News Analysis - Wednesday, July 05, 2006 @ whatisindia.com

Farm Sector Disagreements Stall WTO
In further hardening of stance, India has rejected heavy concessions from developing nations while only few concessions are forthcoming from developed nations especially in access to markets for agricultural and industrial products.<More>

Gail Consortium Signs Oman Deal
A Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) led consortium signed the Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) with The Government of the Sultanate of Oman for Block 56 last week for exploration and production of hydrocarbons.
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Naga Talks Breakthrough
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Principal Interlocutor with the Nagas K. Padmanabiah announced that the Naga peace settlement will resemble a special Kashmir-type status within the Indian Union.<More>

SC Stops Banerjee Report
In a rebuke to hasty politicization of sensitive issues, the Supreme Court (SC) refused to allow the Government to table the controversial Justice UC Banerjee Commission report on the Godhra carnage in Parliament supporting a restraining verdict by the Gujarat High Court.<More>

Top Security Meet to Review J&K
Senior members of the security apparatus met recently to review the increase in infiltration from Pakistan, the continued existence of terror infrastructure in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, and use the bait of human rights violations to distract attention.<More>

Pakistan Promises More Troops for Terror
Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said that President Musharraf promised visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 10,000 more troops on its border with Afghanistan.<More>

Pak Permission for Indian Aid for Afghanistan
Reports say that Pakistan has granted a one-time land transit rights for Indian trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Afghanistan to cross Pakistan territory although skepticism is high among Indian officials who say seeing is believing.< More>