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Business and Economy
  • Pawar Fortifies to Defend his Wheat Policy 
    The Ministry of Food and Agriculture and Minister Sharad Pawar would be under immense pressure in the forthcoming Parliamentary session over the country's broken-down wheat management policy.
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  • Sustaining Economic Growth 
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board meeting at Hyderabad provided a unique opportunity for India to listen and share ideas with Asian peers on global fiscal, foreign exchange, trade, and financial issues.<More>

Democracy, Politics and Judiciary

  • Change Quota-Reservation Policy
    The Supreme Court (SC) reversed its own verdict recognizing the complexity involved to provide mandatory allocation of the 10% reservation for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) in national level Post Graduate (PG) medical colleges.
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  • SC Stays Vadodara Demolition 
    The Supreme Court (SC) accepted a Federal Government writ and stayed the Gujarat High Court (GHC) verdict that sanctioned the demolition of scores of Hindu Temples and Muslim Mosques illegally constructed on public land.<More>

Environment, Health and Education

  • With and Without Degree Quacks 
    With failing investments in Health care, lack of awareness of the population, bad sanitary facilities, unhygienic conditions, lack of enforcement, poor educational training, and lack of proper and constant certification are generating conditions for quacks.
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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science & Technology
  • US Says Pak Not Doing Enough on Terrorism 
    Pakistan reacted angrily to comments of US State Department Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism Henry Crumpton in Kabul that Pakistan was not doing enough to curb terrorism spilling into Afghanistan and Kashmir.
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Neighbors

  • Non-Military Purge in Nepal 
    In an apparent move to assert himself and the the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) he belongs to, the Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala went on a large-scale purge of political appointees in Embassies, industry, and state organs.<More>

  • Lanka Seeks Indian Help to Resume Talks 
    Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and opposition leaders asking for their support to influence the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to resume negotiations again.
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  • Singapore Stunted Democracy
    In the latest election, Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) came back to power winning 82 of the 84 seats with 37 seats unopposed.<More>

World

 
Hot Topics
Featured Analyses
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Making Panchayat Raj Institutions Effective
The Bill on National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme seeks to provide guaranteed employment to one member of every rural household for at least 100 days a year for a minimum wage of Rs.60 per day. Out of 260 million poor people in the country, about 200 million poor people are in rural areas. People in 45% rural India do not get work for six months in a year. 
The Saga of the Jemaah Islamiah
Will Kashmir go the way of Aceh?
A Cry for Help
Watch the Dragon
Cage This "Tiger"
Dalits in India
Was Jinnah a Secularist?
Burying the Howitzer?
Smoking Out Smoking
Featured Edits
Tackling the bubbles threat

Inscription

South Indian Inscriptions
Ancient Indian dynasties documented their administration, significant developments, grants, and milestones as inscriptions in temples. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has documented these inscriptions from 1886. These pages contain inscriptions from Pallava, Chola, Pandya, Western Chalukya, Eastern Chalukya, Rashtrakuta, Hoyasala, Vijayanagara, Vishnukundin, Kakatiya, Reddi, Vaidumba, Chinda, Eastern Ganga, Gajapathi, Kalchurya, Qutb-Shahi of Golkonda, and Moghul,  dynasties.

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