EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.04.10
. years ago. Both handled the ministry of external affairs (MEA), which does not involve major financial transactions unlike many other ministries, yet both were charged with financial impropriety... The writer is Managing Editor, The Financial Express.. History was repeated in 2004 when the NDAs refreshing campaign of India Shining made the Congress rediscover its love for the aam aadmi and the fashionable politically correct slogan of inclusive growth.
The North Face
This is the problem with our democracy: free will, to publish whatever and not be taken to task. We really need a bill. Indeed, from financial years 2006-07 to 2009-10, northern states witnessed higher growth rates in per capita incomes. But.
Promoting Justice?
In the coming weeks, the government will move to amend the Constitution yet again, making requisite changes in Article 16���dealing with equality of opportunity in matters of public employment.. That the civil services were one of the privileges that.
The Kubera Syndrome
This year, acting on a Hindu seers vision, the ASI dug up a ruined palace in Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh looking for gold���but found nothing. Treasure hunts in. The report did not quantify the gold and Indian temples have never seen a.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 11.12.09
For the BJP, the original national proponent of Telangana, it will be a bit of a disappointment that it could not finish the job in the six years in was in power between 1998 and 2004. Nevertheless, the BJP.. Theyre just down the street from the Bella Centre, the venue of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference whose goal is to come up with an alternative plan to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that is due to end in 2012. The Protocol made a��.
���Beautiful Music Can Bring Some Peace In Kashmir���
On September 7, the music director for life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will create history conducting the Munich-based Bayerische Staatsorchester (Bavarian State Orchestra) in the land of red chillies: Kashmir. For Mehta, 77, performing at.
Thinlas Chorol
Yes, I received financial support, but had my heart in the right place. Were you always fond of the outdoors? Id accompany my father to the mountains to hunt for animal fodder. Ill always love them. Is it common among Ladakhi women to access the .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 18.04.11
Based on this the Trinamool Congress has gathered support and strength through three elections that have established its credentials as the alternative to the CPI(M).. The 2011 election will not end the engagement of the political parties, public opinion and the affected population, which includes every individual in the State over the issue of how does West Bengal intend to take advantage of the availability of investments and so move rapidly ahead in the race to be��.
Aam Aadmi Party not an alternative, Congress will bounce back in 4-5 years
Aam Aadmi Party, Congress, Aam Aadmi Party congress, delhi polls, delhi assemly The Congress today said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will not be an alternative to it and the party is efficient enough to bounce back in the next four-five years time. PTI .
We Are Way Ahead Of Gujarat On All Indices
If you look back at 2004 and 2009 predictions, polls had then predicted fewer seats for Congress than we what actually got. Congress is often underestimated, the depth of congress leadership, presence in every village, its long history���they are not.
Oil price hike: Media divided on solutions
In fact, the TOI snap judgement (Edit page) on the issue recently pointed out that the petrol price hike did not appear aligned to any particular increase in international crude prices and that its consequences could be severe. It will not only add to.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.05.11
If ethnic groups do not find enough representation within mainstream parties, ethnic parties might come up promising to cater to their demands. But eventually ethnic parties will have to form coalitions with bigger parties and/or��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 31.05.11
As regards the Congress, it will pay the price politically for allowing a partisan party man like Mr Bhardwaj to harass a duly elected Chief Minister. The visual accompanying this article shows a BJP supporter shouting slogans��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 05.04.10
With over 3.32 crore cases pending in our courts, a former Chief Justice has said that it will take around 370 years for the disposal of all these cases even if not a single case is added from hereon. This is apart from the.. It is also, in a way, an admission by the party that the government needed better direction to implement the party agenda that was in tune with the aam aadmi... The state governments alternatives to deal with this situation are even more frightening.
In For A Fall
The run-up to elections has seen a major rally in Indias financial markets. Share prices. Indias growth slowdown over the past couple of years can be traced back to a sharp drop-off in investment, which having risen by more than 10% a year in 2007.
Whose Battle Is It?
This time, the electoral battle for this constituency is between Sushma Swaraj of the BJP and Laxman Singh of the Congress, a powerful candidate who also draws strength from his brother Digvijay Singh, a former chief minister and a senior Congress.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.11.09
Hopefully the West Bengal unit of the Communist Party of India(Marxist) knows the difference, because it is almost certain that the central leadership of the party, namely general secretary Prakash Karat, does not. A cleaning supervisor.. While theres an essential truth to this aam aadmi-like rebuke, the more useful thrust of Chaupals complaint points at the present existential dilemma of the BJP than at what should have been done 17 years ago. Of course, the BJP��.
Highland Spring?
