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Madhya Pradesh Congress, which was alleged to be a very passive opposition for long, now has turned into an active opposition. The strong involvement of Satyadev Katare in the state assembly as leader of opposition and that of Digvijay Singh, former chief minister, has put the BJP government in trouble. Congress MLAs protested inside the MP assembly even though it was adjourned sine die after one-day session. They protested day and night for about 72 hours and put up a hunger strike on the last day. Congress MLAs demanded discussion in MP assembly on farmers’ issues. The leader of opposition put forth the demand for two-day assembly session instead of just one day for discussions on farmers’ plight in the wake of unseasonal rains and hailstorm just before harvest. Opposition has alleged that the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is not interested to either discuss the farmers’ problems, nor is doing anything worthwhile about it. This is the very first event of its kind in any assembly in the country.

Who is responsible for the soaring debts of Greece and the accentuating economic crisis the burden of which has been passed on to the underprivileged by the successive ruling coalitions in Athens? The myths about Greece debts in particular and the European debts in general, have prevailed so long due to the propaganda of the big media and the elites of the Euro-zone that the general opinion was that the Greece’s common masses are trying to destroy the stability of Eurozone by refusing to abide by the austerity programme worked by the troika of International Monetary Fund, World Bank and the European Central Bank.

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.