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Funny Men in Bed and NANO for CPIM, Electoral Alchemists for CONG and BJP,G20 Summit for USA, AUTO DOOM for the REST of the WORLD and a PHONE Call from Haldwani, UTTARAKHAND

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams: Chapter 192

Palash Biswas


Times Online
Tata will make Nano in Singur, claims West Begal official
Hindu - ‎8 hours ago‎
Kuala Lumpur (PTI): West Bengal on Wednesday claimed that the world's cheapest wheels, Nano, will be made in Singur, although car maker Tata Motors had ...
Nano fever grips Kolkata, buyers vie for Tata Motor's form Economic Times
Nano Plant in West Bengal Will be Revived - Official Wall Street Journal
Nano can come back to Singur if Tatas want: official Thaindian.com
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Chief Minister, West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (file photo)
Times Now.tv - ‎7 hours ago‎
Things are not picture perfect in the state of West Bengal as the chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee sees red over a notice of the Election Commission ...
Maoists torch CPI(M) leader's house in West Bengal
Hindu - ‎Mar 30, 2009‎
Purulia (PTI): Suspected Maoists set fire to the house of a local CPI(M) leader at Bersa village in Purulia district on Monday evening, police said. ...
Many migrant workers not going home to vote
Economic Times - ‎9 hours ago‎
She said she has written to her family in Purulia district of West Bengal that she will not be able to reach the village for the Lok Sabha elections. ...
Credit rating agencies raise concerns over Bengal's credit
Economic Times - ‎Mar 31, 2009‎
KOLKATA: Credit rating agencies have raised concerns over West Bengal's credit worthiness in the light of the state's widening deficits and huge level of ...

Nano still alive in CPI(M) poll campaign
Kolkata (PTI): In an attempt to paint the image of the opposition as anti-industry and pin down Trinamool Congress which spearheaded an agitation against land acquisition in Singur, CPI(M) has prominently highlighted Nanon and industrialisation in its poll campaign.

In his election campaign at different places, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has attacked the Trinamool over the issue and said if Nano project came up in the state, 6000 people would have got employment besides job opportunities in the ancillaries.

To capitalise on his government's pro-industry image, he said the Trinamool indulged in 'negative politics' and put up road blocks to the state government's industrialisation efforts.

Unfazed by the charge, both Congress and Trinamool Congress which have formed an alliance, questioned the LF government's track record wondering why West Bengal, which was once a top-ranking state in industry, lost its glory during the Left rule.



Private guard at Tata's Singur plant found dead

Singur (PTI): A private security guard posted at the abandoned Tata Motors factory site at Singur Hooghly district was found dead this morning.

The body of Sunil Kr Yadav (27), which was found at the project site, bore no injury marks.

"Prima facie it seems to be a case of heart failure", Circle Inspector Deboprakash Pouranik said.

Yadav had gone to sleep last night along with other guards.

A resident of Bihar's Nawada district, Yadav was hired by a private security agency.

Incidentally, the Tata Motors Nano small cars, which were supposed to roll out from Singur, were displayed for the first time in the company's showrooms in the city.



Titan showrooms to distribute Nano booking forms

New Delhi (PTI): Tata Group firm Titan Industries on Wednesday said it will start distributing booking forms for Tata Nano from its showrooms across the country from April 4.

The Nano booking forms would be available at all World of Titan showrooms across the country between April 4 and April 25, Titan Industries said in a statement.

World of Titan network is the wristwatch retail chain of Titan Industries.

Along with the booking form, the prospective buyer would get a gift voucher worth Rs 200 redeemable on purchase of a watch at the Titan outlets and a free membership of the Titan Signet Loyalty Program, which offers several benefits.

"The launch of Nano is a moment of great pride for all of us in the Tata group. Therefore, at Titan, we have specially made available Nano booking forms in all our World of Titan showrooms," Titan Watches Chief Operating Officer Harish Bhat said.

Titan has over 265 stores in 119 cities across India.



Times Online
Nano fever grips Kolkata, buyers vie for Tata Motor's form
Economic Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
An official from RD Motors, yet another Tata Motors’ dealer in Kolkata said: "There has been a constant flow of people hanging out at our Raghunathpur ...
Tata will make Nano in Singur, claims West Begal official Hindu
Tata Nano in showrooms from April 1 IBNLive.com
Nano arrives in three Kolkata showrooms Business Standard
Times of India
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The Money Times
Tribal body gives LS poll boycott call in north Bengal
Hindu - ‎8 hours ago‎
Siliguri (PTI): Charging the West Bengal government of not promptly addressing its demands, which included delimitation declaring a reserved Lok Sabha seat ...
West Bengal's tribal body to boycott polls Sify
ABAVP to boycot poll, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri & Alipurduar to be ... Economic Times
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Nano fiasco, big political issue in West Bengal
Economic Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
We had never opposed the Tata Motors small car factory at Singur. We just wanted both the factory and farmers of Singur to coexist. ...
BOM:500570


BBC News
The Tata Nano The new people's car
Economist - ‎Mar 26, 2009‎
Last October Tata Motors, India’s biggest indigenous vehicle-maker, abandoned the $292m factory that it had built in Singur, West Bengal, to make the Nano. ...
Video: Ultracheap Car to Hit India's Streets in July The Associated Press
Tata Nano The People's Car Launched Oneindia
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Voice of America
Tata Nano is a nice, cheap ride
Fresh News - ‎Mar 29, 2009‎
A woman test drives a Tata Motors Nano car at the company's plant in Pimpri, 160 km (100 miles) southeast of Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2009. ...
The Tata Nano: A lean car for lean times Globe and Mail
UBI inks pact with Tata Motors Economic Times
Nano: The third R Sify
Blogger News Network
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Zigwheels.com
Cheap car or cheaper bikes?
Times of India - ‎Mar 28, 2009‎
The initial impact will be marginal and can only become significant once Tata enhances supply in the market,” says an industry veteran. ...
Used car prices crash up to 30% Daily News & Analysis
all 5 news articles »

The Age
In Conversation: Ratan Tata on cars beyond Nano
Economic Times - ‎Mar 20, 2009‎
If you think Tata Motors just has the Nano up its long sleeve be prepared to be dazzled! India’s largest automotive player hasn’t let the recent financial ...
Tata Motors seek patent security for Tata Nano car Khabrein.info
In Short Term, Nil Returns From The Nano Forbes
What Can Tata's Nano Teach Detroit? BusinessWeek
CarTradeIndia.com
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Nano fever grips Kolkata, buyers vie for Tata Motor's form
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An official from RD Motors, yet another Tata Motors’ dealer in Kolkata said: "There has been a constant flow of people hanging out at our Raghunathpur ...
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Tata Nano in showrooms from April 1 IBNLive.com
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Maruti to phase out 'People's Car' M800 by 2016
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Nano fiasco, big political issue in West Bengal
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We had never opposed the Tata Motors small car factory at Singur. We just wanted both the factory and farmers of Singur to coexist. ...
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BBC News
The Tata Nano The new people's car
Economist - ‎Mar 26, 2009‎
Last October Tata Motors, India’s biggest indigenous vehicle-maker, abandoned the $292m factory that it had built in Singur, West Bengal, to make the Nano. ...
Video: Ultracheap Car to Hit India's Streets in July The Associated Press
Tata Nano The People's Car Launched Oneindia
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Voice of America
Tata Nano is a nice, cheap ride
Fresh News - ‎Mar 29, 2009‎
A woman test drives a Tata Motors Nano car at the company's plant in Pimpri, 160 km (100 miles) southeast of Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 25, 2009. ...
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UBI inks pact with Tata Motors Economic Times
Nano: The third R Sify
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Used car prices crash up to 30% Daily News & Analysis
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The Age
In Conversation: Ratan Tata on cars beyond Nano
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If you think Tata Motors just has the Nano up its long sleeve be prepared to be dazzled! India’s largest automotive player hasn’t let the recent financial ...
Tata Motors seek patent security for Tata Nano car Khabrein.info
In Short Term, Nil Returns From The Nano Forbes
What Can Tata's Nano Teach Detroit? BusinessWeek
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CPI(M): UPA not taking steps to regulate private players in education
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New Delhi (PTI): The CPI(M) on Tuesday accused the UPA of not taking any measures to regulate private players in the educational sector due to involvement ...
Spending on education and health less than that in Burundi, says CPM The Statesman
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CPI(M) says Lalu, Mulayam under pressure
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CPI(M) releases second list in AP
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Hyderabad (PTI): The row over seat-sharing between CPI(M) and TDP in Andhra Pradesh appeared to have been settled on Monday with the Left party releasing ...
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CPI(M)-AIADMK talks inconclusive
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CPI (M) general secretary Prakash Karat with AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa at her residence in Chennai on Monday. CHENNAI: Talks between the All ...
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Just don't laugh it off. A sense of humour could be a million-dollar asset to bedding a woman, say researchers!

