Five years after U.S. President George W. Bush launched his "global war on terrorism" (GWOT), the world has become more unsafe, more divided, more strife-prone, more paranoid, and ironically, more vulnerable to terrorism. The Middle East, the globe's most volatile...
NEW DELHI - The "oil-for-food" program approved by the United Nations for Iraq before its invasion by the United States-led "Coalition of the Willing" in 2003 has had an improbable and belated impact thousands of miles away. Through a convoluted...
NEW DELHI - The controversial United States-India nuclear cooperation agreement has overcome a major domestic obstacle in the form of a threat by India's major opposition parties to press for a Parliamentary resolution which would have tied the Manmohan Singh...
NEW DELHI - As tens of thousands of policemen in India fan out to guard "sensitive" sites and installations in preparation for Tuesday's Independence Day celebrations, a climate of anxiety and fear has descended over the country. Central to this climate is...
NEW DELHI - A major rift has opened up between the Indian government and domestic public opinion over Israel's recent military actions in the Gaza Strip and its invasion of Lebanon, which have led to hundreds of civilian deaths over three weeks. The Manmohan Singh...
NEW DELHI - Just as the nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India receives a major boost in Washington with the House of Representatives strongly voting for it, the deal continues to face flak in India's own Parliament. On Thursday, the House...
NEW DELHI - After securing sympathy and support for fighting terrorism from the G-8 grouping of the world's wealthiest countries in St. Petersburg, the Indian government is coming under pressure to harden its response to the recent Mumbai serial bombings, which killed...
NEW DELHI - As the death toll continues to mount in Mumbai's ghastly serial bomb attacks, it is becoming clear that India is witnessing a human tragedy of the same dimensions as the Madrid train bombings of March 2004, in which 192 people lost their lives. The...
NEW DELHI - The failure in rapid succession, this week, of a satellite launcher and a new ballistic missile have shown up the technological and budgetary difficulties faced by India's space establishment – civilian and military. Hours after the $50 million...
NEW DELHI - After the successful passage last week of two resolutions favoring the India-United States nuclear deal through the foreign relations committees of both chambers of Congress, it appears highly likely that it will clear the full Senate and House of...
