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An important investigative story in The New York Times on the secretive world of unscrupulous real estate, the report focuses on a shady developer from Delhi.

The Aam Aadmi Party has accomplished a stupendous political feat in India’s capital. Not only has it won more than half the total vote and 95 percent of all seats, which even the luckiest of parties don’t do in India’s periodic referendum-style “wave” elections. More, by unabashedly championing the cause of the poor, and the interests of underprivileged social and religious groups, it has signalled the arrival of a new moral force in national politics.

On 5 January [2015], the first anniversary of the deeply contested 2014 elections, the most violent in Bangladesh’s history, clashes between government and opposition groups led to several deaths and scores injured. The confrontation marks a new phase of the deadlock between the ruling Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) opposition

When gung-ho posturing happens, the pit-poor daily wage earners like fishermen ultimately pay for it

Tariq Ali in conversation with Arundhati Roy about the state of Indian politics on The World Today on teleSUR English - December 2014