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Articles 17221 through 17320 of 26855:
- Moot Rejects ‘United States Of Kashmir’ (Daily Times, Mohammad Imran, Dec 19, 2005)
Participants of a conference held to discuss the “United States of Kashmir” proposal on Sunday called the formula ambiguous and a bid to divide the people of Kashmir. They also asked Kashmiris not to compromise on their right to self-determination.
- Centre Committed To Increasing Loan To Farmers: Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
'UPA Government has urged banks to extend loan facilities to needy people'
- 4 Policemen, Three ‘Taliban’ Killed In Afghan Attacks (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
Four policemen and three suspected Taliban fighters were killed and an Afghan interpreter wounded in attacks in volatile southern Afghanistan, police and an official said on Sunday.
- Dr Atta’S Wake Up Call (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 19, 2005)
DR Atta-ur-Rehman, Chairman, Higher Education Commission has said that not a single Pakistani university ranks amongst the 1000 best universities in the world. Speaking at the convocation of Riphah International University in Islamabad on Saturday, . . .
- Us Concerned Over Terrorist Involvement In Pok Quake Relief (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
The United States has expressed grave concern over the involvement of militant outfits in quake-relief operations in Pak-occupied Kashmir (PoK), even as a senior Pakistani official said there was no bar on their carrying out "humanitarian" activities, ...
- Forest Dept. To Launch Eco-Tourism In Kanyakumari Dt. (Hindu, P.S. Suresh Kumar, Dec 19, 2005)
MoU has been signed with a private tour operator in Thiruvananthapuram
- Afghans Hope Assembly Ends Long Cycle Of Violence (Indian Express, David Brunnstrom, Dec 19, 2005)
On the eve of the opening of the first Afghan parliament in decades, MPs and ordinary Afghans hope that for all its flaws and despite renewed Taliban threats it will help end the nation’s long cycle of violence.
- Bangladesh To Pass Law To Curb Terror Financing (Indian Express, Reuters, Dec 19, 2005)
Bangladesh is set to pass a law clamping down on the financing of militants suspected of planning attacks, a senior bank official said today.
- Christmas In Pakistan (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Dec 19, 2005)
On Christmas eve of 1988 this writer was in Islamabad waiting to meet Ms.Benazir Bhutto who had just taken over as the first woman-Prime Minister of a Muslim country.
- ‘Cheney Must Explain Afghan Rights Abuses’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
A leading rights group called on Sunday for President Hamid Karzai to press visiting US Vice President Dick Cheney about secret detention centres in Afghanistan and rights abuses by US troops.
- A Sen-Se Of Our Past (Indian Express, VINAY BHART-RAM, Dec 19, 2005)
Amartya sen is of course a famous economist. What is less well known is that he is also a philosopher.
- To Talk And Not To Do (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 19, 2005)
The author is former director-general,National Council for Applied Economic Research
- Indian Economy On A Roll (Daily Excelsior, SUMEDHA SUDHAMAN, Dec 19, 2005)
Mahatma Gandhi once said if you aim at the sky, you will reach the tree top. It is a very appropriate remark in the Indian situation.
- The Global Indian Manager (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 19, 2005)
Forty-five years after Mr Stephen Turner handed over to Mr P. L. Tandon as the first Indian Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited, the top job in India in the Anglo-Dutch multinational has gone to a non-Indian, Mr Douglas Bailee.
- India's Security Equations In The Gulf (Daily Excelsior, SREEDHAR, Dec 19, 2005)
With Saudi king, His Excellency King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz going to be the chief guest for the 57 anniversary of Indian Republic, a number of issues come to the fore front concerning work force working in that country.
- Raj Thackeray Calls It Quits, Says Will Float New Party (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
Sena crisis: ‘There is a fundamental difference between the way Uddhav and I think and it was not possible for us to work together’
- Magic Or Religion? (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Dec 19, 2005)
Everyone needs a miracle. And the miracle service providers are two—magic and religion.
- State Of Human Rights (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Dec 19, 2005)
The Karachi chapter of the English Speaking Union of Pakistan was inaugurated over 40 years ago, presumably to further the spread of English. But for some inexplicable reason it ended up as the outdoor relief department of the foreign diplomatic corps.
- No Let-Up In Friendship With China (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Dec 19, 2005)
One cannot but be concerned over the impression, now being voiced by an increasing number of citizens, that our all-weather friendship with China has undergone a decline.
