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Brilliant! Couldn't have put it better! You've hit the nail on the head.
Bravo!....
Victor
krishnan has put it succinctly. however, it was amusing to see the western
press get into knots trying to ostracise zimbabwe without mentioning the
seizure of white-owned farms (after all, finally it boils down to that). sad
that the asian media cannot see the bigger picture and keep falling into the
trap set by the western media and politicians.
a few asian boards must tell the english and australian boards â€" at least
privately â€" that if mugabe is an issue, the abuses in iraq are infinitely
more serious and that india/pakistan/lanks won't visit the two countries
either.....
radha
yes,
kapil is right. this team cant be called the best ever until some more
matches are won. its really great that young irfan is proovin thmself as a
terreffic fellow.......
pratap kafle
All I have to say is that this issue with injuries and the PCB actually
caring is just a build up of an excuse for Pakistan so they can prove that
they were not fit when they played the GREAT INDIA. In the end all this is
just BS, INDIA beat those losers fair and square. JAI HIND ....
Susheel
I am amazed that Ganguly continues to call the Multan declaration a
"mistake" and then goes on to say it is a closed chapter. There was no
mistake, Dravid declared at the fall of a wicket to optimise the chances of
the team winning. Tendulkar acted like a prima donna in the press
conference, and I have lost some of my respect for this great cricketer, he
should have put his bat where his mouth is and contributed in Lahore and
'Pindi, but he failed miserably.s ....
j.amrith
BJP have to thank themselves for throwing up chance that came their way, by
tolerating
Gujrat.Criticism of Mrs Sonia
Gandhi and Congress, would boom rang on BJP, though average voter like us,
are not admirers of Mrs Sonia Gandhi or the Congress.However,
there is no harm in giving chance to the non BJP secular
alliance,which would rid our country of religion based divide! ....
B.P.BALIGA
its a history that whenever non-asians play against asians they try to play
mental games to break down opp. confidence. remember tendulkar given out
lbw. by aussie umpire even ball hit his shoulder. all cheaters ....
mehboob methani
Congrats, Shoaib! I just knew YOU would be proved innocent! ....
Ranjini
It seems like the man Laloo (the leader of the gangsters in Bihar) has lost
his mind. In the past he used to make his stupid comments and till now he
hasn't given up that. People of India will choose a man like Laloo as the
prime minister, if they are longing for the doomsday to arrive in Indian
soil. What he has been doing so far in politics is by far the most stupid
things I have ever seen in Politicians all over the world. But I believe he
is doing a good job for the place where he belongs to. I am sure the
intelligent class in Bihar must be ashamed of him being in power. Instead of
making those silly stupid statements as if he is such an empowered
statesman, he should consider how to be a good citizen now. I guess both
power and wealth by all means makes him absolute corrupt and he is taking
pride to brag about his stupidity. Anyway as the saying goes " It is folly
to be wise where ignorance is a bliss". Only God can help the people in
Bihar from this kind of traumatised politician. How does he think and speak
even that he is a better politician than Atal? Anyone can understand his
vain glories and I guess it is time for us to leave him alone in the back
and take the initiative to build Bihar. ....
Bimal
Origin is one part. National language is most important part. If one can not
use frequently the NL - Hindi - he/she is not eligible for higher post in
Gov. Unfortunately we have had in past few PM and Presidents who could not
speak Hindi properly - forget about reading and writing Hindi. This is
according to me an insult to the post and the nation. Can someone take up
the matter at highest level and prevent this happening in future! ....
Indukumar Mamtora
It has no consequence on Mr Modi's role. Mr Modi is correct in his approach.
Why congress is forgeting that entire train of Karsevak have been burnt
alive. Why Mr Kapil Sibal is not trying to get to justice for Karsevaks in
the train. It s very easy to prove that Mr Kapil Sibal and Mr Sanghivi are
criminal for trying to do politics anginst the establishment which has a
clear support of mass. Further to this another crime Mr Sibal is doing by
promoting the forigner to the country which is hurting the very sentiments
of talent and self respect an individual of the country must have, existing
in the country. If this is permissible in Democracy then Mr Modi too have a
mandate for what he is standing. Public is not fool that they have not
considered truth. If Mr Sibal thinks that just by speaking through the bad
mouth will result in some good tangible political results to his party then
also he is wrong, he need to provide logical basis to the mass that why he
does not worry about the death of so many Kar sevaks in the train and he is
worried about Gujrat government. He should not think that public of india is
fool to get carried away by their allegation of this type. Further to this,
I want to point out that Mr Modi's government is best in India. Gujrat will
continue to prosper in better way even if media is against him. He is doing
good work and public is with him and will support him further.
