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End Pseudo Democracy

Its high time Pseudo Democracy in the garb of equal-n-uniform-welfare-to-all-yet-farcical-as-its-never-is ends in the whole world now to make people of all hues stop suffering from exploitations of all kinds albeit, against their explicit-n-implicit wishes as they are virtually forced to comply with it/adhere to it as they have no alternative/s. Pseudo Democracy is also somehow aligned/associated/ingrained with dynasty/dynastic/dynastism or autocracy and hence, no democracy for the people, by the people, of the people. People continue to suffer abysmally. They have no voice of any kind.


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Democracy

Democracy in India, does it really exist?

By Chinmaya Bhardwaj

Is really exist, democracy in India or are we still bound to be ruled by the dynasts in their metaphoric new incarnation? This question is pertinent when our nation is going to choose its new ruler through general election 2014.Who had been the real ruler of India after independence? The voice of the common man is represented or manifested by whom?

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DMRC

French pay off for equipment of Delhi Metro Rail under investigation!

By M.Y.Siddiqui

A recent communication from the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) of India asking it for investigation of a bribe of 3 million British pond equivalent to over Rs.30 crore to two officials through a Hong Kong based third party conduit by the French infrastructure Multi National Corporation (MNC) M/S Alstom

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health

Blood Pressure

By Nibhanapudi Suguna

All of a sudden if you have weak and sinking feeling and not feel like doing any work or feeling giddiness or severe headache especially at the back of the head, you should immediately go to the doctor and get your blood pressure checked. Because usually these are the symptoms that indicate low or high blood pressure. It is a simple and painless procedure that gives a lot of information about the heart and the condition of the blood vessels. The doctor measures the maximum pressure (systolic) and the lowest pressure (diastolic) made by the beating of the heart.

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Economy

Crimean crisis may shoot up oil, food prices

By Shivaji Sarkar

The Crimean war of 1850 changed the political course in Europe. This time it may alter the course of global politico-economy even if does not escalate to war. Despite it being a small entity, Crimea signifies the beginning of a tussle between the US-led NATO and Russia.

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inflation

Cong promises galloping inflation, maximum suffering for the aam aadmi

By Shivaji Sarkar

The Congress manifesto may hit the common man hard. It is not only soft on inflation but has proposed measures that would make everything from electricity to education dearer. The flexible labour laws and unleashing of corporate in the rural areas to create a virtual zamindari – the concept of SEZ in new garb – are likely to cause untold miseries. The poor it seems has taken the back seat in the Congress agenda.

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international

Pressure tactics upped on Russia


Russia’s ‘invasion’ of the Ukrainian province Crimea has thrown the West into a tizzy as they rush to contain the damage Russian President Vladimir Putin is defiant. Not one to cow down to the self-righteous criticism by European leadership and the western media over his tough handling of the bizarre happenings in Ukraine, which saw a democratically-elected Prime Minister Yankovych being made to flee his country to seek asylum in Russia. Former KGB man Putin has put the Western powers in a precarious position after he decided to send in troops to take over Crimea post a pro-West coup in Kiev. The bloodless takeover of Crimea had the analysts calling it the “worst crisis for Obama”. But what needs to be seen is: who will blink first? And if they don’t, then there could be a bloody scrap waiting to be beamed on television screens all over the world.

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law

Towards curbing hate mongering!

By M.Y.Siddiqui

India has moved closer to curbing hate speeches and hate mongering by politicians and others with the Supreme Court directing the Law Commission of India to draft guidelines to define such infarctions. In a ruling, while disposing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on March 12, 2014, the apex court said the guidelines would help in fine-tuning the norms that define the hate speeches and also remove ambiguity. The ruling by a three-judge bench headed by Justice Chauhan said that lack of prosecution for hate speeches was not because the existing laws did not possess sufficient provisions; instead, it was due to lack of enforcement. The court held,

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media

Corporate Control Over Media

By Siddhartha Shankar Mishra

The state of India’s press – which played such a pivotal role during the fight for Independence from the British – is now at a crossroads. While the sector has grown rapidly following economic liberalization, it is also struggling with unique constraints on its freedom. These include censorship of the new electronic media and undue influence yielded by corporations.

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interview

Cong obsessed with NDA, BJP; ignores inflation; graft natural, says PM

By Shivaji Sarkar

The Congress stalwarts releasing the manifesto of the 2014 elections appeared too obsessed with the NDA and BJP. None of the leaders – prime minister Manmohan Singh, defence minister and campaign committee chairman AK Antony, party president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi or general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said a word on the galloping prices as if it was no issue at all.

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