The temerity of US imperialism’s advise to India on how it should deal with the visit of Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to New Delhi on April 29 reconfirms, if such reconfirmation was ever necessary, that the USA seeks to deal with India as its “subordinate ally.”

Aware of the significance of the recent election, the four main Nepalese parties have stepped up efforts to define the new Constitution and the future government of this budding federal democratic republic.

The two Communist Parties in India, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) both derive originally from a united Communist Party of India, which was formed in the 1920s.

On International Women's Day, a "celebration" was held inside the Canadian military compound at Kandahar. For some media outlets in Canada, this was literally the only IWD event reported as "news."

Once again the pro-US media aided by sources in the prime minister's office and the ministry of external affairs are busy fabricating another "successful" step forward in the Indo-US nuclear deal.

India's policies on defense-related acquisitions from abroad and production within India are believed to have been directed not only at ensuring India's security interests but also at promoting self-reliance and indigenous capability in this vital sector often involving advanced technologies.

I don't know who killed Benazir Bhutto: the radical anti-western so-called "Islamists," the Musharraf government, or the Bush government. All three groups have shown that they don't hesitate to use murder and political assassination to gain their ends.

For a very long time now, the US has been the main engine of growth in the global capitalist system, essentially through its voracious demand for imports which have caused significant increases in export growth in both other developed countries as well as the developing world.

Benazir Bhutto's murder in the garrison city Rawalpindi is a setback for everyone who was hoping to see some form of accountable democratic government emerge after years of military dictatorship.

The central goal of the United States is control of the planet, power to install governments subservient to its demands, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, the power to inflict on peoples everywhere “free market” corporate capitalism.

The 42-day drama in Pakistan is far from over; the declaration of emergency and the lifting of emergency are part of a charade, behind which lidx a complex power play between Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, various camps within the military elite, and the US government.

The 123 agreement for civilian nuclear cooperation with the Untied States has finally been discussed in both houses of parliament. As expected, a majority of the members in both houses have opposed the nuclear deal on various grounds.

General Pervez Musharraf has imposed Emergency and suspended the Constitution in Pakistan. This has led to virtual martial law with the wholesale removal of Supreme Court judges, gagging of the media and arrests of hundreds of political party activists.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday issued notices to President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on two petitions, challenging the proclamation of emergency.

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nicholas Burns speaking at a breakfast meeting at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, this week, said, “India has to move fast.”

Up to 110 people were killed and over 200 others injured in two suicide blasts near former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's vehicle in the southern port city of Karachi early Friday morning, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported.

The developments in the last fortnight have reached a stage where the Congress leadership cannot avoid taking a final decision on whether the government should proceed to take the next step to operationalize the deal.

Prakash Karat stressed that the central committee has authorized the Polit Bureau to "take appropriate measures" to ensure that the stand taken up unanimously on the proposed India-US nuclear accord by the central committee was implemented.

For the past nine months, the Bengal CPI(M) and the Bengal Left Front had an intense campaign-movement on industrialization and agricultural growth across the state.

The concerns expressed in these columns regarding the larger context in which the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal must be viewed have, once again, been vindicated. Reconfirmation of this, if ever any reconfirmation was necessary, has come from two quarters.