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Articles 14921 through 15020 of 26855:
- Crying Wolf (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 04, 2006)
Two things must be said to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s credit. He made the right noises about inconvenience faced by air travellers having to confront the strike called by employees of the Airports Authority of India.
- Nepal King Prays As Violence Escalates (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Feb 04, 2006)
Nepal King Gyanendra, royalist ministers and top security officials offered prayers in the city on Friday as Maoist guerrillas continued their attack on the municipal elections scheduled for Thursday, shooting yet another candidate, . . .
- Pakistan Seeks Nuclear Parity With India: Us (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Feb 04, 2006)
The Pakistani premier had raised the issue of nuclear parity with India in his address last month to the prestigious Council on Foreign relations in New York.
- Effort Begins To Prevent Forest Fire (Hindu, V.S. Palaniappan, Feb 04, 2006)
Vulnerable areas identified, dry vegetation being removed
Fire patrol parties formed in all the six ranges
Tight vigil to continue till May
Steps to reduce man-animal conflicts
- Hamas No To Recognition, But Ready For Peace Talks (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Hamas will never recognise Israel’s right to exist but will negotiate conditions for a long-term truce with the Jewish state, senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told a Palestinian newspaper in comments published on Friday.
- Resolving Kashmir Issue Can Change Future: Aziz (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
The Kashmir issue occupied the centre stage of India-Pakistan relations and its settlement could change the future of South Asia, Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said.
- Court Notice On Circulation Of Cd Against Christians (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Petitioner seeks CBI probe into its production and distribution
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre, the States of Maharashtra and Gujarat, and the Shabarai-Kumbh Mela Organising Committee on a petition seeking a direction . . .
- India's Secret Search For Peace And Its Perils (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Feb 04, 2006)
While the separate pieces of the PMO's covert negotiations on Kashmir are becoming evident, it is unclear if this jigsaw puzzle actually has a shape.
- "Pakistan Militants A Threat To Stability" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Pakistan-based militant groups that are active in Kashmir pose a persistent threat to regional stability and U.S. interests in South Asia and the Near East, said a U.S. top intelligence official testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee here.
- Rs.1 Cr. Sanctioned For Reservoir Project (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
The scheme will be implemented at the earliest, says Collector
- Islam Being Targeted As Religion Of Terrorism: Prince Of Arcot (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Appeals to students, youth to fight vested interests trying to divide nation
- "Bilateral Partnerships Needed To Tackle Environmental Security" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Climate change, energy use major issues, says British High Commissioner
- Globalisation `Is Now Officially Dead' (Business Line, D. Murali , Feb 04, 2006)
John Ralston Saul traces the rise, plateau and fall of globalisation in The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, and explains why it is officially dead. On a similar theme, A Fair Globalisation: Creating Opportunities for Al l, . . .
- India Considering Russian Anti-Missile Shield Offer (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Feb 04, 2006)
Negotiations in advanced stage for weaponry worth $10 billion
Several high-end military platforms being offered
Offers technology transfer for medium transport aircraft
Willing to sell submarines too
- Panchakalyana Utsava From Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 04, 2006)
Celebration of life of father of Bahubali
Rituals to go on till February 9
The Vice-President will be chief guest on February 6
Celebrations will feature the five stages in the life of Aadinatha
- Jd(s), Bjp Form Coalition Government In Karnataka (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Feb 04, 2006)
Kumaraswamy sworn in Chief Minister, Yediyurappa Deputy Chief Minister
Coalition agrees to share power for the remaining 40 months on the Jammu and Kashmir model
Constitution of a full-fledged Ministry to take time
Vote of confidence on February 8
- Kumaraswamy To Be Sworn In Today (Hindu, S. Rajendran, Feb 03, 2006)
Last hurdle surmounted with the High Court refusing to stay the swearing-in
- Water Connections For Unapproved Layouts (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
The decision follows a Government Order
Corporation to save Rs. 1 crore a year
- Manmohan To Lay Foundation For 2 Nlc Projects Tomorrow (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Feb 03, 2006)
They will be implemented at a total cost of Rs. 4,190 crore
The Neyveli Lignite Corporation's expansion projects — Mine-II and Thermal Power Station-II — are likely to be completed by 2008, according to S. Jayaraman, Chairman and Managing Director.
- What Do Godmen Have To Do With Govt? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Feb 03, 2006)
Amid all the hype and hyperbole, hope and hoopla over the formation of a new coalition government, has there been a more alarming sight than the chief minister-designate, and his deputy, falling at the feet of assorted godmen across and beyond the State?
