Friday, January 29, 1999
Clinton wants chill to thaw: Talbott
In the clearest sign yet that Washington has overcome its anger and recrimination at India's May 1998 nuclear tests and is ready to begin a new chapter in its ties with New Delhi, US Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott said on Wednesday that he sees a resolution to the sanctions issue in consonance with a more harmonious relationship the two sides hope to achieve in the near term.
"We are going to turn over a new leaf, we are not going to give up"
The story goes that as a young man, Strobe Talbott was courting a California girl named Brooke Shearer -- now his wife -- who came to New Delhi in 1968 for a programme called Experiment in International Living. Talbott wrote her so regularly at the Golf Links home she stayed in that he still remembers the address.
Assam, Karnataka, Pondy denied funds
The Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment has decided to execute its threat to stop hundreds of crores of funds to three States which have failed to hold elections to Panchayat Raj bodies.
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