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POSTED BY Buzz
ON May 22, 2013 AT 23:58 IST
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Edited At: May 22, 2013 23:58 IST
You've heard of the police brutality against the vulnerable, the poor, the innocent. But these two constables of the Uttar Pradesh police, while on duty at a function of the state where the Chief Minister CM Akhilesh Yadav was present, were caught on camera assaulting each other in full public view in Lucknow.
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON May 22, 2013 AT 23:58 IST, Edited At: May 22, 2013 23:58 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Oct 14, 2012 AT 18:44 IST
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Edited At: Oct 14, 2012 18:44 IST
For those who came in late, the backgound:
Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, an NGO run by law minister Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise Khurshid, has been at the centre of many allegations of financial misappropriation and forgery that have been refuted by the law minister and his wife.
Arvind Kejriwal, sitting on a protest at Parliament Street police station, has been demanding Khurshid be arrested for alleged misappropriation of funds from the Ministry of Social Justice by his trust, quoting a CAG report which alleges “misappropriation of a grant of Rs 71.5 lakh, interest of Rs 15.49 lakh thereon and the irregular release of a further grant of Rs 68.25 lakh”.
According to the report, on the basis of recommendations of the Uttar Pradesh government, a grant-in aid of Rs 71.5 lakh was sanctioned to Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust Delhi, as a non-recurring grant in 2009-10 for distributing aid and appliances under a scheme to be implemented in 17 districts across Uttar Pradesh.
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Oct 14, 2012 AT 18:44 IST, Edited At: Oct 14, 2012 18:44 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Oct 12, 2012 AT 23:33 IST
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Edited At: Oct 12, 2012 23:33 IST
Four exhibits from four different states that made the headlines today
Exhibit # 1: Vitthal Radadia, Congress Lok Sabha MP from Porbandar, Vitthal Radadia
Brandished a gun at operators of a Vadodara toll booth, apparently enraged at the temerity of the toll plaza attendant, who asked for the original I-card after his driver had shown a photocopy. Mr Radadia menacingly held his double-barreled shotgun aloft while stalking the area in front of the booth and repeatedly tapping the glass enclosure with the barrel. MPs are exempted from paying toll tax on highways across the country. Read more
Exhibit #2: Babulal Gaur, former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and current state urban development minister
The BJP leader, while visiting a temple, threatened a priestess with arrest because she had the temerity to slam him for failing to fulfil the government's development plans. "Just shut up," he said, repeatedly asking the men around him to "take her away and lock her up".
Exhibit #3: Vinod Kumar Singh, Samajvadi Party, revenue minister in UP
Finally forced to resign after he allegedly abducted Gonda Chief Medical Officer S.P. Singh who had refused to accommodate his nominees on the list of doctors on contract recruited by the district health department under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
Exhibit 4: Dharambir Goyat, Congress Hisar district spokesman
In fresh embarrassment for ruling Congress in Haryana, which is already on the backfoot over growing incidents of rape, Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee member and Congress Hisar district spokesman Dharambir Goyat told reporters in Hisar last night: "90 per cent of rape cases are (a case of) consensual sex between the girl and boy.... The girl gets into an affair with a boy and she goes with him without knowing that he is of criminal mindset."
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Oct 12, 2012 AT 23:33 IST, Edited At: Oct 12, 2012 23:33 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Mar 06, 2012 AT 01:37 IST
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Mar 06, 2012 AT 01:37 IST, Edited At: Mar 05, 2012 14:47 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Mar 03, 2012 AT 23:01 IST
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2012 Assembly Elections: Exit Polls
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| Uttar Pradesh |
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SP |
BSP |
BJP |
Cong+RLD |
Others |
| Star News-AC Neilson |
183 |
83 |
71 |
51+11 |
4 |
| Headlines Today |
195 -210
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88-98 |
50-56 |
38-42 |
12-18 |
| India TV-C-Voter |
137-145 |
122-130 |
79-87 |
39-55 |
2-10 |
| News 24 |
185 |
85 |
55 |
55 |
23 |
| CNN-IBN |
232-250 |
65-70 |
28-38 |
36-44 |
11-23 |
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| Goa |
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BJP |
Cong |
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| India TV-C-Voter |
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20 |
17 |
3 |
| CNN-IBN |
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| Uttarakhand |
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BJP |
Cong |
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| News 24 |
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28 |
30 |
2 |
| CNN-IBN |
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22-32 |
31-41 |
4-10 |
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| Punjab |
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SAD+BJP |
Cong |
Others |
| India TV-C-Voter |
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47 |
65 |
5 |
| News 24 |
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52 |
60 |
5 |
| CNN-IBN |
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51-63 |
48-60 |
3-9 |
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| Manipur |
PDF |
NCP |
TC |
Cong |
Others |
| News24 |
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10 |
9 |
25 |
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| CNN-IBN |
5-11 |
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7-13 |
24-32 |
10-18 |
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Mar 03, 2012 AT 23:01 IST, Edited At: Mar 03, 2012 23:01 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 24, 2012 AT 23:55 IST
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Edited At: Jan 25, 2012 03:55 IST
This will come as no newsflash to anyone who followed the story. Let's not put too fine a point on it: there was craven capitulation at Jaipur. Again.
