Bihar shutdown: BJP-JD(U) workers indulge in the clash of trivialization
By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.COm) The clash between BJP and JD(U) workers outside the state headquarters of the saffron party on the day of Bihar shutdown (bandh) on Tuesday is a rare development as never in the past had the workers of the two parties indulged in spilling blood only two days after the break-down of [...]
By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) After Janata Dal (United) snapped its ties with the National Democratic Alliance the number of its constituents has come down to just three. Rival political parties often ridicule that one needs at least four pall-bearers to carry the coffin. Thus there is now not enough persons to carry the alliance to [...]
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Nitish Kumar Narendra Modi tussle is leading to the formation of a third front. But will this ‘Thud Front’ may start with a whimper? By Soroor Ahmed (NVONes.COm) In 1990s any talk of federal or third front without the role of the Left Front was, in all practical purposes, considered a notional front. But that [...]
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By Ram Puniyani Mahatma Gandhi, who laid down his life for communal harmony, who was murdered because he was espousing the cause of building bridges of amity between different religious communities had a statuette with three monkeys. One of the monkeys in this puts his hand on his mouth, signifying that we should not speak [...]
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Many analysts are still confused as to why despite flaring Turkey protests 2013, its wily Prime Minister Erdogan is still so confident (NVOnews.com): Even as the Turkish bonds recovered and the lira and stocks surged on Tuesday after nation-wide protests Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed renewed confidence after reaching Rabat late on Monday evening, [...]
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NVONews.com News Service New Delhi: The decision of Aam Admi Party to take on the Congress in the coming Assembly election in Delhi and announcement of the party chief Arvind Kejriwal to contest election from the constituency of chief minister Sheila Dikshit has raised a serious question: whether such an effort would yield any desired [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) It is not that the Maoists have not killed 29 or 30 people in one attack in Chhattisgarh or anywhere in the country. They have in fact ambushed well armed Central Reserve Police Forces several times killing as high as 76, 55 etc of them in one go. But then the [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) There is very few things for the UPA to celebrate on the completion of nine years in the office under Manmohan Singh on May 22. There are serious charges of corruption against ministers. Indecisiveness grips the ruling alliance and the government’s record on the economy front is not too good. The [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) Police in different states of India often talk of shortage of man- and machine-power. They are ill-equipped and find it difficult to fight criminals, Maoists, separatists and militants. One would often come across stories in the media stating as to how a large number of police personnel are involved in guarding [...]
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By Ram Puniyani The events of last over two decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of dividing the nation by communal forces have been a major obstacle to social peace and process of development. In India while the communal violence began with the Jabalpur riot of 1961, it is from last [...]
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By Cedric Prakash sj As the poll results of the Karnataka Assembly elections trickled in on Wednesday, 8th May, the one person who was in the eye of the storm was Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat. Over the years, the BJP in Karnataka had done everything possible to make certain their defeat: the [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) That a country of 17 crores not only elected its National Assembly (Parliament) but also four Provincial Assemblies in one day and got almost all the results within 24 hours is no mean achievement for Pakistan, a country plagued with violence and very rough terrain. What is more the country did [...]
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Narendra Modi proving disastrous for BJP even in states with hardly any Muslim votes
May 9, 2013 No Comment
(NVONews.Com): Though one chief minister after another is losing election yet the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be more pre-occupied with the issue as to who should be its prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha election. After Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh last year it lost the crucial state of Karnataka to the Congress, [...]
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By Saeed Naqvi I was in Lucknow when Sarabjit Singh died in Lahore. My purpose in visiting the city of my childhood was to address a much milder agenda: to attend a seminar organised by the local Urdu Media Guild on May Day. Since May Day this year coincided with celebration of Prophet Mohammad’s daughter [...]
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