Our Staff Reporter A French hotel firm is collaborating in the construction and marketing of the latest five star hotel that is being built in the Capital in the private sector by Congress-I MP Charanjit Singh. A three per cent royalty on the basis of room revenue will be siphoned off by the French collaborators,…
The Assam agitators have taken a lot of inspiration from the RSS, reports Chaitanya Kalbag The RSS’s position on the North-East has been enunciated very clearly in a 104-page book titled What ails India’s North-East? written by Bhanu Pratap Shukla and published by Suruchi Sahitya, the Sangh’s propaganda wing. In a preface titled As I…
When CHAITANYA KALBAG arrived for this pre-arranged interview at Janata General Secretary RABI RAY’s residence at 12, Safdarjung Lane, New Delhi, an assistant of the latter’s informed him that he had been summoned urgently by the President, Mr Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, to Rashtrapati Bhavan. Half an hour later Mr Ray returned, to inform our correspondent…
The Sai Baba controversy is utterly irrelevant and merely proves that Indian newspapers and magazine are hard put to finding topic worthy of discussion. An article on the occasion if Satya Sai Baba’s 50th birthday which was celebrated on November 23. “I Wonder,” remarked a Professor of Political Science at an American university when I…
By Chaitanya Kalbag The Philippines is poised to write a new and dangerous chapter in the global debt crisis, bankers and economic analysts warned on Monday. Over the past week, a combative Congress has set in motion plans likely to pit the heavily indebted nation against its foreign creditors and rupture economic recovery. The analysts…
Bhopal: A small, red-painted build-in this central in Indian city has become the focus of a grim battle being waged against the after-effects of a poison gas leak that killed 2,500 people last December. In the first weeks after the disaster, the victims were reported to have died as their lungs filled with fluids after…
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Continued from Page 1 Col 7 discover, are fully operational. But they contribute little to Iran’s total refining needs. The oil wells in the Kermanshah region are in Iraqi hands. But the Iraqis have failed to snap two vital links from the captured Khorramshahr and the pulverised Abadan, which go above Susangerd to the biggest…
Chaitanya Kalbag, one of Reuter’s New Delhi-based correspondents, has returned to Bhopal to assess the long-term effects of December’s poison gas leak on the city and its population. Kalbag, aged 28, and a former award-winning writer with India Today magazine, covered the original disaster story. Hundreds of people stand outside the drab, white bungalow, clutching…
India, a land where personality cults spring up overnight, is struggling to find a pedestal on which to put its assassinated leader Indira Gandhi. In the year since her murder last Oct. 31, the woman once portrayed by a leading painter as a Goddess has become mainly a face looking out from old election posters. …
US ‘interference’ charges spur soul-searching in Manila MANILA —The recall of a US military diplomat from the Philippines underlines the love-hate ties between the two countries but also points to a new direction in Manila foreign policy, analysts said Wednesday. The US Embassy’s announcement that assistant army attache Lt Col Victor Raphael would depart this…
The troops and the refugees are two knots in a tangle Indira Gandhi’s son and successor, Rajiv Gandhi, must unravel before peace returns to Punjab state. TWO streets from the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, a soldier in olive green uniform stands atop a t a tall building, his binoculars trained on the clusters…
The RBI governor refuses to be drawn into the game of popularity stakes Well, I think we’ve still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying, ‘in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. We’re a little bit that way. We feel things are turning to the…
Philippine investigators recover millions by seizing funds of ex-leader’s ‘cronies’ Chaitanya Kalbag MANILA, Reuters: Former President Ferdinand Marcos and his associates still control vast amounts of funds circulating in the country’s economy, the head of a government panel tracking the ousted leader’s “hidden wealth” said Sunday Ramon Diaz, chairman of the Presidential Commission on Good…
Tehran, JAN. 23-Iranian military plans were always offensive vis-a-vis Iraq. it was not surprising, therefore, that the Iranian air force’s first raids on Iraq after the war broke out in late September focused on economically important target The Iraqis, too, have centrated their attacks Iranian economic centres— a situation that seems to invite the acronym…
In New Delhi India, a land where personality cults spring up overnight, is struggling to find a pedestal on which to put its assassinated leader Indira Gandhi. In the year since her murder last October 31, the woman once portrayed by a leading painter as a goddess has become mainly a face looking out from…
New Delhi, Mar 11. The Soviet Union has tightened its grip on the Indian arms market by offering an array of sophisticated weapons to a Government worried about growing United States military aid to Pakistan, defence analysts said today. Indian officials said that under an agreement reached during the visit of the Soviet Defence Minister,…
Chaitanya Kalbag, Reuters New Delhi, June 1: Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh said on Tuesday there would be “no relenting” on air and ground operations in Kashmir, and accused Pakistan’s military of connivance with “armed intruders.” “There will be no relenting on any ground operations or air operations until status quo ante is restored,” Mr.…
New Delhi, May 31: Defence minister George Fernandes said on Monday he was sure Pakistan’s military chiefs would not resort to the use of nuclear weapons against India because they would “liquidate” their own country in the process. Asked if the Kashmir fighting, the worst between the bitter neighbours in nearly three decades, might worsen…
Chaitanya Kalbag New Delhi, Reuter: The Soviet Union has tightened its grip on the Indian arms market by offering an array of sophisticated weapons to a government worried about growing U.S. military aid to Pakistan, defense analysts said here last week. Indian officials said that under an agreement reached during the visit of Soviet Defense…