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A New Role For The Adb
The Asian Development Bank should
focus on how best it can reduce
poverty.
Pakistan Asserts New Claims On
Kashmir's Northern Areas
Its envoy to Brussels lays foundation
for a diplomatic furore Claims mark a
break with decades of established
foreign policy New claims fly in the
face of Pakistan's own judicial
position . . . . .
Citizen Jihadi
It's not traditional pan-Islamic
jihadi organisations, but word of
mouth and hundreds of FM radio
stations that are instigating
individual Muslims to acts of
terrorism in the name of jihad in the
tribal areas of Afghanistan-Pakistan.
U.K. For Extradition Of Former Kgb Man
For Litvinenko Murder
Britain wants Russia to extradite a
former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi in
connection with the murder of
Alexander Litvinenko, also a former
Russian spy, who died in a London
hospital last November after being
mysteriously infected with
polonium-210, a . . .
Behind The Mecca Masjid Bombing
Communal violence, organised crime,
and the global jihad intersect in
Andhra Pradesh's capital.
The Drive To Dhaka — Whose Idea Was
It?
The still-classified official history
of the 1971 war sheds new light on the
Manekshaw-Jacob debate.
Demoralisation And Depression Creeps
Into Upa
It is not that the budget session was
curtailed because of the UP assembly
election. The fact, it appeared, is
that the government did not have
enough agenda to run the session.
China Acts Big, India Small
which has allowed a section of the
bureaucracy to paralyse the historic
nuclear negotiations with the US,
should pay attention to the Sino-US
strategic economic dialogue beginning
this Tuesday in Washington.
Brown Heckled Over Iraq
Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime
Minister-in-waiting, had his first
taste of public anger over Iraq when
he was heckled at a Labour Party
meeting on Sunday, forcing him to
admit that it had been a very
"divisive and difficult issue.''
J.J. Singh Visits China
Gen. Singh expected to discuss joint
military exercises, experience sharing
Expected to discuss the modalities of
future joint military exercises
Welcomed by Chinese counterpart,
inspects tri-service guard of honour.
The Mobile Blast Trigger
So it seems that the
Hyderabad
blasts were triggered off by a mobile
telephone, but thankfully only one of
the three planted IEDs exploded. What
gives?
Cong, Bjp Both At Fault
It should be a matter of utmost
reassurance to Uttar Pradesh that the
mother and son duo which owns the
Congress merely blamed the party
organisation for failing to translate
the apparent goodwill and enthusiasm
for the family into votes and seats.
Needed: A Lok Sabha Prime Minister
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s
election to the Rajya Sabha was never
in doubt. I do not know why he sought
an entry into Parliament through the
backdoor.
Are Puri, Sringeri, Dwaraka And Badri
Acharyas Anti-National, Dr Mk?
"Sethu critics anti-national, says
MK." This is how a newspaper
front-paged Dr M Karunanidhi's address
at a public meeting in Chennai held in
defence of the Sethu Samudram Project.
'Best Bet' Now A Lost Bet
The domestic unpopularity of Musharraf
now weighs heavily on his image as an
unacceptable dictator
A Void On The Right
In a recent interview to Tehelka on
his new book on post-Independence
Indian politics, Ramachandra Guha
mentioned in passing that whereas
liberals and the Left play a
meaningful role in the country’s
intellectual and political . . . .
March Of The Righteous Brigade
Since this column is often wrongly
accused of nurturing ill-feelings
towards Islam, I use the chance this
week to show that I bear equal
ill-will towards any religion that
tries to occupy the public space.
Shcil Fraud: Probe Team Has Umpteen
Questions To Answer
Last week, investigations into the
fraud at Stock Holding Corporation of
India Ltd (SHCIL) took another
decisive leap with the appointment of
KPMG’s Fraud Detection and Forensics
Advisory team to investigate a slew of
management decisions that we . . .
Hasina Patel's Curious Arrest And The
Media
Newspapers have a responsibility to
treat people fairly, especially in the
current climate when innocent men and
women are routinely picked up by
police in the full glare of television
cameras and then quietly let off when
nobody is looking.
Battles Old And New
WHEN I first met Gohar Ayub, former
foreign minister of Pakistan, in 1984
at his residence in Abbottabad,
Pakistan, he said that his father
General Mohammad Ayub, still in power,
told him that he (Ayub) would get a
copy of secret defence papers . . . .
Examples Of Realpolitik
Last week two events of significance
attracted the attention of the whole
country. First, the BSP leader
Mayawati organised a multi-caste and
multi-community coalition and won the
UP elections with an absolute
majority.
Blair For World Bank Chief Post?
Is the British Prime Minister Tony
Blair likely to end up stepping into
the shoes of the outgoing World Bank
president Paul Wolfowitz after leaving
Downing Street next month?
'Best Bet' Now A Lost Bet
The domestic unpopularity of Musharraf
now weighs heavily on his image as an
unacceptable dictator
Yesterday Calling Today’s Mrs G
IF there had been live television news
in 1978, I would have shown you the
visuals from that summer in
Punjab, and made you wonder how little things seem to have
changed in three decades. But then,
angry religious mobs carrying kirpans
would . . . .
Blast In Hyderabad
Targeted attack on Muslim civilians
outside J&K in other parts of India
have been a more recent phenomenon
during the last one year -- this is
the fourth such since Delhi (April
2006), Malegaon (September 2006), and
the blasts in Samjhauta Express . . .
Brown Confirmed Labour Leader
It is now official that Gordon Brown
will be the leader of the Labour Party
and
Britain's
next Prime Minister after Tony Blair
steps down on June 27.
Big State, Bigger Loss
The victory of the Bahujan Samaj Party
in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election
has served as an outlet for the
pent-up angst of the radical Brahmin
intelligentsia. Mayavati’s success in
winning a clear majority in a
politically fragmented state . . . .
"A Gone Man", Says Sharif
The former Pakistan Prime Minister,
Nawaz Sharif, has said that President
Pervez Musharraf is "a gone man now''
and his fall is "simply a matter of
time''.
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