Nitin Sethi, Times of India Mar 8, 2007 Almost all women’s movement in the Indian hinterland, at some point in their past, have grappled with the problem. Many of these movements were formed primarily to tackle it and many continue to deal with it. Anti-alcohol…
Dhananjay Mahapatra & Nitin Sethi Times of India, March 7, 2007 NEW DELHI: The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has recommended that the Uttarakhand government deploy adequate number of officials to protect the Ganga basin area. On the advice of the Wildlife Institute of India, the…
Times of India, March 6, 2007 Yogendra Yadav One hates to be a spoilsport. But the interpretations being made about the election verdict in three states involve three common but erroneous assumptions. Assumption one is that whoever has won the election has secured a popular…
Kuldip Nayar Gulf News, 04-Mar-07 THE voting pattern in India is undergoing a change beyond conjecture. There were times when Pakistan or Kashmir would be an issue in every election, provincial or central. Then it was the phase of slogans like the state’s constitutional rights…
Sidharth Mishra | New Delhi Daily Pioneer, March 1, 2007 At the end of the month-long election campaign, a general consensus prevailed that the BJP, though it would remain far ahead of the Congress, would fall short of the halfway mark. The matters were not…
Indian Express February 28, 2007 NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 27: The next BJP government in Uttarakhand is determined to settle the issue of the state’s capital, on whether it would continue to be in Dehradun or would be shifted to the hills, but planned to go…
As expected, the winning party was able to squeak through with a small percentage margin of victory, but with a large haul of seats. In this case, the BJP with a third of the vote, won half the seats. The actual margins were similar to…
The votes are in, and it looks like a BJP near majority. Given that independents can easily haggle for plum positions from a party in such a dominant position, a BJP government is all but assured. In fact, this is a near reverse of 2002,…
With the NDTV exit poll showing a hung assembly with a range of results for all four main parties (32,178 surveyed regionally), the HT-CNN/IBN poll (4,282 surveyed in 32 seats) and Star News (7,200 surveyed in 29 seats) indicating a BJP majority, and the Garhwal…
Garhwal Post, February 22, 2007 The second state assembly elections for the state of Uttarakhand have now come to an end, with the ballot count scheduled to take place on February 27. As with all elections, the outcome will be influenced by money, muscle, and…