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LUCKNOW: The Akhilesh Yadav government is wooing farmers in Uttar Pradesh in a big way keeping in mind the forthcoming elections for Lok Sabha.

Does the Mamata Banerjee style of governance in West Bengal violate the basic rules governing centre-state relations?

Shale gas, a new energy solution, is being billed as the next best thing to conventional energy. And, it is believed to be available aplenty in several parts of the world, including India. The world is going crazy about this new source of energy which may challenge the domination of West Asia, Russia, Nigeria and Venezuela over oil and gas market in the next two to three decades.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second biggest partner in the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government, still smarting under the impact of Defence Minister A K Antony’s scathing criticism of the Front Government ruling the state?

Even as the winter session of Parliament begins, there are rumours of early polls with the opposition parties as well as some UPA allies asking their followers to get ready. While the Congress was likely to suffer losses if the Lok Sabha polls are held early, there is no certainty about how other parties will benefit. The right and the left are in deep crisis and the smaller parties are no better. The ruling Congress claims it will complete the full term and there will be no early polls.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Emerging East Asia’s local currency bond markets continue to expand and are performing well, but risks loom large on the horizon, warned the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest Asia Bond Monitor.

On November 20, a day before the “swift and secret execution” of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab at Pune’s Yerwada Jail at 7:30 am, India had voted against abolishing death penalty at a UN General Assembly.

Barack Obama got four more years. Desis watched his victory speech. USA may or may not have four more years of hope, but that week in early November also marked 12 years of hopelessness in a part of another Union, the Union of India. Irom Sarmila Chanu, the Gandhi that Gandhi never was, finished 12 years of her epic fast, protesting acts of torture perpetrated in Manipur by the armed forces loyal to the Indian state, in the cover of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).