Upa Squanders Inheritance
As a community, economists tend to be
only marginally less self-serving than
NGO activists.
How Not To Deal With Pakistan
Manmohan Singh's appointment as Prime
Minister in 2004 was welcomed
internationally.
Tigers Sprout Wings
The air strike by the LTTE on a Sri
Lankan military airbase has serious
implications for the security of the
region.
Soaring Pns
When it comes to protecting foreign
investment through Participatory Notes
(PNs), even national security takes a
back seat.
Air Terror
Grim times ahead as a
military-solution minded Sri Lankan
government is faced with a desperate
terrorist organisation that now has a
proven air-strike capability and a
demonstrated ability to hoodwink the
intelligence agencies of many
countries...
European Arms Tease
Amidst its rising economic and
political clout in Europe, according
to just released trade data for 2006,
China
has for the first time replaced the
US
as the largest exporter to the EU, and
Beijing is pressing
Brussels to lift the arms embargo in .
. .
Centre Should Ponder Over The Irksome
Fbt
On the 10th anniversary of what was
billed the dream budget, the devil in
the details continue to confound
different sections of industry, not
merely steel and cement manufacturers.
Sorry, It's Still India Shining
You might say I am nuts, but the best
thing that could have happened to P.
Chidambaram on budget day was a
600-point drop in the Sensex.
Upa Looks On As Ltte Flies High
As the dramatic use of air power by
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
makes headlines, there is no reason to
believe that New Delhi is surprised.
India And Iran: Crunch Time Ahead
On the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India
gas pipeline, Washington has stated
its position bluntly to New Delhi.
European Arms Tease
Amidst its rising economic and
political clout in Europe, according
to just released trade data for 2006,
China
has for the first time replaced the
US
as the largest exporter to the EU, and
Beijing is pressing
Brussels to lift the arms embargo in .
. .
No Place To Hide As Nuclear Deal
Enters Last Lap
The `123 agreement' is important not
in order to facilitate nuclear imports
from the U.S. but because it will form
the template for changes to the
Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines.
Assault On The Judiciary
I picked up the thread on the
suspension of Pakistan Chief Justice
Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry at
Lahore
from the day when lawyers from all
over the country assembled to take a
procession from the High Court to the
Punjab Assembly, a distance of one . .
.
India For Keeping Future Test Out Of
`123 Agreement'
Voluntary moratorium will not
translate into legal commitment Talks
on 123 agreement next week India will
stress its right to reprocess spent
fuel.
Murder In Arcadia
If over-kill and pig-headedness hadn’t
been the hallmarks of the CPI(M)’s
re-conquest of Nandigram on March 14,
conspiracy theorists may well have
been justified in claiming that the
incident was a diabolical ploy by the
flat-earth society to . . .
India’S Pakistan Moment
As
Pakistan
struggles to find a new direction for
itself,
India
can lay out its own enduring interests
across the border — a democratic and
modern Pakistan in harmony with its
neighbours.
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