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Business and Economy

  • 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>

  • 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>

  • Indian Outward FDI Expansion
    In further expansion of Indian business with outward foreign direct investment (FDI), Wipro announced the acquisition of a Swedish hydraulic company and Tata Power announced plans to set up plants in South Africa, Nepal, Vietnam, and Bhutan.    <More>

  • 31 New SEZ
    Despite intense opposition and public debate over Special Economic Zones (SEZs) policy, the Board of Approvals (BoA) cleared 31 proposals including the South Korean Posco’s proposal for a Rs. 55,000 crore (USD 12 billion) steel project.    <More>
Democracy, Politics and Judiciary

  • 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>
Environment, Health and Education

  • Mosquito-based Epidemic Outbreak
    Reportedly 76 people died in Kerala with Chikungunya and nearly 128,500 cases of Dengue have been reported nation-wide causing severe strain on an ill-equipped and ill-motivated system to deal with the crisis on a war footing.<More>

  • 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>

  • 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>
Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science & Technology

  • US Promises to Upgrade Pakistan F-16s
    The row over the stripped down version of avionics and fighter systems on the 18 new and upgraded second-hand F-16s seemed to have blown over with Pakistan agreeing to the terms and signing the letter of acceptance in Rawalpindi.<More>

  • 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>
Neighbors

  • 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>
World

  • South Africa to Back Nuke Deal
    Visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh elicited South Africa to support its civilian nuclear deal with the US and got a commitment from President Thabo Mbeko that his country will support the deal in the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG).<More>
 
Hot Topics
Mosquito-based Epidemic Outbreak
US Promises to Upgrade Pakistan F-16s
South Africa to Back Nuke Deal

Featured Analyses     More
  Mosquito-based Epidemic Outbreak  

Reportedly 76 people died in Kerala with Chikungunya and nearly 128,500 cases of Dengue have been reported nation-wide causing severe strain on an ill-equipped and ill-motivated system to deal with the crisis on a war footing.
 

New Environmental Guidelines  

 

China Claims Fusion Reactor Successes 

 

Judiciary vs Legislature Judgment Reserved 

 

Reliance Opposes Open Bidding for Gas 

 

LTTE Agrees to Talks 

 

China ’s Aging Population Plan 

Featured Edits

Deal may be delayed: Mulford

EU for building multipolar world

Developing Northeast the Yunnan way

Jessica lives on

Musharraf’s plan to destabilise Afghanistan

Security Scares For Musharraf

Cross-border terrorism Exploiting emotions

Inscription
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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