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How Europe Could Cost Obama the Election - Niall Ferguson, Daily Beast
Could Europe cost Barack Obama the presidency? At first sight, that seems like a crazy question. Isn’t November’s election supposed to be decided in key swing states like Florida and Ohio, not foreign countries like Greece and Spain? And don’t left-leaning Europeans love Obama and loathe Republicans? Sure. But the possibility is now very real that a double-dip recession in Europe could kill off hopes of a sustained recovery in the United States.
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Stop being a pain in the neck to Indian students - Hasan Suroor, Hindu
Fearing China, India pulls out of war games with US, Japan - Shishir Gupta & Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Hindustan Times
Modi addresses NRIs in US via video conference - Hindustan Times
Imran faces test in Taliban stronghold - Hindu
Hillary Clinton didn't make Benghazi call: Review chairman - Times of India
Nawaz Sharif back as PM in Pak's first govt change via ballot - Omar Farooq Khan, Times of India
Pak polls: Sharif set to form govt; huge setback for PPP, Imran's party concedes defeat - Hindustan Times
Big names bite the dust in Pakistan polls - PTI
India most important partner in Asia: US - Times of India
Sharif declares victory in Pak elections - Times of India
China 'crushing’ Tibetan dissident groups in Nepal - Bharti Jain, Times of India
'Lion of Pakistan' roars back to power in election overshadowed by violence - Jon Boone, Guardian
Shaken, not stirred - Economist
Gang of eight's lose-lose proposition - Som Mittal, Business Standard
Minorities in a Naya Pakistan - Ayesha Siddiqa, Hindu
U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback - Joseph Menn, Reuters
China's expanding core interests - Nayan Chanda, Times of India
Minorities can be kingmakers in Pakistan - Sameer Arshad, Times of India
Indian kid Ritankar Das in UC Berkeley leaves academia awestruck - Economic Times
Pakistan's historic ballot - Rana Banerji, Times of India
Jamaat stalwart sentenced to death for Bangladesh 1971 war crimes - Anisur Rahman, PTI
U.S. to maintain 9 bases post-2014: Karzai - Atul Aneja, Hindu
Five basics to handle China/ India border differences - Wei Wei, Hindu
Imran Khan has them all so confused - Aroon Purie, Mail Today
The Indo-Pacific pivot - Indian Express
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The UPA 2 government was conceived in corruption – and never really recovered from that taint. Right from the day the election results came in, the back-channel negotiations began for the reappointment of A Raja as Telecom Minister to advance the interests of certain telecom majors (in return for illegal gratification). It was an enterprise which set the stage for India’s biggest corruption scandal and virtually set the political tone for the rest of the four years. As subsequent exposes have established, Manmohan Singh and other key Ministers knew full well that mischief was afoot, but pointedly looked the other way. That was the beginning of the slide, and the UPA government in general – and Manmohan Singh in particular – was mortally wounded from that episode. But rather than press ahead with remedial action, the government slid further into the cesspool of corruption.
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