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India’s Ability To Articulate Has Always Been Very High ASOKE K. MUKERJI
Q. Can you tell us a few high and low points of your career in Foreign Service so far? I joined the Indian Foreign Service 35 years ago. We were young then. We didn’t realize […]
Business & Economics
Transition in Afghanistan: A War of Perceptions
While the US and NATO and the Afghan security officials are willing to underline the latter’s ascending capacities, such views have been viewed with considerable skepticism among civil society and women groups, NGO’s and people […]
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The End of Road for Musharraf
Whichever way the Hitchcockian drama in Islamabad plays out there is at least one certainty in the grand confusion: that Pervez Musharraf, arguably the most delusional of the four military dictators that have ruled Pakistan […]
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Terror Strikes Bangalore; 16 Injured
BANGALORE (TIP): At least 16 persons, including 11 policemen, were injured in a bomb blast near the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s state office in the Malleswaram area of the city on April 17. The blast […]
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Terror in Bangalore Learn from Boston
April 17 blast in Bangalore and the Boston terror attack, which happened a day before, offer interesting parallels. While it was the first terror strike after 9/11 in the US, in India terrorism remains a […]
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The Iron Lady of UK- Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher’s political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market town in eastern England, she rose to become the first (and for […]
India
Delhi cops responsible for Mamata Banerjee’s heckling: Digvijay Singh
BHOPAL (TIP): Terming as ‘unfortunate’ the heckling of Mamata Banerjee by Left activists in New Delhi, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on April 11 said that police failed to ensure safety of the West Bengal […]
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Fears tax dodgers escape Pakistan poll scrutiny
ISLAMABAD (TIP): After a week of sometimes bizarre scrutiny of candidates for Pakistan’s election, fears are growing that the process has failed to weed out the bribetakers and tax-dodgers it was meant to target. Pakistanis […]
Europe
Pakistan election candidate shot dead
KARACHI (TIP): A Pakistani grocer standing in historic polls next month was shot dead on Thursday in a drive-by killing in the southern city of Hyderabad, police said. Fakhrul Islam, 46, a candidate for the […]
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United States
Jackson Heights Merchants Association New Committee Members Announced
NEW YORK (TIP): The Jackson Heights Merchants Association (JHMA) announced the names of the new committee members including the President, Vice Presidents and Chairman. The new Executive was announced at a dinner held at Jackson […]
India
Ready for third innings as PM? Too early to say: Manmohan Singh
ON BOARD PM’S SPECIAL AIRCRAFT (TIP): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on March 28 refrained from spelling out whether he will serve a fresh term if the Congress leadership nominates him for the top job for […]
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Choose sides, Congress tells Mulayam
NEW DELHI (TIP): The war of words between Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav sharpened on March 28 with Congress asking the Uttar Pradesh stalwart to decide which side of the secularcommunal […]
Business & Economics
The worries in Afghanistan
In the days that have passed since American Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel visited Kabul and received a less than cordial welcome from President Hamid Karzai, there has been no visible improvement in relations between the […]
Business & Economics
The Taliban threat to elections
Having divided the political class and once again confused society with talk of talks, the TTP has now “suspended” its offer of negotiations with the government. Ehsanullah Ehsan, the TTP spokesperson, has claimed that the […]
Europe
Us Resolution Calls For ‘Credible’ Investigation By Sri Lanka
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US-sponsored draft resolution before the ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Council in ( UNHRC) “calls” the Sri Lankan government to conduct an “independent and credible” investigation into allegations of human […]
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Palestinians deserve a state: OBAMA
RAMALLAH (TIP): Hours after Palestinian militants fired at least two rockets from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip that crashed into the Israeli border city of Sderot on Thursday, President Obama travelled to the West Bank city […]
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