Confident that Karnataka is set to return to the BJP fold, Narendra Modi reached out to the two new States messily created out of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, promised solace to the wounded Seemandhra, and lambasted the Congress leadership for wielding the butcher’s knife in a situation that called for great … Read More
Narendra Modi escalated his assault on the Nehruvian economic model that sought to run the economy through laws and distrusted the hard-working traders who created wealth and brought prestige to the nation with the sweat of their brow and quality of their product. Addressing the All India Traders Convention at … Read More
In the wake of a sting operation exposing 11 opinion poll agencies as willing to tweak their findings and show higher results for certain parties, obviously for a consideration, some television channels and news magazines have cancelled their contracts with the named agencies. The head of a leading new channel, … Read More
Two years after two Italian marines were arrested for shooting two Indian fishermen in Indian waters, the trial is yet to begin and the only new development in the case is that on Monday (February 24) the Government of India decided to drop anti-piracy charges against the accused, giving rise … Read More
‘Hindu terrorism’ maybe the UPA’s grand denouement. The Congress’s most maligned monster got a clean chit in the riots of 2002; his Minister of State for Home was not named in the CBI chargesheet in the Ishrat Jehan encounter case; and nemesis is now hunting their former prosecutrix. Now, Army … Read More
Border security has many dimensions, including sealing the porosity that permits drugs, fake currency, arms, and infiltrators to enter the country, Narendra Modi thundered at a gargantuan Fateh Rally organised by the youth wings of the BJP and Akali Dal at Jagraon in Ludhiana district of Punjab on Sunday. The … Read More
Narendra Modi continued his blitzkrieg in the Northeast on Saturday, stunning the region with his attention, the like of which it has never received in any Parliamentary election since independence. Addressing gigantic and enthusiastic crowds in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura, and tackling the burning issues in each, the BJP’s … Read More
After his awkwardly worded bail plea (“the victim was an educated modern woman”) failed and the legal pincer tightens inexorably, Tarun Tejpal, founder-editor of Tehelka, is seeking to project himself as a victim of a “Right Wing political conspiracy” as Goa, where he is being tried for rape, sexual harassment … Read More
Ghulam Nabi Fai, the high profile US citizen of Kashmiri origin (born Badgam, India) who was prosecuted in December 2011 for working as an unregistered lobbyist for Pakistan, has re-emerged with a bang to demand self-determination for the people of the State, a euphemism for independence. He was speaking at … Read More
In a ringing endorsement of the farm-centric policies pursued by former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa and signalling appreciation for his return to the Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi reiterated his belief that agriculture is the root of national prosperity and the health of our villages and farmers alone would ensure … Read More
