UPA is down, but NDA not yet up
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 [...]
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 Biswajit Choudhury New Delhi, Amid the media brouhaha in India over the border incursions by their troops, Chinese engineers were last week calmly tunneling in the heart of the national capital for the heritage line of the Delhi Metro network, signifying the growing commercial linkages between the two neighbours. Engineers of the Shanghai Urban [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVOnews.com) Railway is a very big ministry with its own separate budget, which is tabled every year in Parliament. Yet of late it appears that the ministry has got somewhat jinxed. Pawan Kumar Bansal, now in trouble, was the first full-fledged cabinet rank Railway Minister of the Congress party after 16 long [...]
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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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By Syed Ubaidur Rahman Indian Muslims’ antipathy towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is known. The party hasn’t thought much about Muslims in term of being equal citizens. Instead it has worked tirelessly to antagonise a community that comprises more than 15 percent of the Indian population. It has raised demands for Muslims to abandon [...]
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Lahore, Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was admitted to a Lahore hospital after being savagely attacked in jail, died Thursday, a media report said. Sarabjit Singh died in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital, reported Geo News. The head of the medical panel of the hospital was quoted as saying that Sarabjit succumbed to injuries at [...]
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By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh’s top brass seems to have flown the coop, or at least the state! Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, senior ministers like Azam Khan and Shivpal Singh Yadav and even Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani, everybody it seems is living it up in foreign lands. And the question doing the rounds here [...]
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By Amulya Ganguli It isn’t only the Congress’s myriad problems that raise questions about the government lasting till 2014. What is no less worrisome for the voters is that the ruling party’s opponents are in an equally sorry state. What this means is that the post-poll scenario, whether it is later this year or early [...]
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From Azam Khan to Narendra Modi: Why Indian politicians crave so much to visit US?
April 27, 2013 11 Comments
By Soroor Ahmed (NVONews.Com) The detention of Uttar Pradesh’s minister for urban development, Azam Khan, by an official at Boston’s Logan International Airport, is not the first incident of its kind involving foreign dignitaries and diplomats in the United States, especially after 9/11. Azam Khan may be partially right when he alleged that he had [...]
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Boston Marathon explosion suspect has been questioned. Here we bring live updates, video, photos and much more. Three people were killed and more than 140 injured in the twin bombings The Americans were shocked and horrified when the twin blasts occurred at the Boston Marathon and showed “how vulnerable the US homeland still is”. The [...]
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(NVOnews.com) Venezuelan on Sunday elected by a very slender margin, Nicolas Maduro, as the President of the country with world’s largest oil reserves to succeed Hugo Chavez, who ruled for about 14 years. While he got 50.7 per cent votes his rival 40-year old Henrique Capriles Radonski received 49.1 per cent. Ballot-wise the difference was [...]
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By Soroor Ahmed (NVOnews.com) Patna: A large section of BJP leaders and workers, especially of Bihar, are apprehensive that if the Hindutva party contest the Lok Sabaha election of 2014 in alliance with Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) the National Democratic Alliance may end up with much less number of seats than the last time. [...]
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