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Freedom acquiring new meaning for thinking India
Published on 16 Aug, 2012 at 10:47 in India | Viewed 223 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Freedom as an idea is no longer what it was 65 years ago when India emerged from the shackles of British domination at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947. Today, it is an exercise in introspection on how much ground we have been able to cover towards being a sustainable, sovereign, fair, thinking and developed nation, as…
Team Anna to form ‘political alternative’
Published on 3 Aug, 2012 at 11:54 in India | Viewed 226 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare and his team announced Thursday they would call off their indefinite fast against corruption Friday evening and proposed forming a “political alternative” as an answer to an “unresponsive” government.
Making the announcement to thousands of flag-waving cheering supporters, Hazare said he and Team Anna, as members of his civil society followers are known, were calling…
Anna begins fast; demands passage of Jan Lokpal bill
Published on 30 Jul, 2012 at 11:36 in India | Viewed 167 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Septuagenarian social activist Anna Hazare began an indefinite fast against corruption here Sunday brushing away concerns about his health, saying people would not let him die till the Jan Lokpal bill for setting up an ombudsman was passed.
Hazare, 75, began his fast at 10.30 a.m. at the Jantar Mantar in the heart of the capital, very near to…
Thin crowds on second day of Team Anna fast
Published on 27 Jul, 2012 at 11:20 in India | Viewed 199 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Day two of Team Anna’s indefinite fast against corruption got off to a slow start Thursday with thin crowds and leaders of the movement missing in the morning hours.
Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi came to the fast venue Jantar Mantar only at 11 a.m., much to the disappointment of the people who had come to express solidarity with…
Anna returns with anti-graft protest
Published on 27 Mar, 2012 at 9:35 in India | Viewed 246 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Anna Hazare, on a day-long fast Sunday, set a 2014 deadline — when general elections are scheduled — for an all-powerful anti-corruption watchdog and threatened to launch a court arrest stir in August if the government doesn’t act against corrupt ministers.
A large gathering of his supporters — 2,000 according to police estimates — had converged at Jantar Mantar…
Anna set for fast, political class dubs him ‘impatient’
Published on 27 Dec, 2011 at 1:59 in India | Viewed 333 views times | No Comments
Mumbai/New Delhi: Anna Hazare Monday prepared to take on the UPA government over his insistence for a strong Lokpal with a three-day hunger strike in Mumbai starting Tuesday but he came under attack from the political class which dubbed him impatient and his protest premature.
The 74-year-old activist Monday evening reached Mumbai, ahead of his protest at the sprawling MMRDA ground.
Before…
No consensus at all-party meet on Lokpal bill
Published on 14 Dec, 2011 at 23:41 in India | Viewed 557 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: An all-party meeting called on late Wednesday to evolve a consensus on the Lokpal bill ended inconclusively, as Team Anna warned it might resume its protest campaign on December 27 either in Delhi or in Mumbai.
The ruling and the opposition parties failed to break the deadlock even after three hours of free and frank discussion, indicating major differences…
Anna gets Left, right support for strong Lokpal
Published on 12 Dec, 2011 at 0:45 in India | Viewed 327 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Leaders of various political parties on Sunday came out strongly in support of social activist Anna Hazare, who was on a day-long fast for a strong anti-corruption Lokpal that would include the Prime Minister and entire bureaucracy under its purview.
But the support to the 74-year-old anti-graft crusader, protesting in the heart of the capital, came with a word…
Anna Hazare denies rift in his team
Published on 18 Oct, 2011 at 4:00 in India | Viewed 435 views times | No Comments
New Delhi: Anna Hazare on Monday denied reports of a rift in his team and said it ‘will stand united’.
“Nothing will affect our integrity, neither the negative publicity doing rounds about Team Anna nor the factors trying to create a rift in our team. Team Anna will stand united and strive hard for implementation of the Jan Lokpal bill,” Hazare…
Anna Hazare issues ultimatum to Congress
Published on 5 Oct, 2011 at 0:42 in India | Viewed 2,008 views times | No Comments
Ralegan Siddhi: Anna Hazare yesterday said he would resume his movement for the Jan Lokpal bill with the Oct 13 by-election in Hisar in Haryana, where he would campaign against the Congress. He also hit out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for being ‘remote controlled’.
The Congress was quick to react. Law Minister Salman Khurshid said in New Delhi that citizens…
