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India was as much shocked as the rest of the world when the news of the tragic assassination of the US President John F Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Kennedy’s fiftieth death anniversary was recently celebrated with the top leadership of the Democrats including President Obama and former President Clinton and his wife Hillary present on the occasion. There are many who believe that had Kennedy lived longer, the Indo-US relations would have bloomed and taken a different direction. During his brief tenure, besides food aid, there were several US projects that emerged including the Tarapur plant, Kanpur IIT and Nagarjuna Sagar project in Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi: Come December First. India’s Border Security Force which played a crucial role in the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 is slated to celebrate its 48th anniversary of its raising day with a march of women contingent, for the first time, in full regalia with Berretta & X95 weapon, demonstrating the force’s gender prowess.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The infamous solar scam has come alive again to torment the Congress and the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government headed by it.

The last couple of weeks have been quite bizarre for the Indian democracy and the principal actors of its grand stage: New Delhi. Two of the projects that seemed most incorruptible in some way or the other came under scorching heat as Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Admi Party faced the accusation of being corruptible like other players of the game and Tehelka’s editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal was accused of committing sexual misconduct and rape against one of his junior colleagues.

Delhi will vote on December 4 to elect its government. Traditionally, the fight used to be confined between BJP and Congress, but now Aam Aadmi Party of Arvind Kejriwal is into the fray as a third force. When Kejriwal announced to enter the fray, BJP was the party to get nervous on the announcement and there was a celebration time in Congress, whose leaders thought that by dividing anti Congress votes, Kejriwal’s AAP would help it to capture power for the fourth consecutive times. But, the celebration is over now and Congress leaders are anxious to avoid a humiliating defeat. The reason is not difficult to see. AAP has been eating into the support base of Congress in a manner not visualized earlier by the Congress leaders.

New Delhi: A day after India and Malaysia signed a MoU to strengthen cooperation in public administration and governance, the Chief of Royal Malaysian Air Force began his four-day visit to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Trade and business circles in Bangladesh are deeply concerned about the severely negative economic impact of the prolonged spell of political violence now sweeping the country, as it prepares for its general elections.

The poor performance of the Nepali Maoists in the recent elections in the country has confirmed that the ultra-left has no future either in revolutionary or in parliamentary politics.

India has all along failed in its diplomacy towards China. The Indian diplomats are doing a great disservice to the nation by not asserting the Johnson Line in the northern sector and McMahon Line in the eastern sector drawn by the British colonials as India’s boundary line. In fact, after Independence the official map of the country recognizes these two lines.

If you are one of those who think that English language television channels headquartered in and around Delhi present a reliable picture of the subcontinent, it is time to take a serious reality check. Such and other Delhi-centric views would have you believe that the coming Lok Sabha election of the Indian Union is some sort of a boxing match between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi and that the sentiments of the people are neatly divided between the Indira Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).