- Rajnath Singh, Other Top Bjp Leaders To Attend Swearing-In Ceremony (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
A.B. Vajpayee, L.K. Advani cancel plans; security tightened around Vidhana Soudha
About 2,000 policemen are to be deployed
Secretariat will be closed during the ceremony as a security measure
- An Evening With Legends (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Premaanjali Educational Trust, a registered charitable organisation, is engaged in several activities focused around the homeless, destitute, and needy children. In order to raise funds for the trust, Premaanjali has been organising cultural festivals.
- Palestinians In A Lose-Lose Situation (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Feb 03, 2006)
Hamas’ electoral power has frightened the Arabs and appalled the West which must now deal with it
- In His Guru's Footsteps (Hindu, M. SURYA PRASAD, Feb 03, 2006)
It is good news for Carnatic music, that youth in general and software engineers in particular are evincing lot of interest in it and have been able to win big audiences all over.
- When Stones Speak (Hindu, SUBASH JEYAN , Feb 03, 2006)
The landscape is expressive, speaking its own visual language.
Hampi is overwhelming, in the scale and splendour of its conception and construction and in the tragedy of its destruction and desolation.
- Mannina Mommaga Gets Ready For Hot Seat (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Despite being bred in cosmopolitan Bangalore, he is far placed from the city’s potholes, more comfortable being a mannina mommaga in his Ramanagaram constituency.
- Grandmom Of Laughter (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Some interesting reads in Kannada
T. Sunandamma, who passed away last week, is a pioneer in her own right. She was the first woman writer in Kannada to establish herself in the genre of humour writing.
- A Clean Sweep, Bar The Cow Dung (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
“We have packed up from here and shifted our luggages to 10, Circular Road, the new house allotted to Madam (Rabri Devi). Everything has been shifted except for a few goats and cow dung,” Laloo jocularly told mediamen virtually bringing down the curtains
- Easy Way To Liberation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Chanting the Divine name has been advocated in the scriptures as the easiest and the most efficacious of the means to liberation in this Kali age. What is the reason for this?
- Incredible India: Visitors Greeted By Darkness And Filth (Indian Express, AMAN SHARMA, Feb 03, 2006)
At 1 am, as businessman Tom Backman, who arrived on a Lufthansa airlines flight from Frankfurt, walks out of the customs area into the arrival lounge of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport, two overflowing garbage bins greet him.
- Iran And The Iaea (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Feb 03, 2006)
An interim report prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency on the implementation of nuclear safeguards in Iran has cited numerous instances of Iranian cooperation with its inspectors but has also stressed the need for Teheran . . .
- Weapons' Worth (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 03, 2006)
Sudarshan Chakra is a spinning disc-like weapon with very sharp edge, one of the weapons in Vishnu's hands.
- Kolkata Conundrum (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 03, 2006)
If the city is always agitation’s ground zero, does it help the Left elsewhere?
- Iran Nuclear Potential 'Immediate Concern' - U.S. (Reuters, DAVID MORGAN, Feb 03, 2006)
The United States does not believe Iran has a nuclear weapon but the danger Tehran will acquire one is an "immediate concern," U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte said on Thursday.
- Getting Together (Deccan Herald, Archbishop Bernard Moras, Feb 03, 2006)
Parents sometimes complain that their son or daughter does not listen to them any more. A son who was once so obedient has now begun to act very strangely. He is never on time. Very rarely does he have meals with the family.
- 'Advani, Jaswant To Stay Leaders Of Opposition' (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
BJP President Rajnath Singh has ruled out removing either LK Advani or Jaswant Singh as Leaders of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha respectively.
- 4 Top Jem, Hm Ultras Shot Dead; 2 Arrested (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Troops of 25 Infantry Division and Poonch Brigade gunned down two Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants, both Pakistanis, including a ‘district commander’ in an encounter at Madhari jungle in Bandi Chechian in Poonch district this morning while . . .
- Lost Cause (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 03, 2006)
Calcutta has lived up to its reputation as the city of left luggage. Its protests against the modernization of the airports in Delhi and Mumbai should set at rest any hope about the leopard changing its spots.
- Key For Kashmir Solution Lies With Hurriyat: Mirwaiz (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Calling upon the Centre to initiate positive steps for fulfilling aspirations and wishes of the residents of this violence plagued State, chairman of All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq today claimed that only his outfit holds ‘key’
- Militants Fire 31 More Rockets At Loti Gas Field (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Suspected militants fired at least 31 rockets at midnight between Wednesday and Thursday at the Loti gas field. The rockets missed the target and landed in a deserted area.
- Mirwaiz Calls For Kashmir Regions’ Talks (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Feb 03, 2006)
Chief of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday called for urgent consultations between regions of Kashmir on both sides of the Line of Control to plan a common strategy for resolving the dispute.
