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| August 21, 2008 | |
N-deal: 'We can pull it off at NSG'
There's a strong sense inside the Democratic leadership that if you care about India, now is the time to stand up for it, says Graham Wisner, counsel at the top international lobbying firm Patton Boggs.
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| August 06, 2008 | |
'Clean waiver for nuclear deal is a fantasy'
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington, DC-based Arms Control Association believes India's expectation of a 'clean exemption' at the Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting scheduled for August 21 is "a fantasy"
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| July 28, 2008 | |
'Terrorism and riots are not interlinked'
It does not make sense to believe that an event in 2008 took place because of an event in 2002. There is no logic behind this argument, says Gujarat's Minister of State for Home Amit Shah.
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| July 24, 2008 | |
Poppies, Burma and Bollywood
With his seventh novel, Amitav Ghosh has announced one clear intention: He is not about to retire.
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| July 20, 2008 | |
'The MIM has been given Rs 5,000 crore'
'I am not kidding. The prime minister has promised to look into our demand for the implementation of the Fatimi committee report on the Sachar committee findings.' says MIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi.
Shahid Siddiqui: Why I joined the BSP
Siddiqui said since he had given an elaborate interview to rediff.com as an SP general secretary, he explains why he shifted allegiance to the Bahujan Samaj Party and what his views on the issues now are.
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| July 19, 2008 | |
'No amount of money can change my stand'
'Ideally, Gowda should ask for a Cabinet berth in the Union government. This would help us build the party and a tie-up for us with the Congress is always good, keeping in mind the forthcoming elections.' says Janata Dal-S MP Shivanna.
'We should not be afraid of the US'
Shahid Siddiqui, who defected from the Samajwadi Party, sang a different tune two days ago when he defended the nuclear deal in an exclusive interview with rediff.com
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| July 16, 2008 | |
'History will decide on Dr Manmohan Singh'
'We are at the fag end of the government's tenure. There is more curiosity when there are chances of a mid-term poll than now. Here, the only curiosity is whether Dr Singh will be able to garner those votes,' says former BJP MP Ram Naik.
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| July 10, 2008 | |
'Deal or no deal, the Left would have withdrawn'
'The fact is they have their own agenda and compulsions. In West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura, the Congress is their main opposition. They think going with the Congress would hamper their electoral prospects. It is this compulsion that has forced them to withdraw support, nothing else,' argues Congress leader M Veerappa Moily.
'I want to see the 7/11 perpetrators punished'
'The persons who are arrested are the ones who have played an active role in the blasts.' Maharashtra Director General of Police A N Roy defends the investigation into the July 11, 2006 blasts in Mumbai.
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| July 09, 2008 | | 'We need to talk to the Kashmiris'
'Kashmiris are very adaptable people. They will wait. From India's point of view, I think we have lost a great opportunity. I don't think we should keep talking to Pakistan. We should talk to the Kashmiris. Ultimately, this matter has to be settled between New Delhi and Srinagar,' says A S Dulat, expert on Kashmir.
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| July 08, 2008 | | Not enough time to pass n-deal in US
'It certainly doesn't have to be accomplished at the end of the year. It will not turn into a pumpkin after some days! The next president and next Congress can take this up,' says expert K Alan Kronstadt.
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| July 07, 2008 | | 'We have to address the Kashmir dispute'
'The PDP has all the time stressed that the semblance of peace and normalcy it has brought in the valley must not be taken for granted. There is no substitute for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute. The problem is still there,' says the PDP vice president.
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| July 04, 2008 | | 'Prabhakaran shoots people who disagree'
LTTE child soldier Shobasakthi, whose book Gorilla was translated into English earlier this year, talks about life as a refugee, LTTE chief, Prabhakaran, the future of Tamil Eelam and much more.
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| July 02, 2008 | | 'The Left wants to humiliate the Congress'
‘Karat's objective was to humiliate the prime minister and Congress so that its allies lose confidence. He presumably expects that the Third Front parties would gain at the expense of the Congress and there can be a Third front government which the Left can dominate,’ says K Subrahmanayam.
