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SOURCES-March
15&16, 2003 (Weekend) |
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Maoist
insurgency in Nepal undercuts tourism(Star
Tribune) |
| BUSINESS /
TECHNOLOGY |
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India NIIT
2Q order book weathering war fears(Nasdaq News) |
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India's
Patni bags $35M deal, upbeat on growth(Wall Street Journal -
Subscription required) |
| OTHER
STORIES |
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Hindu
campaigners combat Christian conversions(Washington
Post) |
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New digging
starts for disputed Indian temple(Washington Post) (New York Times -
Registration required) (Wall Street Journal - Subscription
required) |
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Immigrant
drivers kept off road(Chicago Tribune - Registration
required) |
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A sacred
circuit in Tibet(New York Times - Registration
required) |
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Can a new
pouf an anchor make?(New York Times - Registration
required) |
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India
develops software for the blind(Wall Street Journal - Subscription
required) |
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US
ambassador to Bangladesh explains US stand on Iraq(Wall Street Journal
- Subscription required) |
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Pushkar
pilgrims(San Francisco Chronicle) |
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Pakistani
family facing deportation from U.S. heads for Canada(Philadelphia
Inquirer) |
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| TOP
STORIES |
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US lifts sanctions
against Pakistan |
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President Bush Friday
lifted sanctions against Pakistan that were imposed following the 1999
bloodless coup that brought President Pervez Musharraf to power. A White
House statement says President Bush decided to lift the sanctions because
it will "facilitate the transition to democratic rule in Pakistan" and
help in efforts to fight international terrorism. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=41DC9880-5DCF-4318-B4140A6371D3F492 |
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/reuters/stories/POLITICS-PAKISTAN-SANCTIONS-DC.shtml |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000068,00.html |
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Suspected lieutenant of
al-Qaida's top leadership under interrogation |
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Lahore, Pakistan -- U.S.
and Pakistani intelligence experts questioned a suspected high-ranking
al-Qaida lieutenant Sunday, hoping to zero in on the whereabouts of Osama
bin Laden. Yassir al-Jaziri, arrested Saturday, was allegedly responsible
for communications among al-Qaida leaders. Investigators hope he can tell
them more about where bin Laden and other top al-Qaida leaders may be
hiding in Afghanistan or Pakistan and more about how they operate, said
Pakistani security sources familiar with the interrogation.
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/075/world/Suspected_lieutenant_of_al_Qai:.shtml |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar16.html |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=9921F8E1-1189-41D0-BD9A9AF8648379B4 |
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http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V8983.AP-Pakistan-Al-Qai.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20al%20Qaida%20Arrest |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Al-Qaida-Arrest.html |
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-attack-pakistan-alqaeda.html |
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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030316/1025163.asp |
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http://www.dailyherald.com/news/national_story.asp?intID=3769684 |
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http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/world/5406016.htm |
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http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V8983.AP-Pakistan-Al-Qai.html |
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/reuters/stories/INTERNATIONAL-ATTACK-PAKISTAN-ALQAEDA-DC.shtml |
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http://nypost.com/news/worldnews/70996.htm |
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http://www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/809894p-5755728c.html |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-al-qaida-arrest,0,6424032.story |
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http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=999433&pic=none&TP=getarticle |
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http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/809894p-5755728c.html |
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http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/international/article/0,1375,VCS_124_1816060,00.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_000625,00.html |
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http://www.tribnet.com/news/nation_world/story/2777908p-2825807c.html |
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http://24hour.startribune.com/24hour/world/story/809894p-5755728chtml |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/17/Worldandnation/Investigators_questio.shtml |
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http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/Pakistan_Al_Qaida_Arrest_40764I.shtml |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/16/international1244EST0481.DTL |
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India rebels reportedly
kill five people |
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Suspected separatist
rebels in India's northeast triggered a land mine under a passing bus
Sunday, killing five passengers and wounding 45 others. Deputy Inspector
General of Police Jyotirmoy Chakraborty said the death toll could rise.
