Monday 1 December '08
Our coastal areas are coming under increased threat from terrorist groups, which have decided to use the sea route to infiltrate into India.Monday 8 September '08
Manmohan Singh and his spokespersons have said times without number that the US has assured India....Saturday
6 September '08But why now? Why on the eve of the NSG meeting in Vienna?”Saturday
29 March '08In the Budget for 1990/91, the VP Singh Government announced a loan waiver of Rs. 10,000 crore. The Government was soon out.Friday
28 March '08What the CAG's Performance Audit has revealed about the 'flagships' - the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission...Thursday
27 March '08One problem is that while the Government committed itself in that new scripture - The National Common Minimum Programme...Wednesday
26 March '08The document is Implementation of Budget 2007-2008, and is one of the important documents that have been distributed with this year’s Budget.Tuesday
12 February '08November 21, 2007: We were all at the weekly meeting of the BJP members of Parliament.Monday
31 December '07So, the first lesson to bear in mind is that every tradition has in it the potential to become extremist.Saturday
29 December '07The 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 mushroomed along India’s borders.Friday
28 December '07Your Hindutva is no different from Islamic fundamentalism’ — a fashionable statement these days, one that immediately...Tuesday
11 December '07India’s uranium deposits are limited and of low grade,” Hindustan Times declared on December 12, 2006, in a large, prominently displayed, boxed item.Thursday
15 November '07It really is ‘crunch time’ for Pakistan, says a keen observer: the mere installation of a civilian government will not change the character of Pakistan.Wednesday
14 November '07Pakistan has lost control over half its territory. In all probability it will regain that control at some time in the future.Tuesday
13 November '07The 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 just would not see - and Musharraf’s acolytes here in India.Sunday
19 August '07The one point on which there seems to be an advance is in regard to reprocessing spent fuel—alas, that too comes with caveats.Saturday
18 August '07Deal binds India to Hyde Act whose main objective is to ‘halt, roll back and eventually eliminate’ India’s nuclear capabilityFriday
17 August '07I had taken up with President Bush our concerns regarding provisions in the two bills,’ the prime minister’s website records Dr Manmohan Singh telling the nuclear scientists.Wednesday
30 May '07In the concluding extracts from his new book, Arun Shourie makes a case for a strengthened judiciary, compulsory voting and a reformed legislatureSaturday
23 December '06Looking 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 reactors are concerned, look to them principally for our weapons programme, not for electricity — for we do have other ways of securing electricityFriday
22 December '06A 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 government through the media that these provisions have been dropped. The prime minister’s assurances to Parliament may not mean anythingThursday
21 December '06In 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 some provisions will be ‘non-binding’. Will we rest our country’s security on these? And if we do, what is the guarantee that the next Administration will also disregard the clear enunciations of the Act passed by Congress?Wednesday
20 December '06Even as the people and Parliament are being fed routine platitudes on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the government has swallowed whole all the conditions that the US Congress has set out in the final Act. There is going to be nothing in the 123 Agreement which is not already knownThursday
30 November '06So 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 or march through them? Is that the distinction that we will now be fed?Wednesday
29 November '06Every 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 these provisions that are ‘not acceptable to us’?
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