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MANMOHAN SINGH

COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2014
Singh: missing for a decade
It would be interesting to know just what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — in office for a decade but rarely in power during that time — thinks the job requires beyond being a sycophant toward the first family.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Dec 28, 2013
Incredible India and the New Delhi Dissensus
On a recent visit to New Delhi, I met an activist promoting the rights of dalits (untouchables), who quipped, playing off a current national-branding campaign: "India is indeed incredible . . . but only in paradox."
EDITORIALS
Dec 11, 2013
Japan's future path with India
The Abe administration appears inclined to use Japan's relationship with India for expediency — as a means of checking China — when it should be cultivating longer-range cooperative ties.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2013
New Delhi's foreign policy 'own goals' mount
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh scored yet another foreign policy own goal when he boycotted a Commonwealth meeting in Sri Lanka.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2013
India's turn toward ASEAN gains momentum
India's "Look East" policy was again in focus as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Brunei and Indonesia to boost his nation's profile in a region increasingly suspicious of China.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jul 21, 2013
Indians fight to exercise new rights
Three years ago, a group of parents in a remote tribal hamlet in India handed local officials a petition demanding a new school. Their children had to walk nearly 3 km through farmland, forest and creeks to reach the closest public school, although, they argued, the country's new Right to Education law entitled them to something closer.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 30, 2013
Abe, Singh ink statement on nuclear deal
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Tokyo counterpart, Shinzo Abe, sign a joint statement to promote talks to conclude a peaceful nuclear power cooperation pact.
JAPAN / Politics
May 4, 2013
India chief to visit for energy talks
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Japan on May 27 for a three-day official visit, government sources said in New Delhi.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2013
India's five thoughts on China's new leadership
Only the fifth of five principles that China's new leaders have offered for Sino-Indian relations seems tricky: the accommodation of "core concerns."

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