Shailendra Aima
19 August 2010

In an Independence Day-eve bonanza, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced that his government will recruit 50,000 youths in the next few months, and pitched for restoration of autonomy to the state to bridge the "trust deficit" between the people and the Centre.

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The Rajya Sabha passed the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Bill, 2006 on Thursday to regulate the acceptance, utilisation and accounting of foreign contribution and acceptance of foreign hospitality by a person or an association.

This report gives us a few examples of Judges who oblige the Govt in Power and are rewarded with convenient postings thereafter. One such judge is Tarun Chatterjee who passed the order in the Sohrabuddin case on the last day of his retirement and was appointed interlocutor in the border dispute between Arunachal Pradesh and Assam within days of his retirement. NOTE that the respected Tarun C was being investigated by the CBI but was let off because of lack of prosecutable evidence says this report.
Question - Are judges above the law? (Editor)
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Brahma Chellaney - http://chellaney.spaces.live.com
Mint, August 16, 2010
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The quiet signing of the reprocessing agreement on 30 July has completed the last remaining bilateral element of the nuclear deal with the U.S. The multilateral elements are not only complete, but also being implemented. For example, India already has brought 16 of its nuclear facilities under permanent international inspection - a number scheduled to progressively go up to cover two-thirds of all Indian nuclear installations within four years. In addition, India is set to shut down by this year-end its main military-production workhorse, the Cirus reactor - the biggest cumulative contributor of weapons-grade plutonium to the country’s stockpile.

By Radha Rajan

Aspirants to regional or superpower status do not cower before neighborhood punks or walk in the shadows of bicep-ed bullies. A nation which cannot eliminate internal threats to national ethos and territorial integrity, a nation which refuses to stand up to external challenges to national sovereignty, a nation which cannot subdue or contain neighbors less than one-fourth its size, a nation which thinks being proclaimed America’s strategic partner in America’s war against terror is high honor, a nation which knocks on every doorstep to be invited to the high table called UNSC obviously lacks national vision and objective; obviously, such a nation lacks national pride. We are therefore a long way away from being super power; we are not even on our way to becoming a regional power.