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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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Child Labor Law Becomes Active
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cajoled, threatened, and entreated the nation
to “stop employing children as workers and actively encourage them to join
schools” and that “Firm action will be taken against those violating the
law.”<More>
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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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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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Lanka-LTTE Grand Standing
While emphasizing that his Government was committed to a
“negotiated settlement” and wanting a “successful”
Geneva summit, Sri Lanka told facilitators that he will
be “compelled” to react if LTTE continues with “violent
and provocative measures.”<More>
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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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World
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North Korea Blasts Nuclear Regime
With a defiant nuclear explosion using
Pakistan technology, North Korea (NK)
blasted years of discriminatory nuclear
regime sparking sharp reactions from
regional and global players and possibly
bringing in major changes to world strategic
thought and orientation.<More>
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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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Hot Topics
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North Korea Blasts Nuclear Regime
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Child Labor Law Becomes Active
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Lanka-LTTE Grand Standing
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Featured Analyses
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Multi-Faceted Trouble for Pakistan
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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.
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Mosquito-based Epidemic Outbreak |
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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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Featured Edits
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Does anybody care about
Manipur? |
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India condemns North
Korean test |
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India
slams test, underlines proliferation |
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Economics of happiness, psychology of
welfare |
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Afzal mercy as national discourse _ a
national shame
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N.Korea can now
blackmail US |
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That sinking feeling |
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Islamophobia |
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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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