Continuing his agenda of inclusive development versus divisive vote-banks in mammoth rallies across Raipur, Durg and Bematara districts of Chhattisgarh, the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi mocked at the peddlers of the politics of birthright and entitlement and said that in a democracy a shoe-shine boy can rise and lead … Read More
By facilitating a meeting between America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Afghan Taliban in Goa, the UPA Government seems to have unilaterally compromised India’s strategic interests in Kabul and its friendly relations with Tehran, besides ‘forgiving’ the Taliban for its dubious role during the hijack of Indian Airlines aircraft … Read More
Although the Indian media has largely downplayed Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s thinly veiled threat that “guns can be a permanent solution for Jammu and Kashmir”, after his November 10 meeting with Sartaj Aziz, security and foreign relations advisor to the Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, the statement … Read More
Barely 24-hours before the first phase of polling in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-infested districts of Dantewada, Rajnandgaon, Sukma, Bastar, Kanker, Kondagaon and Bijapur on Monday, security forces recovered an additional 100 kg of explosives during extensive combing operations in the area; an IED exploded in Kanker, injuring two personnel of the Indo … Read More
The exoneration of Bharatiya Janata Party legislators Sangeet Singh Som and Suresh Rana on charges of instigating the Muzaffarnagar riots was a fortuitous circumstance that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi exploited with élan at the massive Vijay Shankhnaad rally at Bahraich today, to crystallize public sentiment against the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan … Read More
Chhattisgarh’s former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi lambasted his party unit as a “divided house” and completely undid the efforts of Congress president Sonia Gandhi when she braved the Maoist-infested Bastar region this morning (Nov. 7) and sought to put the Raman Singh Government in the dock. Politically, the 12 Assembly … Read More
The security cover provided to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be tested today as he travels to Jagdalpur in the Maoist-infested Bastar region to campaign for the Raman Singh Government, amidst clear alerts given by the Intelligence Bureau that Naxals are planning to target Narendra Modi during these elections; … Read More
In the good old days, when the sarkar was still the mai-baap and the aam janata knew its place in the pecking order, opinion polls were the exclusive luxury of the Congress which ruled at the Centre and in the States and commissioned surveys via the intelligence agencies. By all … Read More
As a conglomerate of once-impressive ideological and regional stalwarts (some still formidable in their respective States) met in the capital to explore the contours of a possible Third Front alliance for the 2014 general elections, one noted the visceral hatred for the Gujarat Chief Minister across large parts of the … Read More
For nearly six months, the Kerala stone and sand mafia, backbone of the State’s powerful construction lobby, have exerted all their might to silence V Jaseera, a feisty housewife and mother of three, who has taken her fight to protect the coastline from illegal sand mining in Kannur district to … Read More
