Author: News Analysis India

The Congress government in Chhattisgarh has announced free education for students till Class 12 in all government schools in the state. State minister Ravindra Choubey said that the decision will encourage children to join schools in the state. He noted that under the Right to Education Act, every student between the age of six and 14 is entitled to free education and the Congress government’s latest decision is one step ahead towards fulfilling the promise. With this decision, Chhattisgarh has joined the list of select states in the country which provide free education to children till Class 12. As of now, the…

The first interaction I had with Narendra Modi – albeit telephonic– was way back in 2006, when I used to work with a news weekly. I used to track the Congress, as my primary beat, but was majorly interested in Modi’s rise and his performance as the “CM cum CEO of Gujarat”. I didn’t have his mobile number. So, I called on the CM residence number listed on his official website. Without expecting much success, I asked the operator to connect me to the Chief Minister. Lo and behold – CM Modi was on the line! I asked him a few questions…

By Narendra Kumbhat, author of Inside Corporate India However, Air India even after several years of merger and much financial support from the Government of India is yet to achieve synergy between both the airlines. Presented here is a case study of the failed merger of Indian Airline with Air India. To start with, three committees were appointed by the Government of India from time to time to consider the merger of the two airlines, last being the Tata Committee, but all the three committees were against the merger due to various reasons. Tata committee then recommended a common Chairman…

A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly posting an “abusive” comment against Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel on social media, police said Wednesday. Lalit Yadav, a resident of Saragaon in Raipur district, was arrested Tuesday on charges of posting an “abusive and derogatory” comment against the Congress Chief Minister on his Facebook page, a senior police official said. A complaint about the post by Yadav, who works in a city hotel, was lodged by a Youth Congress worker, he said. Yadav’s comment was in response to a Facebook post pertaining to a skywalk being constructed to facilitate movement of pedestrians between…

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi attacked the BJP at a rally in her parliamentary constituency of Raebareli yesterday, accusing the ruling party of “crossing limits of dignity” to retain power and deliver a second successive term in office for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In her first public address since election results were declared last month, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson also alleged that “many types of doubts” had emerged over the country’s electoral processes. “All types of tactics were adopted to woo voters. Everyone in this country knows whether it was moral or immoral of whatever happened in the elections,” Ms…

Days after the BJP’s landslide electoral victory, some of the country’s leading Muslim leaders wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The signatories included All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMLPB) member Kamal Farooqi and Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind leader Mehmood Madani, and they sought confidence building measures from Modi. The letter welcomed two significant speeches made by the PM-the first at the BJP’s Delhi headquarter on May 23 where he appealed to his party men to win the trust of the minorities, adding ‘Sab ka vishwas (winning everyone’s trust)’ to his ‘Ab sab ka saath, sab ka vikas’ slogan. In…

The furore over junior doctors’ strike in Bengal following violence at a government hospital has taken a political turn, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleging that it is the result of a conspiracy between the BJP and the Left. The BJP has alleged that the Chief Minister is not taking action against the miscreants who beat up a doctor at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, because they are “her voters”. Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy has alleged that members of a particular community had carried out the attack on doctors and that the perpetrators belonged to the Trinamool Congress. “Providing…

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has ordered an immediate stay on all mining activities in Dantewada region on Tuesday, June 11. He took the decision after thousands of tribals from around 200 villages in the district protested against the mining activities in Bailadila iron ore deposit-13 managed by Adani Enterprise. thousands of tribals from villages of Dantewada and Bijapur districts had staged an agitation a few days ago opposing the excavation and mine development in the area, the contract for which was given to Adani Enterprises by the National Mineral Development Corporation (NDMC). Per a report published in Nai Duniya, Baghel met the representatives…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation at the NDA parliamentary party meet last month that his new government would strive to win the trust of all sections of society has prompted prominent leaders of the Muslim community to ask for an active engagement on issues facing the community — education, jobs and what they term Confidence Building Measures (CBM) in the face of “hooliganism”. The letter addressed to Prime Minister Modi, comes from at least 20 leaders of various community bodies, including Maulana Mahmood Madani of the Jamat Ulama-i-Hind, Kamal Faruqui, former head of the Delhi Minorities Commission, Dr Fakhruddin Mohammad…

The face-off between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Bharatiya Janata Party further intensified on Wednesday after police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse BJP workers who were marching towards Lal Bazar to protest against the Trinamool Congress government. The saffron party workers, along with 18 newly elected MPs in the state and BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, were marching towards the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar from the Wellington area of the city. Bengal’s BJP minder Kailash Vijayvargiya and senior party leader Mukul Roy also joined the march. Post-poll violence has been reported from various…