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Articles 4021 through 4120 of 20249:
- Road Ahead For N-Deal (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Aug 24, 2006)
AFTER having wasted huge amounts of the tax payer’s money for two weeks on puerile controversies generated by the foibles, two former Foreign Ministers, Mr Jaswant Singh and Mr Natwar Singh, the members of the Rajya Sabha, showed they are capable . . .
- ‘Money Goes To Black Coat, White Coat And Thieves’ (Deccan Herald, CP Bhambhri, Aug 24, 2006)
Janardhan Reddy released 4 video CDs and 1 audio CD. While 3 video CDs showed the conversation (in Hindi & English) among the mine owners, exporters and a ‘sting’ operator, the audio CD . . .
- Us Crackdown Setback For Ltte (Asia Times, M.R. Narayan Swamy, Aug 24, 2006)
The arrest of eight Tamil men in the US on charges of attempting to buy sophisticated weapons marks a new low for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, now battling the most serious military and diplomatic challenges in its three-decade history.
- India Says Cbms With Pakistan Will Continue: (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Says Kashmir an integral part of India
New Delhi disappointed by Islamabad’s inaction on terrorist outfits
- Indian Minister Rejects Musharraf’S Proposals (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Says Kashmir an integral part of India
New Delhi disappointed by Islamabad’s inaction on terrorist outfits
- Bush Phones Musharraf; Me Crisis Discussed (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
US President George W. Bush telephoned President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday and expressed words of appreciation for Pakistan’s support in the global fight against terrorism.
- India Rules Out Joint Management Of Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
India on Wednesday rejected the idea of joint management or joint control of divided Kashmir with Pakistan, saying a similar suggestion recently reiterated by President Gen Pervez Musharraf would impinge on India’s sovereignty over the disputed region.
- Exploring Tourism Potential Of Jammu And Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 24, 2006)
If Kashmir is paradise on earth, Jammu is the gateway to reach this heaven. Similarly, Ladakh is the crown of India; all the three regions of the State of Jammu and Kashmir have been blessed by nature with much more to be offered to the tourists.
- Pricing 3g Spectrum (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 24, 2006)
The tricky issue will be to build a consensus on the entry fee for operators and settling on a formula to share revenue with the Government.
- Wrong Signals (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 24, 2006)
His visit to the war shrine has again provoked neighbours.
- Singh, The Gladiator? (Deccan Herald, PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR, Aug 24, 2006)
Dr Singh was clever enough to speak a lot, leaving the main contentious issue at bay.
- A Bitter Pill To Swallow (Deccan Herald, KATHYAYINI CHAMARAJ, Aug 24, 2006)
Citizens rights seem to be the ultimate price demanded for implementing JNNURM.
- Illusions On Sale (Deccan Herald, Don Lee , Aug 24, 2006)
In this populous city of fanatical shoppers, Plaza 66 is what some locals call a gui gouwu zhongxin — a ghost mall. The prices are so high that no one buys much. But then, no one really cares.
- Parity’, Did You Say? (Indian Express, Arun Shourie, Aug 24, 2006)
While India fantasises about “parity”, the US aims to acquire, in the form of an “ally”, an instrument that will do its bidding because it is dependent on the US, says Arun Shourie in the final part of his series on the nuclear deal.
- Naxals Strike In Chikmagalur (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
A group of Naxals struck at the Lakebund Wildlife Unit office of the Kudremukh National Park here on Wednesday and destroyed records and furniture, apart from setting a jeep on fire.
- A Shame For Congress (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 24, 2006)
In the latest judicial rebuke of the Bush administration’s tactics against terrorism, a federal judge in Detroit ruled last week that warrantless wiretapping of US citizens violates the Constitution and federal law.
- Indian Claim Rejected (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
The Foreign Office on Wednesday ridiculed and dismissed an Indian claim that a suspected Pakistani ‘terrorist’ had been killed in a police encounter in Mumbai.
- Mumbai Bound Us Plane Turned Back (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Two Dutch fighter planes accompanied a US Northwest Airlines plane bound for Mumbai back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, officials said.
- Anxious Lebanese Ponder Post-War Life With Hizbollah (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
A Pakistan-born Australian architect was jailed for 20 years today for planning bomb attacks in Sydney, a court official said.
