India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Parties
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Gujarat villagers of Mundra resist Adani’s Shipbreaking Project
Opposition parties must support villagers of Mundra against Adani’s shipbreaking project; Adani’s proposal for shipbreaking unit in Mundra disregards grave lessons from Alang’s environmental crisis
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KMSS protests against rhino killings
The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) held a protest meet against the recent spate of rhino killings, by the side of the Dighalipukhuri lake in the city’s Panbazar locality. The protest meet, which
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Under nuclear plant’s shadow, Moticher’s women refuse to vote
The Adivasi women of Moticher village in Surat district have knocked on every door with their complaints. They want easy access to water, jobs for the youth and schools for their children. With none willing
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No space for children’s issues in election manifestos, says CRY
“Only reason for this neglect could be because children don’t form a vote bank”. With the children’s issues being relegated to back-burner and problems of childhood malnutrition not finding a mention in
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Pollution tops the agenda of contestants
Pollution being caused by the Visakhapatnam Port Trust tops the list of problems of contestants from the Visakha South Assembly constituency. At a face-to-face programme organised by the Vizag Journalists’
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Musi river voters get same promises
Political parties, which look at slum populations as their prime vote bank, continue to make false promises of regularising lake lands that has been encroached. Musi River is one such area. “There are
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Child rights issues missing from party manifestos, finds study
Children’s issues get a meagre 11 per cent weightage in manifestos of top 10 parties: CRY study. Every second child in the country is malnourished, according to the National Family Health Survey -III.
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Demand for democracy is rising in Africa, but most political leaders fail to deliver
Africans express growing attachment to democracy according to citizen attitude surveys conducted by the Afrobarometer in 34 countries . Seven out of ten Africans prefer democracy to other political regimes,
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Political parties ignore tobacco control issue
Guwahati, April 21: Even when around one million cancer cases are detected in India every year (majority of which are related to tobacco abuse), none of the political parties deemed it important to include
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2008 Kosi flood still a poll issue in Supaul constituency
SUPAUL: Destruction caused by breach in Kosi embankment at Kusaha on August 18, 2008, is still an issue in 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Supaul, which was the worst hit. Candidates are promising speedy implementation