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What are so very common among Navin Chawla, Polayil Joseph Thomas and Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma? A lot, in fact. All of them are retired bureaucrats, connected with corruption controversies, have deep-rooted political links and rewarded with such important jobs that have powers to destabilise government and to corrupt democratic institutions. The former IAS officers received their-post retirement rewards from the Congress-led UPA government, almost arbitrarily, under highly debatable circumstances.

New Delhi: Population of India is expected to surpass that of China around 2028, when both countries will have populations of around 1.45 billion. Thereafter, India’s population will continue to grow for several decades to around 1.6 billion and then decline slowly to 1.5 billion in 2100. The population of China, on the other hand, is expected to start decreasing after 2030, possibly reaching 1.1 billion in 2100.

Gujarat chief minister NarendraModi has crossed the first hurdle by becoming the chairman of the BJP’s poll campaign committee. This decision of the BJP’s national executive in Goa during the weekend is seen as a step towards his becoming the prime ministerial candidate of the party. Things are so far going according to Modi’s script. But the euphoria on his announcement became a damp squib when the focus turned towards the party patriarch LK Advani who resigned in protest from three of the party posts the next day.

New Delhi: Despite India’s role as a facilitator for restoring peace in the Arab world, it is not yet invited to the Geneva-II Conference on Syria scheduled next month.

After getting observer status at the May 15 meeting of the Arctic Council, India is working on a composite strategy to play a wider role in the exploitation of natural resources in the Arctic Ocean. Along with India, China, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore have also been granted observer status at the last meeting of the Council.

The revolt against the party leadership and subsequent surrender of Lal Krishna Advani has only dented his image as a strong and shrewd politician. In this process he has gained nothing and lost what was left with him at the fag end of his political career. In his resignation letter he has lamented the improper functioning of the party and the self serving attitude of the party leaders, but his immediate reason for resignation was to put pressure on the party to backtrack the decision to elevate Narendra Modi in national politics by anointing him as the Chairman of Election Campaign Committee.

New Delhi: It is not the case in Saudi Arabia alone. Indian workers are now facing the same problem in Kuwait.

New Delhi: A former Prime Minister of Nepal and senior leader of the Nepali Congressr Sher Bahadur Deuba has sought India’s logistics support for holding elections to the Constituent Assembly in that country slated later this year.

New Delhi: India is concerned as Saudi Arabia is planning to reduce the annual Haj quota allocated to countries worldwide by 20%.

The salubrious setting for the BJP’s national executive meetings in Goa provided an unlikely background for one of the most vicious instances of political infighting that one has witnessed in recent years. Given the kind of protagonist involved in the battle – L.K. Advani and Narendra Modi with their respective groups of supporters inside and outside the BJP, the RSS in the background and allies like the JD (U) and Shiv Sena watching from the sidelines – it will be months before any calm is restored – if ever.