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News Analysis - July 14, 2006

 

  • RTAs to be More Transparent
    Countries like India that have been excluded from Regional Trading Agreements (RTAs) for political reasons will benefit from new Negotiating Group on Rules that require transparency mechanisms of World Trade Organization (WTO) be implemented in RTAs.<More>

  • Govt Clarifications on Farm Sector FDI
    The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry clarified that it will allow 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) under the automatic route for certain activities in the agriculture and plantation sector.<More>

  • Arjun Kills Education Bill, Moots Muslim Reservation
    Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh scuttled an important Right to Education Bill to make way for his reservation schemes that violate Constitutional norms for different pockets of population that is to now include “backward” Muslims.<More>

  • Rural Employment Scheme in Shambles
    The Government’s National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG)  seems to be in shambles with states either not implementing them or not reporting what they are doing with the money. <More>

  • ADB Fund for Bird Flu
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has disbursed more than USD 11 million to Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).<More>      <

  • PLOTE Leader Killed
    A senior member of the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) Bolder Rajan was shot dead in Jaffna by unidentified gunmen.<More>

  • EU’s one-China policy
    Seeking to generate goodwill, visiting European Parliament President Josep Borrell Fontelles reiterated the European Union (EU) one-China policy and appreciated China's rapid growth and increasingly important role in international affairs. <More>

  • Pak Wants Bilateral Fissile Material Moratorium
    Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said that his country would agree to a verifiable bilateral fissile material moratorium as its nuclear weapons program was “driven by the threat perception of India.”<More>     

  • India, Russia, and China for Trilateral Ties
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Hu Jintao will meet on the sidelines of the ‘outreach’ summit of G-8 in St Petersburg to discuss “positive” roles their countries can play to safeguard global peace.<More>

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