The deal, the Times said, would have been "bad enough on its own and disastrously ill timed" but the "most immediate damage was done" on Bush's next stop, Pakistan.
Rejecting some critics' argument as to what message the US was sending to Iran by signing a nuclear energy deal with India, Burns said, "We don't see the connection between what Iran is doing and what India seeks to do."
'Indian economic and military power is still not up to its cultural and "soft" power.'
Major powers including Britain and France said the agreement would benefit the non-proliferation regime.
Students along with eminent people from across the ideological spectrum flocked to the open air auditorium in JNU.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has admitted that terrorists operating in Kashmir have nexus with Al Qaeda, Taliban and Pakistani extremists, which is a "very dangerous" combination.
'To belittle the general, to chastise him like an errant school boy -- that was the last thing on Cheney's mind.'
The text of US President George W Bush's final State of the Union address delivered to Congress on Monday.
The Associated Press, in a story widely reproduced in the US media, cites top US military commanders as saying that Pakistan's tribal areas are the new Ground Zero in the battle against global terrorism -- even more so than Iraq.
President George W Bush said he is "pleased" with outgoing Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns for agreeing to continue to handle the "historic" Indo-US civil nuclear deal in which Washington has been making "progress" under him.
While there is 'incontrovertible evidence' that Teheran's Quds force inside Iraq is responsible for violence against Americans, Bush said he cannot say for sure if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinejad gave the direct orders.
Patriot Act is an antiterrorism law introduced in 2001.
Looking for crumbs from Obama doesn't say much for India Shining.
Indian outsourcers file the most applications for temporary H-1B visas. Are they using them to train staff for jobs abroad?
Samajwadi Party, which is extending outside support to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, Friday opposed any plans for scheduling United States President George W Bush's address to Parliament during his visit to India.
Putin, who is heading a high-level delegation, will be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade on January 26.
At the White House, Press Secretary Dana Perino was asked if US President George W Bush is in touch with anybody in India or has been briefed on the issue. "Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Burns has certainly been trying to push India to try to reconcile their differences so that we can move forward. We think it's a very important programme," Perino said.
United States President George W Bush intends to appoint current US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad as the country's ambassador to the United Nations to replace John Bolton
According to a report from Baghdad, Iraqi authorities are questioning at least two guards suspected of involvement in the taunting and filming.
Citizens of eight of 10 nations polled by leading newspapers oppose the re-election of George W Bush as president.
Maintaining that he is not aware as to when exactly the US-India civilian nuclear agreement is going to be formally inked, the State Department's deputy spokesman Robert Wood said the important thing is that the deal has been finalised and what remains now are just administrative matters.
'The support Pakistan has given to terrorist actions in Kashmir -- official or unofficial -- must cease.' John \n\nKerry, in an exclusive interview to rediff.com
'I will make sure criticism of business practices which harm American workers doesn't generate a backlash against Indian Americans, the same way trade disputes with Japan in the 1980s led to incidents of anti-Asian bigotry,' says John Kerry.
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