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Business and Economy

  • Govt may Scrap AWB Deal
    Confronted with sub-quality wheat arriving from the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) and its refusal to supply human-consumable quality wheat at the agreed price, the Government may cancel the deal and negotiate a new one in more transparent terms. <More>

  • 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>

Democracy, Politics and Judiciary

  • Speaker Blasts Election Commission
    Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee lambasted the Election Commission (EC) over s charge that he occupied an “Office of Profit” and accused it of “character assassination” and “trial by insinuation” without providing any proof.<More>

  • 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>

Environment, Health and Education

  • Govt Withdraws Water Tax
    While the stock market was crashing and burning, the Government rescinded an internal note that called for a 16% tax on water processed by branded and unbranded water “manufacturers” as well as municipal water supply.<More>

  • 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>
Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science & Technology

  • India Signs ITER Agreement
    India joined 6 other nations to sign the International Thermonuclear Experiment Reactor (ITER) Agreement contributing 10% of project cost with manufactured equipment to develop a prototype reactor that will make atomic fusion the next major source of energy.<More>

  • IAF to get US C-130J Transport Planes
    Ministry of Defense sources say that the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Border Security Force (BSF) are planning to buy 12 C-130J Transport planes from the US defense major Lockheed-Martin for use by its special forces in anti-terrorist operations.<More>

Neighbors

  • Hindu Groups Protest in Nepal
    Hindu groups in the southern industrial city Birgunj protested violently against the reinstated Parliament’s decision to clip the King Gnanendra’s powers and making Nepal a secular state.<More>

  • 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>

World

  • US Pledge to Israel over Iran
    The US pledged protecting Israel from Iran should diplomatic efforts to negotiate an acceptable end to that country’s controversial nuclear program fail and the situation escalated to a full fledged conflict.<More>

  • 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>
 
Hot Topics

Featured Analyses     More
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.
EU Reveals Plan to Placate Iran
Anti-Quota Struggle Expands, Students Threaten Suicide
Stock Market Takes a Beating
India-US to Meet on Nuke Deal; US No to Pak
Indian Political Perceptions on Religion
Govt Softens & Threatens on Quota, Protests Spread
Super-Advanced Weapons Systems in Pipeline
Featured Edits
Pranab’s nudge could bring Japan defence tech to India
Why the political parties are losing it
Gujarat: Breeding ground
Gujarat’s asmita?
Politics over merit

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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