US president George W Bush released the latest US National Security Strategy in Washington on March 17, 2006. The NSS is the definitive US strategic policy document which, by law, is supposed to be announced annually but has now been released after a gap of four years.

The regressive royal regime has barbarously been mounting its repression on the peaceful demonstrators belonging to the seven-party alliance (SPA).

At least 1,700 workers, mostly young girls, were working inside the factory when the fire broke out. As usual, the only stairs and exits in the building were locked, and workers frantically tried to escape by breaking down a wall and jumping from the 9-story building.

In India, the foreign exchange transactions (transactions in dollars, pounds, or any other currency) are broadly classified into two accounts: current account transactions and capital account transactions.

INDIA has become a strategic ally of the United States. This is the message that President Bush’s visit to India has underlined.

The USA is preparing to strike Iran. It is preparing to strike Iran like it has struck Iraq 10 years ago through military strikes.

The dispute about Iran is on the question of nuclear uranium enrichment. India had an option and it could have taken a much more imaginative position which would have addressed both sets of issues, Iran’s sovereignty and the right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Since the regime has completely been marginalized and isolated inside and outside the country, its intolerances have also been increasing against the peaceful activities of the political parties and the general masses.

INVESTMENTS by Foreign Institutional Investors are not just contributing to the dizzy rise of the BSE Sensex to well over the 8500 mark, but shore up India’s balanc of payments as well and swell India’s foreign exchange reserves. Preoccupied with this, the media ignores new signs of economic vulnerability.

A Nationwide dawn to dusk Hartal (general strike) was successfully observed at the call of the Communist Party of Bangladesh to protest the govt. decision to raise fuel prices, the galloping increase in price of all essentials...Hartal was observed on 18 Sept. all over the country at the independent call of CPB alone. Shops, inter district road transport remained fully closed and most of the public and private offices were either closed were only partially attended.

INDIA voted with the US and the European sponsors of the resolution to arraign Iran in the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This paves the way for its nuclear issue being referred to the UN Security Council.

In another major defeat for the Coca-Cola company in India, the state government of Kerala has challenged the company's right to use groundwater in the Supreme Court of India, arguing that water is being taken from poor communities to produce drinking water for the rich.

FOIL expresses its concern over the tenor of the joint agreement signed between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George W. Bush on July 18, 2005. While there are some elements in it that appear to be beneficial to the people of both countries, the broad context of the agreement will be detrimental to peace and security in the South Asian subcontinent.