Tweets of the Week

CARTOON OF THE WEEK

sudhirtailang Do Jasoos ! CARTOON http://twitpic.com/1jjcw3

MUST WATCH
http://www.narendramodi.in/video/70

MUST READS
acorn: You only need to look at Dawn's headline "Mumbai's long shadow finally recedes" http://is.gd/bNWWn - to get more pessimistic

Vikram_Sood: Please read B Raman's article on making asses of ourselves on the 'she-mole' case. http://bit.ly/cL0Vii

KanchanGupta @swapan55 points out law does not allow 'return' of shares, you can only sell. So much SP (Sunanda Pushkar) 'returning' shares!

amishra77: Congress is accusing IPL & @LalitKModi of match fixing. Yet it has made a proven match fixer, Azharuddin, its MP

centerofright http://bit.ly/9TvFdK One Rank One pension cannot be met fully - says Govt. So Did MMS lie in parl?

acorn Pratap Bhanu Mehta rocks! http://is.gd/bMk1a

offstumped The idiocy of NREGA http://is.gd/bDYCF Nitish Kumar falls to jholawallah logic of confusing spending with outcomes

Mrityunjoykjha: 2 news : 1.Air India rolls out big jet to pls Paraful Ptel's daughter2.Praful says Air India will incur loss of Rs5400 cr.

centerofright http://bit.ly/bmVnkK Ind minister of AP from cong, Kanna lakshmi Narayana says no Pubbing and late night parties and creates problems :D

offstumped this governor business has to end RT @ssudhirkumar IBN says Guj Governor sends back Compulsory voting bill back for reconsideration.

IPL vs CommonWealth Games
KanchanGupta Rs 3000 cr racket called CW Games run by Sheila and Suresh. Both are sainted, eh? Media would claim so!

KanchanGupta And, why hasn't media exposed the loot in the name of a scam called CW Games? Does CWG ad budget hold the answer to this q?

KanchanGupta So do please take a break and ask some Qs before joining the duplicitous clamour against IPL/LKM.

RED TERROR
offstumped Let us just say the Congress under Sonia Rahul is the new Left http://www.indianexpress.com/news/upstaging-theories/613180/0

offstumped The mask is off, Digivijay Singh and his side-kick Amaresh Mishra are celebrated by Maoist apologists on CounterCurrents http://is.gd/bNpGh

centerofright http://bit.ly/aVE80a How nitish kumar is gaining upper hand against #naxals in Jehanabad with development. Must read

centerofright http://bit.ly/cnOesy how #naxals get money - Drugs , Extortion & Violence, so much for movement of downtrodden

MEDIA
KanchanGupta HT says Cong defeated cut motion with "some smart planning". Misusing CBI to leverage LS support is 'smart planning'? Corruption is smart?

sudhirksingh @VirSanghvi's HT column on the IPL scam is a scam in itself. Pouring scorn on Modi & virtually exculpating Tharoor. What a journo!

anilduttrathee Bar dancers shake leg in RahulG's Rath Yatra: http://bit.ly/bfRcvY @sagarikaghose @bdutt @sardesairajdeep @vikramchandra Whr r ur reporters?

Other News/Views
naveenks Hi-speed broadband for all Indian villages soon http://bit.ly/arRSJb

dhirajkapila: Gujarat to emerge as Global Solar-Power Hub says Narendra Modi -- http://tinyurl.com/2u5pcac

centerofright http://bit.ly/cqKeP4 - UP approves 1980 MW Powerplant in bundelkhand region - Good we should be happy when it starts powergen

centerofright Railways plans n-power plant with NPCIL http://bit.ly/9um1UJ

KanchanGupta SC panel exposes mining scam in Odisha, rips veil off official cover-up by Naveen Patnaik Govt.

centerofright http://bit.ly/c9tXFi Bihar Govt sanctions 797 Crores to Schools for Uniforms & bicycyles

sreejith_pa Congrats Dr. Raman SIngh! Hope all other govts will also follow the suit. http://is.gd/bBwO7

InternetHindus Kamal Nath shrunk the NHDP Phase III Roads of Bihar http://bit.ly/asoWFM

InternetHindus RTI activist killed for blowing lid off Maharashtra school scam http://bit.ly/cPDc0F

centerofright Cong forces kids to attend UP rally http://bit.ly/dt0EoQ

centerofright 2-3 pc quota for minorities in MHADA houses likely http://bit.ly/aKDxp4

Mrityunjoykjha India among largest assistance donors for Afghanistan:Pentagon...what about the cojoined twins?

