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Articles 13321 through 13420 of 26855:
- Rajya Sabha Elections Likely To Throw Up Some Surprises (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Mar 10, 2006)
but the three major parties say they are not keen on fielding a second candidate
A candidate needs a minimum of 45 votes for victory
The BJP, the Congress and the JD(S) have 79, 64 and 59 seats respectively in the Legislative Assembly
- Blasting Through Peace (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Mar 10, 2006)
A colonial power was dismissed from a fragmented subcontinent.
- No Philosopher’S Stone (Telegraph, Shree Ghatage, Mar 10, 2006)
Shree Ghatage’s first novel, Brahma’s Dream, is set in pre-independence India and ends sometime after Gandhi’s assassination. The painful progress of India into freedom is told through the life of central character, Mohini, who struggles with . . .
- Bjp’S Yaqoob Qureshis (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Mar 10, 2006)
The BJP, one can safely state, has never been known for appeasing India’s Muslim community.
- What Is To Be Done? (Telegraph, Rashid Shaz, Mar 10, 2006)
Negotiating the Future, Rashid Shaz states that it is a post-9/11 book on Islam.
- Sonia Calls Truce In Lucknow (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The Congress has said it will do nothing to “destabilise” the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh.
- Up Cops Sat On Terror Tip-Off (Hindustan Times, Soumen Datta, Mar 10, 2006)
The raw material for the Varanasi bombs was sent from Kolkata.
- Varanasi Attacks: Police Release Sketches Of Suspects (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday released sketches of two men suspected to have triggered the twin blasts that killed 15 people, even as they said they had reason to believe Pakistan-based terrorist outfit . . .
- Grief’S Defeat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 10, 2006)
Rabindranath Tagore’s Jogajog was published, in book-form, in 1929. This was the year Thomas Mann got the Nobel prize and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own was published. While Tagore’s novel was being serialized in Bichitra . . .
- Kashmir Issue Bilateral: Musharraf (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan today changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying the issue was a bilateral matter and he did not want it to become . . .
- Kashmir Conference Begins Today (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan today changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying the issue was a bilateral matter and he did not want it to become . . .
- Fight It Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 10, 2006)
It is just a coincidence that the reopening of educational institutions in the Valley has coincided with step-up in militant violence.
- Us Compulsion Brings (Daily Excelsior, R.S. Rangachary, Mar 10, 2006)
The self-appointed head prefect of the world has rewarded a bad boy of the class.
- Vvip Visitors (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
Hardly had the reverberations of the Varanasi blasts died down than a string of political VVIPs begin to descend on the Sankat Mochan temple, which actually shifted the focus of the police away from investigative action to making arrangements . . .
- Rejecting Indian Claim (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
THE Indian government's opposition to the site of the Diamir-Bhasha Dam on the plea that it would not only infringe on its territory but also inundate large parts of northern Kashmir has been met with a firm rebuttal by Pakistan.
- 100 Years Ago Today (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 10, 2006)
— A young Hindu woman named Sarojini, of No 21 Ananda Khan’s Lane, who, it is alleged, had latterly been very unhappy over some domestic matters, was found in her room suffering from opium poisoning, to which she succumbed on Thursday at the Mayo Hospital
- The Great Deception (Statesman, D BANDYOPADHYAY, Mar 10, 2006)
Sunanda Sanyal’s “Fake ration cards” (28 February-1 March) is an eye-opener on the fraud perpetrated on genuine electors in West Bengal.
- Pakistan To Enhance Deterrence Capability (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Mar 10, 2006)
Indo-US nuclear deal and the subsequent alteration in strategic balance in South Asia has compelled Pakistan to expand its nuclear threshold and to enhance its detterence capability.
- Market Crash (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
Just as the government was taking solace in the capital market emerging as one of the world's best performing in the wake of the Finance Ministry's mid-year review that found faults with almost every other sector of the economy, it lost . . .
- Iran’S Nuclear Standoff And Pakistan (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 10, 2006)
With the United States nudging the International Atomic Energy Agency at every step, the IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has transmitted his report on Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council at the close of the Agency’s . . .
