UP engineer resigns alleging threat to life from BSP MLA

An executive engineer of Irrigation Department in Etawah has sent his resignation letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, accusing a ruling BSP MLA of threatening him with dire consequences. “Shivdas, posted in the First Tubewell Division in the district, has sent a letter to the Chief Minister accusing BSP MLA from Lakhna assembly constituency Bhimrao Ambedkar of issuing a threat to his life and has...

BSP alleges Allahabad High Court for Stopping Development of UP

In a Press release on its site,Bahujan Samaj Party has alleged Allahabad High Court for Stopping Development of UP. The Allahabad High Court has barred the Uttar Pradesh Government from proceeding ahead on the ambitious eight-laned Ganga Expressway project and directed the concerned authorities to obtain prior clearance from environmental board. A bench comprising Justice Ashok Bhusan and Justice Arun Tandon on...

Relieved of NSA charge, Varun addresses first rally

BJP candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi addressed his first rally in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh on Saturday since the National Securities Act charges were declared ‘invalid’ on Friday. A confident Varun called on the voters of Pilibhit to vote for him in large numbers so that no one dares to contest against him in future. “People recognise me in Uttar Pradesh now and they know I can do anything for...

Praja Brings Mumbai’s Real Issues To Light In Their Latest Report

On the eve of the general elections, the NGO Praja launched its second white paper focusing on the issues faced in the six Mumbai constituencies. The white paper contains details of the problems and issues that citizens of Mumbai face on a day to day basis. The information is collected through Right-to-Information Act and is available on praja.org website. The report draws light on a variety of city related issues...

Citizen-Driven Election Monitoring Platform Allows Citizens to Report Irregularities in the Lok Sabha Elections

Vote Report India, a citizen initiative to bring transparency in the Indian election process, announced today the launch of its collaborative election monitoring platform for the 2009 Indian general elections at votereport.in. As India’s 714 million voters elect their 543 representatives, in the month long general elections to the 15th Lok Sabha, we are sure to see the usual controversies that surround general...

Recession-Elections can help India, ‘Indianness’ grow: Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

India shouldn’t bother about recession because a majority of its population hasn’t even seen the economic prosperity. Espousing these views, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of Isha Foundation said that these elections mark the right time for a responsible and responsive leadership and administration to make India more powerful. And for Indians to fight the enemies within to unitedly create the much-desired common...

MapmyIndia’s elections website helps voters take informed decisions

MapmyIndia has just launched public service websitehttp://elections.mapmyindia.comto help voters in India make an informed choice on issues that matter to them during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Combining the power of MapmyIndia’s detailed and highly accurate India maps with exhaustive data on constituencies, like population, literacy ratio, area amongst others and information on parties, candidates and...

London summit pledges $1.1 trillion to boost global economy

Hindu reported that Leaders of the world’s largest economies at the G20 summit in London pledged additional $1.1 trillion in resources for the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral institutions to boost global growth. Addressing the media at the end of the summit, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said this would be in addition to the fiscal stimulus packages that the individual countries had...

Manmohan Singh is a wise, wonderful man: Obama

Times of India Reported that it appeared like a mutual admiration society with President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh effusively praising each other after their first meeting. The 48-year-old new American leader described Singh as a “wise” and “wonderful” man as the two leaders met on the sidelines of G-20 here last night. “First of all I should say that your Prime...

Oxfam Calls for a Crack Down on Tax Havens at the G20 Meetings

A week today, the world’s eyes will turn to London, where leaders of the 20 most powerful economies meet in unprecedented circumstances. A number of these leaders have publicly called for a tougher approach to tax havens; Mr Brown, the meeting’s Chair, has promised a “crack down on those tax havens that siphon money from developing countries,” and called for “an international agreement...