Prospects of Regional Parties in 2014 General Elections
By Syed Ali Mujtaba,With the coming together of 11 parties to form a bloc for a joint floor strategy in the Parliament, the idea of a secular, democratic front is taking concrete shape. The 11 parties...
View ArticleBlood Diamonds? Africa has cleaned up its act
By Shantanu Guha Ray, IANS,Global experts from India and Dubai - hot spots of the world diamond trade - have called for restraint in what they call continued Western criticism of working conditions in...
View ArticleHome buyers' confidence turns positive again
By Vinod Behl, IANS,The new year has held some hope for realtors as the sentiments and confidence levels of home buyers have turned positive, shedding their reluctance to invest in residential real...
View ArticleThe farce over prevention of communal violence
By M Reyaz,As the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government decided to not table the Anti-Communal Violence Bill amidst much din in the Upper House of the Parliament on February 5, 2013, it becomes...
View ArticleInchoate Third Front does not pose a major challenge
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS,Considering that the ambition of the regional parties to form a stable government at the centre without the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hasn't been fulfilled...
View ArticleArvind Kejriwal: Will he flatter to deceive?
By Tarun Basu, IANS,If you talk to any street vendor, a fruit seller or a tea stall owner in Delhi, you'll immediately realise why the 'aam admi', the man on the street, so identifies himself with the...
View ArticleUPA recedes, but NDA or Third Front not sure either
By Saeed Naqvi, IANS, At this time of the year, Delhiites like to host Sunday lunches on their terraces and lawns where the fare ranges from indifferent kebabs to superb makke di roti and sarson da...
View ArticleMovie review: High Power - scorching rage of nuclear affected people
By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net Tarapur Atomic Power Station in Maharashtra is India’s oldest and largest nuclear power station. It has a capacity of 1400 MW units of power but even after 45 years...
View ArticleUnprecedented Mindset against North Easterners
(A Plan, Policy and Law Needed to End the Racial Discrimination)By Madhu Chandra,The death of 19 years old Nido from Arunachal Pradesh at Delhi on 31st January after shopkeepers have beaten and two...
View ArticleTread With Caution, Kejriwalji
By Dr. Mohammad Manzoor Alam,The Aap and its chief Arvind Kejriwal continue to be an enigma wrapped in mystery. Nobody can really know what are the implications of his announcing a list of corrupt...
View ArticleMyth of clean chit: Gujarat carnage and Narendra Modi
By Ram Puniyani,In a recently televised interview the Vice-President of Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi (Jan 2014) raised the storm when he said that some Congressmen might have been involved in...
View ArticleDiabetes can be controlled in over 80 percent Indian patients
By Ramen Goel, IANS,India is home to nearly 62 million diabetics - second only to China which has over 92 million diabetics.Diabetes management has become a huge business opportunity and the last few...
View ArticleWhich party will draw Muslim votes in Parliamentary Election 2014?
By Syed Zahid Ahmad,There are as many as 150 Parliamentary Constituencies where Muslim voters will decide results in the Lok Sabha Election 2014.Even Narendra Modi (promoted candidate of RSS) has now...
View ArticleBattered and betrayed: A report of visit to Muzaffarnagar camps
By Hasina Khan and Saumya Uma A visit to the camps in Muzaffarnagar was made on 19 and 20 January 2014. The objective of the trip was to obtain a first hand account of the present status of the...
View ArticleDelhi's power politics needs discussion, not posturing
By Arvind Padmanabhan, IANS,It has been more than a month since Arvind Kejriwal took over as chief minister of Delhi, but there seems to be no significant progress forward in delivering one of the main...
View ArticleUS downgrade will have domino effect on Indian aviation
By Rohit Bansal, IANS,Three key policymakers and stakeholders in India's civil aviation space, in one voice, showed collective denial last week over the downgrade of the country's air safety ranking by...
View ArticleYellen welcomed as US Fed chief with Wall Street dive
By Vatsal Srivastava, IANS,The first US trading session of February, which coincided with the swearing-in ceremony of the new US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, witnessed a blood bath on Wall...
View ArticleParesh Baruah: A Fallen Hero
By Joydeep Hazarika,Heroes rise and heroes fall. This piece is for one such hero who has fallen from grace in such a manner that he is now a criminal to scores of people whom he set out to emancipate....
View ArticleModi-led stable government doesn't assure new bull market
By Vatsal Srivastava, IANS,Indian equities have witnessed a few choppy trading sessions following the US Federal Reserve's announcement to further taper its monthly bond buying program by $10 billion...
View ArticleBlame game will not get AAP results, vision will
By Santhosh Babu, IANS,In its first month since winning 28 assembly seats in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leadership is on a roller coaster, facing challenges from within and outside. While AAP has...
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