-Express News Service Lending her weight to the protesters agitating against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant, Aruna Roy, member of Sonia Gandhi-LED NAC, has written to the UPA chairperson seeking her intervention on the “unanswered questions” against the plant that is slated to go operational in a few months. “The protesters have raised several unanswered questions about the safety and viability, which far from being addressed are being silenced,” Roy has...
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Petrol price hike not a correct step: AK Antony
-The Hindustan Times In a first sign of dissent within the UPA government over the recent Rs. 7 hike in petrol prices, defence minister AK Antony on Tuesday said it was “not a correct step”. Antony's remarks came soon after he landed at Neyyattinkara in Kerala to campaign for Congress candidate R Selvaraj for the June 2 assembly by-elections. “The hike in petrol price was not a correct step. The oil companies should...
More »Will quit if coalgate charges against me are proved: PM Manmohan Singh-Sachin Parashar
ON BOARD PM'S AIRCRAFT: An emotional Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday hit back at Team Anna's allegation of corruption against him in coal block allotments, saying he would give up public life if charges levelLED by the activists were proved. "I will give up my public life even if there is an iota of truth in allegations levelLED against me, and the country can give me my punishment. My long...
More »Tribals have lost their farmlands over the century -KD Singh
The marginalisation of tribals in the last few decades has been enormous. Tribals have lost out in agriculture, and their forests also stand depleted, writes KD Singh In 2006, the Prime Minister described the Maoist threat as “the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by the country” and suggested development in insurgency-affected regions as the key remedy. In 2009, the Union Government announced a new nationwide initiative, the ‘Integrated Action...
More »Politics and Pedagogy The NCERT Texts and Cartoons by Valerian Rodrigues
School texts that teach young minds that politics is a contentious and critical but reasonable activity, that it is not merely a set of demands and commands, and that politicians have to be responsive and accountable are naturally disliked by the political class. This is the tone of all the Political Science textbooks of Standards IX-XI brought out after 2006. The nurturing of a culture of critical public opinion seems...
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