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NEWS SOURCES -May 27, 2003 |
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BREAKING NEWS
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Not strategies, but 'sanskar' is strength for
Kellogg dean *(IANS) |
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It was an unusual speech by the Indian
American dean of a top rated business school who focused
not on strategies to forge ahead but on 'sanskar', or
cultural values, to weather turbulent times. Giving the
concluding remarks at the India Business Conference,
Dipak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management,
spoke of how his Indian sanskar helped him. No sooner
had he taken over in July 2001, Jain said, than one bad
news led to other - the economic slowdown, the September
11 terror attacks in the U.S., corporate scandals,
geo-political instability and the SARS epidemic. His
sanskar, Jain said, helped him withstand the setbacks.
"This sanskar or Indianness is embedded in us. We are
very fortunate in having been brought up in this culture
of caring and innovation. It is our greatest strength."
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/030527/43/24mbd.html |
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'Indian consumer wants McDonald's ambience but
price of Nirula's' *(IANS) |
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India has the potential to be a
tremendous market for global companies provided they
modify marketing and distribution strategies to meet the
unique demands of consumers, say experts here.A seminar
on "India: a billion person opportunity" brought
together a galaxy of speakers who addressed a packed
auditorium at the Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University, despite it being the Memorial
Day weekend. For Indian companies seeking a niche in
Western markets, the message was equally simple - "focus
on quality, not merely cutting costs". Professor Bala
Balachandran, faculty advisor to the conference, set the
tone by saying: "Nobody can achieve greatness by
shrinking. A company cannot grow just by cutting costs."
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/030527/43/24m8s.html |
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American Dream Award for India-born doctor
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India-born urologist Shamkant
Mulgaonkar will be honoured this year with the American
Dream Award by the International Institute of New
Jersey. The institute, which has helped immigrants from
many countries, including India, will mark its 85th
anniversary by honouring immigrant and native-born
individuals who lived the American dream and sought to
bring people together. Mulgaonkar's success story is
like so many of the Indian immigrants who made it good
in the U.S. But what is unique about him is that he, as
chief of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System Renal
Transplant Centres, established the centre as the fifth
most active kidney transplant programme in the U.S., say
International Institute sources. The awards will be
given at a gala in New Jersey on June 4.
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Indian PM promises more peace steps with
Pakistan (New York Times - Registration required) (Washington
Post) |
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Pakistan appoints new envoy to India (Washington
Post) (Wall Street Journal - Subscription required) |
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Pro-Taliban gov't pushes laws in Pakistan (Star
Tribune) (The Washington Post) (Wall Street Journal - Subscription
required) (New York Times - Registration required) |
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Court dismisses charges against two former terror suspects
in Pakistan (Hoovers) (Wall Street Journal - Subscription
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Hundreds killed by heat wave in India (USA Today)
(The State) (Star Tribune) (Hartford Courant) (Washington Post) (Houston
Chonicle - Subscription required) |
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22 opposition lawmakers arrested in province of
Pakistan (Hoovers) |
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Pakistan welcomes bus service return (Chicago
Tribune - Registration required) ( Newark Star Ledger) |
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Three who explore their Asian-American identity through
their art (NY NewsDay) |
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Nepal civil war particularly deadly for journalists covering
it (Seattle Times) |
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Nepal celebrates 50th Everest anniversary (New York
Times - Registration required) (USA
Today) |
| EDITORIALS / OP-ED |
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Formidable Muslim Bloc Emerges (LA
Times) |
| BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY |
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Pakistan government to go ahead with U.S. Roosevelt Hotel
sale (Hoovers) |
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Portland companies outsource IT, software (Portland
Business Journal - Registration required) |
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Taking it overseas (Portland Business Journal -
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O'ahu man builds homes, hope in India (Honolulu
Advertiser) |
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St.
