UPA's 'Bharat smiling' feebly -
Subodh Varma, Times of India
The UPA is strenuously denying that this campaign is its earthy version of the NDA's " India Shining" campaign, but few are buying the denials. Launched as a "multi-media" campaign to highlight its achievements in two successive terms at the Center, it has been christened by political observers are UPA's " Bharat Smiling" campaign. The spirit of the campaign, says the publicity material given out by the Information & Broadcasting ministry, is "many miles we have come, but many more we still have to go"...
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Dholera’s Rs70,000-crore cure for investment famine -
Sunil Jain, Financial Express
The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) has already got 105 sq km for Phase 1 of its upcoming R70,000-crore city at Dholera in Gujarat, 110 km from Ahmedabad. The 903-sq km city — of which 540 sq km is developable as the rest falls in the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) area — is to be developed in six phases. Town planning for two of the phases has been done — 152 sq km — while the other four are to be done over the rest of the year and...
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Seeds of political patronage -
Shyamlal Yadav, Indian Express
In the early 1970s, the agriculture ministry, through the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), began setting up Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) or farm science centres to educate farmers to increase agricultural production and to improve their socio-economic condition. Over the years, a small but significant portion of them have ended up as an instrument of political favour, having been allotted to politicians across the spectrum or their friends and relatives, The Indian Express has found.
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Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s comeback kid -
Bruce Riedel, Brookings
Nawaz Sharif is the comeback kid of Pakistani politics. With his party’s electoral victory, he is poised to become prime minister for an unprecedented third time. The Sharif odyssey has been remarkable—but now we will see if he can convert his victory into a new beginning for his deeply troubled country and our own tortured relations with it. The 63-year-old Nawaz Sharif was born into money as the scion of a very wealthy family in Lahore. He entered politics to protect the family’s industry from nationalization.
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Mamata’s TMC has ridiculed the mandate given to them in 2011 -
Dola Mitra, Outlook India
Two years ago, on the bright, sunny morning of May 13, a beaming Mamata Banerjee sat in a room of her one-storey house in the shanties of Kalighat surrounded by ecstatic party colleagues and animated journalists from across the country. The air was alive with excitement and anticipation. After all, it was a moment of historical significance. The results of the Bengal assembly polls had just been announced. Mamata had blown the Left Front’s defences apart with an overwhelming majority; the world’s longest-running democratically elected Communist...
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After Bansal, Ashwani, is it Manmohan next? -
S Gurumurthy, NewIndianExpress
On May 11, 2013 the Congress – and most media – touted the resignations of Pawan Bansal as Railway Minister and Ashwani Kumar as Law Minister as Sonia Gandhi’s reading out the riot act to Manmohan Singh and forcing him to restore honesty back to the UPA Government. To call this bluff one has only to look at how the Congress had defended Ashwini two weeks ago and Bansal a week before. Yet, there is world of difference between the two. Bansal had engaged his nephew Vijay Singla to sell, in grey market, several plum posts in the Railways.
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Could offensive IAF use in ’62 have reversed history? -
Ashok Parthasarathi & Praful Bakshi, Asian Age
Fifty years have gone by since our infamous defeat at the hands of the Chinese in 1962, but no firm answer has come from any quarter why it happened. However, recently, the current Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne has made a statement that 1962’s outcome would have been very different had Jawaharlal Nehru allowed the IAF to be used offensively as was done by Nehru during the 1947-48 Kashmir war and Goa’s Liberation in 1961 and Indira Gandhi did likewise in the Bangladesh War of 1971.
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Sharif vs Army, Round 3 -
Declan Walsh, New York Times
The last time that Nawaz Sharif had close dealings with the Pakistani Army, soldiers handcuffed him and imprisoned him in an ancient fort overlooking the Indus River, physically dragging him from office in a coup. Now that Mr. Sharif is poised to return as prime minister of Pakistan for the third time in 20 years, the success of his relationship with the generals will revolve around two related questions: Has he changed? And have they? Many analysts believe he has new tools at his disposal, and in recent days he has played...
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Wasting time: India's demographic challenge -
Economist
One of India’s bigger private-sector employers can be found in Patna, the capital of Bihar, a poor, populous state in the east of the country. Narendra Kumar Singh, the boss, has three gold rings on his right hand and arms big enough to crush rocks. His firm, Frontline, has 86,000 people on its books. They are mostly unskilled men from rural areas in poor states like Bihar; thanks to Mr Singh they have jobs in cities all over India. There is lots to celebrate about this. Mr Singh’s business has sales of $185m...
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Power elite used land sale to give themselves a new New Delhi -
Ruhi Bhasin, Indian Express
Delhi's power elite have a new address in New Moti Bagh, a gated complex complete with Lutyens-inspired bungalows, manicured lawns, smooth roads, multi-storey apartment blocks, a club house, a market area with ATMs, Mother Dairy and Safal outlets, even a play school. But few know that this residential complex, spread over 123 acres and home to state ministers, judges, secretaries and joint secretaries, has been built from proceeds...
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