Dear Mr President, can you please pardon Sanjay Dutt?

For former central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, the RTI Act remains a powerful ally, finds A Ganesh Nadar Legislators are reported to have collectively thrashed police sub-inspector Sachin Suryavanshi in the premises of the Maharashtra assembly. Following the incident Shailesh Gandhi, former central information commissioner, is circulating a petition online asking that political parties must dismiss those who participated in the incident. If parties do not dismiss such legislators, ...

A Ganesh Nadar visits one of Chennai's state-sponsored breakfast centres that serve piping hot food at dirt cheap prices and comes away impressed. Could the way to a voter's heart be through his stomach? The aroma of freshly-prepared sambar wafts through the air as hungry people line up for breakfast outside one of the 73 centres that provide idli, sambar rice and curd rice -- all staple diet in Tamil Nadu -- for a paltry amount in Chennai.   Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's ...

In the present prime minister, the BJP has its weakest possible opponent. Why don't they let him stay there, asks A Ganesh Nadar. Why is the Bharatiya Janata Party asking for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation? Don't they realise that he is their biggest asset? I doubt BJP President Rajnath Singh will figure that out! When the BJP was routed in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, Rajnath Singh was celebrating his victory. At his home in New Delhi a band was playing and the house was filled ...

Forest Minister KB Ganesh Kumar is the fifth Kerala Minister to have resigned over allegations of domestic violence. Number 5 is significant for him. His occult number is 41 (4+1=5). His Sun Sign Gemini is related to 5.He was born on May 25, 1966.

‘If the bookie and the gamblers are sitting in the same room and watching TV we will not be able to catch them. Only when there is some communication on the phone or over the internet will we have a chance to find out what is going on.’ A Ganesh Nadar gets a top Mumbai cop to spill the beans on how the betting racket functions Many people think the IPL is fixed and controlled by big money. Every team has to retain its fans and so they take turns winning. Last year, even before the ...

'...If the power situation does not improve in Tamil Nadu. The Congress will not allow the plant to start.' As the Supreme Court clears the decks for commissioning the controversial Koodankulam nuclear plant, A Ganesh Nadar checks the mood in the villages, the epi-centre of the protests.The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant has been plagued by problems and protests for more than two years now. Environmentalists moved the Supreme Court against the project, but last Monday, May 6, the apex court ...

In an interview to rediff.com, Mr. R. S. Sundar, the site director of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), has claimed that the KKNPP is not a Russian turnkey project. Here is Mr. Sundar's categorical answer to Mr. A. Ganesh Nadar's ...

'This is not the first time I have refused to stand for this particular song and this will not be the last time,' Lok Sabha MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq tells Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar. 'I have no problems with Jana Gana Mana.' Until a couple of days ago, Shafiqur Rahman Barq, the Bahujan Samaj Party's Lok Sabha MP from Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was little known nationally, even though he has been elected to the House of the People four times. Then the 82-year-old Barq, below, walked out of the ...

'We are restricting the media because of the difficulties we are facing with the media. The public have been visiting the plant regularly,' says R S Sundar, site director at the controversial Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu. 'The public is knowledgeable. They ask as many questions as journalists. We have faced tough questions from them, clarified their doubts and convinced them.' On Monday, May 6, the Supreme Court gave its go-ahead to the controversial Koodankulam Nuclear ...