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The Chinese Challenge
Exchanges of visits between the
leaders of India and China have become
commonplace after the visit of Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi to China in
December 1988.
U.K. Rights Group Lauds Tamil Nadu
A British human rights group has
hailed Tamil Nadu as a good model for
protection of minority rights but said
the Union Government had failed to
"replicate" it in other conflict-prone
States such as Punjab, Jammu and
Kashmir and Nagaland.
Panic Over Serial Killings
A small English town, famous for its
medieval architecture and picturesque
landscape, has been gripped by panic
after a series of mysterious murders
of young commercial sex workers in the
past 10 days amid fears that the
killer may strike again.
China Remains A Challenge
Exchanges of visits between the
leaders of India and China have become
commonplace after the visit of Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi to Beijing in
December 1988.
Outstanding Debt = Expansion Plan +
More
Pramod Mittal of the Ispat group is
obviously in high spirits these days.
Last week, he acquired CSKA Sofia, a
premier division Bulgarian football
club in a deal estimated at 14 million
Euros.
Nuke Is A Four-Letter Word In Tokyo So
High-Tech Trade Key
As he arrives in Tokyo today, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh will be
looking for a nuanced Japanese
position on civilian nuclear
cooperation and a more explicit
commitment to liberalise non-nuclear
high technology trade with India.
Visit Of The Rising Ties
Dr Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan
starting today might not appear to
have the paradigm-breaking quality
that marked the PM’s talks with US
President George W. Bush in Washington
in July 2005 that produced the
historic Indo-US nuclear deal.
How Diana Died: Facts And Fiction
Will they or won't they? Will they
finally let go of the lurid conspiracy
theories and accept with good grace
that Princess Diana's death in a Paris
car crash on August 31, 1997, was
simply a tragic accident and not
engineered by shadowy secret . . .
Lifetime Fuel Guarantee Remains A
Sticking Point In `123' Talks With
U.S.
Differences on reprocessing right,
language on testing narrowed.
Importance Of Navy’s Three Roles
The government needs to understand the
Navy's role more clearly to use it
effectively to contribute to national
goals.
Like Kissinger In Beijing
The US Congress has voted the
amendment to their basic nuclear
legislation to exceptionalise
India
for cooperation in civil nuclear field
with massive bipartisan majorities in
both Houses.
"Only Commitments In Accord Will Bind
India"
Government analysing clauses in U.S.
Bill India must determine mandatory
changes.
Nsg Rule Gives U.S. Firms `Level
Playing Field' With India
Seeks special verification visits as
fall-back safeguards.
U.S. Got Nsg Inspection Rule Tightened
For India
Guidelines revised to mandate third
country safeguards verification.
U.S. Nuclear Act Ignored Rice Plea On
Key Points
The final version of the United States
law authorising nuclear commerce with
India failed to incorporate key
eleventh hour suggestions made by
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
despite her claim that some of the
Indian objections they were . . . . .
Bias And The Police
"Segregated lives," wrote the scholar
Ramesh Thakur in 2002, "lead to
ghastly violence."
The Us Nuclear Enactment
There is a lot of confusion in certain
sections of opinion in this country
about the significance and
implications of the consensus bills
passed by the two Houses of US
Congress.
Buddha's Ta-Ta To Dogmatism
Those familiar with Bengali films of
an earlier vintage may be forgiven for
thinking that West Bengal is
the land of the permanently aggrieved.
Cpm Gets Taste Of Own Medicine Over
Singur
As someone who blames Marxists, demi-Marxists
and Nehruvian socialists for nearly
all of India’s economic and
administrative ailments, it was
heart-warming for me to see protestors
outside the Marxist party’s office in
Delhi last week.
Mumbai Reckoning
It is another sign of India's growing
attractiveness as an investment
destination that editors of The Daily
Reckoning, a well regarded US based
investment webzine made their maiden
trip to Mumbai last week.
U.S. Congress For Killer Clause In
Nuclear Suppliers Group Guidelines
If the United States Congress has its
way, Washington will insist that the
Nuclear Suppliers Group's amended
guidelines include a stipulation that
a violation by India of any of its
agreements with one supplier country
should lead to the cancellation . .
Every Bump In Market Shrinks Investor
Population
On friday, as the BSE Sensex crashed
180 points, my neighbour Sinha (name
changed) worried about people who
probably lost big chunks of their
savings that day.
Kashmir: It’s Time To Move On
'It broke my heart to see the Highland
Park Hotel, once one of India’s most
glamorous watering holes, in a state
of total decay.'
7 Hotel Workers Test Positive For
Polonium
The mystery surrounding the death of
the controversial former KGB spy
Alexander Litvinenko deepened on
Friday after it emerged that he might
have been poisoned in the bar of a
luxury hotel in
Central London, and not in a sushi restaurant as it was . . .
Future Test Will End U.S. Civil
Nuclear Deal
"India
can and must play a positive role in
convincing
Iran
that the path of cooperation is far
preferable to obduracy" True test of
India's commitments can be "judged
only over time."
New Delhi
"must be a part" of international
efforts against Iran.
Extraneous Provisions: India
Issue of spent nuclear fuel ahead of
us in future negotiations: Burns
Waiver enactment is of "historic"
significance No foreign legislation
can take away from us our sovereign
right, says New Delhi.
India Has Little Reason To Cheer
Of the 10 concerns raised by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, the final
U.S. law on nuclear cooperation
addresses little more than
two-and-a-half. Does this mean India
should walk away?
Tinsel Role Models
A society that idolises silver screen
and idiot box icons is intellectually
challenged, says
S Gurumurthy.
Tigers On The Rampage
Since the beginning of this year, the
LTTE has carried out or attempted to
carry out 12 acts of suicide
terrorism, including the latest failed
attack on the Defence Secretary.
So Hu Did What In Pakistan?
Not as much as
Pakistan
expected. It was clearly a visit with
mixed results -- some disappointingly
negative for Pakistan and only some
positive on the expected lines.
Their Latest Trick
So what accounts for the sudden
reappearance of Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Khalil, of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, a
close associate of Osama bin Laden and
his concerted campaign? What are the
ISI and Musharraf playing at?
The Curious Case Of Rashid Rauf
Just as in the case of Omar Sheikh and
Dr.A.Q.Khan, the Pakistani authorities
are once again avoiding handing him
over a criminal to the British or
American investigators.
Menon: Nuclear Deal A Stand-Alone
Arrangement
We will keep our commitments, says
Nicholas Burns.
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