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Water Woes
Pollution aggravates China's natural
water scarcity, and climate change
threatens to aggravate it.
Nostalgic Celebration Of Independence
60th anniversary celebrations held at
Durbar Court in London
China To Build Highway To Everest Base
Camp
Less than a year after the opening of
the Qinghai-Tibet railway, China
confirmed plans for
construction of yet another
engineering feat: a 110-km
black-topped tarmac road to the
Everest
base camp.
U.K. Muslims Shun Knighthood Row
“The community wants to get on with
bread and butter issues”
Beware The Dragon
The Dalai Lama’s exhortation not to
isolate China is sensible advice,
because China is a non-
onformist power which can do anything
when isolated.
Temple Tank To Be Filled With Fresh
Water
The holy tank, ‘Siddhamirtha Theertham’
on the Lord Vaidyanathaswamy Temple
premises at
Vaitheeswarankovil near Mayiladuturai,
will soon be filled with fresh water.
China May Lift Ban On Domestic Tiger
Trade
China on Tuesday announced that it would eventually lift
its 14-year-old ban on the domestic
trade
of tiger parts according to state media.
Third Republic
Marking the 18th anniversary of the
Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on
the pro-democracy
movement at Tiananmen, at the Brown
University in Rhode Island, US, the
first Congress of the China
Democratic Party convened on June 4.
About 50 expatriate . . .
Meanwhile, In The Valley
The visit of President George Bush to
India in March last year saw anti-US
demonstrations of some
virulence at Mumbai, Lucknow and
Hyderabad.
Sezs: A Tipping Point
Budhadeb Bhatattacharya, chief
minister of West Bengal, must wonder
what he did in his previous life
to deserve Mamata Banerjee in this
one.
Go East
As External Affairs Minister Pranab
Mukherjee swings through Indonesia and
Singapore this week, he
has reason to be satisfied with the
new traction that India’s Look East
policy has begun to acquire
from tourism to trade to defence
cooperation.
Now, The Long Haul
On August 8, 1963 India's Ambassador
to the United States, BK Nehru, and
the US Assistant
Secretary of State, Philips Talbot,
signed a landmark agreement under
which America agreed to
provide two nuclear reactors for a
power plant at Tarapur, near Mumbai.
B Is For Bofors, Q Is For Farce
Can we please stop pretending that
Ottavio Quattrocchi is ever going to
be brought to justice? He is
not. And, as a taxpayer, I take the
strongest objection to paying for
Quattrocchi’s legal expenses in
Argentina and I take objection to the
. . . .
Prezing For A Dummy
I must shamefully confess to being in
solidarity with those members of the
non-voting classes who, in
their naiveté, imagined that President
APJ Abdul Kalam would be given a
second term on the strength
of SMS campaigns.
Ensuring Water For China's Millions
Pollution is aggravating the scarcity,
particularly in the drought-prone
north.
16 Years Of Dilemma
India and Indians welcomed Sonia Gandhi in 1968. But she
embraced Indian citizenship in 1984.
She
omitted this fact at
Tilburg
Now, The Long Haul
On August 8, 1963 India's Ambassador
to the United States, BK Nehru, and
the US Assistant
Secretary of State, Philips Talbot,
signed a landmark agreement under
which America agreed to
provide two nuclear reactors for a
power plant at Tarapur, near Mumbai.
Plot By India-Born Terrorist: 7 Jailed
Targets included the London
Underground Multiple bombing
operations also planned
Will Bangladesh Go Pakistan’S Way?
NOBODY hides it. Everyone in
Dhaka assumes that you know about the army’s presence behind the
caretaker government.
Bae Appoints Ethics Panel To Review
Business Practices
BAE Systems, the British arms company
embroiled in an alleged bribery
scandal, on Friday announced
the appointment, of a four-member
independent committee of experts to
review its business ethics
following allegations that it paid
secret . . .
Craven Response To Chinese Thrust
A contribution of the "great, glorious
and correct Communist Party of China"
to Marxism-Leninism was
the elevation of self-flagellation
into an instrument of mass politics.
Grovelling Before China
A friend of mine from a neighbouring
country recently remarked: "India is
behaving like a regional
bully." My friend was alluding to
comments about our policies towards
Sri Lanka by National Security
Adviser MK Narayanan.
Bae "Faces'' Probe In U.S.
Britain's controversial arms company,
the BAE Systems, is reportedly facing
the prospect of a criminal
investigation in America following
allegations that it paid £1 billion in
bribes to a prominent member of
the Saudi royal family to win a . . .
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League And Intrigue
ALTHOUGH consigned to the heap of
their discredited past, the two
Bangladesh leaders – former Prime
Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda
Zia – are as important today for the
country as they were
yesterday.
The Neglected Battle
There are some anniversaries that are
left expediently unobserved. The 250th
anniversary of the
Battle of Plassey on June 23 doesn’t
seem to feature in the celebratory
calendar of either India or
Britain.
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