Hemant - Instablogs
May 21 2009
WASHINGTON: Congratulating Manmohan Singh for his second term as the Prime Minister of India, US President Barack Obama said Singh is a very wise leader whom he respects and is looking forward to visit New Delhi at an early date. Obama said this to...
May 16 2009
BJP leader Chandan Mitra on Saturday said that projecting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the party’s next prime ministerial candidate was a mistake, indicating that it could be a factor in the party’s poor show in...
May 16 2009
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat admitted on Saturday that the Left had suffered “a major setback” in the Lok Sabha elections. As election results showed that the Left strength in the 545-member Lok...
May 15 2009
The curtain has come down on the 2009 Lok Sabha elections which is considered the least violent in recent times. While over 20 people were killed in election-related violence this time, the figure was 48 in the 2004 general elections, and nearly 100 in...
May 15 2009
Amelia Gentleman draws attention to the 72% of people living in rural India and the extent of poverty and malnutrition that exists (Wealth and want, 13 May). Yet it is a false premise that the recession-hit shopping malls of Delhi provide an avenue of...
May 12 2009
The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today regretted the incidents of violence in Ludhiana which left one Congress leader seriously injured. This was the second incident of violence against the Congress leaders in the Shimlapuri area. Block Congress...
May 12 2009
Armed with the relevant official file, the BJP leadership presented what is termed as “clinching” evidence that chief minister Mr Naveen Patnaik signed files related to the iron ore mining lease for the South Korean steel major Posco in the midst of...
May 12 2009
Hours after Nepal’s Prime Minister resigned last week on the question of civilian supremacy over the army, a videotape of a speech he made to PLA combatants 18 months ago was leaked to the media. The aim was to discredit Prachanda since the speech...
May 9 2009
He is one of the richest candidates who have contested for the Lok Sabha (the elected lower house of Indian Parliament) polls from Assam in Northeast India. A lottery baron-turned-politician, who has already won three times from the Tezpur parliamentary...
May 8 2009
NEW DELHI: He has a mission but no ambition, says Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as speculation mounts about whether he will be the Narendra Modi BJP leader Narendra Modi greets the crowd at a rally in Faridabad. (AP File) Bharatiya Janata...