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...leftists are still angry that the U.S. pressured India into voting against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting last year. In the name of sovereignty, they want to end talks with the IAEA and the Nuclear Suppliers Group that would finalize the deal. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reaction was a firm no. "Our government is committed to the development of nuclear energy," he insisted. The deal is especially crucial, the government says, because India's existing reactors are low on fuel and supplies. The standoff could force an early election, and even if it doesn...
...agree. Long suspicious of American intentions, they say the deal - based on U.S. legislation known as the Hyde Act of 2006, which includes a nonbinding proviso that India's foreign policy be aligned with that of the U.S. - compromises India's sovereignty. Now, that opposition has brought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government to the brink of collapse. With 59 seats in India's 552-member lower house of Parliament, the leftists, including the powerful Communist Party of India (Marxist), have been a significant outside partner in the ruling Congress Party-led coalition. On Monday, the leftists accepted Singh...
...state minister in Madhya Pradesh, is outraged by the product. He claims the vibrating ring qualifies not as a contraceptive but as a sex toy - illegal in his state - and has accused Hindustan Latex, and by extension India's national government, of immorality. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week calling for a ban on the sale of the condoms, Vijayavargiya says the government "has disregarded rules, regulations, the country's laws and morality. Sex toys can have serious repercussions on the Indian way of life...
...TIME's inclusion of Sonia Gandhi was interesting. Her influence largely emanates from her renouncing power and allowing economist Manmohan Singh to become Prime Minister; staying in the background has enabled her to look after party affairs. It is her sphinxlike silence, dignified conduct and adoption of Indian culture that are largely responsible for her repeated re-election to Parliament by record margins. But Gandhi should act more assertively and deliver government change more speedily to the common man. Jagmohan Manchanda, New Delhi...
...Indians themselves have the most to complain about. Take health. In 2000, 47% of Indian children under 3 were malnourished, according to government figures. Today, the malnourishment rate in kids is 46%-only a single percentage point better. India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, regularly points out the country's dispiriting disparities. "Poverty is falling, but not fast enough," he told the Planning Commission last October. "We cannot expect harmony if large sections of our population see themselves as marginalized...