The explosion occurred in Goalpara district of the northeastern state of
Assam, about 155 miles west of Gauhati, the Assam
capital. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar16.html |
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http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V8795.AP-India-Explosion.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Explosion |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-India-Explosion.html |
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http://www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/809950p-5756032c.html |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-india-explosion,0,5980401.story |
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http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/809950p-5756032c.html |
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3758948.html |
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http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/India_Explosion_40759I.shtml |
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http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/world/story/809950p-5756032c.html |
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Suspected rebels kill
11 in Kashmir |
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Suspected Islamic rebels
attacked a police post in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing nine police
officers and two civilians, police said Sunday. Another eight police
officers and one civilian were wounded in the attack that occurred
Saturday night in the mountainous Gool area in Udhampur district, nearly
95 miles north of Jammu, the winter capital of Indian-held Kashmir, a
police officer said on condition of anonymity. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33160-2003Mar16.html |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-kashmir-killings,1,2618469.story |
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/075/world/Suspected_Islamic_rebels_kill_:.shtml |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20030316-0828-kashmir-killings.html |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=DF022AAE-5CED-4C01-925A1D5CDAD20E70 |
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http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V8917.AP-Kashmir-Killing.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Kashmir%20Killings |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Kashmir-Killingshtml |
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http://www.activedayton.com/ddn/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V8917.AP-Kashmir-Killing.html |
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http://www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/810063p-5756592c.html |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-kashmir-killings,0,4112053.story |
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http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/810063p-5756592c.html |
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3758819.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000368,00.html |
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http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/Kashmir_Killings_40762I.shtml |
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http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/world/story/810063p-5756592c.html |
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Seven people dead in
Kashmir hotel gun battle |
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Srinagar, India -- Seven
people, including three civilians and a rebel, were killed on Friday in a
fierce gun battle with suspected separatists who were holed up in a hotel
in Indian Kashmir, police said. The three dead civilians were trapped
inside the three-story hotel when the gunbattle erupted in Poonch near a
cease-fire line dividing Indian and Pakistan Kashmir, a police official
said. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25458-2003Mar14.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Kashmir%20Gunmen%20Attack |
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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030315/4005928.asp |
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Bangladesh ferry sinks,
30 missing |
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A passenger ferry sank in
a river in southern Bangladesh during a tropical storm on Saturday, with
about 30 people still missing and at least one confirmed dead, officials
said. The twin-deck ferry had nearly 200 passengers on board when it sank
in the Tetulia River in Bhola district, 65 miles south of the capital,
Dhaka, amid high winds and waves, the United News of Bangladesh agency
reported. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30109-2003Mar15.html |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=840E8C5A-7F7D-4388-BDD0F2FD8EFE4D1F |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Bangladesh%20Ferry%20Sinking |
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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030316/2016538.asp |
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/world/stories/031603dnintferry.4b8ba.html |
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http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/international/article/0,1375,VCS_124_1816087,00.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_000010,00.html |
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3757918.html |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/15/international1441EST0555.DTL |
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Police in Kashmir
detain 16 women protesters |
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Srinagar, India -- Indian
police detained 16 members of a women's separatist group in Kashmir on
Saturday after a demonstration demanding the release of their leader,
arrested under a new anti-terrorism law, police and witnesses said. The
arrests came after seven people, including three civilians and a rebel,
were killed on Friday in a fierce gun battle with suspected rebels holed
up in a hotel in Poonch, near the cease-fire line dividing Indian and
Pakistan Kashmir. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29086-2003Mar15.html |
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India says militant
camps are in Kashmir |
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New Delhi -- India has
given the United States locations and detailed proof of 70 Islamic
militant training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, India's defense
intelligence chief said. Islamabad called the allegation "a lie" and said
there were no guerrilla training camps on Pakistan's side of the disputed
Himalayan province that's also claimed by India. |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Kashmir%20US%20Militants |
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3755891.html |
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India won't allow
refueling of US warplanes, even if asked |
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Patna, India -- U.S.
planes involved in war against Iraq wouldn't be allowed to refuel in
India, even if Washington requested such a move, Defense Minister George
Fernandes has said. "India will not provide refueling facilities to U.S.
