Amnesty International, the organization that overlooks the Global human rights has its report for the year 2008. In this report India was slammed for its poor record in several areas. The report pointed out that around 300 million people still remained in poverty. A lot of “Advasis” were living in backwardness were displaced from resource-rich areas, to other areas for the sake of industrialization.
 

Jammu and Kashmir: A picture that surfaced showing Indian President Dr Prathiba Patil posing with an AK47 gun surfaced during her current visit in the troubled Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir.

Some members called this photograph insensitive as the state had been reeling under terrorist attack for over two decades. While many supported it saying it is a moral boost for the Indian Army

Unfortunately the gun controversy overshadowed her real intention for the trip.

Photo Courtesy: PIB Govt of India

(We will update this article in the next few hours based on more inputs)

As the Gujjar agitation continued for one more day the issue has reached center.  Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about this issue. Both the center and state governments have been passing the buck and expecting the other side to resolve this complex issue.

BJP bounced back in Karnataka by winning 110 seats out of the total of 224. Here are the final election results.

Table Curtesy- Election Commission of India

BJP was three votes short of Majority but as you can see that there are six independents who might be willing to support a BJP lead government.  Parties like BSP, Samajwadi Party, and Janta Dal (united) failed to make any inroads in these elections.