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- Recall Envoy: Upa Members (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
Proceedings in both Houses held up for the second day
Members of the NDA, barring the Shiv Sena,
walk out on the issue
UPA will not compromise with the dignity of the House, says Dasmunsi
- Shock Exchange (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Aug 23, 2007)
The markets are jittery, and this time dubious loans made on the US housing market are not to blame.
- ‘Soren As Cm’ Cry After Acquittal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
Demand to install Shibu Soren as the chief minister swelled today, hours after he was acquitted by the Delhi High Court in the Shashinath Jha murder case.
- For Congress, Poll No Longer A Bogey (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
The government and the Left are waiting for the other side to come up with a proposal to find a middle ground on the nuclear deal but the Congress has drawn the parameters within which it wants negotiations to be held, sources said.
- Left, Nda Take On Centre For Delay In Action Against Ronen Sen (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
For the second day running, Left and NDA slammed the Government and sought to put the Government in the dock for the delay in recalling Indian Ambassador to the United States Ronen Sen.
- Envoy Faces Action, Cm Skips Meet (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2007)
The process of examining whether action against India’s Ambassador to the USA, Mr Ronen Sen, could be taken under a privilege motion for his reported comments describing MPs opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal as “headless chickens” began here today.
- Tomorrow Never Dies (Pioneer, ASHOK MALIK, Aug 22, 2007)
The India-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement is just one element of a grand bargain that Japan and America are offering India. It is to the credit of the CPI(M) that only it has realised the implications.
- India To Go Ahead With Negotiations With Iaea, Cong Indicates (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
Government will go ahead with negotiations with the IAEA in September in connection with the Indo-US nuclear deal despite its outright rejection by the Left parties, Congress indicated on Tuesday.
- ‘Envoys Should Serve Republic’ (Asian Age, Ramesh Ramachandran, Aug 22, 2007)
Indian ambassador to the United States Ronen Sen may have borne the brunt of the parliamentarians’ anger, but foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon was not spared either.
- Kill The Deal To Help China (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Aug 22, 2007)
Of the many things the Army teaches you, foremost is contingency planning, especially meeting the unforeseen.
- The Nuclear Deal: Key Issues And Political Circumstances (Hindu, N. Ram , Aug 22, 2007)
While several readers agree that the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation deal should be put on hold under the present politically murky and changing circumstances, some readers have raised questions about what they perceive to. . .
- Pm To Try And Woo Nitish Over Dinner (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
Even as the UPA-Left standoff threatens to push the country towards a mid-term poll, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for a dinner meeting on Wednesday.
- Unique Political Angst (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2007)
There may be more victims of the current uncertainty engulfing the UPA than we can track. Spare a thought, for instance, for the hit taken by the idea of coalition government.
- Pm Calls The Left’S Bluff (Tribune, B.G. Verghese for and Sanjay Sangvai , Aug 22, 2007)
IT is a lasting shame that Parliament was so raucously disrupted by vulgar demonstrations even as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Independence.
- Quattrocchi: Left, Bjp Find Common Ground (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
“Government should explain why it failed to appeal”
“It has brought shame on the country”
- Deal Stalls Work In Rajya Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
The India-U.S. nuclear deal paralysed the Rajya Sabha, which was adjourned for the day after several attempts to resolve the stalemate between the Congress and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) members failed.
- No Jpc On Deal, Says (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
Rules out mid-term elections
Text of deal circulated to party leaders before parliamentary debate on August 29
‘Nothing will be done that would benefit the communal forces’
- Deal Dilutes Autonomy (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Aug 21, 2007)
The India-US civil nuclear deal has exposed our worst kept post-colonial secret - there is dyarchy in New Delhi with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi calling the shots and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh executing her designs, even at the cost . . . . .
- Arrest Cannot Deter Fight: Uma Bharti (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
Bhartiya Janshakti Party leader Uma Bharti today asserted that she was not bothered even if she was arrested for the cause of saving Ram Sethu from destruction for the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project.
- Unfazed, Govt Moves Ahead (Pioneer, Navin Upadhyay, Aug 21, 2007)
The Government on Monday seemed to prepare for the inevitable in its stand-off with the Left over the India-US civil nuclear agreement.
- Prepare For Mid-Term Poll: Advani (Pioneer, Deepak Kumar Jha, Aug 21, 2007)
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha LK Advani on Monday gave a call to his party workers to prepare for general elections.
