The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, April 12, 2009

GOVERNMENT

POLITICS: Election and economics
Amidst the dust and din of the great Indian general elections, the world’s largest democracy faces some key questions: what are the economic and market-related issues on which these elections are being fought? And how do various ...

POLITICS: Kerala Church makes a poll sermon
Thiruvananthapuram: Easter is the last Sunday before elections, the final one in a series of such occasions that the leaders of the powerful Catholic Church in Kerala have used recently to rally believers against the ruling ...

POLITICS: Battle for Bihar joined
Patna: The battle for Bihar hotted up on Friday with the two key political fronts — the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance and the Lalu Prasad-Ram Vilas Paswan group — holding rallies all over the ...

POLITICS: Shiv Sena focuses on terrorism, farmers
Mumbai: Terrorism and farmer suicides form the main issues of the Shiv Sena manifesto released on Friday by the party’s Working President, Mr Uddhav Thackeray. The party is fielding 22 candidates for the Lok Sabha ...

POLITICS: Election manifestos: In the hall of mirrors
When the Bharatiya Janata Party released its election manifesto, a leading Congress spokesperson told the press that the party would be unable to execute the promises it contained. For its part, the Congress did not deliver on its promises ...

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