Seat Charade
Election season throws up all kinds of arithmetic and chemistry. Take urban Bangalore바카라s two Lok Sabha seats. Bangalore South was held by the late H.N. Ananth Kumar consecutively since 1996 and it바카라s not clear who the BJP will choose this time. In Bangalore North, there바카라s been speculation about Janata Dal (Secular) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda shifting there. Union minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda is the MP from this seat. But it was former Karnataka chief minister S.M. Krishna 바카라not much in the public eye since joining the BJP two years ago바카라who piqued curiosity last week. Is a high-voltage battle between Gowda and Krishna on the cards?
Twice Bitten
Patna University바카라s teachers and students should have jumped for joy when Congress president Rahul Gandhi, at a recent rally in Bihar, promised central university status to the institution. But they didn바카라t. Central status has been an old demand of the university, the seventh oldest in the country, once known as the Oxbridge of the East. But successive governments have ignored the plea despite its alumni list containing such prominent names such as chief minister Nitish Kumar, Laoo Prasad Yadav, Sushil Kumar Modi, Yashwant Sinha, and Shatrughan Sinha. Then again, when the UPA government (2004-2014) established two new central universities, in Motihari and Gaya, the institution in Patna, founded in 1917, was conveniently overlooked
Ring A Bell
Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi last week rang up Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Geelani to discuss 바카라human rights바카라 in Kashmir. After the call to the Mirwaiz, a Hurriyat moderate, New Delhi summoned Islamabad바카라s envoy to protest the 바카라brazen attempt by Pakistan to subvert India바카라s unity바카라. The Pakistanis followed it up by calling the hawkish Geelani. The separatists hope the calls may translate into a bilateral dialogue between the neighbours바카라now that arch-enemies Taliban and the US are talking in Doha on American troop withdrawal in Afghanistan. Wishful thinking, security analysts say.
