Maoist leader was himself charged with sedition only as an after-thought Narayan Sanyal is a 74-year-old man with white hair parted to one side and fibromatosis in both hands. His arrest memo notes that he wears dentures, has spots on his body and smokes cigarettes. “My health is not going well, arthritis is a new thing catching up, age is telling,” he writes in a letter addressed to a ‘Dear...

Two hundred families from 40 ‘Black Spot' villages, that were notorious for brewing hooch and selling in Dharmapuri District have been rehabilitated by the Prohibition and Enforcement Wing (PEW), thanks to the efforts of Additional Superintendent of Police P. Saravanan. R. Sudhakar, District Superintendent of Police told The Hindu that the district police identified these villages and conducted social awareness campaigns at regular intervals. As part of this initiative, the PEW wing...

Even as the media celebrate the Mercedes Benz deal in the Marathwada region as a sign of “rural resurgence,” the latest data show that 17,368 farmers killed themselves in the year of the “resurgence.” When businessmen from Aurangabad in the backward Marathwada region bought 150 Mercedes Benz luxury cars worth Rs. 65 crore at one go in October, it grabbed media attention. The top public sector bank, State Bank of India,...

Amidst a high-pitched BJP campaign for a JPC probe into the 2G spectrum allocation scam, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai is all set to appear before Public Accounts Committee (PAC). PAC is scrutinising the sensational CAG report, claiming massive irregularities in the telecom deal. Rai, according to sources, will depose before the PAC on Monday. Interestingly, PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi, a senior BJP leader, has started going about...

Gurudas Dasgupta wrote to Prime Minister in 2008 “Manmohan did not act on Sudhakar Reddy's letter too” The Left parties will join hands with secular parties to turn up the heat on the government on the 2G spectrum controversy, Communist Party of India national secretary Amarjeet Kaur said on Sunday. “The Left parties have decided to further intensify the agitation against the telecom scam by holding major rallies in at least six metros,”...