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UP land mine is set to blow up in Mayawati’s face
This is one tight spot Mayawati will find it difficult to wriggle out of. Reason: the Noida land scam, in which the Greater Noida Industrial Authority swiped huge tracts of land on the pretext of setting up industry and then quietly converted it to residential use, relates directly to the #Amrapali #FPExclusive #Mahendra Singh Dhoni #Mayawati #Noida Land
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Why RCom is defaulting on its USOF obligations
Answer: it is bleeding. After having bid aggressively for becoming a USOF service provider, it is now finding the entire project commercially unviable and is either switching off BTSs or abandoning them without the USOF Administrator’s permission. For instance, in Rajasthan alone, RCom is supposed to pay Rs 40,000 a #BigStory #Kapil Sibal #RCom #USOF
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RCom’s failure prompts Sibal to go after everyone
When Firstpost queried Union Communications Minister Kapil Sibal on whether he was aware of the fact that Reliance Communications had not switched on most of its rural mobile towers, he asked for time to find out. Since Sibal's justification for reducing the penalty on RCom for the switch-off last November was #BigStory #Kapil Sibal #RCom #USOF
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RCom gets a multi-crore reprieve for pulling rural telephony plug
The arrival of Kapil Sibal in the Communications Ministry has saved Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications (RCom) a huge sum of money payable as penalty. Sibal has whittled down the penalty of Rs 50 crore per circle proposed by the administrator of the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to a few lakhs #Anil Ambani #Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited #BigStory #Kapil Sibal #RCom #USOF
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The violent side of Naxalism: Kangaroo courts and extortion
If anyone is under the illusion that the Naxals are entirely driven by concern for the poor, perish the thought. Their first job is to arm themselves, then they use it to appropriate the food and other resources that they need for their revolution, and then they dispense rough justice #FPExclusive #Naxalite #NaxalWar #Taliban
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Medical camps, Lal Salaam and school propaganda
How do the Naxals manage to buy the loyalties of the local population in the areas they operate? The answer is a mix of carrot and stick: delivery of social products like medicine and food, and regular propaganda, starting from the school level - and all of it backed by #FPExclusive #Maoists #Naxalite #NaxalWar
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Exclusive videos: The truth about Naxal justice & injustice
Special to Firstpost Is the war against the Maoists proceeding according to plan? Or, is there a plan at all? To find out, Firstpost commissioned THL Mediagrove to make contact with the Maoists and the government forces battling them in two of the eastern states—Bihar and Jharkhand—to get a clearer view from #Chhattisgarh #Firstpost Anniversary #FP Anniversary #FPExclusive #Mamata Banerjee #Naxalite #NaxalWar #Politics
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Full text: KP interview
KP INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT - PART 1 SPECIAL TO FIRSTPOST “The UN report on war crimes will benefit no one” Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam (alias Selvarasa Pathmanathan, Kumaran Pathmanathan, or simply KP) is head of the now decimated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). A wanted man in several countries, including India, in connection #KP interview #LTTE #transcript
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Ambani’s KG gas gambit: I will eat my cake and have it too
Mukesh Ambani is a grand master in strategy. So when something happens at flagship Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), it's time to sit up and take notice. It is also a good time to ask: what's his gambit this time? In recent weeks, RIL has done its best to confuse everyone about #Anil Ambani #DGH #Gas War #KG gas #Mukesh Ambani #Reliance Industries
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How the UN and West made one last effort to rescue LTTE leaders in May 2009
VKS: You were saying you will not allow these minority groups in Europe and elsewhere who are trying to revive the arm movement? KP: Exactly! If they mobilise, if they try to create trouble here, I will not let them do it. First they have to kill me. VKS: Isn’t it also #LTTE #transcript #UN
