en-us Uttar Pradesh is heading towards a hung assembly and in the absence of any co-ordination between various parties, the state would be ruled from the centre - if you believe that statements of politicians at the time of elections prove true then this is something you might witness soon. After Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, a BJP leader has also said that his party must not support any party in case of any hung assembly.]]>RATAN SHARGA2012-02-12T17:30:38+05:30The inconsistencies in Zahira's statements were bound to be there due to long delay in settling the Best Bakery Case. It was a high profile case involving top guns and quite understood that it was not possible for Zahira to remain uninfluenced. Justice delayed is justice denied but anyways Supreme Court has done the justice by convicting nine persons out of 21 accused. ]]>John F Williams2012-02-12T16:36:45+05:30The case of two Karnataka BJP ministers who were slammed for watching pornography inside the assembly did actually no bad thing, which we should be ashamed of. Speakers of our assemblies should rather take a cue from their action and encourage other shouting members of house to use such methods to control their emotions. Anyways most of the elected representatives are paid idlers; this would help them to upgrade their knowledge about the fine art of sex.]]> Col. Rajendra Kumar (Retd) 2012-02-12T12:54:25+05:30If sovereignty belongs to the people, they should be allowed to be governed by themselves (without unnecessary interference from the Union government in New Delhi) - highlighted a seminar, organized by Calcutta High Court Bar Association. While constitutional experts highlighted the need for reforms, former Nagaland Chief Minister observed that North-East India was still far away from New Delhi.]]>Nava Thakuria2012-02-12T10:02:04+05:30In an exclusive conversation with Merinews.com, Manjeet Nagil says he is an unknown face in Indian sport even after winning the WAKO World Cup Diamond Kickboxing Championships 2011 at Anapa, Russia. He has big dreams of winning an Olympic Gold medal for the country but feels the support for this journey is lacking.]]>Ashim Sunam2012-02-11T18:07:07+05:30'If the Hills do not come to Writers, the Writers will come to the Hills.' A similar slogan was..]]>Dr. Ratan Bhattacharjee2012-02-11T11:57:58+05:30There is no doubt that veteran BJP leader Atal Behari Vajpayee had his own charisma and the leader..]]>RATAN SHARGA2012-02-11T09:48:05+05:30The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) has been losing 120 lakh units daily for last six months from Durgapur steel plant thermal plant as coal supply has not commenced. ]]>V K Gupta2012-02-11T09:45:00+05:30Even after the construction of two-lanes, the Shillong-Guwahati Road is in an awful mess. Added to this, lorries plying on this important connecting highway with different states, add to the chaos. Looking at the mess, one wants to go back to old times when private vehicles were the only means of transport on this highway.]]>Ananya.s.guha2012-02-10T14:57:09+05:30At least thirty five people died in various hospitals in the state of Odisha in the past three days..]]>K. Sudhakar Patnaik2012-02-10T10:17:10+05:30