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- 'Nuke Deal Important Part Of Indo-Us Relationship' (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Expressing commitment to the Indo-US nuclear deal, the US has said the historic agreement is an important part of the bilateral relationship and is beneficial to both countries.
- Every Us Govt Since ’70s Secretly Helped Pak Become Nuke Power (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Every successive American government, from President Jimmy Carter to incumbent President George W. Bush, has turned a blind eye to Pakistan’s nuclear programme and allowed Islamabad to build nuclear facilities at . . .
- N-Deal Cements New Third Front (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Oct 26, 2007)
The glimmerings of a new alternative could be seen on Wednesday when Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav met Left leaders Prakash Karat and A.B. Bardhan and agreed to cooperate in Parliament on the Indo-US nuclear deal issue.
- Mulayam Briefs Karat On Third Front Meeting (Tribune, R. Suryamurthy, Oct 26, 2007)
With the Manmohan Singh government and the Left parties engaged in the war of nerves on the nuclear deal, communists have paced up the process of engagement with the UNPA to put pressure on the Congress-led coalition and corner it on the floor of. . .
- The Debate Hasn’T Ended (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 26, 2007)
The Lok Sabha was adjourned in the last week of August following raucous acrimony over the issue of parliamentary prerogative to decide the rights and wrongs of a foreign treaty signed by the government. The debate is currently in a limbo.
- Us To India: Shun Iran, Hug N-Deal (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
US treasury secretary Henry Paulson will soon urge Indian officials not to move forward with a planned pipeline project that would bring Iranian natural gas to India, a senior official said today.
- Outcome Of Talks With Left Unclear: Pranab (Hindustan Times, Amit Baruah, Oct 26, 2007)
Yes to making efforts, no to predicting outcomes. That was External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's repeated response to questions from the Hindustan Times whether the civil nuclear deal with the United States could be salvaged in the face. . .
- Children Of The Apocalypse (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 26, 2007)
In Paradise Lost, Book IV, when Satan views the created universe for the first time, he finds among the living creatures “Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,/ God-like erect…”
- U.S. Committed To Diplomatic Solution: Rice (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
As the United States imposed sweeping new sanctions against Iran on Thursday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington remained committed to “‘a diplomatic solution.”
- Deal Beneficial To Both Countries: Paulson (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
The historic civil nuclear deal with India is an important part of the relationship between New Delhi and Washington and it will be beneficial to both countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said.
- Power Capacity Addition A Herculean Task (Hindu, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 26, 2007)
Experts are raising doubts about achieving even the lowered target of 60,000 MW.
- Q&a: 'N-Deal Will Widen The Base Of Indo-Us Relations' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Phillips Talbot worked as India correspondent for Chicago Daily News before partition and in the early years after freedom. His recent book, An American Witness to India's Partition, is primarily a collection of his reports.
- Iaf Red Flag Drill With Usaf Okayed (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
In a move that is certain to ratchet up the UPA-Left confrontation, defence minister A K Antony, brushing aside the reservations expressed by the ruling combine’s most vital prop, on Thursday gave his "in principle" go-ahead to the Indian . . . .
- 'Us Will Continue To Work For Making The Deal A Realty' (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Dismissing speculations that the Indo-US nuclear deal was "dead", the Bush administration has said that Washington will continue to work for making the landmark deal a realty.
- Left Firms Up Anti-Cong Stance (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Giving in to the Left's bullying on the India-US nuclear deal is unlikely to remove hurdles in the path of the UPA Government as the comrades are all set to broadbase their opposition on several other key policy issues.
- A Distraught Group (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Oct 26, 2007)
Not only is history against any kind of Third Front, but its future also is bleak.
- Superstition Bytes (Pioneer, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 26, 2007)
Television channels have been overdoing programmes with superstition and occult as themes so much that the Information and Broadcasting Ministry will soon issue a warning to them for promoting such practices.
- Cpm Lambasts Us 'Insistence On N-Deal' (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
Rebuffing US insistence on India moving fast on the nuclear deal, the CPI(M) on Thursday said setting of such deadlines was an 'insult' to Indian democracy.
- Ls Panel Summons Sen On Oct. 29, Rs On Nov. 2 (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
India’s ambassador to the US, Mr Ronen Sen, who made the controversial "headless chickens" remarks to describe those opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal, has been summoned before the privileges committee of the Lok Sabha on . . . .