- Raj Quits Sena, To Float Outfit (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
Estranged Shiv Sena leader Raj Thackeray finally quit the party on Sunday putting entire blame for the Sena’s recent failures on the working president his cousin Uddhav, and announced that he will float his new political outfit next year.
- Meeting Point (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Dec 19, 2005)
It was heartening to see Parliamentarians from India and Pakistan stressing the need for continuing the "people-to-people" dialogue between the two countries.
- There’S Good In Pakistan’S Madrasas (Deccan Herald, Jonathan Power, Dec 19, 2005)
Madrasas, as traditional bodies of learning, are relevant under the socio-economic conditions.
- Thackeray Jr Quits Sena (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2005)
Rebel Raj Thackeray today walked out of the Shiv Sena and announced his decision to start an independent political innings in the coming months, delivering a crushing blow to the party in Maharashtra, where it was already reeling under the revolt . . .
- House That? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 19, 2005)
Sourav deserves better than parochial politics. So does, MPs please note, Parliament
- That Vanishing Past (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 19, 2005)
As the World Press Photo Exhibition 2005, showcasing prize-winning entries from 2004, stops by in Mumbai, the main frame is a timely reminder: that the past never goes away.
- Implementation Of Hudood Laws Faulty: Pakistan (News International, Rauf Klasra, Dec 18, 2005)
Pakistan has admitted to the concerned European countries that legal procedures dealing with the Hudood Ordinance promulgated by Gen Ziaul Haq in 1979 without producing them ever before parliament for discussion and formal enactment were faulty . . .
- Moot On ‘United States Of Kashmir’ Today (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
The first conference of political parties from both sides of Jammu and Kashmir will be held today in Islamabad to discuss a proposal regarding a ‘United States of Kashmir’.
- Bjp Can Learn From Tories (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 18, 2005)
Nationalist parties, as a rule, are disinclined to look overseas for inspiration. They prefer banking on a nebulous commodity that goes by the inexplicably named "native genius". As the torch bearer of a decisive nationalist current in India, . . . .
- And Now The Culture Dollar (Hindu, SHANTA SERBJEET SINGH, Dec 18, 2005)
It is time to give the thousands of crafts, skills and cultural legacies the recognition of being an economic sector in their own right.
- Pak, India Agree On Pipeline Construction Strategy (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
The two-day meet-ing of the India-Pakistan Joint Working Group (JWG) on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project ended in New Delhi Saturday.
- Al-Qaeda:an Explanation Is Due (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 18, 2005)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that Al-Qaeda has been forced to flee from Pakistan and it’s no more an organized group. In an intervierw with Saudi newspaper Al-Watan, he said that its network has been dismantled. ‘We have won the war against ...
- India, Pakistan Agree To Begin Work On Iran Pipeline By Mid-2007 (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
India and Pakistan agreed to begin construction of the over 7bn-dollar Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline by mid-2007 so that the first gas flows by the end of 2010.
- India Insults Oic (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Dec 18, 2005)
India has scornfully rejected the Organisation of Islamic Conference’s reference to Jammu and Kashmir made in the final communique issued at the conclusion of the 3rd Extraordinary Summit of the OIC at Makkah Al-Mukarramah.
- A Mix Of Old And New (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
Tabish Khair enjoys Justine Hardy's ‘Wonder House’, a new spin on an old tale of Indo-British love.
- Power Of Meditation (Hindu, S. Subramanian, Dec 18, 2005)
All of us seek peace, harmony, knowledge, wisdom and deliverance. Contrary to our expectations, we many times experience dissatisfaction in life — agitation, irritation, disharmony and suffering.
- India Realizes West Bengal And Northeast Becoming A Far Larger ‘Kashmir’ – India Deploys Thousands Of New Troops In The Border (India Daily, Anil Rane, Dec 18, 2005)
It is a late awakening but never the less better late than never. Bangladesh is the new capital of Islamist movements.
- India Increasing Troops On Bangladesh Border (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
Delhi fears large number of illegal immigrants escaping security force
- Icici Bank Offloads Rs 1300 Cr Npas (Business Standard, Abhijit Lele, Dec 18, 2005)
In India's first auction of bad loans, StanChart Bank bought out NPAs comprising 310 firms.
- 2007 Start For Tri-Nation Pipeline Project (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
India and Pakistan today agreed today to start constructing the $7 billion Indo-Iran gas pipeline project in 2007 ignoring the much-voiced “reservations” of the USA.
