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		In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.
		The executive branch consists of the President, Vice-President, and the Council of Ministers (the Cabinet being its executive committee) headed by the Prime Minister.
		Notable endemics are the Nilgiri leaf monkey and the brown and carmine Beddome\'s toad of the Western Ghats.
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	Indian Cabinet Ministers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		* indicates ministers elected from the Rajya Sabha
		Ministers of State belonging to a particular ministry
		Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_Cabinet (122 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dr. Manmohan Singh
		His policies of economic liberalizations and reforms as finance minister under the Narasimha Rao government in the 1990s, including reduction of several redundant socialist policies, brought the country back from a looming economic bankruptcy.
		Sonia Gandhi was elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party and was expected to become the Prime Minister but in a surprise move, declined to accept the post and instead nominated Dr. Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister.
		Manmohan Singh is one of the few Indians who is widely respected as a politician and as an economic reformer by all his peers irrespective of their politcal affiliations.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dr.-Manmohan-Singh (720 words)

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		The Government of India (Hindi: Bharat Sarkar), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of India.
		The Union Council of Ministers is responsible to the Lok Sabha.
		Indian Government - President of India: The government exercises its broad administrative powers in the name of the President of India, who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, the Head of State and chief guardian of the Constitution of the Republic.
	www.explore2india.com /Government (679 words)

	A leaner Cabinet for the PM
		The sports ministry could easily be attached to the ministry of culture or youth affairs, and the ministers of state in charge of those ministries could be asked to oversee it in addition to their existing responsibilities.
		With the growing importance of energy, it is necessary for someone in the Cabinet to take a holistic view of the various energy-related issues, currently being looked after by different ministries and departments.
		The ministries of coal and power (since the resignation of Shibu Soren, the coal ministry is being looked after by the prime minister himself and the power minister has done precious little to justify the need for retaining its independent Cabinet-level identity) could be easily merged with the ministry for petroleum and natural gas.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/oct/04akb.htm (828 words)

	Indian voters wreak vengeance on arrogant cabinet ministers -DAWN - International; 16 May, 2004
		NEW DELHI: Having seen their one-room shack in an Indian slum on the edge of the river Yamuna razed by bulldozers in April, Salim and Amina Bano have little to cheer about.
		Take Murli Manohar Joshi, union minister for human resources development, who lost his constituency in the holy city of Allahabad, which is famous for its 'Kumbh Melas' that gather tens of millions of people for festivals considered auspicious in the Hindu calendar.
		His last endeavour, now stalled by the BJP's electoral debacle, was a plan under which his ministry would have seized control of the autonomous Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), famed for providing the brains for several global corporations, by interfering with their fee structure.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/16/int16.htm (967 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online
		The Indian premier said earlier this year that there was a need to formulate a national policy on social security funded by both the state and the private sector.
		The row comes as Karzai's cabinet sat down on Monday for the fist time since he was elected less than two weeks ago as the head of a transitional government to lead the country towards elections in 2004.
		Indian newspapers said the reshuffle suggested the BJP was returning to its hardline Hindu revivalist roots, which it had set aside in return for support from secular parties in the 20-party coalition government it heads.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/010702/subcont.htm (11713 words)

	Fiji - Burma of the Pacific
		Although the coup was initially denounced from Methodist pulpits, Methodist and SDA Ministers were prominent among the supporters of George Speight and one of the aims of the proposed new Constitution is for Fiji to be declared a Christian State.
		In-fighting in the cabinet led to Bishop and several cabinet colleagues being executed by firing squad, which was followed by an armed intervention led by U.S. troops at the request of the then Governor-General, Sir Paul Scoon.
		The cabinet should be drawn from the members of Parliament and the Prime Minister should be someone who, in the President's opinion, can form a government that has the confidence of the House of Representatives.
	www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/docs_o/wilson_000929.htm (9505 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Diplomacy-Venezuela -> Venezuelan president arrives on four-day visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave Chavez a ceremonial reception at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace.
		Chavez, who is accompanied by the ministers of foreign affairs, light industry and commerce, science and technology, environment and natural resources, energy, health and information and communications, is also visiting Kolkata and Bangalore.
		External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh and Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar are among the Indian cabinet ministers scheduled to meet with him.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/03/04/04ven.shtml (413 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Diplomacy-Lead Afghanistan -> Karzai seeks Indian doctors, teachers (LEAD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During a meeting with External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh, Karzai reviewed the entire spectrum of bilateral relations and asked for India's increased involvement in the social sector of his war-ravaged country that has shown remarkable resilience in rebuilding itself.
		The Afghan health minister is likely to attend an international conference here on this project in March.
		India, which is among the top six contributors to Afghanistan's reconstruction, has committed over $400 million as assistance to Kabul since 2002 and is helping it in areas as diverse as infrastructure, education, healthcare and social welfare.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/02/23/23karz.shtml (324 words)

