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Organic Farming Growing at
100%
With larger disposable
incomes, expanding
economies, and higher
awareness of health, Indian
organic industry is growing
at 100% with 400 registered
farmers using 30,164 acres.<More>
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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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Democracy,
Politics and Judiciary
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Speaker Trouble
The Budget-session of the
Parliament ended in a
controversy about an
admonishment motion on a
former Lok Sabha
Secretary-General for his
disparaging remarks on the
Speaker and the Opposition
opposed the propriety of the
motion and the motives for
it.<More>
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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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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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Nishant Interests People, Army,
Navy, Coast Guard
India’s indigenously designed and
developed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) Nishant was successfully
tested off the coast of Kozhikode
in Kerala and the “wheel-less”
manned by a pilot on the ground
navigated the 180 minute flight.<More>
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High Hopes on Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Power Corporation Chief S.
K. Jain unveiled the country’s
nuclear vision and plans while
inaugurating an indigenously
manufactured nuclear fuelling
machine head, a critical part of
its nuclear program.<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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Israel Captures Hamas
‘Commander’
Israel achieved a major
breakthrough in its fight
against terrorism by
capturing Hamas’s West Bank
military-wing ‘commander’
wanted in the death of 78
Israelis and wounding of
several hundred.<More>
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Amnesty Accuses US of Human
Rights Violations
In its annual report of
2006, Amnesty International
(AI) accused the US of gross
human rights violations and
double standards in its
fight against terrorism and
depreciated their
credibility for not
demanding more of allies
engaging in abuses in fear
of losing them.<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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Yet Another 'Surprise' |
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Srinagar- Negligence yet again |
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Round table, and the road home? |
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The Afghan challenge |
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Politics of vice and virtue
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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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