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Behind
Pakistan's Defeat
A
secret inquiry into Pakistan's debacle in the 1971 war held army atrocities,
widespread corruption, cowardice and the moral laxity of its generals
as prime reasons for the defeat in East Pakistan. The explosive Hamoodur
report has never been disclosed-until now.
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The
Nation
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Peace
Takes a Knock
The
Hizb has resumed battle, the killings continue and the Hurriyat is in
a quandary but the Government feels these are temporary roadblocks to
peace.
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AS
Good As It Gets?
The
economy has been chugging along well this year. Will it pick up speed
or lose steam in the coming months? Right now there is more optimism than
unease about the future.
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NEWSNOTES
On the
Descendants
Delhi:
Former
prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao recently drove across to 10 Janpath
to meet Sonia Gandhi. If you think their discussions centred on reviving
the Congress party's fortunes, perish the thought. Rao had merely called
on the Congress president to invite her for his grandchild's wedding.
Naturally, there was plenty of naani (maternal grandmother) talk and nothing
about the current political situation. In a lighter vein, Sonia told Rao
that it was perhaps just a coincidence that while he was marrying off
his grandchild, she was going to be a naani. Priyanka and Robert Vadra
are expecting their first child some time in September.
Demote
and Flourish
Mumbai:
It takes a Bal Thackeray to find opportunity for wit even at the gravest
crisis. In the run up to his arrest, Thackeray tried all backdoor channels
to dissuade Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh from acting at deputy Chhagan
Bhujbal's behest. Failing which, he went through the arrest drama. With
the courts letting him off, he now gets his own back at the two in his
inimitable style. Thackeray contends the state is actually run by Bhujbal.
To drive home this, he refers to Deshmukh as deputy chief minister at
every opportunity.
Ghosts
of the Past
Delhi:
The Baba of Bhondsi is at it again. Convinced that the economic policies
of the NDA Government are ruinous to the country, ex-prime minister Chandra
Shekhar has decided to launch a nationwide campaign called "Vikalp"(alternative).
A minor hitch though: pro-reformers in the NDA have dusted up old official
files which conclusively prove that the Baba was the original reformist.
Had his government not fallen, Yashwant Sinha, finance minister then,
would have presented the budget to put India on the road to reform.
Ephemeral
Success
Lucknow:
The
joyous celebrations at Chief Minister Ram Prakash Gupta's house to mark
the BJP's unexpectedly decent performance in the Uttar Pradesh zila parishad
polls were cut short by a statement by state BJP chief Om Prakash Singh
that the verdict was no vindication of the state Government's performance.
This Singh sure is a spoilsport.
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Uttar
Pradesh BJP chief Om Prakash Singh rubbishes suggestions
that the party is on a downslide in the state.
Q.
You could win only 19 seats in the zila parishad elections. In 1995,
the Samajwadi Party won 45.
A.
We didn't indulge in rigging and violence to influence voters. We
are satisfied that the BJP and its allies were able to double our
tally.
Q.
So, is the threat to the chief minister over?
A.
Even before the elections, I
had said that since the elections were not being fought on party
symbols, the results should not be taken as an indicator of the
party's popularity. As for our Government, it will stay and perform
better.
Q.
The BJP fielded a lot of relatives of ministers and other party
leaders. Why were workers ignored?
A.
We were not promoting dynastic culture, but it is a fact that most
of the independent women still do not have mass support or voter
base. So we chose some women candidates from political families
with some base.
Q.
You are finding it tough getting formally elected as state BJP chief.
A.
The question does not arise. I told the high command that I won't
fight an election to get a party post. That's all.
-Subhash
Mishra
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Wednesday's live chat with Vasudevan Bhaskaran, Chief Coach of
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The
Mercenary Journalist
Pressures of meeting deadlines have always been
nerve-wracking in Kashmir. But never before has there been such desperation
to be the first to break news, writes India Today Special Correspondent
Ramesh Vinayak who has covered militancy for over a decade.
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TALKING
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"May be Veerappan should be given a chance
to reform," Karnataka
CM S.M. Krishna tells INDIA TODAY Principal Correspondent Stephen
David as one of the options being considered to secure the release of
superstar Rajkumar.
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DESPATCHES |
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In
the eerie world of superstition that still exists in Andhra Pradesh's
Telengana region, four women and a man are brutally burned to death allegedly
for practising black magic. INDIA TODAY Associate Editor Amarnath K.
Menon says in Despatches
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