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For about two years now the Team Anna led by the social activist and civil society leader Anna Hazare has brought the issue of corruption to the centre stage. Last year the team fought the Lokpal war and partially won and also partially lost. The government, bowing to the Team Anna’s pressure got the Lok pal passed in Lok Sabha but it is still stuck in Rajya Sabha. Anna’s movement was a huge success in 2011 because of the combined efforts of his team including Justice Santosh Hegde, lawyer Prashant Bhushan, social activist Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi and others. However, perhaps due to ego clashes, Team Anna got deviated somewhere down the line within a year.

The fear expressed in this Column, namely, that the Congress party may be losing its survival instinct, has come true within a fortnight. The November 4 rally in Delhi, held to celebrate the United Progressive Alliance government’s disastrous decision to open up multi-brand retail to foreign investment, gave out that message, loud and clear.

KOLKATA: The civil government that came to power in Myanmar after the general elections of 2010 has been slowly veering away from the old path. Efforts are on to make peace with the ethnic rebels who had been fighting the junta government for decades. The new government signed a ceasefire agreement with the Shan rebels in December 2011. Next month, January 2012, it signed another ceasefire agreement with the Karen rebels.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is not the only person, who is feeling restless over the prospects of Narendra Modi as the next PM candidate of BJP, the same restlessness may also be found in RSS. Former spokesman of RSS, MG Vaidya demonstrated his frustration over the growing stature of Narendra Modi in a calculated way.

NEW DELHI: Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of State for Power today visited NTPC and reviewed the operational performance and progress of its projects real time at the Operations and Project Monitoring Centers of the company.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It assumed power as the United Democratic Front (UDF) amidst great fanfare. One and a half years on, the UDF has metamorphosed itself into a front riven by disunity and bitter bickering, perilously close to collapsing under its own weight.

Some recent events highlight the role that Haryana is playing in national politics. One event was the Congress’s November 4 rally held in Delhi, for which the state Congress mobilised the largest of crowds. The other is the controversial former Army chief V.K. Singh’s imminent entry into politics.