- Islamabad, Riyadh For Early Kashmir Solution (News International, Shakil Shaikh, Feb 03, 2006)
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Thursday agreed in unequivocal terms on the necessity of reaching an early resolution of all outstanding issues between Pakistan and India especially the Kashmir issue through negotiations and emphasised that durable . . .
- Peace In Afghanistan Fragile, Says Annan: Islamabad Pledges $50m (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Pakistan on Tuesday welcomed the joint initiative of the United Kingdom, Afghanistan and the United Nations for the ‘Afghanistan Compact’ development plan at the London Conference as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan pointed out that recent attacks . . .
- Jaswant Asks India, Pakistan To Set Up Visa Camps (News International, Fasahat Mohiuddin, Feb 03, 2006)
Visiting Indian opposition leader of Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) Jaswant Sing has called upon both India and Pakistan to establish visa camps till the formal re-opening of consulates in order to facilitate travel of the citizens . . .
- Airport Staff Continue Stir (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Feb 03, 2006)
As the strike by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) employees entered the second day and the flight schedule of most of the airlines remained unaffected, the employees resorted to other measures like blocking the roads to the airport . . .
- Bengal Cm Plays Firefighter (Tribune, Subhrangshu Gupta, Feb 03, 2006)
With no immediate signs of the Airports Authority of India’s employees ending their ‘stop-work’ agitation, the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, today initiated a dialogue with the Civil Aviation Ministry and trade unions.
- Permanently Poor -- A Cynically Negative Approach (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Feb 03, 2006)
Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is in a tizzy. Not knowing how to react to an unexpected bouquet from an equally unexpected quarter, he chooses to play down, even ignore, what any government would almost certainly have orchestrated as an achievement . . .
- King Abdullah’S Enhanced Role In Sa (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 03, 2006)
SAUDI King Abdullah apprised President Musharraf of his talks with Indian leadership on Kashmir issue during his visit to New Delhi and assured him of his ‘good offices’ to help resolve the long-standing dispute.
- Time Slipping Out For Iran (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Feb 03, 2006)
Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad has reiterated that his country will not surrender before the US-EU machination on nuclear stand-off as US and Russian leaders discuss the developments over Iran’s nuclear programme.
- India Not Responding To Kashmir Options: Anwar (Pakistan Observer, Hameed Shaheen, Feb 03, 2006)
President of Azad Kashmir Maj-Gen Rtd Sardar Muhammad Anwar Khan has said that India was not responding proposals on Kashmir options floated by Pakistan from time to time to facilitate settlement of Kashmir dispute.
- Indo-Pak Talks On Kashmir Truck Service Proposed (News International, Muhammad Saleh Zaafir, Feb 03, 2006)
Pakistan and India will hold expert level talks for starting a truck service between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar and a bus service between Rawalakot and Poonch.
- Pakistan, Islam And Indian Media Stereotypes (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
“[T]he limited support that radical Islamist groups enjoy in Pakistan reflects less a fierce commitment to their ultimate agenda of strict Islamist rule than a protest against the system which, ironically, has abetted such groups for its own ...
- Sheer Hypocrisy (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Feb 03, 2006)
One should hardly be surprised that Sardar Mohammad Anwar and Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan, "President" and "Prime Minister" of "Azad" Kashmir (as the occupied territory is locally known on the other side of the Line of Control), . . .
- The Left In Wonderland (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 03, 2006)
The Indian Left is badly in need of a reality check. Its recalcitrance, both on modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports and India’s vote at the International Atomic Energy Agency board on Iran, manifests an archaic politics.
- Cautionary Tale About Creation Myths (The Economic Times, MUKUL SHARMA, Feb 03, 2006)
No religion really takes the creation myths and legends of other religions too seriously. In fact, adherents usually believe in their own origin-of-everything stories so implicitly that anything which differs from it even slightly is seen . . .
- War Of Discontent (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Feb 02, 2006)
With the insurgency in the Balochistan province escalating into a bloody conflict between the tribal rebels and the Pakistan Army, General Musharraf's regime is vulnerable as never before.
- Iran Nukes Big 5, Vows To Get More N-Power Stations (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani vowed today that the country will resume industrial-scale uranium enrichment if a dispute over its nuclear programme is referred to the UN Security Council.
- Terrorism & Iran: The Saudi Angle (The Economic Times, C UDAY BHASKAR, Feb 02, 2006)
The visit of Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, as the chief guest at this year’s Republic Day celebrations has successfully dispelled many misperceptions about the oil-rich desert kingdom that have been long held.
