The travel advisories issued by a few countries about visiting India in view of the Mumbai bomb blasts have upset the Goa tourism industry.
- Fight Graft With Trust (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 27, 2006)
Recognising that the world’s prevailing order is ‘lamentably defective’, Bahá’u’lláh says the solution to the world's problems can only be found in an ethical approach, as expressed in the spiritual principles of the world's religions.
- A “Doggie” Tale — Fido (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 27, 2006)
Proclaiming to be owner of a mongrel could be embarrassing at times.
- Jmi’S Education Department To Resume Classes (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Jamia Millia Islamia's Faculty of Education will resume classes from Thursday even as agitating students continue with the indefinite hunger strike for the third day on Wednesday. ...
- Put Yourself In Their Shoes (OutLook, B. Raman , Jul 26, 2006)
Israel has as much right to act against the intelligence agencies of Iran and Syria and their surrogates as India has to act against the ISI and its surrogates.
- Saarc To Discuss Safta Violation (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Pakistan’s alleged violation of the tariff liberalisation programme of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement will be discussed at the SAARC foreign ministers’ conference in Dhaka on August 1 and 2.
- Jaffna Under Siege (Times of India, NARAYANI GANESH, Jul 26, 2006)
We covered the distance between the Dutch Fort and the Jaffna district administrator's office in minutes, safe in the bowels of armoured tanks, occasionally thrusting our heads out into the open to absorb whatever we could.
- No Ceasefire In Sight (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 26, 2006)
So Ms Condoleezza Rice is not interested in a ceasefire in Lebanon; what the US Secretary of State wants is that Israeli wishes be honoured before the slaughter of Lebanese civilians and the destruction of Beirut could stop.
- Curbing Sectarianism (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 26, 2006)
The proof will be in the implementation. On face value, there is no arguing with the prime minister’s recent directive that provincial authorities must adopt a proactive approach to the fight against sectarian hatred and violence.
- India Tightens Nepal, Bangladesh Borders (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Two of the Mumbai perpetrators belong to Nepal-bordering state
- Democracy Must To Combat Terrorism: Speakers (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday said that long military rules were responsible for the increase in extremism and terrorism activities in Pakistan. They were also of a unanimous view that strong and real democracy was a must to combat terrorism.
- War Without A Resolution (Pioneer, Ramamohan Rao, Jul 26, 2006)
Today the nation pays its homage to martyrs of the Indian armed forces, who made the supreme sacrifice during the Kargil operations seven years ago.
- Pak Gets China's Help On Reactor (Times of India, SAIBAL DASGUPTA, Jul 26, 2006)
If Pakistan is under the scanner for trying to amass nuclear warheads, the world should also look at China's help to Islamabad in setting up a new nuclear reactor at its Khushab nuclear site, sources said.
- Ancient, Royal, Pilgrimage Town (Hindu, A. Srivathsan, Jul 26, 2006)
Kumbakonam was part of a large royal complex of the Chola period
- ‘We May Not Mess With The Winning Formula’ (Deccan Herald, Utpal Borpujari, Jul 26, 2006)
Kalpish Ratna isn’t the name of one person, but of two who write like one soul.
- A Complex Scene (Frontline, R.K. Raghavan, Jul 26, 2006)
The anniversary of the July 7 bombings provides the occasion for a renewed scrutiny of the Blair government's state of preparedness.
- India-Pakistan Trust Deficit (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Jul 26, 2006)
Although the Mumbai blasts may have clouded the India-Pakistan peace process, both sides have kept front and back channels open.
- Pontificating Against Israel (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 26, 2006)
As Israel began its latest campaign of self-defence, the Vatican's leading official rushed to join his peers on the speeding bandwagon of international disapproval.
- Holy Cows Don't Die (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Jul 26, 2006)
The Marxist Government in Kerala seems more concerned about the safety of the Malayali diaspora and minorities at home than the State's people
- Under Upa, Terror Has Broken All Records: Advani (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
A spirited attack on the Government's "failure" to combat terrorism left the treasury benches fumbling for words in Lok Sabha on Tuesday during a marathon six-hour debate on a BJP-sponsored adjournment motion.
- Choked Drains Expose Development Claims (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 26, 2006)
Heavy rains lashed Islamabad and other parts of Pakistan on Sunday. A landslide in Azad Kashmir due to rain killed at least 12 people in the earthquake affected areas.
- Indo-Pak Officials To Meet ‘Informally’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 26, 2006)
The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan are likely to meet “informally” on the sidelines of the upcoming two-day South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Standing Committee meeting to be held at Dhaka (Bangladesh) from July 31.
- Indian Training Helps Lanka Army Do Its Job (Statesman, Devirupa Mitra, Jul 26, 2006)
A low-altitude ride on a naval helicopter over palm trees, red earth and sloping tiled single-storeyed houses.
- Shambolic Symbolism (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 26, 2006)
It is just another act of the street theatre. A year after the comedy of errors when Mamata Banerjee and her footsoldiers made a spectacle of themselves in trying to stop the entry of the Salim group representatives to the city, the Trinamul leader . . .
- Jaw-Jaw Better Than War-War (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jul 26, 2006)
I am somewhat worried by the lack of out-of-box thinking within the Indian and Pakistani media.
- Fears Of N Arms Race In Sa (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 26, 2006)
In the backdrop of reports highlighted by the American media and think tanks about construction of a nuclear reactor in Khushab, the United States has urged Islamabad not to use the facility for military purposes.
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