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Articles 3821 through 3920 of 20249:
- Meet With Musharraf Not Ruled Out: Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight did not rule out the possibility of meeting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sideline of NAM summit in Havana next month.
- "India Not Part Of Any Design To Contain China" (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Aug 29, 2006)
U.S.-China conflict unlikely: Saran
China likely to become India's biggest trading partner
Need for closer economic, transport links.
- What Happened In Lebanon And Why (Dawn, Qazi Faez Isa, Aug 29, 2006)
Lebanon was pulverised and innocents were massacred. It is rare that such unbridled violence goes unchecked, rarer still that it is not even admonished. What deep depravity it is to see evil being justified and to hear a chorus of support for it.
- Bugti’S Borderlands (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Aug 29, 2006)
Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti might be a bigger threat to Pakistan after being killed by the Pakistan army in an encounter last week. That insightful comment from General Asad Durrani, a former chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, sums up an . . .
- Tension Along Indo-Bangla Border (Daily Excelsior, Subhashis Mittra, Aug 29, 2006)
It was not one of those usual tensions arising out of cattle smuggling or exchange of fire along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
- 'We Can Choose Our Friends... Not Our Neighbours' (The Economic Times, NAGESHWAR PATNAIK, Aug 29, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said peace talks between India and Pakistan can’t proceed unless the latter shows its commitment to dismantle terrorist camps on its soil. He said this while addressing a press conference here late evening.
- Prachanda And The Politics Of Kashmir (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Aug 29, 2006)
By batting for Kashmiris and the north-east, the Maoist leader is trying to score runs for his own floundering side
- Let Peace Not Be Hijacked (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that stalling of the ongoing Pak-India peace process due to the Mumbai terrorist acts will be tantamount to playing into the terrorists’ hands.
- Two Terrorists Killed, Arms Seized In J&k (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Troops killed two Pakistani terrorists, apprehended many and seized a large cache of arms and ammunition in Jammu and Kashmir since Sunday evening, an official spokesman said on Monday.
- Dhaka Concerned On 'Terrorist Acts From India' (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Even as India and Bangladesh on Sunday agreed to explore the possibility of a joint working mechanism to combat terror, an eleventh-hour bid by the latter to get New Delhi to “acknowledge” its claims that Indian territory was being used for . . .
- No Segmentation In War Against Terror (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
The government, which reiterated there was a close association between the Al-Qaeda and Pakistan-based jehadi outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday asked the international community not to resort to any ‘segmentation’ in the war against . . .
- S Korea Says North Can Conduct Tests Any Time (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 29, 2006)
North Korea has facilities on standby to test a nuclear explosion and could do so at any time, the chief of South Korea's main spy agency said on Monday, according to Yonhap news agency.
- Discordant Note On Song (Telegraph, R. KRISHNA DAS, Aug 29, 2006)
Chhattisgarh’s BJP government today stoked the raging controversy over Vande Mataram further by making its singing compulsory at every educational institution in the state, including madarsas, on September 7 to mark the national song’s centenary.
- Terror Turn In J&k Sex Case (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
The politicians, bureaucrats and police officials, facing trial in the J&K sex scandal, gave a new twist to the story by pleading before the Supreme Court on Monday that most of them were "implicated" in the case for their role in fighting . . .
- Flower Power (Times of India, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Aug 29, 2006)
Tens of thousands of women in Nepal's feudal society protested on the streets and organised all-women's rallies. The image is powerful; and the impact strong enough to win a people their democracy.
- Pakistan Vs Pakistan (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 29, 2006)
The needless death of 79-year-old Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti is a multiple tragedy - for his family, Balochistan and Pakistan.
- Norway, India Discuss Sri Lanka Situation (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 29, 2006)
Exchange views on possible ways to de-escalate the crisis
- A Salutary Approach (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 29, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks at a conference on terrorism organised last week by Muslim clerics in the capital addressed their immediate apprehensions against the grisly background of the Mumbai bomb explosions.
- Capturing Terror (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2006)
Discovery channel will screen the series Terror Strikes from September 1 to 11 at 9 p.m. The series chronicles 11 terrorist attacks in the last four decades.
- All Flyers Under Watch (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, Aug 29, 2006)
Unknown to most, the airport security in India has started to conduct passenger profiling. Even before the trans-Atlantic air terror plot prompted UK to introduce its new security measure of seeking in advance the profiles of all air passengers . . .
