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हाल ही में सम्पन्न हुंए लंदन ओलम्पिक खेलों में भारत के प्रदर्शन से मुझे खुशी भी हुई और दु:ख भी। खुशी इसलिए कि 2012 के ओलम्पिक में हमें प्राप्त 6 पदक - दो रजत और चार कांस्य - अब तक के हमारे इतिहास में सर्वाधिक हैं। यदि कोई चाहे तो इस तथ्य से भी राहत महसूस कर सकता है कि 2008 में बीजिंग ओलम्पिक में प्राप्त पदकों से यह दुगुने हैं। इस उपलब्धि पर मैं भी अन्य भारतीयों की तरह प्रसन्नता महसूस कर रहा हूं। अत: लंदन में इन सभी 6 पदकों - विजय कुमार Click to Read More

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India’s performance at the just-concluded London Olympics has made me both happy and sad. Happy because our tally of six medals in the 2012 Games has been the best so far — two silver and four bronze. One can, if one wants to, take further comfort from the fact that it is double the number of medals India had won in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I am as elated as any other proud Indian at this achievement. Hence, my hearty congratulations to all the six medal winners in London — silver in shooting by Vijay Kumar; another silver in freestyle wrestling by Sushil Kumar; bronze in shooting by Gagan Narang; bronze in women’s boxing by MC Mary kom (the Manipurian mother who became the cynosure of the nation’s admiration by showing she is capable of winning even the gold); bronze in wrestling by Yogeshwar Dutt; and a bronze in women’s badminton singles by Saina Nehwal, the 22-year-old from Hyderabad who won the hearts of millions of Indians because of her talent, courage and determination. She showed great promise and certainly looks capable of challenging China’s monopoly in Click to Read More

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यूपीए सरकार का कार्यकाल मई 2014 में समाप्त होगा। सोलहवीं लोकसभा का चुनाव उससे पूर्व होना अनिवार्य है।

सन् 1952 में भारत में हुए पहले आम चुनावों का मुझे आज भी Click to Read More

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The U.P.A. Government’s term ends in May 2014. The Sixteenth Lok Sabha elections must take place before that.

I remember the First General Elections held in India in 1952. I was in Rajasthan at the time. Those of us who were party campaigners there were more concerned about the Assembly Polls than the Lok Sabha polls. That was an election where the Jana Sangh won three seats in the Lok Sabha, two from West Bengal and one from Rajasthan. But what is pertinent in the context I am wishing to emphasise today is the fact that the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections were held together – all in 1952.

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इन दिनों अटकलों का बाजार गर्म है कि आगामी लोकसभाई चुनाव जो साधारणतया सन् 2014 में होने हैं, में क्या होगा।

एक पखवाड़े पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री डा. मनमोहन सिंह ने निर्वतमान राष्ट्रपति श्रीमती प्रतिभा पाटिल के सम्मान में रात्रिभोज दिया था। यह कार्यक्रम हैदराबाद हाउस में सम्पन्न Click to Read More

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Speculations are on these days as to what is likely to happen in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, ordinarily scheduled to take place in 2014. 

A fortnight back Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh hosted a Dinner in honour of outgoing Rashtrapati Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil. The function was held at Hyderabad House. 

In an informal chat with two senior Cabinet Ministers before the formal dinner, I could clearly perceive an intense sense of concern weighing on the minds of both these Ministers. Their apprehensions were as follows :

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