The writer is professor and director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.
October 23, 2006 00:10 IST
The resignation of Maulana Masood Madni from the Congress Party reflects the general dissatisfaction of Uttaranchal’s Muslims with the ruling Congress government in the state.
September 26, 2005 00:00 IST
Bihar will go in for fresh assembly polls in October ’05. Since nothing much has changed between February and October, the electoral ou...
January 24, 2005 00:00 IST
BJP leaders can hardly be hopeful about the forthcoming assembly elections in Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana. Of these three states, the party...
April 19, 2003 00:00 IST
On April 8, Rajya Sabha passed by voice vote the Representation of the Peoples (Amendment) Bill 2001. It aims at two vital changes: introduc...
July 30, 2002 00:00 IST
The basic aim of the delimitation exercise is to relocate the boundaries of electoral constituencies so as to maintain an approximately equa...
December 15, 1997 00:00 IST
Computer Associates International's president and chief operating officer Sanjay Kumar, 35, has been on the top of the list of youngest pre...