- Time To Profile Passengers (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Aug 28, 2006)
The debate over profiling airline passengers revived after the thwarted Islamist plot to bomb 10 airplanes in London on August 10.
- Curse Of The Red Star (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Aug 28, 2006)
Arriving in Beijing on August 23 for his third China visit in five years, Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, praised the country’s communist leaders to the skies for having rescued China from a “practically feudal” situation and made it into one of . . .
- Suspicious Behaviour..! (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 28, 2006)
Many of my innumerable Asian friends have been after me to warn other Asians how to behave on board a flight, especially after the humiliation the twelve Indians suffered in Holland when their seemingly suspicious behavior after take off made the . . .
- Syria Will Talk Peace ‘When Israel Is Ready’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Syria is ready to resume the peace process with Israel whenever the Jewish state is ready, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Meqdad said on Sunday.
- The Semantics Of Terror ‘ (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 28, 2006)
What do Nelson Mandela, Michael Collins, Archbishop Makarios, Menachim Begin, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Shamir, Eamon DeValera and Jomo Kenyatta have in common?
- Hezbollah Regrets Capture Of Israeli Soldiers (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired on Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.
- Asian? Fasten Etiquette Belt (Telegraph, Amit Roy, Aug 28, 2006)
A woman in London who works as a stewardess told yesterday of an occasion when “an Asian plane passenger in first class asked for a screwdriver”.
- Apartheid In The Sky (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 28, 2006)
The detention of 12 Indian passengers on a Mumbai-bound flight by Dutch security agencies and their subsequent humiliation is not a one-off incident.
- Us Jet That Crashed Took Wrong Runway: Official (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Aug 28, 2006)
A US commuter jet that crashed in Kentucky yesterday killing 49 people used a shorter runway that was not allowed for passenger jets, a federal official has said.
- Us Diplomat Charged With Trading Visas For Jewellery (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
A senior US diplomat has been indicted on charges he traded work visas for an Indian American jeweller's employees in return for lavish dinners, jewellery and Las Vegas trips with exotic dancers.
- Centre Wakes Up To Naxalite Threat (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
With Naxalites casting a shadow over almost a third of the country’s total area, the Centre is pursuing a multi-pronged approach to address the problem in a holistic and coordinated manner.
- Mission Progress: Pm In Orissa (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Aug 28, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first visit into the distressed hinterlands of Orissa will begin on Monday for two days, which will focus on the issue of development in some of the most backward areas that are turning into the theatre of . . .
- Vajpayee, Advani Compelled Me To Release Azhar: Farooq (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
In a stinging attack on Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani over the 1999 Kandahar hijack episode, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has accused the then Prime Minister and Home Minister of compelling him to release . . .
- Cag Report Creates Stir (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The report of Comptroller General of India (CAG) about the misuse of crores of rupees by the Punjab Government has created a stir among political circles. The Opposition Shiromani Akali Dal and its alliance partner the Bharatiya Janata Party have . . .
- Govt Worried Over Drugs, Arms Smuggling On Bihar-Nepal Border (Tribune, Ambarish Dutta, Aug 28, 2006)
The growing emergence of Bihar, the poorest state of the country, as a major transit point of narcotics reportedly worries both Central and state intelligence, as the nexus between “narcotis” and “arms smuggling” is a globally known secret.
- 2 Let Men Arrested In J&k (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The anti-Terrorists squad has arrested two alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives from the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, who may be involved in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts.
- Us Perspective On Lebanon (Dawn, Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty, Aug 28, 2006)
As the tenuous ceasefire in Lebanon holds, there is constant evaluation going on in the US about the brutal war in Lebanon that was allowed to go on for five weeks to enable Israel to achieve its strategic goals.
- Shaping The Minds Of Intelligence Agencies (Pakistan Observer, Dr Jassim Taqui, Aug 28, 2006)
There seems to be an epidemic among the Western intelligence agencies that is spreading to others as well. Both print and electronic media have recently highlighted . . .
- Incoherent Narratives (Dawn, Karen Armstrong, Aug 28, 2006)
When Sophocles presented Oedipus Rex at the festival of Dionysus in 430 BCE, he changed the plot in a way that would have shocked his Athenian audience.
- Jan Sangh, Bjp Efforts Got India Its N-Status: Vajpayee (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today attributed the country’s rise as a nuclear power to the policies of the Jan Sangh and the BJP.