After much plucking of flower petals about "will he-won't he" attend, the organisers finally pushed forward Rampratap Singh Diggi, owner of the Diggi palace, where the Jaipur Literary Festival was being held, to make an announcement:
“I have taken a decision not to allow the video link to take place on the advice of the Rajasthan police. There are lots of people who are averse to this video link. They are threatening violence. This is unfortunate. This is to safeguard you, my family, my children …”
Some of the immediate reactions are best reproduced from Twitter:
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 24, 2012 AT 23:55 IST, Edited At: Jan 25, 2012 03:55 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 23, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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Edited At: Jan 24, 2012 06:12 IST
After the Fab Four (before they became the Fab Five) read out passages from the Satanic Verses on Jan 21 in protest against the way Salman Rushdie had been prevented from participating in Jaipur Lit Fest, the organisers had come up with the following statement:
This press release is being issued on behalf of the organizers of the Jaipur Literature Festival. It has come to their attention that certain delegates acted in a manner during their sessions today which were without the prior knowledge or consent of the organizers. Any views expressed or actions taken by these delegates are in no manner endorsed by the Jaipur Literature Festival. Any comments made by the delegates reflect their personal, individual views and are not endorsed by the Festival or attributable to its organizers or anyone acting on their behalf. The Festival organizers are fully committed to ensuring compliance of all prevailing laws and will continue to offer their fullest cooperation to prevent any legal violation of any kind. Any action by any delegate or anyone else involved with the Festival that in any manner falls foul of the law will not be tolerated and all necessary, consequential action will be taken. Our endeavor has always been to provide a platform to foster an exchange of ideas and the love of literature, strictly within the four corners of the law. We remain committed to this objective.
It was received with widespread consternation and many wondered about who could been responsible for something so craven.
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 23, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Jan 24, 2012 06:12 IST
POSTED BY Buzz
ON Jan 07, 2012 AT 23:48 IST
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Edited At: Jan 07, 2012 23:48 IST
PTI reports:
The Election Commission today ordered that statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and BSP poll symbol "elephant" in Uttar Pradesh be covered till assembly polls were over
Some of the reactions on Twitter
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Jan 07, 2012 AT 23:48 IST, Edited At: Jan 07, 2012 23:48 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Dec 15, 2011 AT 02:04 IST
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Edited At: Dec 15, 2011 02:04 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express, last week:
Dear Mr Gandhi: The elections in Uttar Pradesh are, understandably, your major preoccupation. It is difficult to predict the result. But even if you do well, will India have reason to celebrate? Electoral success will show that you are better than the opposition. But that bar is now so low that it is almost an embarrassment to trumpet that one is merely better than the opposition. In 2009, the Congress got as propitious a mandate as any party could have expected. There was hope and expectation. The opposition, both on the left and right, was decimated. But what did India gain? It frittered away the good times. Instead of using growth to lay a secure foundation for the future, and create conditions where the scourge of poverty can be removed, we undermined the prospects for growth. We have high inflation, worrying public debt, slowing growth, uncertain currency prospects, falling investment, crushing interest rates...
Your party may not have some of the worst, exclusivist tendencies of your rivals. But you have not found ways of transcending the traps of identity politics that have kept India small...
Your party is trapped in two illusions. First, governance and politics are different issues. Second, only those policies that specifically address poor people affect the poor. You wreck the macro-economy in the name of the poor, and then cheat the poor because you refuse to govern...
Read the full piece at the Indian Express: Tomorrow's Battles
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Dec 15, 2011 AT 02:04 IST, Edited At: Dec 15, 2011 02:04 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 11, 2011 AT 22:19 IST
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Edited At: Aug 11, 2011 22:19 IST
It has been difficult not to be reminded of Satanic Verses since news items started trickling out —first, a few days back, about demands for a ban on Aarakshan and then, even more bizarrely, about actual bans being imposed in UP, Punjab and now AP — ruled respectively by the BSP, the Akalis and the BJP, and the Congress.
Needless to say, none of the worthies demanding or deciding on the ban have seen the film. In fact, they have been boasting on TV that they haven't.
Initially, when self-appointed spokespersons of various groups had got up to demand a ban on the grounds that the film was likely to be anti-reservations and therefore likely to lead to disturbances in law and order, cynics among us thought the film could not possibly have asked for a better publicity campaign.
One thought that bodies like the NCSC would be quietly told that their demands were outside their remit. The CBFC stand was exemplary and the fact that Mr Prakash Jha still decided to edit the "objectionable scenes" has more to do with the economics of film-making which make it necessary for film-makers bend to the politicians' unreasonable diktats than anything else.
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Aug 11, 2011 AT 22:19 IST, Edited At: Aug 11, 2011 22:19 IST
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