-Frontline Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit expense of the many. Liberalisation is one such period. IT cannot be verified and may not be true. But, the view that the record of graft and corruption during the two-term, nine-year rule of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the worst in India's post-Independence...
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Singh files nomination papers
-The Telegraph Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today filed his nomination papers for the May 30 Rajya Sabha election here but the viSIT was overshadowed by protests by journalists and the All Assam Students Union. The scribes protested against denial of access to cover the proceedings of the Prime Minister's viSIT in the Assembly while the AASU said Singh had "failed" Assam despite representing the state since 1991. Such was the intenSITy of...
More »Health gap between countries is narrowing, but challenges remain–UN report
-The United Nations The health gap between poor and rich countries has narrowed significantly over the past two decades according to a United Nations report released today, which stresses that in spite of this progress, challenges still remain to achieve the health targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). "Intensive efforts to achieve the MDGs have clearly improved health for people all over the world," said the Director-General of the World Health...
More »India’s premier sexist league-Sharda Ugra
-The HIndu For all its influential reach, the IPL has done little to combat the existing stereotypes about women and done everything to reinforce them IPL 2013 is heading towards its high-intenSITy, high-octane, high-pitched finale. After the season's numbers have been crunched, the League will dissipate into general back-slapping, errors and omissions excepted. Except that 2013 has been a revelation in itself. While the IPL occupies "soap opera" prime time on TV for...
More »Modi government does U-turn on death penalty for Kodnani, Bajrangi
-The Hindu Ahmedabad: The BJP government in Gujarat has decided to put on hold its decision to seek the death sentence for the former Gujarat Minister, Mayaben Kodnani, and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in the Naroda-Patiya massacre case, following stiff resistance from the Sangh Parivar. The Narendra Modi-led government has asked the special prosecutor probing the case of massacre of 91 people during the 2002 riots to put on hold its...
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