- The Good Neighbour (New Indian Express, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 28, 2006)
It would perhaps not be outrageous to suggest that had the authorities in Pakistan been as forthcoming with information to India, as they were to the British Intelligence, the July 11 carnage in Mumbai may have been averted.
- Us Crash Kills All But Pilot (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
An airliner carrying 50 people crashed and burst into flames today shortly after taking off from Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport, killing all those on board except one of the pilots.
- Atal Blows Sangh Trumpet (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Who is responsible for India becoming a nuclear power? Who ended the “licence quota raj”? Who annexed Kashmir to India? The Jan Sangh and the RSS, if A.B. Vajpayee is to be believed.
- 49 Die In Us Plane Crash (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Forty-nine people were killed in southern United States on Sunday when a passenger plane crashed shortly after the take-off.
- Exotic Dancers For Us Visas (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Aug 28, 2006)
An Indian jeweller with a worldwide business network stretching from Japan and Thailand to the UK and Brazil is on the run for bribing a US state department official with free flights, exotic dancers and hotel rooms in exchange for American visas.
- 3 Killed As Riots Rock Balochistan, Karachi (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Scores of buildings and vehicles on fire
Curfew imposed, lifted in Quetta
Punjabis attacked
Nationalists announce 15-day mourning and strike today
- Tony Blair Is Subservient To Bush: Carter (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Former US President Jimmy Carter has put the blame for the ongoing crisis in Iraq on the shoulders of British Premier Tony Blair, accusing him of "lack of leadership and timid subservience" to US President George W Bush.
- Balochistan In Flames After Pak Army Kills Top Leader (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Prominent tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a Pakistani Army missile attack in the restive Balochistan province that also left 38 armed rebels and 21 security personnel dead, triggering massive rioting during which a protester was shot dead.
- Atal: We Made India N-Power To Reckon With (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Aug 28, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Leader of Opposition LK Advani on Sunday said the six-year rule by the BJP-led NDA Government had not only successfully heralded the era of coalition politics in India but also made India a nuclear power.
- Incensed Baluchis Rise In Revolt (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
The killing of a top tribal chief by Pakistani troops sparked widespread violence and rioting on Sunday and raised fears that a decades-old conflict in the country's volatile southwest could widen.
- India, Bangladesh To Set Up Mechanism To Fight Terror (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India and Bangladesh on Sunday decided to set up a bilateral mechanism to combat terrorism and agreed to intensify efforts to counter arms smuggling and illegal immigration across their 4,200-km border.
- Vajpayee, Advani Asked Me To Free Masood Azhar: Farooq Abdullah (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
In a stinging attack on Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani over the 1999 Kandahar hijack episode, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has accused the then Prime Minister and Home Minister of compelling him to release . . .
- High-Level Meet To Tackle Naxal Menace Soon (Pioneer, Santanu Banerjee, Aug 28, 2006)
The Cabinet Secretary is slated to hold a high-level secretarial meeting shortly to evolve an effective strategy for dealing with Naxalite created bottle-necks in developmental works in the affected districts.
- Time To Rethink Policies (News International, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 28, 2006)
The dramatic return last week of the Northwest Airlines flight from the German airspace to Amsterdam’s Schipol airport, because a multiple ‘terrorist threat’ on board targeting 12 Indian nationals — all of them Muslim — has given a new dimension to . . .
- Double Take (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 28, 2006)
Left contrasts in West Bengal and Kerala
- After Ulfa, Centre Mulls Talks With Hizbul (Pioneer, Pramod Kumar Singh, Aug 28, 2006)
The Centre is mulling over opening talks with the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) on the pattern of the talks with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), provided the Kashmiri militant group lives up to its promise word of going in for a ceasefire . . .
- Bangladesh Promises To Plug Terror (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India and Bangladesh have decided to set up a mechanism to combat terrorism and organised crime during the home-secretary level talks that ended in Dhaka.
- 'India Benefits From Fall In China's Textile Export To Us' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India is one of the major beneficiaries of US restrictions on Chinese textile exports during the first six months of the current year, the Communist giant's top planning body said while cautioning the industry to brace for even less growth in . . .
- ‘Nuke Rise Because Of Bjp’ (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Sunday attributed the country’s rise as a nuclear power to the policies of the erstwhile Bharatiya Jan Sangh and the BJP.
