21 April 2005	Thursday	11 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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Kashmiris look for a place on the table NEW DELHI: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to include Kashmiri leaders in the India-Pakistan dialogue. This was not ruled out by the prime minister, although New...		Vajpayee ready to make way for the young NEW DELHI: Former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee deftly put the ball in BJP president L.K. Advani’s court on Tuesday on the issue of making way for the Generation Next in...
Corruption costs BD 68 billion takas every year: study DHAKA, April 20: Corrupt officials and employees in Bangladesh take an estimated 67.96 billion takas in bribe every year for 25 types of services in nine major sectors, according to a...		State granted time to prove ownership of Taj Mahal LUCKNOW: Chairman Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board Hafiz Usman on Wednesday agreed to grant a month’s time to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to collect evidence to prove its ownership...
Iran warns of abandoning negotiations: EU urged to be flexible WASHINGTON, April 20: The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee balked at confirming John Bolton’s nomination as ambassador to the United Nations...		Scientists claim decoding rice fungus genome PARIS, April 20: Scientists have unravelled the genome of the rice plant’s greatest fungal menace, a harvest-wrecking foe that each year destroys the potential to feed 60 million people. Magnaporthe grisea...
Pope says he’d reach out to other religions VATICAN CITY, April 20: Pope Benedict XVI moved swiftly on the first day of his reign on Wednesday to allay fears of a rigid, authoritarian papacy, saying he would work for...		Sri Lanka: poverty breeds extremism in east BATTICALOA: Batticaloa district, which has become a killing field defying the ceasefire agreement, has one more intrigue added to its list of deathly confusions. The emergence...
US Senate body holds up confirmation: ‘Serial bully’ charge dogs Bush nominee LUCKNOW: Chairman Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board Hafiz Usman on Wednesday agreed to grant a month’s time to the Archeological Survey of India (ASI)...		Nepal king leaves for Jakarta to seek support KATHMANDU: Nepal’s King Gyanendra left on Wednesday for an international summit in Jakarta where he aims to drum up international support for his seizure of power, officials said. Gyanendra is due...
Book says new pope joined Hitler Youth BERLIN, April 20: The new pope was a member of the Hitler Youth during World War II, but an expert said on Wednesday that any man of his age in Germany...		Ratzinger opposed Kerry WASHINGTON, April 20: German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican theologian who was elected Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, intervened in last year’s US election...
Biographer recalls brain haemorrhage VATICAN CITY, April 20: The newly-elected pope suffered a brain haemorrhage in 1991 but has since recovered from it, his biographer John Allen was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Some people,...		Berlusconi resigns in bid to avert poll ROME, April 20: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned on Wednesday but vowed to form a new coalition government with the same partners, seeking to avert a snap general election and...
Unique judgment: prison till death JALANDHAR: In a unique judgment, the Jalandhar District and Sessions...		Ghost concert to revive music of the past PARIS: Music lovers in North Carolina are due for a strange treat next month....