Word: narasimha
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...story of how India revived the nuclear nightmare begins in December 1995. The government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao is secretly readying an underground nuclear test when U.S. spy satellites orbiting over the Thar Desert in Rajasthan near the Pakistani border snap pictures of thick electric cables being installed in a hole at the Pokhran test site. The Clinton Administration leaks word of the preparations to the press, then dispatches a diplomatic team to confront the Indian government with the satellite photos. Rao is forced to abort the test...
...virtually all their votes have been counted, it is clear enough what most Indians were against: the Congress Party, the political juggernaut of Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that has ruled India for all but four years since 1947, when the country gained independence from Britain. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao is out, and the party, burdened with an image of corruption and lassitude, lost almost half its seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament. Less clear is what Indians voted for. It is possible, in fact, that they have produced a government that will last...
...party has a majority in the lower house, and a coalition government must form. The President, Shankar Dayal Sharma is planning to wait a week to ask a party to form a government but his choice is by no means clear. Congress, led by Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, and the National Front are united for now by their desire to keep the BJP from power, claiming that the BJP's pro-Hindu message will alienate the country's Muslims, who make up 12 percent of the nation. Front leaders are hedging, unwilling to depend on Congress to keep their...
...CANDIDATES] P.V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party candidate...
...India retreating into its old xenophobia? In this century British rule bred proud anticolonial traditions that combined with go-it-alone socialist policies to turn India into a black hole for foreign investors. Just four years ago, however, the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao began to scrap decades-old barriers to foreign capital, including restrictions on ownership and the repatriation of profits. Suddenly financial gurus touted India as the next hot spot for investment. Also reformed have been laws that made it impossible for foreigners to own a majority of an Indian company and forced them...