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Who really snubbed Jesse Owens?
by T.V.R. Shenoy		 Pervez Musharraf timeline National Police University to come up Delhi

Every four years, when the Summer Olympics hit the headlines, some media outlet or the other mentions the great Jesse Owens and his victories at the 1936 Berlin Games. Inevitably, the story of his famous snubbing by Adolf Hitler, when the murderous ...read more
Oct. 7, 1998: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appoints Musharraf chief of army staff. May 1999: Pakistani and Indian troops clash in the Kashmir region. Sharif later orders Musharraf to withdraw. Oct. 12, 1999: Musharraf ousts Sharif, seizes power in a coup. ...read more
Aiming to provide research back-up for law-enforcement agencies, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has announced setting up a National Police University (NPU) in the capital. The NPU, expected to start functioning from 2010, will provide training to police ....read more
Gujarat shows how to do it
by Balbir K. Punj		 Switzerland hails India's economic power, backs n-energy: Envoy Pakistan, the world's most dangerous country, is still no safer

The way the police in BJP-ruled Gujarat has cracked the case of the serial bombings in Ahmedabad and arrested most of the perpetrators of the crime, contrasts sharply with the failure of the Governments in Congress-ruled Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra which ...read more
Switzerland sees India as 'a rising economic power' and backs its efforts to develop civil nuclear energy, Swiss envoy Dominique Dreyer said here, days before a key meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in Vienna Aug 21. 'Switzerland is ...read more
Chary of being accused of interference, various governments have described yesterday's resignation of Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan as an internal affair. If only that were so. It was, of course, up to the coalition formed by the two main political parties to ...read more
Olympians are gold
by Dina Nath Mishra		 India Inc's investment plans rise to $244 bn Chhattisgarh to get Rs.1.1 trillion investment in power

In spite of the performance by the Olympic Association of India, bureaucracy of various sports federations, durable political chairpersons of various federations and Sports Ministry, three medallists, one gold and two bronze, were credited to Indian ...read more
Despite the global economic slowdown, capacity expansion plans of Indian corporates surged to Rs.10.5 trillion ($244 billion) in the first six months of the current fiscal against Rs.5.67 trillion in the same period last year, an industry lobby said. ...read more
Energy companies will invest Rs.1.7 trillion ($42.5 billion) in Chhattisgarh to set up coal-fired power plants having a total power generation capacity of 42,000 MW, Chief Minister Raman Singh said Friday. 'In a bid to become the power hub of the country, the state has ...read more

Who politicised it first?
by S. Gurumurthy

When CPM, an ally, and BJP, its adversary, opposed the UPA government on price rise and specifically the looming oil price hike towards the end of April 2008, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh uncharacteristically reacted sharply. He told them "not to politicise the misery of the people." .... read more

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