Those who think that Gujrat is a blot, they are carried away by congress
mentality of doing politics of minorities and have no self respect of their
own and of the majority and do divide majority. ....
Dr Vijay Pande
SONIA BOFORS CHOR?
The recent revelations by the principal Swedish Bofors case investigator
Sten Lindstrom on the pressure from the congress government in India that
resulted in the misdirection and closing down of the Bofors investigation is
really stunning information that points the finger at Rajiv and Sonia. The
pressure from India also led to the Swedish National Audit Bureau sending a
blanked out version of its inquiry to India. When a team of senior
executives from Bofors traveled to India to testify before the Joint
Parliamentary Committee, they were prevented from doing so. Instead they met
a small group of officials to whom they did not hand over any names He says
that Ottavio Quattrocchi, the Italian middleman who negotiated the political
payoff through A E Services, and who was paid $7,123,000 as a gift must be
interrogated along with Sonia Gandhi . Congress government at the centre
shot down the CBI request to interrogate Quattrocchi and allowed him to
escape from India with his family on 29th July 1993.
It is established that 320 million Swedish kronor had been paid as bribe for
the Bofors deal to the Hindujas and Win Chadha. Win Chadha used to get faxes
in Dubai on cabinet decisions on Bofors from the office of Rajiv Gandhi when
Rajiv was the prime minister. I still remember the day Rajiv Gandhi visited
the Dubai businessman Chabria at his office in the Jumbo house in Bur Dubai
in the night like a thief when Chabria was wanted by the Indian police and
it was a real shocker for me. I would not have believed it had I not seen
the incident. Only time will tell as to what was the reason for that secret
and clandestine meeting in Dubai.
Italian government has approached our government in October 2003 with a
request to drop the case against Quattrocchi which means that the Sonia
marrying Rajiv is not a simple boy meets the girl thing, but could be a
planned operation by the Vatican. We have to look at Sikkim where a CIA
agent Hope Cooke was presented as an American research student to Sikkim
prince and future King Palden Thondup Namgyal, for creating an independent
Sikkim. Sikkim used to be a protectorate of India, which had overall
responsibility for its defense and foreign relations. Barring this, the
territory enjoyed some autonomy under the Chogyal (ruler). The Indian
intelligence were aware of CIA plot . Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal aged 39
married Hope Cooke, 22 in 1963 and conveniently his father Tashi Namgyal,
the eleventh chogyal died in the same year . Our government in 1975 ended
the special status of Sikkim and Cook along with chogyal emigrated to US.
These histories raise sinister questions about India's security by the very
presence of Sonia as the head of Congress party. Sonia lied about her
education to the parliament and is now known to have a total study of one
and a half month at a teaching shop known as Lennox Cook School of English,
at Cambridge which was closed down in 1971 High school diploma is not
necessary to study in such language schools. Sonia was supporting her
education with an au-pair, barmaid, babysitting money - that's an honorable
exception. Most language Students often resort to other professions. Indian
public was told lie even about Rajiv's qualification in the past. As per H J
Easterling, Registrar of Cambridge University, Rajiv Gandhi was in residence
as an undergraduate at Cambridge for Mechanical Sciences for three years
from 1962 until 1965, but did not pass any University examinations, and so
he never had a Cambridge degree.
The connection of Sonia to the antique smuggling racket and her family's
ownership of two Indian antique shops in Italy, her reported link to LTTE,
KGB etc are really frightening. During February 2004 Sonia's envoy Eduardo
Felerio met LTTE representative in Sri Lanka secretly. The terrorist
organization LTTE was responsible for the assassination of Rajiv. Sonia had
used LTTE for smuggling the antiques out of India. In November 2002 Sonia
gave a lecture at the Oxford centre for Islamic studies even though it was
known as an Islamic fundamentalist setup funded by Osama Bin Laden's
brother. Sonia also opposed the banning of Islamic terrorist organization
SIMI in June 2002. In Tripura the congress party tied up with INPT which is
the over ground setup of the banned terrorist organization NLFT On 21st May
2002 the centre told the Delhi High Court that Sonia's citizenship will be
cancelled if the CBI enquiry proves that Sonia had links with the Russian
spy agency KGB. The court also asked to probe Sonia's connection to the two
Indian antique shops in Italy run by her mother and sister. Indira Gandhi
Memorial Foundation, controlled by Sonia had a major donor, a Pak national,
Agha Hassan Abedi, who along with ISI founded the collapsed drug money
laundering and terror financing bank BCCI.
