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Failure of Indian Diplomacy and Chinese Sun Tzu Ploy

ASHOK B SHARMA - 2014-02-03 13:35
Indian diplomacy on China has failed squarely as it has not been able to assert the Johnson Line in the northern sector and the McMahon Line in the eastern sector, drawn by the colonial rulers as India’s boundary line. This is despite the fact that India’s official map has recognised these lines since Independence.

US DOUBLE STANDARD ON KHOBRAGADE EXPOSED

FRENCH DIPLOMAT LET OFF FOR GRAVER OFFENCE
Nitya Chakraborty - 2014-02-03 10:53
NEW DELHI: The stand of the US state department that the Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade presently does not enjoy immunity from prosecution for the “crimes charged in the indictment” exposes the double standard of the US Government in applying its laws, according to the diplomatic sources. Sources say that a French diplomat, charged for much graver crimes, was allowed to leave USA and then after a gap, returned again as the consul general in San Francisco.

BANGLADESH BACK ON TRACK

HASINA CONSOLIDATES HER POWER
Barun Das Gupta - 2014-02-03 10:51
KOLKATA: There has been an unusual lull in Bangladesh after the elections and after Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as Prime Minister for the second time in succession. The BNP-Jamaat led Opposition, which had boycotted the 5 January, threatened not to recognise the new Government as a legitimate one and to carry on their agitation till fresh elections were held. Hasina’s response was that the elections were perfectly valid and her government would last its full term of five years.

DMK IN TURMOIL WITH THE STALIN-ALAGIRI RIVALRY

NO REAL CHALLENGE YET FOR JAYALALITHAA’S AIADMK
S. Sethuraman - 2014-02-03 10:47
The DMK Patriarch, 90-year old Mr M Karunanidhi, is in agony as the battle for succession within the family reaches a new pitch, before he can devise a credible poll strategy with trusted Dravidian satellites, to arrest a galloping race by Ms. Jayalalithaa’s AIADMK for capturing all the 40 seats of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in Lok Sabha.

MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR THE KERALA CPI(M)

HAS THE TIDE TURNED AGAINST IT AND LDF?
P. Sreekumaran - 2014-02-01 10:50
Strange and unpredictable are the ways of politics. Fortunes undergo such wild fluctuations within the wink of an eye as it were that one day you are up in the clouds and the next day you find yourself down in the dumps.

RAHUL INTERVIEW MIRED IN CONTROVERSY

EXPOSING MEDIA’S PREDATORY SIDE
Harihar Swarup - 2014-02-01 10:46
Rarely has an interview drawn so much attention, both for right and wrong reasons, as that of Rahul Gandhi’s to Times Now. Almost the entire media—both print and visual—pounced on him, accusing him of being repetitive, ridiculous, there is much to criticize, superficial, a coup by Times Now, uttered the world “system” six times. He uttered the word in such dire tone, you felt a monster is waiting for the interview to end before it systematically gobbled us all in its “predatory” way. However, empowerment of women, youngsters, RTI, deepening democracy are real issues for Rahul.

Indian Coast Guard to add 20 vessels to fleet

ASHOK B SHARMA - 2014-01-31 12:46
New Delhi: Indian Coast Guard is expected to add another 20 vessels in the current year to guard 7500 km long country's coastline.

MULAYAM SETS A TARGET OF 60 SEATS IN LOK SABHA POLL

MAJOR EFFORTS ARE ON TO WOO DALITS
Pradeep Kapoor - 2014-01-31 11:01
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Mulayam Singh Yadav has set the target for 60 Lok Sabha seats out of total of 80 seats from UP Uttar Pradesh before all SP ministers and senior party leaders.

TRINAMOOL AIMS TO BECOME LARGEST REGIONAL PARTY

CHOICE OF ALLIANCE ONLY AFTER POLL
Nantoo Banerjee - 2014-01-31 10:54
Whatever be the indicative numbers and party positions projected in the newest series of pre-poll surveys, senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in West Bengal are highly upbeat over the possibility of winning as many as 36 out of 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state. This means about 20 per cent more seats for TMC than what the average number forecast for the party by four top survey agencies, including global leader A C Nielsen, in their latest pre-poll sample survey reports.

DMK SINKING IN FAMILY QUAGMIRE

STALIN VERSUS ALAGIRI SHOWDOWN
Kalyani Shankar - 2014-01-30 11:48
A full-fledged family-cum-political drama is unfolding in Tamil Nadu with the bitter quarrel in the DMK’s first family moving towards expulsion of the DMK chief Karunanidhi’s elder son Alagiri from the party paving the way for the younger son Stalin’s promotion. The plethora of family problems that plague its patriarch is increasing day by day. The drama reached the climax this week when Alagiri barged in to his father’s bedroom at six in the morning to complain about Stalin saying Stalin would die in three or four months. Karunanidhi went public and even wrote to the prime minister to give security for his younger son.