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Expat
Pakistanis Head Home To Fuel Makeover
Boom
Fancy a tummy tuck or face lift? How about a hair
transplant?
Federation
For Lanka
I do not accept all of what
the LTTE spokesman, Dr Anton
Balasingam, has said in his interview
to
an Indian television
network.
Mulling
Over Mittal
For reasons that have as much
to do with ethnicity as with national
pride, Lakshmi Mittal’s doughty
success in effecting the
merger of the Luxembourg-registered
Arcelor SA with his Mittal Steel has
been widely celebrated in
India.
Ltte’S
Turnaround
The security of Sri Lankan
Tamils is eventually what needs to be
ensured as a first step towards a
deal
N-Deal
Sent Up To Senate
The US Senate’s Foreign
Relations Committee, like its House of
Representatives counterpart two
days ago, voted
overwhelmingly this afternoon to
endorse the Indo-US nuclear
deal.
How
The West Lost A Friend In Moscow
Persistent Western criticism
of Russia and America's role in the
unrest in its neighbourhood appear to
be testing the patience of
even pro-western Russian leaders. Now
Mikhail Gorbachev tells
Washington and London to keep
their hands off Russia.
Growing
Power Of The Underworld
Rashtrapati Bhavan is not a court of appeal. But over the
years, it has become a forum where
concerned citizens have sought the attention of the highest
in the land to the problems which the
government has failed to notice, much less tackle.
Smarting
Over India N-Deal, Pak Gets F-16 Offer
From Us
The Bush Administration’s decision to seek Congressional
approval last night of the sale of 16
F-16
fighter aircraft for Pakistan is, only in part, a
compensation for the American refusal
to offer a
nuclear deal similar to the one signed with India . . .
Caring
For Kashmir's Dead Is Soul-Destroying
They are the men who care for Kashmir's dead, but the work
is slowly killing them.
Tibet
Rail: Dalai Lama’S Open Mind
While supporters of the
Tibetan cause protested against the
inauguration of the spectacular rail
line
from Gormo to Lhasa on
Saturday, the Dalai Lama has left
himself some political room.
Win-Win
Nuclear Deal
It is futile to look for
explanations from prophets of gloom
who predicted that the Indo-US nuclear
cooperation agreement would
fail to overcome US legislative
hurdles.
Will
India-China Border Talks Ever End?
For 25 years, India has been
seeking to settle by negotiation with
China the disputed Indo-Tibetan
frontier.
Transforming
The Art Of Giving Productively
The Gates-Buffet twin
decisions to walk away from wealth
have lessons beyond the money.
Iraq
And Guantanamo Fuelling Terrorist
Threat, Says Report
The
way the "war'' on terror is being
conducted has further fuelled
extremism and increased the
threat
from Al-Qaeda, according to a
high-level committee of British
MPs.
Iraqi
Problem Can End Only When Full
Sovereignty Returns: Manmohan
Situation tragic, I don't
have a readymade solution Spanish
Prime Minister wants greater contacts
with India Both countries
should work together to curb
terrorism: Manmohan
Non-Political
Experts To Head J & K Working
Groups
PDP, National Conference
unable to agree on nominees: official
People's representatives shoul
conduct political dialogue:
Tarigami A step in the right
direction: Omar Appointments, a
significant
change in official thought on
dialogue process . . .
Poultry
Team For West Asia To Allay Bird Flu
Fears
To press for lifting of
import ban on poultry products To put
in perspective on the disease-free
status of the farms in the
South, especially Tamil Nadu and
Kerala. A detailed video presentation
will
also be made to show that
products from the . . .
Half-Baked
Reforms At Raw
Facing
an exodus of key personnel and
increasingly vulnerable to
penetration, India's external
intelligence
service is beset by crisis.
Experiments
With Terror
The peace process resembles
nothing so much as an arch without its
keystone – in this case, an
end to killing. Now as
before, though, the keystone is stored
in Islamabad, not New Delhi or
Srinagar.
A
Dying Industry In India's Graveyard Of
Ships
Kamal Mandal packs his greasy
clothes, pausing to glance at a ship
being ripped apart bit-by-bit by
an army of workers on the
Indian coast.
Harvest
Of Hunger And Indignity
It's time Government paid
greater attention to the welfare of
farmers instead of worrying about the
stock market, says S
Gurumurthy
U.K.
Ban Will Hit Recruitment Of Nurses
From India
In a move that will affect
thousands of potential recruits from
India, Britain has slapped a ban on
recruitment of overseas
nurses from outside the European Union
(EU), in order to give priority to
domestic candidates.
A
"Peacekeeping" Mission Goes
Wrong
Britain's
post-9/11 campaign in Afghanistan,
meant to be a largely peaceful one, is
turning into a
full-scale
war.
Meeting
Ground In The Mountains
Hordes of officials and
journalists descend on the Nathu La
Pass, which is to be officially opened
for
border trade on
Thursday.
Delhi
Napping As Beijing Pushes Tibet Rail
To Sikkim, Arunachal
The long-awaited re-opening
of the Nathu La pass for border trade
between Sikkim and Tibet
tomorrow pales into
insignificance as Beijing unveils
plans for rail connectivity across the
Sino-Indian
border and all along
it.
The
Geopolitical Ripples
The
dramatic seven missile tests by North
Korea doesn’t just test the patience
of the international
community,
which has been warning Pyongyang
against it, they could mark a decisive
break in the
geopolitics
of East Asia.
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