View Articles

Systematic stifling of young leaders in the Congress party has, in the course of time, made the party leaderless at the district and state levels. The leadership at the centre grew stronger but at the state and lower levels, it became rudderless. The Congress system, particularly from the time of Indira Gandhi onwards, discouraged strong state leaders from emerging and replacing the old guards. The result was that there is now a vacuum at the state level and it is difficult to find a leader of stature to lead the party in elections.

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force has launched its 3G Cellular Network named AFCEL (Air Force Cellular) on Friday to link warriors across the country.

New Delhi: The Vice President of India Hamid Ansari embarked on a programme to conquer the last frontier in Indian diplomacy.

BHOPAL: Scams after scams are virtually chasing the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who also happens to be star campaigner of the BJP in the state. After the Bachelor in Dental surgery (BDS) and Pre-medical test (PMT) scams, has emerged a scam in the Open School Board of the State, which conducts High School exams for distance education candidates. The government is also in the dock for the mining scam. The Supreme Court has, recently ordered the closure of more than 100 mines after finding serious irregularities in their allotment.

Bizarre it may sound, but the end result of the prime minister’s autumn tour of the United States, Russia and China could mean a huge business bonanza for the three countries, running into tens of billions dollars, with defence, nuclear and telecommunications equipment figuring on top of India’s expensive purchase list. The civil nuclear deals with the US and Russia could totally cost the country close to US$ 30 billion. India has also agreed to offer a piece of its land to China presumably on long lease to help China build an exclusive industrial park for its enterprises in expectation of unspecified Chinese foreign direct investments (FDI) to the country.

New Delhi: The Vice President of India M Hamid Ansari is slated to enlighten the British audience about citizenship rights and duties of minority communities, citing Indian example.

Delhi will be going for Assembly polls on December 4. The incumbent chief minister Sheila Dikshit is keeping her fingers crossed to come back for a record fourth consecutive term. But is it going to be a cakewalk for the complacent Congress party to retain Delhi?

LUCKNOW: At a time when Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has appealed to his party workers and leaders to maximise number of party seats in Lok Sabha from UP, the party has also been working very hard to make inroads into Dalit votes.

In the euphoric narrative of the country’s export performance during the first half of the current fiscal, the missing link that is the cause for concern is the tepid performance of imports, particularly non-oil imports, the persistence of which is bound to hit the import-dependent export production segment. It is no doubt a salutary development that the share of the export sector in the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country has displayed a consistent rise save 2012-13, the inaugural year of the 12th Five Year Plan, when there was a marginal fall in the share from 17.6 per cent in 2011-12 to 17.3 per cent.

In recent days, the Prime Minister, the Finance Minister, and Governor of RBI Dr Raghuram Rajan, in visits to Washington, held forth on India’s impatience to regain its rightful high growth, dismissed unwarranted pessimism, and said recovery was now taking hold in the second half (October-March) to reverse a slump, signaling a higher than 5 per cent growth for 2013-14.