EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 03.07.10
BUSINESS STANDARD. THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL? - T N NINAN; LESSONS FOR THE G20 - INDIRA RAJARAMAN; DROPPED CATCHES OF MEDICAL HISTORY - DEVANGSHU DATTA; THERE ARE BEGGARS AND BEGGARS - SUBIR.. But just as the audience braced itself for the final, heart-stopping moment, when Mr. Kumar was expected to do a Naveen Patnaik on his ally of 14 years, he stopped, weighed the situation and pulled back from the brink.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 23.10.10
GROWTH NURSED BY SPOTLESS CABINET. BUSINESS STANDARD. TEMPTATIONS OF POWER -T N NINAN; EDUCATION REVOLUTION- SHUBHASHIS GANGOPADHYAY; STUMBLING ON THE GENDER GAP - NEHA.. This territorial character of dogs lies at the heart of the ABC programme... She also makes most people uneasy in her presence and is not the cosy aunt that Sheila Dikshit is, nor articulate about her reforms �� la Nitish Kumar. In fact, the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.03.10
At the heart of the problem lies our piecemeal approach to treating effluents flowing into not just Ganga but practically every river in this country, whether is Yamuna ��� which has been converted into an open drain ��� or Narmada. We simply.. Nitish Kumars thumping victory in Bihar (in alliance with BJP) during the Lok Sabha elections of 2009 (when the countrywide trend was in favour of the opposing UPA) was the Bihar electorates reward for his performance.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 01.09.10
month september 01, edition 000614, collected and managed by durgesh kumar mishra, published by ��� manish manjul.. For some strange reason, Mr Nitish Kumar has been reluctant to denounce the Maoists unequivocally; instead, he has chosen to toe a soft line, describing the ruthless insurgents as a part of our society and insisting that strong police action would further.. Parliament at least must be supreme, activist, sovereign, democratic, socialist and, secular.
Can Narendra Modi win friends, influence voters? | churumuri
And Nitish Kumars dismissal of Modi as a ���shortlived wave��� created by ���corporate houses��� only underlines the obstacles ahead of the Gujarat chief minister. Sudheendra Kulkarni, the aide of both former prime minister Atal��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.06.10
The substance of their argument is that the sound of vuvuzela distracts spectators from concentrating on the finer points of the game and players from the business of scoring goals and winning matches. But who has ever heard of high-profile soccer... The usually soft- spoken CBI director, Ashwani Kumar, who was listening to the programme, is said to be extremely upset over such disparaging comments against the agency. The CBI promptly shot off a letter to the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 16.03.10
BUSINESS STANDARD. TWO STEPS FORWARD; ARBITRARY RAJA; POSITIVELY SHATTERED UNITS - A K BHATTACHARYA; THREE WAYS TO BE @FAMOUSAUTHOR - NILANJANA S ROY; KHANDEKAR: OF MEDIA BALANCE SHEETS AND TRANSPARENCY - VANITA KOHLI-.. The soft-spoken Nitish has worked quietly ��� he does not have the talent for Lalu-type political histrionics ��� to effect changes and the success is reflected in the economic figures.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 16.04.11
India may cry itself hoarse demanding that the aforementioned fugitives be handed over to the Government, but as we well know Pakistans standard response will either be that the wanted individual is not a Pakistani citizen or that he/she does not live in Pakistan... and equally importantly, manage to keep her ascendant supporters from getting involved in a civil war with the retreating troops of the Left, she will have another chance, as Nitish Kumar has shown us.
MediaCrooks: MSM Prepares For War On Hindutva
They cried when RahulG spoke... Sanjeeva Reddy, and who ultimately became the cause of the first high-profile split in the Indian National Congress into Congress (O) and Congress (I) ��� almost all the pre-independence regional stalwarts split away to join Congress (O) or form their own state parties,.. Legion are the number of Congress leaders these days who point to Nitish Kumar in Bihar and say that his objections to Modi are shared by every other NDA ally.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.06.10
It all began with chief minister Nitish Kumar cancelling a dinner he was scheduled to host in honour of senior BJP leaders during their partys national executive committee meeting in Patna about a fortnight ago. Nitish was peeved over.. BUSINESS STANDARD. COLUMN. MICHAEL PINTO: NON-ISSUES HIJACK BHOPAL DEBATE. THE US IS LESS CONCERNED ABOUT WHOS JAILED AND MORE ABOUT A HUGE COMPENSATION FROM BP. MICHAEL PINTO.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 25.12.10
BUSINESS STANDARD. FLIPPING THE RANKINGS - T N NINAN; THE ONION-SPECTRUM LINK - SHUBHASHIS GANGOPADHYAY; BOOKS AND FILMS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE - SUNIL SETHI; SACHIN DELIVERS, CHINA YET TO - K NATWAR SINGH; THE MALEVOLENCE.. Having tasted victory in Bihar mainly on the shoulders of a performer, Nitish Kumar, the BJP is tempted to sharpen its ideological agenda, on the expiry of the shelf life of the Ayodhya issue.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 27.06.10
BUSINESS STANDARD. ANOTHER LAKE DRIES AND DIES; WHICH WAY IS THE GLOBAL RECOVERY SHAPING UP? - RAJINDER SABHERWAL; PIERRE JACQUET: DEVELOPING INDIAS CLIMATE CHANGE GOALS.. BIHAR chief minister Nitish Kumar had received a lot of flak last year when he allowed several leaders, who were once close to Lalu Prasads Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD) and Ram Vilas Paswans Lok Janshakti Party ( LJP), to join the JDU.
Deconstructing Modi Part 3 | Random Thoughts of a.
[Ominous music]. Nitish Kumar, who has of late discovered the dark side of Modi and whose absolute dreaminess has of late been discovered by sections of the Indian intelligentsia, said most famously:. As per this concept of secularism, it stands to logic that anyone who wants to be the leader of the nation and is a Hindu, has to be held to a different standard behavior than someone who is not, so that minorities do not feel embattled or threatened. The supporters of��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 12.07.11
After months of debate over how best to deal with a belligerent ally with double standards, the USs decision to suspend more than one-third of its military aid to Pakistan is much welcome... Insiders suggest that the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) poster boy, Mr Nitish Kumar, was quick to remind the Centre that constrained with a minuscule revenue budget and an infamous legacy of under-development, Bihar deserved similar, if not more, attention from the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 25.02.10
RE-READING QUEEN VICTORIA. BUSINESS STANDARD. VISION 2020 OR 2011? TREAD CAREFULLY MR SIBAL; BUDGETING FOR SYSTEMIC EFFICIENCY - ARVIND SINGHAL; ITS NOT THE STIMULUS, STUPID! - T N NINAN; TALKING ABOUT... No, before you entertain wishful thoughts, this is not because of any change of heart but because General Kayani might have calculated that this particular group is dispensable. It is the Haqqani militia that is��.
Nitish Kumar: Soft-spoken and socialist at heart (Profile)
He graduated as an engineer but plunged into Bihar politics in the early 1970s. Sophisticated and soft-spoken Nitish Kumar, known for his development and good governance, is again set to become Bihars chief minister. Nitish Kumar had resigned last.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 04.06.11
It uses standard procedures of power play like having its own members attack each other to ward off real opposition ��� a role earlier outsourced to the Communist bloc in the 2004-08 period.. A serious case of ministerial corruption in Delhi where the PWD Minister was found influencing the States tax department against a high profile business house was indicted suo moto by Delhi Lokayukta Manmohan Sarin, who, on the basis of a preliminary and then fuller��.