-PTI Eight months ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls, the cyber space has become a battlefield between supporters of tech-savvy Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his opponents. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, blogs, e-mails, websites, video uploading sites and every possible avenue on the internet is being used to attract the attention of the net-savvy, especially youths, towards Modi. His opponents, chiefly the Congress, which calls him an "internet manipulator"...
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RTI, weak governance helping information escape from govt hands
-The Economic Times What's common between foggy movements of two army battalions, the government auditor's assessments of large notional losses to the exchequer and a letter from the army chief to the PM on his unit's preparedness for war? The information in each of these instances in the past six months was marked 'secret' in official files, but screamed its way to the public, forcing the government into damage-control mode. Information leaks in...
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-The Telegraph Trinamul leaders in Singur today urged party MPs and MLAs to donate a month’s salary to help raise a fund for farmers who lost their land to the Tata Nano factory. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has time and again said that the 400 acres for which the farmers have refused to accept compensation would be returned to them but the government is engaged in legal tangle with Tata Motors since...
More »BJP gags Chhattisgarh leaders over CAG report
-IANS The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has gagged at least two of its senior leaders in Chhattisgarh after they slammed their own government for not taking the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report seriously, sources say. Top sources in the BJP here said former union minister and Lok Sabha MP Ramesh Bais and the former Lok Sabha MP Karuna Shukla were advised by the party to "restrain" themselves from making public statements...
More »What hit this land of plenty?-Sai Manish
75% of the youth. Every third student. 65% of all families in Punjab are in the throes of a sweeping drug addiction. With little or no hope in sight. THE RAILWAY barrier in Angarh, a locality in the border city of Amritsar in Punjab signals the end of too many things. The rule of law. The reign of sense. The fear of crime. The signs of normality. Even the divisions of...
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