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It all started with the pro-liberation and secular Awami League (AL) winning the last general election with three-fourth majority in the parliament. They were riding on the youth vote, who are newly inspired by the spirit of liberation of Bangladesh, but now have reached a state of confrontation against a massive rally in the heart of Dhaka, led by an apparent coalition of non-Jaamat-e-Islami (JI) Islamist parties and organisations led my relatively unknown Hefajat-e-Islami (HI). JI is, in fact, the largest Islamist political entity, however, much smaller in vote share than the major two parties — the AL and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

KOLKATA: Not entirely facetiously, senior opposition leaders in West Bengal often marvel at the similarities between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M), the party it defeated after 34 years of uninterrupted rule.

How trustworthy is Coal India (CIL) chairman S Narsing Rao’s supply commitment to the power sector in terms of both quantity and quality for the current financial year? Supply is linked with production. When CIL is failing to meet its annual production targets for the last several successive years, how can it guarantee that its supply commitment to the power sector in 2013-14 will be fully met?

New Delhi: India and Mauritius have agreed to cooperate with each other in the area of election management and administration.

Barring one variable – fiscal deficit control – Finance Minister Chidambaram’s much-touted reforms and pep talks to ginger up the economy, which had hit its lowest point in a decade, have failed to get either the home investors on the move or to attract the badly-needed capital flows to finance peaking external deficits.

With some stakeholders declaring the possibility of early Lok Sabha elections, the players are getting ready to face polls. The million-dollar question is will there be early polls?

New Delhi : India and Bangladesh agreed to jointly produce a mega film on 1971 War of Liberation that led to the birth of a new republic in South Asia.

Mumbai aimed for becoming Riyadh by threatening Maqbul Fida Hussain and disrupting the exhibition of his paintings of goddess Durga and Saraswati. Mumbai's race to cultural barrenness reached another milestone in April. It dispatched its best sons of the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti to the Jehangir Art Gallery to remove paintings of goddess Kali by Kolkata-based painter Eleena Banik.

With the industry’s production, sales and bottom-line growth curves and graphs all moving downward to the right in unison, business barons are getting increasingly impatient with the current nearly-motionless the two Congress Party-led governments at the centre surviving on oxygen drawn from some of its arch political rivals such as Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Part (SP) and allies turned adversaries like Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).

New Delhi : India is set to market itself as a global tourism destination with its rich cultural heritage, ancient monuments, natural landscape and splendor of modern architecture under the package of Incredible India and Atithi Devobhava.