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Barack Obama got four more years. Desis watched his victory speech. USA may or may not have four more years of hope, but that week in early November also marked 12 years of hopelessness in a part of another Union, the Union of India. Irom Sarmila Chanu, the Gandhi that Gandhi never was, finished 12 years of her epic fast, protesting acts of torture perpetrated in Manipur by the armed forces loyal to the Indian state, in the cover of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

NEW DELHI: Spirit of Entrepreneurship, democratic and demographic dividends are the three important lifelines of India and Udaan program is expected to strengthen these said Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia , Minister of State for Power addressing the J&K youth joining NTPC for training in thermal plant engineering today.

Call it anything – a government-industry conspiracy to malign CAG, telecom cartel’s response to the Congress rethink on 2G spectrum allocation, the cartel’s angry reaction to the Supreme Court order cancelling the arbitrary allotment of 122 licences by A Raja, or the result of industry’s total frustration over the country’s current political and economic environment. But, there is nothing to celebrate in the government’s failure to meet its spectrum auction target.

Mr Barack Obama’s re-election as the President of the United States is a welcome development—if only because a Mitt Romney victory would have been much worse, contrary to the views of some pro-US analysts and even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The winter session of parliament will witness one of the most crassly opportunistic political line-ups in recent years, surpassing in its cynicism even the BJP-Left bonhomie during the debate on the nuclear deal.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – While advanced economies gradually rebuild their balance sheets, Asia’s emerging markets need to diversify sources of growth to boost GDP, Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda said today during an address at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Global Dialogue in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

THIRUVANTHAPURAM: In the ultimate analysis, politics is all about perception. Whatever the spin the United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders might want to put on Defence Minister A K Antony’s angry outburst against the state government headed by his ‘dear friend’ Oommen Chandy, the people perceive it to be the Defence Minister’s strong disapproval of the Congress-led Government’s style of functioning.

How competent and wrong is the Comptroller and Auditor General of India? Do the CAG’s large mouthed figures on loss of revenue for failure to properly auction natural resources—telecom spectrum and coal and land for airports—even remotely correct?