March, 19 2005 Saturday 08 Safar 1426 Musharraf’s mother, son visit Aligarh University NEW DELHI, March 18: Begum Musharrafuddin and Bilal Musharraf, the mother and son of President Pervez Musharraf, on a private visit to India, were given a warm reception at the Aligarh... Jewish investors secretly buy land in Jerusalem JERUSALEM, March 18: Foreign Jewish investors have paid millions of dollars to buy two large properties at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City through a secret deal with the Greek Orthodox... Indian actors slam ‘invasion of privacy’ MUMBAI, March 18: Bollywood stalwarts flexed their muscle on Friday, denying there is a ‘casting couch’ in the Indian entertainment industry as claimed by a private television network following a series... CIA chief defends policy on prisoner transfer WASHINGTON, March 18: Suspected terrorists in US custody have been transferred to third countries for the past 20 years, CIA Director Porter Goss told the Senate armed services committee on Thursday.... Fall in French support for constitution alarms EU PARIS, March 18: President Jacques Chirac faced pressure on Friday to throw his weight behind France’s campaign to accept the European Union constitution after a poll suggested for the first time... Kyrghyz protesters occupy govt office BISHKEK, March 18: Protesters in ex-Soviet Kyrghyzstan surged past police and occupied a government building in the southern town of Osh on Friday, the latest challenge to the authorities after a... Ex-diplomat Kennan dies at 101 WASHINGTON, March 18: George Kennan, the key architect of the US policy of containment of the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, died on Thursday aged 101. Also a Pulitzer... Plot to kidnap TV host’s son NEW YORK, March 18: A handyman working at David Letterman’s Montana ranch has been charged with plotting to kidnap the US late-night talk show host’s 16-month-old son and nanny. Kelly Frank,... Israelis told not to move into Gaza JERUSALEM, March 18: Israel on Friday banned its citizens from moving into Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, aiming to forestall a feared influx of ultra-nationalists bent on blocking a pullout... Israel has N-arms since ’60s: paper AL QUDS, March 18: Israel armed itself with the ‘nuclear option’ 40 years ago for use as a last resort should Arab countries threaten its existence, one of the men responsible... China and Taiwan: way to reunification LONDON: The National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, has never been what you could call a radical body. So when it adopted the Taiwan secession law, a measure that gives China the... Atomic clock ticking away for Iran LONDON: Iran and the western powers are on a collision course as the clock ticks towards crucial talks in Paris next week about Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iranian diplomats insist that their... Last Franco monument removed MADRID: It was a suitable end for the dictator: the police came and took him with no warning in the middle of the night, despite the cries of his supporters. At... Mein Kampf becomes bestseller in Turkey ANKARA: Cheap cover prices and a rise in nationalist sentiment have made an unlikely best-seller in Turkey of Adolf Hitler’s infamous autobiography, “Mein Kampf”. Since January, the book has sold more... Trust science not hocus pocus LONDON: A MORI poll this week shows that eight out of 10 Britons think science makes a good contribution to society. Yet paradoxically, only four out of 10 think themselves very... Sartre is no more France THE idea that the French respect their intellectuals dies hard among the British. And when you wander around the streets of any French city it’s easy to see why. Rues Voltaire,...

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