A new study by Northumbria University has found that men really can laugh women into bed as females perceive funny males are smarter and more likely to be honest than more dour counterparts!

Lovelorn Anuradha Bali alias Fiza, whose short-lived marriage with former Haryana deputy chief minister Chander Mohan alias Chand Mohammed, hogged the headlines before a tragic climax, will be acting in Bollywood movie 'Desh Drohi-II'.

A new study has debunked the myth that women are the ones who love to gossip, for it has been found that men are bigger tittle-tattlers than ladies. A poll of 5,000 people by research company has revealed that blokes spend an average 76 minutes a day rumour-mongering with pals and colleagues while women do it for just 52 minutes.

I was in a meeting while I got a RING on my mobile Number from Haldwani, Uttarakhand.

Since I received the call from my homeland, I had no choice but to receive.

I came out of the meeting and switched on.

The caller introduced himself a TRIPATHI from Haldwani.

I could not identify and he told his name.

I was mistaken and heard, PC TRIPATHI.

`YARR, PC BOLLO’, I said.

`Not PC, it is TC, TC Tripathi. Tarachandra Tripathi!”

I was surprised to receive the call of my Hindi Teacher from GIC Nainital after so many years.

I knew, he has retired long ago.

Meanwhile, I have read his TRAVELOGUES on USA and Japan. The japanese Economy and RESOURCE Management described by my GURUJI has enlightened me to understand Indian Economy and I have written it several times. Even in Mumbai, I shared the reading with economists and trade Union activists.

GURUJI informed me that he has read the article written on me by Mahashweta DI in Hindustan.

It is great pleasure for me that Mahashweta Di has highlighted the role of my Primary Teacher Pitambar Pant and GIC teacher TARACHAND TRIPATHI.

Pitamber Pant retired while I was a graduation student in DSB College , Nainital.

I have to regret that I never knew the whereabouts of my first teacher.

But I, somehow, managed to continue the RELATIONSHIP with Tripathi who taught me Social Realism, Political Theories, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, WORLD Classic and contemporary Literature, linguistics, phonetics, Aesthetics and VISION.

He taught me Marxism.

He showed me ways of Empowerment, Awakening, Mobilisation and Resistance.

He made me and my friend Kapilesh Bhoj to stay in his Home in Mohan Niwas and guided our studies during our Graduation!

His BOOK on Japanese TRAVELOGUE has to be released very soon.

Guruji read out the FLAP on Mobile then we shifted to the FALSE RECESSION, OIL Economy, Defence Budget, LPG mafia , Dalit Liberation, Indian Political Economy and Public Opinion and Mobilisation! We also discussed Nano, global Auto crisis and GREAT Indian AUTO SURGE!

I am satisfied that my Guruji, TARA CHANDRA Tripathi who once told me that HINDI is my Mother language as well as Bengali, ENDORSED my shift in ENGLISH. he endorsed the national networking and Global networking as well as my SPEAKING Tours!

Now, I have not to care for others!

I skipped the Meeting to be ENLIGHTENED once again by my GURUJI!

The government will take stock of interest rates and credit growth on Thursday when it meets industry chambers and bankers, as India Inc has demanded cuts in interest rates and higher loan disbursal to tackle industrial slowdown.

The meeting between Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and heads of banks along with representatives of chambers will be held at a time when almost 50 per cent of PSU banks have reduced their benchmark lending rates effective from Wednesday.



Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said there is scope for further cuts in interest rates in his meeting with industrialists last week.



The Cabinet Secretary's meeting, which is taking place after the scheduled one late last month got postponed, is likely to take up issues coming in the way of industrial revival.



For the first time in about 17 years, industrial growth was negative in two consecutive months, in December and January, after it saw a monthly contraction for the first time in 15 years in October 2008.



While there are signs of revival in certain sectors like auto, cement, steel and capital goods, exports declined for the fifth consecutive month, in February.


Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has written to Chief Ministers of all the states to provide adequate security for nearly two dozen VVIPs during the period of the upcoming general elections.

Chidambaram has urged all the state chiefs to cooperate with security agencies.

Meanwhile, Samsung India Wednesday launched its full-touch slider phone, Samsung Ultra, and said it has partnered with the state-run telecom operators BSNL and MTNL to bundle phones for the third generation (3G) mobile services.

The Election Commission Wednesday clarified that it has not issued any instruction to remove from government offices photographs and images of national leaders, prominent historical personalities of the past, the president and the governors ahead of polls.

The global metal industry is likely to benefit from the various economic stimulus measures taken by the governments worldwide by the end of this year, says consultancy firm Deloitte.

"It was one of the industries hit first by the downturn, but unfortunately will also be one of the last to get out. A jump-start in other sectors such as automotive and construction will need to occur before we see a rebound in the metal industry," Deloitte's Global Manufacturing Industry Group Leader (Process Sector) Claude Martin said on Wednesday.

"Governments across the world have pumped in billions of dollars to stimulate local economies and they plan to spend more. These measures hold the potential to significantly affect the global metals industry," Deloitte said, adding that "However, the benefits to date for the steel sector will unlikely be seen until late 2009 at the earliest."

Regarding the Indian metal industry and the stimulus plan, Deloitte India Senior Director Kumar Kandaswami said, "The Indian stimulus package is very nominal compared to others and is not perceived to lead the change in the global market."

"The Indian Metal industry feels that the protectionist measures were introduced a little too late to revive the economy. The sector is expected to remain broadly stable over current year 2009, however, growth is expected in the long run," Mr. Kandaswami added.



Congress president Sonia Gandhi, All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and her sister Priyanka Gandhi have already got special security of the Special Protection Group (SPG).



Besides them, the list proposes elite security cover to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani, former chief ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad, Farooq Abdullah, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader J Jayalalithaa, Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh-Omar Abdullah, Narendra Modi and Mayawati.


The Situation is fit for NANO POLITICS in India Today! U.S. President Barack Obama's administration remains optimistic that General Motors Corp can restructure without going to bankruptcy court, a senior administration official said on Wednesday! A day after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud threatened to carry out a spectacular strike on Washington, US President Barack Obama has expressed fears that Al-Qaeda was planning to attack the United States from Pakistani soil. Extending its support to the neighbouring Bangladesh, New Delhi on Wednesday said that it will ensure that any of the "recalcitrant elements" of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) do not cross over to India.

U.S. President Barack Obama benefits from a broadly held perception that others bear the bulk of responsibility for state of the U.S. economy, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published on Tuesday.



The threat given by Pakistan Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud to target the White House and other important places in the United States must be taken seriously, terrorism experts have said. On the other hand, US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev agreed Wednesday to draw up a new deal on nuclear disarmament.

Taliban insurgents reject a US offer of "honourable reconciliation", a top spokesman said on Wednesday, calling it a "lunatic idea" and saying the only way to end the war was to withdraw foreign troops.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against his detention under the National Security Act (NSA).): After courting controversy with his hate speech, Varun Gandhi has sought an upgrade in his security citing "family history".BJP on Wednesday alleged that Congress and BSP have entered into an understanding in Uttar Pradesh to "frame" its leader Varun Gandhi, against whom National Security Act has been invoked. "What Varun is facing is a bailable ...

Senior leader of main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Lal Krishna Advani on Wednesday targeted the Prime Minister for his statement about the need for New Delhi and Islamabad fighting militancy jointly.



Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will participate in an election rally organised here on Friday by the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and its allies, including the Left parties, the BJD said on Wednesday.



All seems well now in the feuding family of the late central minister Abu Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chowdhury in this northern West Bengal district.



Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today said that it was the Manmohan Singh Government which silenced Pakistan after the Mumbai terror attacks. The ruling Congress, which has pre-poll alliances in eight states across the country for the coming general elections, is open to post-poll alliances to remain in power even in a coalition set-up, a senior party leader said Wednesday.The poor need a pro-poor government and it is the Congress that is capable of empowering them, young MP Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday, kicking off the election campaign in Bihar where the party is going it alone.


Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today met his British counterpart Gordon Brown in London at 10 Downing Street ahead of G20 summit.

Barack Obama says the differences in opinion between world leaders attending G20 have been "vastly overstated".

Astronaut Sunita Williams and Oscar-winning music composer A.R. Rahman are among the role models for young Indians who are driving a 'society on the move', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says.

Why did he EXCLUDE NANO and Ratan Tata?

Calling Wednesday the 'Financial Fool's Day', thousands of protesters tried to block downtown London, shouting anti-capitalism slogans, as G20 leaders prepared for a crucial summit a day later to find ways out of the worst global financial crisis in six decades.


As the city police heightened its security and put blockades around central London, some 1,200 protesters managed to storm outside the Bank of England, in what has, by and large, been a peaceful demonstration so far.



Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is among the G20 leaders already here for the summit, so is US President Barack Obama, collectively representing economies that account for 85 percent of the world's output and two-thirds of its population



The London Stock Exchange and the offices and headquarters of other financial institutions were the target of the protesters, who were heard shouting: 'These streets our streets, these banks our banks'.



'This is London's largest, most challenging security operation,' said Simon O'Brien, a senior commander with London's Metropolitan Police.



India's stock market is riding a global rally and is hoping a major party wins a strong hand at coming elections, but could be beaten back if a fractious group of parties including Communists gains influence at the polls. Investors are pricing victory for a coalition led by either the ruling Congress-led alliance or the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) when the world's largest democracy goes to polls between April 16 and May 13 against a backdrop of slowing growth. But cracks in the two main national coalitions have raised fears that a "Third Front" could tip the balance of power, which market watchers believe could pull down stocks by between 15 to 30 percent from current levels.

The International Monetary Fund sees the world economy contracting by between 0.5 and 1 per cent in 2009, Mananging Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in an interview published on Wednesday.

He said a recovery could come in the first two quarters of 2010.

"If ... economic policies are appropriate, the recovery should come in the first two quarters of 2010," he told Spanish newspaper ‘El Pais’.


The Marxist Stance against Fascism and Imperialism as well as GLOBALISATION and Capitalism also RESEMBLES the men so FUNNY in Bed!



Most waited NANO has landed in KOLKATA from TATA MOTORS Pantnagar Plant. Pantnagar had been always in production mode. But Ratan Tata shifted Singur Plant to GUJARAT and rescheduled Launching.

It proves the SINGUR Prelude had nothing to do with the SHIFTING. US auto sales are expected to have fallen 40 per cent in March from a year ago. Data is due on Wednesday. It is the best EVIDENCE that the GLOBAL RECESSION and AUTO WOES led RATAN TATA, not MS MAMT Bannerjee, as the MEDIA ISINFORMS!

See and FEEL the AUTO WOES before having a VISION in the MARXIST Brahaminical NANO DRIVE in ELECTIONEERING!

Gloom settled over credit investors Monday amid unsettling developments for U.S. auto makers and worries about the banking sector.

GM's 8.375% notes due 2033 were down 1.25 point to 16.75 cents on the dollar and its 7.2% notes due 2011 were down 6.4 points to 20.1 cents on the dollar Monday afternoon, although trade volumes were modest, according to online trading platform MarketAxess.

GM's credit default swaps were quoted at 81 points from 77 points up front on Friday, which means that investors must now pay $8.1 million up front plus a $500,000 fee to protect $10 million of GM bonds against default for five years. Similarly, GMAC's credit default swaps were trading at 31 points up front Monday from 27.5 points up front on Friday, according to Phoenix Partners Group.


The White House pushed out General Motors Corp. (GM) Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and demanded further restructuring before signing another assistance check for GM and Chrysler LLC.

"Even with the additional funding the government will provide in the coming weeks, the risk of bankruptcy remains high, in our opinion, for the remainder of 2009, and even in 2010," wrote Standard & Poor's analysts of the two auto companies.

Also weighing on the market, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said over the weekend that some financial institutions "are going to need some large amounts of assistance."

The Obama administration seized the wheel of the failing U.S. auto industry on Monday, forcing out General Motors Corp's CEO, pushing Chrysler LLC toward a merger and threatening bankruptcy for both.



The moves came after Europe's second-biggest carmaker by sales PSA Peugeot Citroen ousted CEO Christian Streiff, replacing him with former Corus head Philippe Varin from June 1.



GM shares plunged around 20 percent in Frankfurt after steps outlined by the White House autos panel -- headed by former investment banker Steve Rattner -- marked a stunning reversal for management at both GM and private equity-owned Chrysler and took aim at GM creditors who had bet on its rescue.


GM bonds and Chrysler loans slid and investment-grade corporate bonds weakened. Treasurys, after a brief bout of selling earlier Monday, headed higher as investors sought their safety.

"It feels heavy," said Joe Balestrino, senior portfolio manager at Federated Investment Management, about the tone in corporate credit. "It's more than GM. It's Geithner telling us that banks need more help, it's equities fading, it's bank CEOs talking about their profitability or lack thereof. It's not very pleasant."


Nano is rescheduled to be launched and is now AVAILABLE in the DOMESTIC market while it had always been PROJECTED for Third World Market. Tatas did emphasise the Plant to situated in COASTAL AREA so the ONE LAC PRICE TAG may be defended. Hence, Pantnagar Plant in Production Mode was to be rejected. But the timing of NANO Launch may not help FREEsenSEX as EXPORT SCENERIO is quite MISERABLE! Asia's banks are likely to step in with loans and boost their presence across the region as the credit crisis has forced big Western rivals to retreat.
With the exception of Japanese lenders, domestic banks are poised to steal market share in Asia from Royal Bank of Scotland, Citigroup and others with big government stakes.


India's exports fell an annual 21.7 per cent in February to $11.91 billion, government data showed on Wednesday, a fifth straight fall as the global slowdown slashed demand for Indian goods.

The trade deficit narrowed to $4.9 billion in February from $6.1 billion in January due to a sharp fall in imports.

Imports fell an annual 23.3 per cent to $16.82 billion in February. Oil imports fell 47.5 per cent during the month from a year earlier to $4.05 billion.


It was a PURE Marketing Strategy which helped the Bengal Ruling Marxists to defame the RESISTANCE hegemony branding it as ANTI DEVELOPMENT for ELECTORAL MILEAGE!

Since Nano is AVAILABLE for Affluent BENGALI ES, the Marxists may now bank on its Capitalist EQUITIES as well as BRAND BUDDHA!

Bollywood star Aamir Khan said the November 26 terror strikes had stirred up awareness among the citizens to chose right leaders.

AMIR KHAN is engaged to MOBILISE Indian VOTERS in National Interests. Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, in a rally in Jharkhand, Wednesday appealed to the youth to vote to 'change the fate of the country'. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation chief E. Sreedharan Wednesday urged people to choose the 'right political leaders' and not vote a criminal to power.

Corporates and TOILET Media is also focused on MOBILISING the VOTERS in national Interest!

It is UNPRECEDENTED as well as UNPRECEDENTED are the suggestions for CONG BJP Coalition in the CENTRE as well as a NATIONAL Government in national INTEREST!

What is this bloody NATIONAL Interest?

It reminds me the RAMRAJ or SWARAJ slogan mobilising the caste Hindus led by Brahamins and Banias to CAPTURE INDIAN STATE POWER! Meanwhile, The US is planning a USD 2.8 billion military aid to Pakistan to successfully fight terrorism, but Washington would ensure that the money is not spent in a way that would give Islamabad a greater capacity to attack another country, primarily India, a media report said. The Obama Administration is planning to propose to the Congress a USD 2.8 billion military aid to Pakistan, in addition to the USD 7.5 billion non-military aid in the next five years as proposed in the Kerry-Lugar Bill, the Fox News said quoting unnamed Defence Department officials.

It is well known that the ABORIGINAL, Indigenous, Minority and BPL communities are HABITUAL to stand in the QUE and they do happen the deciding FACTOR for any ELECTORAL MANDATE in MAJORAITARIAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM presently STRUCK deep in CASTEOLOGY.

It is a TURNING POINT in Indian politics which may END UP in MARGINALISING the so called national BRAHAMINICAL Parties clubbed together in Three major factions of different COLOR, The NDA, THe UPA and the LEFT.It may prove to be a TIMINGS headed to UP and BIHAR SUBALTERN Land.

So that the AFFLUENT Media STRUCK RULING Class is being ALERTED to be AWARE of the IMMINENT CHANGE so that they may be MOBILISED TO STOP this with their VOTE!

The TV Channels also telecasted that TWENTY TWO percent VOTERS sell their VOTE and thirty seven percent of the BPL Population is PURCHASED!

This is EQUITY VALUE of Indian Parliamentary SYSTEM!

But neither the ELECTION Commission nor the MEDIA seems to be interested to launch a CAMPAIGN against the SELL OUT with DIVIDENDS ensured!

As campaigning picks up for the Lok Sabha elections, the newly elected President of industry body CII, Venu Srinivasan, has said he will promote a transparent way of donations to political parties by business houses.

"Companies should do it (election funding) transparently. If it becomes transparent it is good for the polity, good for society," Srinivasan told PTI.

He said the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has been promoting the idea of transparency in political donations. In any case, he said, it has become difficult for business houses to deal only in cash.

"Companies have shifted from cash payments to cheques... the cash (transactions) have been reduced in the economy considerably since liberalisation... it has become difficult to deal with cash," he said.

