BJP Dream team 2010 – Focus on Urban Upper caste, youth and women electorate

BJP President Nitin Gadkari announced his new team for the BJP. Although sources say the leaders selected by Gadkari are not the Dream Team of the BJP's parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). The composition is primarily addressing the core vote bank of BJP that Congress has attracted through Rahul Gandhi’s urban youth appeal.  Secondly, BJP is going back to its traditional favorite section of upper caste and backward consolidation keeping in view the limited scope of attracting certain backwards classes like Yadav’s and Schedule caste community due to overwhelming presence of Mulayam / Laloo Yadav and Mayawati leadership in respective domain.  BJP is focused on getting the basics right by addressing the core segment to consolidate itself in the Hindi heartland rather than letting Congress to strengthen further with Rahul’s charisma.  

The Manmohan Singh government declared that it will pursue a policy of "zero-tolerance" towards terrorism from whatever source it originates and seek to reshape relationship with Pakistan. Outlining 10 broad areas of priority for the next five years, President Patil said in her address to the joint session of Parliament that internal security and preservation of communal harmony and stepping up of economic growth and agriculture, manufacturing and services would be among those.

By Arvind Lavakare

Hang your heads in shame, my countrymen. Do it because a dozen-odd terrorists traveled 500 nautical miles of the Arabian sea from Karachi to Mumbai’s Gateway of India, just opposite the grandiose Taj Mahal Hotel and proceeded to humble the city of 16.4 million into utter helpless ness for over 48 hours even as over 125 civilians and some distinguished professional security men lost their lives to the hand grenades and rifle bullets of a fanatical mindset. It was a humiliation worse than the drubbing the Chinese army gave us in 1961.

28 Nov 2008: The November 2008 deadly terrorist assault (ABC News) on Mumbai's hotel district and a spate of bomb attacks (BBC) across India's cities the same year have claimed hundreds of lives and once again raised questions about India's vulnerability to terrorism.

New Delhi, June 2 (PTI) India today slammed Pakistan over the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, the prime accused in the Mumbai attack, saying it demonstrates Islamabad's lack of seriousness in its commitment to bring to justice the perpetrators of the carnage. "It is a commentary on the commitment of Pakistan to investigate the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack," Home Minister P Chidambaram said here while reacting to Saeed's release from detention in Lahore.

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Oct 22 (IANS) With a perfect liftoff, India's first spacecraft to the moon entered its scheduled orbit early Wednesday, placing the country in a select group of six. The US, former Soviet Union, European Space Agency, China and Japan have sent spacecrafts to the moon earlier.

20 Jan 2008, New Delhi: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in India Sunday on a two-day state visit aimed at boosting economic ties and enhancing cooperation in a range of areas including education, counter-terrorism and climate change.

Brown, who reached New Delhi after visiting China, was accompanied by a large business delegation and planned to focus on talks to increase trade and investment with India, officials said.

27 April 2007, New Delhi: According to a Credit Suisse report, Indian GDP at the current price level of the rupee (Rs 40.76 per $) stands at $1trillion. The strengthening rupee has now made India the 12^th country to achieve this milestone.

With the Rupee appreciating to below 41 against the US dollar on Wednesday, it was the first day for the economy to be a trillion-dollar economy.

25 Jan 2007, NEW DELHI, India  -- Hindi Russi Bhai Bhai, but the dynamics have changed. It is no more an emotional appeal, as the two countries have started realising that economic relations are now far more important to build strong and lasting relationship. Russian President is very clear in his approach of dealing with this sensitive issue. Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to build four new nuclear reactors for energy starved India on Thursday, cementing his country's traditional role as India's main nuclear benefactor.

 
 
Wednesday, 08 November , 2006. 
 
New Delhi: NRI students have always faced discrimination in India where education was concerned. There are huge disparities in fee structures in private professional colleges—overseas students oftentimes have to pay five times more than the general category.

However, there is hope of justice. According to Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, India will take the necessary steps to extend affordable education for NRI students.

”We want to make education in India affordable for our overseas students,” Ravi said at the two-day Economic Editors' Conference that began Tuesday in New Delhi.