Attack on US consulate in Libya deplorable: UAE papers
September 13th, 2012 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Sep 13 (IANS/WAM) Leading English dailies of the UAE have said the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which four Americans, including ambassador Christopher Stevens, were ... Read more...
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Contempt plea against Mamata on judiciary remarks
August 16th, 2012 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 16 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Thursday admitted a contempt of court petition against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks alleging corruption in the ... Read more...
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Contempt plea against Mamata on judiciary remarks (Lead)
August 16th, 2012 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 16 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Thursday admitted a contempt of court petition against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks alleging corruption in the ... Read more...
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Veteran Kashmiri journalist dies after prolonged illness
July 5th, 2012 - 4:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) S.D. Rohmetra, a veteran journalist from Jammu and Kashmir, died Thursday in the national capital after a prolonged illness.Rohmetra, 73, is survived by his wife, ... Read more...
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Mamata’s honeymoon with media seems to be over (West Bengal Newsletter)
April 1st, 2012 - 1:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have mastered the art of making unforced errors, to use a sports terminology, to hand down potent ... Read more...
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Mrinal, Mahashweta lash out against Mamata’s newspaper ban
March 28th, 2012 - 9:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 28 (IANS) Renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen and writer Mahasweta Devi Wednesday condemned the Mamata Banerjee-led government's decision to ban all leading dailies except eight vernacular newspapers in ... Read more...
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Bengal library ban on leading English, Bengali papers slammed
March 28th, 2012 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 28 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee-led government's decision to ban all dailies except eight vernacular newspapers in state-funded libraries to promote "free thinking" among readers, has drawn widespread ... Read more...
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Bengali print media market to touch Rs.800 crore by 2015
December 15th, 2011 - 2:23 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 15 (IANS) The Bengali print media market will touch Rs.800 crore by 2015, a report published by FICCI and Deloitte has said."This year, the entire print industry in ... Read more...
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Kashmir interlocutors have a busy day (Lead)
October 24th, 2010 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Srinagar, Oct 24 (IANS) The central govenment interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir Sunday had a busy day, interacting with some newspaper editors, delegations of local Gujjars and visiting the central jail in ... Read more...
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Denying minorities flood aid shows how low Pak as a nation has stooped to: Editorial
August 28th, 2010 - 6:12 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Aug.28 (ANI): Amid the massive humanitarian crisis in Pakistan, reports have emerged about how local authorities are discriminating in relief and rescue operations on the basis of caste, which is utterly ... Read more...
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‘Terror attacks across Pak’s tribal region proves Taliban still operating systematically’
August 26th, 2010 - 6:57 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Aug.26 (ANI): A series of terror strikes across Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces earlier this week killed nearly 45 persons and injured 100 others, which, ... Read more...
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Keep talking, India, Pakistan urged
July 17th, 2010 - 8:28 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, July 17 (IANS) Pakistani newspapers Saturday blamed the tough stance by India and Pakistan for the stalemate in their peace talks, but urged the two to keep talking.
"There was little hope ... Read more...
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Pak must take 26/11 perpetrators to task for talks with India to continue: Editorial
July 17th, 2010 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, July 17 (ANI): A remark over Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley's confession and the alleged involvement of the ISI in the 26/11 attacks infuriated Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi ... Read more...
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Indian Army Chief’s remarks on Kashmir admittance of ‘total failure’: Pak media
July 14th, 2010 - 6:58 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, July 14 (ANI): Pakistani media has described Indian Army Chief General V K Singh's recent statement over Kashmir violence as an 'admission of the India's state's total failure'.An opinion piece in ... Read more...
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Pak’s ‘good Taliban, bad Taliban’ theory recipe for disaster: Editorial
July 10th, 2010 - 6:26 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, July 10 (ANI): After the recent suicide attack on Lahore's famous Hazrat Data Gunj Bukhsh shrine in which 43 people were killed and over 175 injured, intelligence agencies claimed that ... Read more...
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US embassy in Islamabad losing battle to counter hate America Pak media campaign
June 27th, 2010 - 12:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 27 (ANI): The US Embassy in Islamabad is having a tough time countering the continuous anti-American campaign being carried out by the Pakistani media.Embassy officials have been engaged in ... Read more...
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Government calls for public consultation on nuclear liability bill
June 24th, 2010 - 8:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) Facing fierce opposition from major political parties, the government Thursday called for "wider consultation" on the civil nuclear liability bill which fixes the maximum amount of ... Read more...
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Malaysian Govt. to recruit more non-Malays for Civil services
June 20th, 2010 - 2:59 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur June 20 (ANI): The Malaysian Government has said itwould undertake recruitment drive to increase the non-Malayappoinments in the country's civil service to 1,000 within thenext five years. ... Read more...
