Since Mr Fernandes' resignation, Jaswant Singh has held the additional charge of being India's defence minister.

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Jaswant Singh, India's foreign minister, was booked on the return evening flight as the guest of the Chinese government.

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The alleged incident was one of the two issues Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh proposed to take up during his talks with Aziz - the other being the intrusion from Pakistan.

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In his own budget speech, India's finance minister, Jaswant Singh, proposed a modest dent in the subsidies poured into both food and agriculture by announcing an increase in the price of fertiliser.

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India's main opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, expelled one of its senior members, Jaswant Singh, a former foreign and finance minister, for publishing a book that praises Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

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And Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh also said India would not do anything to complicate matters for Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, despite a warning by the General to India not to exploit his country's current crisis.

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This was a claim by another unrelated former foreign minister, Jaswant Singh, that he knew of an American spy in the office of a former Congress prime minister who had spilled some of India's nuclear secrets.

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Having gone to the trouble of commissioning a detailed report on how to do this from Vijay Kelkar, one of his senior advisers, the finance minister, Jaswant Singh, praised the result and then ignored it in its entirety.

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More moderate politicians, such as India's foreign minister, Jaswant Singh, have suggested a less aggressive posture: a capability to respond to a nuclear attack, along with a promise that India would not itself be the first to use nuclear weapons.

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