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Siddaramaiah stock rises amid Cauvery crisis

Edit The Hindu 23 Sep 2016
Through his tenure as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has often been accused of being “non-consultative”, even by his own party colleagues ... His meetings with the former Prime Minister H.D ... Mr. Krishna even offered a four-point formula to Mr. Siddaramaiah. BJP’s support ... Siddaramaiah as an outsider in the party and termed him a regional satrap, now have to rally behind him, especially those from the Old Mysuru region like Mr ... ....

Railways to maintain distinct identity, functional autonomy: Suresh Prabhu

Edit Deccan Chronicle 21 Sep 2016
New Delhi. There will be no separate rail budget as the government on Wednesday decided to end the 92-year-old practice by merging it with the general budget ... The decision to merge the railway budget with the general budget is significant as in recent years as political heavyweights, particularly regional satraps, have used this occasion to nurture their constituencies in a big way. ....

Why is Prajapati important to Samajwadi Party?

Edit The Hindu 18 Sep 2016
His sacking from the cabinet last Monday is said to have triggered the fresh bout of power struggle involving the top brass of the Samajwadi Party. His return within less than a week, authorized by the party supremo himself, was part of the deal brokered between sparring Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav ... As Mr ... After his sacking, Mr ... Prajapati does not boast the charisma or winnability of many other regional backward satraps....

Russian hacking of the US election is the most extreme case of how the internet is changing our politics

Edit The Guardian 18 Sep 2016
Ever since the internet went mainstream in the 1990s people wondered about how it would affect democratic politics ... What made his campaign distinctive was that he used the internet for fundraising ... Ironically, Trump himself started it with continual assertions that if he were defeated it would be because the election was “rigged” by “crooked Hillary” and her satraps – a proposition apparently believed by nearly half of his supporters ... ....

Young Turks may replace ageing stalwarts in Cong

Edit The Times of India 14 Sep 2016
Bhopal. With an ageing and ailing leadership in state Congress, 2018 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh could see fresh young faces being given some electoral responsibility. Congress has five major satraps - Digvijaya Singh, Kamal Nath, Suresh Pachauri, Jyotiraditya Scindia and former leader of Opposition Ajay Singh ... It is a fact that one has to accept." ... Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App ... RELATED. From around the web....

Lalu daughters blessed with sons

Edit The Times of India 08 Sep 2016
Patna. Yadav "satraps" of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar celebrated birth of baby boys to the two daughters of RJD boss Lalu Prasad, the eldest Misa Bharati and youngest Raj Laxmi, who is also granddaughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav, on Wednesday. Sources close to Lalu's family said party's Rajya Sabha MP Bharati delivered the boy at a private nursing home in New Delhi....

Asha Bhosle heralds her 83rd, like only she can

Edit DNA India 08 Sep 2016
--> Yogesh Pawar . Thu, 8 Sep 2016-11.20pm , Mumbai , dna. The songstress was felicitated at a special concert for her birthday ... Just like I';m feeling now.". The diva compared herself to a mountain brook which began her journey several decades ago ... Incidentally when NCP chief and Maratha satrap Sharad Pawar was asked which Asha Bhosle song came to mind when he and his wife Pratibha fought there was a moment of awkward silence ... ....

The 100-Year-Old Carve-Up Bleeding the Middle East Today

Edit The Daily Beast 04 Sep 2016
“Cease fires” come and go ... Thank You! ... Lawrence ... Sustaining the impression that British policy was not only of two minds but of at least two irreconcilable camps, the British High Commissioner in Egypt—in theory the ultimate colonial satrap of Egypt—instructed an aide to make clear to London that “We do not want to create a powerful and united Arab Kingdom either under the Sherif or anyone else, even if such a thing were practicable ... 1 ... ....

Return of the native

Edit The Hindu 03 Sep 2016
The cornerstone of Tamil commercial cinema has always been the B and C markets. Tamil cinema content, from the 60s to the late 90s, was tailor-made for this market—there were then more theatres in these centres than in urban areas ... Films were made to cater to the sensibilities of B (semi-urban) and C (rural) audiences ... ... Distribution was then controlled by regional satraps, who also financed films ... Says producer P ... Keywords....

One year on, has the world learned the lesson of the three-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach? By Robert Fisk

Edit Information Clearing House 03 Sep 2016
September 02, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "The Independent " -  The body of Aylan Kurdi has gone beyond the ‘iconic’ ... For burning Troy, read burning Aleppo ... Which brings us to the next, even vaster fleets of refugees who will trek from their homelands in the decades to come, victims of the ferocious Saddam-like autocrats and satraps whom we currently support in a different part of the Muslim world....

Civic body ill-equipped to manage Ganeshotsav waste, mandals aloof

Edit The Times of India 28 Aug 2016
Kolhapur. Authorities are taking a tough stand to keep the decibel low during the coming Ganeshotsav, but cracking the whip on the mandals littering the roads with the puja waste does not seem to be on their agenda ... But owing to some alleged pressure from local satraps and corporators, the civic officials hardly step forward to act against the errant mandals ... Every day, the city generates around 160 tonnes of waste ... RELATED....

‘U.P. campaign will be led by Congress bosses, not Prashant’

Edit The Hindu 20 Aug 2016
Congress leaders are helming the party’s planning for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, and not political strategist and campaign manager Prashant Kishor, asserted Dr. Sanjay Sinh, the Congress’ campaign chief for the crucial Assembly polls coming up next year. Mr ... Observers believe the party faces the tricky task of boosting the morale of its cadre while also sorting out the power games of its intra-state satraps....

Mantri shies away from meet over caste panel's 'activism'

Edit The Times of India 15 Aug 2016
NEW DELHI. Social justice minister Thawar Chand Gehlot has made a volte face on participating in the seminar being organised by the national OBC panel on issues concerning backward classes, in what reflects the Centre's discomfort with the panel's activism ... Backward satraps Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar had accused BJP of "not revealing the caste census" in the Bihar elec tions campaign to successfully limit its social appeal ... RELATED....
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