India aide says Pakistan missile triggered n-tests
New Delhi, May 13 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s test launch of its longest-range missile last month triggered thisĀ week’s series of underground nuclear tests by India, a…
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FEELIN’ GOODĀ
IT IS GOOD THAT WE ARE FEELING BUCKLED UP AT THE BEGINNING OF 2018. Major economies expect growth in tandem for the first time since…
India starts to count sanctions cost over n-tests
14 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 14 (Reuters) – India woke up on Thursday to the first full…
India wrestles with moral dilemma of nuclear clout
17 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited Ā NEW DELHI, May 17 (Reuters) – “If the radiance of a thousand suns…
Interview- India has been a “soft state”
27 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 27 (Reuters) – India’s nuclear tests alone will not make the country…
India’s Fernandes- former rebel, now with a cause
27 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 27 (Reuters) – In June 1976, after a year in hiding, George…
Focus- India says Pakistan N-tests justify policy
29 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 28 (Reuters) – The Indian government reacted calmly on Thursday to news…
Interview- India leader dismisses “ping-pong balls”
29 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 28 (Reuters) – India’s defence minister said on Thursday he did not…
Analysis India pundits do not see a new Cold war
29 May 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 29 (Reuters) – India and Pakistan must now sit down and talk…
Interview- India’s Sinha wants to go for growth
2 June 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, June 2 (Reuters) – India’s Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha put up a spirited…
Interview- India targets not just “hope and prayer”
3 June 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, June 3 (Reuters) – India’s fiscal targets for the current year are not…
India’s weary Kashmiris told- “Go see a movie”
7 August 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited SRINAGAR, India, Aug 6 (Reuters) – A who’s who of Indian Kashmiris turned out in…
ANALYSIS-India, Pakistan return to square one
31 July 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, July 31 (Reuters) – The collapse of efforts to revive peace talks between…
Afghanistan Asks for aid to repair economy
30 April 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, April 30, Reuter – Afghanistan appealed on Saturday for the Asian Development Bank to…
India general sees no danger of nuclear exchange
6 August 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited SRINAGAR, India, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The general commanding Indian troops in the tinderbox Kashmir…
INTERVIEW-Kashmir might spark N-war – separatist
7 August 1998 Reuters News English (C) 1998 Reuters Limited SRINAGAR, India, Aug 7 (Reuters) – India and Pakistan could wage nuclear war over the…
Indian soldier caught in grinding Kashmir strife
9 August 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited BARAMULLA, India, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Mahendra Kumar is a typical “sepoy”, the lowest rank…
FOCUS-India says Afghans in Kashmir intrusion
26 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 25 (Reuters) – Afghan mercenaries, likely commanded by Pakistani army officers, have…
Indian Kashmir talks offer sows confusion, anger
28 July 1997 Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, July 28 (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral has caused anger…
WRAPUP-India hits Kashmir militants with air power
26 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 26 (Reuters) – India on Wednesday launched its first peacetime air strikes…
ANALYSIS-India, Pakistan caught in undeclared war
27 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 27 (Reuters) – India was on a roll on Wednesday. It unleashed…
WRAPUP-India loses planes, lashes out at Pakistan.
28 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 27 (Reuters) – India suffered a sharp reverse on Thursday in its…
WRAPUP-India bombs Kashmir rebels, warns Pakistan.
27 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited Ā NEW DELHI, May 26 (Reuters) – India unleashed two waves of air strikes on…
AQUINO, SECURE IN POWER, PUTS ON BRASS KNUCKLES
28 July 1988Ā Reuters NewsĀ Ā EnglishĀ (c) 1988 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 28, Reuter – Philippine President Corazon Aquino, secure in power near the end…
Wrapup- Indian helicopter downed in Kashmir crisis
29 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 28 (Reuters) – India suffered a second setback on Friday in its…
Wrapup- Kashmir crisis heats up after Stinger use
29 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 28 (Reuters) – India suffered a second setback on Friday in an…
Interview- Onus on Pakistan in Kashmir-Indian aide
30 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited Ā NEW DELHI, May 30 (Reuters) – A top Indian official said on Sunday it…
India vows no pause in Kashmir assault for talks
1 June 1999 22:59 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, June 1 (Reuters) – India will not halt its air and ground…
Interview- “no relenting in Kashmir
2 June 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, June 1 (Reuters) – India’s External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said on Tuesday…
ANALYSIS-India faces hard choices in Kashmir.
13 June 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, June 13 (Reuters) – India and Pakistan, daggers drawn in Kashmir, held a…
INTERVIEW-India FinSec sees high economic growth.