The Government monitoring through different taxes like Banking Cash Transaction Tax is also a deterrent to the cash economy, Srinivasan, who is also Chairman of Chennai-based TVS Motor Company Ltd, said.

The CII chief said the chamber would like its members to ensure that the money given away to political parties is properly accounted for in their books.

Some of the country's well-respected industrial houses have already taken lead in giving political donations through cheques.

On the state of the economy, he said while the growth has slowed down, the GDP trends still remain in the positive zone.

However, he remained cautious about fiscal 2009-10 that began today. "(The) growth in the next year may not meet our aspirations, but I look at the world with cautious optimism," he said.

Mr. Srinivasan said the first-half of the fiscal is likely to be poorer because of the high growth in the comparative period the previous year. However, the economy is expected to pick up in the second-half of the financial year 2009-10.

"We have already digested the recession...We are still growing," he said.

While the big picture remains positive, sectors like manufacturing, exports, handicrafts, textile, gems and jewellery remain areas of concern.

After growing by a robust 30 per cent till September, exports have been shrinking in the second half. The government estimates do not project the annualised shipments to grow beyond 3-4 per cent.

Mr. Srinivasan, who is from the automobile industry, said it is early days to see a recovery in the sector. The commercial vehicles segment is still reeling under recessionary trends.



Hence the NATIONAL INTEREST means the URGENCY and EMERGENCY to STOP and PREEMPT the most FEARED Change in Indian MANUSMRITI APARTHEID Rule!

Thus, the Politicians, Economists, Intelligentsia, media Psephologist TUNE UP the THEME SONG of NATIONAL INTEREST clubbed with FALSE RECESSION, Capital DRAINAGE, DIVERSION of national Income and revenue,Clash of CIVILISATION and war against TERROR associated with Indo US nuke Deal and Strategic re alliance in US ISRAEL lead with the SINGLE AGENDA to SUSTAIN the GLOBAL Brahaminical, ZIONIST WHITE Corporate WAR HEGEMONY with the ONE POINT Formula of MASS DESTRUCTION!

The NANO PROJECTION in INDIAN MEDIA shows of the Vital statics as well as the SKIN of the STRATEGIC MARKETING of such NATIONAL INTERESTS on which the MARXISTS seem to BANK on MOST!

Thus, NANO is engaged HIGHLIGHTING the global recession and STRATEGIC marketing by DESI ILLUMINITI, the INDIA INCs! Maruti 800 - the small car that revolutionised personal transport in modern India - will take a bow starting next year and be phased out by 2016, when the country is expected to embrace new emission norms, Maruti Suzuki India said on Wednesday.

Along with the M800, MSI will also be phasing out its second oldest model, the utility van Omni. In the initial phase, the two models will be done away with in 11 cities from next year, where the Bharat Stage-IV emission norms (which is equivalent to Euro-IV norms) will become applicable.

Taxpayers will not have to pay levy on withdrawal of cash from banks with the government withdrawing the Banking Cash Transaction Tax (BCTT) from Wednesday. The government had introduced 0.1 per cent BCCT in 2005 on cash withdrawals of more than Rs 50,000 (individuals) and Rs 1,00,000 for others in a single day from non-savings bank account maintained with any scheduled bank. The tax has been withdrawn from April 1 following an announcement made by the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram in his budget speech for 2008-09, sources said.





BJP leader Varun Gandhi on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court challenging invoking of National Security Act (NSA) against him by Uttar Pradesh government for allegedly inciting communal tension.

Congress on Wednesday hit out at BJP Prime Ministerial candidate L.K. Advani for accusing the UPA government of not taking steps to bring back Indian money stashed in Swiss banks and asked him why he had never raised the issue when the NDA was in power.
"Why did Advani who was the Home Minister and also Deputy Prime Minister not raise the issue earlier when he was in office for six years"? Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said here.

Criticising Mr. Advani for attacking the UPA government about the "ill-gotten money deposited in Swiss banks in 2004", he sought to know whether no such money had been deposited prior to 2004.

Mr. Advani had claimed he had received an "evasive" reply from the government to his demand for bringing back money stashed in foreign banks, but the government had described the charge as "farther from the truth."

Flaying Advani's remarks describing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the "weakest" Prime Minister, Mr. Sharma termed it "unfair and uncharitable" and said it was high time he stopped making such statements.

Questioning Mr. Advani about his "very definition of a weak Prime Minister", Mr. Sharma said "a man who is firm, is a man of integrity and commands respect worldwide is called a weak Prime Minister".

On BJP Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi's alleged hate speech, Mr. Sharma said: "it is unacceptable in constitutional democracy. Such hate campaigns have no place in India."

Mr. Sharma said the Congress was contesting about 440 seats in the Lok Sabha polls and expressed optimism that it would win more seats this time than in 2004 when it bagged 145 seats.

He said the Congress had never formed a national alliance but always had "State-specific alliances", which it already has in eight States, the major being in Maharashtra, J&K, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

However, the issue of post-poll alliances would be addressed later "once the arithmetic becomes clear", he said.

Slamming the Left parties, especially the CPI(M) for "their mindset frozen in decades gone by", he claimed their ability to influence the voter was "going to diminish sharply in the coming days."


In a surprising admission just a fortnight before the start of the Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj voiced doubts whether the party-led NDA will get a majority on its own.Swaraj, who is contesting the elections from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh for which she is the party in-charge, however said that if the NDA emerged as the single largest coalition then with post-poll alliances the BJP-led grouping will be able to form the government.Bhopal The BJP was very acutely feeling the absence of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from the present political scene in the country, senior party leader Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Ruling out any truck with Biju Janta Dal (BJD) in Orissa after elections, BJP prime ministerial candidate LK Advani said on Wednesday that the Naveen Patnaik-led regional party has not only betrayed the BJP but also the people of the state who fear the return of Congress' "misrule".

On the other hand, Senior Janata Dal (U) leader George Fernandes on Tuesday described Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a dictator, alleged a nexus between him and the “Congress dictator” (Sonia Gandhi) and vowed to fight the Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha seat as “a people’s candidate”.

“I will not keep quiet; I will definitely fight,” Fernandes stated in the latest issue of his magazine, Pratipaksh. Recounting the deterioration of his relationship with Nitish, Fernandes said the Bihar CM has been ignoring party leaders and workers after the formation of his Government. Defectors, according to him, were given a share in the Government and dedicated leaders of the party were humiliated, he claimed.



US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday there was "enormous consensus" between the world's largest developed and emerging economies on plans to haul the world out of the deepest downturn since the 1930s. Obama played down any differences with France and Germany, which insisted again on the eve of the summit that G20 countries must agree on measures to tighten financial regulation and crack down on tax havens rather than simply make promises.

We have to assess the ECONOMY at home before analysing the G 20 summit!

Equities erased early losses and climbed 2 per cent on Wednesday, to start the new financial year on a positive note, but political and economic uncertainties could weigh on investor confidence in the coming weeks.

Leading energy company Reliance Industries, top mortgage firm Housing Development Finance Corp and outsourcer Infosys Technologies led the the rise, while No.1 telecoms firm Bharti Airtel and Bharat Heavy Electricals were laggards.

Trading is expected to be choppy ahead of month-long general elections that begin in mid-April amid worries about the slowing economy.

This is the MOST VOLATILE FREEseSEX on which SHINING HEGEMONY INDIA is BASED!


The mutual funds industry is sitting on a volcano as 75-80 per cent of its assets are short-term while it resorts to long-term lending to corporates, creating an asset-liability mismatch.
"This is a dangerous situation," said UTI MF's Chairman U K Sinha highlighting the need to take corrective measures. Flagging-off the issue, Sinha, however, made it clear that it is not a crisis situation warranting panic, but it is time the regulators looked at the issue.

"I have brought it to the notice of the concerned authorities that it has systemic risks," Sinha said when asked if he had taken up the matter with the Government and regulators.

Of the 75-80 per cent of mutual fund assets, which are short-term, Sinha said, a substantial investment came from banks.

Banking money with mutual funds in end-October was Rs 13,000 crore and it jumped up to Rs 90,000 crore by February, he said.

Though banks have long-term money, they are not lending but mutual funds, which have banks' short-term money parked with them, are lending long-term to corporates.


Led by IT major Wipro, Indian companies listed on American bourses saw rise in their total market capitalisation by as much as USD 9 billion in March.
The 16 Indian entities' trading as American Depository Receipts (ADRs) gained USD 9.08 billion in valuation for the month of March, with Wipro alone accounting for USD 2.06 billion.

Among the stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, apart from Wipro, leading copper producer Sterlite Industries witnessed its market valuation jump by USD 1.75 billion.


Protesters smashed windows and clashed with police in London's financial district. Up to 400 demonstrators attacked offices of the Royal Bank of Scotland, shouting "These streets, our streets! These banks, our banks!"