Even the congress party under the leadership of Sonia is now stands accused
of accepting the bribe of 4 million barrels of crude oil from the ex Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein in return for some unknown favors. The present
investigation by UN about the oil bribe when completed can result in the
declaration of congress party as a corrupt political party and in the arrest
and deportation of Sonia Gandhi as a criminal. It is now known that the ISRO
spy case that started in November 1994 was fabricated and stage managed
during congress rule in Kerala, by CIA and their christian spies in India to
delay the development of the cryogenic engines. Americans didn't want
Indians to develop the advanced cryogenic engines. So the two ISRO
scientists, D Sasi Kumaran and S Nambi Narayanan who were working on the
cryogenic engines project and have very secretly brought some technical
information back from Russia based on formal secret agreements, were accused
of spying, arrested, tortured in inhuman ways by Kerala Police's Special
Investigation Team headed by Sibi Mathew, a christian IPS officer who
conducted the initial inquiry in the spy case. The case was started by IB
chief, M Dhar who was later sacked and surprisingly he had joined the
congress party. . At around 49% the Hindus of Kerala are a minority group
without much political clout. Kerala state is being controlled by the
powerful Christian church. Thus decades back Kerala was the ideal launch pad
for the Christian politics, and the initial act by the christian church was
the agitation against the first elected communist government of Kerala with
US funding that resulted in the dismissal of Kerala government on 31st July
1959.. Kerala thus suited for the CIA plot to sabotage our space programme.
The penetration of Kerala police by CIA will not surprise any one. The false
spy case was further strengthened by the mass hysteria created by the
Christian owned and christian controlled media of Kerala that forced
K.Karunakaran the chief minister of Kerala to resign and in his place the
christian A.K. Anthony was made chief minister on February 27, 1995 All
these resulted in a terrible national loss that delayed our programme by
many years, and we are yet to develop the powerful cryogenic engines as per
my BARC batch mates who had joined ISRO in the late sixties. Presence of
christians in very sensitive projects makes it easy for CIA to spy through
the christian missionaries. The postponement of the planned 1995 nuclear
explosion and the ISRO spy case are some of the examples. Congress party
itself is now taken over by the christians and the party now appears to be
more dangerous to India than from the ISI of Pakistan.
The clout of Sonia Gandhi is so pervasive that recently judge J.D.Kapoor,
had cleared Rajiv of Bofors bribe and reportedly his name was found in the
panel for appointment by the Congress government of Delhi after his
retirement. It looks like the media is silent on Sonia's background and a
fear factor cannot be ruled out. All those congressmen who could be a threat
to Sonia's leadership like were all killed on Sundays in very natural
accidents. Strangely the latest in the list of natural accidents is Ajit
Jogi who met with an accident today the 11th April 2004, which happens to be
another Sunday. In any other democracy we would have known the truth at
least about the education of the leader of opposition. Under Sonia the
congress has become a party of Christians and it is evident in the large
number of Christians in the top ranks of the congress party which had
prompted many congressmen to complain about it few years back. What the
public would like to have is a white paper on the mysterious Sonia alias
Antonia Maino, from the Congress Party.
....
krishna.n
'Vajpayee regarded as a natural PM like Nehru'
By any mean, it is very shame to compare the great Nehruji with this shit
Vajpeyee. India got very bad image in front of the world on Gujarat issue.
It is worst in the history of India. So, It is not fare to compare this
mother fuckers to thr great Nehruji..
....
Sathya Moorthy
Cong ridicules Advani for comparing PM with Nehru
I think Nehru. was one of the worst rulers of Indian history. He became a
politician even though he was not good at it.
for ex: Partition of India.
china war are afew of the leadership qualities he had shown.
I think Sardar Vallabh bhai was the Ideal person to lead India. and it is
not good to compare vajpayee with Nehru. we shouldn't undermine Vajpayee by
comapring with Nehru.
....
Sanjeev
Colin Powell never worked a real job supporting a family in his life. He was always employed by the US Army, which took care of many of the daily worries working people have. for him to make these specious claims and offer sorry excuses like "we have to do better" smacks of ignorance and incompetence, but then what else can on expect from the man who was assigned to cover up My Lai.
....
pessimist
CID starts probe into theft of Tagore's Nobel Prize
what i really feel is that this issue be taken seriously.and take care
situtation of this sort is not repeated in future
....
anu
Zee opinion poll predicts over 265 sets for NDA
Systematic sidelining of Mr. Advani is doom for BJP. Such a personality is sidelined and a "thatha" is kept as a dummy primeminister. That's not
projecting a good image as a leader of india also.
....
Balamurali K Srinivasan
Noted journalist Shamasunder wins Aryabhata award
nice; i am a subscriber to KANNADA. proud, i am
....
