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KENDRI (CHHATTISGARH): Krishnalal Sahu stuffs his monthly quota of grain in a rucksack, and beams in appreciation. The ease with which he gets his ration nowadays has been a big relief from the time that going to a ration shop was like a visit to hell.

Secularism has been defined in Oxford Dictionary as “a doctrine which means that morality or education should not be based on religion”. The Chambers 20th Century Dictionary says, “the belief that the state, morals, education, etc, should be independent of religion” is the meaning of secularism. The Constitution of India stands for a secular state, which means “the state has no official religion. Secularity pervades its provisions which give full opportunity to all persons to profess, practice and propagate any religion of their choice”.

New Delhi: Relations between India and Egypt is likely regain its robustness as it was in the Nehru-Nasser era. India expects that with the change of regime in Egypt following the Arab Spring efforts should be put in place to cement the relationship into cordiality, which had suffered over decades.

Stunned by the electorate in 2011 in the wake of the 2G scam and arrest of Mr A K Raja, his confidante and Telecommunications Minister, the DMK Supremo, Mr Karunanidhi has risen, like a phoenix from the ashes, to bestir himself to salvage his party to retain a foothold at the Centre in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chauhan has given a clear indication that he is ready to accept any crucial responsibility at the Central level in his party.

This Congress-led UPA government appears to be almost equally unhappy with the working of all other independent democratic institutions. Somewhat frustrated, it continuously sermonises them – Parliament, the judiciary, election commission, comptroller and auditor general (CAG), opposition ruled states, the media and even the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – on how they should run their affairs in the interest of the nation, albeit the Congress party. It is like the pre-emergency period in 1995 under the then control-freak prime minister Indira Gandhi.

India is placed on the horns of a dilemma over Italy refusing to send back two of its marines facing trial in an India court on the charges filling two fishermen off the coast of Kerala.

New Delhi : India has welcomed the formation of an interim government in Nepal, saying that it is a step forward in implementation of the peace process and creation of conditions for free and fair elections in the new Himalayan democracy under transition.

LUCKNOW: At a time when the Samajwadi Party government completes one year in office, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is getting good response for his efforts to bring investment in Uttar Pradesh.

The UPA is under tremendous pressure from its important ally the DMK to vote against the resolution on Sri Lanka for violation of human rights at the UNHRC meeting in Geneva later this month. The DMK and other Tamil Nadu political parties want further toughening of stand against Lanka.