- Towards A Faraway Peace (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Oct 25, 2007)
We are closer to peace than ever before,” said Shimon Peres at his official presidential home in Jerusalem last week.
- Special (Statesman, Salman Haidar , Oct 25, 2007)
A pioneering visit to Teheran earlier this month by Russia’s President Putin has been seen as a challenging new development with important strategic implications.
- Putin In Iran (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A pioneering visit to Teheran earlier this month by Russia’s President Putin has been seen as a challenging new development with important strategic implications.
- Bjp To Press For N-Vote In Parliament (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The BJP on Wednesday signalled that it will press for a vote when the Indo-US nuclear deal issue comes up in Parliament.
- Singh Raises New Hope Over Nuclear Deal (Dawn, Y.P. Rajesh, Oct 25, 2007)
India’s beleaguered prime minister is determined to push a nuclear deal with the United States despite stiff opposition from his communist allies, a lobbying group quoted him as saying.
- What Putin Didn't Say (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Of the 68 questions answered by Russia's President Vladimir Putin at his three-hour Q&A session last Thursday, less than a dozen dealt with the foreign policy of that country.
- Us, Uk Knew About A Q Khan But Kept Quiet: New Book (Indian Express, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 25, 2007)
Four years before Pakistan’s Dr Abdul Qadir Khan was publicly humiliated, then pardoned and placed under house arrest, the British and US authorities were briefed about his role in selling nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran.
- Merkel’S Visit May Close Gaps (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 25, 2007)
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, is seeking to change the way it has so far looked at India, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit beginning next week, say top officials from both countries.
- Back To The Old Style Of Governance? Statecraft (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 25, 2007)
More than the future of the India-U.S. nuclear deal or the survival of the Manmohan Singh government, the issue is whether our polity will be able to produce a ruling arrangement for purposeful governance.
- Congress ‘Not Alarmed’ At Left-Unpa Meetings (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Congress is neither alarmed nor surprised at the meetings between the leaders of the Left parties and the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) on the nuclear deal with the United States.
- China, Russia Support Indian Stand Against Sanctions On Myanmar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
India on Wednesday opposed imposing sanctions on Myanmar and called for encouraging all stakeholders to advance political reforms and national reconciliation, a move jointly supported by China and Russia.
- Convince Me N-Weapons Plan Safe, I’Ll Say Go Ahead With Deal: Brajesh Mishra (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
At a time when political parties in the Opposition are rallying around the Left against the UPA on the Indo-US nuclear deal, National Security Advisor in the BJP-led NDA government Brajesh Mishra has said that he would let the deal go ahead if he . . . .
- Pm To Defence Top Brass: Deal About Energy Security, Not Us (Indian Express, MANU PUBBY , Oct 25, 2007)
While he may have said that failure of the nuclear deal does not mean the end of life, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today again underlined that energy security holds the key to the future and this was why his government wanted to go ahead . . . .
- Indian Govt Urges Mly To Be Open In Defence Deals (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
India on Wednesday urged its military chiefs to ensure transparency in a swathe of multi-billion dollar deals due to be signed in coming years as the armed forces modernise.
- India-Us Nuclear Deal Wavers (Christian Science Monitor, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A US-Indian accord on civilian nuclear cooperation, once hailed as one of the most significant foreign-policy achievements of the Bush presidency, is on the ropes and may die before it is ever approved.
- For Manmohan, N-Deal Was Not A Prestige Issue (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is "doing his job" without being distracted by reports that the logjam over the Indo-US nuclear deal has left him 'sad, depressed, dejected or lonely', sources in the PMO said on Wednesday.
- Ncp Calls For United Front To Defeat Modi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday appealed to all secular parties to form a united front in Gujarat to defeat the BJP government headed by Narendra Modi.
- Bjp May Allow N-Deal Debate (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Oct 25, 2007)
There is no indication that the Bharatiya Janata Party will shift from its stand on the nuclear deal with the United States that it should be re-negotiated; that it will adversely affect the country’s strategic independence; that there should be . . . .
- Japan Warns Us Over Terrorism Issue In North Korea (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A senior Japanese official has warned the United States that relations will suffer if Washington removes North Korea from a list of terrorist states, amid stepped up efforts to end Pyongyang's nuclear drive.