The Royal Bank of Scotland has become a lightning rod for anger over banker excess that is blamed for the financial crisis. Rescued by the British government last October, RBS continues to pay its former boss an annual pension of around 700,000 pounds ($1 million).

Obama, making his first official visit to Europe, said G20 nations were not going to agree on every point but pushed aside suggestions the summit would falter because countries were split over the importance of regulation versus new stimulus packages.

"The core notion that government has to take some steps to deal with a contracting global market place and that we should be promoting growth -- that's not in dispute," Obama said at a news conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

"On the regulatory side, this notion that somehow there are those who are pushing for regulation and those who are resisting regulation is belied by the facts."

French President Nicholas Sarkozy earlier threatened to disassociate himself from any "false compromises" at Thursday's summit in London, the second such meeting of world leaders to try to tackle the problems created by the credit crunch. [ID:nL1152984]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel supported Sarkozy's stance and said she would make sure concrete decisions were taken.

Analysts said both were posturing largely for their own voters and staking their positions ahead of the meeting.



"I am not sure that NDA will get majority on its own. But if NDA emerges as single largest coalition then with post-poll alliances we will be able to form government with that,"Sushama Swaraj told reporters in Bhopal.

An apparently embarrassed BJP sought to quickly snub Sushma saying the NDA will form the government.

"We are strong, we are fighting under the leadership of Mr Advani and we should be there to form the government," BJP spokesman Siddarth Nath Singh said in New Delhi.

In reply to a question, Sushma said there was no question of the BJP distancing itself from Varun Gandhi, the party candidate from Pilibhit for the Lok Sabha elections, following his controversial hate speeches which saw the stringent NSA being slapped on him. Sushma had earlier suggested that the BJP was not inclined to utilise the services of Varun for its poll campaign outside Pilibhit.

Sushma said her party's reaction to Varun Gandhi was determined by the manner in which the Election Commission and Mayawati had treated him.

She also charged the Election Commission and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati with adopting double standards in the case of Gandhi

The very same Election Commission which was advising the BJP not to set up Varun as a candidate saw nothing wrong in criminals like Mukhtar Ansari and Atiq Ahmed contesting the elections, Sushma told reporters in Bhopal.

Similarly, Mayawati had slapped the National Security Act (NSA) on Varun, but took no action against people like Ansari who have been given the BSP ticket for Lok Sabha polls, she said.

Answering a question, the BJP leader said that personally she was against use of intemperate language by any person in politics.

Sushma said that in her view even the most harsh and strong words could be delivered with a lot of politeness and without losing any sense of control.

She also said the BJP was acutely feeling the absence

Pak as 'epicentre of terror' is a harsh reality: PM


London:Calling Pakistan the "epicentre of terrorism", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the world community "has to come to grips with this harsh reality" and slammed Islamabad for failing to take "effective action" to curb the menace.
Ahead of his maiden meeting with US President Barack Obama on Wednesday, Singh said the world has a responsibility that Pakistan lives up to the promise that it will not allow its territory to be used to promote acts of terrorism directed against India.

He said not taking any action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks is a "living proof" that Pakistan is not taking effective action to control terrorism.

"That is living proof that despite many promises made by Pakistan since 2004 to my predecessor and to me that Pakistan will not be allowed to be used to undertake acts of terror against India, in practice no effective action has been taken to control terror," Singh told 'Financial Times' in an interview, ahead of his visit here to attend the G-20 summit.

"We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality," said the Prime Minister, who arrived in London on Tuesday.

He said the 26/11 attacks were planned and acted upon in Pakistani territory is now admitted by everybody, including the intelligence agencies of developed countries.

Asked why Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks, has been able to bounce back so quickly, Singh said: "It is because the promises that the government of Pakistan have made to control terrorism and all its instrumentalities, they are either not able to control them or they are not willing to control them."

The Prime Minister said India and US would like both Afghanistan and Pakistan to be free from the hold of terrorist elements.

Asked how did he assess the chances of success for Obama's just-released AfPak strategy, he said: "I have not studied the Obama plan. We are victims of terrorism and we hope that whatever the world community plans to do they will pay adequate attention that terrorism ceases to be a problem in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan."

Singh said it has been India's experience in the past that there are elements in the armed forces of Pakistan, some segments of the ISI involved in perpetrating acts of terror, particularly the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul.

"We have been told that the ISI in Pakistan has a different mindset. I hope that is right," he said.

Asked why Pakistan has not been able to tackle terrorism, Singh said: "I'm not an expert on how Pakistan is being run. But the proof of pudding is in the eating. That the attacks on Mumbai were planned and acted upon in Pakistani territory is now admitted by everybody.

If Sidhu can contest, then why not me: Sanjay

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has confirmed that he was being threatened by a Union Minister's aide of "dire consequences" if he joined SP even as Congress dismissed the allegations as completely "baseless".
"Yes I can confirm that I was threatened by a senior aide of a Cabinet Minister and warned of dire consequences," he told a TV channel in a joint interview with SP general secretary Amar Singh.

Dutt, who was barred by Supreme Court from contesting the LS polls, however, refused to reveal the name of the person.

"I will reveal everything at the appropriate time. No one can stop me from being with Samajwadi Party," he asserted.

Meanwhile, Congress dismissed Dutt's allegations on Wednesday, terming it as completely "baseless."

"I think it is a self-serving claim. I would it dismiss as completely baseless unless they come out with anything substantial," she said.

In the joint interview, Singh said the "counsel of a very senior minister had also threatened Sanjay Dutt from joining SP".

"Sanjay was told clearly that should he take such a step, even his bail could be cancelled," Singh said, adding "there are certain managers of Sonia Gandhi and the Prime Minister who were against Sanjay joining SP."

Dutt confirmed Singh's charges. He contended that "I am not saying that there is a conspiracy against me, but there are people who are scared of my contesting from Lucknow."

Singh contended that if Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was convicted in a murder case, was allowed to contest elections then "why not Sanjay?"

"If Sanjay is denied then Sidhu should also be banned". Putting up a brave face, Dutt said he has no regrets about the Supreme Court's ruling. "If I cannot serve as a politician, I will serve as a citizen. I have no regrets. It has just started with me. I will be with SP till I die."

He said even though he will not be able to contest, he will campaign for SP throughout the country. "I am going to Lucknow on Wednesday and will stay there till the end," he said.

Denying any differences between him and his family over his joining politics, Dutt said, "There is no break-up in the family".

On speculations whether his wife Manyata could contest from Lucknow, Dutt said, "I have left all these decisions to the SP leaders. Whatever they decide, we will accept."


Media persons face Mamata fury

Wed, Apr 1 08:37 PM

Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) Amid high drama, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday fretted and fumed at a section of the media during an election rally here and alleged that they were trying to sabotage her meetings at the behest of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).

The firebrand leader lost her cool when two photographers tried to climb the dias to take snaps.

'Why are you trying to disturb my meeting? You are doing this every day. You are acting at the behest of the CPI-M. This can't go on,' she told the two photographers.

'I know which organisation you represent, and how it is funded by the CPI-M-run government,' said Banerjee at the rally in the northern part of the city in support of her party candidate Sudip Bandyopadhyay.

As the crowd of her supporters got restive, Banerjee asked them to stop.

However, she stopped her speech and went back to her seat on the dias, only to resume speaking after a couple of minutes.

'A section of the media is writing all sorts of nonsense against us. We don't care. But why should they conspire to disrupt my meetings?' Banerjee asked.

'There are CPI-M stooges and they are trying to infiltrate my meetings. I ask them not to do these. I don't want to see them on my dias from the next meeting. But I would also like to clarify that only two or three media houses are doing this,' she said.

Banerjee later named two TV channels and two newspapers and asked people not to watch or read these.

Indo Asian News Service


Indian stamp on luxury envelope

Wed, Apr 1 05:35 PM

Last season we saw Giorgio Armani going in for dhoti-pants and Jean Paul Gaultier's sari-dresses. In fact the House of Hermes, for which Gaultier is the chief designer, came out with a fragrance inspired by the backwaters of Kerala.

Well, the fascination for India goes unabated. At the Paris Fashion Week, Balenciaga's collection for fall 2009 was dubbed 'Sari Silhouette' collection.

Nicolas Ghesquire of Balenciaga drew inspiration from the drape of a sari and created tulip skirts and slim Jodhpurs that were paired with Maharani tops. In an interview Ghesquire stated, "India was something that was always there in the archives of the house.

But only after going there did I realise how deeply." He was in India in the fall of 2008.

House of Dior's fascination with India goes way back to 1950s when Christian Dior designed a sari for Princess Lillian de Belgique. At Dior's fall 2009 Ready-To-Wear collection shown in Paris, Galliano delved into Dior archives and that meant a collection with Indian influences.

Jackets appeared with Ikat prints. Coats came in purple wool with paisley-style teardrop-shaped Indian embroidery and rich brocades.

