Citing 'frail' health, Chidambaram also said he is not 'accustomed' to food given to him in the jail and has lost 4 kg weight during judicial custody.
'The attacks made clear to all the Gulf States that Pakistan was the nursery and sanctuary of extremist violence and that this violence threatened all the countries in the region.'
'It doesn't look as if any sensible, worldly wise, person is in charge in China.' 'If at all anybody is in charge, it can only be a bunch of bumpkins of whom Xi has become a puppet,' observes B S Raghavan, the veteran civil servant.
Senior New Delhi-based journalist R Rajagopalan, who has been closely following the Union Budget preparations since 1977, lifts the veil off India's most secretive operation.
'Common sense says if one can afford, servicing the loans during this period is a better bet than postponing it by three months,' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Chidambaram said he was honoured that the two leaders visited him.
'Given the past practice in the Pakistan army, this delay is most unusual,' notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
A charge sheethas been filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against social activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and a company run by them for alleged violation of foreign funding rules.
Buoyed by record foreign trade, surging fixed investments and industrial production, China's GDP soared by an impressive 10.7 per cent in 2006.
'It seems to be a bit of an aberration. It should be set right; there is a proper mechanism in place. In the normal course, the state police do not have any jurisdiction on central government employees,' the official said.
Here are top quotes of PM Modi, Japan's Shinzo Abe at bullet train launch.
'The government's projections for 2019-2020 will be disappointing big time.'
Glimpses of Republic Day celebrations across the country.
The two sides also decided on early operationalisation of the proposed hotline between the two armies as part of the confidence building measures, the defence ministry said.
'We must compartmentalise issues, ensuring that one disagreement does not sour everything,' advises Ambassador Kishan S Rana.
China on Friday said about 90 million couples will qualify to have a second child after it scrapped its controversial decades-old one-child policy, raising the number of people in the world's most populous nation to 1.45 billion by 2030.
The Panama verdict will decide how Pakistan handles its leadership problems.
From being called 'paon paon wale bhaiya' (foot soldier) by villagers to being addressed as 'Mama' (maternal uncle) by children, Chouhan's long innings at the top was interrupted when the BJP fell short of seven seats from the majority mark in the 2018 polls.
Opposition leaders plan to go to the people to create awareness, as well as protest the "erosion of RBI's credibility" in Parliament, in the coming days and weeks to build public opinion against the Modi government's move to take away the RBI reserves, reports Archis Mohan.
US Senators want Obama administration to clarify what India's 12 agreements with Iran are all about.
She also hit out at the government for posting retired bureaucrats, who she alleged were its 'yes men', as head of institutions.
The Covid pandemic has left a question mark on how the central government manages its staff.
Asian-owned businesses in the US have surged and boosted the country's economic growth with Indian-owned firms raking in the most revenue by earning $3.8 billion, according to a Census Bureau report.
Rajan's departure from the RBI is an end to 'outside interference' in policy making, government insiders feel.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on a three-day visit to India.
The Economic Survey states that the rationalisation and reprioritisation of subsidies through better targeting would play a vital role in fiscal consolidation and in targeting expenditure more towards inclusive development.
After talks between the King and President Kovind, the two sides inked three pacts providing for cooperation in polar science, innovation and research and in maritime spheres.
The Centre has refused to share copies of reports sent to it by the Uttar Pradesh governor and the government on Muzaffarnagar communal violence, saying it would impede probe, apprehension and prosecution of offenders.
'The most important issue for Indians, the only way in which to get them quickly out of poverty, is sustained high growth.' 'If we are not doing that despite a strong government and a leader with clarity of vision and purpose, we are facing big trouble.'
'What does the nation get out of the CBI's fabulous infrastructure? Very little that is useful.'
The fact that so many victims turn hostile should be a matter of concern. If so many accused persons continue to roam freely in society, this becomes an additional liability to women's safety, points out Rashme Sehgal.
Chidambaram has not been named as an accused in the FIR and the CBI is yet to file a chargesheet in the matter.
While many Americans view growing Chinese and Indian economies as a threat to their jobs, major US firms have reported a sharp rise in earnings, mainly due to their foreign operations.
This is the first time that this important nodal national agency for economic intelligence has obtained data on suspected offshore stash of Indians as, till now, such information was only received by the exclusive wing of the Central Board of Direct Taxes.
About Rs 2,280 crore (Rs 22.80 billion) unaccounted income being allegedly routed through Private Placement Programme (PPP) has been detected by economic intelligence sleuths.
Narendra Modi's success at the BRICS summit is the best Diwali gift for India's diplomacy and marks her ascendancy to global leadership, says Tarun Vijay.
Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Tuesday sparked a controversy by admitting that he carried matchboxes in airplanes, without them being confiscated, after he became the Union civil aviation minister.
Modi said India Post and Japan Post would start a 'cool box service' for Japanese people living in India so they could order their favorite food from Japan.
PM Modi also called for a strong action plan for combating extremism.