- Syed Ali Geelani Leaves For Haj (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 18, 2005)
Chairman of the hard line faction of the Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Shah Geelani was allowed to leave India for the first time in five years to perform Haj on Saturday.
- Ipi Pipeline To Be Built From 2007 (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Dec 18, 2005)
Pakistan and India hope to start building a $7 billion gas pipeline from Iran by 2007 despite objections from the United States, top officials from both countries said on Saturday.
- Branded Confusion (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Dec 18, 2005)
Basu, Buddhadeb sing different tunes
- India Deploying Troops On Bangladesh Border (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
India is deploying thousands of new troops on its frontier with Bangladesh and setting up hundreds of more border posts to check illegal migration and movement of armed militants, a top official said. New Delhi decided to bolster its eastern border . . .
- A Wired Christmas (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Dec 18, 2005)
Shopkeepers dreaming of a wired Christmas are seeing those dreams fulfilled with a vengeance. Online shopping in Britain has become so successful that supermarkets are unable to satisfy demand in the run-up to next weekend.
- What About ‘Unstung’ Mps (Deccan Herald, N J Nanporia , Dec 18, 2005)
How many MPs were offered money and turned it down? Unqualified condemnation of the alleged money-for-questions MPs is without doubt what they fully deserve, if found guilty.
- Building An Ugly India (Hindustan Times, Gautam Bhatia, Dec 18, 2005)
If you take the subway downtown to the Brooklyn Bridge stop in New York, it is very likely that you’ll be mesmerised by your very first sight out of the subway tunnel.
- India Adding Troops On Bangladesh Border (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Dec 18, 2005)
India is deploying thousands of new troops on its frontier with Bangladesh and setting up hundreds of more border posts to check illegal migration and movement of armed militants, a top official said.
- Internal Crisis Shake Bjp, Shiv Sena (Daily Excelsior, Atul Chowshish, Dec 18, 2005)
It would have added to the discomfort of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena--almost simultaneously engulfed in serious internal crisis-- that no sooner had the party bosses announced steps to take disciplinary action against their star . . .
- Pak, India Agree On Pipeline Construction Strategy (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
The two-day meet-ing of the India-Pakistan Joint Working Group (JWG) on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project ended in New Delhi Saturday.
- Straight From Hell (Deccan Herald, Sharada Prahladrao , Dec 18, 2005)
The author has not embellished her tale but related the truth in all its starkness.
- 151 Glorious Years Of Connecting People (Daily Excelsior, APARNA MOHILE, Dec 18, 2005)
Among the many things, good and bad that the modern world has produced,' wrote Jawaharlal Nehru, ''surely the Postal system which covers the world, is one of its most beneficial activities. There is nothing bad about it, it is all good and it . . .
- Music From The Heart (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
The calmness and grace of Jayashri’s music is characteristic of the person that she is, finds out Sumana Chandrashekar.
- Keeping Mulk Raj’S Heritage Alive (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
Mulk Raj Anand was committed to preserving India’s art and culture. Nalini Xavier writes about Lokayata, an institution founded by Anand, which has been organising art exhibitions from time to time.
- Misuse Of Mp Lad Fund (Daily Excelsior, Bhabani Shankar Hota, Dec 18, 2005)
It was a million dollar question as to the relevance of the Member of Parliament. Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme when in December, 1993 it was introduced with an initial allocation of Rs. 5 lakh. It was increased to Rs.1 crore per annum per member.
- Restoration Work Under Way At St. Mary's Church (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Dec 18, 2005)
The Archaeological Survey of India (Chennai circle) is executing it
The oldest Protestant church in India is situated within the walls of Fort St. George in Chennai
- Work On Indo-Pak Gas Pipeline To Begin In 2007 (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2005)
India and Pakistan today agreed to begin construction of the over 7-billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline by mid-2007 so that the first gas flows by the end of 2010.
- In The Jewish Museum (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Dec 18, 2005)
The author is Samuel Fischer Professor of Literature in Berlin till mid-February amitchaudhuri@hotmail.com
- Karamat Sees No Major Taliban Resurgence (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2005)
Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Jehangir Karamat acknowledged on Thursday that “remnants” of Taliban and Al Qaeda continue to operate in Afghanistan and along its border with Pakistan, but insisted that they are not resurging significantly.
- Indo-Pak Talks On Ipi Gas Pipeline Project Begin (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2005)
India and Pakistan Friday began discussing nitty-gritty of the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline in order to evolve a project structure for its implementation and operation.
