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,…
Reuter When Corazon Aquino pledged retribution Tuesday for the latest coup attempt against her, she also proclaimed the finality of her transformation from hesitant housewife to leader of a tumultuous nation. For a woman who said her family was her greatest pleasure and agonized over entering politics in the shadow of her slain husband, Benigno,…
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…
NEW DELHI — India’s northeastern border state of Assam is waiting with trepidation for the results of a citizenship census that could have major political, sectarian and diplomatic consequences just months before the country’s next general election. The National Register of Citizens, which will identify mostly Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh who are living in the…
New Delhi — 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 Minister Dmitry…