Yashwant Sinha & Arun Shourie
The release of the letter sent by the Bush administration to Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on January 16 this year, by Rep. Howard L Berman, the present Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, completely exposes the Government of India and the fraudulent claims it has been making about the merits of the nuclear deal. It also fully vindicates the position taken by the BJP on this deal from day one.

Narendra Modi & L K Advani
The BJP seeks to bring to the attention of the people of India the intensifying terrorist threat, further compounded by direct and indirect political patronage by the Congress and its allies. This high-risk national drift has worked against consensus building against terror and also has undermined the national will to battle it.

Business Desk
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today launched Google ChromeTM, a new open source browser intended to create a better web experience for users around the world. Available in beta in more than 40 languages, Google Chrome is a new approach to the browser that’s based on the simplicity and power that users have come to expect from Google products.

UN Desk
Two years of negotiations have resulted in the adoption of new international guidelines to limit the impact of fishing on fragile deep sea fish species and habitats, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.
Managing deep sea fisheries in high seas areas outside of countries’ exclusive economic zones has always been difficult, according to FAO, since it requires multilateral solutions involving not only nations whose vessels are engaged in deep sea fisheries but other interested countries as well.

Business Desk
General Motors Corp. today inaugurated its second vehicle manufacturing facility in India at Talegaon, Maharashtra. GM’s all-new production facility in India will more than double the automaker’s manufacturing capacity to 225,000 units in one of the world’s fastest-growing vehicle markets.

Business Desk
General Motors India has registered a growth of 4.4 % in sales in August 2008 as compared to the corresponding period last year. It sold 6074 units in August 2008 as compared to 5817 units in August last year. The August 2008 sales comprise of 1514 units of Chevrolet Tavera, 913 units of Chevrolet Aveo, 410 units of Chevrolet Optra, 3020 units of Chevrolet Spark and 217 units of Chevrolet Captiva.

Business Desk
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Deutsche Telekom today announced a collaboration to deliver IPTV in Germany and Deutsche Telekom will use Motorola's High Definition (HD)-ready IPTV set-tops for its "T-Home Entertain" services. The collaboration will enable T-Home customers to access a variety of multimedia applications in addition to standard TV offerings using a high-quality, optimized Motorola set-top which is already equipped for future services.

Within the scope of the contract, Motorola will provide T-Home with its

D Y Vyas
The fifty-fifty joint venture "SB LiMotive Co. Ltd." of Bosch and Samsung SDI
has started its operations on September 1, 2008. The objective of the new
company is to develop, manufacture, and sell lithium-ion batteries for
automotive applications. It is planned to start series manufacturing of
highly efficient lithium-ion battery systems customized to automotive
requirements and to market them worldwide in 2011.

To achieve this, the joint venture partners will jointly invest between 300 and 400 million dollars in the next five years. The new company will be led by Youngwoo

UN Desk
Navanethem Pillay today began her duties as the top United Nations human rights official, taking over a growing office that now has 1,000 staff working in 50 countries.

Ms. Pillay, a renowned jurist from South Africa, was appointed the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in July by the General Assembly, on the recommendation of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. She became the fifth High Commissioner since the office was created in 1993.

D Y Vyas
Reiterating its commitment to mission critical projects in the Indian market, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NS), a leading global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, announced that it had helped design and build a new scalable system for National Securities Depository Ltd. This new system will be the central recordkeeping agency for the Government of India’s New Pension System (NPS).

Sports Desk
India’s captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has knocked his South African counterpart Graeme Smith off top spot in the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen after a good series against Sri Lanka which concluded in Colombo on Friday.

The 27-year-old from Jharkand was the leading run-scorer in the five-match series with 193 runs that made sure his side clinched its first-ever ODI series in Sri Lanka and in the process displaced Smith at the top of the rankings.

IT Correspondent
Zimbra, a Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) company, and the leader in open source, next-generation messaging and collaboration software, today announced general availability of Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 2.0.

L K Advani
The people of Bihar are reeling under one of the worst floods in recent history. The situation has become extremely grim particularly because River Kosi has unexpectedly changed course, inundating those districts of northern Bihar which were totally unprepared to face the fury of the flood.

Over 11,000 villages and nearly 40 lakh people are reportedly affected by the flood. The devastation and dislocation caused by this calamity, especially in the districts of Saharsa, Supaul, Madhepura and Araria, are comparable to that of a Tsunami.

Business Desk
Monsoon has been traditionally a lean season for tourism in India and now it's time to change this perception. This was the overriding thought at the National Seminar on Monsoon Tourism, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here today.

Crime Reporter
The CBI has registered a case against a Deputy General Manager (ITS-94 batch) posted at Optical Fibre Project, in M/s. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Hubli u/s. 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act-1988 for demanding a bribe of Rs. 5000/- from one of the suppliers of materials to BSNL, Hubil for clearing the outstanding bills.

During the investigation of the case, searches were carried out at the office and residential premises of accused at Hubli. Cash worth Rs. 26.40 lakhs was found stacked in envelopes and boxes.

UN Desk
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his sadness upon hearing of the death and property damage caused by devastating flooding – the worst in five decades – in Bihar state, in India’s north-east.

Dozens of people have lost their lives, with the death toll still rising, after a dam broke, breaching the eastern embankment of the Kosi River, which straddles the India-Nepal border.

IT Correspondent
TCS, a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organisation, announced the launch of its pioneering initiative to train and develop talent available in the North East of India. With a dedicated learning centre in Guwahati, Assam, TCS is the first Indian IT company to invest in the North East of India.

D Y Vyas
Today many users received spam with fradulent text. This was sent by bilawal7@earthlink.net with IP address of: elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.69]) on August 28th.

These fraudsters use names of people who can give good results on the internet but have nothing to with them. The email says:
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As a matter of fact, I do not know you personally but I just have to pass
on my sincere appreciation for the feat we were able to record at the last
elections despite the absence of my mother as she was the party leader

Terrorism Desk
The Security Forces shelled the militants’ hideouts and targeted two vehicles of militants with gunship helicopters at restive Koza Bandi and Bara Bandi in Swat district, killing 23 militants and injuring several others, an official of ISPR said on late Thursday.

Political Desk