warplanes, even (if) a formal request was made to the Indian government,"
Fernandes said Sunday. The U.S. has made no such request, he
said. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_001505,00.html |
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Sri Lanka peace talks
to resume despite deadly clash |
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Tokyo -- A deadly clash at
sea between the Sri Lanka government and Tamil Tiger rebels could
overshadow a critical round of negotiations to end one of Asia's
longest-running civil wars. The peace talks, to begin Tuesday in the
Japanese town of Hakone, in the foothills of Mount Fuji, will focus on
power sharing, economic recovery and human rights. But the Tigers are
furious over the worst clash between the rebels and government forces
since they reached a cease-fire a year ago. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_001393,00.html |
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Border guards in
Bangladesh on alert |
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Dhaka -- Bangladeshi
guards went on alert at the northern frontier Sunday after Indian border
troops reportedly tried to forcibly deport six Bengali-speaking Muslims, a
Bangladeshi border official said. In January and February, Indian
authorities tried to deport hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims it said
were illegal Bangladeshi migrants. Bangladeshi border guards turned back
the deportees, saying they were not Bangladeshis but Muslims from India's
West Bengal state who are physically similar to Bangladeshis and speak the
same Bengali language. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_000734,00.html |
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European monitors
hidden report on Sri Lankan naval clash |
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Colombo -- On the eve of
new peace talks, European monitors of a cease-fire in Sri Lanka hiddented
a report Sunday on a naval attack against a suspected rebel arms ship off
the island's northern coast, a spokesman said. "We handed it over to the
government and Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam," spokesman for the mission
Teitur Torkelsson said, adding that the contents of the report will only
be publicized after both sides had studied it. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_000724,00.html |
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Separatist rebels blow
up bus in north east India |
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Gauhati, India --
Suspected separatist rebels in India's northeast triggered a land mine
explosion Sunday, blowing up a bus that left five passengers dead and 45
others wounded, police said. The death toll could rise as more information
from the remote site of the attack start coming in, Deputy Inspector
General of Police Jyotirmoy Chakraborty said. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_000691,00.html |
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Indian Foreign
Minister: India opposes attack on Iraq |
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A probable military attack
on Iraq contradicts the national interests of India, Indian Foreign
Minister Yashvant Sinha told journalists Sunday in Patiala, in the state
of Punjab, where he is on a working visit, Itar-Tass reported Sunday.
Speaking about the stance of the Indian government, the Foreign Minister
noted that about two-thirds of oil imported to the republic is supplied
from the Middle Eastern region. The schedule of deliveries is extremely
important for India and will certainly be disrupted if there is a military
operation in Iraq. At present oil is supplied to India mainly from Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Tass said. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_000668,00.html |
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Violence erupts in
Pakistan after Shiites, Sunnis clash |
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Karachi, Pakistan --
Dozens of Sunni Muslim activists allegedly attacked houses of minority
Shiite Muslims in a Karachi neighborhood, pulling their possessions into
the street and setting the belongings on fire, police said. Firefighters
put out the fires, and the situation was under control by afternoon,
officers said. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000221,00.html |
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Sri Lanka rebels will
protest ship attack at peace talks |
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Colombo -- Tamil Tigers
rebels' chief peace negotiator Anton Balasingham said that they would
record their strong protest to last Monday's naval attack during the
Hakone, Japan peace talks with Sri Lanka government negotiators. Monday,
Sri Lankan navy sailors killed 11 rebels and sank their vessel, suspected
of smuggling weapons. It was the most serious incident between the
government and rebels since they agreed to stop fighting last
year. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000252,00.html |
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No suspects yet
identified in December Bangladesh blasts |
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Dhaka -- A judicial
commission investigating last December's bombing of four cinemas in
northern Bangladesh has termed the incidents as "subversive acts," but
failed to identify those responsible in a report hiddented Saturday,
officials said. Four bombs exploded simultaneously Dec. 7 at four movie
houses killing at least 18 people and wounding at least 200 others in
Mymensingh town, 112 kilometers north of the Bangladesh capital,
Dhaka. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000274,00.html |
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Bangladesh probe fails
to identify cinema bombers |
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Dhaka -- A judicial
commission investigating last December's bombings of four cinemas in
northern Bangladesh has described the attacks as "subversive," but failed