17 June 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, June 17 (Reuters) – India’s Finance Secretary Vijay Kelkar said on Thursday the…
ANALYSIS-India torn over scope of Kashmir combat
4 July 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, July 4 (Reuters) – India’s commanders are fighting with “one arm tied behind…
Over 1,000 infiltrators still in Kashmir-India
8 July 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, July 8 (Reuters) – India’s army has recaptured key points in Kashmir and…
Interview- India says Pakistan must restore trust
18 July 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, July 18 (Reuters) – Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh on Sunday urged Pakistan…
INDIA LOOKING TO SUBSTANTIAL AID FROM IMF, DONORS, OFFICIAL SAYS
27 August 1991Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1991 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Reuters – India hopes to receive substantial financial aid from a consortium of donors…
INDIA WILL ASK IMF FOR MORE FUNDS – MINISTER
13 April 1992Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1992 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Reuters – India intends to ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for more contingency…
Villagers play tag with death in India’ Kashmir
6 August 1998 Reuters News English (c) 1998 Reuters Limited NAMBLA, India, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The people of Nambla are sitting ducks in the…
Interview-India flays “imperialist” nuclear qualms
8 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 8 (Reuters) – India rejects fears by “yesterday’s imperialists or today’s new…
India’s Fernandes insists Pakistan PM was in dark
31 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 31 (Reuters) – India’s Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Monday he…
INTERVIEW-India’s Fernandes sees no nuclear danger.
31 May 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, May 31 (Reuters) – India’s Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Monday he…
INTERVIEW-Indian general fears return to proxy war.
13 July 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, July 13 (Reuters) – Watching vanquished Islamic guerrillas retreat to Pakistan, India’s top…
Asia satellite TV successes prompt local response
28 December 1992Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1992 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Dec 28, Reuter – Satellite and cable television is approaching rice status as a…
INTERVIEW-Early Kashmir spring helped India.
18 July 1999 Reuters News English (c) 1999 Reuters Limited NEW DELHI, July 18 (Reuters) – India’s military intelligence chief said on Sunday that Pakistan’s…
Satellite TV no pie in the sky in Asian megamarket
28 December 1992Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1992 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, Dec 28, Reuter – Satellite and cable television is approaching the status of rice…
Indian reforms are irreversible, lawmaker says
22 April 1993Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1993 Reuters LimitedĀ TOKYO, April 22, Reuters – One of the architects of India’s radical economic reforms said…
INTERVIEW-Thai exchange sees 50 pct hike in market cap in 2002
19 March 2002 Reuters News English (c) 2002 Reuters Limited BANGKOK, March 19 (Reuters) – The head of Thailand’s stock exchange, one of the best…
Interview- Thailand sees growth over three pct
20 March 2002 Reuters News English (c) 2002 Reuters Limited BANGKOK, March 20 (Reuters) – Thailand will see growth of at least three percent this…
INTERVIEW-Pakistan says US policies polarise world
14 April 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited ISLAMABAD, April 14 (Reuters) – Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in the war on terror,…
INTERVIEW-Pakistan says its missiles better than India’s
15 April 2003 Reuters News English (c) 2003 Reuters Limited ISLAMABAD, April 15 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s foreign minister on Tuesday warned India of massive retaliation…
Commonwealth chief says African democracy growingĀ
20 March 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, March 20 (Reuter) – Democracy has taken root in most African countries but…
India fields seasoned negotiator at Pakistan talks
26 March 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, March 26 (Reuters) – Salman Haidar will be an immovable object facing a…
India’s Kashmir talks offer — flip-flop or ploy?Ā
28 July 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, July 28 (Reuter) – India’s Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral performed one more…
India relives midnight “tryst with destiny”
14 August 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (Reuters) – India’s leaders gathered in their parliament’s majestic Central Hall…
India celebrates half-century of independenceĀ
15 August 1997Ā 08:15Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (Reuters) – India put on a dazzling show of fireworks,…
Kashmir group says exhumed body is of its leader
30 September 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Sept 30 (Reuters) – A militant group in Kashmir on Tuesday said an…
INTERVIEW-ADB chief not pessimistic over Yamaichi
24 November 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (Reuters) – The collapse of Yamaichi Securities could signal the end…
An Agenda for India
“Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.” Ā Prison Chaplain in A Clockwork Orange The ice…
INTERVIEW-India can’t be ignored – A.T. Kearney CEO
8 December 1997Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Global investors cannot afford to ignore India, but Indian…
India vows to move faster on power projects
Ā 9 December 1997Ā 22:46Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1997 Reuters LimitedĀ NEW DELHI, Dec 9 (Reuters) – India will accelerate its drive to increase electricity…
Indian unrest fans fears of mass exodusĀ
Reuter News AgencyĀ 9 March 1986Ā The Toronto StarĀ SunĀ H3Ā EnglishĀ Copyright (c) 1986 The Toronto StarĀ SRINAGAR, INDIA — “The large-scale arson, pillage,…
