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NEWS SOURCES -April 26&27, 2003 (Weekend) |
| EDITORIALS / OP-ED |
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The
monk in the lab (New York Times - Registration
required) |
| BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY |
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Report: India bars Monsanto biotech cotton on north
farms (St. Louis Business Journal - Registration
required) |
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Local companies find value using overseas IT
work (The Business Journal of Kansas City - Registration
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Indo-American Chamber initiates global
partnerships (Houston Business Journal - Registration
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| OTHER STORIES |
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Sri
Lankan bishop who aided rebels dies (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
(San Francisco Chronicle) (New York Times - Registration required)
(Washington Post) |
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Christian in Pakistan sentenced to prison (Seattle
Post-Intelligencer) (San Francisco Chronicle) (Washington
Post) |
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South Asian countries plan emergency SARS
meeting (New York Times - Registration required) (Washington
Post) |
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New
Delhi to harvest rain (Washington Post) |
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Boat capsizes in Kashmir, killing three children; 21
missing (San Francisco Chronicle) (Wall Street Journal -
Subscription required) |
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| TOP
STORIES |
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Powell: U.S.
continues to press Pakistan on militants |
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April 26, New
Delhi -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Saturday Washington's
efforts to get Pakistan to stop Muslim militants from slipping into the
Indian part of Kashmir had yielded "mixed results." In an interview with
Indian STAR News television channel, Powell said from Washington: "We have
spoken clearly and directly to our Pakistani colleagues...about the need
to eliminate actions across the LoC (Line of Control). It has been a mixed
result." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr26.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030426_000235-search,00.html |
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Pakistan
awaiting India's formal offer of talks |
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April 26,
Islamabad -- Pakistan is awaiting a formal offer for dialogue from New
Delhi to resolve all outstanding disputes between the two countries, local
English newspaper Dawn reported on Saturday. "Pakistan has announced that
as soon as the offer is conveyed through diplomatic channels, Islamabad
will immediately send a senior official to New Delhi to work out the
agenda for the Indo- Pakistan talks," an unnamed official from the Foreign
Ministry said here on Friday. The remarks came after Indian Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee's statement on Thursday that he is waiting for a
response to his offer of talks from Pakistan. |
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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7834847&BRD=1692&PAG=740&dept_id=226968&rfi=6 |
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http://www.troyrecord.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7834847&BRD=1170&PAG=740&dept_id=226968&rfi=6 |
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Car bombing,
gunbattle kill 5 in Kashmir |
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Srinagar, India
-- A car bombing and ensuing gunbattle Saturday at the offices of state-
run radio and television in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed three
suspected Islamic militants and two soldiers, police said. Three
paramilitary officers were wounded. Hours later, at least 10 others were
injured in two separate attacks, including an apparent attempt to
assassinate the state's finance minister. Two Pakistan-based Islamic rebel
groups claimed responsibility for the car bombing, which took place in the
state's summer capital, Srinagar. Hours later, U.S. Secretary of State
Colin Powell said his government has repeatedly asked Pakistan to stop
Islamic militants from crossing into India's portion of the disputed
Himalayan region, but with mixed results. |
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http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=36593 |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134684238_wdig27.html |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/26/international0600EDT0482.DTL |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/international/asia/27KASH.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr26.html |
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Trial
for accused Air India bombers |
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April 26,
Vancouver, Canada -- Before the Sept. 11 attacks, before Pan Am Flight 103
over Scotland, there was Air India Flight 182, blown up by a bomb with 329
people aboard in what is still the worst terrorist attack on a commercial
airliner. On Monday, after an almost 18-year investigation that cost more
than $30 million, two men from India's Sikh religious minority will face
murder charges while sitting behind bulletproof glass as their trial
starts in a specially built courtroom. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Airliner%20Bomb%20Trial |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/26/international1752EDT0604.DTL |
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-crime-airindia.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr27.html |
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Nepal rebels,
government say peace talks cordial |
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Kathmandu --
Nepal's Maoist rebels and the government, which began discussions on
Sunday in an effort to end the insurgency in which thousands have died,
said the first round of talks were held in a cordial atmosphere. The first
talks in 17 months were held in a hotel in the capital Kathmandu. They
have raised hopes for peace after seven years of fighting to topple the
constitutional monarchy and establish communist rule. The rebels said the
meeting, which lasted four-and-a-half-hours, was held ``in a very good and
cordial atmosphere'' and both sides had decided to meet again, although no
dates were finalized yet. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-nepal.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr27.html |
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Air India
suspends 15 more pilots over SARS-related demand |
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New Delhi --
India's national carrier suspended 15 more pilots Sunday after they
refused to fly with staff who had been to SARS-hit countries in the past
10 days, according to news reports. Some Air India pilots have refused to
fly to countries hit by severe acute respiratory syndrome. Others said
they won't fly with pilots who did not have health certificates from the
airline confirming they had not been to SARS-hit areas in the past 10
days. Indian officials say that is the virus' incubation period.
