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Iran unveils first
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India! says Pakistan with box of mangoes
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh Friday received an unexpected, yet pleasant, gift from
Pakistan when a box
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Pakistan
accepts Indian aid offer
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disaster: US to Pak
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mathematics among young generation, says President
Noting that mathematics
inculcates the habit of rational thought
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President Patil to inaugurate International
Mathematicians Congress in Hyderabad
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Nuclear
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The Nuclear Liability Bill faced fresh roadblocks today with the BJP
and the Left parties asserting that they would oppose any dilution
of the suppliers' liability. Both the BJP
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Saudi
Arabia to launch official TV, radio for fatwa
Saudi Arabia is mulling the idea of setting up an official
television channel and radio station for accredited Muslim scholars
to issue fatwas, or religious edicts, reports said
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children are securing more seats in IITs: Director
Fighting all odds more
and more poor children are making it to the prestigious Indian
Institute of Technology, some of them without even taking any help
from private
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to shed communal image, eyes Christian votes in Goa
In a bid to shed its communal image and boost its minority vote
base, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
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The Aligarh Muslim
University has announced its prestigious international award named
after its
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professor to spearhead major study on Indian judiciary
Jayanth Krishnan-a
professor of Indiana University Maurer School of Law-will serve as
project director
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Hours after the Union Cabinet cleared a 300 per cent salary hike,
from Rs. 16,000 to Rs. 50,000, for members of Parliament and doubled
their perks on Friday
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Bill to rebuild Nalanda University passed in Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha Saturday passed a bill to re-establish the historic
Nalanda University in Bihar as an international institute of
learning
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Ramallah:
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat rejected Monday three
conditions set by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a
peace agreement, calling them “unacceptable”.
“There is a difference between negotiations and dictation,” Erekat
told a news conference in Ramallah, commenting on Netanyahu’s
statement that any peace deal should be based on an end to the
conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, recognition of Israel as
“the national state of the Jewish People,” and “real and sustainable
security arrangements on the ground”.
The Israeli leader outlined his three “components” to his cabinet
Sunday, while discussing the announcements made Friday in Washington
and in Brussels that direct peace talks between Israelis and
Palestinians will begin next month.
Erekat said Monday he believed that an agreement “on all core issues
can be reached within 12 months. It is doable. It is time for
decisions and not (for) negotiations.”
“Now we hope that Netanyahu, if he’s given the choice between
settlements and peace, would choose peace; if he’s given the choice
between reconciliation and an historical agreement and the
confrontation or continuation of the occupation, he would choose the
reconciliation,” Erekat said.
But the veteran negotiator said the talks would come to an end if
Israel resumed construction in West Bank settlements once a 10-month
building freeze ends Sept 26.
Netanyahu declared the partial moratorium, after weeks of US
pressure, in November, in a bid to get peace talks going again.
Erekat said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had written to the
so-called Quartet of the US, Russia, the UN and the European Union,
expressing the hope they would force Israel to stop its settlement
activities.
Erekat would prefer to see a total halt to settlement construction
everywhere in the Palestinian territories, and not just an extension
of the moratorium post Sept 26.
He stressed that submitting new tenders would endanger the
continuation of negotiations.
“It is not a Palestinian condition, it is the first Israeli
obligation,” he said.
“We never focused on whether or not to go to the negotiations, we
have focused on how to go, and any negotiation needs terms of
reference, a time frame and obligations from both sides as provided
in the Quartet statement (of) Aug 20.”
The upcoming negotiations will be the first direct peace talks to be
held by the sides in nearly two years. The last round of direct
negotiations was suspended in late 2008, as Israel entered the
election campaign which ultimately brought Netanyahu to power.
Indirect talks between the sides, mediated by US envoy George
Mitchell, got under way in the spring.
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