India: BJP chief Nitin Gadkari using his position to further his business interests, charges Arvind Kejriwal
- India Today Online
Giving a short relief to the ruling Congress after attacking its leaders and their kin over the issue of corruption, activist-turned-politicianArvind Kejriwalon Wednesday targetted the largest opposition party the BJP, accusing its national president ...
India's first family comes out fighting
- Siddharth Srivastava सिद्धार्थ श्रीवास्तव
NEW DELHI - A disconcerting number of corruption scandals has rocked the Congress-led government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The latest allegations are miniscule when compared to the scale of earlier purported embezzlements related to the ...
Politics Of Drone Attacks
- Nasir Naveed ناصر نوید
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a navigator, or pilot on the ground ...
Beijing lines up new leaders
- Wu Zhong 吴忠
HONG KONG - Recent signs strongly indicate that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is ready to convene the national congress that will select the country's top leaders for the next decade.
On August 17, President Hu Jintao and all other eight members ...
Thoroughbred loose on the Kyrgyz steppes
- MK Bhadrakumar
The great game in Central Asia has a history of occasionally turning rough. Turkey may have become its latest victim.
Prima facie, there is nothing linking ...
China spurns US overture on Syria
- MK Bhadrakumar
There are many ways of looking at the visit by the United States National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon to Beijing this week (July 23-25), first of its kind by the White House official in the past 8 years or so. One way was that Donilon was ...
China talks deals, not sanctions
- Pepe Escobar
Beijing invests billions in Iran while trying to reach consensus with its South China Sea neighbours
Iran is reportedly China's third-largest oil supplier, behind Saudi Arabia and Angola. Two-way trade will go beyond $50bn by 2015. In June, China imported ...
India joins the West on Syrian crisis
- MK Bhadrakumar
Russia and China have vetoed the resolution on Syria sponsored by the United States, France, Germany and Portugal at the United Nations Security Council. This is not surprising, as Moscow and Beijing have been consistent in their opposition to any ...
Obama's Greater East
- Manlio Dinucci
For 236 years the U.S. has defended democracy everywhere: Hillary Clinton asserted this in Cairo. Thus she must have erased from history the more than 160 military interventions abroad that U.S. imperialism made starting from the 1940s; the wars of the ...
China-Russia spat over energy
- MK Bhadrakumar
The mellifluous rhetoric of the “comprehensive strategic cooperation and partnership” between China and Russia is difficult to penetrate. A rare peep behind the curtain through the Chines eyes, therefore, shouldn’t be missed. The ...
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