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Business and Economy
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Japan Investment Bank Opens
India Operations
Japan’s leading global
investment bank Daiwa
Securities SMBC has started
operations in India to
market various investment
banking products for
prospective Indian investors
and also as a vehicle for
Indian companies to seek
funding from Japan.
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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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Diluted Wildlife Bill
Passed
After promising major
reforms, the Federal
Government greatly
diluted the Wildlife
Bill in a bid to appease
the tribal lobby and
passed the Wildlife Bill
in great hurry that
could greatly affect
conservation efforts and
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Ramdoss Absolves Cola Companies
Expectedly, Federal Health Minister Anbumani Ramdoss
absolved the cola companies in the Lok Sabha that
pesticide levels in their products were “within the
permissible levels” and called an independent report
“inconclusive."<More>
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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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7 Nation Futuristic Nuclear Reactor
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR)
Director at Kalpakkam Baldev Raj has been
elected Chairman of a 7 nation collaborative
project to define a futuristic fast reactor with
closed nuclear fuel cycle capable of generating
300-500 GWe nuclear energy.
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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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Neighbors
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Mush Wants to Share Intelligence
In a recent interview to an Indian magazine, Pakistan
President
Pervez Musharraf
said that the intelligence
agencies of the two nations were “operating against each
other” and should agree “to stop interference in each
other's internal affairs."
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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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Hot Topics
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7 Nation Futuristic Nuclear Reactor
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Controversial Provision in Religious Bill Withdraw
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Mush Wants to Share Intelligence
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Diluted Wildlife Bill Passed
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‘Cash-for-query’ MPs Pardoned?
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SC Demands Identity of Person Withholding Pay
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Japan Investment Bank Opens India Operations
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Ramdoss Absolves Cola Companies
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Featured Analyses
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Contrarian HIV Estimates in
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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.
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SLA Claims Military Successes as TN Censures It |
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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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Featured Edits
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Their Man In
Islamabad |
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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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