Yoginder K. Alagh

Canberra : India on Sunday said it would raise the issue of uranium sale with Australia as External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived here on Sunday to carry forward the momentum in bilateral ties and ink two key treaties on extradition and mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. "We are going to discuss all issues of our expanding cooperation. We are going to review the international situation on uranium. Keeping that in view, whatever will be relevant will be discussed tomorrow,' Mukherjee, who is on his maiden two-day visit to Australia, said here.

BHUBANESWAR : Asking the UPA to focus on fighting inflation instead of the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPI on Sunday said the Central Government should not be sacrificed in the name of such an agreement as nobody wanted early polls. "The priority at this moment is to fight the rising inflation and not the nuclear deal,' CPI general secretary A B Bardhan told reporters on the sidelines of a convention here against POSCO's proposed steel project in Orissa. He said nobody favoured early elections except the "divisive forces'.

D K SINGH Though the soaring rate of inflation is causing distinct uneasiness in the Congress over the extent to which it can go in pressing ahead with the Indo-US civil nuclear cooperation agreement, the party is clearly not ready to blink as yet.

Kudos to Jug Suraiya for writing the straightforward and hard-hitting Second Opinion,

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But, Reiterates Its Support For India's Bid For UNSC Seat External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee is leaving for Australia on Saturday even as a battle rages within the government on the India-US deal. And the outcome of that battle will be as keenly watched in Canberra as in Washington, because that deal could be the making of the India-Australia relationship.

With aam admi in injury time, UPA could opt for extra time, avoid sudden death on N-deal So, what will happen to nuclear deal now? TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: UPA crisis managers on Friday scrambled for fresh measures to resolve the government-threatening standoff with the Left after CPM declared that it would not flinch from voting against the ruling coalition alongside BJP.

By H. K. Dua There comes a time when those who have taken upon themselves the responsibility to lead a nation or a cause have to bite the bullet and move on to achieve the desired aim. That time has come for Dr Manmohan Singh to see that the Indo-US Nuclear Deal he signed with George W. Bush gets operationalised before the end of his tenure as also that of the US President.

The Bush administration on Tuesday made light of the tortured debate in India over the N-deal, saying it will work till its last day in office