Paul group works to end violence, one peace at a time (Star
Tribune) |
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India office (Washington
Times) |
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India reinstates bus trips to Pakistan and frees prisoners
as thaw continues (NJ Star Ledger) (NY
Newsday) |
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Indian PM
promises more peace steps with Pakistan |
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New Delhi --
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Tuesday promised more steps
to improve ties with Pakistan, saying this should eventually create a
climate for peace talks. His comments followed India's announcement on
Monday that it was resuming bus services with Pakistan in the latest of a
series of reciprocal confidence-building measures to create a climate for
peace talks. "Some steps have been taken. More steps will be taken,"
Vajpayee told reporters just before he left for a foreign tour. "I believe
an atmosphere will be created in which talks can start," he said.
Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have not held formal talks since a failed
summit between Vajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in July
2001. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-southasia.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMay27.html |
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Pakistan
appoints new envoy to India |
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Islamabad --
Pakistan has named a new ambassador to India in the latest in a series of
steps taken by the nuclear-armed neighbors to improve relations, a senior
government official said Tuesday. The official, who declined to be named,
said that Pakistan had appointed foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed
Khan. The news followed an announcement by India Monday that it would
resume bus services with Pakistan as part of a series of reciprocal
confidence-building measures between the two countries, which came close
to war last year. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMay27.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030527_003194-search,00.html |
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Pro-Taliban
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Peshawar,
Pakistan -- The pro-Taliban government of this ultraconservative border
province presented a package of Islamic laws Tuesday that it said will
make the region the first in Pakistan to be run upon the teachings of the
Quran. The package presented to the provincial assembly included few
specifics, but it came with promises by Islamic hard-liners to ban
obscenity and vulgarity, and bring the North West Frontier Province's
education and financial systems in line with Shariah, or Islamic law.
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3903656.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMay27.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030527_001808-search,00.html |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Religious-Rise.html |
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Court
dismisses charges against two former terror suspects in
Pakistan |
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Lahore, Pakistan
-- A Pakistani-born American and his Canadian brother were found innocent
on Tuesday of possessing illegal weapons and resisting arrest, ending a
court case that began last year when they were accused of having links to
the al-Qaida terror group. In April, an anti-terrorism court dropped
charges accusing Ahmad Javed Khawaja and Ahmad Naveed Khawaja of harboring
al-Qaida suspects, but indicted them on the two lesser charges. On
Tuesday, Judge Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa found them innocent of those too,
saying evidence the prosecution presented about weapons possession and the
arrest was insufficient, said defense counsel Pervez Inayat Malik.
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http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/newsurl.asp?doc_id=NR_e20 |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030527_002284-search,00.html |
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Hundreds
killed by heat wave in India |
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Hyderabad -- A
deadly heat wave in southern India has killed at least 430 people in the
past two weeks. The death toll from dehydration and sunstroke, caused by
high temperatures and shortages of drinking water, may increase further,
said D.C. Roshaiah, chief of relief operations in Andhra Pradesh state.
Roshaiah said hundreds of people were bring treated at hospitals in
several parts of state, which has experienced temperatures as high as
116.5 degrees. Seven out of the state's 23 districts accounted for most of
the deaths. The highest death toll, 85, came from the coastal district of
East Godavari, where temperatures hit 117.5 degrees last week.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/-india-heatwave_x.htm |
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/5951374.htm |
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/670/3903647.html |
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http://www.ctnow.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top14may27,0,1433995story |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMay27.html |
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/1926066 |
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22 opposition
lawmakers arrested in province of Pakistan |
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Lahore, Pakistan
-- Twenty-two opposition legislators in a regional assembly were arrested
Tuesday in an effort to prevent another clash between lawmakers over
changes Pakistan's president made to the constitution to increase his
powers, police and officials said. On Monday, an opposition protest over
the changes led to fist fights between some legislators in the Punjab
assembly in eastern Pakistan. The opposition had planned to hold another
protest in the assembly on Tuesday, and the legislature's speaker, Afzal
Sahi, said the arrests were made to prevent more violence.
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http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/newsurl.asp?doc_id=NR_d87d0006d731f6eb |
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Pakistan
welcomes bus service return |
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New Delhi --
India decided Monday to resume a popular bus service to Pakistan and to
release 130 Pakistani prisoners, initiatives aimed at resuming dialogue
between the nuclear rivals after a two-year gap. Pakistan's information
minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, welcomed the moves and called for talks.
