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Unlikely Person at the Heart of India’s Scandal
BY: LYDIA POLGREEN
NEW DELHI - He was a small-town lawyer from a regional political party in a southern Indian state. By almost any measure, Andimuthu Raja, who had no background in telecommunications or in business, seemed an unlikely candidate to be the government minister presiding over the fastest-growing cellphone market in the world.
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Let’s move on, Mr Singh
The News International
The mood in India after the Mumbai attacks was ugly. All India had to offer was revenge. One recalls being confused that official India, not the Indian herd, was acting in the manner that it was. Its stance was so naïve, so self-defeating, so Americanesque that one actually began to fret, much as one does here at the ( Read more... ) -
Bhopal still waits for justice
Praful Bidwai
The contrast between BP's response to the outrage over the oil spill in the US and Union Carbide's attitude to the uproar over the Bhopal disaster of 1984 couldn't have been sharper. Confronted by a hostile public and a president who wants to "kick ass", BP has pledged $20 billion in initial remediation and is mobilising another $50 ( Read more... ) -
'Strengthen nuclear capability to avert Indian designs'
IANS
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan must outstrip India in the nuclear race to counter its neighbour, which is "fomenting instability" and was aiming to dismember this country as part of an American-Indian-Israeli "satanic alliance", an editorial in a leading Urdu daily said Monday.
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Delhi under pressure to send army to quell Maoists
By Krittivas Mukherjee
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is under pressure to look at whether to send in the military to quell a growing Maoist insurgency in central India after an attack left 35 police and civilians dead on Monday.
A string of deadly attacks this year has undermined the government's claim to be winning the war on the ( Read more... )