- Centcom Chief’S Assertion (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 10, 2006)
The Karzai government must have been deeply disappointed by Gen. John Abizaid’s remarks in Islamabad on Wednesday.
- It’S Actually The United States (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 10, 2006)
The current row over militants’ movement across the Durand Line was discussed at a meeting between President Gen Pervez Musharraf and US CENTCOM chief Gen John Abizaid in Rawalpindi on Wednesday. Gen Musharraf is understood to have called for . . .
- Kashmir Involves India & Pakistan: Cbms Progressing: Musharraf (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that the issue of Kashmir was a bilateral matter involving Pakistan and India and neither party wanted it to become a trilateral or multilateral issue.
- Pak-Afghan Tension (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
That the main issue during talks between General Musharraf and CENTCOM Commander Gen John Abizaid was the situation on Pakistan's western border indicates that differences between Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached a point where a third . . .
- Islamic Kashmir Outfit Claims Blasts In India (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
An unknown Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for blasts that killed 23 people in India’s holiest Hindu city of Varanasi as grieving relatives cremated victims.
- Britain Slams Blasts In Indian Holy City (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
British Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells on Wednesday condemned bombings in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi that killed 23 people, saying he was ‘horrified’ to hear of the attacks.
- Horse-Trading And Legitimacy Of The Senate (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 09, 2006)
Appearing on a TV channel on Tuesday, opposition politicians complained of the buying and selling of votes in the provincial assemblies on the occasion of elections to the Senate on March 6, 2006.
- Pakistan Blamed For Temple City Blasts (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Mar 09, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, cornered by the opposition over a devastating bombing incident in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, pointed the finger at Pakistan on Wednesday, saying that the attackers had been trained across the border.
- Blasts In Varanasi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 09, 2006)
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the three blasts in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi on Tuesday, but whosoever carried out this dastardly act deserves to be condemned.
- Ard’S Undemocratic Demand (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 09, 2006)
Opposition parties’ conglomeration ARD has said that it will not accept elections under the present set-up and demanded formation of national or caretaker government to hold free, fair, transparent and honest polls.
- Easy Targets (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The terrorist attack in Varanasi (including one on an important Hanuman temple on Tuesday, in which about 15 people died) does not leave much room for doubt that these attacks follow a pattern.
- Deciphering Evil (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 09, 2006)
It is appropriate that top political and government heads have rushed to Varanasi in the aftermath of Tuesday’s bomb blasts. For, it is vital that two things are done with urgency, and be seen to be so done.
- Power Moves In Asia (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Mar 09, 2006)
The US pursues goals of nuclear non-proliferation and counter terrorism in South Asia
- Correct Approach (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
While talking to BBC Television at London on Tuesday, Mr Aziz has reiterated Pakistan’s stand on tackling the issue of Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme that the West, mainly the US, wants wound up, suspecting it to be weapons-oriented, . . .
- A New South Asian Order In The Making (Dawn, Sherry Rehman, Mar 09, 2006)
Despite the concessions made by Pervez Musharraf for Washington, President Bush’s approach to South Asia indicates very clearly a major shift in US policy, refracted most sharply by his visit to the region.
- Leveraging The Mobile Phone Revolution (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Mar 09, 2006)
The mobile phone is now being used for small-time financial activities, such as information on prices and billing settlements. But the important development that service providers and bankers should work towards is to make it drive a retail credit . . .
- Kalam Visits Shwedagon Pagoda In Myanmar (Press Trust of India, Subhashis Mittra, Mar 09, 2006)
President A P J Abdul Kalam today visited the revered Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar where Buddha's relics are enshrined.
- Varanasi Blasts: Religious Heads Stand United (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The blasts in Varanasi were a conspiracy by terrorists to disrupt the social and communal fabric of the temple town in which they failed miserably, Maulana Abdul Batin, the Mufti of a local mosque said today.
- Delhi: Bjp Mlas Protesting Temple Blast Expelled For Three Days (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Slogan-shouting BJP legislators seeking adjournment of the house in the memory of those killed in the Varanasi blasts were expelled for three days today ahead of Delhi government's budget proposals tomorrow.
