EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 17.03.11
Clearly, the Congress, which has no qualms about misusing agencies of the state, as we have seen with the CBI being instructed to frame false cases against BJP leaders and senior police officers in Gujarat, is determined to hit this.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. OUR TAKE. WITHERING OF THE JASMINE. The jasmine revolution began as a romance and is now ending in tragedy. As the world dithers on intervention, Libyas dictator Muammar Gaddafi is rapidly rolling up��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 08.09.10
That it does not pay to stand aloof at a time when most State Governments are cooperating with New Delhi and coordinating their anti-insurgency operations is demonstrated by the State administration being caught unawares by last weeks hostage crisis;.. But what about the BJP? Once bitten, yet not twice shy? The takeaway from this second innings seems to be the choice of chief minister: BJPs Jamshedpur MP and former CM Arjun Munda is tipped to take over.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 22.09.10
INDIAS GAMES SHAME GROWING; HOPELESS SOLUTIONS - BY VIKRAM SOOD; THE RIGHT WAY TO PLAY RACE CARD GAME - BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS; BIG BANG AND OTHER PREJUDICES - BY JAYANT V. NARLIKAR; THE.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. SETTLING SCORES. One standard operating procedure of dealing with an accusation is to state loud and clear that everyone else is guilty of the same thing. That the subcontinental mind��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 04.05.10
It can be argued that the Congress needed the support of BSP, RJD and SP MPs to defeat the recent cut motion in Parliament and hence struck a deal... HINDUSTAN TIMES. A POLICY? RUBBISH. RAVI AGARWAL. The Cobalt-60 radiation tragedy at Mayapuri in Delhi has unearthed many skeletons, which some seem to be desperate to hide. There is already a life lost, and maybe others.. I applied for this job, came back and told Mukesh that Ive applied.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 01.04.10
. a theory. We have no empirical data to corroborate the actual sequence of events that would have taken place at the time of the birth of the universe, if at all it was created through a Big Bang... Just over a year ago, when Delhi was to go for Assembly polls, the Congress Government appeared to be extremely generous towards the aam admi. It issued.. He has persisted with the illness for over two weeks now but the BJP seems to be in no mood to find a cure.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.06.11
There is a big question mark over whether the DMK will continue its ties with the Congress although for the time being, it will swallow all humiliation for the sake of political compulsions... Sahafat, published from Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Dehradun, writes in an editorial (June 10): It is obvious that the major reason is to keep Uma Bharti away from MP... The principal Opposition party, the BJP, is far more divided and dysfunctional than even the Congress.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 28.12.10
The bigger problem is that the Congresss support base has suffered terrible erosion in several big States like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar since then. Therefore, despite Mr Rahul Gandhis.. In any case, it is difficult to see what the US beef is, given as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wrote in HT, Indias exports to the US grew around 40% between 2004 and 2009 while US exports to India grew nearly 170% during the same period. As a result, trade surplus between the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 04.11.09
For Mr Koda, who had contested and won the Assembly election on a BJP ticket, it came with the creation of Jharkhand in November 2000, a State carved out of Bihar ostensibly to ensure better governance and development for.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. LOOKING INTO NATURE. RAJ GANDHI. Some of natures deepest mysteries lie locked away in the realm of the small. And the small is the key to understanding the big. The biggest object we know, our��.
Delhi elections: BJP applies big bang theory, ropes in 120 MPs
Delhis BJP chief ministerial candidate, Kiran Bedi, with party leaders on her way to file her nomination ahead of the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections, at Krishna Nagar, in New Delhi. (Photo by Arvind Yadav/ HT) .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.06.10
But what makes Mr Bhardwaj particularly undesirable as Governor is his penchant for backroom politics and natural urge to spite Opposition parties, more so the BJP. There is also the additional factor that.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. READ MY MIND. Face it, India and Pakistan will have to think of new and inventive ways to broker a lasting peace. To our chagrin, Pakistan is, on the face of it, one or two steps ahead of us. In what could be a new chapter of��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 25.06.10
One, it abolished the need for quorum in Parliament and State legislatures, thus making it possible for just a handful of Congress MPs to sit late in parliament and make laws for the country at will... note vis-��-vis security. Let Delhi, as a city, win a gold medal. Kiran Bedi is a retired IPS officer The views expressed by the authors are personal. ***************************************. HINDUSTAN TIMES. BEYOD THE BITE.. BIG BANG POLICY WITH LITTLE IMPACT.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 18.03.11
They throw their weight around depending on the strength of their representation in Parliament and the national party in power ��� be it the BJP or the Congress ��� has to oblige for fear of losing the majority in the House.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. CUTS AND BOLTS THEORY. Diversification is clearly the name of the game for Colombian criminals today. We thought that there would be enough by way of jobs in the Cali or Medellin cartels to keep those��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 16.10.10
The left/progressive groups, the Indian Muslim Congress-USA (IMC-USA), and Pankaj Mishra writing for The New York Times, seemed stunned at the verdict of the Allahabad High Court in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.. In the United States, basketball and baseball, not to speak of tennis, golf and boxing, are all viable because the economy and consumer base are big enough to support all of these... We could today rope them in but that is not easy.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.10.09
CHETAN CHAUHAN IN NEW DELHI. chetan@hindustantimes.com. Major rivers of the world, including the Ganga and Brahmaputra, are facing a big human onslaught, a point to note ahead of the climate change summit in��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.11.09
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. DANCE WITH THE DRAGON. The east wind is prevailing over the west wind ��� at least as long as the global economy remains trapped in a depression. This is the geopolitical weather forecast that... Most recently, the rebellion within the BJPs Karnataka government was openly settled in New Delhi; and assembly elections are most often accompanied by professions by Congress leaders that their party president would decide��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 18.05.11
As Chief Minister, he will have to constantly walk a tight rope and pander to the Congresss partners in the UDF to keep all of them satisfied at all times. Even the smallest UDF member can bring down his Government if it feels��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 27.12.10
Clearly, India could do without the shame of jailing a humanist for sedition while the hate-mongers responsible for the cataclysmic events of 1984 ( Delhi massacre), 1992 (Ayodhya demolition) and 2002 (Gujarat riots) strut around as patriots.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. CONGRESS MUST PULL UP ITS SOCKS. PANKAJ VOHRA. The BJPs fresh attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the governments refusal to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)��.