Hindustan Times
If dereserving a plot meant for weaker sections of society in Karnataka and handing it over to your son is not illegal, just immoral, then, pray, why is the new Maharashtra government and the whole world going for former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s blood and that of his bureaucrats for assigning to themselves and various assorted members of their families prime flats in the Adarsh housing society in Bombay? Read more
(18 votes, average: 2.56 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Adarsh housing scam, Ashok Chavan, bjp, Islamic terrorists, karnataka, Karnataka Chief Minister Y S Yedyurappa, Karnataka Governer H R Bhardwaj, Maharashtra, Nitin Gadkari, Rahul Gandhi, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray
At the start of his first term in the job, Sharad Pawar was billed as the greatest agriculture minister India had ever had. Read more
(16 votes, average: 4.56 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 24, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Filed under India · Tagged agriculture minister, American continent, Congress, debt crisis, Europe, exports, food grains, Indian poultry, Maharashtra, NCP, onion prices, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sharad Pawar, tomatoes, Vidarbha
Nagpur, Maharashtra’s winter capital, was ever a season of intrigues. Governments have been rather wary of holding the winter session of the legislature in Nagpur (which has just concluded this season) because more often than not it leads to a shake-up of some sort or the other, fells governments or at least puts one or the other chief minister in the dock. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Adarsh scam, Ayodhya, Babri Masjid, Chhagan Bhujbal, Congress, Gadchiroli, Gowari tribals, legislature, Maharashtra, Maratha, Nagpur, Naxal attacks, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, stampede, Sudhakarrao Naik, winter session
I was a cub reporter in the mid-to-late Eighties when I learnt my first – and most enduring – lesson on telephone conversations. Read more
(23 votes, average: 2.22 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 10, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Filed under India · Tagged cub reporter, hhindustan times, Intelligence Officer, news, Niira Radia tapes, phone tappers, protocol, stringer
After much of the dust over the Niira Radia tapes has settled down, I am beginning to wonder what the fuss was all about to begin with. Read more
(35 votes, average: 2.17 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 2G scam, 2G spectrum scam, A Raja, hindustan times, IAS officer, indian politicians, Madhavrao Scindia, niira radia, political journalism, political journalists, radiagate, Union Telecom minister, Vir Sanghvi
