In a reminder of how politics works in the country, 2 political entities that bitterly broke up with each other over 3 months ago are now announcing that they are back together with each other, with the public statements that this is for the good of the people. What has happened in Jharkand ? Well,
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New developments in Jharkand – the BJP and Soren make up
Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Bill to hike Members of Parliaments salaries despite a walkout by the Left , demanding a provision for an independent mechanism to fix the MPs salaries. The Salary, Allowance and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Bill, 2010, provides threefold hike in basic salaries of MPs from Rs 16,000
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Is Your MP Underpaid? – they voted a huge hike for themselves
This is for Filipinos (Pinoy) living overseas who do not have access to PinoyTV or TFC, you can watch the two leading Philippine TV network broadcast free streaming via hayag.com. The broadcast is a little delayed by a few minutes and quality is so-so since it is compressed but what the heck, this is what you Related posts: Watch GMA and ABS-CBN Free Live Streaming This is for Filipinos (Pinoy) living overseas who do…
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BlackBerry Services are under fire from the Indian government, with the latest word from the Intelligence Bureau stating that BlackBerry services will be banned in India if the concerns raised by the Indian government are not addressed by the Canadian developer of BlackBerry Smartphone Research In Motion Limited.
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Blackout for BlackBerry in India – some services facing problems
I was playing with some of the virtual machines running on my “hosted ESX” (ESX running as a guest vm on VMware Workstation 7, that’s two levels of virtualization, trying to gauge the responsiveness and network utilization of the Virtual Infrastructure. In one of the newly installed Centos guest, I fired up yum to update the Related posts: Singapore Ubuntu mirror I was surprised that there is no available Singapore..
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Sometimes, Governments get feedback from the citizens in ways that they cannot anticipate. One example was seen in the recent issue about the VAT rates on diesel, implemented by the Delhi Government. The Commonwealth Games to be hosted by Delhi in October is sucking in more money that anticipated, and with delays, especially for the
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Delhi Government forced to reduce the VAT on diesel, after finding that people voted with their feet
For some time now, India has been plagued by the case of more and more intolerance in society, especially when it comes to a clash between the desires of the younger generation and the apparent social mores of the generation. For many years, Indians used to read about honour killings happening in Islamic countries, and
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Handling the diktats of the illegal khaps in a legal manner, hope this does not go to a committee
Even a couple of months back, who would have visualized that the situation in Andhra Pradesh would come to this. In the Congress, the High Command (leading upto the Gandhi family in New Delhi) is the supreme, and there is absolutely no chance for anyone to oppose their decisions (or even hint at defiance of
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The clash in Andhra Pradesh between the Congress command structure and Jaganmohan Reddy
Caste politics have been taking a major move up in the last few years, with more movements towards caste based reservations (such as adding caste based reservations in educational colleges and the push to add caste based reservations in private colleges and in private companies). As a part of this, it is also politically difficult
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Caste in census: Quick to act, and then slowly starting to realize the full impact of this on their own political future
Got this error after installing ESX 4 U1 as a virtual machine running under VMware Workstation 7 for some Lab work. After installation completed, the following error was shown on the ESX console: TSC: 54361147 cpu0:0)NUMA: 706: Can’t boot system as genuine NUMA
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Fixing the “Can’t boot system as genuine NUMA” of ESX4 U1 under Workstation 7
The Government went in for a partial decontrol of the prices of fuels, with giving a full decontrol of the price of petrol (and promising that future prices will be linked to international prices of crude); the prices for diesel have not been fully decontrolled, and the prices for cooking gas and kerosene have been
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Will demand for diesel cards reduce if price of diesel increases ?
The Bhopal Gas Tragedy has been one of the worst incidents in the history of India, right up there with the unpunished anti-Sikh riots of 1984, and the Gujarat anti-Muslim riots of 2002.
