Sukhbahar - Instablogs
May 12 2009
Washington: In a frank admission, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said America’s intelligence agency CIA and his country’s ISI together created the “monster” called Taliban. Taliban was “part of our past and your past, and the...
May 11 2009
As you look at the economy days before you might actually be in a position of having to handle it, do you see green shoots of recovery or do you see an unmitigated, continuing crisis? I think the government has underestimated the adverse impact of the...
May 9 2009
Delhi voters beat the ‘Pappu’ factor and came out to vote, recording a decent turnout of 53 per cent Thursday - higher than in the previous two parliamentary elections. The percentage in the 1999 Lok Sabha elections was 43.54, while in 2004...
May 7 2009
US President Barack Obama has said after meeting his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts that they are united in the goal of defeating al-Qaeda. Speaking “extraordinarily constructive” talks, Mr Obama said the goal was to “defeat...
May 5 2009
Key allies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have made it clear that only LK Advani and not Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is acceptable to them as the prime ministerial candidate. Leaders of the Janata...
May 4 2009
The desirability of holding general elections over such a long period is being debated in many quarters. One question being raised is, why should the country fall in the hands of bureaucrats for nearly two months. A lot of mischief can be perpetrated by...
Apr 30 2009
In a bizarre twist to the alleged Anil Ambani helicopter sabotage case, Bharat Borge, the technician from maintenance company Air Works who first noticed pebbles and mud in the helicopter’s fuel tank, was found dead on the railway tracks between...
Apr 30 2009
From the reports we are getting, it is clear that this time the voters are going to vote positively. Most of the time, the incumbency factor comes in the way and the voters go for negative voting. But this time, they will vote for the positive steps...
Apr 29 2009
India’s marathon general election passes the half-way stage Thursday, with Mumbai entering the fray barely five months on from the deadly Islamist militant attacks on the city. Ten seats in India’s lower house of parliament are up for grabs...
Apr 29 2009
As Narendra Modi, chief minister of the state of Gujarat, walks into a cavernous tent filled with 20,000 investors and business leaders in western India, he’s greeted like a Bollywood movie star. Conference goers surround the politician to shake...