Mydur Anand
BJP 'hypocritical' on dynasty politics issue: Cong
Congress is fooling the country by stating that they have only one renouned gandhi family. This is hurting the very sentiment of talent in the country.
It is shear bluff Mr Sibal is making. The intellectually bankrupt congress does not have legitimacy of even standing on the point they are making. This is clear from the way Mr Kapil Sibal intellect is answering. He want to establish the logic by means of sporadicity in this article as compare to precedence and bad practice they made in last 40 years.
....
Dr Vijay Pande
India's problems are a gift of Cong Govts: Vajpayee
nice to read this article. it's a very interesting article about serious
matter. you covered it very gentally ....
harshil patel
Opinion poll predicts 330-340 seats for NDA
BJP AND THE NDA COALITION GOVERNMENT IS THE BEST CHOICE WHEN THE COUNTRY IS ON PROGRESSIVE MOOD. A CHANGE TO CONGRESS GOVT. IS A RISKY EXPERIMENT AT THIS STAGE....
G.Balasubramanian
'We should've barred foreigners from top posts'
Musharaf should be given achance in India and Advani should be proposed for Pakistan....
Kurian
'We should've barred foreigners from top posts'
what bullshit is that fool George talking about.
What about the high posts in other countries that are held by our highly
patriotic 'countrymen'.And what high posts is he talking about here... Moron !!!
deepak
Was it Priyanka or Vajpayee who did Pakistan in?
Rahul& Priyanka part of youths,o half the citizons of India really were with the players in Karachi to share victory or loss.
Bajpei in dark if he thinks dill jeetha hai, Time will prove otherway. If he is looking these only for election gimmics it may work for time being...
kurian
Two NRIs denied 'marriage' licence in Seattle
It is good that both are married i Support the cause of Homosexuality and
believe that it be made legal in India so Gay like me can fulfill my
aspirations tooo....
Rahul
Cong behaving irresponsibly as main Oppn: Advani
Dear Sir, Just dont blame you are that & you are this & dont say We are this & wer are going to do so many things, All Indians are fed up with this talks India is shining cool Indians are working hard., It is just the support we are taking from the political parties, It is our tax you are building the nation., Do I Good job people will elect the right people right govt... WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD A HOSPITAL OR SCHOOL AT RAM TEMPLE SITE? WHAT IT TAKES TO CAPTURE VEERAPAN? HOW MANY YEARS YOU WANT TO TAKE TO BEAT JAPAN? LIKE MANY QUESTION WE HAVE STOP TALKING START WORKING WE ALL INDIANS JUST DONT WANT TO WASTE THE TIME IN ALL THIS PUBLIC RALLIESSSSSSSSSSSSS....
Girish
'Fatwa' on 54 Muslims for singing 'Vande Mataram'
I would say hang those bastards, throw that mufti out of India. How dare he raise any issue against Indian pride. Make that bastard sing "Vande mataram" and if he don't sing he has no bloody right to stay in India.
A true Indian....
Narasimha
'Fatwa' on 54 Muslims for singing 'Vande Mataram'
Those go against nation must be executed. Those people are traitors....
Richa
Advani to embark on 33-day 'India Shining Yatra'
I will defenately vote for BJP but Our PM is a great man with a lots of dreams but I will there be an young people with great guns to run around take up the positon of next pm??? If there is Change I feel there will be a lot of change...
Girish
Before BJP coming to power people were saying, it will spoil the country. We have seen wide economic & infrastructure developments in last five years. Today even outside the country ,India has good value. But, congress is one which has spoilt the country through appeasement of Muslims for vote bank sake. Nehru's family always wanted to maintain their dynasty in the country.
Never truth of government functioning had come out since media was not given free hand to function.All congress rulers were monarchies. They were working for themselves not for country. We can compare congress rulers as Nazis.
BHARGAVA. S. RAO
Ousted Bihar DGP Ojha to contest Lok Sabha poll
That's the kind of people we need in the Indian government. I hope he succeeds and does not let the system corrupt him. The nest of corrupt snakes that governs India needs to be replaced. We need a governmnet like China where those found guilty of corruption are executed.