- Unpa Not To Insist On Vote (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
While pressing for a discussion in Parliament on the nuclear deal with the United States, the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) on Wednesday made it clear that it would not insist on the issue being put to vote.
- Israel Backs Indo-Us N-Deal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Coming out in support of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, Israel on Wednesday welcomed the ongoing negotiations to end India’s nuclear isolation but said that a broader criteria-based policy was required to decide on entry of other countries into . . . .
- Dialogue Is The Key: India, China, Russia (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
India, China and Russia have opposed fresh western sanctions on Myanmar, but supported efforts by the UN for dialogue with the junta in troubled nation.
- A Trillion Dollar War (Tribune, Leonard Doyle, Oct 25, 2007)
US President George Bush will have spent more than $1 trillion on military adventures by the times he leaves office at the end of next year, more than the entire amount spent on the Korean and Vietnam wars combined.
- Big Blaze Empties California Homes (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Dying winds gave California firefighters their first big break today after four days battling wildfires, but San Diego faced more calamity as blazes there burned out of control and kept more than half-a-million evacuees from returning home.
- China Begins Moon Race Before India (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
China launched its first lunar probe today, the first step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to earth.
- India Shuns Missile Defence System (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Oct 25, 2007)
In a significant change from recent policy Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday ruled out being part of the controversial US-led missile defence system, opposed by countries like Russia and China.
- N Korea Will Beat Disarmament Deadline, Says S Korean Official (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
North Korea is likely to disable its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor well before the year-end deadline set under a multinational deal, a senior South Korean official said today.
- Bobby Jindal, Who? (Pioneer, Anuradha Dutt, Oct 25, 2007)
There's nothing about the new Louisiana Governor that's Indian. Why celebrate his win?
- ...Malaysia Takes A Dive (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Malaysia's ambitious plans to have a submarine fleet to enhance the nation's defence capabilities is bearing fruition, with the launch of its first submarine.
- China, India, Russia Urge Burma To Talk To Un Envoy (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Foreign Ministers from China, Russia and India on Wednesday urged Burma's military junta to engage in dialogue with a United Nations special envoy, but said they opposed UN sanctions against the regime.
- Us-India Nuclear Deal Could Be Dead Before Arrival (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The is on the ropes and may die before it is approved, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor.
- Coalition Dharma (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 25, 2007)
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh would have found quite a few sympathisers when he spoke about the difficulties a fractured mandate throws up.
- Is Left-Unpa Pair Feasible? (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
The Left may have agreed to tango with the UNPA on the Indo-US nuclear deal in Parliament, but for any larger coordination outside the House the comrades want the non-BJP, non-Congress parties to bring their economic policies in sync with theirs.
- Indo-Us Lobbyists Meet Left, Bjp On N-Deal (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
A group of Indian American lobbyists on Wednesday met Left and BJP leaders in a bid to understand their opposition to the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal.
- Contrasting Tales Of Resurgence (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Oct 25, 2007)
Even if things fall apart on the Indo-US nuclear deal and elections are held early, the polls will be a proper democratic exercise, unlike in Pakistan, where a free and fair election and democracy are still a mirage.
- Final Advice From Drucker For Knowledge Organisations (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 25, 2007)
What is the first sign of decline of a company? Not a splash of red on the financial statements, as accountants may tend to think, but ‘loss of appeal to qualified, able, and ambitious people,’ as Elizabeth Haas Edersheim writes in . . . .
- India Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Agni Missile (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
India on Wednesday test fired its nuclear-capable Agni-1 ballistic missile for the second time in less than a month and said the latest experiment was a “major success.”
- Iran Denies Mottaki Resignation ‘Rumour’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today denied speculation that foreign minister Mr Manouchehr Mottaki was to become the latest casualty of changes to his conservative government.
- New Delhi Test-Fires N-Capable Missile (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
India on Wednesday test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-1 ballistic missile for a second time in less than a month and said the latest experiment was a ‘major success.’
- Growing Russia, Iran Ties (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Oct 25, 2007)
MOST summit meetings these days are uneventful, because of the primacy given to protocol and publicity rather than to substance.
- Romance Of Sputnik (Frontline, T.S. Subramanian, Oct 25, 2007)
A FULL house spontaneously applauded the film, which received the undivided attention of the audience for about an hour, at the International Astronautical Congress in Hyderabad on September 26.
