"Nitish Kumar's ego led to split."
Nand Kishore Yadav
"Nitish Kumar's ego led to split."
Nand Kishore Yadav Mukul Mishra is a journalist with a right bend of mind. He has previously worked in NewsX and Doordarshan News. He likes old Hindi songs and movies.
Try to remember the old Hindi movie scene in which the postman knocks on the door and fishes out a telegram from his jhola. The recipient tears it urgently. The hero's old mother, whose son has gone to the city to earn, opens up the telegram with trembling hands. Be it good news or bad, the telegram always raised heartbeats.
A mother expecting news from her son, a young man desperately waiting for a job call, or a soldier’s wife waiting for word from her husband, the telegram always played a role. But these memories will soon be history now, as BSNL has decided to cut this service from mid-July. The decision has been taken with a heavy heart because telegrams have no takers anymore and demand has been dwindling. Reportedly, BSNL is running losses of more than £2 billion, so has Read More...
The Akhilesh Government recently approached court for withdrawal of the terror charges against Tariq Kasmi in connection with the 2007 Gorakhpur blast case and hence opened a Pandora’s box of many such cases where politicians advocate for removing heinous crime cases against perpetrators just for the sake of vote bank politics.
Samajwadi Party had promised in its Assembly election manifesto that innocent Muslims, who were implicated under the false terror charges will be released after it will come in power and the State Government is obliging ‘the community’ with that only.
There is nothing wrong if any innocent was implicated in false terror charges be released but that is something which court would decide. The case is still sub-judice and no chargesheet has been filed Read More...
We all know about separatists and their activities in the Valley. Their hands are soaked in the blood of thousands of innocent civilians of Kashmir. In spite of this, the Jammu & Kashmir Government provides them security and wastes crores of rupees on this.
In a reply to a question in the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that over Rs 9.4 crores have been spent on account of providing security to Hurriyat and separatist leaders in Kashmir valley during the last 12 years.
One of the MLAs -- Langate Sheikh Abdur Rashid -- has questioned this move of the J&K Government.
“How can the police and CRPF personnel protect Hurriyat leaders despite them being responsible for the killing of civilians in Kashmir,” he asked.
It has been proved Read More...
Nehru-Gandhi dynast Rahul Gandhi’s recent pronouncement that he should not be asked if he wants to be Prime Minister, says a lot about his low self-esteem and his fear of taking things head on. It seems he is so intimidated by his own failures that he doesn’t even want to face situations ahead of him.
In spite of mother Sonia Gandhi's and fawning courtiers' firm belief that the crown belongs to Rahul, he continues to fight shy of it. There is a long list of failures credited to the Gandhi heir and that is what dissuades him from taking on bigger responsibilities.
Be it losing Assembly Elections in States like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, or failure to rejuvenate the Youth Congress, Rahul's ride has gotten much tougher due to multiple stumbling blocks.
Perhaps earlier letdowns in Read More...
Analysing the Union Budget presented P Chidambaram, it seems the Government has targeted two sections mainly — women and youth. Elections are due by the end of the year after all.
The Government knows that these two sections of voters comprise more than 50 per cent of the vote share and if they are lucky enough (or crafty enough) to get that, then there will be nothing to worry about.
Chidambaram spoke the word ‘women’ more than 20 times in his speech. In the wake of its disasterous handling of popular protests after the gruesome Delhi rape incident, the Government has announced slew of measures for women, including the ‘Nirbhaya Fund’ for women's security.
Rs 1,000 crore have been allocated for the newly-announced women's safety fund. One wishes that rather than Read More...
Sushil kumar needs no introduction. He brought laurels to the country after winning a silver medal in the London Olympics. Wrestling became a household sport after that. States have been running training institutes like Akharas with hopes that one day they will be able to bring more medals into the country.
But all such hopes will change to despair because the sport they are working hard at may not even be a part of the next Olympics. Recently, the IOC executive board took the decision to scrap wrestling from 2020 Olympic Games.
Wrestling will now join seven other sports -- baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu, vying for a single opening in 2020.
Although the decision is not final as all scheduled eight sports are Read More...
Who is to blame for the tragic death of 36 people at Kumbh on Sunday? According to eyewitnesses, police lathi charge compounded the panic and caused the mishap. This unfortunate incident happened at 6 pm in the evening but authorities acted only after 8 pm. When the size and intensity of the Kumbh Mela is common knowledge, why weren't precautionary measure taken in advance? Why does all the outrage only come AFTER such accidents occur?
Why were no ambulances and doctors there? According to one TV news channel reporter, ambulances were in personal use and were thus not available for the patients.
What is most irritating is that whenever something like this happens, authorities are very quick to start the blame game. Police officials and local MPs tell us in detail why the incident Read More...
It seems 'cultural intolerance' is stalking India. After furore over Kamal Haasan movie Vishwaroopam, now Salman Rushdie stands debarred from attending the Kolkata Literary Meet (KLM). We are told it is for 'security reasons'. The author had planned to visit the city of joy to promote Deepa Mehta's film Midnight's Children, which is based on Rushdie's own novel of the same name. It is being said that fearing 'minority backlash', West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pressurised the organiser of the event and directed them not to let Rushdie visit. Mamata Government is well-known for muzzling free speech. Recently an FIR was registered against a student for allegedly sharing cartoons of Banerjee on his Facebook profile.
Another such incident happened in April 2012 when Jadavpur Read More...
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