A number of students and young people were arrested by the police for holding Kiss of Love protests in Calicut even as they were opposed by splinter right wing groups. On the face of it, there seemed to be 200 protesters in favor of Kiss of Love in Calicut, more than in Kochi. A smaller […]
Ask the majority of the supporters of AAP why they back the young political outfit and you’ll get answers that include words like change, positivity, progress, clean, liberal etc.. Most people who support the party do so for two reasons – 1) they are sick of the existing political set-up and parties, and 2) they […]
“Police detained the 50 protestors against moral policing, and only some got to lock lips on the way to police vans,” said the DNA Newspaper in its day-after story on the Kiss of Love event that happened in Kochi. The DNA article on Kiss of Love was titled “Under khakhi shadow, Kiss Day dies in […]
Liberals and conservatives faced off each other at the Marine Drive walkway at Kochi in Kerala over whether two people have the right to kiss each other in public. Things got violent at an event called Kiss of Love which was organized via Facebook after BJP’s student wing ransacked a restaurant alleging that a couple […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party is facing a problem of plenty in Maharashtra. But there is a reason why it’s called the problem of plenty – it’s still a problem. And Sharad Pawar, who it is believed was the person who incited the BJP to go it alone in the state, has thrown a googly by […]
Love Jihad may not bring the rosiest memories for the Bharatiya Janata Party, but some of its supporters are definitely in no mood ‘abandon’ the cause. Pramod Mutalik, chief of Sri Ramasene — the organisation that became famous for attacking women in a beer parlour in Mangalore — will address an “urgent press conference” on […]
The Catholic Church has written to Sonia Gandhi alleging that certain communities have “hijacked” the education sector in Kerala in what is seen as a direct attack on the Muslim League, a Congress partner that is in charge of the education department. The education sector in Kerala has traditionally been dominated by Christians, who run […]
To hear his well-wishers-turned-worriers, one would think it’s the end of Narendra Modi’s five year term, and he’s achieved nothing in it. Well-wishers tear at his conspicous “silence” on issues that make headlines every day, the absence of big bucks reforms in his government’s first budget, and his “fear” of making a clean break with […]
It must be one of the great ironies of Indian politics that it was a party known for its staunchly upper caste base that finally brought OBC wave to national politics. While many political observers have praised the BJP for “destroying the caste politics” of backward leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and dalit leader Kumari Mayawati, […]
BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi rose to the top of the TIME 100 chart on Monday after he got more than 5 lakh positive votes in a span of few hours. Modi, who had got around 50,000 yes votes from Friday to Sunday, got about 5-6 lakh yes votes starting from about 11 am […]
Just hours after he emerged as the most popular nominee from India, Aam Aadmi Party founder Arvind Kejriwal has beaten a slew of American celebrities to emerge as the candidate with the most ‘yes’ votes on Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in the world in 2014. UPDATE: TIME has rejected most of the votes […]
Is upstart political campaigner Arvind Kejriwal more popular than Narendra Modi, the larger-than-life prime ministerial candidate of the Bhartiya Janata Party? UPDATE: TIME has rejected most of the votes as fakes in its final tally, but maintained Kejriwal as the winner. It would seem so, at least from the initial indications on the poll to […]
Consulting firms that help political parties plan their campaign and media strategy are making around Rs 700-800 crore from the general elections, a study by industry body ASSOCHAM found. While releasing the ASSOCHAM paper on “LokSabha elections throw new biz opportunities” Mr. D S Rawat, Secretary General ASSOCHAM said, “the disaggregating of the poll data […]
Indicating the strong interest in the evolving scenario at the centre, polling got off to a strong start in Kerala, where nearly half of the population are Christian and Muslim. Nearly 14.3% of the registered voters have cast their ballots in the first two hours of voting, according to unofficial information from the election commission. […]
If elections were to be held on popular news websites like Firstpost.com, ZeeNews, Hindustan Times etc, the Bharatiya Janata Party would have a clean sweep – going by its total domination of the online comment space. According to an analysis of the top commenters on four of India’s top news websites, 61.4% of the top […]
With many TV channels deciding to “go easy” on covering the events of Aam Aadmi Party, the fledgling political outfit has taken to the Internet to take its live transmission of Arvind Kejriwal’s speech to its followers. Arvind Kejriwal is addressing Aam Aadmi supporters at Bangalore’s Freedom Park. He is expected to say whether he […]
The last two days have seen media barons pour scorn and outrage on Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party for suggesting that the media is corrupt. The Editors Guild, a kind of industry lobby, seemed to be shaken by Kejirwal’s statement that an inquiry would be ordered into corruption in media and guilty journalists […]
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal questioned the anti-corruption credentials of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, claiming that he found rampant corruption in Gujarat on his recent visit there. “I was shocked by the situation there. Not one job gets done there without bribes,” he said. Kejriwal said a lot of people are buying […]
The Aam Aadmi Party has clarified its stand on the subject of caste-based reservations in government jobs, saying it is in favor of abolishing reservations after social equality has been achieved. Kejriwal said the Aam Aadmi Party was not in favor of discontinuing reservations in the current circumstance as caste-based discrimination, untouchability and injustice are […]
The vote share of the Congress Party-led United Democratic Front will fall by 3% in the upcoming general elections 2014 in Kerala, while that of the Left Democratic Front will remain the same compared to 2009 – according to an opinion poll by Asianet News network and research firm C Fore. The Bhartiya Janata Party […]
