Rebels shot dead five people at a polling station in India’s northeast on Saturday as voting began in the first of five local elections seen as a popularity test for the national Congress government.
The separatist rebels sprayed the voting booth with bullets, killing three election officials, a paramilitary trooper and a civilian in Thangpi, a [...]
Will 2012 prove to be a year of renewal for India, or another annus horribilis? No country progresses unerringly, but India cannot afford another politically and economically torpid year like 2011. For India, last year is a year best forgotten.
India has been so deeply mired in political paralysis that the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen [...]
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India’s wave of corruption scandals claimed its most respected casualty on Wednesday when the country’s top space scientist [...]
Politicians are extraordinary people. Thus they are beyond many rules which apply to ordinary people. For example, a stint in jail is personally shameful and socially disastrous to the common man. It could mean a permanent blot on the reputation of the victim’s family and lead to his ostracisation from the immediate society. More than [...]
The news blowing in from across the Atlantic, as often happens these days, brought the smell of disaster like an approaching hurricane. The credit scores of France and eight other European countries had just been knocked down. Negotiations to bail out an all-but-bankrupt Greece had stalled, or died—it wasn’t clear which.
Christine Lagarde, the former French [...]
Faced with a failing government mired in corruption scandals, and struggling to take any action to correct a listing economy, India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata party should be preparing for power.
Instead the Hindu nationalist party, which began life appealing to the rising middle class, will go into state elections next month in March with opinion polls [...]
The high court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has granted bail to Suresh Kalmadi, the disgraced former chief of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Mr Kalmadi has been in jail since April. He is accused of conspiracy regarding the awarding of commercial contracts for the Games.
He denies any wrongdoing. The build-up to the Games was marred by [...]
The countdown to ring out 2011 has begun and What a Year it has been….we won the Cricket World Cup, we had scandals after scandal in politics, a new leader emerged in form of Anna, and Aiswarya Rai Bachchan, along with the nation, welcomed Beti B had. Whichever way you see, you will agree that [...]
ONE year ago today, the 18- month-old daughter of a poor Muslim embroiderer from West Bengal was diagnosed with polio after she was struck down with a fever, a rash that covered her body and a sudden paralysis in her leg.
Though a tragedy for Rukshar Shah and her family, the diagnosis might otherwise have been [...]
According to a 2004 study by the World Bank Institute, $1 trillion is paid every year in bribes worldwide. Though, many countries evolved various rules to carry out the accountability of politicians, bureaucrats and military officials for blocking of bribe, but unfortunately the upward trend of getting illegal benefits have been noticed by the International [...]
The obligatory 2012 predictions have been made and the commentariat are unanimously forecasting doom and gloom. Pessimism, when rife, becomes contagious but these lamentations should be reserved in the case of India, where the greatest political movement since its independence is underway.
India’s anti-corruption protests have gone largely unreported and John Pilger’s recent article is an [...]
Veena Malik denied posing naked after saucy photos of the Bollywood star appeared on the Indian online edition of the men’s magazine.
Despite the actress insisting the shoot was “bold” but not nude, her father Malik Mohammad Aslam turned his back on his daughter.
In an interview at the time, he said: “I have disowned her.
Now, the [...]
Indian police on Friday arrested two senior former officials and a trader in a widening probe into fraud linked to public health services in the state of Uttar Pradesh, an official told AFP.
The scam involving millions of dollars is the latest in a string of scandals that last year triggered a nationwide civil protest movement [...]
The anti-corruption movement that seemed to energize India’s middle class just a few months ago, led by a once-obscure social activist who defied the government with public hunger strikes and mass rallies, is facing a new enemy: apathy.
Anna Hazare’s supporters, some of whom had pledged their lives to his cause, barely bothered to show up [...]
The Nano is not a flop, its creator Ratan Tata said on Thursday, but he acknowledged that his Tata Motors failed to capitalise on the early excitement surrounding the launch of the world’s cheapest car.
In a wide-ranging briefing with journalists, Tata, who will retire in December as head of the Tata Group, India’s biggest business [...]
After a rewarding 2010, athletics slumped to a low this year, turning out to be the country’s dirtiest sport with seven top athletes, including three Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medallists, getting involved in one of India’s biggest doping scandals.
Asian Games double gold-medallist Ashwini Akkunji and her 4×400m relay teammates Sini Jose and Mandeep [...]
Andrew Strauss hopes his England side and Pakistan produce cricket good enough to take people’s minds off the spot-fixing scandal.
With Pakistan players Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer in a British prison for conspiring to cheat for money during a London Test against England in mid-2010, the teams meet in the neutral United [...]
Asian Games double gold-medalist Ashwini Akkunji and her 4×400m relay teammates Sini Jose and Mandeep Kaur were among the dope offenders, after being caught for using banned steroids in May and June. They were handed one-year bans by a National Anti-Doping Agency panel, virtually ending their London Olympic dreams and more than that turning them [...]
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani has predicted that 2012 is “pregnant with the certainty of big changes in national politics” and said the initiative to define the course of politics in the New Year clearly shifted to the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
In a statement on New Year, Mr. Advani said [...]
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