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Business and Economy
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No End to Wheat Shortages
Delays in arrival of 3.5
million tons (mt) of
imported wheat for the
public distribution system
in South India and the lack
of traction from importers
to import wheat at
discounted 5% customs duty
is resulting in higher
prices in the open market.
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Govt Plans to Sell Residual
Maruti Interest
Faced with increasingly
recalcitrant and belligerent
opposition from communist
allies to disinvestment
plans, the Government is
apparently proposing to sell
all its residual 10.24%
stake in Maruti Udyog
Limited (MUL) to net Rs.
2500 crore (USD 543
million).
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Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary
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Environment, Health and Education
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Activists Trying to
Coerce a Tribal Bill
Tasting success with
stopping the
Government’s plan to
rightfully amend the
Right to Information
Act, activists are now
targeting the Scheduled
Tribes (Recognition of
Forest Rights) Bill
2005, also known as the
Tribal Bill (TB), to
bulldoze through
Parliament.<More>
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Contrarian HIV Estimates in New Survey
A study of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) has
proposed a contrarian view that the number of those
living with this infection may be a third lower than
current estimates of 5.2 million but warned that a
nation-wide survey is required for a more accurate
estimate.<More>
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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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India, Singapore for Air Force Cooperation
In the first ever Air Force-level dialogue,
India and Singapore agreed to focus on “mutually
supportive roles,” including “interoperability”
between respective air forces for disaster
management and humanitarian relief in South East
Asia.
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Iran Test-Fires Short-Range Missiles
A day after large-scale military exercises
across the nation, an Iranian Foreign Ministry
spokesperson confirmed that Iran has
successfully test-fired 10 short-range
surface-to-surface Saegheh missiles.
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Neighbors
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SLA Claims Military Successes as TN Censures It
The Sri Lankan Army has claimed several major successes
against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) even
as the Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously passed a
resolution censuring the Government for the death of
scores of children by air attacks.
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BSF, BDR to Reduce Tension
After exchanging gunfire, troop movements, and tension
the Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)
agreed to reduce tensions by pulling out additional
troops from the frontier and adhere to border guidelines
and land-boundary agreement.
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World
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Israeli Commando Operation Tests Ceasefire
Even as thousands of Lebanese troops and
French engineers started to occupy areas
vacated by Israeli Army to strengthen the
ceasefire that promises a stop to rocket
attacks by Hezbollah, reports emerge of a
clandestine Israeli action deep inside
Lebanon.
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Pressured Iran Threatens NPT Withdrawal
In an interview to national English
newspaper The Hindu, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asserted that he still
believes in dialogue but did not like the
continued pressure and insistence on taking
away the rights that his country has.
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SLA Claims Military Successes as TN Censures It |
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The Sri Lankan Army has
claimed several major
successes against the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) even
as the Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously passed a
resolution censuring the
Government for the death of
scores of children by air
attacks.
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Subsidy Cuts on the Cards |
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Major Terrorism Attack over Atlantic Averted |
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LTTE to Stay Banned, No Lanka Intervention |
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Forbes Calls “India is next Great Bull Market” |
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Natwar & Son Indicted, Implodes Under Pressure |
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Featured Edits
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Their Man In
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Take It From The
Super Cop |
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Little chance of
nuclear compromise |
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11 charged for
`plot' under Britain's terror laws |
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Bonhomie with
Sonia helped PM take the bull by the
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Let And Al Qaeda |
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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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