And the Indian influence is not just limited to clothes. Soon Dior is launching a fragrance that is named 'Pondicherry'.

Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy played with the sari drape too in his fall 2009 collection. Earlier the fashion house of Givenchy introduced Maharani range of colour cosmetics for summer 2009 in shades of Tangerine and Pink.

Its creator Nicolas Degennes said, "I have been, sometimes without realising it, inspired by historical, traditional India - the India of symbols and thousands of Gods, where even cows and elephants are made up and 'bejewelled'." At the New York Fashion Week, a young fashion label Port 1961 showed a collection inspired by the Mughal Courts of India.

Silk sari dresses came down the runway in long and short versions.

Jaydeep Ghosh

The Most Corrupt Countries
Enlarge Photo The Most Corrupt Countries Tue, Mar 24 05:30 AM

Jack Gage, Forbes.com

Corruption is on the march. In 2008, the number of countries sinking deeper into the clutches of influence peddling, bribery and scandalous business dealings outpaced improvements by a 2 to 1 margin. Countries falling by more than 10 spots outnumbered risers 8.5 to 1.

Chad leads the way down in this year's report. With a heavy reliance on foreign assistance (mostly for oil exploration and development), the Sudanese neighbor gets black marks for corruption in the ranks of government officials--not surprising given its military dictatorship has been in place for 19 years.

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No. 2? The Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan, where president Kurmanbek Bakiyev faces mounting opposition brought to a fevered pitch by recent allegations that his administration organized the assassination of a former administration official. Others in the top 10 include Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Cambodia and Ecuador.

In terms of economic impact, the debilitating affect of corruption is tangible: More than 5% of global gross domestic product, or $2.6 trillion, was smuggled, used for bribes or stolen from taxpayers in the past year, says the World Bank in a recent report. For honest companies, moving from a low corruption climate to one where corporate and government misdeeds are more prevalent can represent as much as a 20% additional tax on top of the normal costs of doing business.

Socioeconomic risk experts at the Eurasia Group also warn of corruption's corrosive effect on foreign investment. Especially in times of sluggish economic activity--and in many developed nations, recession--the added drag of distrust on the part of investors and business owners can take a mighty toll.

"Corruption is the single greatest obstacle to economic and social development," says Fluor Corp. CEO Alan L. Boeckmann in the report.

Nations with the highest risk of corruption are often the desperately poor, where foreign aid and assistance can easily be transferred through back channels of oppressive regimes. As a result, the impact of corruption can extend well beyond any economic detraction to affect the quality of life for millions of citizens.

"Corruption is a major cause of many human rights abuses," says Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International, in a December 2008 report by watchdog Transparency International.

One example Khan cites is Zimbabwe, the poorest nation in the world at just $200 of GDP per capita. The African nation fell 13 places among the 127 countries in our ranking, according to TI's perceived levels of corruption. Recent reports accused president Robert Mugabe of stealing over $7 million in foreign aid meant for the distribution of medicine to combat, among other diseases, widespread malaria in the region. Instead, Mugabe allegedly used the payments to fund political activities.

Even in developed nations, corruption can often occur in the procurement of government projects--and within established corporations. Italy fell 12 spots in the corruption category after its government passed legislation granting top officials immunity from prosecution while in office. Perhaps not coincidentally, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had been involved in an ongoing investigation regarding the payment of more than $500,000 from undisclosed funds to the husband of an Olympic minister in the U.K.

Japan and Canada were also cited in a 2008 report by Transparency International as having sub-par enforcement standards vis-Ã -vis accepted G7 guidelines for bribes from foreign businesses. TI could find only one case in each country pursued by local authorities, compared with more than 40 investigations in Germany, 19 in France and 16 in Switzerland.

Industries can also be particularly prone to corruption, with greater levels of bureaucracy often increasing the likelihood of misuse. TI contends that public construction projects, water sanitation, oil and gas development and defense contracting most often show a proclivity for abuse of public and investor funds.

Jack Gage, Forbes.com

No alternative to two-state solution, Blair tells Israel

Wed, Apr 1 06:27 PM

Brussels, April 1 (DPA) There can be no alternative to a two-state solution for the Palestininan crisis, Middle East Quartet envoy Tony Blair said here Wednesday, a day after the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in.

'There is no alternative to a two-state solution, except the one-state solution. And if there is a one-state solution, there's going to be a big fight,' Blair said after a meeting with European Union (EU) officials in Brussels.

Blair, who spearheads efforts to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on behalf of the Mideast Quartet of the EU, Russia, the UN and the US, was responding to concerns that Netanyahu may oppose granting Palestinians their own state.

'I think that once the new (Israeli) government settles in ... we can get credible political negotiations going, because that is the only way we are going to achieve results,' Blair said.

The former British premier said the next six months would be 'critical' for the Middle East peace process.

'I do believe that if there is no significant progress in 2009, we face a situation of great jeopardy for the peace process,' he said.

The EU's external affairs commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, also called on Israel to commit itself to a two-state solution for the Middle East and urged for opening the border crossings into Gaza to allow European aid to reach Palestinians.

The new Israeli premier Wednesday vowed to work towards a comprehensive peace with the Arab and Muslim world. But he did not speak of a two-state solution, which would see

a Palestinian state created alongside Israel.

Indo Asian News Service
Sonia calls for steps by Sri Lanka to safeguard Tamils
Chennai (PTI): Calling for measures by the Sri Lankan government to safeguard and protect Tamils in the island nation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said the "first step" needed was cessation of hostilities to enable "innocent people to move to safety zones".

"We believe strongly that it is necessary for the Sri Lankan authorities to take whatever steps are needed to safeguard and protect them and their interests," she said.

"The first step would, obviously, be cessation of hostilities," she said in a letter to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.

The Congress chief said her party and the UPA government are committed for a negotiated settlement with a devolution package to ensure "equality and equal rights for Sri Lankan Tamils within the framework of a united Sri Lanka".

In her letter, a copy of which was circulated to media here, she said the ongoing conflict and extreme suffering of thousands of innocent Tamil citizens of Sri Lanka, especially women and children, caused deep anguish to everyone.

Recalling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent letter to Mr. Karunanidhi, she said the government has been constantly in touch with authorities in Colombo on a number of proposals, in particular on the cessation of hostilities, so as to enable all innocent people to move to safety zones.

Ms. Sonia Gandhi said the Congress has for nearly three decades espoused the cause of Tamils in Sri Lanka and has urged successive Sri Lankan governments to ensure that all communities, including the Tamil speaking people, were guaranteed and enjoy equal rights within the framework of a united Sri Lanka.

"I would like to assure you that our Prime Minister has spoken for us all in the Congress party in his letter to you where he enumerated the steps taken by the UPA government in relation to recent events in Sri Lanka," she added.

In his March 25 letter to Mr. Karunanidhi, Mr. Singh said the Sri Lankan President affirmed his commitment to bring about a devolution package "fully satisfying" the Tamils.

"We may wait and see what steps are being fully taken in this regard," he had said.

In her letter, Ms. Sonia Gandhi appreciated Mr. Karunanidhi's views and sentiments about the alliance between the Congress and the DMK. She expressed confidence that the alliance would do well in Lok Sabha polls.

"I am reassured that you are personally taking steps to see to the good performance of the alliance," she said.



Fernandes files nomination as independent
Patna (IANS): Veteran socialist leader George Fernandes, denied a ticket by the Janata Dal (United) ((JD(U)), on Wednesday filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate from Muzaffarpur constituency in Bihar, hours after he was reported to have taken ill.

Mr. Fernandes, 78, was accompanied by JD(U) MP Digvijay Singh, former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra, former MP Ram Jeevan Singh and dozens of other socialist leaders. Besides, hundreds of his supporters were present when he filed the papers.

Mr. Fernandes had earlier said he would not fight as an independent but as a party candidate. He arrived in Patna on Tuesday from New Delhi and left soon for Muzaffarpur, 70 km from here.

The JD(U) denied him a nomination on the grounds of his "advancing years and failing health."

But Fernandes said some people were behind spreading rumours that he was not well and insisted he could contest elections. "It is a big lie, I am healthy," he said.

However, early on Wednesday, he was reported to be feeling weak.

"Fernandes was unwell last night, and when he got up he avoided his morning walk. He suffered a bad stomach and felt weak," Ram Jeevan Singh said.

The official JD(U) candidate from Muzaffarpur, Jai Prakash Nishad, is effectively facing a revolt within the party and from workers of alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party.



We won’t rock Congress: Amar Singh
Mar 31st, 2009 | By Elections2009 | Category: Interviews







Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh has come a long way since he became an unwanted guest at Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence after the election in 2004. He was instrumental in bailing out the UPA government in Parliament last year, after the Left parties withdrew support. By abandoning the Left and embracing the Congress, Mr. Singh has shown that there are indeed no permanent friends or foes in politics. He spoke to GARGI PARSAI about the 2009 elections.

