With the Centre facing the heat over terrorism, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan on Tuesday admitted that intelligence was 'not good enough' but claimed there were also successes like more terror attacks in the capital being nipped in the bud in the last two to three days."It is not that we have not achieved anything. There are several successes. I don't know whether we should advertise them the way you (media) want us to do," Narayanan said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's first ever official visit to China, between January 13 and January 15, will be a low-key affair. He will not be visiting any city other than Beijing. He will be accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, Commerce minister Kamal Nath and National Security Advisor M K Narayanan.
Indian Ambassador to China Nirupama Rao and her Chinese counterpart in India, San Yu Si, are among the 19 delegates who will assist the special representatives in the talks.
This round of negotiations takes place three months after the last meeting of the special representatives in New Delhi indicating speeding up of efforts to resolve the boundary dispute.
"If anyone kept their word, it was me, not Rajiv. He went back to India and then called me on his way to the Commonwealth to say that he could not keep his promise to withdraw from Siachen, and that he would do it only after the elections (1989)," Bhutto said.
'Terrorism creates suspicion among neighbours, suspicion among communities, which could be a major blow to India's otherwise widely hailed and widely recognized society'
Did the NSA mean the terrorists had used their advance knowledge of planned terrorist strikes in India to make money from the stock market?
At the two-day talks, which will conclude on Thursday, the Indian side is represented by National Security Adviser M K Narayanan while the Chinese side is represented by Dai Bingguo.
The nation, which had the information, did not see it as important enough to pass it on to Indian intelligence agencies until it recognised its significance after the blasts had occurred.
M K Narayanan, national security advisor, accused the media of trying to sabotage the 123 Agreement even before it has been implemented by India and United States.
A day after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said India has pretty good evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said, "It is a propagandist statement as they have no evidence."
Indian team led by foreign secretary will be back at the US State Department for negotiations early Friday and expect to be involved in some pretty intensive discussions, sources said.
He will largely play a behind-the-scenes role and will sit in on the high-level meetings between the US and Indian teams so as to ensure that India's strategic and nuclear establishment's interests are not compromised
India's offer of the reported proposal to put a dedicated facility under safeguards, could be a positive contribution to moving the process forward during the talks led by Narayanan, predicts Dr Ashley J Tellis.
He said the tragic incident, however, would not dampen Indo-Afghan relations
Keen to conclude the civil nuclear deal by the year-end, India and the US will hold another round of high level talks in July to sort out differences that have been nagging the negotiations for months.
R Sampanthan, leading the delegation, expressed satisfaction over the discussions and hoped that CPI would help make a favourable public opinion about the Eelam issue.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during the NAM Summit in Havana in mid-September.
"We do not want the Sri Lankan government to go to Pakistan or China. Whatever may be their requirement, the Sri Lankan government should come to us."
'We have shown them what we are going to do. That we are willing to separate the civilian and military nuclear establishments.'National Security Adviser M K Narayanan in an exclusive interview.
The sixth round of India-China special representative-level border negotiations began in Beijing on Monday as part of efforts of the two Asian giants to reach a package to solve the vexed boundary issue.
India's National Security Advisor says that the US just can't to afford to ignore the Pakistan-based militant outfit.
In what may be seen as worst fears of National Security Advisor M K Narayanan coming true, a US report on terrorism has said pro-Pakistan Jaish-e-Mohammed was investing in commodity market and real estate to raise funds for its terrorist activities.
A high alert has been sounded and security beefed up in public places and markets across Delhi on Tuesday in the wake of serial grenade attacks in Srinagar and blasts in Mumbai.
Special representatives of the two countries -- National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo -- will hold two-day talks in Delhi and Ooty in Tamil Nadu, officials said on Saturday.
Besides Dr Singh, the meeting was attended by Defence Minister A K Antony, Army Chief J J Singh, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan and others.
"The Chinese premier underlined that whatever anybody might say, India and China are friendly neighbours and have a common view of how the world should be looked at," Naraynan said.
The prime minister said he would hold bilateral meetings, among others, with Philippines President Gloria Macpagal Arroyo, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
The two sides are looking to move forward in mutual understanding.
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, who is also its special representative, will hold the fifth round of boundary talks with his Indian counterpart National Security Advisor M K Narayanan.
On a six-day official visit at the invitation of President A P J Abdul Kalam, Gayoom and Dr Singh exchanged views on important regional and global issues of mutual concern.
Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal, who had frosty relations with Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of the state, was tonight sent off to Mizoram in a reshuffle of governors effected by the government.
The condition is that the government must include the issue of sovereignty in the talks.
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