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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The solar scam juggernaut is marching on, relentlessly, savaging reputations of UDF politicians left and right.

The Left parties convention last week received scant notice in the media but it has made certain eye opening observations. According to Left leaders, the post-2014 general election scenario looks extremely grim. Both the Congress and the BJP are likely to fall far short of a majority to cobble a coalition. According to their assessment, particularly of veteran CPI leader A B Bardhan, the Congress could not get more than 100-110 seats and the BJP not more than 140. The base of the Congress-led UPA and the BJP-led NDA has shrunk. Once the NDA had 24 parties at its constituents; today there are only two parties supporting the BJP.

New Delhi: The new regime in Pakistan has made a gesture to improve its relations with India.

New Delhi: India has expressed its appreciation for the Sri Lankan Government’s decision to conduct elections to its Northern Provincial Council, but is still awaiting actual devolution of power to the Tamil population through the proposed 13th Amendment to its Constitution.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India has found that Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old woman killed in an ‘encounter’ in 2004, was not a terrorist. It also found the involvement of senior officers of Gujarat police and the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

KOLKATA: There was good reason for thinking that by prolonging its legal battle against the West Bengal Government over the Panchayat elections, the State Election Commission(SEC) played into the hands of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC).

No one could believe even three years ago that India’s economic growth engine would hit so many nasty speed bumps so soon and would be forced to drive so cautiously as not to get derailed. In 2010-11, the country’s GDP grew by 9.3 per cent, the third highest in history.

Imagine this scenario. It’s August 2011 and Anna Hazare is sitting on his second fast at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi to demand the enactment of Jan Lokpal (anti corruption law drafted by Team Anna). From all the TV channels, newspapers and magazines one could get the sense that millions are on the street supporting this movement and harbouring anti UPA feelings. In such a scenario, if the Army Chief first warns and then deposes the democratically elected UPA government, would it be anyway justified? The answer is definitely no, even though there are thousands of jingoist existing around us, who would support any Army takeover of a perceptible corrupt government.

If anything, it will be the cold arithmetic that should work for the UPA and the NDA in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. After all, the days of the single party rule is over with a fractured polity and growing number of regional satraps.

New Delhi: India has expressed concerns over the recent developments in Egypt leading to ouster of President Mohamed Morsi by a coup.