G. Gidwani
Govt cuts duties, export incentives on steel products
what I suggest is that incentives even on finished tools exported should be withdrawn. its only a matter of 2 months (maximum) and the prices in international market for finished products will rise and is already rising.
pankaj shoor
Karnataka to begin work on airport project soon
Hi,
This project for bangalore international airport has been going on for yrs and yrs and still the pockets i think of the politicians havent been filled enough for the project to start. So i request the politicians that they fill their pockets quickly and start the project so that the city may benefit from that. Everytime during election times they come out that they will start the project and once they r elected the project is shelved until more money is pumped into their pockets, as i say we dont mind u filling ur pockets but get the project off the ground for Gods sake and lets make blr accessable to international visitors and for us bangaloreans too and let us be proud. They say that blr is the IT capital of India, but till today we have power shortages its really a laugh. See Mr. Naidu now theres a person who has done something for his state, so why not put blr on the
international map and create history for urself, and u will be remembered for ever money will come and go but ur name will be remembered forever.
thks
lalu
'NDA hopes to turn India into a super-power by 2020'
we need to look around to see how other countries or moving forward when
govt does not interfere with business to creat wealth.
dinkar
9 Indians in Forbes' billionaires, Premji tops
the news that u r providing is of high quality. keep up the good work
Chandra
9 Indians in Forbes' billionaires, Premji tops
Helping the child is fine. But the chap should be hanged by his p***s till he dies.
FE
It's official - Saddam Hussein is a prisoner of war
This is indeed a devilian act.Actualy speaking there was no war.War has some reasons and US did not have any diligent reasons to attack Iraq.It was a cowardice act by the so called President of United States to launch an attack with his allies(I doubt whether he has the capacity to launch an
attack alone as america has never seen a war in the last few years.
So if it not a war then how come prisoner of War.War was imposed on Iraq to appreciate the dollar value.The main reason behind the war was Euro was
strenthening and pounds and dollar was weakening.If U note very carefully
only those nations which are not in EU have participated in the war.France,Germany were all out of the cowardice act.Apart from that the
american army is harassing thge people of Iraq which is not in convention
with the Geneva agreement.
So why does the Geneva agrrement come into account when it comes to Saddamms case.bush is manipulating the situation as per his needs.He is having a twin stand on Korea and Iraq.Why did he not attack Korea.Is it because they have burned their fingers in Vietnam war.They are cowards and make rules and conventions to their benefits.The real ploy bewhind attacking Iraq was to have the Petrol as well.Destroy Iraq with bombing and then american personnles will come as symapthiser for the Iraq
people helping reconstruction and Iraq will pay back some extra dollars for improving the american economy.
This is a barabaric act and i would reiterate that the biggest threat is not Osama or Saddam,but the biggest threat is george bush who is the biggest terrorist out to spread terror in the world community bullying the smaller weaker nations.
Considering the above viewpoint Saddam cannot be a POW .
Hemant
Next 4-5 months to be crucial for India, Pak: Kasuri
Now that the relation between India and Pakistan is thawing. Question that
arises is, Is this a sincere effort on the part of the Pakistan's President.
It has been always known in the past that the issue of Kashmir was used by
the Pakistan leadership, whether Civilian or Military, as a carrot to be
dangled in front of the Pakistani public. Who are surprisingly quite
gullible. But now that President Musharraf is facing threats from within his own ranks and the radical Islamist groups. Culminating in two assassination attempts on him.
He is a person who is trapped. Also his benefactors in USA are expecting him to help them fight their war on terrorism. This thaw in relation might be just a trick to gain some time to clean up and set his house in order. And then turn his attention towards playing mischief against us.
I will be glad if I am wrong on this matter. But as of now I will take all
these developments with a pinch of salt.
Utpal Bhattacharya
India-China bhai-bhai in space likely: ISRO
After the 1962 war, in these many years China has changed. But still, we
should be cautious. India has come a long way on its own as far as the Space
research is concerned. Now with the technological advancement made by us,
every country would like to have some sort of cooperation. It is up to the
Leadership of India to take wise decisions and secure our future. Space
program has been our pride. Do we want to share our pride with our one time
enemy? It could be a Trojan horse.
Utpal Bhattacharya
Mamata Banerjee gets Coal and Mines portfolio
Please pass on this Message to Madam Mamata Banerjee
I am extremely happy to see one of our beloved leader reinstated with
portfolio in Vajpayee's Cabinet.She deserves this and its a landmark in
Bengal's politics,I am sure Mrs.Banerjee will do her best to solve many
outstanding problems.
Dr.S.Das,Geology and Geophysics Department
IIT Kharagpur
Dear Sir,
Is it defeating BJP is the goal of opposition or are they capable of
giving good governance?If only to defeat BJP they may not get votes as
intelligent voters will also think what next. We have seen opposition
devided earlier and unable to give any governance leave alone good
governance. A national level party with good ideologies and well
determined plan of action only can do something. They should not psudo
secular ie., prepared to scrap any benefits based on religion
incl.opting for common civil code and reservation based on caste and
minorities etc.
Sridhanya
India's progress more impressive than China's: Drucker
This story is excellent and needs to understood in its essence. We should
not be over excited about boom in the Indian Economy but take this as a mile
stone and work more to improve the Infrastructure and bring about reforms in
various sectors.