In the last elections you did well, despite being isolated. What does it look like this time round?

Last time, the responsibility of pulling us into the mainstream was with the Left parties. You will be surprised to know that just to placate CPI(M) general secretary Harkishan Surjeet — who was peeved at our stand of not supporting Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister — our parliamentary board decided to abide by whatever he said. That’s why when he asked, I accompanied him to 10 Janpath [Ms. Gandhi’s residence]. The rest, as they say, is history. I expected the Left parties to stand up for us. But that did not happen.

The most formidable Third Front experiment was started by us in the form of the United National Progressive Alliance — a name given by AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa, for whom I have great admiration. I have found her to be very straight. She questioned the double role of the Left parties which, she said, were running the Congress-led Central government. She said they were also responsible for the formation of the DMK government in Tamil Nadu on the one hand, and had a proxy presence in the UNPA in the form of the SP, on the other. We sacrificed our relationship with Jayalalithaaji [then] for the sake of the Left. Today, the irony is that the Left parties and Jayalalithaaji are together [in the Third Front] and we are out. CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat cannot hold a normal conversation with me because I am in the company of the Congress.

Your party’s support to Kalyan Singh has caused heartburn among the Muslim community and in your own party.

Kalyan Singhji is not contesting the election on a SP ticket. He is going to become a great fertiliser for the eradication of BJP politics. Minus Kalyan Singh there is no BJP in Uttar Pradesh. With Ayodhya, Mathura and Kashi in Uttar Pradesh, the State has become the biggest laboratory for Hindutva. If the biggest propagator is going to discard the policy to join the politics of Mulayam Singh, it should be appreciated.

Is the UPA disintegrating with the failure of the Congress to strike pre-poll alliances in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh?

I don’t think so, because neither Lalu Prasad, Ram Vilas Paswan or Mulayam Singh has questioned the prime ministerial claim of Manmohan Singh. Not even Sharad Pawar. They are unhappy with the big-brotherly attitude of the Congress.

In our case, we are particularly unhappy with the interlocutors of the Congress. Despite her sincerity and commitment, Ms. Gandhi could not overrule the will and decision of her managers for working out a pre-poll alliance.

Is Mr. Mulayam Singh’s coming together with Mr. Lalu Prasad and Mr. Paswan a long-term strategy?

This will be a lethal and formidable combination in the two States with 120 seats. As far as we are concerned it is long-term. We are not talking about leadership issue or government-formation right now. But one thing is for sure — Laluji-Mulayamji and Paswanji have decided not to rock the boat of the Congress led by Sonia Gandhi.

What about the longevity of the Left-led Third Front?

I have my own doubts, because barring the Left parties, everybody in the Third Front has a dubious record as far as secularism is concerned. The only consistent secular parties are the Left parties, the SP and the Congress. Ironically, they are headed in different directions.

Who will the SP align with after the elections?

I don’t see any other party other than the Congress because Prakash Karatji, by aligning with [the Bahujan Samaj Party’s] Mayawati, has closed the door on us. Also, the relationship between the Congress and the Communist parties is very bad and has become worse because of the coalition between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress in West Bengal.

Under the circumstances, we don’t have any option but to be with the Congress.

What are the issues in this election?

The misrule of the Mayawati government, criminalisation of politics, corruption and the money-collection spree of the BSP. This is a big moral question and it’ll be difficult for the Left to justify it.

Because Mayawati is in power, the negativity created by her opponents will benefit only the SP as politics in U.P. has become bipolar.

http://blogs.thehindu.com/elections2009/?p=750



AIFB for joining government
Mar 22nd, 2009 | By Elections2009 | Category: West Bengal
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The All-India Forward Bloc wants its Left partners to join the government if the Third Front comes to power.

“We will not shirk from our responsibility as the Left parties have been instrumental in getting non-BJP and non-Congress parties together to forge a third alternative,” AIFB general secretary Debabrata Biswas told The Hindu here on Friday.

“We expect more to join us from both the NDA and the UPA,” Mr. Biswas said, shortly after releasing the party’s election manifesto.

“The Left parties will be announcing a joint programme on March 24 for the coming elections,” he said.

http://blogs.thehindu.com/elections2009/?p=300


Killer tornado stikes Orissa third time in 30 years
Bhubaneswar (PTI): The killer tornado which ripped through Kendrapara district in Orissa on Tuesday was the third such tornado in the state during last 30 years, official sources said on Wednesday.

The first such incident had claimed as many as 150 lives in Keonjhar district on April 10, 1978.

The second incident was reported on March 24, 1998 where as many as 160 people both from Orissa and West Bengal died in a tornado. Jajeshwar area in Orissa's Balasore district bordering West Bengal was ravaged in the storm.

The latest tornado in Kendrapara district last evening claimed 10 lives leaving over 150 injured.

At least four persons, including a pregnant woman along with a child, died in a similar storm three days ago in Dhenkanal district, but the administration was yet to confirm whether it was due to tornado.

"Though India as a country was not prone to tornado, such incidents take place ocassionally", OFIMD director at Bhubaneswar Sarat Sahu said.

According to Sahu, climate in Orissa's Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj districts were conducive for tornado like calamities.

In other parts of the country, a tornado had killed 139 people in northwest Assam on April 19, 1963 and 28 died in Delhi on March 17/18 in 1978.

AfPak not a responsibility of us alone: U.S.
Washington (PTI): Solving the problem of terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan is the responsibility of the entire world community and not the United States alone, a senior Obama administration official has said.

"There's a genuine recognition that this region and these countries are not simply a concern of just the United States, but instead a concern of the world," White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said on Board Air Force One en-route to London.

Similar statements, in this regard, were made by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at The Hague during the international meeting on Afghanistan.

"The Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) was pleased with what she heard in public and in private about commitments to resolving the concerns that we have in this region of the world," he said.

"We all recognise the need to support the people of Afghanistan as they build up their security services, strengthen their economy and institutions, and work with their neighbors to build a safer region," Ms. Clinton had told reporters at The Hague.

Mr. Gibbs said The Hague conference has brought the world together on a platform on this issue.

"As you know, the President committed at the beginning of his administration to reviewing our policy — not simply as one that relates to Afghanistan or one that relates to Pakistan, but one that relates to the region as the whole," he said.



UPA policy on terrorism, Pakistan 'deeply flawed': Advani

Bhubaneswar (IANS): The Congress-led central government's policy on terrorism was "deeply flawed", Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani said here Wednesday while expressing "shock" at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement about India and Pakistan jointly fighting terrorism.

"I am shocked by the statement by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh reiterating his earlier stand that India and Pakistan should jointly fight the menace of terrorism," the BJP's prime ministerial candidate told reporters.

He was responding to Manmohan Singh's remark Tuesday on the sidelines of the civil investiture ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan. "I have always said that India and Pakistan have to face jointly the scourge of terrorism," the prime minister had said while expressing his sympathies to Pakistan over the terror attack on a police academy near Lahore.

"This statement echoes Dr. Singh's stand adopted after his meeting with the former Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf in Havana in September 2006 that India and Pakistan should establish a joint anti-terror mechanism," Advani, who is here on a two-day campaign tour, said.

"I had personally questioned the rationale of India joining hands with a country whose government had refused to fulfill its 2004 commitment to dismantle the anti-India terror infrastructure on its territory."

"The fact that Pakistan itself has been the victim of home grown terrorist incidents cannot be an argument in favour of an India-Pak joint mechanism to fight terrorism," Advani said, describing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's policy on fighting terrorism as "deeply flawed".

Pakistan, he said, had created a Frankenstein that its rulers in Islamabad were unwilling to vanquish because they know it can be used in their proxy war against India.

"Another proof of the Congress-led UPA government's flawed policy towards Pakistan was the prime minister's shocking statement in October 2008 that he wanted to see the border between India and Pakistan become irrelevant."

"Our country has paid a heavy price because of the UPA government's wrong neighbourhood policy, made worse by the Congress party's policies of minorityism at home," the BJP leader added.

Advani, who landed here Tuesday, addressed several poll rallies in western Orissa soon after his arrival and is scheduled to address several meetings on Wednesday as well. This is his first trip to the state after the BJP's 11-year coalition with Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) collapsed last month.

Orissa will go to the polls in two phases on April 16 and April 23 to elect 147 members to the state assembly and 21 members to the Lok Sabha. The BJP has announced it will contest all Lok Sabha and assembly seats alone


Atmosphere in Assam not conducive for fair poll: AGP, BJP
Guwahati (PTI): AGP-BJP combine on Wednesday accused the ruling Congress in Assam of vitiating the atmosphere in the state making it "non conducive for free and fair Lok Sabha elections".

