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 …
BANGALORE/BELLARY: In a first indication of buckling under pressure from the powerful mining lobby, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government headed by B.S. Yeddyurappa has reportedly decided to withdraw several criminal cases filed against the supporters of Reddy brothers in different instances. A decision in this regard is learnt to …
Put the poor who have voted for this govt at the centre of reforms Sunita Narain / New Delhi June 5, 2009, 0:43 IST The new (old) government is back. The question is if it has learnt its most important lesson: How to join its political agenda to the agenda …
A new dimension was added to the discontent in the BJP with at least two ministers speaking in support of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday. Transport Minister R Ashok said that mining barons of Bellary were not alone responsible for the installation of BJP government in the State, …
NAMRATA BIJI AHUJA June 1: The Marxist government of West Bengal is apparently heading for a direct confrontation with the Trinamul Congress over its industrialisation policy. The CPI(M) leadership, which is yet to recover from its worst-ever electoral drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls, has decided to expose the Trinamul
This time, with reinforced backing, he needs to send out the right signals and take the right decisions The lawns of the All India Congress Committee (aicc) office on 24 March bristled with business-like activity from the early hours of the day. Workers were busy setting up a pandal and …
Rajat Roy / Kolkata May 22, 2009, 0:15 IST A120-acre city centre in Kharagpur, about 100 km from Kolkata, became the first casualty of the CPI(M)-led Left Front government
The opposition by farmers over the acquisition of 1,000 acres of land for an airport in Bellary which had gathered momentum during run-up to the Lok Sabha elections did result in reducing the victory margin for the BJP candidate, admitted Health Minister B Sriramulu in Bangalore on Wednesday. Sriramulu
Denied rights, aggrieved citizens abstain from voting having lost their means to earn a living, communities are increasingly using their vote to drive home the message they distrust the State. Tribals who lost their agricultural land in a forest area because of faulty implementation of forest rights laws in Maharashtra …
Politicians warring for votes in South African elections had an unanticipated problem. Posters were defaced by people wielding thick black markers, stencils, duct tape and spray-paint. African National Congress president Jacob Zuma suffered the worst, at least in Johannesburg. His detractors added horns to his visage, a forked tongue, a …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO BHUBANESWAR The victory of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), the anti-displacement forum which has been spearheading the movement against Rs 52,000-crore Posco steel project, in the just-concluded Dhinkia gram panchayat polls is unlikely to create any further problem to the country
A member of the Taluk Panchayat has been obstructing the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) and thus he needs to be disqualified, said activists of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha. President of the Taluk Unit of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha Holalur Shankar addressing the media …
The Maoists want a provision in the electoral rules to arm the voter with the right to reject a candidate, but if the voters are granted such a provision, will they allow them to participate in the elections, or still insist on boycotting them? It is high time the Maoists …
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. This paper identify two waves of service sector growth, a …
In recent decades, the Arctic has undergone major environmental, socio-economic and political changes. The rapid loss of Arctic ice is having negative consequences on northern communities and lifestyles, on iconic species such as the polar bear, and is altering the ecology of the Arctic ocean and the permafrost lands. With …
Sukanya Shetty Uran, April 23 ADDING a new dimension to the anti-special economic zone (SEZ) campaign, a Raigad activist group has leaped into Lok Sabha elections for the first time and is contesting from one of the 25 seats in Maharashtra that will go to polls in the second phase …