- Suspicious Passengers Set Off Flight Alarm (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
US plane en route to India escorted back to Schiphol; 12 detained
A US airline flight to India returned to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday, escorted by two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, after the crew reported that some passengers were . . .
- Consumer Culture (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 24, 2006)
In the old days, when communist central planning suffocated China's economy, fixed-asset investment was the regime's measure of economic progress.
- Shift In Opinion On Iraq War: Poll (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Americans increasingly see the war in Iraq as distinct from the fight against terrorism, and nearly half believe president Bush has focused too much on Iraq to the exclusion of other threats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
- Alarm Bells (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 24, 2006)
It is high time that alarm bells started ringing in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Pakistan Arrests 'Indian' Over Alleged Train Terror Bid (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
A suspected Indian national stole a railway engine in Pakistan and tried to drive it into a passenger train in an attempted terror attack, police in the southern city of Karachi claimed today.
- Isi Continues To Support Terror Groups In J&k (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Maintaining that Pakistan has not dismantled the terror infrastructure existing on its soil, India today said the neighbouring country’s intelligence agency ISI continues to provide "directions" and "logistics" support to terrorist groups like LeT . . .
- Pak Arrests 'Indian' National For Trying To Cause Accident (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
A man Pakistan claimed was an Indian national allegedly stole a railway engine and tried to drive it into a passenger train near Karachi in order to cause a major accident.
- Deficit Of Trust In Pakistan (Pioneer, PN Khera, Aug 24, 2006)
The Army alone will be the winner in any election in Pakistan because it will always remain the single largest party in that country, says PN Khera
- Upa Holds Country To Ransom (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Aug 24, 2006)
Congress fails to realise that so far as appeasement is concerned, it's better to draw a line than to sign on the dotted line, says Anuradha Dutt.
- Thorn In The Side (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 24, 2006)
One of the most serious threats to India's security is from the proxy war unleashed against it on the eastern front, says Hiranmay Karlekar.
- India-Bound Plane Escorted Back To Amsterdam, 12 Held (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
A Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Mumbai turned back shortly after takeoff on Wednesday and returned to Schiphol airport under fighter-jet escort.
- China Struggles With Cultural Revolution (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Li Qingyou vividly recalls the day 40 years ago when Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution that killed millions of people and ravaged China’s body, mind and soul.
- Indian Fliers In F-16 Fear Zone (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
F-16 fighter jets scrambled to escort a Mumbai-bound plane back to Amsterdam today, triggering a nerve-wracking wait on the tarmac that culminated in the arrest of 12 passengers who aroused the crew’s “suspicion”.
- Pak Arrests ‘Indian’ Over Alleged Train Terror Bid (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
A suspected Indian national stole a railway engine in Pakistan and tried to drive it into a passenger train in an attempted terror attack, the police in the southern city of Karachi claimed today.
- Shed Passive Approach To Security (Tribune, P.C. Dogra, Aug 24, 2006)
Another strike at Mumbai has benumbed our nerves and made us feel helpless in the face of the inevitable. India’s history right from 1947 onwards had been to yield, to buy peace.
- Dutch Arrest 12 On U.S. Plane Bound For India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 24, 2006)
Dutch police arrested 12 passengers behaving suspiciously on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India that was forced to turn back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday.
- India Deflects Tamil Calls To Mediate In Sri Lanka (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Aug 24, 2006)
Their black gowns flapping in the traffic, scores of Indian lawyers form a "human chain" around the red-brick court building while other protesters burn Sri Lankan flags or stage symbolic fasts.
- Now They Check What We're Thinking (Hindu, Kathryn Hughes, Aug 23, 2006)
Forget sharp objects and hair gel; our private emotions are now up for grabs at airport check-ins.
- Eight Held In U.S. For Supporting Ltte (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 23, 2006)
In two separate cases, eight persons have been arrested and charged by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with conspiracy to provide "material support and resources" to the LTTE.
- Terrorist Killed In Mumbai (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Associate arrested during midnight checking in Wadala
- Controversy Over Singing Of "Vande Mataram" Rocks Both Houses (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
BJP, Shiv Sena allege bid by Government to appease minority community
Singing of national song not compulsory: Arjun Singh
Electoral politics behind change in stand: Manohar Joshi
No question of disrespect to national song: Somnath .
