Scam fallout: Didi ties rakhi to MMS, Ajit Pawar declares Sonia as elder sister, NaMo in depression
May 7, 2013 3 Comments
The recent spate of scams – high by even UPA’s fecundity – has led to a realignment of political equations and relations across the country. West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that she will tie a rakhi to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh coming Rakshabandhan and make him her rakhi brother. “Brathers are supposed to be [...]
Continue reading …Congress leaders bend over backwards to fete Rahul Gandhi for impending victory in Karnataka
May 6, 2013 8 Comments
A festive look adorns the Congress camp in Karnataka, even as the party awaits the results of the recently concluded assembly elections in Karnataka – a result that the party expects to go in its favour which will open the floodgates of praise for the Congress Vice President, Shri Rahul Gandhi. “I have been waiting [...]
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While watching the presentation made by the Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Bikram Singh this afternoon, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is reported to have liked the idea of a calibrated tit for tat response to Chinese incursions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh by way of sending a strong signal to China. [...]
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In what is being hailed as a significant piece of governance reform, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) today announced that all candidates aspiring to become civil servants will also be tested for their scam quotient, one facet of which is the ability to keep dodgy characters such as Law Minister, Ashwani Kumar, in good [...]
Continue reading …Rahul Gandhi visits cubicles of IT professionals in Bangalore’s Infosys campus during campaigning
April 28, 2013 9 Comments
After dalits, minorities and other disaffected groups, it was the turn of software engineers in Bangalore to experience the legendary empathy and warmth of Rahul Gandhi, as he swung through hundreds of cubicles in Infosys’ main campus in Bangalore Electronic City. IT professionals, though a minuscule fraction of the electorate, could swing fortunes in many [...]
Continue reading …Indian prisoners to be more severely punished by having them apply for Aadhaar cards
April 27, 2013 5 Comments
In a new amendment to the Indian Penal Code, all convicts sentenced to rigorous imprisonment will be subject to harsher measures by under-going the excruciating process of applying for Aadhaar (UID) cards. Authorities hope that the new measures check the rising crime graph across the country, a reflection of the low deterrence value of rigorous [...]
Continue reading …Ashwani Kumar reveals the changes he made to the SC monitored CBI status report on coal scam
April 23, 2013 16 Comments
Under fire for allegedly tampering with the Supreme Court monitored CBI status report on alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks between 1994 and 2008, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar was kind enough to show us in track change mode the changes he had made to the report. It is hoped that after going through the [...]
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With increasing incidents of rapes, murders, kidnappings, the government has ordered a book of vocabulary from where it can choose the best words to condemn such attacks without actually using the word ‘condemn’. The step has been taken after the government realized that people are getting tired of the stale rhetoric bandied about every time [...]
Continue reading …Nitish Kumar holds Adhikar rally in Riyadh demanding special status for Bihar from Saudi Arabia
April 20, 2013 1 Comment
After successfully managing to get special status for Bihar from the Center – the Planing Commission has readied a 12,000 crore package for the impoverished state – Bihar CM, Nitish Kumar, has stormed the international stage with his brand of inclusive, grant-in-aid based model of development. The JD(U) leader and avowed Lohiaite addressed an Adhikar [...]
Continue reading …Karnataka BJP office relocates to Boston, receives PM’s letter condemning the blast within hours
April 19, 2013 2 Comments
The Karnataka unit of the BJP, which witnessed a bomb-blast outside its office a couple of days ago in Malleshwaram, Bangalore, in a suspected terror attack, relocated to Boston today. Within a few hours, it received a letter from PM Manmohan Singh, condemning the blasts in the strongest terms and expressing solidarity with the beleaguered [...]
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