	AngrY IndiaN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mohammad Afzal is a Kashmiri accused and convicted of conspiracy to storm the Indian parliament in December 2001.
		For long has the river Kaveri remained in contention among the top issues causing a flutter in state assemblies as well as in the parliament that it would be an understatement to say that one of the major reasons for the National Water-Linking proposal was an outcome of this haggling for water.
		But the fact that a person of the Union Cabinet should break the Model Code of Conduct during the the pre-Election period shows the lack of respect for the rules and feeling of being above-the-law, being a Union minister as he is.
	www.angry-indian.com (2540 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Indian army and the air force were much stronger than their Pakistani counterparts.
		The Indian cabinet ministers, especially Baldev Singh and Vallabhbhai Patel, repeatedly ordered the general staff to prepare contingency plans for invading Pakistan.
		When the Indian political leadership pressed for the use of the air force, the British commanders argued that the terrain and climate of Kashmir were not suitable for large-scale air offensive.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1021220/asp/opinion/story_1493753.asp (601 words)

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		In a major move that will change the entire telecom situation of the Indian sub-continent, the Indian Cabinet of Ministers has approved the transfer of assets and liabilities of department of telecom services (DTS) and the department of telecom operations (DTO) to the corporatised entity at a provisional value of $14 billion.
		Based on the recommendations of a group of ministers, the Cabinet conceded several key demands of the employees, including protection of their pension benefits and payment of pension by the government even after the employees are absorbed into the corporation.
		Arrangements will be worked out for obtaining pension contribution from the public sector undertaking to be deposited with the government, and the existing group provident fund (GPF) amount of the employees would be transferred to their new GPF accounts to be operated by the corporation.
	asia.internet.com /news/print.php/471441 (327 words)

	International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pakistani and Indian reported that Musharraf's meeting with Singh on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last Wednesday had failed to result in any breakthrough on the core dispute over Kashmir, but Musharraf cast it in a positive light.
		Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh is expected to visit Pakistan for talks in early October.
		One beneficiary was former defence minister V.K. Krishna Menon, who was persuaded to buy Soviet MiGs fighter jets instead of British planes and who had received KGB funding for election expenses in 1962 and 1967, the book alleged.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/sep/19/19092005ap.htm (6532 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| India investigates false hijacking
		The Indian Government has launched an investigation into the reported hijacking of a domestic flight, which turned out to be a false alarm.
		The Boeing 737 of Alliance Air, a domestic subsidiary of Indian Airlines, was on a flight from Bombay to Delhi when it was reported seized by two hijackers.
		Senior Indian cabinet ministers, meanwhile, had convened at the airport for a crisis management meeting.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1578000/1578355.stm (591 words)

	UNIDO - Summary of the Director-General's Travel (November 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With the Indian private sector as a driving force in the formulation of the programme, the CSF will also integrate all the UNIDO ongoing and future projects under one umbrella.
		Marcos Makon, of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina and Mr.
		MagariÃ±os and the Senegalese Minister of Industry opened a Forum on Industrialization and Export Opportunities, the first UNIDO event ever organized during the meeting of the Bureau.
	www.unido.org /en/doc/4509 (1426 words)

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		The conservative Protestant minister won fame in 1995 by baptizing Norma McCorvey, the anonymous ``Jane Roe'' in the Roe v.
		NEW DELHI, India (AP)--Two Indian cabinet ministers met a Hindu religious leader Sunday, attempting to settle a bitter dispute over the site of a 16th century Muslim mosque that was destroyed by Hindu hard-liners, the Press Trust of India reported.
		The tilma, or Aztec Indian cloak, was said to be worn by Juan Diego at the time of the Virgin Mary's appearance to him in 1531 that led to Mexico's Guadalupe shrine.
	www.realnews247.com /religious_news_briefs_6_26_03.htm (1264 words)

	Politics News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the visit, the Indian minister handed over a letter from Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, inviting her to pay a visit soon.
		On the recent remarks of the Prime Minister and the opposition leader at their public meetings, Ershad said the nation is now frightened as the two leaders are on collision course branding each other as traitors.
		State Minister for Religious Affairs Mosharref Hossain Shajahan asked the misguided militants to return to normal life, expressing the hope that the militancy will come to end in a couple of months as the people and the government are united against the menace.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/dec/25/25122005pl.htm (2769 words)

