Mohinder Amarnath has been dropped- is the general headline telling the world of the new cricket selection committee headed by Sandeep Patil. It’s like hark back to the old days when the Amarnath’s had tended to become the pet aversion of the BCCI – the cricket board. First it was the fiery “Lala” himself who [...]
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This time around, he may have to face Kiran ‘crane’ Bedi, who will be entering the fray with her anti-corruption crusader halo intact though she has parted the company of Arvind Kejriwal, and his India Against Corruption platform.
V N Gadgil, Congress spokesman during PV days, used to say as scams were surfacing left and right, [...]
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Since he is in no mood to recollect the reasons, let some one else do so. More so because the apex court has not rolled back its verdict in the 2G spectrum case and the direction for spectrum auction stands.
It was this ruling that made the government squirm because the court identified spectrum as a [...]
If there is a nation-wide contest today for Kaun Banega Devil’s Advocate on the lines of popular TV show, Kaun Banega Crorpati (KBC), do you know who will win hands down and pocket the prize money? Here is a hint- ‘There is zero loss in 2G’. Yes, your guess is right. The honour of KBA [...]
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Yet, it mollycoddles the all-important Rawalpindi Shura hoping for a good turn. The Americans have deep pockets. Also drones that fly like mosquitoes droning their angry chant. So they can play with and around Rawalpindi.
India has no such necessity. Nor interest in who comes to power and how in Islamabad.
S M Krishna put this message [...]
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He hailed India as ‘a larger and mature democracy’ and as ‘a larger economy’, and said New Delhi should ‘make adjustments for the betterment of relations’ between the two countries.
On her part, Khar, the definite fashionista, who is inseparable from her Birkins, Roberto Cavallis, and white pearls, has left no doubt that Pakistan loves to [...]
Notwithstanding the good atmospherics, External Affairs minister S.M.Krishna’s 3-day visit to Pakistan ended on a jarring note with the Pakistan side handing over a ‘non-paper’ on alleged serious breach of Indus Water Treaty by India.
Water is a serious issue in Pakistan. It has pitted three provinces -Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (earlier known as NWFP) [...]
There seems to be a serious attempt to forsake a landmark structure, the magnificent circular building that houses Parliament in the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi, for a new one. The reason for this grandiose idea is attributed to fears that the present 20th century edifice is no more ‘safe’. The problems diagnosed include leakage from [...]
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The country’s growth will depend a great deal on India remaining a functioning, even if bit chaotic, parliamentary democracy. The principal opposition party, Bharatiya Janata Party, has declared that it will not allow parliament to function if the prime minister does not resign. Since that wish is unlikely to materialise, we have to be ready [...]
India’s pride in being hailed as an oasis of stability in a volatile region has been dented by a series of recent events. The country’s much acclaimed ‘unity in diversity’, an important factor in stability, is in tatters.
Parliament looks like being on almost permanent hold on as the ruling and the opposition parties spar endlessly, [...]
The current Indian tour of Sri Lanka will be remembered more for the performance of Virat Kohli than the fact that India took a winning 3-1 lead with the fourth match of the series. Kohli scored two centuries but what is important is the way he took over the responsibilities of steering his team through [...]
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The most important official of any contingent is the Chef de Mission and the Indian Olympic Association has done well to select for the London Games and very apt figure in Ajitpal Singh, former captain of the Indian hockey team. Ajitpal may not be well endowed in the diplomatic niceties of the usual run of [...]
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This victory and the one over Sri Lanka put the team into the final against Pakistan whose positive result against Sri Lanka helped it reach the final despite losing its way against a charging India in a high voltage match. One can only remember this match for Virat Kohli’s gigantic 180 plus while India chased [...]
One must more than congratulate Bangladesh on its really remarkable progress in the game in recent months. Here is a country which was struggling to maintain its fledgling identity and generally getting beaten by one and all with rare exceptions. Yet it strove hard and bit by bit has managed to attain heights hitherto unheard [...]
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It has been reported that after her appointment as US envoy in India was announced one of the tasks she said she would take up earnestly would be ‘to get India to reduce tension with Pakistan’ and also to see that India complied with US sanctions on Iran. That India’s relations with Iran have a [...]