- Pandemonium In Houses As Logjam On N-Deal Continues (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
The Indo-US civil nuclear deal continued to generate heat in and outside Parliament on Monday with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance ridiculing the move of the UPA to form an expert committee to look into the concerns. . .
- Reading The Popular Mind In J&k (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Aug 21, 2007)
The recent survey conducted by Indian Express-Dawn News-CNN/IBN-CSDS-ACNielsen (IE, August 13) provides interesting insights into the political psyche of urban Kashmiris.
- Nda Demands Par Panel On N Deal (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
The NDA on Monday asked the Government to constitute a Parliamentary panel to study the Indo-US nuclear deal and opposed the suggestion for setting up an expert group to examine the concerns voiced by the Left parties on it.
- What Bjp Rule Meant (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
For the first time in post-independence India, Hindu nationalists were in a position to rule the country between 1998 and 2004.
- Pm Shrugs Off Left, Prepares For Iaea (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 21, 2007)
The UPA government and the Left are heading for a September showdown if the government decides to send Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar to the IAEA to negotiate a safeguards agreement with that international organisation.
- Parliament Diary (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
The Congress MPs were somewhat taken aback when a Left MP accused the former's Ministers in the UPA Government of speaking in many voices
- Nda, Unpa Boycott Ansari Meeting (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 21, 2007)
Members belonging to the NDA and the United National Progressive Alliance today boycotted the meeting called by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari to ensure the smooth conduct of proceedings.
- Upa Allies Throw Weight Behind Sonia, Manmohan (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
With the political atmosphere heating up as differences between Left parties and the Congress-led UPA, over the Indo-US nuclear deal pushed the government to the edge, Opposition BJP on Sunday declared, "possibility of mid-term polls is a reality."
- Trinamool To Oppose Indo-Us Nuclear Deal (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
The Trinamool Congress will oppose the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, party chief Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday.
- “No Truck With A Pro-Imperialist Party Like Bjp” (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday said his party would not have any truck with a “pro-imperialist party” like the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Govt May Draw Plan To Avert Poll (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Aug 20, 2007)
The Manmohan Singh government, going through its worst political crisis in 39 months over the Indo-US nuclear deal, may well try out a 123 strategy to prevent snap poll.
- The Ugly Indian (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 20, 2007)
UNLIKE the fabled Ugly American — who is to be found only in lands other than his own — the Ugly Indian is very much alive and kicking on his home ground and he revels in his brutish ugliness.
- Expert Committee To Study Hyde Act (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
The decision came after daylong deliberations culminating in the UPA meeting. The committee is expected to have, among others, scientists and former diplomats to look into all the technicalities and implications of the India-specific Hyde Act.
- Mixed Signals In Governor Shuffle (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
The Centre today appointed two new governors and moved or gave additional responsibilities to five others in a reshuffle that sends out mixed signals about the UPA government’s belief in its own tenure.
- Nuclear Deal Raises Dust And Din (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
The nuclear issue, seeming to be “never-ending and still beginning”, to borrow the evocative words of metaphysical poet John Dryden, raised political dust and din all through the week in both houses of parliament.
- Bjp Meets To Discuss Nda Move (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
While the senior BJP leadership met here today to discuss the situation arising out of it, NDA will take up the issue to review the political scenario in view of the tough stand taken by the left parties over the nuclear deal that led to a . . . . .
- Government Is Paralysed, Says Bjp (Pioneer, Yogesh Vajpeyi, Aug 20, 2007)
As the Left's hardening stand on the India-US nuclear deal is making the UPA Government shakier each passing day, the Opposition BJP is smelling mid-term poll in the air.
- A Visionary Extraordinaire (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 20, 2007)
As we celebrate Rajiv Gandhi’s 63rd birth anniversary today, thoughts go back in time to recollect the contributions of India’s youngest Prime Minister who laid the foundation of the country’s march into the 21st century.
- Chinese Whispers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 20, 2007)
Irrespective of how the Left-Congress drama ends - and it is increasingly and almost inevitably pointing to an early Lok Sabha election - the conduct of the Communist parties stands in the dock of history.
