EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 22.10.09
Unfortunately, such gestures appear to have little effect on Pakistan... HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. LOST IN RETRACTION. Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Twitter Tharoor has some tough competition these days. After entertaining us for a few weeks with tweetliners and his.. There is no place, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day, for separatist thought in Jammu and Kashmir.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 08.05.10
Bubble-wrapped in faith, the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjees response has been a formal reassurance that prices will come down some time soon and the only emergency measure that the Government has.. However, India will be conspicuously absent from the Moscow celebrations in contrast with the 60th V-Day anniversary, attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh... The Indian prime ministers reception in Washington was no doubt warm.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 13.05.11
The Times Parliamentary sketch writer, Ann Treneman, was scornfully dismissive of Prime Minister David Camerons prevarications on Pakistan in the Commons. However, scribes.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. OUR TAKE. NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND. Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs visit to Afghanistan and the announcement of another multi-million dollar aid package cannot hide the truth that Indian influence in that countrys future is on the wane. Even as Mr Singh��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 21.05.11
HINDUSTAN TIMES. RED TO GREEN FOR INVESTMENT. Now that the starched dhotis have been replaced by the crumpled sari in Writers Buildings, the atmospherics have to give way to the real tasks at hand. Trinamool Congress.. A series of American cables sent from Islamabad and New Delhi show that the civilian government in Pakistan led by Mr. Zardari had complained to the Americans that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was unaware of what it��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 02.05.11
JOGINDER SINGH. We have heard far too many promises about fighting corruption. They are meaningless because bureaucracy continues to be corrupt. Once upon a time, I used to listen to the speeches of our leaders, including the.. Indias army chief, General V.K. Singh, during his visit to Nepal about three months ago, confided to a small group of senior generals that he felt Indias new Nepal policy was not all that right... All officials may be directed to attend it.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 20.05.11
Union Minister for Home Affairs P Chidambaram might not have dismissed the blunder over one of the names in his list of 50 most-wanted fugitives had he been aware of the falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus ��� wrong in one, wrong in all. But new depths of irresponsibility are plumbed when garrulous defence chiefs ��� I am thinking of the ill-advised dare by General VK Singh, the Army chief ��� have to be reminded of Talleyrands advice that speech is given to man to��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 17.01.11
But what is strange is that instead of waking up to the grave reality in Pakistan a section of Indias political class is busy obfuscating the national mindset with the idea of saffron terror, which is nothing more than an illusory devil parallel to the... HINDUSTAN TIMES. IS SIBAL OVERPLAYING HIS CARDS? PANKAJ VOHRA. Union telecom minister Kapil Sibal has needlessly damaged his own image by making avoidable comments against the Comptroller and Auditor��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.05.11
He need not have wasted his breath or his energy on such vigorous fist-shaking; after all, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been extremely cautious in his reaction to the slaying of Osama bin Laden while South Block has used the services of a pliant media to send across the.. That emboldened PV Narasimha Rao to predict in his 1992 Independence Day speech from the Red Forts ramparts that the US would brand Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. Seeing��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.03.11
Its as laughable as the Union Minister for Finance, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, pompously declaring that cables despatched by foreign missions enjoy diplomatic immunity and hence cannot be discussed by Members of Parliament... HINDUSTAN TIMES. CRICKETS PERFECT KNIGHT. RAVI CHATURVEDI. In 1976, 52 years after the great West Indian all-rounder Frank Worrell was born on August 1, 1924 - and nine years after his death on March 13, 1967 - I made my��.
The Southern Jihad ��� Studying an Islamist takeover
It was officially formed on 2007 by merging many state based Islamic bodies from Keralas National Development Front (NDF) to Manipurs ���Lilong Social Forum... Though the Union Home Ministry has warned the government of the anti-Indian and communal nature of Thejas publications as early as 25 November 2009, in a confidential communication, on October 2010, NP... [4] Suspected militant went to Pakistan for training, Hindustan Times, 06-Jan-2007.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.12.10
Understandably, the economist Prime Minister India is saddled with has no time left to bother about the state of the national economy as it impacts the lives of a billion people and not as it is reflected on the ledger books of the Finance Ministry... THE THREE day visit of Chinas prime minister Wen Jiabao to Pakistan in mid December has elicited the usual trumpets and mutual accolades about the everlasting friendship between the two countries that is deeper��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 11.01.11
Apart from the fact that the decision-making body of the BJP met in an election-bound State where the party is preparing to put its best foot forward, thus galvanising its cadre, after a long time a national conclave of the BJP was held without any.. In contrast to Union Telecom Minister A. Raja, who was asked to resign pending investigation into the 2G scam, Chief Minister B.S Yeddyurappa has dug in his heels in the face of irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing. To the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 15.06.11
The seriousness of the situation was enough for the Union Minister for Home Affairs to convene a special meeting with the political and police leadership of the affected States on Tuesday, June 14. In the last month more.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. LETS HAVE A FAIR DEAL. HARSH MANDER. Land acquisition and involuntary displacement have been the fountainhead of enormous destitution of millions of invisible people since Independence. Generations of those��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 05.09.09
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. BEWARE OF THY NEIGHBOUR. PRATIK KANJILAL. The neighbourhood watch is bringing in strange news. The Army reports that in July, the Chinese carpet-bombed Indian soil with tinned food... Speaking from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he saw no place for separatist thought in Jammu and Kashmir.... V.K. Singh, visiting Beijing, is not surprising. But the��.
GkForFree: Current affairs march 2012
The contents of a letter written by General V.K. Singh to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the lack of defence preparedness appeared in a national daily. Those close to the General ��� who was in Kashmir on Wednesday��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 09.05.11
And, though made in response to a query, army chief General V K Singhs statement that Indian forces can carry out Abbottabad-type operations was avoidable. Whether or not.. There are others who want the civilian leaders to reclaim some control over national security decision-making that has been usurped by the Pakistan army over the years... The writer, a former Union minister, is chairman, Institute of Rural Management, Anand, express@expressindia.com.
Union minister VK Singh attends Pakistan National Day reception, separatist.
VK Singh, former army chief and minister of state for foreign affairs, represented the government on Monday at the Pakistan National Day reception at the High Commission in New Delhi amid the controversy sparked by Pakistani envoy Abdul Basits .