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Pakistan unlikely to give Musharraf second chance to rule: Editorial
June 11th, 2010 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jun.11 (ANI): Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf's aim of returning to country's political stage may have received a boost recently with the launch of his newly floated party-the All ... Read more...
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‘Endangered’ Pak must neutralise plethora of militant outfits on its own volition: Editorial
May 13th, 2010 - 6:37 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, May 13 (ANI): As the US continues to pile up pressure on Pakistan to act against terror groups based in country's semi-autonomous tribal areas following officials claiming to have established links ... Read more...
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Pak must ‘take out’ LeT, other terror groups following ‘fair’ Kasab trial: Editorial
May 5th, 2010 - 3:22 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, May 5 (ANI): Terming the trial and the verdict of the special anti-terror court against Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman who along with his nine other associates unleashed a ... Read more...
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MIM nominates senior journalist for legislative council
April 19th, 2010 - 9:50 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, April 19 (IANS) Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) has decided to field senior journalist Syed Amin-ul-Hasan Jafri as its candidate for Andhra Pradesh state legislative council.
The Muslim political party ignored contenders from its ... Read more...
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Pak must weed out its ’strategic asset’ extremist groups for survival: Editorial
March 13th, 2010 - 3:56 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar.13 (ANI): Friday's serial bomb blasts in Lahore was the second terrorist strike in the city within a week which clearly suggests that claims regarding inflicting a body blow to extremists ... Read more...
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Extension in ISI chief’s tenure indicates Pak Army acting as “law unto itself”: Editorial
March 12th, 2010 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar.12 (ANI): Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's decision to extend the tenure of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt.Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha indicates that the Pakistan Army is ... Read more...
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Pak media blames India for engineering recent terror acts in Afghanistan
March 7th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar.7 (ANI): While links between the Kabul attack, in which 17 people, including six Indians were killed, and the ambush in Kandahar, in which four Pakistani labourers were killed, is ... Read more...
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Pak media claims RAW, RAM behind killing of four Pakistani workers in Kandahar
March 5th, 2010 - 3:12 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar.5 (ANI): While no terrorist group has claimed the responsibility for the death of four Pakistani construction workers, who were killed near Kandahar on Thursday, the Pakistani media has termed ... Read more...
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‘Edgy’ Pak concerned over Dr. Singh’s ’successful’ Saudi trip
March 2nd, 2010 - 2:40 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar.2 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's recent visit to Saudi Arabia is being seen by the Pakistani media as a deliberate attempt by New Delhi to elbow Islamabad's relationship ... Read more...
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Pak’s craving for Afghan ’strategic depth’ ’strategic death’ in reality: Editorial
February 3rd, 2010 - 6:51 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Feb.3 (ANI): Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani recently clarified that Islamabad has no intentions of controlling Afghanistan, but it only wants a 'strategic depth' in the ... Read more...
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Pak must get rid of rogue elements that it fathered: Editorial
January 22nd, 2010 - 6:50 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan.22 (ANI): Fears loom large that any more 26/11 type terror attack on India may break its patience and trigger a full scale war between India and Pakistan, which could have ... Read more...
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Differences over Afghanistan threaten ‘tenuous’ US, Pak alliance: Editorial
January 15th, 2010 - 6:48 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan.15 (ANI): While massive diplomatic efforts are on to reduce fissures between the United States and Pakistan, the lack of trust and coordination between the two allies refuses to die ... Read more...
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Pak military must make public defence deals to guarantee legitimacy: Editorial
January 1st, 2010 - 6:24 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Jan.1 (ANI): Pakistan recently inducted the sophisticated surveillance aircraft, Saab-2009, in its Air Force' fleet through a deal worth 866 million dollars with Sweden.While the acquisition is being seen as a ... Read more...
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‘Ubiquitous ‘foreign’ hand behind terror strikes very much indigenous : Pak Editorial
December 31st, 2009 - 6:00 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec.31 (ANI): Similar to any other incident, the Pakistani leadership and the officials have blamed 'foreign hands' for the deadly suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Karachi, in which ... Read more...
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Action against hate-mongering terror camps is in Pak’s own interest : Editorial
December 13th, 2009 - 5:53 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec.13 (ANI): The recent arrest of five US origin terror suspects in Sargodha (Pak Punjab) has raised serious concerns about the massive extremist indoctrination and terror training centres being run in ... Read more...
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Futile to blame India, US for terror emanating from within Pak: Editorial
December 11th, 2009 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec. 11 (ANI): While the Pakistani leadership has been blaming foreign countries such as India and the United States for the recent wave of terror attacks in the country, which ... Read more...
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Don’t blame RAW for ghastly attacks, identify beasts within: Pak Editorial
December 6th, 2009 - 4:36 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec.6 (ANI): An editorial in one of Pakistan's most famous English dailies, while severely denouncing Friday's suicide attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi, has said that it is time that leaders ... Read more...
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