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New Delhi: India is successfuly engaged with different political parties in the Maldives ahead of the general elections in that country.

New Delhi: India has expressed about the safety of life and assets of Indian nationals in Egypt following the violence which resulted in death of over 600 people.

The Union Finance Ministry’s belated clarification on August 3 for a sensational banner piece in the otherwise staid but venerable The Hindu that ‘India has to repay $172 billion debt by March 2014’ recalls the classic case of Rip Van Winkle who remained mired in his own reverie for decades and suddenly woke up to find the ground reality!

ISI, Pakistan’s internationally networked external intelligence cum espionage agency, may not be working alone to engineer a full-scale escalation of cross-border tension and attack on Indian posts. Events in the last two weeks suggest that there may be a deeper economic conspiracy behind the latest round of diplomatic spat between the two frequently belligerent-looking nuclear-armed neighbours as the immediate victim of the army actions and political reactions from both the sides is Pakistan’s decision to stop the proposed ‘most favoured nation’ (MFN) status to India.

Has the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung bitten off more than he can chew, with his latest indefinite bandh against the West Bengal Government in Darjeeling?

LUCKNOW: All the major political parties in Uttar Pradesh are busy strengthening their organisational set up at booth level to achieve their target for mission 2014 when Lok Sabha polls are scheduled.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Has the Left Democratic Front (LDF) ended its much-hyped secretariat siege hastily? Has the Front made a tactical mistake in doing so? These are the questions uppermost in the minds of the people of Kerala.

The populist Food Security bill is all set to go through in Parliament despite the stalling tactics adopted by the BJP led opposition. The political stakes are very high for the Congress as well as its rivals. Even though it does not want to allow the Congress to walk away with the credit for the bill the opposition will not make any serious bid to stall it further as no political party wants to be seen as obstructing a pro – bill, particularly in an election hear.

New Delhi: As India gears up to celebrate its 67th Independence Day on Thursday, 43 gallantry awards are to be presented to the brave men of Armed Forces and Paramilitary Forces.

There cannot be a clearer example of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons than the decision of the United Progressive Alliance, in particular the Congress, to carve a new state of Telangana out of Andhra Pradesh 10 months before the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress made this decision for an indisputably parochial and self-serving reason: to avert an electoral rout in Andhra Pradesh, where it had the highest strike-rate of all states in 2009: 33 of 42 seats.