As a country grappling with political and infrastructural problems, there are very few issues that do not evoke extreme, often diametrically opposite, reactions in India. Population control Bills, vaccination policy, farmer income initiatives, river water sharing mechanisms or surrogacy laws—there is no dearth of topics that have triggered controversy, and …
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: The allegation that the Rajiv Gandhi government had succumbed to U.S. pressure and allowed the former Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, to escape from the country was
Seema Mustafa It is a tragedy that instead of being concerned with gross injustice, the UPA government is only interested in somehow getting the nuclear liability Bill through There has not been a word from Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi who, by Congress accounts, is looking to give a new …
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Did the Emergency allow the Indira Gandhi government to ignore the concerns of Union Industry Ministry officials in allowing Union Carbide to produce methyl isocyanate-based pesticides in India? For five years, the company's application for an industrial licence lay pending, with officials in what was then …
There is renewed hope for the gas victims as people across the country have become one with their cause and are expressing outrage over denial of justice and the manoeuvres of those in authority in Bhopal who had allowed the then Union Carbide Corporation chief Warren Anderson to escape to …
New Delhi: Amid the controversies surrounding the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, the Madhya Pradesh Government is taking legal opinion on whether it can re-investigate the whole case, including the exit of the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson. It is also considering the possibility of filing a review petition against …
IN the first official response from the Gov ernment on the Warren Anderson issue Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee ha put the onus squarely on former Madhy Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh. Citing a newspaper report that appeare in an English daily on December 8, 1984 Mukherjee said, "It's on published …
The Congress today found itself hemmed in by attacks from within and outside with its leaders blaming the then party governments at the Centre and Madhya Pradesh over the escape of former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after the gas leak in December 1984. The Centre sought to play down …
Political Bureau New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition BJP for freeing former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson within hours of his arrest in December 1984 for the Bhopal gas leak disaster, the ruling Congress took a direct hit on Thursday from its own when party general secretary Digvijay Singh …
In this paper, an attempt is made to understand various dimensions of the relationship between the electricity system and politics in colonial Madras presidency between 1900 and 1947. The colonial government, which introduced new technological systems such as electricity, had its own economic and political priorities. These interests came in …
The Left in India seems to be in complete disarray. It does not look as if it can reinvent itself and make significant contributions to natio-nal politics. At the heart of the problem is its ‘success’ in West Bengal, where it has ‘ruled’ for over three decades. The most distinctive …
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Sunday urged the Centre to uphold its responsibility for resolving water disputes the State had with neighbours such as Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in the interests of maintaining national unity and integrity. Tamil Nadu, which had all wealth, faced water shortage and the …
The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, (Forest Rights Act or just FRA hereafter), enacted by the Indian Parliament in 2006, did not emerge from unproblematic and consensual deliberations. Rather the struggle to pass the act, and to keep the key elements intact, was …
''Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, Reddy brothers and Opposition Leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj would land up in jail, if a CBI inquiry was conducted into the mining scam,'' said Legislative Council Opposition former leader V S Ugrappa. Motivating: Legislative Council Opposition former leader V S Ugrappa addressing …
NEW DELHI: India's climate change negotiating team will consist of only serving government officials from now on, if Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has his way. In recent years, retired civil servants have been key negotiators in international climate change talks, with the former diplomat, …
GPYC President Sankalp Amonkar on Friday said they had no big role to play as far as the recent political wrangling in the State was concerned, but admitted whatever was happening was bad and having an effect on the administrative functioning, a cry matching that of the Bharatiya Janata Party. …
An analysis of the Union Budget 2010-11 must take account of the fact that while expenditure on infrastructure is geared primarily towards meeting the long-term development needs of the business community, social welfare expenditure merely serves the purpose of immediate political gains of the parties in power.
What are the issues that triggered the political situation Goa is currently witnessing? According to Opposition Leader Manohar Parrikar, the main issue is over mining licenses. Replying to queries during a press conference on Thursday, Parrikar said non-issuance of mining licences to people close to G7 MLAs has triggered off …
