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Murder Of Shahid Azmi, Assault On The Heart Of The Indian Democracy(Comments Off)
Thirty-two years old, Shahid Azmi, the defense counsel to the accused, framed by the police in the Malgaon case in Maharashtra, was gunned down in his office by a five member assassination squad in broad daylight. In his very young career he became the voice of the downtrodden and defenseless, because he had suffered the heavy hand of the corrupt state police as a young boy of fifteen.[...]
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No financial crisis impact? India’s poor grew by 34 mn
It’s a myth that the global financial crisis left India virtually unscathed. In fact, India is the biggest victim of financial crisis-induced poverty, according to data obtained by TOI from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ (UNDESA). Check out these figures.[...]
How many poor does India have?
The quest for an accurate headcount of the poor has turned serious with the Centre planning a pilot project to test the methodology of BPL survey besides asking states to report local concerns which need to be factored in the final questionnaire. The pilot project will be supervised by an expert group. [...]
Is India’s neighbourhood set to get even more dangerous?
The Afghanistan conference in London last week was a shocker for Indian mandarins who had hoped to muscle in and get a larger say in Afghan policy given the money and effort New Delhi has put into the reconstruction efforts. But what happened was that India got blindsided by the British swallowing the Pakistani line that Islamabad could deliver peace by negotiating a deal with the Taliban.[...]