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Business and Economy
  • RTAs to be More Transparent
    Countries like India that have been excluded from Regional Trading Agreements (RTAs) for political reasons will benefit from new Negotiating Group on Rules that require transparency mechanisms of World Trade Organization (WTO) be implemented in RTAs.<More>

  • US to review dumping duty on Indian shrimps
    Trying to stem growing differences in trade, the US Department of Commerce chose three Indian shrimp exporting companies to review their export statistic and performance to formulate a anti-dumping duty structure for Indian shrimp.<More>

  • Indian Companies Make Large Global Buys
    The unprecedented growth of Indian economy is spurring Indian companies to scale their operations to inorganic overseas acquisitions with some of them larger than the Indian operation.<More>

  • India to be Major Textile Supply Hub
    A US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service report said that there will be increased foreign investment in Indian cotton and textile industries that could propel the nation as a major global clothing supplier.<More>

Democracy, Politics and Judiciary
  • Arjun Kills Education Bill, Moots Muslim Reservation
    Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh scuttled an important Right to Education Bill to make way for his reservation schemes that violate Constitutional norms for different pockets of population that is to now include “backward” Muslims.<More>

Environment, Health and Education
Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science & Technology
  • Mumbai Restarts, Terrorist Hunt Continues
    In true defiance of terrorism, Mumbai restarted life in just 12 hours after 8 blasts ripped through suburban trains causing scores of death and mayhem even as authorities are on heels of Islamic terrorists from Pakistan outsourced terror to local disenfranchised youth.<More>

  • No US Support for India as Nuke Weapon State
    US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that while the US will “not support India joining the Non Proliferation Treaty as a nuclear weapon state” it will strive to “include India” in the “global nonproliferation regime” through the civilian nuclear deal. <More>

  • Terrorists Target Mumbai Again
    Terrorists struck Mumbai, the Indian financial nerve center, by blasting a string of 7 powerful bombs within 11 minutes on commuter trains and stations packed to the brim at commute hour killing 150 people and injuring 439 others.<More>

  • GSLV Fails, INSAT 4-C Lost
    The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) failed to place the most sophisticated satellite it has created as the rocket carrying the INSAT-4C veered off its trajectory due to a strap-on motor failure forcing controllers to abort the mission and destruct the rocket.<More>

  • Agni-III Test Fails
    India tested the intermediate ballistic, 2-stage, solid propellant, nuclear weapons capable, 3500 kilometer Agni-III missile but reports suggest that a design flaw caused a snag and scientists say they have identified the error and will to retest the missile soon.<More>

Neighbors
  • Pak Wants Bilateral Fissile Material Moratorium
    Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri said that his country would agree to a verifiable bilateral fissile material moratorium as its nuclear weapons program was “driven by the threat perception of India.”<More>

World
  • Israeli Incursions in Lebanon
    In a serious escalation of violence in West Asia, Hezbollah terrorists abducted two Israeli soldiers and demanded the release of Palestinian women and children allegedly held prisoners Israel responded swiftly launching large-scale incursions into Lebanon.<More>

  • US Sends Missile Destroyer to Korea
    As tensions surrounding the failed missile tests of North Korea reached panic proportions, the US Navy has sent USS Mustin, it’s most advanced combat weapon system that can track, engage, and destroy missiles, with a crew of 300 to Japan.<More>

 
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Arjun Kills Education Bill, Moots Muslim Reservation
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh scuttled an important Right to Education Bill to make way for his reservation schemes that violate Constitutional norms for different pockets of population that is to now include “backward” Muslims.
Mumbai Restarts, Terrorist Hunt Continues
Terrorists Target Mumbai Again
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India to be Major Textile Supply Hub
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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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