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‘Mainstream India’ has typically been those parts of the Union where the Indian Army is not actively deployed at present. Naturally, the contour of this ‘mainstream’ has been changing. Places where the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is in action, there are sweeping powers that the Armed Forces have over the life and liberty of people.

Rising Buddhist-Muslim tensions originating in Myanmar are causing political repercussions at the regional level, raising India’s security concerns.

The Awami National Party, the worst-affected political entity due to politics of annihilation by the Talibans in Pakistan in the main, is in a new crisis with the announcement of Begum Nasim Wali Khan, the widow of Pakhtun nationalist leader and one of the founders of the National Awami Party, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, that she will beef up the ANP by sidelining the present top brass comprising her stepson Asfandyar Wali Khan, Azam Khan Hoti and Ameer Haider Hoti and put her grandson Lawangeen Wali Khan at the helm.

Who is worried about the death of thousands of people of all ages in the country’s public and private hospitals, health centres, nursing homes and clinics due to medical negligence, staff cruelty and exploitation? Not our lawmakers, for certain. The government, very often, treats the cases of such deaths as casually as those in road or rail accidents. Even the judiciary’s hands are generally tied in the absence of strong legal deterrent to hand down exemplary punishments to offenders be they health administrators, doctors, surgeons, anesthetists, nurses or government inspectors.

New Delhi: Egypt has sought India’s assistance in building up its new political system and reviving its economy.

After the completion of the Assembly elections to five states, the focus has already shifted to the next Lok Sabha polls, which are just a few months away. Not only are the fortunes of incumbent chief ministers and prime ministerial candidates of the two national parties are at stake, but also the results could influence the morale of the UPA and the NDA in the national scene before the big fight.

A very few global gathering attracts glitz and glamour as the ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), normally scheduled every two years but which subsequently got off tangent after the Hong Kong Ministerial ended in fiasco in 2005 and its predecessor Cancun (Mexico) in 2003.

BHOPAL: 8 December, when the counting of votes for the assembly elections will take place and the fate of the state government decided, is less than a week away. Meanwhile, more skeletons have tumbled out from the closet of the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh.

It was billed as an exercise aimed at ridding the CPI(M) of ideological deviations and organizational infirmities. Post-plenum, the party would emerge stronger, cleansed of ‘neo-liberal vices’ of the cadres, trumpeted the party leaders. The plenum, held at Palakkad from November 27 to 29, had won grudging admiration from even political rivals.

New Delhi: India will assist Turkmenistan to build infrastructure for supply of pipeline gas in the Ashgabat city.