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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Farmers held for protest against land-grabbing
B. Kolappan Tiruvallur: Over a hundred members of the Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) were arrested on Tuesday when they defied a ban and held a demonstration demanding an inquiry into alleged land-grabbing at Kaverirajapuram in Tiruvallur by politicians, officials and Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court P.D. Dinakaran.
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A water dispute led to downfall of the Congress in Okhla
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Delhi Government sat over the issue of Ganga water supply in the area NEW DELHI: A dispute over supply of Ganga water to Jasola Vihar DDA flats and Shaheen Bagh in the Okhla constituency turned out to be one of the major reasons for the defeat of the Congress in the by-election to this Delhi Assembly segment.
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Illegal mining: Rajnath deputes delegation
BHUBANESWAR: While the multi-crore mining scam is unfolding everyday, national BJP president Rajnath Singh today deputed a party delegation to visit the mines-rich Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts to assess the illegal mining.
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VHP speaks up against river-interlinking plan
Sept. 15: Terming supporters of river-interlinking projects "non-serious," Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal on Tuesday said such a project would be dangerous for the country. In a veiled attack on the NDA, during whose tenure at the Centre river interlinking projects were proposed, Mr Singhal said: "River interlinking is a dangerous project."
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All parties are eco-unfriendly
Ashwin Aghor / DNA There is a general feeling of distaste among the city's environmentalists when it comes to the attitude of politicians to the city environs. The manifestoes of political parties have all the colours except green, they say.
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Interlinking of rivers is need of the hour, says Vijayakanth
COMING out in full support for interlinking rivers at the national level, DMDK president Vijayakanth has termed that it was the need of the hour. Replying to queries from reporters over the remarks made by AICC general secretary, Rahul Gandhi on interlinking of rivers would lead to an ecological disaster, Vijayakanth said at a press conference here on Monday that those were his personnel views.
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Organic farming mission only for BJP men
Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah on Monday dubbed the State organic farming mission as a programme serving only the BJP party workers. Stating that he was not against the organic farming, he questioned the manner of implementing the mission.
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Her majestys pirates
The Pirate Party
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Relief stalled
CPI(M)-Trinamul rivalry affects aid to cyclone Aila victims relief funds from the central government to help victims of cyclone Aila in West Bengal have hardly reached the needy. Political one-upmanship between the ruling cpi(m) in the state and Mamata Banerjee
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CPM plans stir on food security law
Aug. 26: The CPI(M) is gearing to launch nationwide movements jointly with other political parties against the UPA government