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| March 15, 2002 | Friday | Zilhaj 30, 1422 |
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PM scolds minister for opposing advance: Israeli army’s takeover of Ramallah
TEL AVIV, March 14: Israel’s assault in the West Bank city of Ramallah triggered a confrontation on Wednesday between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer on pressing on... 
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N.Korea threatens to review accords with US
SEOUL, March 14: North Korea threatened to review all agreements with the United States over a reported US nuclear strategy which targets seven countries — including the communist state — for...
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Serbia, Montenegro form new state
BELGRADE, March 14: Serbia and Montenegro signed a landmark accord on Thursday, creating a new union that relegates the name “Yugoslavia” to history and postpones Montenegro’s bid for independence from Serbia...
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21 would-be army recruits die in sewer
NEW DELHI, March 14: Twenty-one Indian army applicants died on Thursday in Lucknow when they fell into an underground sewer after the ground collapsed, police said....
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US parties spar over Clinton pardons
WASHINGTON, March 14: Roger Clinton, half-brother of former US president Bill Clinton, acted as paid representative for up to 15 people seeking pardons or sentence reductions after the president urged him...
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First tourist spacecraft unveiled
 MOSCOW, March 14: Russian engineers on Thursday unveiled the first space cruiser built specially for tourists and said the maiden voyage will take place within three years....
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Wife recalls Osama’s anxiety
LONDON, March 14: Osama bin Laden was irritable, lonely and in pain in the period before the Sept 11 attacks in the United States for which he is Washington’s chief suspect,...
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US, Iran in direct contact
TEHRAN, March 14: The United States and Iran are engaged in direct contacts in an effort to resolve regional problems, a senior Iranian politician was quoted as saying on Thursday....
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Gujarat Muslims targeted again
AHMEDABAD, March 14: A curfew was imposed and federal troops despatched Thursday in a rural area of Gujarat after several thousand Hindu tribesmen attacked and burned Muslim homes in a fresh...
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Post-Sept 11 steps going too far: AI
LAUSANNE (Switzerland) March 14: Anti-terrorist measures introduced since the September 11 attacks on the United States have encroached on human rights, Amnesty International said Thursday, warning of a “security overdrive” by...
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Inquiry sought into newsman’s killing
PARIS, March 14: International journalists’ rights organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) says that it is “appalled” by the death of Italian freelance journalist Raffaele Ciriello who was shot dead on Wednesday...
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3 Indians die in blast
NEW DELHI, March 14: Three people were killed and about 30 injured when a suspected bomb went off in a train in East Punjab on Wednesday night, railway officials said....
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India’s hour of anguish
LONDON: Belief in the absolute is difficult to argue against. That which is considered fundamental to a culture cannot be easily challenged. So how did Hinduism - a creed with no...
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Is it time for guerilla war in Afghanistan?
KABUL: The United States and its Afghan allies have convincingly won the just-concluded Battle of Shahi Kot, the biggest ground clash of the five-month-old Afghan war....
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Mugabe victory leaves West in tatters
HARARE: Western countries were left frustrated and impotent after Robert Mugabe formally declared that he had overwhelmingly won Zimbabwe’s presidential election....
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Russia rethinks its support for Iraq
MOSCOW: Whenever Washington set its sights on Baghdad, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein knew he could count on Moscow for support....
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