Feroz
Hi i red this article yesterday in samachar and i was thrilled when i red
that mr cec comment about indian poltician well i'm 100% agree with his
comment but he said if indian politicians are really honest then they've to
prove it.
Thanks to Mr Lyngdoh about his powerfull comment
Roshan Mall
He is acting too big for his shoes. A man in a position of his has to be
careful in what he says.
Bobs
It is a good idea to retain scientists by giving the brightest the best, not
the scheduled castes and people entering with nepotism. The scientists will
stay in India if the whole atmosphere is fair and not full of fault and loop
holes. Make academic achievements the only criteria to enter the higher
learning institutions, help the disadvantaged economically and not
politically.
Chandru Narayans
"Even if US or any other country continues to outsource its business to
India, can we assure that we will survive for long in the ITeS industry with
our service levels showing reports of only 30 out of 330 Call Centers
recovering their invested money or making profits out of the same? Can we
stand on a few poles like Dahsh or Spectramind or Convergys?
surabhi mehta
Hi im azadee ka bhagat. this is true when ever a Sikh now walks into a
crowded supermarket etc everyone sees the turban and beard and see v
resemblence and the attitude they is disgraceful. They dont evebn loo @ you
staff try to serve u as quik a.p and customers stare n glare.
Bhagat
Well Mr. T.N. Seshan, brought to the light the power the CEC has and Mr.
Lyngdoh seem to be a good CEC. If there is any term serious than cancer, we
can frame that instead for POLITICIANS. Because they are root cause for
destroying INDIA!!!
goodindian
When congress shouts of secularism why help only a particular religion with
concessions for religious tours? Why not help Hindus also for pilgrimmage to
Manasarovar, mount kailash etc. which are unfortunately are in foreign
countries. Is US or UK or EU helping minority religious people for
undertaking pilgrimmage? It is high time that the Haz subsidy is done away
with immediately. Congress wants Haz subsidy to appease minority community
for Their votes and nothing else.
R.H.Murty
While Washington assures India the outsourcing industry is safe, it ignores one fundamental fact. In the United States in approximately half of the individual states there is a mechanism where citizens can initiate legislation or amend the state constitution. The lawmakers have no say in
the outcome except through publicly supporting or opposing the measure. It is the votes of individual citizens that ultimately decide whether the proposal becomes law. There have been many issues opposed by politicians and well financed political pressure groups that became law through this process. Two states with the largest technical worker populations in the United States permit this procedure. With the tech workers and electrical engineers experiencing higher unemployment that the national average in the United States, such a citizen sponsored measure might quickly gain support.
India keeps singing the song of competition. Yet when the facts are examined, the song is off key. India's tariffs on foreign manufactured goods are among the highest in the world. As an example, computers are allowed in under a low tariff if they are to be used in outsourcing. But let
the computer enter commerce and the tariff is much higher. India claims the right to send it's professionals to the U.S. to compete with U.S. citizens. Yet most U.S. professionals are prohibited from working in India. Indian companies can bid on government contracts in the U.S. But the same
cannot be said of U.S. companies access to Indian government contracts. If India wants to sing praises to free trade and competition, then India needs to get its own house in order. Rather than spending money lobbying in the U.S. Indian firms should lobby their own government to fully open India's markets. Only when the rules of the game are perceived as fair by the citizens of the United States will the backlash diminish.
Regards,
Neal
It could be a boomarang for musharaff. But I won't take it lightly as a attempt on him, because he is capable of stage managing this kind of stuff to divert attention as he is exposed. How? his friend dawood ibrahim is exposed. his friends in ISI got exposed.His double role of Army uniform
oneday and civilain uniform next day is exposed. His sweet talk on one hand about india and doing killings in India on otherhand is exposed. His fraud elections in Pakistan were exposed. His friends in USA also slowly getting exposed or understanding what is going on right on their backyard.
Regards,
Bala Srinivasan
This is in reply to the article in your paper regarding the comment made
by the PM of Delhis failure to have established Hindi as the national
language in place of English. My comment.IS THIS MAN FOR REAL?!!.
IT IS ENGLISH AND ENGLISH ALONE THAT IS BAILING THIS COUNTRY OUT OF ITS
ABJECT POVERTY OR WOULD HE RATHER GO WITH A BEGGING BOWL TO THE WESTERN "aid india fund"?. DONT THESE PEOPLE THINK BEFORE THEY OPEN THEIR IGNORANT MOUTHS?.
