Archive for January, 2010

Springs book on Dalits by Modi

Narendra Modi launched a jumbo campaign to woo Dalits today but to many, the gap between rhetoric and reality may have seemed wide enough for an elephant to be driven through it.On a day the Congress-led central government was wiping egg off its face over a howler in an anti-female foeticide advertisement, Modi’s political promotional [...]

Indian communist leader Basu dies

He led the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and was chief minister of West Bengal state from 1977 to 2000.Jyoty Basu was credited with restoring stability to the state, and bringing in land reforms. He died in Calcutta after a long illness.
In 1996 he was offered to lead the federal government as PM in a [...]

Land scam: Army to slap show cause notice on 4 Generals

New Delhi: The Army on Monday decided to slap show cause notices on four of its senior officers, including Military Secretary Lt Gen Avadesh Prakash, for their alleged involvement in a land scam at a military station in Darjeeling.
A decision on possible further action would depend on the replies to the show cause notices, top [...]