- It's Tv Movies In Mumbai! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 28, 2006)
Even while it’s taken 13 years for the judgement to be readied on the 1993 Mumbai blasts case and 21 years for the 1985 Delhi transistor blasts case to be heard, parents in India’s political and commercial capitals and in the rest of the country . . .
- India Gives Evidence To Bangladesh On Terrorism Links (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
India has pointed out to Bangladesh that the recent terrorist incidents, including the Mumbai serial blasts, had "clear links" with individuals and outfits in that country, Union Home Secretary V K Duggal said today.
- Who Is Right About Nuclear Deal (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Aug 28, 2006)
Impressive though his performance was it cannot be said that in his reply to the Indo-US nuclear deal, after the debates in Parliament, Prime Minister had really said anything substantive that he had not before in response to the spate of criticism . . .
- Why Neil Simon? Why Not Badal Sircar? (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Theatre in India is a powerful, vibrant force.
- No Half Way (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 28, 2006)
It can't be anybody's case that Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq and his colleagues in the moderate Hurriyat Conference should not be talking about peace process between India and Pakistan.
- Jansangh, Bjp Policies Made India N-Power: Vajpayee (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today attributed the country's rise as a nuclear power to the policies of the Jansangh and the BJP.
- Strange But True (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 28, 2006)
This may sound strange but it is true. This information does not come from Transparency International that has rated Jammu and Kashmir as the second most corrupt State after much-maligned Bihar in certain public services.
- Jansangh, Bjp Policies Made India Nuke Power: Vajpayee (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today attributed the country’s rise as a nuclear power to the policies of the Jansangh and the BJP.
- Akbar Bugti Killed In Army Operation (Daily Times, Rana Qaisar, Aug 27, 2006)
21 security personnel and 37 rebels killed
Balach Marri and two of Bugti’s grandsons among dead
Operation against terrorists will continue: ISPR
- Pakistan Not Colluding With Taliban: Abizaid (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2006)
The Pakistan government is not colluding with the Taliban, although some militants come from across the border to fight in Afghanistan, the US commander for the region said on Saturday.
- Govt Mulls Law To Regulate Sting Acts (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
The Centre is considering bringing in a stringent law to deal with sting operations.
- Wake Up To The Maoist Menace (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Aug 26, 2006)
Some years ago when Sir Vidya Naipaul came to India to research on a new book he was planning to write, he asked me what I knew about the Naxalite movement. “Not much,” I admitted. “It started a long time ago in Naxalbari and had a leader named Kanu Sanya
- Naxalite Activities Well Under Control, Affirms Prakash (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Naxal presence limited to four districts
Government in touch with `sympathisers'
ANF commander to be appointed soon
- Shifting Winds In The Us (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Aug 26, 2006)
The month of August is usually languid and lazy in Washington. Virtually everyone is in their country houses or on the beaches, far removed from the cares of their daily chores.
- A Disappointing Judgment (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Aug 26, 2006)
The month of August is usually languid and lazy in Washington. Virtually everyone is in their country houses or on the beaches, far removed from the cares of their daily chores.
- India Protests To Netherlands Over Plane Detentions (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
India protested on Friday the Netherlands’ detention of 12 Indians following a mid-air security scare, saying it was ‘shocked’ at their treatment, but the Dutch government said it was just following procedure.
- 134 Terror Acts In 1st 5 Months Of 2006 (Daily Times, Shahzad Raza, Aug 26, 2006)
The Interior Ministry said on Friday that 134 incidents of terrorism had taken place in the country during the first five months of the year.
- Uk-Bound? Brace Yourself (Times of India, Byas Anand, Aug 26, 2006)
Security norms on flights to UK just for tougher. The British authorities now want advance information on personal details of all air travellers arriving in UK as part of a security profiling measure.
- Voices From The Reading Class (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2006)
Not many children cherish school these days. Neither did we in our time, but there were interludes that were fun while they lasted. One such was the reading class.
- 'Behaviour Of Concern' (OutLook, B. Raman , Aug 26, 2006)
The Dutch police are reported to have arrested 12 passengers from a Mumbai-bound Northwest Airlines on August 23, 2006, after it was escorted back to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport minutes after take off by Dutch F-16s.
- The Culprit Wants Proof (Pioneer, Sunita Vakil, Aug 26, 2006)
Even though relations between New Delhi and Islamabad have hit a new low after the Mumbai blasts, both are back to talking.
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