- Indian Docs To Need Work Permit In Uk (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The string of bad news for doctors from India or any non-European Union countries continues. Now, all doctors wishing to work in the UK from outside the European Union will be required to have a work permit from July 2006, . . .
- Varanasi Is Us (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Mar 09, 2006)
In that umbra moment after the blasts, when the television screens suddenly spewed out images of blood-stained floors, panic-stricken crowds and strewn personal belongings, a stone seemed to settle on the chest.
- Cm Lays Foundation For Bhaderwah University Campus (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
It looked as if entire Bhadarwah had come out on roads to receive their beloved leader, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, on his arrival in the town today to lay foundation of Bhadarwah Campus of Jammu University and address a public gathering . . .
- Varanasi Shuts Down In Protest Over Blasts (Reuters, Sharat Pradhan, Mar 09, 2006)
India's ancient holy city of Varanasi shut down on Wednesday in a protest against bomb blasts in a Hindu temple and a railway station which killed 15 people, but there were no reports of any sectarian backlash.
- Keep Cool (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 09, 2006)
Not very long ago we had struck a note of caution in these columns. For too long the terrorists have been itching to frequently target the holy places in the country.
- Communal Ammunition (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The bomb blasts in Varanasi, coming a little over four months after a similar attack in Delhi, are yet another attempt to incite communal violence in the country.
- Musharraf Wants More Security On Afghan Border (Daily Times, Rana Qaisar, Mar 09, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday told US Central Command (Centcom) chief General John P Abizaid that there was an urgent need to reinforce security on the Afghan side of the border to stop “miscreants” sneaking into Pakistan’s tribal areas.
- Holy Terror (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 09, 2006)
The combination of holiness and terror is likely to be a dangerous one for India.
- Bush Visit To South Asia (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 09, 2006)
Some change in US thinking on Pakistan
NEVER before has the visit of an American President to South Asia created such a political storm as the recent one by President George W. Bush to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
- Killers On The Prowl (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Mar 09, 2006)
Communal harmony must be maintained
- To Keep The Flock Together (Telegraph, Sumanta Sen, Mar 09, 2006)
The anti-defection law needs to be amended if the political face of India’s largest state has to be changed.
- Ammonium Nitrate Used In Varanasi Blasts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The explosive material used in the twin blasts at the temple city of Varanasi was Ammonium nitrate and not RDX, official sources said here.
- An Indo-Pak Friendship That Continues To Thrive (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
It is an India-Pakistan, Hindu-Muslim friendship that started with a motor transport business in the years before partition and came alive again two years ago thanks to India's cricket tour.
- Lk Advani Back In Yatra Mode (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The Varanasi terror outrage has put BJP back in the yatra mode.
- Varanasi Wakes Up To A New Dawn (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Life goes on. And with vigour in Varanasi. If the 3/7 serial blasts in the temple town were meant to create panic and hatred, its perpetrators were given a royal rebuff.
- American Building Schools And Relations In Northern Areas (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
An American mountaineer who fell ill while attempting to climb K2 in 1993 and spent seven weeks recovering in the Northern Areas village of Korphe promised to return and build the area’s fist school when he left - and he did.
- What Is Sacred? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
When terror is precision-timed for symbolism, careful scrutiny of the site and the situation is revealing.
- Lie Is A Lie Is A Lie (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
Perjurers sometimes face tough circumstances. But perjury’s cost must be made forbiddingly high
- Remembering Golwalkar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
Underplaying the big ticket items of the last week — Budget and Bush visit —the latest Organiser chooses to focus on the ‘‘scintillating launch’’ of the centenary celebrations of the second sarsanghchalak and premier ideologue of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar.
- The Night America Voted Against All That’S Wrong With America (Indian Express, SANDIPAN DEB, Mar 09, 2006)
There was something different about Oscar 2006. And it was not only the fact that, possibly for the first time in history, we had a winner — George Clooney — who didn’t thank anyone.
- Attack On Press (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 09, 2006)
Media persons should be able to function fearlessly
- Pentagon Lauds Pakistan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Mar 09, 2006)
The U.S. has said Pakistan's role is "critical" and "key" in matters concerning fighting the war on terror, securing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and instilling peace in the South Asian region.
