EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 21.09.10
. can happen only in India! Meet Mr PJ Thomas, the Kerala cadre IAS officer, who has been chosen by the United Progressive Alliance Government to head the statutory anti-corruption body, the Central Vigilance Commission.. Any Indian concession under duress will become the baseline for further demands by the Kashmiri Muslims in the next phase of their agitation in an attrition strategy now drawing on globally tested Muslim protest techniques. Sections of the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 27.09.10
Separatists like Mr Geelani want nothing less than India to quit Jammu and Kashmir. Talking to them is a futile exercise. The Congress-led UPA Government must send out an unambiguous message that the entire nation��.
Omar Abdullahs pro-Pakistan stance and need for Presidents rule in JandK
As said, the NC, which has been in the drivers seat since January 2009, converted the Monsoon Session of the State Legislature into an anti-India platform, with the Congress and the PDP virtually siding with it.. Constitutionally, politically and.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 20.09.10
The Government must make up its mind to improve one area of its working ��� be it ending corruption or bringing reforms in the police or the judiciary or the criminal justice system. It can take up issues... So, when he came to know that Omar was being pilloried not just by the Opposition BJP and the PDP but even powerful elements in the Congress at the all- party meeting, he addressed a press conference in Kolkata to reiterate faith in his friend. Kashmir is a difficult��.
PDP, BJP seal alliance to form government: Talks with Hurriyat, phased AFSPA.
Sources said the 11-page document raises the issue of reconciliation with Pakistan, refers to a dialogue process with ���all stakeholders, including Hurriyat���, and suggests a nuanced way forward on AFSPA by denotifying the Disturbed Areas Act in phases.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 02.09.09
All-Party Hurriyat Conference hardliner Syed Ali Geelanis pre-conditions for talks with the Union Government deserve to be trashed with the contempt they deserve: If conceded, these demands will amount to handing over Jammu.. THE INDIAN EXPRESS. COLUMN. WHEN TWO BECOME ONE. COOMI KAPOOR. Wistful suggestions of the synergy that could emerge from an alliance between the BJP and the Congress are sometimes voiced, from well-meaning��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 08.01.10
These organisations can form alliances with existing terrorist organisations or foreign Governments to help achieve their strategic aspirations.. PAKS HURRIYAT RETREAT UNDER INDIA PRESSURE... INDIAN EXPRESS. EDITORIAL. HUB IN THE EAST. Bangladeshs Supreme Court has set up an interesting phase in the countrys constitutional life. This month the court lifted a four-year stay on a ban on the abuse of religion for political purposes, and now��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.07.10
THE INDIAN EXPRESS. EDITORIAL. THE LAND OF CHUP. Repudiating the rationale behind the Supreme Court freeing American historian James Laines book on Shivaji, the Maharashtra government is pondering a sweeping law against.. This is a mob without a leader: the political opposition, the PDP and the Hurriyat have abdicated that space, leaving the young chief minister to cast about himself for solutions as they sneer at him from every possible forum.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 09.09.10
WILL AFSPA BE DILUTED? KANCHAN GUPTA. The Union Government, according to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is groping for a solution to the current unrest in the Kashmir Valley where separatists, with the help of their rage boys.. THE INDIAN EXPRESS. EDITORIAL. THEY ARE BACK. Arjun Munda of the BJP has petitioned Jharkhand Governor M.O.H. Farook that he be invited to form a government. The move seeks to put back the BJP-JMM alliance that��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 08.09.10
After a bitter divorce just three months ago, the BJP and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Tuesday staked claim to form a government in the state.. The writer is president, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi express@expressindia.com.. An article in the CPMs Peoples Democracy talks about reports which indicated that the prime ministers office had sought the opinion of some ministries regarding issues related to the Indian Patents Act. It says that what makes��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.09.10
ACT ON THE LESSONS FROM NIYAMGIRI ELSEWHERE TOO; OBAMA MUST WALK THE TALK; BID TO MALIGN INDIAS IMAGE; BABRI ISSUE HAS LOST ITS POLITICAL TRACTION - BY MANOJ JOSHI; EGG ON THE ACADEMIESFACES OVER.. There is a strong perception that many in the BJP top brass were not really aware, or were informed at the last minute, of the partys moves to form a government in Jharkhand with the JMM led by Arjun Munda.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 23.09.10
Ever since the city and the Government of India set upon the task of preparing for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, there have been stories galore of rank ineptitude and inefficiency of the various agencies involved in the infrastructure development of... The lack of support for the BJPs position is apparent from the fact that Rattan Singh Ajnala ��� a leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal, its ally ��� was part of the team which visited hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.09.10
But that is not what this is all about; the tolerance of shining India to the poverty of suffering Bharat and vice versa is why the intolerable contradictions fail to create a peoples alliance that can demand and ensure some consistency on certain issues like.. Squeezed by their inability to deliver on azadi, the failure of sustained talks with New Delhi, and their rhetoric hijacked by the PDP, the moderate separatists, found themselves getting increasingly irrelevant.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 15.09.10
Curfew, including for the first time at night, has been defied consistently and symbols of state attacked by organised mobs led by separatists ��� the Hurriyat and Muslim League ��� interspersed with foreign militants fishing in troubled waters. The first.. THE INDIAN EXPRESS. EDITORIAL. MARGINS OF INFLATION. The government has released the new wholesale price index (WPI) with a larger weight accorded to manufacturing, and less to primary products.
Anti-National Thoughts | Kafila
Innumerable and continuing disputes over water-sharing between states, which go beyond bickering between state governments and often take a popular form, are another indicator that the idea of India cannot be assumed.. Indeed, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) formed after the accord of 1985, which won the state assembly elections held thereafter, has had poll alliances in Assam with the BJP and has been one of the allies of the National Democratic Alliance.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.09.10
The Prime Minister reiterating the Governments offer of dialogue with separatists if they give up violence is unlikely to cut any ice with the factions of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference and their foot soldiers... THE INDIAN EXPRESS. EDITORIAL. NO SECOND ACTS. As the nation tensely awaits the Allahabad high courts judgment on one of the most defining cases of our history, one partys silence has been deafening. The BJP, which made its political fortune on the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.10.10
The European Parliament Resolution further notes that while the Gilgit- Baltistan region enjoys no form of democratic representation whatsoever, the State of Jammu and Kashmir (administered by India) enjoys a unique status under. For instance, the Jamia Millia Islamia academic is known to have been in touch with Syed Ali Shah Geelani who leads the hardline faction of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference and has been steadfast in refusing to talk about anything��.
JandK govt formation: PDP, BJP talks in decisive phase
The stage is set for a meeting between the PDP and top government functionaries on Tuesday morning. ���The negotiations have entered a decisive phase and meetings are on to iron out differences. The fate of the alliance and the decision on government .
Address by His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Monday said all state chapters and aspirants must ensure that all forms are returned to the Office of the National Organizing Secretary at the National Secretariat, Abuja not later than midnight.. Only yesterday, Government Science Secondary School in Yobe State was bombed by insurgents, killing our promising young children who were seeking education to build the country and support their parents.