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Sonia Gandhi's surprise decision to resign as a member of parliament leaves the world's biggest representative democracy in the hands of two leaders, Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who technically don't represent anyone. If that sounds like a strange system of government, this is even stranger. Rather than bad for Indian politics, many in India fed up with corruption and venality as usual would argue that Gandhi and Singh are the best thing to happen to it in a long time...
...second most populous country, and forge new ones, according to the president’s spokesman, John D. Longbrake. Summers will jet off to India, one of the fastest growing developing nations, this weekend and arrive on Monday to start his busy week. India’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, will kick off one of the week’s highlights, an academic symposium hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in New Delhi. Graduates of all of Harvard’s schools, from 24 countries, will convene there on March 25 and 26—the first such...
India isn't relying on diplomacy to win the U.S. Congress's backing for the controversial nuclear cooperation pact announced by George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi two weeks ago. It's playing the Washington game like the locals do--with lobbyists. Long before Bush's visit, India lined up two lobbying firms to sell the deal. The Indian embassy signed a $700,000 contract last fall with Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, an outfit led by Robert Blackwill, Bush's ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. The embassy is also paying...
...March 2, a historical visit by a U.S. president to the largest democratic country in the world climaxed when President Bush and Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, signed a deal many have called “a welcome for India to the world’s nuclear family.” The deal, which needs the approval of the U.S. Congress, would grant India the civilian nuclear technologies currently given to members of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) who eschew military nuclear technologies. While one would be remiss to ignore the strategic importance of cultivating an ally...
...with a timer-exploded within minutes of each other at a temple and a train station in Varanasi, the greatest of all Hindu pilgrimage centers on the Ganges in northern India. Police say 21 people were killed and more than 60 injured. Fearing a violent Hindu backlash, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm and put security forces on high alert across the country...