Two years before India's independence, one of the greatest heroes of India's freedom fight was reported killed in an air crash in Taiwan. The story was disbelieved then and till today there is no conclusive evidence of such an air crash. (See picture caption inside)

The Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project (IPI) may jeopardize the India-US nuclear deal. Top US officials are worried that IPI will prop up the regime in Iran which is suspected of pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program and accuse it of sponsoring international terrorism.

Acommon theme running through all the speeches of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Kashmir has been the absolute necessity of minimizing human rights violations.

By all accounts the current status of the most important foreign policy initiative jointly taken by President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, is that it is on the rocks.

During the run-up to the cancelled January elec-tions, one opinion cut through the political polarization and achieved some consensus among non-partisan Bangladeshis.

It was in August 2001 that the idea of establishing a Com-pact Revolutionary Zone (CRZ), from the forest tracts of Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh) to Nepal, traversing the forest areas of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, was conceptualized at Siliguri in a high-level meeting of the Maoist leaders from India and Nepal

Intervention by states in each other's internal affairs was highlighted in Rahul Gandhi's inadvertent electioneering remarks on his family's role in splitting Pakistan, which has, unsurprisingly, stirred controversy both internally in India, and abroad.

The worldwide terrorism network is managed by terrorist forces sta-tioned in Pakistan under the safe umbrella of Government of Pakistan.

It cannot be denied that Muslims in India are backward, poor and uneducated. Yet, even Muslims themselves are unwilling to accept that the Muslim population in India is decreasing.

With the Indo-Pak dialogue emphasizing on 'making borders irrelevant,' easing travel control across borders and the decline in militancy, a new stage in the peace process is visible.