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In Asia, India is the third biggest FDI recipient after China and Singapore. It is perceived that any setback in anyone of these countries leverages FDI growth in other two countries. The explanation suggests that decline in FDI in China should gear up shifting of FDI to Singapore and India. Since Singapore is shackled by low domestic demand and when global slump in export has throttled Singapore’s potential, India has emerged as the safer bet for better destination for foreign direct investment. India is thronged with big domestic demand and its slow growth in GDP has bottomed out.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no let-up for the Congress and other United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders from the heat generated by the solar scam. A host of recent developments have caused anxiety levels to rise further in the UDF camp, badly singed by the controversy.

Amidst all-round criticism over the suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal over the alleged demolition of an illegal construction of a wall of a mosque, UP police arrested an eminent Dalit thinker Kanwal Bharati for his posts on Facebook. This shows how arrogant the UP government has turned against its critic over Nagpal episode. Bharati was accused of hurting Muslim sentiments and creating communal tension in the state. Anyone who is familiar with the writings of Bharati knows that as a writer he does not write against Muslims, even though he has written against some corrupt leaders, who happened to be Muslims.

There is a growing international concern about the political linkage between Rohingya Muslims settled in the Rakhine (Arakan) province of Myanmar and Islamic fundamentalist organisations.

New Delhi: An opinion poll survey conducted by a team of non-resident Indians (NRIs) has selected the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa as the prefered candidate for the Prime Minister of the country followed closely by the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia University in New York, isn’t known for modesty or patience towards his critics. In 2004, he got a chair created in Indian political economy at Columbia, named after himself. As if this wasn’t unusual enough, the chair’s occupant is none other than Arvind Panagaria, Bhagwati’s co-author!

Now that it is fairly certain that the Congress will not only fail to reach its present tally of 200-plus seats in the Lok Sabha, but also fall behind the BJP’s total in the next general election, it may be worthwhile considering why it is losing ground. An earlier occasion when a similar slippage occurred was in 1989 when the Congress’s total of seats fell from a massive 415 in a House of 543 to a lowly 197.

New Delhi: India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan through diplomatic channels after a patrol of Indian Army comprising of one non-commissioned officer and five other ranks was ambushed by a Pakistani Border Action Team close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir early Tuesday morning.

NEW DELHI: The ‘Falana Singh’ oath episode of panchs and sarpanchs in Punjab’s Bhatinda district on last Saturday gives a classic example of how uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, in the Panchayati Raj system. Yet, the scenario gives a bright perspective of bringing the grassroots people into the system of governance, which is the motto of Panchayati Raj Institutions.

Introspection induces realism. It is time those preparing for the 2014 Lok Sabha and Haryana Assembly elections, which are 9 and 13 months away respectively, undertake the exercise. This would help in the search for the proverbial light at the end of the elections tunnel.