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New Delhi: With polls ahead the star campaigners of rival political parties, the Congress and the BJP, are out in the open projecting their views on the challenges the country faces.

The media scenario in West Bengal has been discreetly becoming murkier as never in the past in sync with the sprawling parallel sub-economy of chit funds that made forays into the fourth estate with hidden motive comprising multiple objectives one of which is to make the journalists and the media dance to their tune, namely, silent spectatorship to unbridled raising of money trampling the rule book of the banking regulator, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and capital market watchdog, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

Presuming Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister, how will he behave; what will be his priorities, both high and low? Will he reflect both good and bad traits of his strong personality in governance and be more assertive than his predecessor?

The recent induction of Narendra Modi to the parliamentary board of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has added one more chapter to the cold war between Janata Dal (United) and its no-as-secular ally. The BJP has been slowly pushing the envelope and this NDA partner has been resisting. When a chief minister of an opposition ruled state makes a visit to the New Delhi Durbar to meet Manmohan Singh, there is reason enough to follow it. When that chief minister in question is Bihar’s Nitish Kumar, one must sit up and take notice.

Even the worst critics of Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal have to admit that in two major areas of administration, the party has brought about a major improvement in governance: the troubled north Bengal hills and the insurgency-prone Jangalmahal region.

Indian economy has been witnessing constant tremors from current account deficit (CAD) since 2010-11. The biggest shock came at a highly alarming intensity at 6.7 per cent of GDP in the last quarter of 2012. The figure was officially announced in the last week of March, 2013.

New Delhi: India will soon have an university exclusively for defence studies for the first time. The country has notable defence institutions like the National Defence Academy at Kadakwasla and National Defence College at New Delhi where foreign students are alumnis, but an university exclusively for defence studies is needed to fill in the gap.

LUCKNOW: BJP has launched the preparation for Lok Sabha polls from two-day state executive meeting held in the holy place of Chitrakoot.

Even as the Congress workers are already confused about the conflicting statements made by some senior leaders, including the Gandhi scion Rahul, the Congress media cell chairperson Janardhan Dwivedi has created yet another debate by insisting that the present model of power sharing between the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may continue in future.

New Delhi: India and Azerbaijan almost set up a framework for legal and juridical cooperation between themselves by signing three relevant treaties.