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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Lalu, Paswan deal Congress a bad hand

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After the BJP it’s the turn , of the Congress to be bullied around by its allies – first in Uttar Pradesh, then Maharashtra and now, on Tuesday Bihar. Its most trusted allies Lalu Prasad and Ram Vilas Paswan have cut a deal behind its back, giving it practically nothing.

Last week, the Biju Janata Dal had snapped ties with the BJP in Orissa and also pulled out of the NDA.

Bihar has 40 Lok Sabha seats. Prasad’s RJD will contest 25 of them and Paswan’s LJP 12, according to their announcement. They left the remaining three for the Congress, without so much as consulting it, laying bare cracks in the ruling UPA.

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Meltdown trickles down

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In an indicator of how the shock from Wall Street is travelling to the heart of rural India, thousands of skilled workers in two small towns, one in Uttar Pradesh and one in Haryana, have been laid off after orders from their global markets — mostly in the US and Europe — dried up this month.

In Moradabad, 167 km from Delhi, artisans adept at the centuries-old art of crafting brassware for European and American showrooms are pulling cycle rickshaws and selling fruit as trade unions report a loss of 25,000 jobs.

Panipat, from where rugs, bedsheets, and other textiles wind up in US stores like WalMart or Sweden’s Ikea, has weavers migrating or working at jobs that now pay 1/18th of what they did.

Moradabad’s biggest exporter, C L Gupta Exports Ltd, is reporting no orders of any significance this month.

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Friday, October 3, 2008

Black bands mark a sombre Eid

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Azamgarh is angry and in mourning. This Eid, black bands have replaced new clothes and grim faces of men, and even children, replaced joyous greetings and hugs.

Women in this Uttar Pradesh town - known for its alleged links to mafia dons and now terrorists - are not pleasantly busy this year, preparing sewaiyan and biryani and kebabs. For, friends won't come visiting this year.

The townsmen declared earlier that Eid would not be celebrated this year in protest against the killing of two local boys Atif Amin and Mohammad Sajid by Delhi Police in Jamia Nagar on September 19 and arrests of several others as suspected activists of the Indian Mujahideen, which claimed responsibility for the recent serial blasts, including the one in Delhi.

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Monday, September 1, 2008

Wrestler puts his medals on auction

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Even as the country celebrates wrestler Sushil Kumar's bronze medal at Beijing, grappler Shokinder Tomar on Sunday put up his Arjuna Award and Commonwealth Games medals for auction.

Medals in hand, Shokinder - who bagged a silver at the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games and received the Arjuna in 2004 - led a procession in his hometown, Malakpur village in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, demanding that the medals be auctioned to buy wrestling mats and for land to build a stadium.

The procession had over 100 wrestlers, including woman wrestler Anshu Tomar and Shyam Singh, father of Rajiv Tomar, who competed at Beijing.

Shokinder told HT it was not a publicity stunt.

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Under attack

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Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan is fending off attacks from several quarters even as the star gets ready to launch his website. And a series of virulent attacks, including one from the man credited with dialogues that many would say made Bachchan's baritone worth all the claps and cheers, has forced the Big B online to come out fighting.

Salim Khan, who wrote lines for Deewar and Sholay, is the latest to attack the superstar. This week, Salim came out saying that Bachchan had the habit of relying on people for help in desperate times, but that the actor "conveniently forgets" the same people in happier times. Khan commented that Big B had turned out to be very "money centric" and that his advertisement for Uttar Pradesh "says it all".

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