Arun Shourie
Manmohan Singh and his spokespersons have said times without number that the US has assured India....
But why now? Why on the eve of the NSG meeting in Vienna?”
In the Budget for 1990/91, the VP Singh Government announced a loan waiver of Rs. 10,000 crore. The Government was soon out.
What the CAG's Performance Audit has revealed about the 'flagships' - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Wat
One problem is that while the Government committed itself in that new scripture - The National Common Minimum Programme...
The document is Implementation of Budget 2007-2008, and is one of the important documents that have been distributed with this year’s Budget.
November 21, 2007: We were all at the weekly meeting of the BJP members of Parliament.
So, the first lesson to bear in mind is that every tradition has in it the potential to become extremist.
The Task Force on Border Management, one of the four that were set up in the wake of the Kargil War, reported with alarm about the way madrassas had m
Your Hindutva is no different from Islamic fundamentalism’ — a fashionable statement these days, one that immediately...
India’s uranium deposits are limited and of low grade,” Hindustan Times declared on December 12, 2006, in a large, prominently displayed, boxed item.
It really is ‘crunch time’ for Pakistan, says a keen observer: the mere installation of a civilian government will not change the character of Pakista
Pakistan has lost control over half its territory. In all probability it will regain that control at some time in the future.
The only persons who could have been surprised by what Musharraf has done are the Americans - who had invested everything in him, and as a consequence
Deal binds India to Hyde Act whose main objective is to ‘halt, roll back and eventually eliminate’ India’s nuclear capability
I had taken up with President Bush our concerns regarding provisions in the two bills,’ the prime minister’s website records Dr Manmohan Singh telling
In the concluding extracts from his new book,
Arun Shourie makes a case for a strengthened judiciary, compulsory voting and a reformed legislat
Looking at atomic power as the major component of our electricity supplies in the future has been India’s basic strategic flaw. As far as nuclear reac
A section by section analysis of the Act passed by the US Congress reveals stipulations that tie India down. Yet the fiction has been purveyed by the
In the Act, there is no categorisation of sections into binding and non-binding. We are left with assurances proffered in private by US officials that
Even as the people and Parliament are being fed routine platitudes on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the government has swallowed whole all the conditions
So if, as the prime minister put it, American inspectors will not be allowed to ‘roam around’ in our nuclear plants, will they be allowed to loiter in
Every single element that the prime minister had listed as unacceptable in the Indo-US nuclear deal is still there. Is the deal acceptable in spite of
What had the prime minister drawn as the contours beyond which India would not budge on the Indo-US nuclear deal? Do the provisions of the bill as fin
Real power translates directly into the ability to bring others around to subserve a country’s interests. India must take a clear-eyed view of what Ch
