The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 11, 2006

FOREIGN RELATIONS
Saga of India's bid for UN Secretary-General's post
The manner in which Mr Shashi Tharoor's candidature was initiated gives one an uneasy feeling that there is a lack of coherence and careful consideration in decision-making on serious issues of national security and foreign policy. More

POLITICS
Finance on the right track
There is more on the GoM looking into the dedicated freight corridor. Lalu Prasad was happy that Chidambaram and Montek Singh Ahluwalia took the trouble of turning up at Rail Bhavan, and was generous in his praise for the Finance Minister. ... More

Coalition courtesies
Coalition politics has its own rules, with the majority party always careful to keep the alliance partners in good humour. Veteran scribes on government beat, therefore, noticed a new trend in the UPA regime, where meetings of the Groups of ... More

Comrades in protest
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT from Kerala, Mr Varkala Radhakrishnan of the CPI-M (left) and Mr Pannyan Ravindran (CPI), stage a protest at Parliament House in New Delhi, on Thursday. They were protesting against the Centre's refusal to give security ... More

Word power
Talking about Ministers, it was a surprise to find that the Power Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, is a poetry lover. Recently, he came across a book on poetry penned by a senior official in one of the public sector power utilities. The ... More

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