"There is total breakdown of law and order with incidents of bomb blasts in the capital city Guwahati. The atmosphere is not conducive for free and fair poll," spokesmen Atul Bora (junior)(AGP) and Pradeep Thakuria (BJP) told reporters here.

"The blast yesterday (Tuesday) took place minutes before External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee addressed an election meeting in the city which shows there is no semblance of law and order," they claimed.

The government, they said, was "intentionally trying to vitiate the atmosphere to ensure that free and fair poll does not take place," the leaders alleged.

The two parties were also critical of the Congress for not including the Bangladeshi infiltration issue in its manifesto.

"Mukherjee himself has admitted that the issue was not reflected in the manifesto. The Congress has done this in the fear of losing the support of the minority community, most of whom are infiltrators from Bangladesh," they alleged.

Ration card as ID proof: EC decision in two days
Mumbai (PTI): The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesdaysaid it would decide within two days whether a voter can use ration card as identity proof for casting vote in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

It said the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and Health Insurance cards could be used to prove the voter's identity this time, in addition to other ID cards which are now used for the purpose.

Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi, who is here to review poll preparation in Maharashtra, discussed the ration card issue with the State officials.

"We will have to review the issue. It (ration card) does not have photograph, so it could be objectionable. We will sort it out in two days," Mr. Quraishi told reporters here.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray had met the State Chief Electoral Officer last month, demanding that ration card must not be used as identity proof for polling as the document does not have a photograph of the holder.


Orkut, Facebook, MP3 format-- Delhi BJP to try it all
New Delhi (PTI): Don't be surprised if the next call on your cell phone is from your area candidate or you come across a very catchy ring tone promoting BJP with the IT cell of the Delhi unit of the party coming out with a blue print to extensively use hi-technology to its advantage.

Value added services on mobile phones such as SMS and e-mail campaigns, blogs, conversion of all the promotional songs into MP3 format and using social networking sites- Facebook and Orkut- are some of the methods to be used in the campaigning for Lok Sabha polls next month, according to the blue print.

Convenor of IT cell Vivek Goel said "almost all the seven constituencies in the capital have substantial number of young voters and the party plans to use the high technology to best of its advantage to get them."

"The use of e-mail, webcasts, SMS, MMS, blogs and social networking sites will help us connect with the young voters and we are encouraging our candidates to use these mediums," Goel told PTI.

He said IT cell is also encouraging candidates to create their websites and blogs through which they will be able to communicate with the media as well as net-savvy citizens.

The party also plans to use the interactive voice response or IVR which is a computerised phone system that enables a telephone caller to get answers to standard inquiries through automated process.

As per the plan, the party will also seek to use bluetooth technology through which voters can receive contents such as video clips, music and other information on their mobile phones.

The IT cell also plans to convert all the promotional songs into MP3 format and upload them on websites of party leaders.

Mr. Goel said the party will also launch an SMS campaign which will be divided into four phases. "SMS campaign remains a major communications opportunity and we will use it to the hilt." He said the party may also use the voice SMS also for the campaign.

At the national level also, the BJP is trying to exploit the cyber space to a great extent as it is using Google's AdWords and AdSense to promote the party on more than 30,000 websites and blogs.

The Congress is also not far behind as it also plans to use Google technologies for advertisements on various popular websites.

BJP had launched a web campaign "Advani for PM" recently, spread over 2,000 websites worldwide.



Mulayam says he is not in race for PM's post
Gorakhpur (UP) (PTI): Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has said he is not in the race for prime minister's post, but his aim is to form a "secular" government at the Centre.

He said for this reason only his party had supported the Congress on nuclear deal issue.

"The post of the Prime Minister or a union minister is not important for me than forming a secular government at the Centre. I am not in the race for the Prime Minister's post," Yadav said.

Addressing public meetings in Majhgawan (Bansgaon constituency) and Pipigunj (Gorakhpur constituency) from where Sharda Devi and Bhojpuri actor Manoj Tiwari are contesting the polls respectively on SP tickets, he lashed out against what he called the BSP's "caste-based politics" and BJP's "attempt to divide" the country on communal lines.

Yadav said on Tuesday that the SP had spared key constituencies for Congress as a "goodwill" gesture.

He asked the people to vote for a non-BSP, non-BJP Government at the Centre





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The UPA is the frontrunner but none of the contending fronts has a easy route to power, says Yogendra Yadav

















Both the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) appear to have missed their best chance to form the government. The UPA is still the frontrunner, and has more than one complicated route open to it; the NDA has, if it is lucky, only one rather narrow route. And, a Third Front government now looks the second most probable outcome of the Lok Sabha race.

These are the findings of a nationwide AC Nielsen pre-poll survey of some 50,000 voters spread across most of the States, released by Star News (as reported in the programme though the methodological details were not available). The sample size and the credible track record of the professional agency require that we take this barometer seriously. These findings need to be interpreted with those of an earlier nationwide survey released by CNN-IBN. That survey, conducted by the CSDS, had a smaller but more randomized sample spread over 23 States. (I should mention here that I am with the CSDS and have no relationship with AC Nielsen.)

But, first a clarification. Of late, we have seen sharp erosion in public confidence in poll surveys, largely because they were used to do more than they could. Yet, the fact remains that carefully conducted professional sample surveys remain the best guide to trends and patterns about voter preference. The problem isn’t that pollsters lack knowledge; it’s just that pollsters don’t know what they don’t know. Polls are the best guide to the direction in which the electoral wind is blowing. They are not always very reliable in forecasting the exact number of seats.

The overall picture of the voters’ mood and the Statewise trends in both these surveys are not too dissimilar. The AC Nielsen survey projected 257 seats for the UPA (227 seats excluding the SP), 185 for the NDA and 96 for the Third Front in the second week of March (when the survey was carried out). The CSDS survey found the UPA was 7 percentage points ahead of the NDA in terms of its vote share (36 per cent as against 29 per cent) in mid-January. When these Statewise vote shares were converted into seats by statistician Professor Rajeeva Karandikar, he projected 215-235 for the UPA, 165-185 for the NDA and 12-150 for the others — (including the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Left, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).











An easy way of keeping tabs on how the States stack up is to think of them as blocs or baskets. First of all, there is the northwestern bloc (Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Chandigarh). The small gains and losses for the two major alliances (gains for the Congress in Punjab vs. losses in Haryana; possible gains in Uttaranchal vs. possible losses in Himachal Pradesh) are likely to cancel each other out in this group.

Similarly, the 76-seat basket in the West (Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and two Union Territories) is also balanced: possible gains for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat are likely to be evened out by small losses in Maharashtra.

In this election, one could also think of the three BJP-ruled States of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh as another basket. The BJP is likely to do very well here, but there is not much scope to improve on 2004: small gains in Karnataka are likely to be offset by minor losses in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

The fourth basket would include Jharkhand and Assam (plus the northeastern hill States) where the NDA can make significant gains. This could, however, be wiped out in Orissa. These four baskets together account for about half of the Lok Sabha seats. They will no doubt see some ups and downs but all these changes are likely to cancel one another.

That leaves us with seven 3D (double-digit damage) States: Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Each of these States can lead to a net gain or loss or more than 10 seats for any of the major players compared 2004. Although one can guess in which way the electoral wind will blow, it is as yet difficult to estimate the exact gains and losses in these States. The real battle for power in the next seven weeks will be fought in the 286 seats of these seven States.

The UPA’s safest route to power would have been an alliance with the SP in Uttar Pradesh and a bid to maximise its gains from Kerala, West Bengal and Rajasthan in such a way as to balance its losses in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. The Congress and its pre-poll allies could then have hoped for a combined tally of around 250, thus bringing them within striking distance of a majority. But the failure of alliance talks in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have put paid to that. Similarly, the Orissa fiasco for the NDA appears to have put paid to its best chance of improving upon its 2004 tally of 189 and a fresh NDA-led government.

The best that the UPA can now do is to ensure that its losses in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are limited and made up by gains in Kerala, Rajasthan and West Bengal. If the RJD-LJP combine in Bihar and SP in Uttar Pradesh retains a decent share of seats, that provides one possible path to the UPA to forge a majority. Otherwise, it has to go back to the Left or look for new allies like the AIADMK and JD (U).

The NDA has only one very narrow path to power. It must try for a net gain among the four balanced baskets, try to maximise gains in Bihar, cut its losses in Rajasthan and simultaneously hope that its ex-allies do well in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and that they join to it after the elections. Compared to these, the ‘third front’ scenario appears less implausible. Many conditions would need to be fulfilled if the Third Front were to occupy the driver’s seat. The SP and the RJD-LJP combine should support it; AIADMK and the TDP must do well; and Left must notch up around 40 seats.

All in all, there is no straight and easy route to power. But this was never going to be that kind of an election.

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