- 11 Terror Plot Suspects Produced In Court (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Amid tight security, 11 people charged in the terror plot to blow up US-bound planes from the UK were today produced before a city magistrate and remanded to custody.
- Pathak Report Draws Flak In Lok Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
``Congress being protected by author"
A grey report: Gurudas Dasgupta
Natwar Singh the "lynchpin": Sibal
Authority must have looked into other entities: CPI(M)
- Smoking Kills And Your Right To Know (Daily Excelsior, Narinder Sharma, Aug 23, 2006)
Four million unnecessary deaths per year, 11,000 every day. Its rare - if not impossible - to find examples in history that match tobacco's programmed trail of death and destruction.
- Illusions On Sale (Deccan Herald, Don Lee , Aug 23, 2006)
In this populous city of fanatical shoppers, Plaza 66 is what some locals call a gui gouwu zhongxin — a ghost mall. The prices are so high that no one buys much. But then, no one really cares.
- Tv-Mediated Activism (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Aug 23, 2006)
People turn insensitive to issues in course of time due to over exposure of events on television.
- Modi’S Thesis On Muslims (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Aug 23, 2006)
Many common Indians have been congratulating themselves on the fact that the recent Mumbai blasts failed to ignite a communal conflagration. It is true indeed that the terrorist strike triggered off no riots but only participation by all communities . . .
- Get The Guilty (Times of India, Rajeev Dhavan , Aug 23, 2006)
July and August have been the cruelest months of 2006. In these two months we saw the Mumbai blasts of July 11, resurgence of killings in Kashmir, planting of bombs at London's Heathrow airport, mayhem in Sri Lanka and Israel's merciless bombing of . . .
- Terror Plotters Appear Before London Judge (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Suspects accused in the alleged plot to blow up US-bound airliners arrived in court on Tuesday for their first appearance before a judge on terrorism charges. The11 suspects arrived by police convoy to the City of Westminster Magistrates Court in . . .
- Pak National Killed In Mumbai, Another Held On Terror Charge (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
In an operation which started at midnight and ended early this morning, Maharashtra’s Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) shot dead a suspected militant and arrested another in suburban Vadala and Antop Hill areas.
- School Attacked In Jharkhand (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
A group of armed miscreants attacked a missionary school, critically injuring a Christian priest and the institution director, in Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district on Monday night
- Job Plan For 5,000 Youth In Naxal-Affected Villages (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Second batch of 20 youth sent for training .
- Hyphenating India And Pakistan (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 23, 2006)
The US has not been able to jettison its overall construct of coupling India and Pakistan together while formulating its policies regarding the sub-continent.
- Three Inches Of Incompetence (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 23, 2006)
The rains Karachi received on Thursday last week measured a total of 91 mm at the highest point which roughly translates into 3.5 inches.
- Nasrallah’S Arsenal Of Surprises (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Aug 23, 2006)
In the end, Ehud Olmert got more or less what he wanted. But things did not quite work out the way he expected them to, and his days as Israel’s prime minister may now be numbered.
- Distorting History (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 23, 2006)
Politicisation of education in the name of detoxification, will give birth to a generation of ignoramuses, says JS Rajput
- Al Qaeda May Have Been A Resort! (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economist, Aug 23, 2006)
In her sensational autobiography Diary of a Lost Girl, Sudanese poet-cum-novelist Kola Boof claims to have been Osama bin Laden’s sex slave and privy to his fantasies of wanting singer-actress Whitney Houston, to the extent of taking out her hubby . . .
- Multi-Pronged Plan For Naxals (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
The government is pursuing a multi-pronged approach to address the problem of Naxalism on political, security and development fronts in a holistic and coordinated manner.
- Pak Man Shot Dead In Mumbai Encounter (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
A suspected terrorist was arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police at Wadala TT while his associate was killed in an exchange of fire at Antop Hill in Mumbai early on Tuesday morning.
- India Needs E-Surveillance (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 23, 2006)
There's no way the country can fight high-tech terrorism with antiquated laws, says Muktesh Chander.
- Musharraf Offers Cooperation Against ‘Freelance Terrorists’ (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 23, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has offered India exchange of information and cooperation amongst their intelligence agencies to ward off terrorist attacks, and to join hands in investigations and in moving against “freelance terrorists”.