Pressure to Act Soon / Land Reform Issue Splits Aquino AidesĀ
21 May 1987Ā The San Francisco ChronicleĀ THREE STARĀ 27Ā EnglishĀ Copyright 1987Ā Ā ManilaĀ Ā President Corazon Aquino’s ambitious plan to distribute land to more than…
Philippine National oil head opposes privatisation
1 June 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 1 – The head of Philippine National Oil Co said the proposed privatisation…
Philippine Coconut Chief to lobby against EC tax
1 June 1987 Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 1 – Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) chairman Jose Romero said he would visit…
Philippine Central Bank Chief Sees Health Growth in 1987
2 June 1987Ā Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 2, Reuter – The Philippine economy’s impressive growth in this year’s first quarter…
Philippines Revises Reform Plan, Puts Off Land Distribution
3 June 1987Ā Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 3, Reuter – The latest draft of the Philippines’ ambitious land reform program…
Japan Pledges More Economic Aid for the Philippines
3 June 1987Ā Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 3, Reuter – Japan will expand its assistance to the Philippines and encourage…
Manila Bank Closure Exposes Strains in Philippine System
8 July 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 8, Reuter – The closure last month of the Manila Banking Corporation, one…
Philippine economy grows fast enough to fulfil Manila’s aimsĀ
8 June 1987Ā The Toronto StarĀ MEZĀ B11Ā EnglishĀ Copyright (c) 1987 The Toronto StarĀ MANILA — The government is aiming at GNP growth of…
Land Bank Chief Criticises Philippine Land Ceiling
11 June 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 11 – Proposed land reforms that would limit all holdings in the Philippines…
Manila Central Bank Chief Welcomes Debt Compromise
11 June 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, June 11 – Philippine Central Bank Governor Jose Fernandez said he welcomed a compromise…
Manila Debt Pact seen pre-empting new Congress
20 July 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 20 – The speedy and cordial conclusion of a 13.2 billion dollar debt…
Philippine Central Bank Report on Economic Performance
21 July 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 21 – The Philippines’ foreign debt was 28.58 billion dollars at the end…
Aquino land reforms seen to stop short of radical change
22 July 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 22, Reuter – Held out as a radical step that would end decades…
Row Intensifies Over Philippine Oil Privatisation
Ā 23 July 1987Ā Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 23 – A row over the proposed privatisation of Petron Corp, a fully-owned…
Protests Mount Over Aquino’s Land Reform Program
23 July 1987 Reuters News EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 23, Reuter – Protests by both landowners and poor farmworkers mounted today over…
Aquino Lashes out at Creditors, Vows to Fight Enemies
27 July 1987Ā EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, July 27, Reuter – President Corazon Aquino lashed out at the Philippines’ creditor banks today, charging…
Philippine Minister Attacks Call for Debt Repudiation
7 August 1987Ā Ā Reuters NewsĀ Ā EnglishĀ Ā (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ Ā MANILA, Aug 7, Reuter – The growing call in the Philippines for a repudiation of…
Foreign Firms to be allowed Manila Listing
18 August 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Aug 18 – Foreign companies will be allowed to list their stock on the…
Manila Oil Price Rise Seen Nudging Up Inflation
20 August 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Aug 20 – Last week’s 20 pct rise in the prices of petrol, diesel…
Philippine Landowners warn of violence over reforms
25 August 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Aug 25, Reuter – A major coalition of Philippine landowners today labelled President Corazon…
Aquino Faces Uphill Task in Economic Recovery
19 October 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Oct 19, Reuter – Philippine President Corazon Aquino can expect a volley of anxious…
Philippines Worried About Commodity Prices
9 November 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Nov 9 – Any fall in commodity prices resulting from the crash in world…
Manila Rates Rise as Pressure Grows on PESO
1 December 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Dec 1 – Short-term interest rates have shot up in the Philippines as the…
ASEAN Moves to boost regional economic cooperation
14 December 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Dec 14, Reuter – Spurred by shrinking markets and the spectre of global recession,…
TAKESHITA Pledges to open markets to ASEAN
15 December 1987Ā Reuters NewsĀ EnglishĀ (c) 1987 Reuters LimitedĀ MANILA, Dec 15 – Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita marked his first foreign trip by…
Spoil Of Sycophancy
For all those journalists who think they belong to a thankless and poorly-paid profession, there is hope on the horizon. It comes from the latest…
BANK THE RESERVE
The Reserve Bank Of INDIA (RBI) IS the best-run company in India: transparent, diligent, accountable, and (ostensibly) inĀdependent. Its official capital is a paltry Rs…
KILLING ME SOFTLY
He took a deep breath of air. Once again he caught a strangeness on the wind, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither odour nor perfumeājust strange,…
APOCALYPSE NOW
Kanpur, Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Muzaffarpur. Nine of the world’s ten most polluted cities listed by the World Health Organization are in…
Identify Yourself
The Fates Of the four million people whose names did not appear in the ‘complete draft’ of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam…
THE AIR IS THICK
The Good news is that both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress seem to have finally woken up to the looming catastrophe of air pollution…