- A Disk Revolution (Frontline, R. Ramachandran, Oct 25, 2007)
THE first computer hard disk drive (HDD) was introduced by IBM in 1956. Called the 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), this first data storage system comprised 50 disks, each about 60 metres in diameter, and stored about five . . .
- Sarabhai's Vision (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 25, 2007)
Governments lay down policies, but their implementation depends a lot on the personality and outlook of officials who, in turn, influence policymaking.
- Other Voices Pushto Press (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
ISLAMABAD has finally announced a sub-jirga tasked with implementing decisions of a Pakistan-Afghanistan peace forum, pinning down the causes of militant attacks in the region and suggesting ways of tackling extremism.
- A Fair Investigation? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 25, 2007)
AS the debris and smoke of the bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto settled, one thing was clear: the battle with militancy in Pakistan has been raised to a new level.
- Pm Blames It On Coalition Politics (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Prime Minister told the global consultancy firm McKinsey that the problem among political leaders in the country was not about lack of awareness or thinking on what needed to be done to sustain and accelerate social and economic growth...
- Afghanistan: A Once And A Future Nation (Deccan Herald, ROGER COHEN, Oct 24, 2007)
To help forge a better Afghanistan or merely an Afghanistan the Americans involved their NATO friends.
- Finding The Peace Within (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 24, 2007)
We need to embrace a more realistic approach to dealing with human conflicts.
- Kalam Conferred Honorary Doctorate Of Science (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Wolverhampton in the UK in recognition of his eminence in the international community as a scientist, educationist and statesman.
- Cpm Seeking Nuclear Family? (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
The widening of rift on the nuclear controversy after a brief thaw is attributed to the stand of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Mondays meeting where he maintained that deal was still on and the Congress had not given up...
- Politics On The Move (Indian Express, D K Singh, Oct 24, 2007)
Think of a block Congress president riding a spanking new Toyota Innova on the narrow, pot-holed lanes of a Gujarat village. Senior Congress leaders are already chuckling at the thought of Life-After-Innova for all the block and district Congress . . . .
- Poor State (Indian Express, VARGHESE K. GEORGE, Oct 24, 2007)
Prabhat Patnaik writes on the ‘The Privatisation Of Planning,’ and argues that the central government is trying to take away the powers of the state government in two ways — by centralising some in the Union government and decentralising others to . . . .
- Sonia To Visit China (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
India’s ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi will visit China for five days as the two Asian giants seek to improve ties, officials said on Tuesday.
- Too Early To Be Disappointed, Says Us (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Amid continuing uncertainty over fate of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the US has said it is "too early" to express disappointment and held out hopes that the two sides "can get it done".
- India’S New Image Crisis In East Asia (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 24, 2007)
Now receding is the recently “rising” profile of India in Greater East Asia, which includes Australia and the South Pacific sub-region. This is largely traceable to the perception that India’s civilian nuclear energy deal with the United States . . . .
- Pakistan And Its Prisoners Of Destiny (Hindu, Ramesh Thakur, Oct 24, 2007)
Benazir Bhutto knows how to press the right buttons when speaking to Western audiences through the mass media.
- Low On Uranium, 5 N-Power Units Are Shut Early (Indian Express, Kandula Subramaniam, Oct 24, 2007)
Faced with an acute shortage of uranium to run existing power stations, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has advanced its maintenance schedule and started shutting down individual power units.
- To Fracture Further, Left Works On Another Deal-With Unpa (Indian Express, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 24, 2007)
The fate of the Indo-US nuclear deal may be “open-ended” as it is and no one will admit, in public, that early elections is an option but political parties are stepping up their gears for a final showdown.
- Join Third Front, Unpa Asks Anti-Cong Parties (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Oct 24, 2007)
The four-month-old United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) today invited anti-BJP and anti-Congress parties to join it by holding the promise that the third front has a bright future.
- Left-Upa Hiatus (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 24, 2007)
AN early end to the UPA-Left stalemate on India’s nuclear deal with the US is now ruled out.
- Manmohan Is Sad, Helpless: Jaitley (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 24, 2007)
Can a “sad Prime Minister” lead a “resurgent nation,” asked Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Arun Jaitley here on Tuesday.
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