(Excerpts from former BJP vice-president Yashwant Sinha's letter to party President Rajnath Singh)
Bangladesh on Thursday agreed in principle to India's proposal for a bilateral Free Trade Agreement to boost economic cooperation and solve issues relating to tariff and non-tariff barriers.\n\n
Japan grants $900 mn concessional loan to India
The Opposition wanted the PM to respond to their questions but the Chairman did not allow it.
Defence Minister A K Antony on Friday concluded his four-day visit to Moscow leaving for home without meeting with President Vladimir Putin. He is the second senior Indian minister to have visited Moscow in one week who the president hasn't met, the other being External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha, who is in charge of party affairs in Karnataka, briefed the top party leadership about the crisis in the state following the suspension of talks between the BJP and JD (S) abt the impending power transfer
Dr Singh must really attain the 'historic' by being the first Indian PM to author a public document refuting every criticism against his biggest policy yet.
BJP wants CPM to vote against the deal in Parliament
'We've come up with an arrangement. They accept wearing a hair net. It's less aggressive, less showy,' said the education minister.
The issue of Finance Minister P Chidambaram's lawyer wife Nalini appearing on behalf of income tax department in a court in Chennai rocked the Rajya Sabha on Monday as a determined Opposition stalled the proceedings leading to two adjournments of the
In a bid to further boost the growing bilateral trade, Sri Lanka is seeking to upgrade its free trade agreement with India to include services and investments, officials said in Colombo.
India and Bangladesh had decided to start the service during the Joint Economic Commission meeting in Dhaka.
Yashwant Sinha said the government's decision came after taking into account the popular response in India to the Noor Fatima case.
It was reacting to External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha's reported remarks that India has better case for a pre-emptive strike against Pakistan than the US had against Iraq.
India has agreed to increase cooperation in energy and transport with Myanmar, where India is keen to counter growing influence from China.\n\n
In the midst of the all the drama that is taking place with regard to the transfer of power in Karnataka, one thing becomes clear and that is the Bharatiya Janata Party at the moment is in no mood for compromise.
In spite of the JD (S) flip-flopping on the issue of power transfer in Karnataka, its ally Bhartiya Janata Party is hopeful that the JD-S will keep its side of the bargain, party spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said.
On mid-term parliamentary polls, he said that it cannot be ruled out and added the party is prepared for it.
One reason for the BJP's lapse, if it can be so described, was perhaps the search for an emotive issue prior to the next general election.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said the text of the nuclear agreement with the United States has confirmed its fears that India's right to nuclear testing will be impacted.
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha told rediff.com that the numbers were in favour of Shekhawat.
Secretary of State Colin Powell described the Vajpayee-Musharraf meeting as 'historic'.
President A P J Abdul Kalam left New Delhi on Saturday on a week-long visit to the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Bulgaria, his first foreign tour after assuming the high office.
The United States may lift restrictions imposed on exports of high-technology items to India, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said in London on Thursday.
India also assured its neighbour that New Delhi was ready to remove any Pakistan-specific trade barriers.
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