This week the Third Front was launched. Ten parties, comprising some regional parties and the Communists, came together at a rally in Bangalore on Thursday to launch the Third Front ahead of general elections beginning next month.

Interestingly, the contradictions are very apparent. Chandrababu Naidu - the quintessential promoter of business and economic activity in AP is teaming together with CPI, the people who do their best to stall any economic activity in the country. So you had the strange mix of Janata Dal-Secular head H D Deve Gowda, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat, CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan, Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu standing on the stage together.

Their primary objective: form an alternate front in order to topple both the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance.

And that's what is so sad of Indian politics now. Politicians do not run to help the common man or improve the country but to UNABASHEDLY win at any cost. The loser is the common man! Why? Because of these antics now, we will see a hung parliament and possibly one or maybe more Mid Term elections before we can have a stable Government. Hundreds of crores will be lost. Politicians will gain. But the common man will lose BIG TIME!

Brinda Karat raised a created a furor in the Rajya Sabha when she called the ENTIRE Hindu community as fundamentalist.

BJP disrupted the proceedings in Rajya Sabha as the house was adjourned till 1.30 pm. "She made a sweeping statement against Hindus. She is a Hindu herself and this kind of statement was not expected from her," former finance minister Yashwant Singh said. While Science and Technology and Ocean Development Minister Kapil Sibal said, "Criminals are criminals; no matter which religion they come from. And hence the whole community should not be personally identified."

Indian and US are conducting Naval exercises in the Arabian Sea called "Malabar Exercises". In these exercises, the navies will test their readiness and learn and derive benefits from each other. US and India have significant convergence of interests, especially in the maintenance of maritime security in this region.

The CPI-M has decided to take on BJP and Congress in the coming Lok Sabha polls - says Prakash Karat.

The decision was taken in the three-day Central Committee meeting which concluded here Tuesday.

‘For the Lok Sabha election, we’ve decided to take an electoral platform aiming to defeat the BJP, which is a communal party advocating reactionary economic policies, and for the rejection of the Congress that is forging a strategic alliance with the US and pursuing anti-people economic policies in India,’ Karat told a press conference.

The long drama of Tata Nano may be getting over. Tata Nano will move to Gujarat.

Narender Modi and Tata officials have signed the agreement and they were shown exchanging documents. Fortunately for both, the farmers in Gujarat are in more than a welcoming mood for Tata to come to their hinterland.

Farmer-turned-industrialist Ravubha Vaghela was a very happy man on Monday after selling his entire 30 acres of land at Khoda and Naranpura villages to Gujarat government.

Despite the fact that he had earmarked it for expanding his own company Raviraj Foils Ltd, he gave it off to the State Government at less than half the going price!!

The CM's smoking habits have made the West Bengal lose out to millions of dollars in international aid. Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss,known for his anti-tobacco campaign, on Tuesday ‘issued fresh advice to him to kick the butt’.

Bhattacharya, a known chain smoker, reportedly smokes in the privacy of his chamber despite a ban on smoking in the writer's building.

Ramadoss said,"I have already requested him (Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya) to quit smoking and I do so again."