The crisis looming in Jammu and Kashmir following the People’s Democratic Party’s threat to withdraw from the state’s ruling coalition has, for the present, blown over. But the impasse on the basic issue involved continues. The PDP and the National Conference are not ex
India's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government rushed to
declare its readiness to join a US-led coalition against global
terrorism. Much of India's political elite was positively euphoric, for
it saw the crisis triggered by last week's terrorist attacks as
p
IT began with US senator Joseph Biden, a Democrat from Delaware and
chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In a
question-and-answer session following a speech to the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York late October, Mr Biden raised concerns
a
T hough SEZs have become a buzzword among advocates of India 's
economic liberalization in recent years, they are not entirely a new
concept and are basically modelled on the Export Processing Zones (EPZ)
that came up nearly five decades ago.
