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The Left-front in the UPA has been claiming that the Nuclear deal is a reason to have more strategic tie-up with the US, and so the opposition. The real question that the Left-Front needs to ask itself is, "Is this deal in the best national interest?" It's interesting to note that basis the instructions from its handlers in Middle East the Samajwadi party has suddenly dropped its opposition to the deal. Part of the opposition may have also gone away as a possible compromise on the cases against Sahara. The Left has been careful is saying that it opposes the deal because it is pro-US; its opposition is not because it is not in National Interest. The past convergence of the strand of National interest and the Anti-US ideologies has long disappeared. India today cannot afford to have a domestic and/or foreign policy based on ideologies. Its policies should be and are more and more based on only one Ideology and that is one of National Interest. The Jholawala's reasoning

I think its time that the Prime Minister gather the resolve to sign the Nuclear Deal. Frankly I don't think he has much to loose. The monsoons are expected to be normal, the Oil price is going to continue to remain in the above $130 range until the US Elections are through, and Manmohan Singh is not likely to serve another term as PM. On the other hand the communist are most likely to loose in far greater measure then they can imagine. The time to call the bluff has come. If however, the Cong-I cannot gather enough courage to make a stand then I think Manmohan should just hang his gloves. I think he is too good a man represent a party which lacks courage of conviction to do the right thing.

  Tibet is back in news and this time not for Beijing-Lhasa Train project, but for the pro-autonomy and Anti-Chinese demonstrations. The current wave of violence happens at a time when China can least afford it and is a renewed wave that takes place after a gap of nearly 20 years. In 2008 Beijing will host the Olympics and the current demonstrations don't augur well with its plan to emerge on the world space as a super power in a otherwise uni-polar world dominated by the US. The Chinese build up for the Olympics has meant that most of the development and investments have been focused on Beijing and a couple of large cities. This development has been at the cost of Rural China. The situation has reached a point where the Communist Party leaders from the provinces surrounding Beijing have started complaining about the water shortage . A case in point being the province of Hebei which has been suffering from a severe drought but has to make arrangements to supply a additional 3

Last couple of days a critical and important piece of news that has been doing the rounds of the newspapers is the future of the Pune Power Model. MERC or the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission recently passed a judgment stating that the MSEDL or the Power Distributor needs to suspend the Pune Power Model. Ok so how does this make any difference? Well to understand this in greater detail lets first understand the Pune Power Model. The Pune Power Model is a scenario where some 80 odd major power consumers in Pune decided that they would generate their own Power and the difference between the cost of captive power generation and the grid based power cost will be borne by the Power consumers in Pune. In return for bearing this additional cost the consumer will not face any power cuts. This model has been working smoothly for the past 2 years. However, it needs to be remembered that as a city Pune has been experiencing a growth that far surpasses Mumbai. This inevitably has lead

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