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The Bhopal Gas Tragedy – Maybe something good will come out of all this, all the political discussion
Finally, the Government seems to have taken a decision to move away from populism. The Government is drunk on the money that it earns from fuel, since it needs to provide funds for all the social welfare programs that it has launched, so there is no question of a reduction in fuel duty and excise
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Fuel rates and the abandonment of populism to some degree by the Indian Government, but will this last
Indian politics is famous for bringing together people who were on the opposite ends of the scale at one point of time, and separating those who used to be counted as close friends. We already see this day in and day out, however, this does become more challenging when you see this happening in the
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Jaya Bachchan and Amar Singh: The distances that politics brings between people who used to be close friends once
( Let me make one thing clear…..the objective of writing this article is not defending any activity of Indian govt, but to focus on Indian Maoists. They are largely potrayed as a group fighting for the legitimate rights of Adivashis. But here I discussed some unknown, or atleast less-known aspects of Maoist movement in India
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Exposing Indian Maoists : Part – 1
Who would have thought that Shibu Soren could have caused such a huge amount of political turmoil, and plunged the politics of Jharkand into a minefield where everything seemed to be have become unsettled. Shibu Soren was the Chief Minister of Jharkand, as a part of a coalition where the BJP supported the JMM in
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Finally an agreement in Jharkand, after 3 weeks of turmoil about who will be the Chief Minister
When a Minister for any Government goes outside the country, there is a broad agreement that they do not go against the policies of the country (and this is also the convention even when a opposition leader goes outside the country). Thus if a Lal Krishna Advani or some Communist leader goes outside the country,
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Jairam Ramesh overspeaks when in China, may have been influenced by hospitality over there – pulled up by the Prime Minister
The Commonwealth Games is one of the largest sporting events to hit Delhi for a long time, maybe being the biggest event after the Asian Games in 1982. Getting the games here was a major event for Delhi, something that was hard fought
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Delhi waiting for the Commonwealth Games to begin; will atleast stop some of the frenzied construction
It seemed like a small issue, and initially, we could not believe it. How can Lalit Modi, who otherwise seemed such a successful organizer (and would have had to overcome so many obstacles including people trying to take his position) find himself in such a position. And the more so with Shashi Tharoor, who had
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Lalit Modi, and how the IPL issue is blowing into a Congress-NCP issue
Mamta Banerjee, as many of her allies know, is very unpredictable. Initially in the Congress, she separated and went on her own lonely path. However, given the over-bearing presence of the Left Front as the long ruling leader of West Bengal, she had to ally with the Congress to increase her resources and be able
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The Trinamool Congress, and how Mamta Banerjee finds somebody more unpredictable than her
Khap panchayats are a curse on many areas of North India. In rural areas, these caste ‘panchayats’ would comprise of the caste elders, while they were not constituted under any law or any legal structure.
There is no getting around the fact that India faces an undeclared war on it by Pakistan – the concept being that Pakistan will bleed India through a thousand cuts, with no real reaction from the Indian side except for hand-wringing. We indulge in a lot of reactive behavior instead of being proactive; and depend
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India faced by constant problems from Pakistan – why don’t we strike back in the same coin
Typically in India, the criminal justice system has not been handling the crime of rape very well. The confidentiality of victims is not maintained by either the media or by the judicial system, cases take a long time to happen (if you leave aside the fast track cases, which are an exception); the medical examination
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Chief Justice of India makes a different suggestion – let rape victim marry the accused if she wants
Indian rivers are filthy, with frequent reports of how the level of contaminants in the rivers of the country (including the holy rivers) is much (many times) over the levels that are fit for humans to even bathe in, forget drinking. As an example, the Yamuna is now considered to be of the same level
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Sentencing public officials for preventing flow of pollutants into a river
For the past few days, there has been a huge amount of debate on the decision taken by MF Hussain to take on Qatari citizenship (and since India does not allow double citizenship for Qatar, he will have to give up his Indian citizenship). There has been discussion in the papers, there have been the
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MF Hussain, his surrender of the Indian citizenship and the attacks on him
In the past, we have had sports personalities earning money for advertising almost anything; so for example, many very fit sports personalities advertise junk fizzy drinks that do nothing but add empty calories to diets all over, and nobody seems to have objected in the past. It is only now that there seems to be
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Association of personalities with different brands and its impact
A couple of years back, there was a sustained push in terms of liquidity in the global system, and as a result, the huge amounts of cash were pushing up the prices of all commodities, resulting in food inflation numbers being high. However, the recession for the past 2 years brought down this excess liquidity
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Price Rise and the politics around it
The tussle in Maharashtra looks like an ongoing Mahabharta war, with the Congress and MNS / Shiv Sena in opposite camps, and the state Congress playing the role of the blind father, who is unable to do any kind of justice. It has been apparent for some time that the MNS is playing the role
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The turmoil in Maharashtra – tussle for the sons of the soil
Well, it finally happened. Some days after it became clear that relations between the strongman of the SP, Mulayam Singh, and his man friday, Amar Singh, were not okay, they started sniping at each other; Mulayam not directly, but through various party people, including his own brother; and Amar Singh directly
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Amar Singh finally turned out – he was asking for it
Why is that the IPL always have some kind of drama even before it starts ? Last year it was all about the Government not willing to provide the required level of security, and after some words between Lalit Modi (who eventually works for BCCI, which was headed by Sharad Pawar), the whole tournament was
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The whole drama over the IPL and Pakistani players