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HK. DUA's front-page editorial, "India must not go back on nuclear deal' (June 20) gives a pertinent account of India's potential to acquire some degree of parity in the world's nuclear power club with uranium and high technology on terms honourable for it.

N-deal exposes comrades' old mindset by Amulya Ganguli How deep is the Left's commitment to the national cause? A look at the case for prosecution may be worthwhile. For a start, it is necessary to remember that the communists have spawned insurgent groups like the Naxalites or the Maoists, which are avowedly anti-Indian in the sense that they do not accept the country's present political dispensation. If they gain power

Indrani Bagchi | TNN New Delhi: With the nuclear deal getting a fresh lease of life in the twilight of the Manmohan Singh government, there appears to be a reignited buzz on both sides of the Atlantic. US undersecretary for political affairs, William Burns, who succeeded Nicholas Burns on the job after he quit in March, is likely to make his maiden visit to India later this month. The visit would have otherwise been a run-of-themill affair until things hotted up on the deal.

The Opposition BJP on Wednesday a s s e r t e d that its oldest ally, Shiv Sena, will toe the NDA line on Indo-US nuclear deal in case of voting in Parliament on the issue. The clarification comes in the wake of speculation that the Congress-led UPA would be looking to the assistance of smaller parties from all sides to cobble up the numbers to back it for the nuclear deal since the Left withdrawing support to the government now appears almost certain.

THE CPM, which came under heavy sniper fire from the Samajwadi Party for its formulation that all those who support the Indo-US nuclear deal are anti-Muslims, on Wednesday was forced to clarify that it did not agree with such a viewpoint. In a

Samajwadi Party and Congress on Wednesday stepped up their efforts for an early conclusion of their pact on the nuclear deal, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh swiftly complying with SP's demand for a public statement to allay the apprehensions on the controversial India-US agreement.

THE Samajwadi Party on Wednesday demonstrated its clout with the UPA government when it got the PMO to address its apprehensions on the Indo-US nuclear deal. The party's concerns on the issue were conveyed to NSA M K Narayanan when he came calling on the SP leadership here on Wednesday evening to brief them about the developments on the deal.

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