Chintan - Instablogs
May 22 2009
The BJP sees positives even in defeat. Even as the Third and Fourth fronts are making a beeline to 10 Janpath with their support to UPA, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Thursday maintained this development has paved way for the saffron party to occupy...
May 21 2009
The buzz about Montek being Manmohan Singh’s first choice for finance may not reflect an unyielding determination, but it is representative of the growing excitement over ministry-making. Already, there is quiet lobbying in the party for plum...
May 20 2009
The victory by India’s ruling Congress and the subsequent stock market bounce has reignited investor optimism. As the outgoing cabinet tendered its collective resignation ahead of the formation of a new government, the benchmark 30-share index on...
May 19 2009
With the Congress cold-shouldering the Samajwadi Party’s offer to support the UPA government, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav announced on Monday that his party would sit in the Opposition bench in the Parliament. “Neither the Congress has sought...
May 16 2009
BJP-led NDA is expected to get 180 to 195 seats, according to “final projections” based on a national election study by CNN-IBN in association with newspaper Danik Bhaskar. Contrary to the general perception, the study said DMK and its...
May 14 2009
Russia raised the prospect of war in the Arctic yesterday as nations struggle for control of the world’s dwindling energy reserves. The country’s new national security strategy identified the intensifying battle for ownership of vast untapped oil...
May 14 2009
Mirwaiz Umer Farooq’s cap is symbolic. The story goes that the minute he reaches Delhi, he wants to take it off. It isn’t capitulation, but the heavy burden that was thrust on him after his father’s death when he was just 17; Mirwaiz...
May 14 2009
Indian shares fell more than 2.5 percent in early trade on Thursday, after exit polls at the end of national elections indicated a weak coalition government may come to power. At 9:56 a.m. (0426 GMT), the 30-share BSE index .BSESN was down 268 points...
May 12 2009
KOLKATA: It is too early to comment on who is going to support whom and, at present efforts are on to form a government without the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said here on Monday. The...
May 11 2009
With post-poll violence continuing to claim lives in Nandigram, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday held an emergency meeting with senior police officers and Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakrabarti to discuss the situation. The government...