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Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary
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HC Says No to Yatra Subsidies
The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) has restrained the Federal and
State Governments from subsidizing Yatra expenses for the Haj and other
pilgrimages leaving politicians using these sops as ways to create and
retain vote banks in quandary.
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Hindu Group Wants Army
to Help Reclaim Land
A Hindu Vasihavaite
sect in Assam says that
illegal migrants from
Bangladesh
have usurped over 400
religious places owned
by the Asom Sattra
Mahasava with
administrative and
political connivance
and has petitioned the
Army for help.
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Environment, Health and Education
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US Seeks Tariff cut on
Environment Products
As a co-member of the
Asia-Pacific Partnership
(APP), the US wants
India to reduce its
tariffs on imported
environmental goods and
services from the
current 15% to allow
free flow of technology
to reduce green house
gases (GHG) emission.<More>
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Is Project Tiger a Failure?
An investigation into the effectiveness of the
federally funded Project Tiger, launched in 1973 to
protect tigers in the 15 Tiger sanctuaries to ensure
a viable population, concluded that the program is a
failure because of insufficient training and
inadequate methods.<More>
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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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India Holds Pak Responsible for Terror
India says it has evidence of Pakistan’s
continued support for terrorism and the
involvement of
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
in the 7/11 serial blasts after
anti-terrorism squad (ATS) killed a Pakistani in
Mumbai and captured another in Jammu & Kashmir
(J&K).
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Naxals Strike Mangalore Forest Office
In typical military style, Naxal terrorists
attacked the Range Forest Office in
Karnataka
damaging the building, burnt official
records, wirless set, computer equipment, and a
jeep after destroying a local telephone exchange
ahead of the raid.
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Neighbors
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Nepal Has a New Draft Constitution
A team of legal and political experts in Nepal have
drafted a new lob-sided Constitution that will withdraw
many privileges of the King and retaining the right of
the Maoist terrorists that does not necessarily create
stability to one of the world’s poorest nations.<More>
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Iran Proposes Talks to Resolve Stalemate
Iran once again reiterated its willingness to negotiate
a way out of the impasse over its controversial nuclear
program but the US said that while it would study the
Iranian counter proposal to the EU offer, it is prepared
to move with or without the UN.<More>
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World
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Israel & Lebanon Welcome EU Plan
Israel & Lebanon welcomed the EU plan to
dispatch 7000 peacekeeping troops, to be led
initially by France and later by Italy, in
Southern Lebanon that is capable of
maintaining a buffer between the two nations
with stronger defensive capabilities.
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Iran Expands Heavy Water Project
A defiant yet indulgent Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new phase
in the Arak heavy-water reactor project
dismissing global concerns of its
controversial program but asserting that
“Iran is not a threat to anybody."
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Iran Expands Heavy Water Project
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Is Project Tiger a Failure?
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HC Says No to Yatra Subsidies
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Israel & Lebanon Welcome EU Plan
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Nepal Has a New Draft Constitution
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Featured Analyses
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First Indo-Russian Joint
Study Group on Trade |
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Indian and Russian trade experts are meeting
this week to explore and discuss options
that will remove bilateral trade blocks to
achieve a USD 10 billion trade and lead to a
Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
(CECA).
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Corp Expansion despite
Stalled Reforms |
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Diluted Wildlife Bill
Passed |
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Contrarian HIV Estimates in
New Survey |
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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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Featured Edits
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Bugti’S
Borderlands |
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"India Not Part
Of Any Design To Contain China" |
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Baloch Leader's
Killing A Tragic Loss: India |
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The most powerful right |
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Treading nether
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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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