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The BJP on Wednesday backed anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare’s right to peaceful protest and tore into Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s statement over Hazare’s arrest. The BJP said that UPA government’s restrictions on public protests were unheard of even during the British period and demanded bold decisions to tackle corruption. Terming the statement as disappointing and [...]
On the backfoot over the arrest of Anna Hazare and his supporters, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed Parliament on Wednesday and justified the police crackdown on the anti-corruption crusader. He first addressed the Lok Sabha first at 11 AM and the Rajya Sabha soon afterwards. “It’s my painful duty to report to this house certain [...]
Team Asthra Expresses solidarity for Anna Hazare fast unto death from August 16th at New Delhi
Academics, advocates and leaders of various political parties have come together in support of social worker Anna Hazare who has been on fast demanding a legislation to check corruption. Leaders of various peoples’ organisations set up a tent at the Ambedkar statue and staged a demonstration, while some chose to undertake one-day fast expressing solidarity [...]
Citizens’ Ombudsman Bill or Jan Lokpal Vidheyak (in Hindi) is a proposed anti-corruption law designed to effectively nail out corruption, redress complaints and protect whistleblowers. According to designed bill made by some members of ‘India Against Corruption (IAC)’, a movement against corruption in the government’s bodies, “Jan Lokpal Bill” would work as an independent powerful [...]
Google Chrome is now the world’s third most popular web browser with one in five users preferring it. Google Chrome has also emerged as Britain’s second most popular web browser, edging Mozilla’s Firefox and nibbling at Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the current leader. Chrome accounted for 22 percent of the British web market, compared to 45 [...]
Academics and research scholars of Scheduled Tribe demand that the Central government establish the proposed Tribal University in Telangana region as it has more percentage of tribal population. Telangana University Tribal Teachers Association (TUTTA) president Prof. A. Sitaram Naik in a statement said there were 70 lakh tribals in Andhra Pradesh and of which the [...]
Frustrated by the unilateral decisions being taken by Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhar Rao, prominent socialist politician, who fought for freedom during Nizam’s period Konda Lakshman Bapuji on Tuesday announced the formation of a new ‘Telangana Joint Action Committee.’ This new TJAC will fight for the cause of Telangana statehood, while taking the views [...]
Washington: In a bid to trump Microsoft’s Bing, Google will start to populate individual users’ search results with posts that have been shared publicly by their connections on Google+. The new feature, which works only when users are signed in to their Google accounts, aims to tailor results to individual tastes, the company said Friday. [...]
A sketch of Delhi’s Red Fort takes guard on the Google home page on the occasion of 15 August 2011, India’s 65th Independence Day. The Red Fort has an important place in the history of Delhi and that of India. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, the fort was built in 1648 during [...]