'In India foreign policy is generally handled by the prime minister.' 'One can clearly see the Vajpayee stamp on all this.' 'Only a person with poetic imagination can weave such a complex web,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
With days to go before Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visits China accompanied by a 55-member industry delegation, Confederation of Indian Industry on Monday said the country provided ample business opportunities and incentives.
It wants scientists to focus on increasing agriculture income, finding efficient ways to utilise energy resources and on reducing poverty.
The Congress is strongly opposed to deploying Indian troops in Iraq except under UN auspices.
The Cabinet Committee on Divestment will meet on Tuesday to discuss among other things relaxation of bidding norms for Shipping Corporation of India to woo foreign bidders while taking Air-India and Indian Airlines off the divestment list.
The BJP's demand for Bharat Ratna for former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has found little favour with the RSS which has suggested that Bhagat Singh or the Indian soldier deserved the country's highest civilian honour.
Pursuant to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's announcement in January, a insurance scheme for Non-Resident Indians -- 'Pravasi Bharatiya Bima Yojana' -- will be launched on December 25 this year.
He is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Vajpayee and his deputy Advani later in the day.
'What happened in Godhra was wrong and what happened thereafter was even worse,' Vajpayee told the Indian community there.
India's tactical and operational response demonstrated its ability to prosecute tri-service operations, even without a formal tri-service doctrine or the higher command structure needed to coordinate it, points out Ajai Shukla.
'Whenever you say India is inflicted with corruption, Indians turn around and say other countries have corruption as well,' says Canadian politician Ujjal Dosanjh.
'The unwarranted and unbalanced references to Pakistan in the so-called Delhi Declaration' was disappointing, a foreign ministry statement said.
Singhvi was speaking at the Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry where the American ambassdor David Mulford, was presenting a more realistic picture of Indo-US relations.
Malik also claimed that R&AW had 'failed to understand the importance of the intercepted telephonic conversations between Musharraf and his army officers,' according to a release issued by the Observer Research Foundation, which brought out the book The Military Factor in Pakistan by Lt Col R S N Singh. Malik, who heads the Foundation, narrated how the Kargil infiltration by the Pakistani Army happened soon after the 'much-hyped' Lahore Declaration between Vajpayee & Sharif.
Monday was the 3rd anniversary of the terrorist attack on the apex seat of Indian democracy.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who arrived in New Delhi on Friday, on a three-day visit, cut short his trip and returned home tonight by an Indian Air Force plane because of death of his mother-in-law.
Hasan Rohani, who is also the leader of the Supreme National Council, will meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee tomorrow.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Thursday said that India and Russia should avail of opportunities in each other's country for broadbasing investment flows.
The Chandrayan-I mission will place a 525-kg satellite above moon and enable frontier scientific research.
Airport sources in Chennai said Rangasamy was scheduled to take the 0640 Indian Airlines flight, but his ticket was cancelled.
India will also release 130 Pakistani prisoners languishing in its jails.
General Musharraf said he had told Prime Minister Vajpayee, through international leaders, that if Indian troops moved a single step across the international border or the LoC, they should not expect a conventional war.
'Like all right-thinking Indians, I am shocked and saddened by the murder of Satyendra Dubey, an upright and dedicated officer working with NHAI,' he said.
"The adulation and admiration for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and total belief in the philosophy of the BJP prompted me to join the party," the former BCCI president told PTI.
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