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http://www.ctnow.com/business/nationworld/ats-ap_business19apr27,0,7301336.story?coll=sns%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/27/financial1517EDT0013.DTL |
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http://www.newsday.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-india-sars-airline-pilots,0,7281800.story |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-India-SARS-Airline-Pilots.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr27.html |
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/671/3850144.html |
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Sri Lankan
rebels refuse to lay down arms |
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April 26, Colombo
-- The Tamil Tiger rebels, who this week suspended peace talks with the
Sri Lankan government to end two decades of war, said today that the move
was only temporary but also rejected American demands that they lay down
their arms. In a response to American comments on Thursday that the group,
formally known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, should return to
the negotiating table, the rebels' chief negotiator said the peace effort
had not been terminated. "We have not scuttled the peace process or
terminated negotiations," the negotiator, Anton Balasingham, said in an
interview with a pro-rebel Web site. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/international/asia/26LANK.html |
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Pakistan
seizes huge arms cache near Afghan border |
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Peshawar,
Pakistan -- Pakistani authorities seized a huge cache of arms in a Sunday
morning raid near the border with Afghanistan but made no arrests, an
official said. The raid took place about 124 miles south of Peshawar,
capital of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), in a semi-autonomous
tribal area. Assistant Political Agent Kafayatullah told Reuters by
telephone that among the mortar shells, remote-controlled mines, missile
fuses and mortar guns were 99 Russian missiles and about 64 guns of every
variety conceivable. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr27.html |
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The monk in
the lab |
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Dharamsala, India
-- These are times when destructive emotions like anger, fear and hatred
are giving rise to devastating problems throughout the world. While the
daily news offers grim reminders of the destructive power of such
emotions, the question we must ask is this: What can we do, person by
person, to overcome them? Of course such disturbing emotions have always
been part of the human condition. Some — those who tend to believe nothing
will "cure" our impulses to hate or oppress one another — might say that
this is simply the price of being human. But this view can create apathy
in the face of destructive emotions, leading us to conclude that
destructiveness is beyond our control. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/26/opinion/26LAMA.html |
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| BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY |
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Report: India
bars Monsanto biotech cotton on north farms |
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April 25 -- The
government of India has barred Monsanto's genetically modified cotton from
being planted in its northern farmlands. The Associated Press reported
that the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee rejected the application
of Monsanto's Indian partner, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. (Mahyco),
saying it the cotton was prone to the leaf curl virus. The decision does
not affect the sale of other biotech cotton in other parts of India.
Mahyco has already received approval for three other varieties in southern
India. |
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http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2003/04/21/daily84.html |
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Local
companies find value using overseas IT work |
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April 25 --
Sprint Corp. is debating shipping information technology work offshore in
an effort to save hundreds of millions of dollars. Steve Klika wonders why
there is any debate. That's because Klika, president of Overland
Park-based International Motor Coach Group Inc. (IMG), couldn't be happier
with the IT work he sent overseas, namely building the company's Web site.
