India Intelligence Report
 

News Analysis - February 20, 2006

 
  • Bird Flu Affects Indian Poultry Business
    The dreaded H5N1 bird flu reached India in the tribal Nandurbar district of Maharashtra and about 50,000 poultry are suspected to have been infected.<More>

  • US Visas to Indian Scientists Difficult
    An under-reported crisis that may hit Indo-US relations down the road is the question of US visas to Indian Government scientists and how Indians are being treated.<More>

  • Cartoon Protests in India
    About 50,000 Pakistanis marched to protest the cartoons that depict Prophet Mohammed distastefully in Karachi.<More>

  • ED questions Natwar
    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) reportedly questioned the disgraced former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh over the oil-for-food scam published through the Volker report.<More>

  • SC Asks Govt to Regulate Ship Breaking Business
    The Supreme Court said that it has taken note of the French Government's position to recall Le Clemenceau, the condemned aircraft carrier, back to France for dismantling.<More>

  • Speaker Defends Supension
    Striking a defiant note, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said that the expulsion of the 10 Members of Parliament in the "cash-for-query" scam is "non-justiciable."<More>

  • UNHCR Asks US to Close Guantanomo
    Five independent investigators of the United Nations Commission of Human Rights (UNHCR) asked the United States to shut down the detention center at Guantanomo Bay.<More>

  • US Admits Kashmiri Terror Camps in Pak
    The US admitted that Kashmir-oriented terrorist camps exist in Pakistan and little is being done to dismantle them.<More>

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