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Tag Archives: India
Crony Capitalism to Crony Democracy
By M RAMA RAO We are in the season of hikes. The petroleum companies have hiked their prices and are still sulking that their bottom-line is in the red. The Railways raised passenger fares through an executive fiat one month … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Practices, Elections, India, Narendra Modi, Price line, Prime Ministerial ambitions, Rahul Gandhi
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Name Change Politics in India
By Atul Cowshish & M Rama Rao New Delhi (Syndicate Features): As chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati had gone on an unprecedented spree to rename towns, cities, public places and institutions and justified it … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambedkar, India, Mayawati, Mulayam Singh, Naming spree, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, P V Narasimha Rao, Rajiv Chowk, Rajiv Gandhi
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Pak Syndrome bedevils Indo-Bangla ties
By Surinder K. Sharma Delhi based columnist on South Asian Affairs There is an imperative for India and Bangladesh to work together for mutual benefit and for the good of the region. Scholars from the Institute for Defence Studies and … Continue reading
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Tagged and Tuivai rivers, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Institute for International and Strategic Studies (BIISS), IDSA, India, Tipaimukh
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Mindsets The Obstacle To Peace In Sri Lanka
-By Malladi Rama Rao One aspect of Sri Lanka – India relations puzzles the layman and expert alike. It relates to firing on Indian fishermen by Sri Lanka Navy in Palk Bay. Firing incidents take place at regular intervals, mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th amendment, devloution, discrimination, Ethnic Tamils, human rights abuses, India, LTTE, political power, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka
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Anna’s Partisan Politics
By ATUL COWSHISH Delhi based political commentator New Delhi (Syndicate Features): He started as a person removed from politics and politicians and, hence, much respected. In less than six months after he awakened the nation to the extent of the … Continue reading
Obama backs India’s bid for permanent UN Security Council seat
US President Barack Obama has endorsed India’s longstanding bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Obama announced the policy shift in his Monday (Nov Eight) afternoon speech to India’s parliament—a speech that was planned as the … Continue reading
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Tagged India, Indian Parliament, Manmohan Singh, Obama, Pakistan, Security Council, terrorism, UN, US
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Options After the Ayodhya Verdict
By ALLABAKSH New Delhi (Syndicate Features): The judgment delivered by the special bench of the Allahabad High Court at Lucknow was received by many within the country—politicians, intellectuals and the intelligentsia–as one that provides an opportunity to end the bitter … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayodhya, Babri Masjid, BJP, High Court, India, Lucknow bench, Mulayam Singh, Ram Vilas Paswan, Ramjnam Bhoomi
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Common ’Loot’ Games Carnival Begins…
By Atul Cowshish New Delhi (Syndicate Features): As the Common Wealth Games carnival gets a glittering opening, silencing at least partially the Kalmadi bashers, it is difficult to resist the temptation to give a passing thought to the scale of … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Britain, Canada, Colonial relic, Commonwealth Games, CWG, India, Market
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Khaleda’s chargesheet against Hasina
By M RAMA RAO New Delhi (Syndicate Features): Bangladesh is again warming up for a bitter war of words between the two begums who have been dominating the political scene for over a decade. Significantly their political fortunes also keep … Continue reading
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Tagged army chief Moeen, Bangladesh, China, Chuttagong port, Gen Zia, Hasina, India, Khaleda Zia, terrorism
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India, Russian Accounting Institutes sign accord
Moscow / New Delhi: The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) and the Institute of Professional Accountants and Auditors of Russia (IPAR) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of Mr. R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary … Continue reading
China’s Provocative Language
By J N Raina New Delhi (Syndicate Features): Buddha is shining. ‘Rising’ and expansionist China is menacingly inching towards the Indian subcontinent, setting in depression, in its relationship with New Delhi. The environment has turned bluesy. But can India catch … Continue reading