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| July 01, 2008 | | 'Our job is to train leaders'
'I tell my cadets, make all your mistakes here because at war, you will lose lives,' says National Defence Academy Commandant Air Marshal T S Randhawa.
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| June 30, 2008 | | 'Nuclear deal will affect Muslim votes'
Samajwadi Party General Secretary and MP Shahid Siddiqui speaks on his party's relations with the Congress, the Indo-US nuclear deal and Muslim votes.
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| June 26, 2008 | | 'They can't hoodwink the Left at every stage'
'This government has time and again proved that they are not worthy of our support. That is why we are talking about withdrawing support at this stage. We have supported it for the past four years. But the government has not proved that it is worthy of our support. So we will have no other option but withdraw support.'
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| June 25, 2008 | | 'The people of India are for the nuclear deal'
'We are part of a global nuclear embargo. We are subject to global nuclear apartheid. And we want to move on, so that our people get the opportunities that they deserve in the context of another option in the energy sector,' says Science & Technology Minister Kapil Sibal.
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| June 12, 2008 | |
'There's no greater place to live as a human being than the subcontinent'
'India as a subcontinent is a marvel of god's creation. There should never be a communal clash because so much of Islam and Hinduism have been together. We need to bring Kabir's Bhakti movement back, which the British crushed in such a crafty manner that we were left paralysed.' An interview with Tarek Fateh, author of a bold new book on Islam.
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| June 09, 2008 | |
'The Left parties have lost ground'
RSP leader Abani Roy spoke about the reason for pulling out of the UPA-Left co-ordination committee, the Centre's policies, the uneasy relations with the CPI-M and the Left's prospects in the coming general elections.
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| May 27, 2008 | |
'The Indian monsoon is very complex'
'Our weather pattern is difficult. Don't assess the IMD's skill with the skill of the USA. It is like comparing Tendulkar with a school cricket boy,' says Dr Mahadevan Rajeevan, Director, National Climate Centre.
Transcript of interview with Dalai Lama
Tibetans are losing faith in the Dalai Lama's conciliatory 'middle way' because of China's refusal to strike a deal with him over the region's future, the exiled spiritual leader said in an interview with The Financial Times.
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| May 26, 2008 | |
'Every political matter comes to court'
'If political matters come to the court for judicial review, we have to deal with those matters.' Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan in an exclusive interview.
'It's been a dream story'
'From one seat to a majority in the assembly in 20 years. The evolution of the BJP in Karnataka is a script in itself,' says Arun Jaitley, the party's strategist for the election.
'India has the highest number of hungry people on earth'
'Food grain availability for India's poorest is now approaching levels that haven't been seen since the British left. This has everything, sadly, to do with the rapacity of India's elites,' says Raj Patel, author, Stuffed and Starved.
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| May 25, 2008 | |
'The BJP indirectly raised Hindutva'
'If you compare the record of the BJP and NDA government they have a pathetic record of tackling terrorism, still they kept on talking about the recent incidents. They had no other issue to talk about because their performance in the Karnataka government was pathetic so they kept talking about national issues in the assembly elections.'
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| May 22, 2008 | |
'A criminal can't get a job but can be CM'
'The number of candidates in Karnataka with a criminal background has come down by five per cent when compared to the 2004 election,' says Professor Trilochan Sastry of Karnataka Election Watch.
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| April 30, 2008 | |
'JD-S has given K'taka some of the best CMs'
'There is a certain amount of respect for the JD-S as compared to the other parties. The plus point for the JD-S is the rule of H D Kumaraswamy as chief minister for 20 months. He is considered as the best chief minister of Karnataka till date.This will work in favour of the JD-S and thanks to this factor the party will earn a considerable number of votes.'
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| April 24, 2008 | |
'My father would have backed my decision'
Mamatha Nichani speaks about her political ambitions, her thoughts on the political scenario and her decision to join the Congress, a party which her father, Ramakrishna Hegde, had opposed all his life.
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| April 21, 2008 | |
‘The Dalai Lama is a realist’
'Tibetans want the Dalai Lama to be a rebel and bring down the Chinese as Gandhi brought down the British...' Pico Iyer rells Arthur J Pais.
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