Patna: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Sunday opposed the Bihar government's proposal to take legal action against those holding demonstrations against the state and said the ruling JD(U) was moving towards dictatorship. "The Nitish Kumar government is moving towards dictatorship and it will soon collapse," he said. Accusing the chief minister of trying to gag people's voice, Prasad said, "Kumar is trying to enact a black law to prevent people...
01:20 AM, May 28, 2012
Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel if experts if India is comfortable with Middle East dictators. ...
12:24 AM, Mar 03, 2011
London: Huge funds pillaged from developing countries by dictators and stashed in Swiss banks can be returned to their original jurisdiction, effective from this month, to assist with aid projects as a sequel to historic legal reforms passed by the Switzerland government. According to a report in The Times, the Swiss government has passed a federal act on the restitution of assets of savers, such as former President of Egypt...
09:00 PM, Feb 24, 2011
Washington: Can an ordinary person turn into a despot like Hosni Mubarak? Perhaps not overnight, but power does have an effect on the psyche, psychologists say. It has been established that famous dictators like Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin share a personality profile marked by narcissism and paranoia. But, psychologists now believe that an ordinary person like Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years with an iron-hand, can also turn...
06:48 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's military delivered an ultimatum on Monday to dozens of committed protesters in Tahrir Square, nerve-centre of a movement that toppled Hosni Mubarak, to leave and let life get back to normal or face arrest. Soldiers scuffled with protesters on Sunday as the army ensured traffic flowed through the central Cairo square. Some protesters insisted on staying, determined to see through their demands for civilian rule and a free,...
05:26 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Washington: Winds of change are sweeping through the Middle East, encompassing eastern Asia and northern Africa, triggering a series of political shifts in response to widespread discontent that once went unacknowledged. Egypt's simmering unrest that forced Hosni Mubarak to resign as the president after nearly three decades of uninterrupted rule, has hogged the world's attention for weeks. The unrest exploded into mass demonstrations against the autocratic rule of Mubarak, who...
08:26 PM, Feb 12, 2011
An American publication has listed Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf as one of world's worst dictators. ...
12:55 AM, Feb 12, 2007
Gandhi said dictators ''can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.'' That hasn't always proven true. ...
01:07 PM, Dec 30, 2006
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