- The New Face Of Terror (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Dec 17, 2005)
A string of intelligence-led police operations against the Lashkar-e-Taiba offer glimpses into the terror cells behind the series of high-profile strikes in Jammu and Kashmir and outside it since October.
- Conversions In Pakistan (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Dec 17, 2005)
It is a matter of shame for India and particularly for those Hindu elites who migrated from Sindh in West Pakistan and East Bengal in the then East Pakistan that they continue to maintain complete silence over the persecution of Hindus taking place . . .
- River Existed (Pioneer, Arabinda Ghose, Dec 17, 2005)
The Department-Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, in its 91st report on the functioning of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), has described the Saraswati river as a "purely mythological one" and has . . .
- Hll Stands Firm; To Hire More In Jan (The Economic Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 17, 2005)
Eight months after he took over the reins at Hindustan Lever, Harish ‘Punter’ Manwani is beginning to make discernible and important changes in the way India’s largest consumer goods company manages its leadership position and functions in the market plac
- Hind Lever Reshuffles Management (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2005)
Douglas Baillie has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL).
- More Kids On The Block (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Dec 17, 2005)
It’s all about who will be the driver and who the passenger. And the determinants are race and power.
- Privatising Airports: Questions Remain (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Dec 17, 2005)
MEMBERS OF the Communist Party of India (Marxist) raised in the Lok Sabha on Thursday critical issues that need to be addressed before the Government of India goes ahead with the plan to modernise and partially privatise the airports in Delhi and Mumbai.
- Strike Over Civilian Killings Paralyses Kathmandu (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Dec 17, 2005)
Shops, schools and public transport came to a standstill in Kathmandu today as the Nepali capital heeded a strike call by political parties over the killing of 12 civilians by a soldier.
- Speed Up (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 17, 2005)
Now that the State High Court is seized of the matter we have a somewhat better idea of the traffic scenario in this city.
- This Mindset (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Dec 17, 2005)
Why does Pakistan suffer from a sort of psychological barrier when it comes to dealing with India?
- The Shrews Commando (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Dec 17, 2005)
Thank God for having given us, scribes on either side of the Indo-Pak border, a man named Gen Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani military ruler-cum-President
- There Is A Way Out (Greater Kashmir, Syed Ali Safvi, Dec 17, 2005)
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “There’s no way to peace, peace is the way.” Twenty years on and the so-called paradise on earth is still craving for an eternal peace. How many years more!.. Has any body got the answer?
- India's Strategic Periphery (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Dec 17, 2005)
Among the many recent events in our part of the world three have potential for grave consequences in the future - the supply of truckloads of weapons by China to Nepal;
- Keep Fast Breeder Reactor Out Of Iaea Inspections: U.S. Expert (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Dec 17, 2005)
On the eve of crucial negotiations with the U.S. on the separation of India's civilian and military nuclear facilities, a well-known American analyst has strongly...
- Osama Shadow Looms Over Parliament (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2005)
An email threat to bomb Parliament led to an unprecedented evacuation of some 4,000 people including MPs from the building, but the highest seat of Indian democracy was back in action after three hours of near panic.
- Urdu Literature’S Vagabond Genius (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 17, 2005)
A house full sign some days ago outside the main auditorium of New Delhi’s India International Centre was a surprise because it was an evening dedicated to an Urdu poet, Majaz. An Urdu poet drawing a full house at the IIC?
- In Islam’S Past, Shades Of Democracy (Indian Express, Reza Aslan, Dec 17, 2005)
This week, a joint statement attributed to five insurgent groups in Iraq warned that the Iraqi elections are “a satanic enterprise” and that any Muslim who takes part in the voting violates “the legitimate policy approved by God”.
- How Does One Deal With Uma Bharati? (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Dec 17, 2005)
Incidence of eccentricity is noticeably higher among women politicians than their male counterparts.
- Still In Deep Waters (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Dec 17, 2005)
American diplomats advising India freely suggests that they may be gaining leverage with New Delhi
- Babel In Baghdad (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Dec 17, 2005)
The high turnout and low violence for Iraq’s third poll in less than a year underlines the enduring Iraqi optimism and lends credibility to the political process to establish self-government
- India, Pakistan Discuss Pipeline Project (Deccan Herald, PTI, Dec 17, 2005)
India and Pakistan on Friday began discussing nitty-gritties of the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline in order to evolve a project structure for its implementation and operation.
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