Chintan - Instablogs
May 11 2009
he people of north Kashmir’s Sopore township, which goes to polls on May 13, Sunday said after testing the Ballot and the Bullet, they would test the third B – Boycott of polls. Talking to Rising Kashmir in Sopore, 50 km north of Srinagar, Sheikh...
May 9 2009
ndian police Friday used teargas and batons to disperse hundreds of rock-throwing Kashmiris protesting against the holding of national elections in the revolt-hit region. The clashes left over a dozen people injured, police said, and came a day after...
May 8 2009
KARAIKUDI: Dubbing AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa as a ‘bundle of contradictions’, Union home minister P Chidambaram ruled out any post-poll tie up with her party saying that Congress differed with her on important issues and she cannot be...
May 7 2009
An American man has been arrested in Burma after allegedly spending three nights at the home of Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s detained opposition leader. John William Yeattaw, 53, was fished out of Yangon’s Inya Lake early on Wednesday...
May 7 2009
KATHMANDU: Two days after resigning as Prime Minister, chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said the next government would be formed under the Maoists’ leadership. Addressing a press conference...
May 6 2009
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Kashmir’s separatist leaders are struggling to win back popular support, and are hoping that a boycott of Thursday’s election to the Indian parliament may yet breathe new life into the 20-year movement. The appeal by...
May 6 2009
Uttar Pradesh, which is the most populous state in the country, sends eighty members to the Parliament, plays a crucial role in making or marring the fate of any government at the Centre. Its indispensability in national politics has compelled the youth...
May 4 2009
In this age of turbulence there is much that one would like to wish away, most of all the rise of the irrational in the form of religious fanaticism. It has, over the years, tiptoed into our lives, almost surreptitiously, and has now grown into a...
May 1 2009
Moderate to brisk polling was recorded in the third phase of Indian elections for 107 seats spread over nine states and two centrally administered territories. After Thursday’s polling, the election process was completed in 372 constituencies out of...
Apr 29 2009
New fronts have emerged after every general election since 1996 and a new non-Congress front comprising secular parties would come up after the ongoing Lok Sabha elections also, CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday. “The launch...