- Pieces In Terror Jigsaw, Two Top Lashkar Men Shot In Up, Delhi (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Mar 09, 2006)
Within hours of the terror strike in Varanasi, two top-ranking Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed by the police in Lucknow and Delhi.
- In Islamabad, On A Turning Wicket (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says HUSAIN HAQQANI
- Varanasi Bombings (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The terrorist objective is to widen the religious divide
- Us, World Leaders Condemn Terror Attacks (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 09, 2006)
Fighting terror is our common struggle, and we stand with the people of India as they bring to justice those responsible for these cowardly acts”.
- 22 Iron, Manganese Mines Closed Down (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Minister of State for Mines T Subbarami Reddy told M Shivanna (JD-S) and R L Jalappa (Cong) that 70 iron ore mines, 15 manganese mines and two chromite and two gold mines are in operation in the State.
- Government Will Deal With Firm Hand: Pm (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the blasts in the Hindu holy town of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, even as red alerts were sounded in several parts of the country, including the national capital.
- Blasts Kill 16 In Varanasi, Red Alert Sounded Across India (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
In an outrageous serial terrorist strike on the holy city of Varanasi, the ancient Sankat Mochan temple packed with Tuesday worshippers of Lord Hanuman was rocked by a huge blast and two bombs exploded soon after at a nearby train . . .
- Varanasi Blasts Were Handiwork Of Terrorists: Official (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The bomb blasts in this temple town, which killed 20 people and injured 50 others, was the handiwork of terrorists and the Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a probe into the incident by the special task force of the state police, a senior . . .
- Centre And Up Will Bring Guilty To Justice: Sonia (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said that the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government will jointly work out the blasts in the temple city and bring its perpetrators to justice.
- N-Deal Doesn’T Recognise India As Nuclear Weapon State, Says Burns (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The US has made it clear that the Indo-US nuclear deal does not amount to recognition of India as a nuclear weapon state.
- In Temple Town, Blasts Drown Pealing Of Bells (Indian Express, Tarannum Manjul, Mar 08, 2006)
When two-year-old Shivangi’s parents took her to the Sankatmochan temple in Varanasi for the Tuesday darshan, never in their worst imaginings could they have foreseen that their little girl would be one of the 12 people who died in the blasts that. . .
- High Alert In Delhi After Varanasi Blasts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
A high alert was sounded in the capital on Tuesday following the blasts in the temple town of Varanasi in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh in which at least four persons have died.
- Up Sliding Into Lawlessness: Centre (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The serial bomb attack on the Sankat Mochan temple is the latest of a string of incidents suggesting the slide of the country's largest state into lawlessness.
- Canada Moves To Revamp Air India Bomb Inquiry (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Canada's new Conservative government took a first, tentative step on Tuesday on its pledge to revamp the inquiry into the troubled Air India bombing investigation.
- Budget For Deceptions (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 08, 2006)
An analysis of this year’s budget by JNU professor Prabhat Patnaik, a key figure in the CPM’s group on economic affairs, pinpoints inadequacies in the document from the Left’s standpoint:
- India On Alert To Prevent Trouble After Bomb Blasts (Reuters, Sharat Pradhan, Mar 08, 2006)
Armed police mounted vigil at temples and public places across India on Wednesday and leaders appealed for calm as Hindu groups called for a strike in Uttar Pradesh to protest against bomb blasts that killed 15.
- Up Didn’T Respond On Security Upgrade For Temple (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Mar 08, 2006)
Sankatmochan temple, the site for tonight’s terror attack, was one of the temples on the list of important religious places where the Centre had carried out extensive security surveys after the Lashkar-e-Toiba attack at Akshardham in Gujarat in September
- In A State Of Ruin (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Mar 08, 2006)
The author is a former foreign secretary.
- 'Intelligence Agencies Had Warned Of Blasts' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Intelligence inputs had been received that terror groups were likely to "create trouble" at either Varanasi's Sankat Mochan or Kashi Vishwanath temples, home ministry officials here said.
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