"At present on paper there is autonomy but in reality every key position is occupied by Chinese who have no idea of past events, of Tibetan culture or Tibetan habits or mentality," he said.
Independence or accession to Pakistan is not a viable option for the people of Kashmir, says National Conference chief Omar Abdullah while noting that essentially a political solution needs to be worked out for the ills plaguing Jammu and Kashmir.
Admitting that he had earlier fought a case for Bina Ramani with regard to the custody of her children, Jethmalani denied that he had charged the key prosecution witness with resorting to falsehood in the Jessica Lal murder case.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh's biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, out on Sunday, promises to be much discussed.
In an interview to Karan Thapar on his Devil's Advocate programme on CNN-IBN, he said, 'What happened after that was bad and that lead to lot of turmoil in Pakistan, certainly. But if you say whether that was a mistake? No. I took action which was absolutely constitutional and legal.'
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani appears to have got it wrong when he contends that he spoke to former United States Ambassador Robert Blackwill, seeking Washington's help, to end the 1999 Kandahar hijack crisis. Blackwill, while responding to Advani's contention made in his memoirs My Country, My Life, said he was in the US during the Kandahar crisis and had come to India as Ambassador two years after the hijack crisis.
India regards Pervez Musharraf as an "elected President" of Pakistan and a "credible interlocutor" with whom it will continue to do business, says National Security Adviser M K Narayanan.
"What I am aware of is that after the receipt of the dossier by Pakistan, the Pakistan government has reverted to us and asked number of questions to which answers have been provided," National Security Advisor M K Narayanan told Karan Thapar in CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate programme.
"I certainly accept that our image in India has taken a beating. I don't think that if you go through the intensity of the negative media coverage in India and not take a damage," he told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate programme on CNN-IBN.
'Those who hope for a strong united Opposition are disillusioned at the way in which the INDIA alliance has already been caught in debilitating squabbles.'
Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has indicated that his government would consider if Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh could be pardoned. He said Sarabjit's case was being reviewed by the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Law-Justice and Human Rights. Gilani added that he has advised President Pervez Musharraf to stop the execution of Sarabjit. Sarabjit, accused of terror attacks in Lahore in 1990, has been languishing in Pakistani prisons.
Dr Ramadoss also played down the controversy over AIIMS Director P Venugopal.
Pervez Musharraf, ex-military president of Pakistan, looks back on some high points such as Kargil and his own ouster in a talk with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate programme, to be telecast on Sunday. Edited excerpts
Pranab Mukherjee also said that the government has not been indicted in the Bihar case.
J&K: Musharraf offers to join fight against terror
Asked to react to the criticism that her writings were aimed at grabbing attention through cheap titillation, she said, "I don't need publicity. It's a dangerous thing to say.
Fernandes said that if he had not provided army aircraft to Justice Pukhan and other commission members, he could have been blamed for not cooperating with the probe panel.
Ahead of new inflation data to be released on Friday, the finance minister told a television channel that he cannot guess the inflation figure, but "will remain in double digit for some more weeks." "I don't know. I can't guess the figure," P Chidambaram told Karan Thapar in an interview for the Devil's Advocate programme to be telecast on CNN-IBN.
The new civilian government in Pakistan has to take the Army on board before implementing its ideas on the Kashmir issue, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said.
Fernandes says he feels let down by Nitish Kumar.
"If Pakistan thinks that only the Hurriyat represents the people of Kashmir, then there is something fundamentally wrong with their understanding of realities in J&K."
A bench headed Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud agreed to list the matter for hearing on July 28 after senior advocate Anand Grover mentioned it for early hearing.
"I questioned myself. We got independence 60 years ago and yet we are living in the British times. We follow the same British manuals which have been left behind," the actor said.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), on Thursday, warned the government against any breach of the Common Minimum Programme and indicated that it would not hesitate to withdraw support if the CMP was not implemented sincerely.
'Even if tomorrow some American comes here and wants to become President or Prime Minister, we will pursue it,' said Venkaiah Naidu.
According to Nariman, journalists should be fearless and expose corruption in judicial system if there is solid evidence to prove that.
"While there may be scope for improving the grammar and the language, let us get to the substance of the issue," he told Karan Thapar in an interview for CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate show.
In his judgment, the former chief justice of India had described Hinduism as a way of life.
'My statements are on record. There is no change in my stand,' the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief told Karan Thapar's 'Hardtalk' programme on BBC.
On her 50th birthday on June 25, Sukanya Verma celebrates some of her most significant works.
'Elections are normal process and for a democracy like India, it is not seen as something very special,' he said.
The Union home minister said, 'It is the entire system of criminal justice which needs to be corrected, not in just one case.'
He, however, cautioned that "responsible and important members of any family, including ours, have to be more careful when they speak to the media so that they don't have to make clarifications every now and then."
We have an undertaking from President Musharraf on the question of cross-border terrorism, British envoy Rob Young said.
He did a volte-face on his stand against the Muslim community and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
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