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Business and Economy
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Cotton Output Up
Industry estimates predict a rise in
cotton output to 260-275 lakh bales
against 245 lakh bales last year
despite crop damage due to floods in
Maharashtra and
Gujarat earlier with the use of
genetically altered and hybrid
cotton seeds.<More>
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Indo-Sri Lanka Trade Looking at USD
3B
From a mere USD 650 million in 2000,
the Indo-Sri Lanka Free Trade
Agreement (FTA) is set to take
bilateral trade to USD 3 billion
next calendar year despite unethical
business practices not-conducive to
business by the Sri Lankan
Government (SLG).<More>
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Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary
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Judiciary vs Legislature Judgment Reserved
The Supreme Court (SC) has reserved its verdict on cash-for-query (CFQ) case
and the subsequent judgment will essentially define the scope of the
judiciary over Legislature or over the Executive.<More>
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SC Allows Haj Subsidy for This Year
While allowing the Government to continue with its Haj plans for lakhs of
Muslim pilgrims this year, the Supreme Court (SC) questioned the
Government’s continued “largesse” to one community while denying others of
similar facilities.<More>
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Environment, Health and Education
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New Environmental Guidelines
In a bid to decentralize environmental impact
assessment, the Federal Government announced new
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) guidelines that
grant concessions for builders, automobile, and
biomedical sectors.<More>
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More HIV Treatment Centers
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) announced
that it has increased the number of free anti-retroviral
treatment (ART) centers from 54 to 91 complete with
specially trained doctors, counselors, and laboratory
technicians.<More>
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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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Maoist Meet Focuses on Coordination
In an ominous note, the fourth conference of the
Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and
Organizations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA) in Nepal
resolved to better coordinate to turn South Asia
“into a flaming field of people’s upsurges.”<More>
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Iraq War “Spawned new Terror”
A classified report by US Intelligence found
that the war in Iraq has “spawned new terror”
activity and a new generation of Islamic
radicalism and that the overall terror threat
has grown significantly since September 11, 2001.<More>
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Pak Delays F-16 Deal
Accusing the US of stripping down the F-16s to
less than effective and imposing unacceptable
conditions for usage, Pakistan has delayed
signing the Letter of Acceptance (LoA) for the
USD 3 billion deal till December 31, 2006.<More>
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Neighbors
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China Claims Fusion Reactor Successes
Chinese scientists claimed that their first experimental
thermonuclear fusion test replicating sun’s energy
generation process in the Experimental Advanced
Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor was successful.<More>
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LTTE Agrees to Talks
Responding to calls from many parties and despite
afterthought caveats introduced by the Sri Lankan
Government (SLG), the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
said that his organization is ready to resume stalled
talks on a peaceful future in the island.<More>
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World
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Russia-US Relations Set to Worsen
A Russian Parliamentary report alerted
policy makers that the US will continue to
pursue a hostile policy towards Moscow
regardless of political affiliations or
incumbent in the White House as they
struggle for influence over world energy,
power, and politics.<More>
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Hezbollah Refuses to Disarm
In his first public appearance Hezbollah
leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed before a
massive 500,000-rally that his cadre will
not disarm and claimed a “divine, historic
and strategic victory” even as Israeli
troops withdrew and UN peacekeepers
deployment was on track.<More>
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Hot Topics
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Cotton Output Up
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Indo-Sri Lanka Trade Looking at USD 3B
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New Environmental Guidelines
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Featured Analyses
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China Claims Fusion Reactor Successes |
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Chinese scientists claimed that their first experimental
thermonuclear fusion test replicating sun’s energy
generation process in the Experimental Advanced
Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor was successful.
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Judiciary vs Legislature Judgment Reserved |
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Reliance Opposes Open Bidding for Gas |
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LTTE Agrees to Talks |
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China ’s Aging Population Plan |
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Torture, Censorship, and
Repression in ‘Azad’ Kashmir |
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New Polio Campaign in UP |
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Featured Edits
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Havana's flawed mechanism |
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Making borders
irrelevant |
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Confucius makes a comeback in China
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Attack on J&K Assembly: trial of
suspects yet to begin
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A new Musharraf?
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Indian, Chinese firms top "bribe
payers' index" |
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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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