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Monday, November 9, 2009

BJP claims Karnataka crisis over

IE Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has earned a reprieve when party dissidents Janardhana Reddy and B Sriramulu, after days of fighting in the open, appeared along with him in a show of unity at the residence of BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, and later at the residence of L K Advani.

R R Patil is Home Minister, Ajit gets Power

PTI A year after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, R R Patil is back in the saddle as Maharashtra Home Minister. NCP chief Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar would handle Power portfolio, in addition to the Water Resources Ministry he handled earlier.

Maoists kill four EFR jawans in WB

PTI Four EFR jawans were killed in a surprise assault by Maoists in the Jhargram sub-division of West Midnapore district, barely hours after Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee left after a two-day visit to the violence-scarred district.

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Maoists gun down four jawans
Maoists today shot dead four paramilitary personnel in West Midnapore's Gidhni on the Jharkhand border, hours after the chief minister vowed to run the rebels out of the state at a rally 110km from the spot. ...  | Read.. 
 
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Swami who surfs
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Jharkhand, a victim of a fragmented polity, braces up again for a multi-cornered contest in 81 seats, making the Assembly elections, slated to start from November 25, unp ...  | Read.. 

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Congress -NCP alliance in

Maharashtra and the postponed cabinet expansion in Haryana? The capture of power by pelf. Politics has become alienated from its basic function of mediating between the people and the state to advance the public good, and been reduced to increasing the wealth of the people's representatives who get to wield power.

The piteous sight of not just
veteran politician and Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa but also the top leadership of the BJP buckling under the money power of the Bellary mining magnates shows the extent of deterioration. It would be a mistake to think the malaise affects only the BJP. The tussle between the NCP and the Congress over ministerial berths, and the one in Haryana, hardly derive from any passion to serve the people.

The social justice champions' assets disproportionate to their known means of
income, the Madhu Kodas and spectrum Rajas are all symptoms of the same disease: perversion of democracy to rule of the people by the moneyed for money. Power is used to prey upon the citizenry and to sell patronage. This is how politicians amass money. And the system has come about from an idyllic notion of politics, that it doesn't require much money, that ideals light up the path while passion fuels the process.

This simpleminded assessment of politics might have been valid for the Congress during the freedom struggle and the Communists before they acquired a bourgeois taste for power. Politics in the real world needs funding. And this funding must have an institutional basis. In the absence of an institutional source of funding, diverting funds from the exchequer, predatory practices and patronage have become routine forms of moibilising funds for political parties.

Politicians do the mobilising and keep a good part of what they collect to themselves. In the process, they also suborn the bureaucracy, without whose collusion neither predation nor patronage can work.
Political funding has to change. Funding must become broadbased, state-aided and transparent. Auditing of political party
accounts must cease to be cursory. We need reform, and need it fast.
 

Dark clouds over Indian economy lifting

 

 

Mon, Nov 9 06:22 AM

With the growth in industrial production moving northwards and the contraction in exports declining, the "dark clouds" over the Indian economy were disappearing, commerce minister Anand Sharma said on Sunday. Indian exports contracted 14% in September, the least in the first six months of the current financial year, while the Index of Industrial Production grew at a double digit rate of 10.4%, the most in two years.

Commenting on the current state of the Indian trade and investment scenario at the India Economic Summit, Sharma said, "The dark clouds over the economy are parting, and we can see some blue sky".
He, however, added a word of caution on the "turn around" seen in the economy. "It's only in the months to come that one can comment whether or not this turnaround is adequate. Especially, the last quarter of 2009-10 and the first quarter of the current financial year would be crucial for determination."
Mentioning that there is no proposal to have a re-look at the sectoral FDI caps, Sharma said rationalisation of the investment policies will be carried out. "We are also mindful that when we look at FDI, there has to be a uniformity and rationalisation across the board, throughout the country. All state industrial ministers would meet on November 17. We want all the states to take on board the need of transparency and rationalisation, simplification and predictability of approvals.
Sharma also vouched for increased role of India in United Nations, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as the country is increasing its engagement with the world economy.
  http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20091109/1238/tbs-dark-clouds-over-indian-economy-lift.html
 
 
 

Free market flawed, says survey

By James Robbins
Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News

The Berlin Wall comes down, 10 Nov 1989
The fall of the wall looked like a crushing victory for capitalism

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.

In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well.
Most thought regulation and reform of the capitalist system were necessary.
There were also sharp divisions around the world on whether the end of the Soviet Union was a good thing.
Economic regulation
In 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell, it was a victory for ordinary people across Eastern and Central Europe.
It also looked at the time like a crushing victory for free-market capitalism.
A Frankfurt stock trader, Oct 2008
A Frankfurt trader tries to deal during the 2008 banking crisis
Twenty years on, this new global poll suggests confidence in free markets has taken heavy blows from the past 12 months of financial and economic crisis.
More than 29,000 people in 27 countries were questioned. In only two countries, the United States and Pakistan, did more than one in five people feel that capitalism works well as it stands.
Almost a quarter - 23% of those who responded - feel it is fatally flawed. That is the view of 43% in France, 38% in Mexico and 35% in Brazil.
And there is very strong support around the world for governments to distribute wealth more evenly. That is backed by majorities in 22 of the 27 countries.
If there is one issue where a global consensus seems to emerge from the survey it is this: there are majorities almost everywhere wanting government to be more active in regulating business.
It is only in Turkey that a majority want less government regulation.
Opinion about the disintegration of the Soviet Union is sharply divided.
Europeans overwhelmingly say it was a good thing: 79% in Germany, 76% in Britain and 74% in France feel that way.
But outside the developed West it is a different picture. Almost seven in 10 Egyptians say the end of the Soviet Union was a bad thing and views are sharply divided in India, Kenya and Indonesia.

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