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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The India Yet To Be Built
A new government is at our doorstep. Here's a list of things it needs to do in the first 100 days of power. Action 100: Social Sector 1. Set up ministry for skill development 2. Tackle malnutrition 3. Launch national mission for female literacy 4. Beef up NREGA, launch plan for urban poor 5. Pass Right to Education Bill 6. Amend Land Acquisition Act
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Ensure water and power: BJP
NEW DELHI: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president O.P. Kohli has urged the Delhi Government to ensure adequate supply of power and drinking water in the Capital this summer.
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Congress MPs credit party win in metro cities to JNNURM
RASHME SEHGAL, NEW DELHI If the turnaround in the Congress fortunes in rural India has been attributed to NREGA, then the clean sweep of the Congress and its allies in the metros, including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai, has been laid at the door of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
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Follow the manifesto, don't forget the CMP
Sreelatha Menon & Rituparna Bhuyan / New Delhi May 18, 2009, 1:31 IST
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Healthy approach
It is past 10 p.m. but the sprawl
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BJP demands white paper on encroachments, reward for officials of Social Forestry
Demanding white paper on the land encroachments at Jammu at the behest of politicians, Ashok Khajuria, BJP President, BJP warned of public agitation, if the government land including that of Karnaila Chak encroached by the mafia is not evacuated and punishment given to the guilty.
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SAD remains opposed to river-linking: Badal
Jalandhar Reacting to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi advocating linking of rivers at a recent NDA rally, the SAD today said it has always opposed such a proposal and would register its protest at an
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BJP: Congress responsible for stalling Narmada scheme
The State Spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party Umashankar Gupta said that most of the states of country are facing water crisis. In fact it is the result of remaining neutral for long term, not including basic facts in scheme, exploitation of natural resources, and lacking in control. For this none other but only Congress is responsible.
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Voters retaliate with boycott
Denied rights, aggrieved citizens abstain from voting having lost their means to earn a living, communities are increasingly using their vote to drive home the message they distrust the State. Tribals who lost their agricultural land in a forest area because of faulty implementation of forest rights laws in Maharashtra are as peeved as fishers in the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border
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Angry voters
Politicians warring for votes in South African elections had an unanticipated problem. Posters were defaced by people wielding thick black markers, stencils, duct tape and spray-paint. African National Congress president Jacob Zuma suffered the worst, at least in Johannesburg. His detractors added horns to his visage, a forked tongue, a shower rose, a banana. They labelled him