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...Kamal Nath, the Road Transport and Highways Minister, outlined a 12,500-mile (20,000 km) highway-construction program that will require India to build 121/2 miles (20 km) of new roads a day - and that is only a part of a gobsmacking infrastructure program that will include more power generation, more air- and seaports, more irrigation projects. Singh stressed the importance of nationwide improvement in education and health, which will also involve huge amounts of public investment. And if that is not enough, the government is committed to increasing the living standards of the hundreds of millions of Indians...
...case against Mujib's suspected killers only moved forward when his daughter Hasina rose to power in 1996 as head of the secular, center-left Awami League party he had founded. Hasina's government lifted the legal ordinance put into place by Mujib's usurpers that protected the coup's conspirators. But in 2001, Hasina was ousted in an election by her bitter rival, Khaleda Zia, the widow of Ziaur Rahman, a general who ruled Bangladesh not long after Mujib's death and who was also killed by a group of rebellious army officers. The case fell into legal limbo...
...than Mujib's assassination remains buried. When Bangladesh - then East Pakistan - split from West Pakistan in 1971, the Pakistani army embarked on a killing campaign, leaving as many as 3 million people dead. Many Bangladeshis who abetted and served alongside the West Pakistani army remained in key positions of power in the years following Mujib's death. Now, there's a growing call for the government to launch an inquiry into those suspected of war crimes and eventually set up tribunals. It's unclear whether Hasina's government will risk reopening the country's many old wounds by ordering...
...players in Iran's power struggle...
Turning up the heat in order to force a more cooperative attitude from Iran to the Vienna proposal, could actually stiffen Iran's resistance to the idea of shipping its uranium to Russia for reprocessing. More importantly, Iran is caught in a fierce domestic power struggle that militates against a clear and coherent strategy in the nuclear talks. Still, it recognizes that the goals of the Russians and Chinese are different from those of the U.S., France and Britain, all of whom continue to insist that Iran give up all uranium enrichment. Beijing and Moscow want to defuse the crisis...