to identify those responsible, a judge said Saturday. Four bombs exploded
simultaneously on Dec. 7 at four movie houses, killing at least 18 people
and wounding 200 in Mymensingh town, 112 kilometers north of the capital,
Dhaka. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000331,00.html |
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2 Al-Qaida suspects to
be charged in Pakistan in March |
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Lahore, Pakistan -- An
anti-terrorism court in eastern Pakistan will charge a naturalized
American doctor and his brother this month with having links to Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaida network, a defense lawyer and court officials said
Saturday. Dr. Ahmad Javed Khawaja and his brother, naturalized Canadian
Ahmad Naveed Khawaja, have been in custody since December when they were
arrested by the Pakistani security agencies for allegedly sheltering
al-Qaida men at their house in a small village near the Indian border east
of Lahore. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000194,00.html |
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India rebuffs US
request to expel 3 Iraqis |
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New Delhi -- India has
rejected a U.S. request for the expulsion of three Iraqi diplomats based
in New Delhi, who were allegedly involved with an Indian company facing
U.S. penalties for contributing to Iraq's weapons programs, a news report
said Saturday. India's decision was relayed to Washington last week, said
The Economic Times. At least four countries in Europe and Asia have
expelled Iraqis since the U.S. issued a request last week that nations
kick out Iraqi diplomats and others it considered potential
threats. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000064,00.html |
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Mob kills policeman in
Shi'ite march near Calcutta |
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Calcutta -- A mob of
Shi'ite Muslims beat a policeman to death and injured three others in
eastern India, police said on Saturday, after similar clashes in Kashmir
and Gujarat. The latest violence involving Shi'ites, who constitute about
15 percent of India's 120-million-plus Muslim minority, took place near
Kulti town, some 220 km northwest of Calcutta. |
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=834&ncid=731&e=10&u=/nm/20030315/wl_india_nm/india_107975 |
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Pakistan fights
crime |
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Islamabad -- Pakistan is
launching a cybercrimes unit, partly because it had to rely on U.S.
investigators to trace e-mails sent by the kidnappers of slain journalist
Daniel Pearl. Iftikhar Ahmad, spokesman for Pakistan’s Interior Ministry,
said the newly formed National Response Center for Cyber Crimes “will play
a key role in the days to come in tracing those terrorists who often use
the Internet or prepaid telephone cards to communicate
messages.” |
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http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/03/16/36928.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=Business&sp3=Business |
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http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/03/16/36928.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=Business&sp3=Business |
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Maoist insurgency in
Nepal undercuts tourism |
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A half-century after Sir
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest, the news in this
Himalayan kingdom is mostly grim. Nepal depends on mountaineers, trekkers
and other travelers from abroad for its economic vitality. But in this
nation, towered over by some of the world's highest mountains and revered
as the birthplace of Buddha, the tourist industry has virtually
collapsed. |
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/425/3753275.html |
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| BUSINESS /
TECHNOLOGY |
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India NIIT 2Q order
book weathering war fears |
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Singapore -- Indian
computer education and software company NIIT Ltd.'s (P.NIT) crucial
second-quarter order book looks healthy, despite the threat of war in
Iraq, a senior executive said Friday. "Right now, it (order-book-building
in the Jan.-March quarter) is going on OK, " NIIT Chief Operating Officer
P. Rajendran told Dow Jones Newswires. |
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http://news.nasdaq.com/news/newsStory.aspx?&cpath=20030316\ACQDJON200303162027DOWJONESDJONLINE000476.htm |
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India's Patni bags $35M
deal, upbeat on growth |
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Mumbai, India -- India's
sixth-largest software services company, Patni Computer Systems Ltd., says
recent pessimism surrounding the industry is misplaced, citing its winning
a $35 million deal as evidence that orders are flowing in despite tough
business conditions. Unlisted Patni expects its order book to keep growing
and revenue could rise 30% in 2003 from $188 million in 2002, the
company's senior vice president Vijay Khare told Dow Jones Newsires in an
interview. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_001506,00.html |
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| OTHER
STORIES |
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Hindu campaigners
combat Christian conversions |
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Jashpur, India --
Christian missionaries first rode to the remote town of Jashpur on
horseback 150 years ago, educating the poor and converting them in their
thousands. Now they are at the heart of a debate engulfing India, pitting
Hindu revivalists against those determined to maintain a secular tradition
