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India has finally won. It has shown the way how trade diplomacy can work to its final conclusion. After five days of hectic parleys, running beyond the original schedule, the trade negotiators could eventually come out with the historic Bali Package defending the inalienable rights of the developing countries to food security and related public stockholding of food.

New Delhi : Shortly after the two day India-US Homeland Security dialogue, the Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh is slated to visit US on a 4-day trip beginning from Sunday as part of Foreign Office Consultations.

‘Mainstream India’ has typically been those parts of the Union where the Indian Army is not actively deployed at present. Naturally, the contour of this ‘mainstream’ has been changing. Places where the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is in action, there are sweeping powers that the Armed Forces have over the life and liberty of people.

Rising Buddhist-Muslim tensions originating in Myanmar are causing political repercussions at the regional level, raising India’s security concerns.

The Awami National Party, the worst-affected political entity due to politics of annihilation by the Talibans in Pakistan in the main, is in a new crisis with the announcement of Begum Nasim Wali Khan, the widow of Pakhtun nationalist leader and one of the founders of the National Awami Party, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, that she will beef up the ANP by sidelining the present top brass comprising her stepson Asfandyar Wali Khan, Azam Khan Hoti and Ameer Haider Hoti and put her grandson Lawangeen Wali Khan at the helm.

Who is worried about the death of thousands of people of all ages in the country’s public and private hospitals, health centres, nursing homes and clinics due to medical negligence, staff cruelty and exploitation? Not our lawmakers, for certain. The government, very often, treats the cases of such deaths as casually as those in road or rail accidents. Even the judiciary’s hands are generally tied in the absence of strong legal deterrent to hand down exemplary punishments to offenders be they health administrators, doctors, surgeons, anesthetists, nurses or government inspectors.

New Delhi: Egypt has sought India’s assistance in building up its new political system and reviving its economy.

After the completion of the Assembly elections to five states, the focus has already shifted to the next Lok Sabha polls, which are just a few months away. Not only are the fortunes of incumbent chief ministers and prime ministerial candidates of the two national parties are at stake, but also the results could influence the morale of the UPA and the NDA in the national scene before the big fight.

A very few global gathering attracts glitz and glamour as the ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), normally scheduled every two years but which subsequently got off tangent after the Hong Kong Ministerial ended in fiasco in 2005 and its predecessor Cancun (Mexico) in 2003.

BHOPAL: 8 December, when the counting of votes for the assembly elections will take place and the fate of the state government decided, is less than a week away. Meanwhile, more skeletons have tumbled out from the closet of the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh.