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AT 9AM on a Friday morning, Cyrus Broacha and his team are busy finalising the script for their weekly satirical take on India’s news. This particular week’s big stories have included a cricket bribery scandal, a Bollywood actor going to jail for buying illegal guns, and a Pakistani politician … [Read more...]
PANAJI: Politicians need to be liberated of the dilemma between public good and political survival.This observation was made by Dr Jayaprakash Narayan, who was delivering a lecture on 'Politicians - Villain or Victim?', as part of the good governance lecture series initiated by The International … [Read more...]
UPA manages numbers and sheds excess weight to remain in power. But lack of legitimacy turns small issues into major crises Elections are in the air. The strenuous denials of Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari while launching the UPA's propaganda blitz, and the studiously low-key … [Read more...]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China’s new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.China says Premier Li Keqiang’s choice … [Read more...]
During his heydays in the 1990s and the early 2000s, Lalu Prasad Yadav never organised political rallies.He organised Railas.These were very big political rallies held at the Gandhi maidan in Patna. And they were deemed to be so big by Lalu that the feminine sounding word ‘rally’ proved … [Read more...]
"All human beings, whatever their cultural or historical background, suffer when they are intimidated, imprisoned or tortured... We must, therefore, insist on a global consensus, not only on the need to respect human rights worldwide, but also on the definition of these rights . . . for it is the … [Read more...]
Piyal Adhikary/European Pressphoto Agency A woman in Baruipur village, south of Kolkata, with her investment certificate from the Saradha group. NEW DELHI — Ten suicides, one murder, $ 5.5 billion in losses and more than 1,300 journalists without a job — the toll from one of India’s biggest … [Read more...]
PATNA: After the initiation of his two sons into politics, RJD chief Lalu Prasad's daughter MisaBharti, too, is ready to throw her hat in the political ring on the eve of Parivartan Rally.Everyone was surprised to see Misa Bharti at Gandhi Maidan on Tuesday morning. "There is nothing wrong in … [Read more...]
In election time, unscrupulous politicians start looking to animal spirits, writes James Crabtree Politicians hit by scandal can go to extraordinary lengths to save their jobs, but it still takes a special kind of desperation for goat worship to seem like your best survival option. Yet this was just … [Read more...]
13 May 2013| last updated at 11:06AM"The Dalai Lama has been living in India as a guest. The Indian government has said it will not allow the Dalai Lama to indulge in any political activity. China has full confidence in that," Cui Yuying, Vice Minister in the State Council Information Office, … [Read more...]