| Sugarcane issue stalls Parliament on second day | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Parliament was rocked for the second day today over the new sugarcane pricing policy with a united opposition mounting further pressure on the government to withdraw the controversial ordinance that saw massive farmers’ protests yesterday. |
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| Sunita Narain: Rich land of the poor | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Take a map of India. Now mark the districts of the country in terms of forest wealth. Then overlay on them the water wealth of the country — the sources of streams and rivers that feed us. On this, plot the mineral wealth of the country — iron ore, coal, bauxite and all things nice that make economies rich. But don’t stop here. Mark on these wealth of India, another indicator — districts where the poorest people of our country live. |
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| Newsmaker: Nitin Gadkari | 20-NOV-09 |
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| He is not known for a sophisticated world view but Nitin Gadkari, the front-runner for the party’s national president, is likely to be just what the RSS ordered. |
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| T N Ninan: No one barked | 14-NOV-09 |
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| If you’re looking for the dog that did not bark, look no further than the (lack of) response to the government’s recent economic policy pronouncements. Two weeks ago, the home minister announced the Cabinet’s decision to list on the stock market all qualifying (e.g. profitable) state-owned companies, with a minimum float of 10 per cent. Already listed companies with a smaller float would take up their public stake to 10 per cent. |
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| BJP bandh in Delhi against price rise has partial impact | 13-NOV-09 |
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| A BJP-sponsored bandh to protest hike in bus fares and skyrocketing prices of essential commodities had partial impact in the city today, with only some markets remaining closed and traffic plying normally. Schools, government offices and other institutions functioned normally. |
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| Letters: BJP's mask gets ripped off | 11-NOV-09 |
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| The handling of the political crisis in Karnataka and the way the BJP central leadership has given in to the whims and fancies of the Reddy brothers have left an indelible black mark on the BJP’s image. It is hard to believe that the BJP that expelled Jaswant Singh for writing a book on Jinnah has now fallen prey to such political blackmail in Karnataka. |
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| Karnataka's lone woman minister Karandlaje resigns | 10-NOV-09 |
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| A day after dissident leaders dropped their demand for the removal of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, Shobha Karandlaje, the lone woman minister in Karnataka’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, resigned today. |
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| Mining political rents | 10-NOV-09 |
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| A common thread runs through the political crisis in Karnataka and the investigations into the money-laundering by Jharkhand’s former chief minister Madhu Koda. This is the rising influence of resource extracting contractors and other moneyed interests in national politics. The ancient regime of the “Licence-Permit Raj” was supposed to end the role of money power in politics. But India’s unreformed party political funding system and the new opportunities for politicians to seek kickbacks from business interests have contributed to a snowballing of rent-seeking. Most political parties are guilty of contributing to this syndrome. |
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| Yeddyurappa rules out dropping any minister | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today ruled out the question of dropping any of his ministers, a demanded made by the dissidents, but vowed to change his style of functioning. |
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| K'taka crisis solved, Yeddy to continue as CM | 09-NOV-09 |
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| The 14-day political crisis that paralysed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka was resolved today after senior party leader Sushma Swaraj brokered peace among the chief minister and the controversial Reddy brothers at a meeting in New Delhi. |
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| Karnataka BJP crisis resolved | 08-NOV-09 |
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| The week-long political crisis that paralysed the BJP government in Karnataka blew over today following a compromise between the warring sides under which a coordination committee will be formed, a woman minister may be removed and the Speaker inducted into the Cabinet. |
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