-Mainstream Weekly Intense and motivated propaganda, powerful national and international diplomatic pressure, verging on pure and simple arms-twisting of the kind the Third World has been facing for decades by means of the active role of the econo-mic hit-men in the policy establishments, huge cash-back lobbying, both in India and abroad, blunt attempts to bamboozle the persons holding key positions in India’s policy establishment through a combination of hissing and kissing...
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Veteran BJP MLA Sits on Hunger Strike for Better Roads
-Outlook Jodhpur: A veteran BJP MLA went on a sit-in hunger strike here today demanding repair of roads and cleaning of drains, forcing municipal officials to assure her immediate action. Surya Kanta Vyas, a legislator from Soorsagar constituency, began her strike at 10 am along with some supporters including BJP corporators and other party cadres. Around 4 pm, the CEO of Jodhpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) and other officials of the district administration arrived...
More »‘53 farmers committed suicide in one year'-Ananya Dutta
On a day the Trinamool Congress celebrated the first anniversary of the announcement of the 2011 Assembly polls results, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said here on Sunday that there has been an average of one farmer suicide every week since Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government came to power in West Bengal. “Up to 2011 in States like West Bengal and Kerala there was no news of...
More »The lines are truly drawn now-Vishwajyoti Ghosh
Before being a cartoonist/graphic novelist, I am a citizen first. A citizen with the freedom to have feelings — if not the freedom of free speech. Now, the former is far easier than the latter. I have the freedom to have feelings and the freedom to deal with those who hurt my feelings. And on that note, I want Sarojini Naidu arrested. Posthumously, but so be it. In an All India...
More »Street lighting case: City court to frame charges against six by Jayant Sriram
A Delhi court will frame charges on March 1 against six persons, including four MCD officials, for their alleged role in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) street lighting scam. One of the 10 Games-related scams being probed by the CBI, it caused a loss of about Rs 1.5 crore to the government. In an order issued on Friday, Special CBI Judge Pradeep Chadha said that prima facie, a case was made out...
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