- Bjp Decides To Wait And Watch (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2007)
National DemoParty to press for discussion on the deal and on the Quattrocchi issue in Parliament
We’re always ready for mid-term elections, says Naqvi
cratic Alliance to take stand on no-confidence motion
- Allies Don’T Want Early Polls (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 20, 2007)
The Left ultimatum has thrown the Congress into complete chaos, with the UPA allies making it clear that they are not ready for early general elections.
- India Fights Back (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 18, 2007)
Truth. This has been the casualty of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s decision to throw wide open the Indian doors for the United States in agriculture, defence, business, trade and of course civilian nuclear energy cooperation.
- Bjp Leaders Organised Havans For My Death: Manmohan (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
Political bickering over the Indo-US nuclear deal just got murkier. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s claim that Opposition leaders had wished death for him because of his resolve to sign the nuclear deal surfaced today after former defence minister . . . .
- Left Is Not Right (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
THE Left has reservations on the Indo-US nuclear accord. The Prime Minister has been trying to allay its fears that India would become a client state of the US.
- Fernandes Remarks Cause Uproar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
The Treasury benches are likely to make a move to formally condemn in Parliament the statement made on Thursday — and reiterated on Friday — by National Democratic Alliance convener George Fernandes against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
- N-Deal Debate Under Voting Clause Rejected (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
The Manmohan Singh government can heave a sigh of relief over the Indo-US nuclear pact as it is official now that there is not going to be a discussion in Parliament on the issue under voting.
- ‘If It Were China, They Would Have Settled It With One Bullet In His (Pm’S) Head’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 18, 2007)
What some of us knew was bound to happen has happened. The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has over the years been keeping with himself what he thought was his big secret — a secret between himself and Bush, which has now come in the open.
- Bjp, George Fernandes Refuse To Apologise (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's ties with Opposition, never very cordial, hit a new low with Singh accusing BJP of organising havans for his demise and NDA convener George Fernandes raising a storm over his remarks that the PM ought to be . . . .
- Go, George (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 18, 2007)
The most appalling thing about George Fernandes’s appalling comment on the prime minister is that it wasn’t even a moment’s lapse, a crude answer on the fly while trying to escape TV cameras.
- ‘Nda Had Hand In Encouraging Ulfa’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
The Congress-led coalition at the Centre on Friday blamed the previous NDA regime for all the “present ills” in the Northeastern region, particularly Assam, where several Hindi-speaking people have been killed in attacks by ULFA and other militant groups.
- In Enriched N-Debate, The Crude Distraction: Bullet In Pm’S Head, Havans For His Death (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Aug 18, 2007)
If Indian politics had begun to sound too abstruse with talk of fuel reprocessing, Henry Hyde and strategic reserves, it got a dose of mud today — low and dirty like never before.
- Uproar Over Fernandes 'Pm Is Lying' Remark (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
Under attack from the ruling Congress over his remarks on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statements on nuclear deal, NDA convener George Fernandes on Friday refused to apologise for his comments.
- Pm: Bush Is Friendliest, Nice To Me (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said US President George W. Bush is a very easy person to deal with.
- Left, Congress Stalk Each Other (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
The differences between the Left and the Congress on the India-US civil nuclear deal deepened on Thursday with the Left issuing a stern warning to the Centre not to take its support for granted despite Congress making all-out efforts to mend fences . . .
- Spoilers Don't Prosper (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 17, 2007)
The clamouring against the Indo-American Civilian Nuclear Agreement by the Left Front and the BJP is both obscurantist and retrograde.
- Q And The Queen (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
In withdrawing its appeal before Argentina's Supreme Court the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has more than just allowed Italian fugitive from Indian law Ottavio Quattrocchi to walk free.
- Under Siege, Govt Ready To Fight Oppn Campaign Against N-Deal (Indian Express, D K Singh, Aug 17, 2007)
Concerned over the “misinformation campaign” launched by the Opposition and the Left against the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, the Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to counter it immediately through an informed debate in Parliament to ensure . . . .
- Maybe Comrades Could Check With China How It Gave In More On 123 (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Aug 17, 2007)
When comrades sit down at the Politburo tomorrow to work out the next steps in their protest against the nuclear deal, chances are they will gloss over the 123 agreement their friend China signed with the United States in 1985.
- Shame And Lajja (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 17, 2007)
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen was attacked in Hyderabad last week. The attack has been discussed prominently in Hyderabad papers.