	Front Page
		It also mentions that Indian nationals during their stay near land ports at night are getting involved in sexual activities in the adjoining areas, risking quick spread of HIV-AIDS.
		Both the minister for finance and planning, M Saifur Rahman, and the Bangladesh Bank governor, Salehuddin Ahmed, have publicly acknowledged that the economy is under inflationary pressure.
		The Indian water resources minister, Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, was to lead his country to the 36th JRC meet, which is now likely to be held next month.
	www.newagebd.com /2005/aug/25/front.html (7492 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		The Indian Embassy in Islamabad and the Pakistan Embassy in Delhi are open.
		PRABHU: Yes, but Prime Minister Vajpayee and for all Indians what's more important than these elections are the sovreignity the country and the security of the people of India.
		And it also recognizes that the Indian case being made, that we have been the victims of terrorism, but we need, like the United States, have the right to response in kind.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0112/27/i_qaa.01.html (3431 words)

	CNN.com - India begins corruption scandal probe - March 19, 2001
		Last Friday, two key members of cabinet, Railway Minister Mamata Bannerjee and Minister of State for External Affairs Ajit Panja resigned to protest what they say is Vajpayee's slow response to the crisis.
		The party, which is now led by Sonia Gandhi, widow of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, has ruled India for 45 of the 54 years since its independence.
		The BJP has aleady called a meeting of its elite national executive group next weekend, the highlight of which will be a public meeting to be addressed by the Prime Minister.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/19/india.scandal.02 (465 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is even being portrayed as leading India's drive toward globalization.
		The reason is political instability: the BJP's humiliating defeat in state polls is the worst suffered by any major party in the past two decades.
		Days before the debacle, the Confederation of Indian Industry, the leading business association, scaled down all growth projections for the fiscal year ending next March.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/99/0115/biz2.html (804 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		The ministers are reduced to forcing the teachers to attend their talks on threats they may lose their bonus or job eventually, an opposition activist says.
		UMNO officials insist that the hardcore supporters of Anwar remain a minority, but concede that allegations put forward by the former deputy prime minister still have to be countered.
		On top of that, Chinese and Indian cabinet ministers passed a new regulation stating that Muslim women were free to participate in Miss World and all other pageants.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-english/dowalia/news-28-11/topnews2.asp (1265 words)

	Prime Minister of Canada: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians
		Minister for Internal Trade, Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages, and Associate Minister of National Defence
		Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec and Minister responsible for the Francophonie
	www.pm.gc.ca /eng/new_team.asp (163 words)

	Fiji Commentary
		The elections held in 1992 under the 1990 Constitution could have been boycotted by the Indian community put in the event they were supported by both the National Federation Party and the Labour Party, although the former only went in to get the Constitution changed.
		To his credit, he finally realised that the Indian citizens of the country could not be excluded forever from political office, and he looked for ways to achieve a multi-racial government without tearing the country apart.
		Although the coup was initially denounced from Methodist pulpits, Methodist and SDA Ministers were prominent among the supporters of Speight and one of the aims of the proposed new Constitution is for Fiji to be declared a Christian State.
	www.justpacific.com /fiji/fijicoup2000/wilson.html (9546 words)

	The Daily Star: News Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE Prime Minister in her budget session address has mentioned that conspiracies are on to topple the elected government spearheaded by the opposition involving ex and retired members of the armed forces...
		Home Minister LK Advani yesterday said his elevation as Deputy Prime Minister should not be seen as a move to succeed Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who he stated should lead the party in the 2004...
		The appointment of hawkish Lal Krishna Advani as deputy prime minister is a signal that India's dominant party is shedding its liberal image in favour of hardline Hindu nationalism ahead of general elections...
	www.thedailystar.net /dailystarnews/200207/01 (3427 words)

	'Blasphemous' sea lane project splits Indian cabinet » Kuwait Times Website
		According to the Hindu epic Ramayana, the islands were built by an army of monkeys to allow Ram to cross the Palk Strait that separates India and Sri Lanka and rescue his kidnapped wife.
		Junior Commerce Minister Jairam Ramesh said cabinet colleague and Culture Minister Ambika Soni had been wrong to allow her ministry to deny Ram's existence to justify the sea lane project.
		In a report submitted to the Supreme Court, which is examining the project, the culture ministry said there was no proof the events described in the Ramayana ever took place or that the characters in the epic existed.
	www.kuwaittimes.net /read_news.php?newsid=Mjk5OTU2ODYy (586 words)

	It was Bhutto’s war - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaudhari’s assessment was that the Kutch operation was a diversionary attack to pin down as many Indian forces as possible for a later attack somewhere else.
		For Pakistan it was its “finest hour” and for India it was the redemption of the honour it had lost in 1962 in the fighting against the Chinese.
		I was told in Pakistan that Indians were dreaming of a banquet in Lahore but the dinner jackets were never worn as the DJ-wallas were all slaughtered by our valiant fighters.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/sep142005/nayar.asp (1195 words)

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