Thanks to Nehru for the IITs that are helping us bring in the software revenues, its the ENGLISH educated youngsters -Engineers,Doctors ,Businessmen ,Scientists,NRIs, the English speaking Pilots who fly our planes and the millions in so many other professions that depend entirely on their knowledge of English thats increasing our foreign exchange reserves every day.
HINDI has nothing to do with it AND NEVER WILL!. This kind of talk will only alienate the country, infact it will be English that will eventually unite the country, the division of States on linguistic lines having been a big mistake.......
Regards,
Dodgeboy
I am a great fan of VHP, but now a days, after seeing the work of VHP, I
start hating it,the leaders of VHP are unnecessarily aiming the lives of common people.
They dont solve the ayodhya issue, why because, if there is no that issue, then they dont have any play item.
what did they get by conduction some meeting in ayodhya few weeks back? the answer is 'nothing' they are useless fellows. what is the necessity of conducting sammelan in ayodhya now.
I want to suggest VHP People, instead of trying to show their existense, they will try really for temple. They want some showoff, lot of publicity and lot of crage to VHP Leaders.
wastage of time and lot of money to transport huge police staff to ayodhya.
Why dont they concentrate on problem and try to induce pressure on Government. they simply want some hype so, they use to give statements like, we are conducting sammelans, etc......
Regards,
Transco - Gemini,
Wipro Technologies.
Which Chief Minister or Prime Minister is bothered to provide basic human needs in India?
The Home Minister Mr.L.K.Advani is right in asserting that India can become a developed nation in the coming decade if only the basic human needs like food,water,health and shelter is provided to every human being in the country.But since nither the prime minister nor any of the chief ministers are taking any positive action in that direction by harnessing the natural resources like land ,minerals,forests,air and water on a sustainable basis by following the environmental laws and proven scientific and technical methods adopted in other countries, how can any body develop confidence in the promises of the leaders? It is only when the Supreme court gave a direction on interlinking of rivers that the prime minister could remember that we have many rivers like Ganges,Brahmaputra,Mahanadi and Godavari whose flood waters can be used for alleviating the water scarcity in several drought-prone regions of the country.Even when the Pakistan president succeeded in directing his Department of Meteorology to take up cloud seeding operations as an antidote against droughts,the prime minister of India is still not at all ready to take similar action to provide abundant water by taking similar operations instead of doling out enormous amounts of money to the states for drought relief. The following web site by china ondrought relief shows benefits of cloud seeding.Why should the Indian scientists urge the prime minister to direct the Union Ministries of science and technology,Agriculture,Urban development,defence,Water Resources and Environment to study the success of these experiments being conducted in more than 24 countries in te world and 12 states in USA and help the states to augment water resources in Indian states.
Prof Shivaji Rao
Dear Editor
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
That quote appears in Arindam Banerjee's latest column. I have nothing else to say except this: PLEASE provide space for good men like Arindam and good will dawn on our nation which is in a resurgent mode. By doing so on your part and me reading such piece a little of that goodliness will also rub on us.
cheers,
Prahalad Appaji
Kansas City USA
Brilliant article!! Truly an eye opener...
I agree, if we Indians take all the machinations of Pakistan, the day is not far when we along with them will be plunged into the depths of chaos. Each an every Indian must be vigilant and continuously put pressure on governments that take the Pakistani threat lightly.
Regards,
Apurva Shah
Mumbai
It is time for mr katrunakaran to keep quiet and give others a chance to
rule.it might be true that antony also did the same before to him when he was the cm.but now the times have changed.india is cruising ahead into a new bisiness era and we are competing along with china and other
countries.so what i am coming to say is all the other indian states are
developing like anything when a state like kerala is drowning in the shadows of factional feud inside the party.this state and the pepole are getting time only to see the facitonal feud of their leaders not any develpomental activties.so now it is time for mr karunakaran to keep the mouth shut and let mr antony to rule the state properly.he is 80 plus why dont he let others comeover in the party
I am saying this coz i am also a resident from this great part of the world but hapend to be singapore for my higher studies and i am really feeling sad abt this
Joseph Tharun Pattacherry
Misuse of dowry act
This has become a tool for girls to teach a lesson to their inlaws who are not able to adjust in the new environment.
Frankly speaking, India will remain a "male-dominated society", but that
does not mean that the girls should be harassed by the greedy inlaws for
want of dowry or some money. She should also get rather more respect and love as she has left 20-25 years' parental home and looks for a bright future. But the girls' parents should also not take the advantage of "dowry law", which favours them well and they should go in detail to arrive the cause of death.
The act 304(B) of IPC needs a little bit revision to the effect that at
least a complaint should have been lodged with the police a month before
suicide about the harassment being meted, to afford equal opportunity.
