London: Nearly 20 years after Oxford University awarded her an honorary doctorate in Civil Law, democracy icon and Myanmar opposition leader Aung Saan Suu Kyi will arrive in UK to receive it at a special ceremony on June 20, the university on Thursday said. Suu Kyi studied, married and lived in Oxford for many years until 1988, when she left for Myanmar to visit her ailing mother, but did not...
03:38 PM, May 24, 2012
Geneva: India has called on countries for creating a democratic Internet governance structure to ensure a balance between private, commercial and public policy interests. "The ability of the existing internet infrastructure to be used globally for delivering programmes for development requires a free and secure internet," Dilip Sinha, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said in a statement. "Creating a democratic internet governance structure will...
02:28 AM, May 22, 2012
What has happened to the nation? The Parliament is scared of cartoons while the government resents freedom of press. News broke on Friday that the ...
04:37 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday asked the people to "firmly reject" those who mock at democratic institutions, even as he admitted India was not a "perfect democracy". Addressing an event at the central hall of parliament to mark the 60th anniversary of its first sitting on May 13, 1952, Singh said though India is not a "perfect democracy", it is a "functioning democracy" with mechanisms and safeguards...
12:20 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said the country should reject those who mock the institutions of democracy though many people often feel frustrated by the disruption of Parliament. "We are not a perfect democracy but we are a functioning democracy with mechanisms and safeguards that allow for the reconciliation of diverse interests and differences. "It is the vitality and vibrancy of our democracy that keeps the nation...
07:14 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Sunday said Indian democracy "cannot be allowed to falter" at a time when democracies of the world are operating in the complex situations including fractured mandates and explosion of the media. "The big challenge is for democracy to proceed towards being a vibrant but health democracy. It is therefore necessary to walk ahead carefully, with determination," she said addressing a function in the historic...
06:57 PM, May 13, 2012
Athens: Greeks angry at years of austerity shrugged off the risk of a euro zone exit and punished their ruling parties, which failed to win enough votes to form a ruling coalition in Sunday's election. With about 95 per cent of the vote counted, conservative New Democracy and Socialist PASOK, who have dominated Greece for decades and are the only two major parties supporting an EU/IMF bailout program that keeps...
11:14 AM, May 07, 2012
Naypyitaw: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi took her place in Myanmar's parliament on Wednesday, ushering in a historic new political era after nearly a quarter-century fight against military dictatorship. The 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate waded through throngs of foreign and local reporters as she entered parliament in Naypyitaw to join a fragile new political system after 49 years of oppressive army rule. Suu Kyi and 33 members of...
11:45 AM, May 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's powerful Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has waded into a standoff between the government and judiciary, saying the country's development and welfare depend on state institutions functioning within their constitutional limits. The country's Constitution has "clearly defined the responsibilities and functions of national institutions" and it is incumbent on them "to perform their duties within constitutional limits", he said while delivering an address at an event marking...
10:18 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Myanmar's Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended her boycott of Parliament and will be sworn in on Wednesday. The Nobel laureate had objected to the wording of the oath because it required her to pledge to protect the Myanmar constitution, which she says gives too much power to the ruling military junta. "Politics is an issue of give and take," she told reporters in the main city,...
09:11 AM, May 01, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Monday waded into a standoff between the government and judiciary, saying the country's development and welfare depend on state institutions functioning within their constitutional limits. The country's Constitution has "clearly defined the responsibilities and functions of national institutions" and it is incumbent on them "to perform their duties within constitutional limits", Kayani said while delivering an address at an event...
12:17 AM, May 01, 2012
President Waheed is still facing daily protests from Nasheed's MDP party members in Parliament, and on the streets, Nasheed's followers are out on at least five of the eleven islands in Maldives. ...
04:12 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Patna: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Saturday said an unnecessary controversy was being raised over a media report of two Army units moving towards Delhi without notifying the government in January. "It is an unnecessary controversy. Democracy in India is very strong. We don't have a situation like Pakistan here," Prasad told reporters. He said, "There is no room for dispute between the Army and the government." Speaking about Ramdev's...
02:09 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Washington: To foster greater understanding about the Indian democratic framework, a US university has decided to establish India Chair, which is said to be the first endowed Chair in North America devoted to study this aspect of the country. The India Chair in Democracy and Civil Society at the L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will be devoted to studying this...
10:15 AM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: With by-poll results in Myanmar indicating a landslide win for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), India on Tuesday welcomed the successful conduct of the by-elections and congratulated Suu Kyi for the victory. "We welcome the successful conduct of by-elections in Myanmar on April 1, 2012," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said in response to reporters' queries. The results officially announced so...
02:17 PM, Apr 03, 2012
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