- The Voice Within (Indian Express, JYOTSNA DIWAN MEHTA, Feb 02, 2006)
Recently, at the annual function of my daughter’s school, I experienced a sense of deja-vu.
- Drawing The Line (Dawn, Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui, Feb 02, 2006)
In promulgating your esoteric cogitation are you aware of your platitudinous ponderosity?” Youthful stirrings in the exciting transition from school to college in Pakistan prompted us to pose this question to classmates who were not so proficient in ....
- ‘History, Destiny Make India, Pak Stay Together’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, declared today that India attached great importance to having most friendly relations with Pakistan and stressed that history and destiny obliged both to “stay engaged” to sort out differences.
- Russia And The Great Game In Central Asia (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Feb 02, 2006)
The accession of Uzbekistan to the Eurasian Economic Community advances Moscow's goal of setting up an OPEC-like gas cartel in the region.
- Airports Fly Into Turbulence, Striking Staff Caned (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Chaos, violence and disruption of flights were the order of the day at airports across the country on Wednesday, following the strike by employees of the Airports’ Authority of India (AAI) in protest against the modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
- Kalam For `World Knowledge Platform' (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Feb 02, 2006)
``It will prove to be a launch pad for many innovations"
Indian society is like an aircraft taking off
India, Singapore share a vision of rising Asia
- When The Crown Slips Away (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 02, 2006)
It is perhaps the only country in the world where legislators can oust the executive on grounds of ill health. What makes the process all the more interesting is that the Kuwaiti executive is not an elected leader but a monarch.
- Naked Fear-Mongering (Dawn, Eugene Robinson, Feb 02, 2006)
Once upon a time we had a great wartime president who told Americans they had nothing to fear but fear itself. Now we have George W. Bush, who uses fear as a tool of executive power and as a political weapon against his opponents.
- International Status For Calicut Airport (Hindu, P. Sunderarajan , Feb 02, 2006)
Malabar welcomes the Union Cabinet decision
- Airport Employees Stage Protest Demonstrations (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Feb 02, 2006)
Nod for selection of firms for Delhi, Mumbai airports revamp
Employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) across the country staged demonstrations on Wednesday against the privatisation of the Delhi and Mumbai airports.
- Kumaraswamy Firm On Bjp Tie-Up (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Cancellation of planned trip to New Delhi leads to suspense, speculation
- Kumaraswamy Determined To Form Government With Bjp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Cancellation of planned trip to New Delhi leads to suspense, speculation
- Kolkata: Iaf Called In To Help (Hindu, Marcus Dam, Feb 02, 2006)
Air services remain largely unaffected; strike near total, say unions
The services of the Indian Air Force were requisitioned to restore normality in air services from and to the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose International Airport here on Wednesday . . .
- Embodiment Of Bliss (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
The Ramayana of Valmiki occupies a distinctive place in the genre of scriptural literature as it has as its theme the narration of the life of the Supreme Being when He manifested as a human being in the world.
- Hindus And Sikhs In Britain Seek Right To Open-Air Cremations (Press Trust of India, H S RAO, Feb 02, 2006)
Hindus and Sikhs in Britain have sought the right to cremate their dead on funeral pyres at open-air ceremonies, a practice banned in the UK since 1930.
- Iran Hits Out At Us, Hands Over N-Manual To Iaea (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
The Iranian government has handed over to the International Atomic Energy Agency a document whose only use would be in making nuclear weapons, the IAEA said in a confidential report obtained by AFP.
- Violence In Balochistan (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
At least three tribesmen were killed and nine others injured in an exchange of fire with security forces in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Wednesday, an official said.
- Memorable Journey (Deccan Herald, D B N Murthy , Feb 02, 2006)
The Jagdalpur - Visakhapatnam route over the Eastern Ghats offer scenic sights
- Three Sardars And A General (Frontline, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Feb 02, 2006)
THERE are two or three tribal chiefs and feudal lords behind what is going on in Balochistan. The past governments have made deals with them and indulged them.
- As Hrd Talks Fine Print, Singapore Signs Up With Iisc To Open Branch In Bangalore (Indian Express, Vipin Pubby, Feb 02, 2006)
: In New Delhi, the Government may not be too enthused about letting IIMs spread their wings abroad but in Singapore . . .
- Safety Of Iaf Planes (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Feb 02, 2006)
It is extremely heartening to know that accidents in the Indian Air Force are showing a downward trend and that 2005 has been the safest in 36 years with only 10 aircraft falling out of the sky.
- Saudi King Abdullah Arrives In Pak (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 02, 2006)
Amidst unprecedented security, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz arrived here today on a two-day visit to Pakistan for talks to boost bilateral economic ties and review regional matters.
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