Silk Roads without people
Xi Jinping’s likely visit to India must not be wasted. It can be a good occasion for New Delhi to question him about the new corridors and remind him about Demchok China is very fond of Silk Roads. In 2013, a year after Xi Jinping was anointed Emperor of the Middle...
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The final push
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Slightly less corrupt
31 January 2019 | Pioneer -
If not Ayodhya, some other place
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Honour the forgotten Army
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Desertification: A real-time threat
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Budget Session of Assembly starts on Feb 22
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Ensure that BJP wins LS 74 seats this time: Shah to cadre
31 January 2019 | PNS
Illegal mining: ED grills IAS officer
The Enforcement Directorate grilled Indian Administrative Services officer and former District Magistrate of Hamirpur, B Chandrakala, over illegal mining during the previous Samajwadi Party regime, in Lucknow on Wednesday. The questioning continued till late in the evening but officials refused to give any details. On January 24 last, Chandrakala was summoned for...
NHRC notice over dilapidated primary school buildings
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over dilapidated primary school buildings in Etawah and has given four weeks to the Chief Secretary to file a reply. A NHRC communiqué released on Wednesday, said it had taken suo motu cognisance of media report...
Beware of BJP tactics on Ayodhya issue: Maya to people
A day after the Centre decided to move the apex court to seek permission for returning 67 acres of land acquired around the 2.77 acre disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site, to the original owners, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of indulging in racial and...
BJP MLA says Rahul is Ravana, and Priyanka Surpanakha
Bharatiya Janata Party’s controversial MLA Surendra Singh, on Wednesday termed Congress president Rahul Gandhi as ‘Ravana’ and his sister and Congress general secretary for UP East, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, as ‘Surpanakha’. The BJP MLA said that the Congress was a ‘sinking ship’ and it managed to defeat the BJP in Rajasthan,...
BJP high command silent on State leader
Though elections to the Assembly are less than three months away, the BJP high command seems reluctant to name anyone to lead the party in the State. This was evident from BJP president Amit Shah’s statement at the party’s Salepur rally on Tuesday where he appealed to people to give the...
Srikant Jena an unacceptable leader: Ex-B’swar MP
Former Baleswar MP Dr Kartikeswar Patra on Wednesday said that former Union Minister Srikant Jena is trying to cover up his behaviour of indiscipline by announcing not to join any party and fight elections and, instead, to hold meetings for the Samajika Nyaya Abhijan. “The reality is that no party intends...
Rising fuel prices: ‘BJD, BJP torturing Odias’
Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Niranjan Patnaik on Wednesday alleged that both the BJP and the BJD Governments have tortured Odia people by doubling taxes on petrol and diesel during the last four years. “While the international crude price in terms of Indian rupee has gone down by around 10 per...
