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Last week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joined more than 150 foreign leaders in New York City to kick off this year's session of the United Nations' General Assembly and celebrate the institution's 60th birthday. Singh had a weighty agenda: he talked Kashmir with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, discussed India's nuclear-energy needs with George W. Bush, and lobbied for a permanent seat on an expanded Security Council. (Japan, Germany and Brazil each want one too.) The U.N.'s "structure and decision-making process," he said in an address to the General Assembly, "reflect the world...
...What has been achieved is recognition by the U.S. that ... India should have the same benefits and rights as a nuclear weapons state." SHYAM SARAN, Indian Foreign Secretary, after the Bush Administration agreed to dismantle an international ban on sales of nuclear energy technology to India following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington...
...Still, there's reason for optimism. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's right-hand man Montek Singh Ahluwalia acknowledged last November that the government "has been contributing less than required" to preserve India's heritage. Last month the Ministry of Culture announced plans for a National Heritage Sites Commission with judicial powers to take charge of monument preservation. And Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhury has vowed to clean up India's 26 World Heritage Sites and exploit their business potential so that they pay for themselves. Tourism Joint Secretary Amitabh Kant is perhaps the only person in India more outspoken than Thakur...
...India and Pakistan are to make peace, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh noted a few days ago, people have to want it. An attack by six suspected Muslim militants on a contested religious site at Ayodhya in northern India triggered protests last week, as Hindus marched in New Delhi shouting "Down, down Pakistan!" and forced roads and shops to close across the country. Police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators and arrested some 3,000 people. "I have always maintained that we need to carry public opinion to make a success of the peace process," Singh warned as he appealed...
...earlier bomb attack on the route and a gun attack on a building housing the Indian passengers in Srinagar. The safe arrival of the buses' 49 passengers was taken as a symbol of warming ties between the fractious neighbors. "The caravan of peace has started," declared Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...