India: Weak Kneed response to China

Chinese troops in Nepal, India mum  
Beijing Deploys Forces To Keep Tabs On Tibetans, New Delhi Waits For Pranab’s Return  Indrani Bagchi | TNN  New Delhi:
        Despite the huge diplomatic snub by China on Saturday when it summoned India’s ambassador to Beijing at 2 am in the morning to protest against Tibetan activists breaking into [...]

Pakistan: ISI continues its terrorist activities

NSA: Says Pak Intelligence Agency Mentoring LeT, JeM To Spew Terror At Nation  TIMES NEWS NETWORK  
        New Delhi: Even as a new elected government takes office in Islamabad, New Delhi has expressed worry over the ISI continuing to help terrorist outfits like Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba to launch attacks against India. 
        
       “We have seen no [...]

Mumbai: Congress plan working? Several Shiv Sena leaders in north India quit party :

            Congress Party is known for  running with the hares while  chasing with the hounds.
        When Raj Thakre and his MNS should have been handled immediately and firmly the government of Maharashtra stood by coolly watching north Indians being beaten up. 
        The Congress government of Maharashtra continues to dither while Raj and his MNS [...]

Communist Parties: All the same

      “There are many variations of red.
Peace and prosperity do they dread
There is not much to choose,
For they all a single road tread.
Follow Lenin, Stalin. and  Mao,
In their own countries they are  all dead
In India comrades  follow them,
Still awaiting forlorn for their resurrection
For here they are still red.”  
        
CPI workers see little to cheer [...]

Rahul Gandhi: Congress Party Needs an Icon

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Rahul Gandhi
       
Rahul Gandhi (1970), son of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi made his entry into politics by announcing that he would contest the May 2004 elections, standing for his father’s former constituency of Amehti in UP . Earlier Sanjay Gandhi had had been elected from that constituency. Subsequently the seat had been held by his [...]

MJ Akbar Eased Out: “Proprietors matter, editors don’t”

“Proprietors matter, editors don’t”.  
      We regret the Easing out, the Chucking out, the Kicking out of MJ Akbar as the Chief Editor of the Asian Age.   The Asian Age started publication about fifteen years back.  
       He is not the first Editor in India to be eased out. There have been many instances earlier also. [...]

US Indo Nuclear Treaty: Indians feel vulnerable

       Is the nuclear deal offered by US really beneficial to India? 
       This question has been raging since the deal became to public knowledge. 
        The left parties are oposed to the deal. Their reasoning and threats to pull out from supporting the government has irritated most thinking Indians. 
      Innate antipathy to leftists and doubts regarding [...]

UK: Public inquiry into Iraq, says Brown

There WILL be a public inquiry into Iraq, says Brown
           Untold misery to millions and hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost on account of adventurism of Bush and his cohorts.
       But why did Blair get UK involved in the first place?
           How did the British allow themselves to be stampeded in to such an unholy [...]

Pakistan: At Cross Roads or Same old Drama with some new faces

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will convene the National and provincial assemblies of the country on March 17.
      Pakistan is at cross roads. Or is it?
            Is there a sense of deja-vu?
              
    Elections have been held, for a change with minimum interference from the ISI.
      
       PPP and PML(N) have gained 87 seats and [...]

British MPs splurge public funds: Why not Indian MPs?

      Indian MPs will  be very happy to read about the acquisatory habits  of British MPs.
      Can Indian MPs fall behind? Surely they are also in need of refurbishing their MP’s quarters.
Ed.
Extracts
       Revealed: The extraordinary £22,000 shopping list of luxury goods every British MP can buy.
DANIEL MARTIN - John Lewis:
The store is the benchmark [...]