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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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Quota Panel Report
The Oversight Committee submitted their proposals to the Federal Government
proposing that the contentious 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC)
be reviewed in another 5 years and again after a decade to determine the
relevance of the policy.<More>
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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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Environment, Health and Education
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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>
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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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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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Multi-Faceted Trouble for Pakistan
As rumors of a coup continues to be fuelled by
weapons discoveries around President Pervez
Musharraf’s office, a grand Jirga of 95 Baloach
tribal chiefs met and decided to move the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) on their
status.<More>
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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>
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Neighbors
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Iran-US Verbal War
In a continuing war of words, Iran and the US have
castigated each other with the US demanding sanctions as
“time was of essence” and Iran refuting these and
unilateral American sanctions as “useless.”<More>
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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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World
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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>
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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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Hot Topics
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Multi-Faceted Trouble for Pakistan
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Quota Panel Report
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Iran-US Verbal War
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Featured Analyses
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Mosquito-based Epidemic Outbreak
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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.
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New Environmental Guidelines
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China Claims Fusion Reactor Successes |
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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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Featured Edits
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A turning point in
ties, says Hu Jintao |
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Four
things Sebi needs to do to save small
investors |
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India's
mystifying rise |
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Insecure General |
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The Dinesh Dalmia trail
gets hotter
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Competing for space |
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Sycophancy, now with a new, desperate
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That sinking feeling |
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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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