Other clauses of the act are fine to deal with this menance. Just one day the girls suicides, leaving both the families shocking.
The above are my personal views only and the name should not be disclosed.
Sunil Kumar Jain
Whither military balance? At least comparing the size of INDIA and It's
population and resources there is Hasti(Elephant) and Masaka(mosquitto)
difference between the two countries. Indira Gandhi made a mistake of
leaving East Pakistan. We should have kept It with India and and tried
for a 'MAHA BHARAT' in which there no question of Kashmir arises. Pak
shall not see India's perseverence as weakness. Like wise each Indian
should rise to the occasion and develop India in such a way Pak should
be afraid to look at it.
THANKS VERY MUCH
R H Murthy
FIRSTLY OIC IS A BUNCH OF IDIOT NATIONS WHICH CANNOT GOVERN THEMSELVES BY ANY OTHER MEANS IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD OTHER THAN BY BEGGING FROM EACH OTHER AND THROUGH DRUG TRADE HIDING UNDER THE GARB OF A SACRED RELIGION.
SECONDLY, HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES HAVE TO BE VERIFIED THROUGH OUT PAKISTAN BY THOSE 57 ODD COUNTRIES AND GO BACK TO THEIR COUNTRIES AND LOOK AT HOW THEIR PEOPLE LIVE IN FEAR AND REPRESSION.
THIRDLY, INDIA SHOULD INCREASE ITS MIGHT AND START EFFORTS TO FURTHER BIFURCATE PAKISTAN ON THE LINES OF SINDUSTAN, BALOCHISTHAN, KARACHISTHAN, LAHORESTHAN ETC. ETC.
FOURTHLY, INDIANS SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON BUILDING INDIA IN A THOROUGHLY SECULAR, DEMOCRATIC AND MODERN NATION WITH UNSHAKEABLE FAITH IN ITSELF WITHOUT DEPENDING ON ANY NATION FOR ANYTHING. IT IS A GREAT COUNTRY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH, EAST TO WEST AND THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT COOPERATION AMONG THEMSELVES SHOULD BE THE MOTTO OF THE COUNTRY FOR ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.
INDIA SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF THIS SERIOUSLY AND TAKE APPROPRIATE STEPS TO SAFEGUARD ITSELF IN A WORLD FULL OF LOONIES SUCH AS THE OIC.
THANKS VERY MUCH
Vijay
We in India should ignore the political noise making of POakistan
Government and go on with the economic development.
No one in the world will deny the right of Kashmir being part of India, least of all theresidents of Kashmir when the economic well being is assured in India rather in chaotic Pakistan where there is no rule of law and the nation harbours only villains and terrorists.
If we focus on economic development and create jobs in the long run the whole regiona would find it useful to be friendly and especially the people in the countries around us, irrespectrive what their Government does and says.
Shankar
Dear Sir,
I am Indian. I stayed in U.S for the whole of year 2000. It was a boom for Soft-ware, in which Indian engineers had a say in dictating the remuneration/ Salary, even to the level of one Lakh -K per annum. Those days are gone. Such a fantastic Salary is atleast 3 times , that of the highest paid Chief Justice of India.
I , as an Indian, would like Indians must , repeat, must be totally discouraged to go to U.S for Jobs, only to earn DOLLERS. At the age
of 22/23 the Boy or Girl from India, in the name of Soft-ware, earn such a lot of $ , in 3to 5 years, which amount fetches palacial house in India, besides life time Savings, before ahey reach the age of marriage ( thirty) It has created lot of heart burning to those engineers , who could not get VISA to U.S. Let them serve their country & be not a slave to $.
I want Mr. Thomas Tancredo to succeed in his efforts, by quoting my views. A brain drain from India, should not continue, for the loss of India & gain for U.S. It affects our culture, if these indians become citizens of U.S. Only aim is to become rich with $ and nothiong more, nothing less. It is bare truth.
STOP H1 b Viasa. Indian population will welcome :
Sincerely, A.Srinivasan
If Christian and muslim allies like congress and communist can destroy every
contribution and acheivement of Hindus then Hindus have to rise up defend
what is their right full place in History and contribution. Hinduism is the
only religion that gives a platform to everyone to pray whichever god they
choose without forcing them to change their way of life...But Mideastern
religions are not only evil but its threat to very existence of life on this
earth. Today, christian is marketed as peaceful and forgiving...Do they
expect people to forget All the crusades, Slaugter of non whites in the hand
Christian Nazis, Torture and buring of innocent Hindus.....LETS NOT FORGET
THE FACE OF DEVIL...CHRISTIANITY IS THE ONLY EVIL...Once it is gone..world
will be more civilized and humane...
bharat kumar

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