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Why don't you reply to the points he raised instead of labeling people. This has become a bad habit on this forum' date=' just labeling people. It is one sure sign of having no points oneself[/quote'] What to say about that article? The writer has built up elaborate assumptions out of little evidence and then proceeded to criticize those, I was really :WTF: after reading the below:
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Outnumbering doesn't mean a better government. In this case it might be' date=' not it doesn't necessarily mean better.[/quote'] Better is a relative term. We can only compare with the last government or how the previous governments performed in the first 45 days in Indian History. If we are going to minutely analyze each and every move of Indian government and post every Tom, Dick article as to how bad this government is, even the best of Administrators in this world can be proved bad. The over criticism of UPA started after 2010 ie after they ruled us for 8 years, here we are not giving this government even 8 months. Lets have patience, let us see the results in few years for now I am seeing few positives like Babus and buerocrats have started working, files are moving fast, new infra projects are coming, their is a sense of positiveness again about India in Western world. Hell even irctc is now started working better :cantstop:. But seriously we need a good opposition to keep a check, till the time Modi is controlling the government I think we are good the moment these BJP 2nd grade will come we will be back to upa 2.
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New Delhi: Residents of Delhi, who have been battling frequent power cuts, will now have to pay more for electricity. The three distribution companies or Discoms that supply power to the capital have been allowed to raise power tariff by 8.32 per cent.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/delhi-residents-will-now-have-to-pay-more-for-power-560213?pfrom=home-lateststories June 28, 2012 xiOPkOG7aCs
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The Fragile Five have become the Fantastic Five. Just six months after fears of an emerging-market meltdown rattled world markets, stocks and bonds in the so-called Fragile Five economies - Turkey, India, Indonesia, Brazil and, to a lesser extent, South Africa - have become the primary targets for yield-hungry global investors. According to research from Merrill Lynch, almost all of those countries are among the 10 best-performing assets so far this year. Indonesia, for instance, ranks No. 1, with a return of 30 percent, while Turkey follows at No. 2 with a return of 25 percent. India had a 20.4 percent return, making it in the top 5, and Brazil returned a solid 15.2 percent so far. The laggard fifth member of the club, South Africa, did not crack the top 10 but offered a still respectable showing, with its stock market up 10 percent for the year. All told, not a bad half-year report card for a group of countries that, because of their volatile currencies, low levels of growth and political uncertainty, were not long ago seen as a threat to the global economy. There have been positive developments in all the Fragile Five economies, but the real factor behind these surging markets has been the continuing environment of super loose money. Interest rates in all the major markets, save for Britain, are edging toward zero, and assets at hedge funds and broader money management firms are hitting new highs. More than ever, institutional investors are facing pressure to reach for yield and discount risk, and the result has been a sustained flow of cash into these markets. "Investors' risk appetite remains buoyant and has supported flows into emerging markets over the last several months," Charles Collyns, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, said in a recent report on flows into emerging markets. But, he added, these flows could easily reverse if interest rates here and in other markets start to increase. Emerging-market stock and bond markets tend to be illiquid, which means that is does not take a lot of money to send a local bond or stock soaring. They have not been the only high risk markets attracting global money. According to the same Merrill Lynch report, Greek government bonds, which just two years ago suffered a substantial haircut, are up 67 percent over the past year, the No. 1 return of all assets tracked by Merrill. Not that Greece's debt profile has improved all that much: Its debt as a proportion of its overall economy is 175 percent, which trails only Japan among the most indebted countries in the world. As has been the trend for most of the past year, bond investors have been leading the way with flows of more than $120 billion into emerging markets since January, according to the Institute of International Finance. Equity flows have been around $40 billion since then, data from the institute show. According to eVestment, a fund tracker, hedge funds in particular have been increasing their allocations to these markets. To be sure, the soaring stock and bond markets reflect genuine political and economic progress in these countries. Leading the way have been election results in Indonesia and India, where new political leaders with dynamic reform agendas defeated old guard elites. India in particular has been swept up in the euphoria surrounding its new prime minister, Narendra Modi, and many investors have, as a result, poured money into India in the hope that Modi recharges India's sclerotic economy. In Turkey and Brazil, overall change has been more measured especially in terms of politics. But in both cases, investors have become more accepting of the risks that the countries still present: stagnant growth, high levels of private debt and stubbornly high inflation rates. © 2014, The New York Times News Service
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CBI does a U-turn on Subramanium

Subramanium_2010212f.jpg After apparently giving a negative report on Gopal Subramanium’s elevation as a Supreme Court judge just days ago, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday did a U-turn to say that it’s now eager to have him as its Special Prosecutor in the coal blocks allocation scam trial. The agency’s turnaround comes days after reports by it and the Intelligence Bureau led the government to reject Mr. Subramanium’s appointment as a Supreme Court judge. The rejection had led to Mr. Subramanium opting out of the race, saying it is the best thing to do to “uphold my self-respect and dignity”. On Friday, Mr. Subramanium’s name came up during a hearing of a Special Bench led by Chief Justice of India R.M. Lodha on the coal scam. The hearing revolved around the importance of appointing a person with “impeccable dignity, integrity and a fine legal mind” as Special Prosecutor to conduct the trial in the coal scam cases. Prashant Bhushan, counsel for NGO Common Cause, handed over a list of four senior lawyers in which Mr. Subramanium’s name also featured. “If he (Subramanium) is agreeable, nothing like that,” CJI Lodha remarked.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cbi-does-a-uturn-on-subramanium/article6226155.ece
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When Rajnath spoke to diplomats in Hindi, no one understood, and all was well

Last week, in a moment of rare comedic genius that should be a scene in a Borat sort of movie, India’s home minister gave a speech to several India-focused committees at the UN, in New York, in Hindi, expecting arrangements were made for simultaneous translation for foreign dignitaries. None had been made because the arrangers of such things, i.e., Indian Foreign Service people, expected the speech, as most Indian political speeches are abroad, in English. English to Hindi translations are tricky at the best of times. Anyone watching a Bollywood movie on any airplane would know. There’s often the embarrassing moment when one is sitting next to an European or American person who is reading a subtitle like, “Oh girl, why you torment my heart so that it tears my tendons?” for a simple Hindi line like, “Tum pyar nahi karte ho mujh se?”, and he turns and looks to you with a “Are these people serious?” look. So what resulted when the minister carried on and the audience realised no one would translate were reactions ranging from a lot of nodding to outright befuddlement. However, these are graceful diplomats so everyone had to pretend like communication was happening. I’m sure they looked for pointers like a finger raised meant something important was being said, hand-cut-across gesture meant something was being denied, smirk meant something hilarious. One or two of them even had the gall to pretend to take notes. One even said afterwards, “There were several important issues raised in the speech. We will look into it.” It would perhaps be an even greater victory for world diplomacy if countries signed agreements and pacts based on a speech that they didn’t understand a word of. Odd as it was for the audience, it was probably odder for the hon’ble home minister to get off the podium to realise he wasn’t actually talking to the live audience he thought he’d floored with his ideas. He was talking at, but not to.
http://scroll.in/article/671087/When-Rajnath-spoke-to-diplomats-in-Hindi,-no-one-understood,-and-all-was-well India's foreign diplomats really are screwing up things - first it was Modi's stop at Berlin when it was obvious that Angela Merkel would be in Brazil watching the Final and now this.
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