The prisoners being released are 70 Pakistani fishermen and 60 civilians,
said Navtej Sarna, a spokesman for the External Affairs
Ministry. |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-may27,1,5120918.story |
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http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-9/.xml |
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Three who
explore their Asian-American identity through their art
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They all work in
the creative arts: photographer Michael Yamashita, poet-writer Bushra
Rehman, and rap artist Jin. But beyond that, the three are bonded only in
that they reflect the sprawling ethnic identity known as Asian-American
..... Bushra Rehman often begins her performance poetry by asking, "Who
knows the story of Rapunzel?" Someone in the audience, whether it is at
the Queens Museum of Art or Harvard University or elsewhere, would
remember it vaguely as the story of a girl with long blond hair locked up
in a tower by a witch. Rehman, who is co-editor of "Colonize This! Young
Women of Color on Today's Feminism" (Seal Press, $16.95), a collection of
essays by young women of color, remembers it with more detail. When
Rapunzel's mother was pregnant, she craved rampion, a tuberous plant
growing in her neighbor's garden. Her husband, caught while stealing the
herb, had to give Rapunzel away as punishment. In Rehman's poetry,
Rapunzel's mother becomes an allegory for immigrant mothers who lose their
children to foreign cultures they cannot understand. Rehman knows
something of such conflicted loyalty. A Pakistani-American who grew up in
Corona, Queens, she was raised in a staunchly Muslim community, where
arranged marriage was a given. |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--roosevelthotel0526may26,0,7011460.story |
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Nepal civil
war particularly deadly for journalists covering
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Katmandu -- To
his wife and colleagues, Krishna Sen was a kind husband and a journalist
who wrote passionately about the troubles of the Nepali peasants. To the
government of Nepal, he was a Maoist revolutionary, a supporter of a
terrorist organization that had launched a seven-year insurgency that
killed 8,000 people and brought this small Himalayan kingdom to the edge
of anarchy. Finding out who is right is difficult. Sen, the editor in
chief of the popular Janadesh daily newspaper, disappeared May 20, 2002.
Newspapers reported he was killed by Nepal's police force while in
custody. His body has never been found. |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134817145_nepalpress27.html |
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Nepal
celebrates 50th Everest anniversary |
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Katmandu -- Sir
Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa from his 1953 expedition to Mount Everest led
hundreds of climbers and fans in a joyous procession Tuesday as Nepal
began celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the conquest of the
world's tallest mountain. Gyalzen Sherpa, 85, one of three surviving
Sherpa from the first Everest expedition, climbed into a horse-drawn
carriage with Hillary, 83, and his wife, June, and placed yellow scarves
around their necks. They then set off at the head of a parade of carriages
bearing other famous Everest mountaineers as a Gurkha army band played on
bagpipes and drums and local children waved flags. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Everest-50th-Anniversary.html |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/-mt-everest-anniv_x.htm |
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A Formidable
Muslim Bloc Emerges |
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The war in Iraq
has produced an unintended consequence — a formidable Shiite Muslim
geographical bloc that will dominate politics in the Middle East for many
years. This development is also creating political and spiritual leaders
of unparalleled international influence. It is easy to see the Shiite
lineup. Iran and Iraq have a Shiite majority, and so does Bahrain. In
Lebanon, Shiites are a significant plurality. In Syria, although they are
a minority, they are the dominant power in government. They are the
majority in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia and have a significant
presence in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-oe-beeman27may27,1,7152940.story |
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Pakistan
government to go ahead with U.S. Roosevelt Hotel
sale |
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Karachi, Pakistan
-- The Pakistan government plans to go ahead with the sale of the
Roosevelt Hotel in New York which is owned by Pakistan International
Airlines (C.PIN) and a Saudi partner, government officials said Tuesday.
The officials denied local newspaper reports over the weekend that the
government had decided to shelve the sale. A spokesman for the
Privatization Commission told Dow Jones Newswires "we have no official
instructions that we should put this transaction on hold." Pakistan
International Airlines and Prince Faisal bin Khalid of Saudi Arabia are
putting the 1,013-room hotel on the auction block this week in the hope of
raising about $225 million, the Associated Press reported.
