Indian missile project now unstoppable: US
India's industrial base is now "sufficiently advanced'' to the extent that technological sanctions can only delay the progress of its ballistic missile programmes, according to a US Congressional Commission report. The report says that India has acquired and continues to seek Russian, US, and Western European technology for its missile programmes.

James Wolfensohn all praise for India's stewardship of the economy
World Bank president James Wolfensohn has praised India's stewardship of the economy and said it had chosen a very good course and done very well at a time when many other countries were in financial distress.

Pak only honest broker in Afghanistan, says minister
Despite Iran having recalled some of its diplomats from Islamabad, Pakistan's information minister Mushahid Hussein sounded optimistic about his country's ties with Iran saying that the possibility of a war between Iran and Afghanistan had receded.

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