Tweets of the Week

CARTOON OF THE WEEK

sudhirtailang: http://twitpic.com/1drdb7 - Govt busy enacting ACTS. Cartoon.

MUST READS

centerofright http://bit.ly/d1XHo3 - when states ask for funds for RTE - Sibal says they are not interested in education. good

DeshGujarat: Modi appointed Chairman of Group on Consumer Affairs http://bit.ly/dkFOdS

thinkerspad Great display of vision by @narendramodi in the Food Security meeting. Asks govt to include pulse and sugar in addition to rice & wheat.

pragmatic_d: Hats off to the UP govt for going to this extent to ensure transparency in police recruitment. http://is.gd/bkUiB

tavleens We have failed to win the war against poverty because we have drawn a poverty line of Rs 300 a month for rural India.

tavleens So we have children who do not officially die of hunger but starve slowly to death on one meal a day.

tavleens If they survive to become adults they become Naxal fodder. And, our leaders talk about the right to food. Haha!

thinkerspad @sagarikaghose Food Security Bill should have looked at better agricultural planning and production targets and not cheap food for poor.

offstumped India embarassed and clueless http://nyti.ms/ahVEo2 heads must roll for this where will the buck stop on this one Mr. Home Minister ?

centerofright http://bit.ly/dxZU1U Women police stations to be set up in 29 dists of UP

visaraj Pune BJP Girish Bapat receives the 'Efficient MLA' award in Nashik

malviyamit: Those who opine that BJP is losing support in urban India should reflect on the win in Bangalore Municipal Elections.

centerofright THIS IS HUGEEEEEEE - BJP were expectng 95-100 RT
@ZoomIndianMedia: Leads+win : BJP-109 ; Cong-66; JDS-17; others-10 #bbmp HT@thatskannada

RED TERROR
pragmatic_d: All those who seek aerial strafing of Maoist-infested areas must remember Aizawl, 5th March 1966. http://bit.ly/alXvHD

offstumped: BREAKING NEWS - NREGA funds sustaining Maoist Terrorism http://bit.ly/9wkIax

visaraj @Swabhimaan Greyhounds surrounded the top Maoist commanders; YSR intervened and allowed Kishen and goons to escape.

centerofright @visaraj @Swabhimaan The truth is slightly diff, there was a call placed to HM of India, they were allowed to go on left intervention

RAJAGOPALAN1951 Governor ESL Narasimhan wrote 8 letters to PM on Chhatisgarh Naxal issues. Can UPA2 make them public? Under RTI it is not available.

ramanthink: Use of Air Power Against Maoists http://bit.ly/b6k9wl

MEDIA
centerofright http://bit.ly/9AkYJp This is an article that every Main Stream media must ask and hence giving this link again

theprudent 24x7 channels created nuisance when SIT requested Modi to appear but are conspicuously silent on Kamal Nath's 1984 role http://bit.ly/d70oxz

pawandurani @PrabhuChawla you spend a complete weeks air time for stupid Shoaib Sania marraige..U have used 2 hours airtime for 7 lac homeless pandits


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Tweets of the Week

MUST READS
parthjshah: One more on RTE in Mint, The Wrong Way to School, http://bit.ly/bR01i7

ssudhirkumar: RTE extends " whole of India except Jammu and Kashmir" http://bit.ly/bog9Ep (link via @InstantMusings )#scrap370

thinkerspad Surprising, Congress took One tenure of 5 yrs + 1yr of 2nd tenure to arrive at these Bills for which Fundamental Rights were made by BJP

KVSarmaJ @swaraj_india UID was simply a read-modify-write of BJP's idea.Such a blatant violation of copyrights wouldnt have been MMS's brian child.

ssudhirkumar: Blog Update: Selective History http://bit.ly/9gVb6U

anilduttrathee 11% inflation in India is highest in the world. Though Chinese GDP growth is 9.5% (India 7.2%), China has 2% inflation and India 11%

offstumped Vidya Subramaniams reality check on Muslim quota http://bit.ly/cYUS7Z oped in Indian express confirms Muslim divide http://bit.ly/cVvDMY

offstumped Why have the Parliament at all if debate is going to subverted to suit the convenience of the Party in Government http://bit.ly/9G7FPp

