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ANDHRA PRADESH
Poll Pickles
From NTR Jr's nuisance
value to golden lures for
voters, from competition for
the MIM to doctored video
tapes of opposition
candidates, from tickets on April-06 2009
sale to squabbling allies, it's
all heating up in Andhra
Pradesh
VENUGOPAL PILLAI
Web | Mar 31, 2009 Regulars
OPINION
RAJINDER PURI
Will This Poll Jitender Gupta Delhi Diary
Change No salve: Gen Kapoor By Vinod Mehta
India? EXCLUSIVE: ARMED FORCES PAY PARITY
Making poll forecasts is a
hazardous exercise best left Nurse A Habit
to psephologists. Anything to keep rank. Service chiefs now have knives
Speculating on post-poll
politics is even dicier. And out for allied organisations.
yet, the critical phase of
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could be poised for a
paradigm shift. Operation Downgrade Polscape
Web | Mar 28, 2009
ELECTIONS 2009
M oney can be the great spoiler. The cliche has come to
life all over again as the recommendations of the sixth Pay
CHANDER SUTA DOGRA
Commission go through the usual share of debates, arguments
The Dera Vote Bank and reviews.
The Dera Sacha Sauda is
once again in the news. Its This is never more so fraught March 30, 2009
followers vote as a than among the troops, where
collective. In February 2007, "Why must officers the desire to corner more money Magazine Archive
Punjab assembly election who have never and status has seen at least two
the Dera supported the served adverse service chiefs trying to pull down Yearwise
Congress. Now, the Akalis postings get special 'sister' services in a bid to satisfy 2009 2008 2007 2006
are desperate to snatch the allowances?" bruised egos.
Dera votes. Radical Sikh 2005 2004 2003 2002
organizations are gunning 2001 2000 1999 1998
for Baba Gurmeet Ram Leading the pack is
1997 1996 1995
Rahim
army chief General Deepak Kapoor, who shot off a letter with
Web | Mar 27, 2009
detailed annexures to cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar
on June 20. The chief, instead of focusing on the needs of his
CRIME: SARAVANA BHAVAN men, delved on the need to downgrade the military nursing
Nemesis On His services (MNS). In his letter, a copy of which is with Outlook,
Kapoor argues that the effort of the pay commission to "equate
Platter the status of nurses" with "doctors will seriously impact on the
A restaurateur and his son functional relationship" between them. He went on to describe
sully with their crimes a the parity as a grave threat to the "command in military
success built with sweat
hospitals".
PUSHPA IYENGAR
Magazine | Apr 06, 2009
The essence of Kapoor's Click
burden was this: if Here
FOR THE RECORD nurses—who are also For
JUSTICE D.H. WAGHELA commissioned officers— Large Discount Shopping
The Gujarat High are considered on par with Image
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ELECTIONS '09
Mate Check
Trusted allies turn away,
making this a poll of glorious
uncertainty
SABA NAQVI
Magazine | Apr 06, 2009
BANGALORE BYTE
SUGATA
SRINIVASARAJU
The
Patriarchal
Presence
In the past, there was a
mass leader to work at the
grassroots, and a more
suave operator to network at
the national-level: Gowda- Navy chief's letter on the coast guard
Hegde, Karunanidhi-Maran,
Moopanar-Chidambaram...
The equations are changing, But Gen Kapoor seems keen on maintaining the "inferiority" of
witness the ongoing tussle the nursing officers despite the fact that they serve under the
between Yeddyruppa and same conditions as army doctors. "The seemingly innocuous
Ananth Kumar correction in the pay scales," argues Kapoor, "will remove the
Web | Mar 26, 2009 basic difference between the titularity of members of the MNS
ranks and the entitled ranks of Service officers".
UPA/NDA
A Destructive
Dilemma
Varun's speech again brings
into focus the BJP's lasting (1 of 2)
dichotomy: vitriol versus
canny pragmatism
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