Opinions and Editorials

Ever since the Lok Sabha election results, Bengal watchers have been harping on the fact that the rural electorate—LF's critical support base—had shifted loyalties to the opposition Trinamool Congress.

To run an industry you need money. You go to a guy who has the dough and hope to interest him enough to lend you some. If the investment works out, you pay him back (hopefully).

It has pulled off a double hat-trick, and the Congress combine, therefore, has much reason to celebrate.

One of the very few unpleasant side-effects of a global economic recovery steadily gaining momentum is the impact that it will have on oil prices.

The recent G-20 and IMF meetings have seen a long overdue increase in emerging markets (EM) representation in global institutions.

The Maharashtra outcome is noteworthy more for the resounding defeat for the opposition than for the victory, by default, of the Congress-NCP combine.

Even as it appeared that, with the truncated strength of the Congress in the new Haryana Assembly, the dissidents and party rebels would mount pressure on the party high command for a change of guard, came the news that their chief protagonist, Birender Singh, had suffered an unexpected defeat at the hands of the INLD supremo Om Parkash Chautala.

Rashtriya Sahara, in an editorial entitled, 'Politics over Nobel Peace Prize' (October 12), writes.

As the first electoral exercise after the Lok Sabha verdict, these assembly election results gain an especially national context.

Once an election campaign is done, the votes cast and counted, and the results dissected, there is usually, among those concerned about issues of governance, a distinct feeling of relief — if the verdict is clear.

We don't yet know what caused Wednesday's accident, when the Delhi-bound Goa Express crashed into the stationary Mewar Express near Mathura.

It isn't the possibility of deferred 3G spectrum auctions but the reason cited by A Raja for deferring the auctions that is a surprise.

The Sino-Indian relationship remains pregnant with interesting possibilities. Bilateral developments continue to excite both sceptics and optimists. Sceptics hardly see light at the end of the tunnel that both countries trudge. Optimists on the other hand don't entertain such visions.

The Gurgaon-Manesar belt on the outskirts of Delhi, in Haryana, is the biggest hub of automobile manufacturing—particularly auto components—in India.

It's been said that Microsoft started on the ground while Google was born in the sky. One has also heard Microsoft's founder called PC genius, Internet fool. When Bill Gates released Windows 1.

Microfinance participants, banks, NGOs, policymakers and researchers will converge next week in Delhi at the annual Microfinance India Summit.

The Maoists may be a rent-seeking band of thugs who have read Mao enough to be convinced that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, but there's no mocking the very real socio-economic grievances they feed on.

The endless factories of the heavily industrialised belt south of Delhi might appear to be unstoppable.

When Ramachandra Guha wrote India After Gandhi, a popular history of independent India, two years ago, he would counsel the scholar of independent India to go to the archives.

Long before the knights come trotting in their shining amour, all maidens in waiting bide their time building careers, getting along in life and dreaming about their perfect wedding day. A girl who denies this fantasy is either in denial or not being true to herself. It's all part and parcel of the pink fuzzy Cinderella candyfloss we are fed while growing up.