-The Telegraph Akhilesh Yadav is trying to win over segments of these communities, and the extent of his success in the effort may decide his fate on March 10 Ghazipur (on UP-Delhi border), Mirzapur: Ramashankar Yadav, a retired block development officer chatting with fellow villagers at a tea shop in the Madhuban market, looks up suspiciously. “I hope you aren’t from the godi (lapdog) media?” he asks, referring to media outlets seen widely...
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India Among Top 10 Autocratising Nations, Says Report on Global Democracy
-Newsclick.in Among 179 countries, India ranked 93 in the Liberal Democracy Index, and 100 in the Electoral Democracy Index, says V-Dem’s report. New Delhi: India has figured in the top 10 autocratising countries of the world along with El Salvador, Turkey and Hungary, and projections indicate that there will be a further decline in democracy in the country, according to a recent report released by the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy...
More »Chasing the wind in Uttar Pradesh: Who are bus drivers and conductors betting on? -Jawid Laiq
-TheWire.in/ National Herald Jawid Laiq, who has accurately predicted poll outcomes since 1977 based on his conversations with boatmen at the Sangam in Prayagraj (Allahabad), this time asked UP transport drivers to pick winners One of Uttar Pradesh’s busiest bus terminals is at Noida’s Sector 35, where every few minutes a state transport bus either arrives, leaves or stops to fill up on CNG. Surendra Singh (45), driver of an Uttar Pradesh state...
More »'India Among Top 10 Autocratising Nations; Democratic Slide to Continue': V-Dem Institute
-TheWire.in After being classified as 'electoral autocracy' last year by Sweden's V-Dem Institute, India continues to hold on to its dubious honour even this year. New Delhi: India has figured in the top 10 autocratising countries of the world along with El Salvador, Turkey and Hungary, with projections ominously indicating that there will be a further decline in democracy in the country, according to the latest report of the V-Dem Institute on...
More »Environmentalist Ravi Chopra interviewed by Seema Sharma (Newsclick.in)
-Newsclick.in Slope destabilisation, soil erosion and sequestered carbon loss have increased, according to Ravi Chopra. Noted Dehradun-based environmentalist Ravi Chopra recently resigned as the chairman of the Supreme Court (SC)-appointed High Powered Committee (HPC) overseeing the environmental impact of the Narendra Modi government’s Rs 12,000 crore 889-km Char Dham highway widening project in Uttarakhand. The Char Dham project, one of the largest road-widening projects in the Himalayan region, intends to connect the four...
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