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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India has found that Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old woman killed in an ‘encounter’ in 2004, was not a terrorist. It also found the involvement of senior officers of Gujarat police and the Intelligence Bureau (IB).

KOLKATA: There was good reason for thinking that by prolonging its legal battle against the West Bengal Government over the Panchayat elections, the State Election Commission(SEC) played into the hands of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC).

No one could believe even three years ago that India’s economic growth engine would hit so many nasty speed bumps so soon and would be forced to drive so cautiously as not to get derailed. In 2010-11, the country’s GDP grew by 9.3 per cent, the third highest in history.

Imagine this scenario. It’s August 2011 and Anna Hazare is sitting on his second fast at Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi to demand the enactment of Jan Lokpal (anti corruption law drafted by Team Anna). From all the TV channels, newspapers and magazines one could get the sense that millions are on the street supporting this movement and harbouring anti UPA feelings. In such a scenario, if the Army Chief first warns and then deposes the democratically elected UPA government, would it be anyway justified? The answer is definitely no, even though there are thousands of jingoist existing around us, who would support any Army takeover of a perceptible corrupt government.

If anything, it will be the cold arithmetic that should work for the UPA and the NDA in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. After all, the days of the single party rule is over with a fractured polity and growing number of regional satraps.

New Delhi: India has expressed concerns over the recent developments in Egypt leading to ouster of President Mohamed Morsi by a coup.

Preventive construction is economical, post-disaster management is costly. However, Indian government, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and political parties never learn, even though natural disasters have been taking place in hundreds without fail.

The desperate attempts by the UPA government to review sectoral caps in foreign direct investment (FDI) had remained a work in progress for far too long ever since its second coming in 2009. But in recent months, such efforts were reinforced by the pronounced slowdown of the economy in the wake of a string of scams and corruption-related issues in the allocation of natural resources—be it spectrum or coal.

India’s large family-promoted and managed public companies had long controlled their enterprises with proxies from the national government or state-owned financial institutions (FIs) while those promoter’s holdings often remained abysmally low, some for historical reasons and others as side-effects of their high cost expansion and modernization works substantially funded by FIs as both equity holders and debt providers.

New Delhi: Following the conclusion of the recent border talks between India and China at the level of special representatives, the Indian Defence Minister AK Antony will be on his way to Beijing on Thursday to further streamline the issue at a delegation level talks with his Chinese counterpart.