U.S. Pressures India To Sign Nuclear Deal

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Senior U.S. officials are quietly pressuring India to sign the nuclear deal that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put on the backburner because of domestic political compulsions. After all, at stake for the American companies like GE and Westinghouse are multi-billion dollar contracts. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the Chief Spokesman for big American businesses, […]

Karnataka – Home of Shameless Skunks

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Among the many opportunistic skunks that litter the Indian political landscape, it’s hard to find two worse specimens than the political parties JD(S) and BJP in the South Indian state of Karnataka. Barely a few weeks after the JD(S) reneged on its promise to turn over the position of Chief Minister to the Hindu nationalist […]