Disgusting. The FBI today arrested Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Democrat) for among other things conspiring to sell or trade President Elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat. Power for $$? President-Elect Obama resigned his Senate seat on November 16 after his victory in the presidential elections. Under Illinois law, the state Governor has the authority to name another […]
The Saffron shade is fading in Rajasthan with the ruling BJP receiving a whipping in the state assembly elections while the Congress significantly increased its tally and will most likely form the next government. What went wrong? The BJP leadership is blaming its poor performance on the candidate selection. But what about governance of the state […]
The Government of India has named Rajiv Mathur the next Director of the Intelligence Bureau, the country’s inept domestic intelligence agency. Mathur, a 1972 batch IPS officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, is currently Special Director of the Intelligence Bureau. Mathur, a native of Agra, will replace P.C. Haldar on his retirement on December 31. Under Haldar’s […]
Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) is involved in the deadly terrorist strike on Mumbai, say news reports emanating from India in what could signal a retaliatory military strike on the Islamic nation by India. In a new story, the Times of India is reporting that: India has proof that the Inter Services Intelligence was involved […]
Why is Internet penetration in India so low? With 81 million Internet users, India accounts for a mere 6% of the 1.348 billion netizens in the world. There were only 13.5 million Internet subscribers in India in 2007 (1.15 per 100 inhabitants), according to the Internet Governance Forum. This means each Internet connection is shared […]
Our dodo-in-chief a.k.a. commander-in-chief and President Bush has dispatched that inept Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to India in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks. What for? Apparently, Rice (who once referred to her dodo-in-chief Bush as my husband) is visiting India ‘to express the condolences of the American government directly to the Indian […]