Jairam Ramesh is like no other. He is one of those people who inspire envy in everyone. Whether you are a colleague, a ‘star anchor’, a journalist hanger-on of power ministers or an apologist for any of India’s prominent political parties. Sometimes it seems everyone in Delhi hates Jairam Ramesh. And boy, does he give […]
Would you have accept a similar Lokayukta in your state capital? This is one of the questions that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sent to state chief ministers in what many are calling a clear attempt to stall the Lokpal bill. Other questions include the advisability of including the Prime Minister, senior judges and the […]
Union minister for Human Research Development minister Kapil Sibal has defended the staff of India’s premier management and technical institutions in the ongoing controversy set off by environment minister Jairam Ramesh. Sibal pointed out that he does not believe it is the fault of the faculty alone that has kept research in India on such […]
India’s defence minister AK Antony has complained that Pakistan is using some of the weapons it gets from the US for fighting terror against India. Speaking at a function in Kannur in Kerala, Antony said the matter has been repeatedly brought to the notice of the US Government. “They get a lot of weapons from […]
India oil bill — the money it pays to overseas countries to import crude oil — crossed the $10 billion mark for the first time in April this year, numbers released by the government a few minutes ago have revealed. In April, India imported crude oil worth $10.2 billion, up from $6.9 billion just four […]
Anna Hazare, the veteran Gandhian agitator who recently led a successful campaign to get a central corruption ombudsman, has turned his guns on India’s ‘most advanced’ state — Gujarat. The mass leader, who had praised Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi when he was agitating for the ombudsman (Lokpal), said he was surprised to discover the […]
In one of the most daring attacks the Taliban has killed the police commander for northern Afghanistan Gen Mohammad Daud Daud. The suicide attack took place in the compound of the Takhar province governor when a provincial council meeting was taking place. The incident took place late in the afternoon around 1600 hrs local time […]
Youtube Movies, Google’s free, full-length movie streaming service has crossed 3,000 titles, the web giant said. Unlike the initial stages, the movie collection now includes new movies as well, but these will be in the ‘paid’ section. The relatively new movies that can be watched after paying the rental include The King’s Speech, The Green […]
Wipro has beaten others like Cognizant, Infosys and HCL to emerge as the World’s second best Salesforce.com deployment partner, according to a study conducted by Forrester Research. In a study of the World’s top 11 salesforce.com partners, Wipro was beaten to the first place only by its much bigger global competitor Accenture. Along with the […]
The US ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, argued strongly with her Government to sell Pakistan more F-16 fighter jets to, ironically, prevent a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Patterson, in a 2009 cable, pointed out that Pakistan is likely to use Nuclear weapons against India in a matter a few days if the two […]
Greenpeace, the world’s most vocal environmental activist group, has upped the ante in its fight to wean telecom operator Airtel off diesel. The volunteer organization, which is in the midst of a campaign to get Indian telecom operators to switch over from diesel to solar and other greener options, held placards in front of Airtel’s […]
Days after the successful conclusion of state-wide Panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir, a Congress workers has been beheaded in the Kishtwar area. According to security forces, the Lashkar-e-Toiba, a member of the al-Qaida terror network, is responsible for the slaughter. Abdul Ghani Rather was active on the part of the Congress party in the […]
Congress party spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan defended Rahul Gandhi’s statement that there seems to have been killings and rape by policemen at the Bhatta Parsaul village in UP during the recent farmers’ stir. The statement, made by Rahul Gandhi when he and a delegation of farmers from the village were meeting the Prime Minister, have drawn […]
Indian public opinion would force the Indian government to take military action against Pakistan in case of another attack like Mumbai, home minister P Chidambaram told the Americans in 2009, according to leaked US diplomatic cables. Chidambaram also blamed Bangladesh and Myanmar for providing sanctuary to insurgents in the North East and called Myanmar “totally […]
Reports emanating from Kabul says that the Taliban leader Mullah Omar has met his end. According to TOLO TV, a Kabul based news channel Omar has been killed in Pakistan. “Mullah Omar was killed on way from Quetta to North Waziristan, ” TOLO television said in its news bulletin. However,there is no independent confirmation about […]
Many senior Pakistani military officers seemed out of touch with Western reality and are steeped in myths — particularly anti-American ones — while being in awe of the Chinese, according to the experiences of a US Army Colonel who was studying there. Colonel Michael Schleicher, who was attending a senior level course at Pakistan’s prestigious […]
The wikileaks cable has given a rare glimpse of the hard-nosed practicality of Pakistani administrators. Speaking to the Bryan Hunt, Principal Officer at the US Consulate in Lahore, Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of the Punjab province, even joked about using ‘long beards’ — a sign of devotion — to charm the people. Sharif was talking […]
Home minister Chidambaram has accepted the responsibility for the ’50 most wanted’ goof up involving the listing of the arrested Wazhul Kamar Khan in a list given to Pakistan. “The Mumbai police did not formally communicate the news of the arrest to the CBI when the arrest took place [in August 2010,]” Chidambaram said. He […]
India’s defence minister AK Antony has reacted to the Wikileaks’ revelation that parts of the Pakistani government were in touch with the terror groups who bombed the Indian embassy of Kabul in 2008. Antony said the biggest hurdle to better relations between India and Pakistan was the links between high officials in Pakistan and terror […]
The air of uncertainty still hangs over the fate of the Taliban chief Mullah Omar. Unconfirmed reports emerging from a TV station in Kabul says that the one eyed chief of the terrorist organization,Mullah Omar, has been killed on his way from Quetta to North Waziristan. Reuters news agency quoting the Taliban spokesperson denies the […]
