EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.10.10
This may not be the ultimate panacea, but if we do not want more Bhardwajs in our Raj Bhavans, we must begin somewhere.. Fifth, Headley had visited India five times on behalf of the LeT to collect operational intelligence and to help the LeT in the selection of targets and the landing point for the boat... If the answer to all three questions is yes, then a unified Korea will be a US ally, with American troops, and nuclear weapons ��� sitting on Chinas border. How is��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 22.01.10
He was a member of the Indian Foreign Service, Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities and headed the working group set up by the Prime Minister to propose.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. NETAJI, NOT NETAS. G.D. BAKSHI. Subhas Chandra Bose was the practitioner of the antithesis of todays identity-based politics. More than ever before, on his 113th birthday, we need Boses pan- Indian vision.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.12.10
If the rhetoric of Congress leaders for the common man, heard in the recent plenary session, is anything to go by then one must visit Jaitapur to see how the common man is being coerced to create space for Indias first nuclear power park.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. A HIGH-FLIER IN THE MAKING. ASHOK BAWEJA. The aerospace industry has undergone tremendous structural and economic changes over the past few decades. The commercial aerospace sector has��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.06.11
The top level visits by the Americans follow the Pakistani Prime Ministers attempt to juxtapose China against the US as the latter wants President Asif Ali Zardari and Mr Yousuf Raza Gilani to explain the presence of Osama bin Laden for six years in.. On the streets, a familiar habitat for agitation-addicted Left, the tone and tenor of the leadership crackled with tension as the defeated came out of their walled compounds to face the public for the first time on May 31.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 25.01.11
MEN IN BLACK - DILIP BOBB. HINDUSTAN TIMES. 1. WHEN BISHOPS BECOME PAWNS. 2. AT A DEAD END. 3. MAXIMUM DENIAL. 4. REMEMBER THE TIME. THE INDIAN EXPRESS. 1. TONE IT DOWN. 2. END OF AN ERA. 3. MARKETS AND.. Ultimately, if Hu can make China accommodate US requests, it will not only make for a more prosperous and safer world, but might indicate the possibility of his convincing his peers to also settle the boundary issue.
Waste of life
Had the Soviet Union not disintegrated and the EC given some real teeth in conducting elections, Basus criminal CPI would still be in total control of WB, what with the intimidation of the masses by his cadre of murdering goons and the complicity of a.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 10.12.09
The India-Russia nuclear agreement goes much beyond the India-US civil nuclear deal primarily because it not only guarantees uninterrupted fuel supply for reactors to be set up under the accord even if it were to be terminated at a later date, but also gives India upfront reprocessing... First and foremost, is the resilience displayed by the economy, which has been the first among major nations ( along with China) to have bounced back to a relatively high growth path.
Realpolitik washes the opportunity and the geopoli.
Thus, a standoff between Indian and Chinese soldiers overshadowed a visit to New Delhi by Chinas President Xi Jinping on Thursday, with a $20 billion investment pledge eclipsed by robust comments from Prime Minister.. In his speech at the same event, Xi played down the tensions and agreed with Modi that they should work to settle the border question at an early date, reiterating language China has used in the past.. Hindustan Times �� 21 hours ago.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 07.05.10
A group of writers and activists will set out this week on a journey from Kerala to Imphal under the banner of the Hind Swaraj Centenary Samiti to highlight the satyagraha of Irom Sharmila, whos been on a hunger strike demanding repeal.. But the time has come, particularly for India, Iran and Pakistan, and the US, Russia, China and the European Union, and also Afghanistans neighbours in Central Asia, to discuss how Afghanistan can be helped to live on its own,��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.04.11
Apart from Pakistan, India, Russia and Iran are all lobbying for influence; the Americans too want to maintain their presence (otherwise they fear the Taliban will return and hit back with a vengeance).. Travelling through rural Bengal almost two weeks ago on finance minister Pranab Mukherjees campaign trail, I marvelled, not for the first time, at the fact that even the absence of bijli, sadak, pani had not turned the voter here into an apolitical, perennially disgruntled��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 22.09.10
The UPA Governments policy towards Pakistan is well-known but it is for the first time that the Prime Minister has stated that China wants India to be in state of low-level equilibrium... The tone was set by the ham-handed approach adopted earlier by the Thirteenth Finance Commission, which tried to ram a model GST plan down the throat of the states by unfolding a grand bargain and tying up.. The economic impact of the boat row could, therefore, be limited.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.01.10
At a Afghanistan-Pakistan-India trilateral conference in Kabul recently, Pakistani Senator from Peshawar Afrasiyab Khattak noted that early revival of India-Pakistan talks will enable Islamabad to be more focussed in its fight against the Taliban.. That Mohammed-bin-Qasim arrived in Sind in 712 AD, that Mahmud Ghazni visited India 19 times, that Mohammed Ghori interacted with Prithviraj Chauhan in the last decade of the 12th century and whoever else came to��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 20.12.10
It is obvious that he articulating what his political bosses want him to say to set the stage for a communal backlash that, the Congress calculates, will consolidate Muslim votes in its favour. Tragically, the... While Wens visit certainly helped in stabilising India-China relations and ensuring they remain on an even keel, the returns are certainly disappointing when compared to Wens last trip to India in 2005.. We both cant win on all fronts if its a negotiated settlement.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 23.04.11
Under such a scenario, it may be a good time for India to explore the option of space-based solar power (SBSP) ��� a possibility that has not caught the popular or government attention very much, for a variety of reasons. Unlike the.. The presence of the RSS version of Bharat Mata on the stage backdrop, the dialogue with Narendra Modi, the visit of Ram Madhav of the RSS to Jantar Mantar raise serious apprehensions about this appropriation. Movements without��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: Editorial 01.10.09
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. HOW NOW LAND OF MAO? RAVNI THAKUR. Today marks the 60th year since Mao Zedong stood on the podium of the Forbidden City to announce the birth of Communist China.. For them it is a settled fact. What is unfortunate is that even our own leadership stopped talking about it. Rajiv Gandhi visited China in 1988; Narasimha Rao in 1993 and Vajpayee in 2003. The nation has not heard them talk about the occupation despite��.
India wants border row settled early: Swaraj sets tone for Modis China visit
External affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj accompanied by foreign secretary, S Jaishankar (L) being welcome on her arrival at the Beijing International Airport, in Beijing on Saturday. Swaraj on a four day visit to China. (PTI photo) .
Newslaundry ��� Narendrabhai, The Man From Gujarat.
The ���rst time I met Narendra Damodardas Modi, I was a young reporter with the Times of India in Mumbai. The year was 1990 and I had been in the profession for less than two years. My hair had not greyed nor had Modis.
DDA to launch new housing scheme in 2014
The last time DDA brought its housings scheme was in December 2010, where 16,000 flats where at offer in different parts of the city such as Vasant Kunj, Rohini, Dwarka, Motia Khan, Mukherjee Nagar, Molarband etc. The prices of these flats ranged.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 21.09.10
The comments came in an hour-long interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, the first day of his visit to the US to attend the annual General Assembly of the United Nations this week. He insisted that his Government does not want an... Pakistan will not settle for the status quo in Jand K, and any perception that making the border irrelevant would not involve some major compromise by India would be erroneous. It is important to have clarity over this as we are��.