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China-Bhutan speed dating worries Delhi - Indrani Bagchi, ToI
India confronts a new strategic situation in its neighborhood as its staunchest ally Bhutan prepares to establish full diplomatic ties with China. Until now, Bhutan had been the only South Asian country where China did not have a presence. That is about to change.
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Delhi allowing Beijing to save face - Jyoti Malhotra, Business Standard
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Lesson from an unsettled boundary - Manoj Joshi, Hindu
US intel suspects Syria using chemical weapons - Dawn
India and China: softly, softly - Kanti Bajpai, Times of India
Will you earn enough 'points' to win new US green card? - Economic Times
Paper tiger - David Kang, Foreign Policy
US immigration bill: Discriminatory for India - Som Mittal, Financial Express
China's 3rd confrontation with India's border build-up - Ajai Shukla, Business Standard
Pakistan poll: Heat, dust, grit and terror - Anita Joshua, Hindu
India's Iran plant to kill 2 birds with 1 stone - Animesh Singh, Pioneer
Islamists prepare for grand home-coming - G Parthasarathy, Pioneer
The curious case of Pervez Musharraf - Mehr F Husain, Mail Today
Sharif the leader in Pak race - AS Dulat, Mail Today
New Delhi ignores gathering crisis over Sri Lankan Tamils - Shastri Ramachandaran, DNA
The Ladakh drift - P Stobdan, Indian Express
Everything is rigged: The biggest financial scandal yet - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Boston bombing shows West’s mistake in supporting militants in Chechnya: Putin - FirstPost
Intrude, violate, and then offer to discuss - Claude Arpi, Pioneer
Fractured verdict likely in Pak polls - G Parthasarathy, Business Line
Pakistan is experiencing a government of judges by default - Christophe Jaffrelot, Indian Express
China backs India stand on Taliban’s role after US exit - Shubhajit Roy, IE
Chinese incursion a retaliation against Indian activity on LAC - Bharti Jain, ToI
21 killed in terrorist bomb attacks in Xinjiang: China - KJM Varma, PTI
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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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