- Bjp Puts Pm On Privilege Notice (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
Even as the BJP-led NDA today moved separate privilege motions in both Houses of Parliament against the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, for “misleading” the House on the issue of future nuclear tests by India in the context of the 123 Indo-US . . . .
- Govt Declares Nuke Test Right (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
Amidst the spectacle of an angry walkout by its Left supporters, the government declared in the Lok Sabha that it had the sovereign right to conduct a nuclear test as the Indo-US nuclear deal continued to plague Parliament for another day today.
- Nda Gives Privilege Notice Against Pm (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was besieged by a chorus of protests from Left and Right alike in Parliament on Thursday over the divergence of opinion between New Delhi and Washington over India's right to detonate a nuclear device.
- Parliament Rocked Over Nuke Deal (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
Both Houses of Parliament on Thursday were rocked over the issue of US State Department spokesman's statement that if India conducts a nuclear test, then the 123 Agreement, which operationalises the Indo-US nuclear deal, will be terminated.
- Parliament Rocked Over N-Deal (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
Both Houses of Parliament on Thursday were rocked over the issue of US State Department spokesman's statement that if India conducts a nuclear test, then the 123 Agreement, which operationalises the Indo-US nuclear deal, will be terminated.
- Manmohan's Ratings Soar While Musharraf's Sink (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 17, 2007)
Two siblings separated at birth and brought up in very different milieu meet each other as adults and offer a study in contrast.
- Bush Fuel In Left Fire (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
From breakfast to dinner, Prakash Karat, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and George W. Bush kept the Prime Minister busy on the eve of Independence Day but the standoff with the Left on the nuclear deal showed little sign of ebbing.
- Uninspiring Speech (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
There was a time when people would look forward to the Prime Minister's address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day.
- Indian Agriculture At Crossroads (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 16, 2007)
India has by now had the benefit of half a century of planning on the farm front. One important way of assessing a country’s true independence is to critically examine how independent it is in terms of food security.
- No Flood Relief (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 16, 2007)
An editorial in the latest issue of People’s Democracy points out bureaucratic delays affecting flood relief work in the country, saying “such a massive natural disaster needs to be met by the combined effort and resources of the central government . . .
- Toppler Effect (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2007)
Perhaps everyone concerned in the UPA-Left battle of threats over the nuclear deal has decided, as our story indicates today, that the government shouldn’t fall at this point over this issue.
- Growing Protests (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Aug 16, 2007)
DESPITE the hard sell by the Indian government, the nuclear deal with the United States has found very few takers among the Opposition parties.
- N-Deal: Flood ‘Relief’ For Now, Debate Put Off (Indian Express, Pradeep Kaushal, Aug 14, 2007)
The much-awaited debate on the nuclear deal in Parliament stands deferred to next week.
- Above Noise Left And Right, Pm Is Loud And Clear: Deal Is Historic (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
Declaring the Indo-US nuclear agreement a “historic deal,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today emphatically stated above the Opposition din in Parliament that he had ensured the autonomy of the country’s strategic programme and . . . .
- Nuclear Noises Hit High Decibel (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Aug 14, 2007)
The government today said it was against any Parliament vote on the nuclear deal, circling its wagon on a day an unusual round of posturing saw the Right courting the Left.
- “Strategic Programme Not Compromised” (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
The Indo-U.S. civil nuclear deal issue disrupted proceedings in the Lok Sabha on Monday, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made his statement in the afternoon amid vociferous protests by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the United . . . .
- Congress, Left Try To Break Nuclear Logjam (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
The Congress and the Left parties have bought some time to end the impasse over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal on which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a statement in Parliament on Monday.
- Cancel Trips, Be Present For N-Debate, Sonia Tells Congress Ministers (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
The dictate is clear: All hands on deck. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi have personally told the Congress Ministers to cancel their outstation trips during the current Monsoon session of Parliament and be present in . . .
- No Criminality In Most Kargil Purchases: Cbi (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Aug 14, 2007)
After two years of investigation, the CBI today informed the Supreme Court that no criminal intention has been found in majority of the Kargil war purchases made during the NDA regime for registration of FIRs.
- We Shall Attain Strategic Autonomy: Pm (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2007)
Amid Opposition uproar and walkout by the Left in Parliament, demanding the scrapping of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday asserted that he has redeemed the promises he made in Parliament.
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