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Israel May OK Division of Jerusalem
2007-10-08 14:43:00
A confidant of Israel i Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that his government would support a division of Jerusalem , which is reportedly a key component of an Israeli-Palestinian declaration to be made at a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference next month.As part of recent negotiations between the sides, Deputy Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon has proposed turning over many of the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Ramon said the Palestinians could establish the capital of a future state in the sector of the city, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war.In return, Israel would receive the recognition of the international community, including Arab states, of its sovereignty over Jewish neighborhoods and the existence of its capital there, Ramon said.On Monday Ramon said even hawkish elements of Olmert's coalition, like Cabinet Minister Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu Party, would back such an Israeli concession. The centrist Labor P...
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US wants to meet the nuclear deal by year-end
2007-09-21 11:21:00
Even as the Left and the government continued to trade charges over the nuclear deal, the US has warned that all steps to operationalise the deal have to be completed by the end of the year.Contrary to assertions that the government has enough time till next year to conclude the remaining steps for operationalising the deal, Richard JK Stratford, director at the Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs in the US state department, who addressed the NSG members on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal on Thursday, was quoted as saying in Vienna that the US would like the process to be complete by the end of the year.“The US wants to meet the entire pre-requisites of the operationalisation of the deal by the end of this year,” Mr Stratford minced no words. This leaves the government with just three months to conclude the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)-India specific safeguards agreement and get the NSG nod.With the disagreement between the government and Left showing no signs of ebb...
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Nuke deal to make Indian Government to fall
2007-08-20 09:02:00
Nuke deal has come on a great blend of politics. CPI(M) is thinking about the country ya thepeople or making noise to get soft corner from the people or want some great deal ofimportance in UPA collision government.Whatever is the reason the people of India is going to suffer as well as the money of thepeople going to drain as the election is called on.UPA Government is trying hard to make CPI(M) understand its position. If they go back withthe deal then there will be real shame on the part of Indian foreign policy and PM will beheld responsible and the USA will again move away from India.PM of India made statement that they have right to conduct Nuclear test whenever their isneed as our neighbours make any move.But our so called USA friend made it clear that if India conduct Test they will take back all the material and stop supplying fuel.Now wait and watch what happens next...for government and India.
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Delhi Land scam kingpin Ashok Malhotra arrested
2007-08-06 12:32:00
After carrying out a series of raids to nab him, the CBI today arrested the alleged kingpin of the multi-crore land scam in the capital, Ashok Malhotra after he made a dramatic appearance at the studio of a private news channel. Malhotra arrived at the Zee News studio early this morning from Agra, where he was hiding after the CBI raided his residence for the second time last week.A CBI team was soon dispatched to the Zee TV studio to arrest him. However, the team waited till Malhotra came out of the studio. The contractor claimed that he was facing threat to his life from the investigating agency. Malhotra was immediately whisked to CBI headquarters for questioning by the sleuths of the Anti-Corruption Unit and was likely to be produced before a designated court tomorrow, agency sources said.When asked to comment on Malhotra's claims, CBI Director Vijay Shanker said he was not aware about the claims made by Malhotra. "Law shall take its own course and the investigation in this sca...
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India, China lagging in economic and living standards - ADB Study
2007-08-01 09:56:00
India and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) - the two economic powerhouses in developing Asia and the Pacific - are lagging in terms of economic well-being and living standards of their population, a new study undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) shows. According to the International Comparison Program (ICP) in Asia and the Pacific: Purchasing Power Parity Preliminary Report released today, the PRC and India account for 64 percent of total real gross domestic product (GDP) of the 23 economies participating in the study.However, a completely different picture emerges if the size of these economies is adjusted by population. Rather than dominating the rankings, the PRC and India drop to tenth and eighteenth positions, respectively, out of the 22 economies participating in the full GDP comparison, as shown in the table below. Similarly, the PRC ranks 15th and India ranks 17th when economies are compared based on “actual final consumption of households” (AFCH), a bett...
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Indian PM's Hyderabad visit begins
2007-07-31 08:04:00
The review meeting, being held under the shadow of the Mudigonda police firing, is being attended by Union Ministers P Chidambaram and Sharad Pawar, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy, his cabinet colleagues and officials.Tension was palpable in the city as the CPI-M and CPI vowed to take out a rally to Jubilee Hall, the venue of the Prime Ministers meeting, while a large number of TDP workers started poring in to attend the day-long token fast by their President N Chandrababu Naidu to protest police firing to draw the Prime Minister's attention to the incident. The Opposition parties have been demanding judicial probe by a sitting High Court judge into the firing that left seven persons dead and filing of criminal cases against the policemen responsible for the incident.The security has been beefed up at Jubilee Hall and Indira Park, the venue of Naidu's hunger strike, in view of the belligerent mood in the Oppos...
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Rajnath and BJP tries to regain lost glory from Goa
2007-07-30 06:06:00
Struggling to recover from the poll debacle in Uttar Pradesh, BJP chief Rajnath Singh is leaving nothing to chance in Goa where his party is staking claim to power। Efforts are underway to keep intact MLAs who were paraded before President Pratibha Patil yesterday ahead of a possible floor test in the House tomorrow, say party sources. Singh's functioning had come under scanner within the party in the wake of BJP's defeat in his home state Uttar Pradesh where he had devised the campaign strategy for the assembly election। Although the party acknowledges that its rise to power in Goa will render it vulnerable to pulls and pressures of coalition politics, the situation does warrant not losing an opportunity to regain the lost ground in the state, the sources said.Any success at this juncture is likely to give a boost to Singh, a senior party functionary said.
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India argues SAARC Countries to adopt gender friendly lending system
2007-07-27 12:07:00
The Minister of Women and Child Development Smt. Renuka Chowdhury has urged the SAARC Countries to adopt gender friendly lending system as economic empowerment of the women is vital for the overall development of the region. Access of the women to the economic resources enhance productivity not only of a particular household, but also provides better opportunities for education, health and social development .Inaugurating the SAARC Conference on Micro-Financing and Women Economic Empowerment here today, she said that rural women of India have shown that if given opportunities and access to income generating resources they can change the face of society. Underlining the importance of the economic empowerment of the women, Smt. Renuka Chowdhury said that the integration of the region’s trade, investment and financial ties have altered the economic and social role of the women.The continued growth of service sector has also brought new opportunities for women to improve their economi...
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