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CPI(M) manifesto - misleading facts and too broad?

silkboard - 22-MAR-2009

Writing this to point out what fact based means, this post is inspired by TN Ninnan's editorial in Saturday's Business Standard. He picked out a few statements from CPI-M's new election website, and argued that a few of them are not supported by facts, or even observations. Mr Ninnan has picked out certain statements from CPI-M manifesto (here), and taken objections to them:

Is this the answer in india?

jennypinto - 20-MAR-2009

The Hindu of March 19 had an interesting article : A Gandhian idea gets a British makeover by Hasan Suroor the gist of his story about a new campaign in the UK is "A high-profile campaign, funded by a flamboyant millionaire Tory donor Sir Paul Judge was launched this week with the grand aim of reducing the dominance of the three main organised political parties (Labour, the Conservative

81% 'below poverty line' in the state!

murali772 - 18-MAR-2009

With elections on the horizon, the Yeddyurappa government directed the food and civil supplies department to give BPL ration cards to whoever produced an affidavit. Of the total 1.32 crore families in the state, today 1.07 crore, or 81% claim to be living below poverty line just to get access to the card!

Stop communal, divisive and hate politics - Petition

indian - 17-MAR-2009

Moderator's Note #1: Not deleting this post to showcase it as an example of something that may not fit one or more of our posting guidelines. Praja posts should be fact driven (not opinions), and should be local in "real" sense. Local is something at the level of mains and crosses, or citizen's issues specific to a given city. We are not here to discuss nationwide issues or ideologies because we can't realistically do much about them, at least not right now. Also, posts should not be pure promotion of your favorite websites (please do that via your profile, or signature, but not posts). Remember, the philosophy we promote is "think and act local, really really local", that is how all changes begin.

Domestic violence

GVK - 16-MAR-2009

At a Rotary Club seminar in Bangalore speakers called for empowerment of society to prevent domestic violence.  Police woman Kiren Bedi,  citing a UN report said India ranked third in the world - behind only Poland and Japan - when it came to incidence of domestic violence.

Bribed voters could get 6 months in jail?

silkboard - 16-MAR-2009

Read with interest in a newspaper this morning that Mr P Manivannan, who is the Returning Officer for Mysore is talking about tough measures to monitor misuse of Liquor and Money in Lok Sabha Elections. See this Biz Standard story: DC strict on curbing Malparctices.

Sustainable water supply for Bangalore

s_yajaman - 11-MAR-2009

Bangalore has always faced chronic water shortages.  Back in 1981 when the population was 2.9 million.  In 1991 when the population was 4.5 million.  And in 2008 when the population is some 7 million.   I don't think there ever has been a time when we have had daily water.   The past few years have seen a construction boom that has added to the strain on the w

Top issues so far from the election survey

admin123 - 4-MAR-2009

Here is how the top issues look right now (March 4) in the ongoing issue survey. If you haven't fill the survey out yet, please do so ASAP. We'll start our candidate interviews very shortly, so its important to build an "as popular" top issue list as possible.