India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Parties
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Ministry of Environment and Forests
Has a lot of power to safeguard public health. Prefers not to use it
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Why is the Left giving up Singur's arable land for Tata's cars?
<i>The Hindu</i> of December 13, 2006 published a write-up on Singur on its op-ed page: "Some facts, please' by <font class="UCASE">cpi(m</font>) politburo member and leading intellectual Brinda Karat. She was countering what she called a smear campaign against the <font class="UCASE">cpi</font><font class="UCASE">m)</font> over the acquisition of land for the proposed Tata Motors project at Singur. There are some more facts, however, that I would like to bring to her notice. But before that I would also like to thank her for having brought some key issues to the fore.
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Cogentrix: at all costs
The multicrore 1,000 MW Cogentrix the power project in Nandikur village air Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka. In the ecologically fragile Western Ghats - has been a centre of
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Delhi government
Utterly confused. Speaks for polluters who have business interests in scuttling CNG
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Koel Karo: a question of votes
Sources say caste politics has a lot to do with the current interest shown by Bihar's Janata Dal (JD) government in getting the 710 MW Koel-Karo hydel project through. Chief minister Laloo Prasad
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Champions of a new cause
National political parties are often accused of neglecting the environment. Recently, the Bharatiya Janata Party began campaigning against two new industrial units in Maharashtra and demonstrated how it was able to garner popular support by exploiting gre
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AT ODDS
Cut down on use of petrol, shut all nuke stations, say the Greens
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A world of double standards
VIRTUALLY routed in the 1984 parliamentarry electionsthe BharatiyaJanata Party (Bip) made a remarkable comeback in the 1989 and1991polls. The party also came topower in four states in the
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Shifting dimensions
BJP's policies on science and technology (1991 manifesto) have come a long way from those envisioned in the 1984 elections. With a clear pro-urban bias, the 1984 manifesto had promised to evolve
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Abandoned to fate
Though private bus operators will have to shoulder a bulk of the responsibility of phasing in CNG buses, they were the last to be informed by the Delhi government. The first public notification for