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Road
Ahead For N-Deal
AFTER having wasted huge amounts of
the tax payer’s money for two weeks
on puerile controversies generated by
the foibles, two former Foreign
Ministers, Mr Jaswant Singh and Mr
Natwar Singh, the members of the Rajya
Sabha, showed they are capable . . .
A
Film Sparks An Internet Phenomenon
Snakes on a Plane, shaped by bloggers,
shows how movies may be made in
future.
Odd
Opposition To The Ode
How is it that Islamic leaders don't
feel as threatened by terrorism as by
the National Song?
Future
Of The Nuclear Deal
After having wasted huge amounts of
public money for two weeks on puerile
controversies generated by the foibles
two former Foreign Ministers, Jaswant
Singh and Natwar Singh, the Members of
the Rajya Sabha showed they are
capable . . .
U.K.
Aid For Child Health Plan
For more than a lakh women giving
birth means death £252 million
funding to be spent over five years
Other donors include World Bank, EU
and U.N. agencies.
Let
And Al Qaeda
Now even the National Security Advisor
is openly talking about the links
between these two and how the LET has
become as great a threat to regional
and international peace and security
as Al Qaeda...
Bonhomie
With Sonia Helped Pm Take The Bull By
The Horn
Just before the Prime Minister was to
speak in the Rajya Sabha on the
Indo-US nuclear deal, Arjun Singh
walked up to Manmohan Singh and
exchanged pleasantries with him.
Desperately
Needed: Senior Citizens’ Alert
On August 14, Dignity Foundation, one
of the few non-profits involved in the
Senior Citizens’ cause held a unique
protest meeting in Mumbai. The aim was
to discuss economic hardships that
have been piling up against them,
especially under the United . . .
Not
One Mole, Mr Prime Minister And Mr
Jaswant, But Two!
First, the Kandahar pay-off issue and
next, the ‘mole' in PMO. Mr Jaswant
Singh's new book seems to have opened
a can of worms.
Sister
Sonia, He Wanted A Total Ban On
Conversions!
“The Congress party's views on this
are well known,” Sonia says.
‘This’ means laws banning forcible
religious conversions. She goes on:
“They are enactments passed by state
legislatures where the Congress is in
opposition.”
Let
And Al Qaeda
Now even the National Security Advisor
is openly talking about the links
between these two and how the LET has
become as great a threat to regional
and international peace and security
as Al Qaeda...
Full
Of Sound And Fury...
Hype. Over-dramatisation of threat
perceptions, over-demonisation of
suspects even before collecting
evidence and over-projection of the
role of Gen Pervez Musharraf in the
so-called war against terrorism have
become the defining characteristics of
. . .
Pakistan
In Lanka
The increasing involvement of Pakistan
in the counter-insurgency operations
against LTTE in Sri Lanka is a matter
of serious concern from the point of
view of India's national security.
Govt
Plan To Keep File Notings Secret Set
To Go On The Backburner, For Now
The proposed amendments to the Right
to Information Act which would have
excluded file notings are set to be
put on the backburner.
As
India Debates N-Deal, China & Pak
Move To Close Rival Pact
As India’s nuclear debate enters the
Rajya Sabha tomorrow, Beijing and
Islamabad are moving towards deeper
bilateral atomic energy cooperation.
On
I-Day, A Rural Reality Check
India's 59th birthday I decided to
skip the President’s Independence
Day tea party for a rural reality
check. Not because I am blase about
invitations from Rashtrapati Bhawan—I
only get invited once a year—but
because political Delhi at the moment
. . .
Mutual
Fund Rules
The Securities and Exchange Board of
India (Sebi) Chairman M. Damodaran has
a way of effecting major changes in
regulation and statute without the
market getting a whiff of his plans.
Don't
Rejoice, Tackle Terror
For the past week, the Government and
intelligentsia of India have been
wallowing in an unseemly bout of
self-congratulation.
How
We Built The Bomb
If India ever decided to single out a
date for marking some sort of an
anniversary of its nuclear
weaponisation, March 18, 1989 will be
a pretty good choice, probably even
more fitting than the two dates of May
1974 and 1998, Pokharan I . . .
The
Two Faces Of Pakistan
The West tends to see the Musharraf
regime as the last barricade against
an Islamist coup, but Islamabad
continues to support terrorism.
Security
Breach At Heathrow Airport
Woman gets on board with banned items
in hand baggage.
How
We Built The Bomb
If India ever decided to single out a
date for marking some sort of an
anniversary of its nuclear
weaponisation, March 18, 1989 will be
a pretty good choice, probably even
more fitting than the two dates of May
1974 and 1998, Pokharan I . . .
What
The U.S. Is Doing To Pakistan
Washington's influence in
"core" areas of Pakistan's
security seems to be growing. And this
is not restricted to mere cooperation
in anti-terrorist actions.
Buddhist
Enclave May Hold Key To Sino-Indian
Border Row
At first sight, a 400-year-old
Buddhist monastery, tucked deep in the
Himalayas in a remote corner of
India's northeast, hardly seems like a
highly coveted piece of real estate.
Let
And Al Qaeda
Now even the National Security Advisor
is openly talking about the links
between these two and how the LET has
become as great a threat to regional
and international peace and security
as Al Qaeda...
Trans-Atlantic
Bomb Plot Planner Was Jaish Member
Rashid Rauf trained in terror
facilities set up to fuel jihad in
J&K, admits Jaish chief's father.
Purified
By Opposition
The only good news from Thursday’s
nuclear debate in the Rajya Sabha is
that the prime minister has finally
stood up to defend the constitutional
right of his government to conduct
foreign policy.
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