India Will Not Accept Bar on Nuclear
Testing: Saran
India Wednesday said that there are "difficult" issues ahead as it
negotiates a bilateral civil nuclear cooperation pact with the US
and asserted that it will not accept a legal bar on nuclear testing
in the so-called 123 agreement. "We are not prepared to give a legal
undertaking on nuclear testing in the bilateral 123 agreement,"
Shyam Saran, the prime minister's special envoy on the India-US
civil nuclear deal, told a gathering of strategic experts, diplomats
and media persons here. Read On
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No Repeal of Controversial Army Law:
Antony
Ruling out the repeal of a controversial law that gives the Indian
Army unfettered powers of arrest in the northeast, Defence Minister
A.K. Antony said Wednesday that steps would instead be taken to make
it more "humane". He also said peace talks with an influential Naga
separatist group were on track and that the situation in neighboring
Manipur, once "badly affected" by terrorism, was "improving".
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Salim to Stand by Buddhadeb Despite
Nandigram Unrest
Indonesia's Salim Group would stand by the West Bengal government
and go ahead with its plans despite the unrest over land acquisition
for its industrial project, Salim's partner Prasun Mukherjee said
here Wednesday. "There is no question of pulling out. We will go
ahead with all - the SEZ, the road and the bridge," said Mukherjee,
an NRI industrialist. Read On >>>
Tear Apart Nandigram Notification:
Buddhadeb
Supreme Court Upholds Expulsion of 11
Cash-for-query MPs The Supreme Court Wednesday
upheld the expulsion of 11 MPs who were secretly caught on camera
while taking bribes to ask questions, and the ruling was immediately
hailed by legal experts and the political class. Dismissing
petitions from the MPs, the court declared that the procedure the
two houses of parliament adopted did not suffer from "any
illegality, irrationality, unconstitutionality or violation of rules
of natural justice or perversity".
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Court Ruling on MPs' Expulsion Welcomed
Knowledge Commission to Connect 5,000 Educational Hubs: Pitroda
The National Knowledge Commission (NKC), a high-level advisory body
to the Indian Prime Minister has recommended to connect at least
5,000 educational hubs across the country through broadband. "We
have recommended for broadband networking of 5,000 knowledge hubs
including universities, colleges, libraries, laboratories, medical
centers and research hubs all over India," Sam Pitroda, chairman,
NKC said Wednesday in Delhi. Read On >>>
Heading for Polls, Bangladesh Faces
Political Turmoil
Bangladesh is headed for political turmoil and street violence in
the run-up to the Jan 22 general election that is viewed as
"one-sided" by the international community because of the boycott by
many parties. Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, heading an
alliance that is boycotting the polls, announced a nationwide strike
as part of her campaign to "resist" the polls. Read On >>
Indian-American Doctors to Build
Emergency Medical System
Indian American physicians will build an emergency medical system in
the national capital to help patients reach hospitals within 10
minutes in an emergency and thus reduce fatalities. Under this
project, all the leading hospitals will be networked through a group
of specially trained doctors, centralized ambulance service and
paramedical forces. Read On >>>
US Views 'Nascent Major Power' India as
'Natural Partner'
by Arun Kumar India is today recognized in Washington as a "dominant actor",
"a nascent major power" and a "natural partner" of the US in South
Asia, long considered a "strategic backwater" from its perspective,
says a US Congressional report. With South Asia emerging in the 21st
century as increasingly vital to core US foreign policy interests,
India, the region's dominant actor with more than one billion
citizens, is also viewed by many analysts as a potential
counterweight to China's growing clout, said the report in an update
on India-US Relations.Read On >>>
Indians Outpace Others in Founding US
Tech Firms By Frederick Noronha Indians have founded more
engineering and technology companies in the US in the past decade
than immigrants from Britain, China, Taiwan and Japan combined. Of
all immigrant-founded firms, 26 percent have Indian founders. This
emerges from a study of engineering and technology companies started
in the US from 1995 to 2005. Read On
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India Most Upbeat in Asia About Business:
Survey
Business sentiment in Asia is at an all-time high with India the
most upbeat, followed by the Philippines and China, according to an
accounting firm's survey released Wednesday. Grant Thornton
International's poll of 7,200 leaders of private firms in 32
countries found Asians the most confident in the world as they
looked ahead to the next 12 months. Asian countries took the top
four spots on the list. Read On
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Supreme Court Upholds Expulsion of 11 MPs The Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the expulsion of 11 MPs,
caught on camera while accepting bribes to ask questions, saying
parliament was entitled to oust them.
