New Delhi: National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has called for a controlled democracy in the country. Speaking at Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, he said, "India should have controlled democracy like Malaysia to get quicker results." This came a day after former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad said that India needed a much stronger Central Government and less powerful federal structure to make rapid economic progress. "India would...
04:25 PM, Dec 03, 2011
New Delhi: Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir bin Mohamad Friday said India could be China in terms of economic success if it was "less democratic" and remarked "sometimes democracy can paralyse decision-making". "India would be like China if it was little less democratic," Mohamad said. His remarks assume significance in the wake of the ongoing logjam in parliament over foreign equity in multi-brand retail, which has left the house paralysed...
03:35 AM, Dec 03, 2011
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The Parliament has been adjourned for the 9th day in a row; the notional loss to the country's exchequer touches the Rs 36 crore mark. ...
04:05 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad said that India needed a much stronger Central Government and less powerful federal structure to make rapid economic progress. "India would be like China if it was little less democratic," Mahatir said in New Delhi on Friday at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit while speaking on the topic Challenges of Change in the 21st Century. Claiming that Singapore has done tremendously well ...
01:32 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad said that India needed a much stronger Central Government and less powerful federal structure to make rapid economic progress. "India would be like China if it was little less democratic," Mahatir said in New Delhi on Friday at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit while speaking on the topic Challenges of Change in the 21st Century. Claiming that Singapore has done tremendously well...
01:32 PM, Dec 02, 2011
A large number of people say that they prefer a strong leader who does not have to bother about contesting elections. ...
11:48 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: In the 'Democracy in India' section of the Hindustan Times-CNN-IBN survey, an overwhelming majority of people surveyed say India needs electoral reforms to strengthen its democracy (86%) while almost 81% back social activist Anna Hazare on his controversial right-to-recall campaign. Which also explains why an impressive 66% of the respondents rate the mainstream media's role during Hazare's campaign at Ramlila Maidan and elsewhere as 'positive'. Again, while 65%...
05:29 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian medical officials say that one demonstrator has been killed outside the country's Cabinet building, where protestors have camped overnight to prevent the entrance of the country's newly-appointed prime minister. Witnesses say that the protestor was killed when an army vehicle ran over him early on Saturday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media. Thousands more demonstrators are gathered...
02:31 PM, Nov 26, 2011
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's flight path from Tripoli to Kabul this week should have given the US administration some reason to reflect on ...
11:50 AM, Oct 22, 2011
Thimphu: For a sign of things to come with isolated Bhutan's young democracy, look no further than a draconian smoking law, some bar talk, and a Facebook page. For decades, Bhutan has been the world's most reclusive kingdom, with conservative villagers living under an absolute monarch. The introduction of parliamentary democracy in 2008 by the then-king was forced on many reluctant subjects who still look to the monarch as the...
01:27 PM, Oct 16, 2011
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to this week's edition of World View with me Suhasini Haidar. It has been nine months and counting the fires across the Arab world continue to burn and the Arab Spring as it is called is continuing to claim lives and in fact Governments. Today, we want to talk about what India could have done and can still do. Remember, it all began last December ...
06:07 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to this week's edition of World View with me Suhasini Haidar. It has been nine months and counting the fires across the Arab world continue to burn and the Arab Spring as it is called is continuing to claim lives and in fact Governments. Today, we want to talk about what India could have done and can still do. Remember, it all began last December...
11:48 AM, Sep 13, 2011
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to this week's edition of World View with me Suhasini Haidar. It has been nine months and counting the fires across the Arab world continue to burn and the Arab Spring as it is called is continuing to claim lives and in fact Governments. Today, we want to talk about what India could have done and can still do. Remember, it all began last December...
11:48 AM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Sunday hailed Anna Hazare's agitation as one which had awakened even the non-political class and insisted that such movements also have a place in democracy as they serve to change the status quo. BJP felt Anna Hazare's agitation had achieved much for democracy and empowerment of the people. "This is a victory of democracy. It was a convergence of agitation on the street and debate in...
08:26 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Parliament passed a resolution accepting the three demands put forth by Anna Hazare. ...
11:44 PM, Aug 27, 2011
New Delhi/Jerusalem: The hopes of the Arab Spring have, for some of the world's most established democracies, given way to a Summer of Despair. Riots in Britain. Crippling European debt burdens from Greece to Spain. In India, a deluge of corruption scandals that have crippled the world's largest democracy as it faces widespread malnutrition and a desperate need for land reform. And let President Barack Obama sum up the recent...
11:27 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Karan Thapar examines if, the timid manner in which media has shied away from finding out more a proper response from free press. ...
10:43 PM, Aug 12, 2011
Washington: The Deputy Chief of Mission at the Myanmar Embassy in Washington, who had previously served in New Delhi, has defected and is now seeking political asylum in the United States saying he fears for his life back home, a media report said on Monday. Deputy Chief of Mission Kyaw Win, 59, told Radio Free Asia (RFA), which is funded by the US Congress, that he made the decision to...
09:10 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Riyaadh: Wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not seen in public since an attack on his palace in early June, is well enough to soon return to Yemen and will make a media appearance within the next couple of days. Speculation about Saleh's health and the likelihood of his return to Yemen have been rife since he was hurt when a bomb went off on June 3 in a mosque...
11:57 PM, Jun 26, 2011
Beirut: Syria's foreign minister claimed on Wednesday the Damascus government would soon present "an unprecedented example of democracy" in the troubled Middle East, a bold assertion for an embattled regime that has kept a hardline authoritarian grip on its people for decades. Speaking during a televised news conference, Foreign Minister Walid Moallem also lashed out at European governments for slapping sanctions on Syria for its bloody crackdown on street protests...
01:33 AM, Jun 23, 2011