"They've got a bunch of techies over there," Klika said of India, the
predominant benefactor of IT work sent by American companies.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2003/04/28/story3.html |
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Indo-American
Chamber initiates global partnerships |
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April 25 --
Indo-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston (www.iaccgh.com),
which fosters economic development for Indo-Americans and business between
India and the United States, is initiating a joint venture in cancer
research between Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and India's All
India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi and Tata Memorial Center
in Mumbai. A delegation of M.D. Anderson doctors and IACCGH officers
traveled to India in October 2002. In March, a seven-member M.D. Anderson
delegation traveled to Mumbai and Delhi and participated in a symposium on
Common Cancers In India: Evidence-Based Management at Tata Memorial
Hospital. |
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http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2003/04/28/focus8.html |
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Sri Lankan
bishop who aided rebels dies |
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Colombo --
Bastiampillai Deogupillai, a former bishop of Sri Lanka's troubled
northern city of Jaffna, has died. He was 86. Deogupillai, who aided tens
of thousands of people during Sri Lanka's 19-year civil war, died in his
sleep late Friday, a church official, G.P.E. Selvarajah, said Sunday.
TamilNet, a Web site that reports on the affairs of Sri Lanka's ethnic
Tamil minority, praised the bishop for supporting them in a 19-year civil
war aimed at securing a separate homeland. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Obit%20Deogupillai |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/27/obituary0525EDT0419.DTL |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Obit-Deogupillaihtml |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr27.html |
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Christian in
Pakistan sentenced to prison |
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April 26, Multan,
Pakistan -- A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian to life in
prison for blasphemy, police officials said Sunday. Ranjah Maseih was
convicted Saturday in a court in Faisalabad, 170 miles northeast of
Multan, in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, police official Nazir Ahmed
said. The defendant was arrested on May 8, 1998 after he allegedly damaged
a neon sign depicting a verse from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, at a
rally to mourn the death of a Catholic clergymen. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20Blasphemy%20Conviction |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/26/international0144EDT0404.DTL |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr27.html |
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South Asian
countries plan emergency SARS meeting |
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Colombo -- A
seven-nation grouping of South Asian countries will hold an emergency
meeting on SARS on Tuesday in the resort island nation of the Maldives as
alarm about the virus spreads around the world. The virus has mostly not
been a problem in South Asia, but officials are worried that an outbreak
could have a devastating impact because of limited health-care systems.
"We called this meeting because we are deeply concerned about SARS," said
Ahmad Moosa, a deputy director in the Maldivian health
ministry. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-sars-southasia.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr27.html |
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New Delhi to
harvest rain |
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New Delhi --
Rajesh Rajora, a wrought-iron worker, lives in a sprawling illegal
settlement with no municipal water service. So a couple of years ago, he
got together with his neighbors to dig a well, which now serves about 50
homes on a network of makeshift pipes. Each gets about 15 minutes of
running water per day. But how much longer is anyone's guess. Rainwater
harvesting is hardly a new idea in India, where people have long
experimented with ways to trap runoff from annual monsoon rains that
account for most of the country's total rainfall. Archaeologists have
unearthed catchment structures dating to the third millennium B.C.It is
called "rainwater harvesting," an elegantly simple practice -- rooted in
the traditions of ancient India -- that involves collecting monsoon rains
and piping them underground to recharge depleted
aquifers. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AApr26.html |
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Boat capsizes
in Kashmir, killing three children; 21 missing |
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April 26,
Srinagar, India -- A boat carrying schoolchildren capsized in a mountain
waterway in Kashmir, drowning at least three children, while 21 others
were missing, police said. The boat sank when it was crossing the Pohru
mountain stream in the Jagadpora area, about 48 miles north of Srinagar,
the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state. The boat was carrying 30
children, said local police officer Mukhtar Ahmed. Six had been rescued,
he said. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/04/26/international0807EDT0501.DTL |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030426_000195,00.html |
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--- South Asian News,
April 26&27, 2003 (Weekend) --- |
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