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Bhutto, Sharif Team Up Against Musharraf Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has reversed her
earlier stand of taking part in elections called by President Pervez
Musharraf. This follows her talks in Dubai with another former prime
minister, Nawaz Sharif. The two are ganging up amid reports that
Musharraf may hold a snap parliamentary election later this year. Read On >>>
Hindi-speakers Flee Assam as Panic Looms Large by Syed Zarir
Hussain Trains and buses are packed tight with Hindi-speaking migrant
workers fleeing violence-torn Assam despite a massive military
crackdown on separatists after 72 people were killed, officials said
Wednesday. A government spokesperson said three more militants of
the outlawed ULFA were killed in gun battles since Monday as army,
police and paramilitary personnel raided...Read
On >>
Assamese
in Delhi Fear Gloomy Days for Assam
by Simantik Dowerah
Shocked by the gruesome killing of some 70 migrants from Bihar at
the hands of separatist guerrillas in Assam, Assamese living here
foresee a grim future ahead for their state. Assamese employed
or studying in the capital are disgusted over the senseless
slaughter carried out by the ULFA,
that too days ahead of Assam's popular festival Magh Bihu. Read On >>>
Kashmiris
Chase Owls and Millionaire Dreams by F. Ahmed
Beating sub-zero
temperatures, many Kashmiris can be seen going out at night looking
for a right-sized owl that may fetch them a fortune. Animal rights
activists need not worry as the owls are to be caught alive and sold
unharmed. But the buyer is proving to be as elusive as the dream he
has sold to the people in the northern parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Italian Apples Fail to Take Roots in
Himachal Italian apple plants (or
rootstocks) do not seem to like the Himalayan soil. The imported
plants have failed to grow in the nurseries in Himachal Pradesh.
This comes as a setback to the horticulture department, which is
trying to bring in the latest European and American apple varieties
so that better quality apple could be produced in the state to match
the global standards. Read On >>>
After
Saddam : The future
of West Asia and world by Rajinder Puri
It is said that those whom the Gods wish to destroy they
first make mad. But does this hold true if there is
diabolical method in the madness? To assess the events in
Iraq that lead up to the execution of Saddam Hussein one
must dispassionately recognize the salient facts, starting
from the beginning. Saddam Hussein was a tyrant who
committed untold crimes against his own subjects. For three
decades he ruled Iraq with an iron grip. Internationally,
Saddam was involved in two major crises. Read On
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PSLV Puts Four Satellites Into Orbit
India's space agency Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
Wednesday successfully sent into orbit four satellites with the help
of the PSLV C7 (polar satellite launch vehicle). The 295-tonne PSLV
is the first such launch in the last six months following the
failure of a GSLV (geo-satellite launch vehicle) launch on July 10.
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'Guru': Cinderella Story of a Villager
Who Makes it Big After "Bunty Aur Babli", "Bluffmaster" and "Sarkar", will
Abhishek Bachchan live up to the expectations of his fans in "Guru",
Mani Ratnam's long awaited film about the journey of an ordinary
villager with an extraordinary dream that releases Friday? Read On >>>
President Honors 15 Overseas Indians
Fifteen distinguished overseas Indians, including
Indian American publisher Gopal Raju, were honored with the Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on the concluding
day of
the 5th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here Tuesday. Read On >>>
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