India's Hindu nationalist party has expelled one of its senior leaders for writing a book sympathetic to the founder of neighbouring Pakistan, a move that analysts say reflects the ascendance of the most hardline elements since the party's recent parliamentary election defeat.

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At the turn of the millennium and till 2004, India in terms of its foreign policy achievements stood on a promising threshold. The nuclear weaponisation tests of 1998 had endowed India's foreign policy with boldness and assertiveness.

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Whoever wins the Lok Sabha election, India's foreign policy is bound to become more clearly defined. Its security concerns encourage contacts with the US and China rather than with Russia.

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The unity and integrity of India are tending to dwindle amid the divisive polemics over the ongoing dubious nuclear politics. But the real issue is not the import of enriched uranium, nuclear plant equipment or technology from the U.S.: it goes deeper. The issue involves U.S.

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he recent decision by India's ruling United Progressive Alliance government to bar ministers from attending a felicitation ceremony for the Dalai Lama is an indication not only of the blunders committed by the government in its foreign policy decision-making, but more perilously  …

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