March 18, 2006	Saturday	Safar 17, 1427

Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window)

US Congress split over N-accord with India WASHINGTON, March 17: Many members of the US Senate and House of Representatives have told Bush administration officials they want to rewrite parts of the nuclear deal President Bush made with India earlier this month....		New Delhi thanks Moscow for fuel NEW DELHI, March 17: India, playing host to Russian Prime Minister Fradkov on Friday, thanked Moscow for agreeing to supply nuclear fuel to its controversial Tarapur plant — a move objected to be the United States....
US opposes India’s deal with Russia WASHINGTON, March 17: Washington on Thursday reiterated its opposition to Moscow supplying nuclear fuel to New Delhi, saying that such a deal should not go through before India honours its nuclear deal with the United States....		US, UK accused of derailing UN text: Palestinian envoy on Israeli raid UNITED NATIONS, March 17: The Palestinian UN representative on Thursday accused the United States and Britain of derailing adoption of a Security Council statement on an Israeli raid of a Palestinian prison earlier this week....
Hamas set to take key posts in cabinet GAZA CITY, March 17: The Hamas group is set to take all key posts in a new Palestinian cabinet in the face of continued failure of coalition talks with other factions, officials said on Friday....		Syrian opposition forms united front to oust Assad BRUSSELS, March 17: Exiled Syrian opposition leaders announced the creation of a united front on Friday to form a transitional government to bring about ‘regime change’ from President Bashar al Assad to democracy....
Jaya Bachchan disqualified NEW DELHI, March 17: Jaya Bachchan, a popular movie star and member of the upper house of parliament, has been disqualified as MP. The move came after President Abdul Kalam accepted the election commission’s recommendation for her disqualification....		Local forces to run 75pc of Iraq this year: US WASHINGTON, March 17: The US military expects to have turned control over 75 per cent of Iraq to Iraqi security forces by the end of the summer, a top commander said on Thursday....
Probe looks at instant after Big Bang WASHINGTON, March 17: A NASA space probe has peered back in time to a bare instant — less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second — after the Big Bang, astronomers said on Thursday....		It’s time for Blair to go, says weekly LONDON, March 17: Britain’s influential Economist newsmagazine on Friday advised Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign, contending that it is unlikely that he can push through much more of his ambitious reform agenda....
Denmark’s Muslims to take cartoon case to UN STOCKHOLM, March 17: Danish Muslim organisations are to take the cartoon case to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, the Danish Islamic Community organisation said on Friday....		Milosevic’s family not to attend funeral BELGRADE, March 17: Slobodan Milosevic’s family on Friday pulled out of his funeral, citing threats and a row over his resting place, as Serbia prepared a final farewell to the former leader whose 13-year rule brought the nation to its knees....
Protest against US firm claims four lives JAKARTA, March 17: Police fired shots into the air as they patrolled the capital of Indonesia’s Papua province on Friday after three policemen and a soldier died the previous day in clashes with protesters demanding closure of a giant US-run mine....		4 ‘militants’ shot dead AHMEDABAD, March 17: Indian police shot dead four suspected militants in Gujarat on Friday and said the men were planning to attack religious sites in the region....
Flip side of Chinese, Indian development: Economic boom fails to reach the poor LONDON: The sleeper to Delhi had just left Calcutta when a mouse raced across the floor of our second-class compartment. We frantically lifted our feet and peered into the darkness under the seats to spot its next foray....		Colour revolutions fade in Russia’s shadow LONDON: For a man apparently assured of victory, Alexander Lukashenko is going to unusual lengths to ensure the ‘right’ result in Sunday’s presidential election in Belarus....
Invasion of Iraq: time now for accountability LONDON: Every reason Tony Blair has concocted for the Iraq war has turned out to be the reverse of the truth: there were no weapons of mass destruction, the West is...		Wordsworth wanders on to Shanghai metro BEIJING: Thirty years ago the posters on the Shanghai public transport system screamed Maoist slogans. For the past 10 years they have been hard-sell advertisements for cosmetic surgery clinics and cars....
Chance travel brings Cuban rafter back to Guantanamo GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE: Virgilio Franqui was a sun-blistered Cuban migrant plucked off a makeshift raft in the Florida Straits when he first set eyes on the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in 1993....		4 US troops killed MIQDADIYA (Iraq), March 17: Four US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Friday when a landmine exploded near a police checkpoint in the town of Miqdadiya, northeast of Baghdad....