In the chequered career of three months of the ‘Jan Lokpal’ Bill proposed by the Anna Hazare group, the debate has lately been joined by men of experience and eminence who caution us not to undermine

In the three months of the Jan Lokpal Bill proposed by the Anna Hazare group, the debate has lately been joined by men of experience who caution us not to undermine the constitutional scheme or degrade elected representatives of the people.

The government rode its luck in dealing with the yoga manipulator Ramdev and is lucky to have come through, if a little bruised. But its first instincts in dealing with Ramdev were unbecoming and worrisome. The Manmohan regime could scrape through this past week only because the yoga teacher rapidly revealed his true colours.

In a move that reveals the extent of bonding between Islamabad and Beijing, China is the first country that the head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, Lt. Gen.

Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s pitch for imposing President’s Rule in the state has found no takers in the Manmohan Singh government.
There appears little likelihood of President Pratibha Patil being swayed by Mr Bhardwaj’s logic that the government of chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa should be

Following the May 12 summit in Kabul between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, the newly-visualised “strategic partnership” between the two countries signifies In

Say this for the ministry of culture under the Congress-led UPA rule: it has summoned the extraordinary capacity to work on a process the Vajpayee-led NDA government could not contemplate in view of the political sensitivity of the enterprise — the calculated crippling of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), a world-famous institution of scholarship established to commemorate the modernist vision of India’s first Prime Minister.

The Americans claim they were led to the Abbottabad compound by homing in on a “courier” of Osama bin Laden. A Saudi Arabian newspaper has suggested Bin Laden was betrayed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, his Egyptian number two. In India, though, the security establishment is pursuing a different approach.

The Americans claim they were led to the Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad through painstaking work by homing in on a “courier” of the late Al Qaeda chief. A Saudi Arab newspaper has suggested that Bin Laden was betrayed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, his Egyptian number two. In India, the security establishment is pursuing an entirely different approach. Well-placed sources here say the Al Qaeda leader was, in all likelihood, done in by a Pakistani “Vibhishan”.

In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing in Abbottabad by the Americans, Pakistan’s 111 Brigade — or the “coup brigade” as it is known in popular parlance — is out, knowledgeable sources here have not