Though Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, the BJD MP and chief advisor to Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, was at the helm of affairs in the BJD ...
11:25 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said that minority sub-quotas are not aimed at minority appeasement but the empowerment of all communities. ...
10:14 PM, May 29, 2012
A regimen of disbelief When you attend any event surrounding B S Yeddyurappa, you'd be surprised by the stubborn disbelief over the fact that ...
06:52 PM, May 28, 2012
Jagan Mohan Reddy was born on December 21, 1972, in Pulivendula village of Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh, to former state chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and Vijaya Lakshmi. He has a sibling - his sister Sharmila. Like his other family members, Jagan is a Protestant Christian. After having early schooling in the Pulivendula village, Jagan was enrolled in Hyderabad Public School. Jagan's plunge into politics came in 2004 when he...
10:08 AM, May 28, 2012
Tuhin A Sinha's protagonist Shruti Ranjan, at first glance, could be any of us. A newspaper journalist in a live-in relationship with a TV reporter, she agrees to an arranged marriage after discovering her boyfriend is involved with her best friend. So far, so cliched. But this is not going to be a rom-com chick lit beach-read. Sinha aims at a gritty political page-turner, and even before his heroine has...
01:34 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: They are in themselves formidable power centres in India. And they are all women. Mayawati, J Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee and Sheila Dikshit form the awesome female quartet who have not only defied the glass ceiling of India's politics marked by patriarchy and sycophancy, but have also proved to be larger-than-life figures within their parties. Despite their aura and popularity, all's not well in the powerful female quartet's camps....
04:19 PM, May 17, 2012
It was Friday the 13th in May last year - the day the whole of Tamil Nadu had been waiting for with hope and expecting ...
11:18 AM, May 15, 2012
It was 2006, the mid of UPA-I tenure, and we moved to Class 9, all enthusiastic about the new subjects. One of the subjects, Social Science, has always been a tough bite for students and Political Science, which comes under it, has always been something interesting. Earlier, we had been reading about the bills and acts of the Indian government, but it was real fun for us now, as we...
08:48 PM, May 14, 2012
It has been more than two months since the Maldivian island experienced political turmoil but the scars of the crisis still seem to run deep. ...
08:43 AM, May 11, 2012
Smart, sassy and funny, 'The Moslems are Coming', is a well written book which emerged from Essa's award-winning blog on Thought Leader. An insightful take on global politics, he tackles race and religion, bigotry from anti-Semitism to opposition to blacks, gives a fresh perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict and casts new light on old stereotypes. He also presents the existing views about a particular issue which is talked about in...
03:39 PM, May 09, 2012
Can a woman's humiliation change the destiny of a nation? It did in the Mahabharata. And it does, once again, in the lawless Bihar of the 1990s When journalist Shruti Ranjan, newly-wed wife of the Deputy Commissioner of Kishanganj is brutally raped by a 'politically sheltered local goon', all her attempts at getting justice are crushed by a corrupt and complicit state government. Thats when the charismatic Sharad Malviya, a...
11:38 AM, May 07, 2012
Lahore: Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan has expressed his willingness to contest elections while suggesting the formation of a government of technocrats because politicians have failed to deliver good governance. Khan, 76, made the remarks while addressing students at the Punjab University on Wednesday. Khan has been accused of running proliferation network and providing nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and others. He advised PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif...
01:49 PM, May 03, 2012
Bangalore: The Congress is going all out to woo a powerful caste group in Karnataka that is generally perceived to be a strong supporter of the rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) even as the latter dithers in setting its house in order. State Congress leaders are set for a major score as they have succeeded in roping in party president Sonia Gandhi to be present at a birthday function of...
12:33 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: To groom aspiring women politicians by helping them develop necessary skills, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore on Tuesday launched a certificate course in political leadership for them. The three-month long programme called as India-Women in Leadership programme by the Centre for Public Policy (CPP) aims to equip aspiring women leaders with the requisite skills, knowledge and expertise in various aspects of governance. According to a statement,...
06:30 PM, Apr 10, 2012
The communal genie whose support the Congress invoked to oust Kerala's first Communist government more than 50 years ago are still around and turning the state's politics viral. Across the fractured polity there is animated discussion on how the decision of the Indian Union Muslim League, the second largest constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front, to press its year-old demand for an additional ministerial berth will affect the communal...
10:56 AM, Apr 10, 2012
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