Sanyog - Instablogs
May 15 2009
India’s ruling Congress party is believed to be edging closer to a rapprochement with Marxist parties in an effort to secure a parliamentary majority after the general election. The move, which follows a falling out between the parties over a...
May 15 2009
The Mumbai slum home of one of the child stars of the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire has been demolished by city authorities. Reports say that police smacked the boy, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, with a bamboo stick before ordering him out. The...
May 15 2009
This is the second instalment of the three-part series based on the National Election Study 2009, the postpoll survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. The information in the graphics are based on data gleaned from the first...
May 12 2009
New Delhi (PTI): The fifth and final phase of the most keenly fought Lok Sabha elections in recent times will conclude on Wednes with polling to 86 seats, but there is no clear picture of who would form the next government. The general elections for...
May 12 2009
Moles, dossiers, big money... may sound like the perfect ingredients of a spy thriller, but these have actually become vital to political intelligence gathering in India — a phenomenon seen like never before in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. The...
May 11 2009
Campaigning for the fifth and final phase of Lok Sabha elections 2009 ends on Monday evening with political parties trying to organise in as many rallies as possible to woo voters ahead of May 13 polls. Political parties are also busy wooing one...
May 9 2009
During this one day visit to Tamil Nadu on Thursday, NDA’s Prime Ministerial candidate and BJP’s senior leader, L K Advani conveyed a strong message to the electorate in Tamil Nadu that it no longer has the tag of a north Indian party. He also said...
May 9 2009
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday gave a series of directions and guidelines to deal with the menace of ragging in educational institutions. A Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and A.K. Ganguly gave the directions on petitions relating to cases of...
May 8 2009
KOLKATA: Millions of Indians voted in the penultimate stage of a general election on Thursday as violence marred the ballot in the possible swing state of West Bengal where the ruling Congress-led alliance hopes to win crucial seats, reuters...
May 4 2009
Sunday was the BJP backroom boys’ day out, and the first-hand feel of the rough and tumble of “real” electioneering left them thrilled. Around 40 cyber-campaign managers stepped out of their digital world at the party war room, 26 Tughlaq...