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Pranab: Border issues to be resolved soon
Qureshi in Delhi, to resume talks
Pakistan ‘can stop’ drone raids
Pak frees 101 Indian prisoners |
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Many Indian-Americans in
Obama team
NRI accused of killing wife arrested
UK wins 7 Emmys
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
B’desh to lift emergency before poll: Minister
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Pranab: Border issues to be resolved soon
Visiting Indian external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the protracted boundary disputes between Nepal and India would be resolved soon through mutual discussions. After holding bilateral talks with Nepal’s minister for foreign affairs Upendra Yadav at his office on Tuesday, Mukherjee said besides all bilateral issues they discussed about the border disputes on Kalapani of Darchula in far-western Nepal, the strategic tir-junction among Nepal, India and China, and Triveni-Susta, where the Narayani river had pushed a Nepali village toward Bihar. “Nearly 98 per cent of the border areas have been demarcated and it has also been put in the strip maps,” he said adding that, “certain corrections have to be made in the map and after these corrections are made in”. He also claimed that “difference and divergence” views in Susta and Kalapani were to be resolved and officers of both sides should be asked to meet and expeditiously resolved this issue. Nepal has been allegedly saying that Kalapani - much to Nepal’s chagrin - has been occupied by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police since the 1962 Sino-Indian war, and 14,000 hector land in Susta has been encroached by the Indian side. However, Indian side has been refuting the allegation. A few months ago, Nepal-India Joint Technical Level Boundary Committee meeting had prepared a report on boundary demarcation to resolve all boundary-related issues except the bitterly disputed issues of Kalapani and Triveni-Susta. It had also agreed to find amicable solution on Kalapani dispute by sitting with China. Foreign minister Yadav said there was serious discussion on problems in border areas like Kalapani and Susta, construction of the proposed Naumule hydropower project with Indian assistance and cooperation between the two countries on extradition. The duo also discussed on inundation problem in bordering areas, the Naumure Multipurpose Porject among others and expressed commitment to reconstruct the breached embankment of Kosi river and bring it to its original alignment by March 2009. Both the countries expressed their commitment to implement past agreements. Prime Minister’s foreign policy advisor Hira Bahadur Thapa informed that Prime Minister and Mukherjee did not raise the issues of Kalapani and Susta and the review of the 1950 treaty. A source at Baluwatar informed that Mukherjee held a secret conversation with finance minister Baburam Bhattarai for 15 minutes. Mukherjee stressed on all political parties moving ahead together while writing constitution, during the meetings.
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Qureshi in Delhi, to resume talks
Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday flew to New Delhi on a four-day trip to India while hoping key decisions would be taken by the two sides that would put the stalled peace process back on rails.
Qureshi will meet his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday to review the bilateral peace process and to arrive at a decision on the issue of Sir Creek and the opening of communication, transaction and banking facilities across the Line of Control. The foreign minister is also likely to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both ministers will travel to Chandigarh on Thursday to attend a programme on cooperative development, peace and security in South Asia organised by the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development
(CRRID).
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Pakistan ‘can stop’ drone raids
Islamabad, November 25 US forces in Afghanistan have carried out at least 26 air strikes by unmanned aircraft on militant targets in northwest Pakistan this year, according to a Reuters tally, more than half since the start of September. —
Reuters
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Pak frees 101 Indian prisoners
Islamabad, November 25 As talks between Indian home secretary Madhukar Gupta and his Pakistani counterpart Syed Kamal Shah began here, authorities freed 99 Indian fishermen from a jail in the southern port city of Karachi and two other prisoners from another jail in Karachi.
The fishermen, arrested between 2002 and 2006, were put on two buses that would take them to Lahore, for passage back home through the Wagah land border tomorrow, officials said. Interior ministry chief Rehman Malik had, earlier, asked India to reciprocate the gesture. He claimed hundreds of Pakistanis were languishing in Indian prisons and should be freed at the earliest. According to leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney, the two Indian prisoners being released had completed their prison terms. “There are many other Indian prisoners who have completed their sentences but are still in jail. I have also taken up their case with the authorities,” he said. India recently freed 29 Pakistani prisoners who had completed their jail terms.—
PTI
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Many Indian-Americans in Obama team
Houston, November 25 The appointees are no strangers to the first ever African American President-elect Barack Obama, with most of them having longstanding associations with him. Rathod is currently the national outreach director of South Asians for Obama and one of its founding members. Arti Rai, an ex-classmate of Obama at Harvard Law School, who is currently a professor of patent law at Duke University, has been appointed member of the agency review team on science, technology, space, arts and humanities. The agency review teams are charged with completing a thorough review of various departments, agencies and commissions in the US government to craft policy, budgetary and personnel decisions prior to the President's inauguration. Anjan Mukherjee, another Indian-American, who is a passout from the Harvard Business School and managing director at the private equity firm Blackstone, has been named one of the several leads on the economics and international trade agency review team. Besides, Rachana Bhowmik, Subhasri Ramanathan, Natasha Bilimoria and Puneet Talwar will all serve as members of the state, national security, defence, intelligence and arms control agency review teams. Bilimoria, who also part of the Clinton administration, is the executive director of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis -- a non-profit organisation working to engage Americans in prevention of these diseases in the developing world. Meanwhile, Puneet is a senior staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and previously served on the State Department's policy planning staff. — PTI
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NRI accused of killing wife arrested
New York, November 25 Pallipurath had drove across the US from California to New Jersey, to persuade his wife Reshma James, to return to him and then shot her when she spurned him. —
PTI
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UK wins 7 Emmys
New York, November 25 Sam Waterston, who has appeared as prosecutor Jack McCoy in more than 325 “Law & Order” episodes since 1994, presented the special International Emmy Founders Award to Wolf whose shows are seen in their original or locally produced versions in almost every corner of the globe.
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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
London, November 25 Hitchings won the 5,000-pound award, given for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by a UK or Commonwealth writer aged 35 or under, for his work, “The Secret Life of Words”. The brilliance of Hitchings’ “The Secret Life of Words” lies in its energy, urgency and accessibility, beyond the fact that it reminds us of just how important etymology is to understanding the history of a fractured world. “Written with an unnerving precision, clarity and grace, Hitchings’ scope is vast, tackling issues of communication, immigration, war, religion and community. Yet, he never forgets that underpinning it all is the dynamism of English — truly a world language,” said Henry Sutton, chair of judges, before presenting the award here last night. “This is a big, important book, a landmark in many ways, which will be read and enjoyed for years,” Sutton said. The non-fiction work, published by John Murray, is a rich and lively account of the history and growth of the English language over the centuries. Besides Booker winner Adiga, others in the race were Adam Foulds (“The Broken Word”), James Palmer (“The Bloody White Baron”), Ross Raisin (“God’s Own Country”) and Brian Schofield (“Selling Your Father's Bones”). — PTI
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B’desh to lift emergency before poll: Minister
Dhaka, November 25 “The emergency will be lifted in phases before the election,” Hossain Zillur Rahman told reporters. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has threatened to boycott the election if the emergency is not lifted by December 11. It has already forced the commission to delay the polls by 11 days from December 18. The BNP, meanwhile, has started handing out nomination papers to party aspirants, while country’'s other main party, the Awami League, says it has nearly finished the process. The deadline for the submission of the nominations is November 30. — Reuters
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