which goes back to independence in 1947. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25662-2003Mar14.html |
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New digging starts for
disputed Indian temple |
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Lucknow, India --
Archaeologists began digging at new sites in a northern Indian town on
Saturday in a hunt for possible remains of a Hindu temple whose disputed
existence sparked some of India's worst Hindu-Muslim clashes. A government
archaeologist said they had begun digging four new squares, each with
sides 13 feet long, at the site where some Hindus say Muslim invaders
razed a temple in the 16th century to build a mosque in Ayodhya
town. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30833-2003Mar15.html |
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-india-temple.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000180,00.html |
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Immigrant drivers kept
off road |
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In India, Anitha Akula
never needed to drive. She could walk to see friends and bike to the
store. But on the outskirts of Chicago, bitter winters and suburban sprawl
make a car an everyday necessity. For the last nine months, Akula, 26, has
been stranded in her home, unable to take her daughter to play dates or
drive to the grocery story because a policy designed to thwart terrorists
prevents her and thousands of other foreign citizens from getting Illinois
driver's licenses. |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0303150075mar15,1,7663772.story |
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A sacred circuit in
Tibet |
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Mount Kailas, a white
pyramidal mountain in western Tibet, is a mystical locus of four religious
groups of Asia: Buddhists, Jains, Hindus and Bonpos, who practice the
shamanistic, pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet. Pilgrims from all four come
to the scruffy little town of Darchen to perform the 33-mile
circumambulation of the mountain. Kailas, also known as Kailash, is a
22,028-foot mountain in the Himalayas. It is the throne of the Hindu deity
Shiva; "the navel of the world" for Hindus and Buddhists; the earthly
image of Meru, the mountain whose roots reach to the seventh hell of
Buddhist belief and tower to the highest heavens. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/travel/16kailas.html |
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Can a new pouf an
anchor make? |
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Sarina Fazan had her eye
on the job of news anchor since she was 2. Born in Kashmir, in India, Ms.
Fazan grew up in Seattle, where she taught herself English by imitating
Walter Cronkite's sonorous vowels. "I made a microphone out of aluminum
foil and tried to read just the way he did," she said. "Other people
wanted Lego sets or Barbies, but I wanted to be on the
news." |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/fashion/16ANCH.html |
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India develops software
for the blind |
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Hyderabad, India -- Indian
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Saturday presented a blind man with the first
version of a software that can translate any Indian language text into
speech. Dinesh Kaushal can now hear the Hindi words that pop up on his
computer screen. Until now, such translation facilities were available
only for text in English. Kaushal, who is a computer professional despite
being blind, used such a software to translate English
text. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030315_000272,00.html |
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US ambassador to
Bangladesh explains US stand on Iraq |
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Dhaka -- A possible U.S.
led war on Iraq would not be against Muslims, and there was still time to
avoid military action if Baghdad complies with a United Nations resolution
to disarm, the U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh said at a news briefing
Sunday. The war would be directed "against a regime and not against a
people, and certainly not against a religion," U.S. Ambassador Mary Ann
Peters said explaining Washington's point of view in face of anti-war
street protests and Dhaka's reluctance to support a war without a U.N.
resolution. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030316_000710,00.html |
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Pushkar
pilgrims |
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The moonlit sky - a slab
of shimmering indigo - was hazy with smoke from cooking fires. In the
distance, more dunes. Or were they camel humps? Joyous voices spoke
languages I didn't know: Bhil, Marwari, Rajasthani? Beyond this moonscape
filled with dialects lay Pushkar town, a raucous nightclub of colored
lights. The story of Pushkar begins with a cosmic love story and a curse.
It is said lotus petals fell from Lord Brahma's hand to earth, forming
Lake Pushkar. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/16/CM119045.DTL |
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Pakistani family facing
deportation from U.S. heads for Canada |
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Detroit -- Fleeing
religious violence in his native Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ahmed began building a
new life for himself and his family in the United States. Now they have
had to start over, this time in Canada. Ahmed had lived in Newark, N.J.,
for 11 years and brought his wife and three children to the United States
from Karachi, Pakistan, five years ago. The couple had three more children
while Ahmed worked as a cab driver and phone card salesman, and most
recently as a pizza deliveryman. |
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Asian News, March 15&16, 2003 (Weekend) --- |
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