- ‘Vande Mataram’ Issue Rocks Parliament (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Both Houses of Parliament today witnessed uproarious scenes and adjournments as the ruling coalition and Opposition members clashed over the government’s statement that singing of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ on September 7 was voluntary.
- Mumbai Police Kills One Pak ‘Terrorist’, Nabs Another (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
The Mumbai police today claimed to have killed one Pakistani terrorist and nabbed another in an early morning operation in the city’s Antop Hill area today. Mumbai’s Police Commissioner A.N Roy told reporters this afternoon that the Anti-Terror . . .
- Owning Weakness (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 23, 2006)
Admitting and identifying shortcomings is the first major step towards their elimination. Against that backdrop there is much to appreciate in the analyses of the counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir by the CRPF’s inspector-general in . . .
- Britain Absorbs 4,27,000 Migrants (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Britain has received an estimated 4,27,000 migrants from the eight former communist states that joined the European Union in 2004, the British government announced today.
- The Telgi Saga (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 23, 2006)
Currently CNN-IBN is telecasting taped conversations between Abdul Karim Telgi and compatriots. Mr Telgi is the public face of the hidden mafia behind the nationwide fake stamp papers scam.
- Olmert’S Refusal To Talk (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 23, 2006)
Israel’s refusal to talk to Syria is in keeping with its avowed policy of relying on force rather than trying the diplomatic option. Speaking . . .
- Top Pakistani Militant Arrested In Kashmir (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
The Army today claimed to have achieved a major breakthrough in the Mumbai serial blast case by arresting a top Pakistani militant from South Kashmir early this morning.
- War Against Stereotypes (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 23, 2006)
Earlier this month the British police announced a series of arrests to disrupt a plot to blow up several airliners mid-air.
- 2 Armed Men 'Seen' Near Kakrapar Atomic Centre (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Two armed men were spotted in the vicinity of the Kakrapar nuclear power station complex near Surat on Tuesday, triggering a massive search of the area by security forces.
- Muslims Question Pm ‘Inaction’ (Telegraph, RASHEED KIDWAI, Aug 23, 2006)
Muslim leaders who heard Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech yesterday are asking why he has been unable to act on his “good intentions”.
- Caring For The Fields Of Gold (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 23, 2006)
The government’s zeal for industrialization must not be allowed to push agriculture and rural life into oblivion, writes Ashis Chakrabarti
Touch of indifference
No one who has known him for long would think of Sadhan Pande as the Communist . .
- Optional Mataram (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 23, 2006)
In 1986, in a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court exempted two children of the Jehovah's Witness sect from singing the National Anthem at their school in Kerala.
- J&k: Arms And Ammunition Recovered (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2006)
Army recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from a hideout in Keri area of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday night, sources on Tuesday said.
- Indo-Pak Expulsion Diplomacy Diplomacy (Daily Excelsior, Ajay Kaul, Aug 22, 2006)
Pakistan's action to expel a senior Indian diplomat does not augur well for the relations between the two countries, particularly at a time when the ties are already under strain.
- Sri Lankans Await Aid As Us Raids Tiger Suspects (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Aug 22, 2006)
Thousands of hungry Sri Lankan Tamils, trapped by a new bout of war between the Tamil Tigers and the military, desperately waited on Tuesday for aid to be shipped north, as suspected rebel arms procurers were arrested in the United States.
- Wrong To Blame Particular Community For Terrorism: Pm (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2006)
Seeking to allay apprehensions of the Muslim community, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it was wrong to blame any particular community for terror acts and action against terrorists should be based on concrete evidence.
- The Paradigm Of (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 22, 2006)
The term geo-politics came into vogue with the consolidation of colonial empires and imperialist expansion in Europe. Conquests and wars in Eurasia and Latin America, indeed across the world in the 18th and 19th centuries, resulted in the use of . . .
- War Not Lost, It's Just Begun (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 22, 2006)
Between two schools of thought in Islam on suicide, wisdom undoubtedly is on the side that proscribes it, says Bulbul Roy Mishra .
- Sense Of The House (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 22, 2006)
It's a good sign that Parliament rose to the occasion and focussed attention on the nuclear deal instead of fighting on trivial issues, says CP Bhambhri.
- July-August In Memory (Pioneer, K Govindan Kutty , Aug 22, 2006)
We forget some freedom fighters who never figured in any history book, but played an important role in our struggle for independence
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