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Business and Economy
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India to Export Sugar
Expecting a large increase
in sugar production,
Minister for Agriculture
Sharad Pawar told the
Parliament that the
Government is considering
allowing its export but said
that a review is required in
October based on actual
output.
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Fiscal Deficit Worsens
Runaway unplanned
expenditure far exceeding
receipts has increased
fiscal deficit to over 50%
at Rs 77,740 crores (USD
16.9 billion) more than
budget estimates of Rs.
148,686 crores (USD 32.3
billion) in the very first
quarter.
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Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary
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Govt Withdraws Dismissal Move against Venugopal
A highly embarrassed Health Minister Anbumani Ramdoss withdrew the
controversial order
to dismiss All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Dr. P. Venugopal but counsel said that the Government would file
fresh charges later.
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OoP Pitches Parliament against President, SC
The Federal Government and its communist allies, usually at odds on many issues, joined ranks to assert that the Parliament is “supreme” and some even went to the extent of suggesting that the President has only rights to advice and not over-rule the Parliament.
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Environment, Health and Education
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Meghalaya Coal Mining Excesses
The Supreme Court (SC) accepted a Public Interest
Litigation (PIL) requesting intervention to stop
rampant coal mining and limestone quarrying off
natural caves in Meghalaya claiming that the Federal
Government has not responded to their pleas.<More>
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Who Supports Right to Education Bill?
Several state governments are angry at the Federal
Government’s plan to pass on financial
responsibility of implementing the Fundamental Right
to Education for children in the six-to-14 age group
out of State Budgets.<More>
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Terrorism,
Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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LeT Targeting Sensitive Spots
Senior Indian officials took umbrage to US
comments absolving Pakistan on the 7/11 Mumbai
blasts and said they have actionable
intelligence that the {Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)}
was behind the terrorist attack and of plans to
attack sensitive spots.
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NATO Set to Take Over Afghan Security
In its most ambitious mission in Asia, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) has taken control of security operations in
insurgency-ridden southern Afghanistan to stop the Taliban with new tactics
and approach.
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Neighbors
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Maoist Terrorists Hunt Indians
With increased Indian insistence on the disarming of
Maoist terrorist groups in Nepal, hospitality sector
employees and businessmen of Indian origin have become
prime targets for extortion and death threats causing a
large exodus back to their homeland.
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SLMM Collapses, Ceasefire Dead as Civil War Looms
Sri Lanka moved ground troops following air force raids
on a “humanitarian operation” to take control of a water
reservoir in an ill-defined area but controlled by the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sparking the
Tamils to declare the ceasefire dead.
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World
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Israel Supports UN Peacekeepers Idea
Incessant bombing of blocks of apartments and mass migration of people following radio announcements and pamphlets thrown down from planes is best described by a visiting UN official as a “horrific” and “violation of humanitarian law.”
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Civilian Crisis in Lebanon
Of the 4 Indian Navy
ships re-routed to Lebanon
in a bid to evacuate 12,000
Indians living in that
country, diplomatic
negotiating secured a berth
one ship to evacuate 700 odd
people to Larnaca, Cyprus
where Air India jets will
fly them out. Sri Lanka and
Nepal have appealed to India
for help with their citizens
too which the Navy will
undertake on a best effort
basis.
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India to Export Sugar
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SLMM Collapses, Ceasefire Dead as Civil War Looms
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Who Supports Right to Education Bill?
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NATO Set to Take Over Afghan Security |
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In its most ambitious mission in Asia, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) has taken control of security operations in
insurgency-ridden southern Afghanistan to stop the Taliban with new tactics
and approach.
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US Congress Passes Nuke Deal |
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Political Failure in War on Terror |
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OoP Pitches Parliament against
President, SC |
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No Implementation of Groundwater Bill |
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Some Successes against Naxals |
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Inadequate Response to NMCC Recommendations |
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Edits
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"Battle Of Brick
Lane" Fizzles Out |
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Changing Goalposts |
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Mole
Still Wrapped In Intrigue |
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Inscription
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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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