AL-backed mayor candidate AJM Nasir seen casting his vote in Chittagong Municipal Model School Centre yesterday.

The forced labour agenda

Kajal Basu :The riotous aftermath of the AAP’s ascension to power has helped the beleaguered Congress party in significant ways. One is, of course, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s inadvisable chill-weather dharna in support of his law minister, who singlehandedly cut down the AAP’s reputation for gender progressiveness by a couple of notches. This shindig also accomplished what its protagonists never intended, or even suspected: it hid from the Indian public’s view the results of a global socioecological survey that...

1 Feb 2014, 12:00 am