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http://hoovnews.hoovers.com/newsurl.asp?doc_id=NR_b58c0007644fae69 |
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Portland
companies outsource IT, software |
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May 26 -- Many
companies in the United States have been manufacturing at least a portion
of their product lines overseas for many years now. But it was not until
use of the internet became quick, easy and pervasive that companies began
to look at outsourcing another product area: software and information
technology services. A number of Portland-area companies are already
participating in the software and IT outsourcing trend, either by setting
up their own offshore development centers or by using outsourced software
providers. Mentor Graphics Corp., which makes software and hardware tools
for electronics designers, has its own design centers in a number of
different countries, including India, Pakistan and Egypt. The company also
makes some use of overseas outsourcing services. |
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http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2003/05/26/focus3.html |
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Taking it
overseas |
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May 26 --In the
tech world, going overseas is big, and it's getting bigger. It is
difficult to say just exactly how much work technology companies are doing
overseas, whether in their own international operations or through
outsource partners--that is, other companies that take on manufacturing or
development work for U.S. companies. But one thing is certain: more and
more companies are outsourcing at least a part of their operations,
whether manufacturing or IT functions. Giga Information Group recently
reported that outsourcing of information technology to India alone will
increase 25 percent this year. Further, Giga says that in major
outsourcing deals, client companies will insist on at least some portion
of the work being done outside of the United States. |
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http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2003/05/26/focus1.html |
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O'ahu man
builds homes, hope in India |
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For Honolulu
business executive Peter Gellatly, it was a sign from God that led him to
embark on a mission to help families in one of India's largest slums.
Actually, it was a sign on a gatepost in New Delhi, but Gellatly said he
found divine inspiration in its message: "I am the bridge from your
yesterdays to tomorrow." "I really thought it was God talking to me," said
Gellatly, who says he is not a religious man. Since that fateful sighting
12 years ago, Gellatly, 51, president of Network Media, has donated
several hundred thousand dollars of his own money to the Childwatch-India
foundation he set up to provide housing, healthcare and educational and
employment opportunities to 50 families in Yamuna Basti — "a place of
fabulous joy and endless misery," he said |
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/May/27/bz/bz02a.html |
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St. Paul group
works to end violence, one peace at a time |
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Working from an
office that faces the tombstones of St. Paul's Calvary Cemetery, Mel
Duncan is raising $1 million to pay for an army of 2,000 that he will
deploy into conflict zones all over the world. But Duncan is no mercenary.
He's more Gandhi than general as he looks for a few good men and women to
hire for his fledgling Nonviolent Peaceforce organization. Peaceforce,
which will send its first recruits to Sri Lanka this summer, plans to
raise money for peace ventures through a worldwide fund-raising campaign.
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http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3903160.html |
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India office |
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Indian Ambassador
Lalit Mansingh joined the former president of India in a weekend ceremony
toa Washington office of a worldwide organization that promotes the
country's heritage. K.R. Narayanan, president from 1997 to 2002, paid
tribute to the estimated 20 million people of Indian origin living outside
India, as he helped dedicate the Washington chapter of the Global
Organization of People of Indian Origin. He said if they organized, "they
would be able to make an impact on international relations and be of great
support to India's global policies of peace and friendship." Mr.
Narayanan, who also served as India's ambassador to the United States from
1980 to 1984, said India's culture is "strong and vibrant, and it embodies
the values of human rights, democracy and friendship for all. "Through the
perspective of this culture, we can serve the international community as
well as India." |
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http://www.washtimes.com/world/embassy.htm |
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India
reinstates bus trips to Pakistan and frees prisoners as thaw continues
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India decided
yesterday to resume a popular bus service to Pakistan and to release 130
Pakistani prisoners, initiatives aimed at resuming dialogue between the
nuclear rivals after a two-year gap. Pakistan's information minister,
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, welcomed the moves and called for talks. "These peace
overtures should be followed by the holding of a composite dialogue
between Pakistan and India to discuss all issues, including the core issue
of Kashmir," Ahmed told the Associated Press, referring to the divided
region that both countries claim in its entirety. |
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http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-9/.xml?starledger?ntop |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-world273303009may27,0,3880496.story |
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