Scotlands deer stalking estates and grouse moors, though they are not agricultural land, benefit from the outrageous boondoggles that farmers enjoy. They are exempt from capital gains tax, inheritance tax and business rates(4). Landowners seek to.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 28.10.09
America was saved from years of recession, if not depression, by a combination of massive Government stimulus spending and staunch financial confidence from China and the oil-rich West Asia. But then, saving the American... There are those within the BJP who argue that the Congress was in a similar state after the exit of P. V. Narasimha Rao as prime minister but managed to bounce back into a force to reckon with in Indian politics. These examples do not work��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 01.09.10
Nor will any purpose be served by expecting the Prime Minister to step in and retrieve the situation: He would rather let the party line prevail, not least because his voice, as well as his opinion, on political matters does not count... THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS. EDITORIAL. REAR-WINDOW ECONOMICS. The first two quarters of the year are less glamorous as far as GDP is concerned. This is so because it is the so-called slack season where nothing much happens.
The Fraud Called Opinion Polls
Even honest pollster catches a few upper caste educated people in big urban centers and takes their opinion. How representative that sample is in a country like India?... Interesting comment given that the Gandhis and Ayairs are upper caste but Mr.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 01.05.10
Make no mistake, despite the Shashi Tharoor-Lalit Modi mess, despite the financial scandals and allegations of impropriety, the Indian Premier League will endure. It will be back in 2011. If nothing else, keeping it alive and well is imperative for a variety of stakeholders. At the root. As the IPLs impresario, Mr Modi seemed to just lose the plot, not giving a damn for what the semiotics of the Indian Party League was doing to the branding of the Indian Premier League.
Necessary Birthing
The NITI Aayog has been generally welcomed. The Planning Commission was truly outmoded and misaligned with Indias contemporary challenges. It is indeed surprising that it was not replaced earlier. The functions of the Planning Commission as outlined .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.09.10
Back in 1988, the last year of Japans 30-year boom, the land in the garden of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo was allegedly worth more than the entire State of California, but that was just another way of saying unsustainable property bubble. The bubble... Though the Congress claims to be a secular party and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar is an atheist, most of the ministers, if not all, are staunch followers of one baba or another. This might��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 23.03.10
How can the CPI(M) be sure that its ranks have indeed recovered from the shock of severe losses inflicted by the Trinamool Congress unless the cadres are led back into the war zone?. The party may have instructed its cadre to listen more and talk less work more and exert authority less, but that dictum surely does not apply to the speaking heads unless there is an acute crisis of confidence within the CPI(M) about where it is headed and how it plans to get there.
Chaos Sarai
In 1987, fashion designer Bina Ramani turned a cowshed into a modish designer boutique called Once Upon A Time, decorating it with mirrors and arches, stashing it with fancy designer apparel and inviting Delhis elite to sample an alternative space.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.03.10
FINANCIAL EXPRESS. MINE THIS FPO RIGHT; MORATORIUM COSTS; LOCAL BODIES STAND TO GAIN FROM TFC - JESSICA SEDDON WALLACK; WHY THE PIGS WILL NOT FLY ANYTIME SOON - K VAIDYA NATHAN; COMBAT... Despite the recent London Conference on Afghanistan ��� where the British Governments advocacy of a deal with the Taliban seemed to have prevailed, aimed as it was at boosting the Labour Party before this summers general��.
Media In The Modi Era
Even today, it is not uncommon to find the editorial top brass of national dailies in Delhi pestering, even bullying, their lowly Gujarat reporters for getting confirmation of Delhi- based stories which they themselves have abysmally failed to do. For.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 04.11.09
The Trades Union Congress (a group of 60 unions) describes on its website how, in the name of development, UK taxpayers have paid for its three-year DfID Strategic Framework Partnership Arrangement whose key.. Far from being a saviour of aam aadmi, she was an exploitative demagogue who introduced the pernicious licence raj which institutionalised corruption and ensured that her populist slogan of Garibi hatao should really have read Garibi barrao.
Eastern Promises
I had read the fiction of Lu Xun and some essays by Mao Zedong, but didnt know much more about China apart from that it had betrayed India in 1962, hastening Jawaharlal Nehrus death, and was, for this reason, not to be trusted. I knew of the nuclear.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.08.09
It is not clear from available details carried by the Government and party-controlled Chinese media whether the four Divisions will remain in their new place of deployment after the exercise or they will move back to their original place of.. While the Maoists, PCPA and the Trinamool Congress have reasons to cry liberation and collect supporters from among the deprived and exploited, their alternative idea of justice, freedom and development does not hold water.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.11.09
So, there has been no mistaking the passion with which he has tried to get the US Congress endorse his agenda for health care overhaul right in his first year in office, knowing full well that it will be a Herculean task to upset the entrenched special interest groups. Fewer issues have been more... But the real issue is not Mr Gadkaris suitability or the lack of it, but the question as to why the party cannot choose a more credible figure from elsewhere. Besides seasoned��.