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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Cabinet to take up food security ordinance today
New Delhi: Criticism that it is dragging its feet over welfare measures and the need to stamp its authorship over flagship programmes will see the cabinet considering an ordinance to implement the food
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Food, law bills to be Cong’s main weapons in 2014
New Delhi: UPA entered the home stretch on Wednesday by making it clear that it was looking at passage of legislations crafted to provide food security, a huge jump in compensation for land acquired and
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Cong core group meets to make food Bill a reality
Planning to corner the Opposition BJP on the issue of food insecurity in the country, the Congress Core Group met today to discuss ways of enacting the pending food security Bill ahead of the crucial General
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Revised land Bill faces hurdles galore
BJP, JD(U) now ask for leasing instead of takeover; Jairam, Sharad Yadav to discuss on Friday. The revised land acquisition Bill, which Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh wants to table in Parliament
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Land Bill logjam persists, fresh meet on April 18
To speed up the process of consultations on the controversial Land Acquisition Bill and enact it in the current session of Parliament, the Centre today asked political parties to send in their suggestions
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MPs for steps to save Yamuna, Ganga
New Delhi: MPs united across party lines to express concern over pollution in the Yamuna after leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj raised the issue, saying the river had become thoroughly polluted
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Cong, BJP in war of words over water
In the election year, the two main political parties in the city, ruling Congress and Opposition BJP, are looking to target two of the main problems that residents face — water shortage and its pollution.
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Govt winks at pollution in Yamuna: BJP
The Opposition BJP today criticised Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly ignoring the Yamuna, saying that the pollution in the river had gone up several times in the past few years while the government
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WWF gives green light to election voters
For those thinking of tailoring their vote in this weekend's state election around environmental policies - the World Wildlife Fund is providing a colour-coded rating of each of the major party's environmental
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Meeting on Land Acquisition Billl
Keen to move ahead with the Land Acquisition Bill in the current Parliament session, parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath has called a meeting of political parties on Thursday to address the concerns