Jaago Aam Aadmi : MSP vs MRP http://bit.ly/bfTkVw

http://bit.ly/aEDY8n A rare but correct editorial in IE lauding Mayawati's reform efforts in UP

Mrityunjoykjha AP govt was ‘kind’ to Raju favours doled out to Satyam Computers, reveals CAG report

centerofright :D:D:D:D:D thought somebody else will do ?RT @DNA: Congress MLAs protest against dance by IPL cheerleaders in Delhi http://bit.ly/ctVLP7

Chellaney Moscow Metro bombings are another reminder why the international war on terror (ended shortsightedly by Obama) must be brought back on track

Fantasies of our PM
thinkerspad http://bit.ly/aXq6A6 Govt of India sold out to US. It was clear why Indo-Pak FS level talks were held. Troop deescalation was the only need.

naveenks J&K this summer will be as bloodier as or even worse than the mid-90s, says an internal assessment of Home Ministry http://snipurl.com/v4dpo

thinkerspad http://bit.ly/aXq6A6 Nation should get out on the street to get this Prime Minister to cough up the truth. He's taking anti-India decisions.

thinkerspad http://bit.ly/aXq6A6 On one hand Army chief says there are 700 terrorists waiting to infiltrate on the other they relocate 35000 troops out.

thinkerspad http://bit.ly/aXq6A6 Manmohan Singh kept in India in dark about key decisions taken during Indo-Pak talks. He allowed deescalation of troops

Hyderabad Riots
vivakermani @sardesairajdeep Congmen allege their own partymen behind d Hyd violence http://bit.ly/dex7wg Strange mum in media

thinkerspad http://bit.ly/9Utgss @bdutt @sardesairajdeep Is this why you people do not cover riots? You create space for India's HM to subvert the truth

centerofright #FACT Hyd old city has 15 Assembly Segments. Current assembly has 7 from Cong 7 from MIM,

centerofright http://bit.ly/c57aqz A detailed report on hyd riots

offstumped Hyderabad riots http://bit.ly/d0S6nF beyond heaping shame and ignominy to ruling Congress will we see same level of media scrutiny

Dosabandit AP Congress spits within over Hyd riots, Cong role in riots alleged by Congmen http://is.gd/b6DQl

thinkerspad http://bit.ly/9Utgss What kind of analysis is this from the HM? When is this nation going to wake up to this third rate Muslim Appeasement.

ssudhirkumar: Read this to understand better why police are not able to control. #hyderabadriots http://bit.ly/bK2zUL

centerofright http://bit.ly/9JtHp0 Read this article to know why the HM of AP is useless. Owaisi using foul Language over arrests of MIM youth over riots

Gujarat
proaudience State-of-the-art healthcare in Ahmedabad. http://tinyurl.com/ya84zo6

narenarun: Being fair to NaMo is not abt balancing 2002 & dev , but bringing out facts on state's action on 2002 - 12000 convictions

offstumped Must Read Narendra Modis statement and appeal from Feb 2002 that dispels all canards RT @narendramodi http://bit.ly/18QDic

Kashmir
lokesh81: 97% of human rights violation complaints in Jammu and Kashmir are false http://bit.ly/cs5LZr #scrap370

AdityaRajKaul Why no SIT probe for anti-Sikh Riots and ethnic cleansing of Pandits from the Kashmir Valley? Why always turn a blind eye!! Why?

Media
thinkerspad Why has no one asked a question on Malegaon blasts accused not getting bail though MCOCA has been cancelled on them?

centerofright http://bit.ly/cs8GUo - Have never seen this news item in MSM? why is that so? is it because maha has a cong govt? 27 years no justice

centerofright http://bit.ly/b8z2nk China bans 18 Subjects that should not be governed by Media. India has only one - no negative news abt Gandhis

Other New/Views/Policies
Chandigarh tops in HDI, GDI http://bit.ly/cEOZC6

absurd: http://bit.ly/dnkv6a Punjab sees high suicide rate among farmers By James Lamont FT Must read Wrong food pricing.



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