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Debate On Saving China's Tigers
Should
China
revoke ban on domestic tiger trade to
increase the number of tigers in the
wild? Conservationists are divided.
‘123 Fulfils Prime Minister’s
Assurances’
The draft nuclear cooperation
agreement negotiated last week by
India and the United States fulfils
all the assurances Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh gave Parliament in
August 2006, senior officials told The
Hindu on Monday.
China’s Experiment With Village
Elections
Are they simply a limited experiment
aimed at ensuring better compliance
with central government directives in
the potentially restive countryside or
do they hold within them the seeds of
genuine political change across the
system?
Bruised But Not Beaten
Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, a diehard
critic of Pervez Musharraf, has been
reinstated as
Pakistan's
Chief Justice.
Vehicles Of Terror
Who poses a greater threat to British
"values" and its way of life? That
semi-literate neighborhood foreign
"imam" with his regressive world view?
Or those urbane and well-heeled
foreign professionals next door?
How Will Beijing Bring Home The Bacon?
It may be the Year of the Pig,
according to the Chinese zodiac but
the animal is not having much luck in
China.
‘U.S. Knew India Had No Flexibility’
India and the United States were able
to finalise the text of their nuclear
cooperation agreement — also known as
the 123 agreement — largely because
Washington understood that the Indian
side had no more flexibility and
shifted gear to . . . .
The Indian Connecton
"I take pride," Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh said in a June 2005
interview, "in the fact that, although
we have 150 million Muslims in our
country as citizens, not one has been
found to have joined the ranks of al
Qaeda or participated in .. . . ..
£1 Million Lost In Money-Transfer
Crash
Hundreds of Bangladeshi immigrants,
mostly low-paid workers, have lost
their precious savings as a
high-profile company used by them to
transfer money back home has collapsed
leaving behind unpaid remittances of
nearly £1.7 million affecting some . .
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Debate On Saving China's Tigers
Should
China
revoke ban on domestic tiger trade to
increase the number of tigers in the
wild? Conservationists are divided.
Racism Colours West’s Attitude Towards
Muslims
Indian Muslims are surprised but feel
gratified over the concern both Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and foreign
minister Pranab Mukherjee have shown
in the case of Mohammad Haneef who is
under detention in Australia.
Let A Million Schools And Colleges
Bloom!
This government has eighteen months
left in office and it isn’t looking
good. Measured by almost any parameter
it gets less than five out of ten.
Prime Minister Mayawati, Backed By The
Comrades, No Kidding
If somebody compiles a selection of
the most hypocritical political
statements in our six decades since
Independence,
the Left’s argument, that the Republic
must have a “political” President, but
a “non-political” Vice-President, will
rank right . . .
The Bangus — Paradise Threatened
Tourism threatens to destroy one of
Jammu and Kashmir’s most spectacular
regions.
Peerages Row “Politically Motivated”
The Scotland Yard officer, who led the
failed investigation into the
cash-for-honours case, is to be
questioned by a committee of MPs amid
allegations that the whole affair was
politically-motivated and designed to
“undermine” trust in the Labour . . .
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Lal Masjid And The New Era
The moral authority of Musharraf to
rule is once again being questioned on
the streets of
Pakistan.
Wooing The New Indian Tourist Out Of
London
The ‘India Now’ festival in
London
is a ploy to get the nouveau-richeIndian
tourist into Britain somehow.
The Deafening Sounds Of Silence
We have been observing a disquieting
silence--whether it be in Afghanistan
or Iraq or Somalia or Myanmar.
Six-Party Talks Extended By A Day
The Six-party talks on the North
Korean nuclear issue were extended by
a day as negotiators worked towards
reaching a consensus on the deadline
for the implementation of the next
phase of the denuclearisation process.
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