In developing societies political parties exercise an influential role. They aim to achieve power and after having achieved it they wish to maintain it by several mechanisms; besides less awareness of the people about the true nature of the democratic system in such societies, there exist limited options to bring the government within a people-centric corruption-free framework. In these societies the civil society too exists but in underdeveloped form. The SITuation...

-Orissa Diary   More than 20 tribals belonging to primitive Dangaria Kandh community from Niyamgiri area Thursday joined the anti Posco movement to express their solidarity to the ongoing  ovement at Posco proposed SITe. The tribals, armed with traditional weapons, came in a procession to the protest SITe near Govindpur village and joined the villagers. The villagers have formed a human barricade to prevent entry of government and company officials to the proposed...

A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Sudershan Reddy and Surinder Singh Nijjar passed orders in two politically senSITive cases this week.These orders have caused much controversy over the role of judiciary in constitutional cases. In the first of the two cases, Nandini Sundar v State of Chattisgarh, the judges held that the armed deployment of ill-trained, uneducated and poor tribal youths in combat operations against Naxals by appointing them as...

India registered a good 8.5 percent GDP growth in 2010-11 staving off the global impact of recession mainly due to the major recovery in the agriculture sector. The recorded foodgrain production in 2010-11 was the outcome of the initiatives of the state governments, the union government has now acknowledged. It was an innovation's galore to say the least if one takes into consideration the efforts of the 10 states that went...

Batting for a Posco steel plant in Gadag, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa says the government will try to persuade farmers to part with their land. The SITuation does not warrant the South Korean steelmaker to relocate from Halligudi in Gadag district to anywhere rlse in the state. "The government is trying to convince the farmers; the company stays in Gadag. We hope that everything will go well,'' he told...