'Naveen Patnaik's simplicity makes him look like an innocent fellow. But he is not like that. You can go to Odisha's mining areas and you can understand what is going on under his nose. A colossal loss to the national exchequer has taken place in Odisha,' Union Minister Srikant Jena tells Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
Pillai announced his decision to quit at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram.
India welcomes progress made by Iran vis-a-vis nuclear issues
The international community must focus not only on recipient states but on supplier states as well, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said.
Aizaz Jafri operates a licensed posh entertainment spot called 'Hot Shots' in Islamabad and always boasted of close contacts with Khan.
"And in this overall context," he added, "it is against India's own national security interests to have another nuclear weapons state in our region."
To begin with, inter linking of rivers is neither well thought out plan nor a development plan. It is essentially an extension of the big dam agenda that the Indian water resources establishment has been pursuing since the last 60 years. That agenda is not the best available option and has not been giving any additional benefits for over a decade.
She also declared, "After I am no more, these houses would be converted into party museums and not go to any member of my family."
The implication of this stiff stance by China towards Pakistan could have far reaching consequences for the gains achieved in India-China relations including from last year's Copenhagen dividend and the high-level visits between the two, writes Srikanth Kondapalli.
A confirmed opportunist, Das is understood to have struck a deal with Bahujan Samaj Party from which he hopes to grab a ticket to contest the next Lucknow Lok Sabha election. His exit from the Congress is seen as s setback for the party that was already very weak in Uttar Pradesh where it had once ruled for four long decades.
Abdul Qadeer Khan was taken to a hospital in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital Islamabad, on Thursday to undergo an angiogram -- a procedure to check coronary arteries for blockages, Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said.
Leading South Asia experts have assured the United States Congress that the prospect of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal falling into fundamentalist hands is, at least in the short term, unlikely.
United States intelligence agencies have attempted to interview Khan about his activities but Musharraf, who pardoned Khan in 2004 and put him under house arrest, has refused to allow the US access to him.
'Giving of orders is five per cent, seeing that the orders are carried out is the other ninety-five per cent,' recalls Major General K K Tewari, PVSM, AVSM, who commanded the Signals on the Eastern front in the 1971 War.
The Madras High Court on Monday stayed an order of a single judge who had held that termination of tender proceedings was 'improper'.
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh told the international community to correct the nuclear imbalance.
The Confederation of All India Traders on Monday demanded the withdrawal of service tax on traders and threatened to go on a nationwide agitation if the demand was not met.
F Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in defence secretary's office, said, "yet, the US reportedly cannot debrief Khan to do a threat assessment on the nuclear threat."
Pakistan's Khan Research Laboratories, which was founded by nuclear scientist A Q Khan, had clandestinely supplied centrifuge components to a nuclear plant intended to be installed in Libya, a new book has claimed.
The 50 per cent increase ordered by Bush in the CIA's clandestine operations calls for a new training facility and aggressive recruiting or lowering the quality of people, a former CIA official said.
The head of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service and his deputy both resigned their posts Monday following differences with the new director.
US Weapons Inspector Charles A Duelfer also said that companies in several countries, including India, may have sold Iraq dual purpose equipment.
Mukesh Ambani doesn't need my support but the agitation against Reliance shops in UP and West Bengal does draw attention to a certain sneaky trait in Indian life.
A senior member of the Atomic Energy Commission has slammed the Left parties for their opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal, saying they were only worried about their ideology and do not bother about the country's GDP growth.
Mounting pressure on Pakistan, the United States on Wednesday joined India in underscoring the 'absolute imperative' to bring to justice the perpetrators of Mumbai attacks and underlining the need for 'resolute and credible steps' to eliminate 'safe havens' in Pakistan and Afghanistan which undermine the security and stability around the world.
Raman writes in his book, 'In a potentially controversial move, Vinod Pandey (Cabinet Secretary in the 1989 V P Singh government) wanted R&AW to organise clandestine arms training for RSS cadres in Jammu'
The CIA director, who will soon be leaving the agency, has pointed out its successes.
The CIA's Counter Terrorist Centre never developed a plan to deal with the possibility that terrorists might use airplanes as weapons, despite growing evidence during the 1990s.
The full text of the White House Intelligence briefing on Al Qaeda, August 2001.
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