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All politics is forgotten and public attention is very much on events in South Africa as Mike Denness, the match referee brings the game into disrepute by blata...
"I hope they will send us the money soon," said Argentinas economy minister, Domingo Cavallo, in mid-November. Its only $1.3 billion, hardly a drop in the bucke...
This is my second visit to share the Ramadan meal (the iftar) with my Muslim friends in Bradford. Yesterday I was in one house of the extended family which has ...
Nothing has recently caused as much disquiet in Indias political and journalistic communities as the promulgation of the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance. At s...
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee began on November 4, his ten-day crucial visit to three major world capitals--Moscow, Washington and London--and New York. A...
"The Cold War is over," Russian President Vladimir Putin (speaking in German he learned as a KGB officer in Dresden) told the parliament in Berlin in late Septe...
Aviation industry may be in crisis world over, but situation in India is not as hopeless as was feared initially. For instance unlike a fall of 20 per cent in t...
Certain facts just cants be ignored unless one is thick-skinned or a downright idiot. One such actuality that should be worrying us is that of our uncontrolled ...
Islam, Jehad and Terrorism have become ubiquitous these days evoking very strong and diverse reactions among people. The other day I was taken aback by Shahi Im...
A World Economic Forum (WEF) global competitiveness report for 2001, which covers 75 countries, and also takes into account the shocks of 11 September, shows th...
There are many in India, Pakistan and some in the West who are never tired of pleading for protection of human rights of Kashmiris, but one section which is rar...
BETWEEN discovering the law of gravity and writing "Principia Mathematica", British Scientist Sir Francis Newton (1642-1727) devoted two decades of his life in ...
By Poonam I. Kaushish Guns Call The Shots Chilling violence mourns the dead Today violence has become the rhetoric of the period. The thought sends a chilling s...
By Dr Vinod Mehta Disinvestment: Hungarian experience For the past more than five years the Government of India has been trying without success to disinvest in ...
By Brij Bhardwaj NDA crosses another milestone The Assembly election results from three States, including important Bihar, Orissa and Haryana, are expected to b...
Several factors have combined to lend an edge of urgency to devising a policy on how to deal with Pakistan under the rule of the military junta headed by Genera...