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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Caught between a rock and a hard place. That is the unenviable fate which has befallen Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.

Sign of green shoots is visible. India’s GDP growth sparked to 7.4 per cent in 2014-15 from 6.9 per cent in 2013-14, much beyond the expectation. ADB forecasted a further surge to 7.8 per cent growth in 2015-16. IMF Chief Christine Lagarde was upbeat on India’s growth. She conceded that India was bright spot in a cloudy global economy. India’s growth has become a global point of discussion and debate, particularly when the global growth is tramped by recession and is expected to reel under 2 per cent in 2015.

Perhaps unwittingly, Yogendra Yadav let out the secret behind the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) internal turmoil by saying that he thought “such things” happened only in the Congress, BJP and other parties.

Brussels may not be willingly to oblige India at the moment by inviting Prime Minister Modi as it is perturbed over the delay in rendering justice to two Italian marines who allegedly shot down two Indian fishermen in the country’s waters. But France and Germany have taken a different view and are to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Before the BJP-led government decided to felicitate Atal Bihari Vajpayee with Bharat Ratna, the highest Indian civilian award, nobody came to his Krishna Menon Marg residence. The only regulars included N M Ghatate, his friend for nearly six decades and his media advisor when he was the Prime Minister, A K Tandon. L K Advani, Manmohan Singh (when he was PM) and B C Khanduri, former union minister, never missed greeting the former PM on his birthday.

New Delhi: Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), an initiative of The Rockefeller Foundation launched “Road to Resilience”, a guide to creating resilient cities in New Delhi yesterday.

The Prime Minister’s radio message to farmers in his Man Ki Baat programme a few days back creates a positive effect on the sector of medium, small and mini enterprises (MSME), which otherwise is dying for electricity support.

BHOPAL: The indefinite dharna by Congress MLA in the Vidhan Sabha hall has created an unprecedented situation which the state government is finding difficult to resolve. The Congress members have already spent two nights in the Assembly, 'Gadde' and 'Takia' were brought from the tent houses to enable them to have sleep. The Vidhan Sabha has provided meals to the agitating MLAs.

The reassuring remarks by the Union Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley on March 22 after addressing the central board of the apex bank as is customary following the presentation of the Union Budget that everything is honky-dory between the Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), did imply that the mutual relationship remains taut. The denial of ‘disconnect’ said this in ample measure! Though the Governor of the central bank is chosen and appointed by the government with the precedents showing that by and large they seldom embarrassed their benefactor, there were occasions in the past when some had chosen not to go the whole hog with the government in following loose monetary policy when the authorities showed predilection for loose fiscal policy.

Tamil Nadu's disgruntled DMK led by Mr M Karunanidhi (91) hopefully looks to the poll battle in 2016, largely on a wishful premise of the soon-to-be delivered orders by the Special Court in Karnataka going adverse for the ruling AIADMK leader Ms. Jayalalithaa in the Disproportionate Assets case.