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Freight Corridor on, Speed
Trains No
A high level committee
chaired by Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh rejected a
proposal to built a Bullet
Train network in the nation
for passenger traffic but
accepted the plan to built a
dedicated freight train
corridor at a projected cost
estimate of USD 5.06
billion.<More>
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India wants TAPI
With a dead-on-arrival Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline, India signaled strong interest in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) project that will transport natural gas for a severely energy deficient and rapidly expanding India.<More>
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Democracy,
Politics and Judiciary
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Anti-Quota Struggle Expands,
Students Threaten Suicide
Students and doctors
protesting the quota-based
reservation system expanded
their protests to other
cities and intensified them
in New Delhi and Mumbai even
as a group of students wrote
to the President Abdul Kalam
seeking permission to commit
suicide.<More>
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Indian Political Perceptions on Religion
Information & Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunshi said that he has asked the board that certifies films not to approve the Da Vinci Code movie before he gets a nod from the Catholic Church.<More>
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Environment,
Health and Education
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China Reports Three Gorges
Dam Completion
In an astounding feat that
took less than 10 years,
China has completed the
Three Gorged Dam (TGD) which
is being labeled the largest
hydroelectric and water
management project in the
world that employed 26,000
people from over 50
countries. <More>
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India & China Work on Diabetic Drug
India and China, vying for the dubious distinction of being the diabetes capital of the world, are working together their vast herbal drug knowledge to identify medicine and herbs that can control diabetes.<More>
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Terrorism,
Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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Terrorists Strike Cong Rally on
Anti-Terrorism Day
Two days before the arrival of the
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to
continue his roundtable
discussions with Kashmir
separatists, two terrorists
dressed as policemen attacked a
youth Congress rally in Srinagar.<More>
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India to Double Nuclear Power
Capacity
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman
Anil Kakodkar revealed plans that
India will double its nuclear
power capacity from 20,000
megawatts (mw) to 40,000 mw by
2030 and that the Planning
Commission has prepared a 30 year
plan to facilitate this plan. <More>
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Neighbors
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Suu Kyi May be Released?
For the first time in more than 2
years, the {Myanmar} military
junta allowed UN official Ibrahim
Gambari to meet jailed opposition
political leader and Nobel
Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for
about an hour spiking hopes that
she may be released soon.
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Nepal Clips King’s Powers
The recently reinstated Nepalese Parliament unanimously voted on a resolution to severely curb the rights of the King, make the country a Republic, abrogate his legal immunity, and aggrandize power over the Army, court, and Constitution to itself.<More>
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World
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India-US to Meet on Nuke Deal; US No to Pak
Even as Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and US Under-Secretary of Political Affairs Nicholas Burns plan to meet to try iron out last minute hurdles in the Indo-US Civilian Nuclear deal, the US firmly spurned Pakistan's request for a similar deal.<More>
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France Promises to Lobby for India in NSG
Even as the US Congress deliberates the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, France has promised that it will pitch for India at the plenary session of the 44-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) meeting in Rio de Janeiro later this month.<More>
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National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
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Making
Panchayat Raj Institutions Effective |
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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.
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The
Saga of the Jemaah Islamiah |
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Will
Kashmir go the way of Aceh? |
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A
Cry for Help |
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Watch
the Dragon |
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Cage
This "Tiger" |
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Dalits
in India |
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Was
Jinnah a Secularist? |
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Burying
the Howitzer? |
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Smoking
Out Smoking |
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Featured
Edits
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Indians in Afghanistan |
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Watch those proceedings
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The A Q Khan effect |
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End of the road for Gyanendra |
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Beijing’s Arab Initiative |
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Inscription
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Indian Inscriptions |
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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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