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Business and Economy
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Y-on-Y Industrial Growth Higher
An upsurge in manufacturing took
cumulative industrial production
from April-August to 10.6 compared
to 8.7 last year and August saw a
9.7% rise compared to 7.6% but lower
than July’s growth of 12.7% but
analysts say that consumer demand
has not slacked.<More>
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Macro Indicators Strong, Agri
Worrisome
Although economic growth is at
7.5%-8%, inflation in check at
5%-5.5%, investments in Telecom & IT
estimated at USD 16 billion, and
more reforms on financial and retail
sector in the offing, the Indian
economy continues to roar but
Agriculture continues to be a major
worry.<More>
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Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary
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UN Wants to Stop Violence against Women
A study sponsored by the UN Secretary General concluded that it has found
“compelling evidence that violence against women (VAW) is severe and
pervasive throughout the world” but there is no “knowledge base to inform
police and strategy development.”<More>
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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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Environment, Health and Education
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Pollution, Poaching Affecting Conservation
Two different and unrelated reports show that there
increasing pollution and poaching are affecting quality
of rivers and wildlife depending on these rivers despite
large spends to clean rivers.<More>
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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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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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Indian Navy Declines Harriers
After decline PC-3 Orion from the US , the
Indian Navy has declined 8 British Sea Harrier
FA2 fighter jets phased out of the Royal Navy
because vital components such as missile
carrying capability, fire control radar, and
other avionics were missing.<More>
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Mig-29 Flying Life Extended
As in the case of Mig-21s, the Indian Air Force
(IAF) has commissioned the National Aerospace
Laboratories (NAL) to conduct Total Technical
Life Enhancement (TTLE) of the Mig-29 to enhance
its life from 2500 to 3000 flying hours.<More>
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Neighbors
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Southern Consensus in Sri Lanka?
In a significant political move, Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapakse’s Sri Lankan Freedom Party (SLFP) and
former Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe’s United
National Party agreed to pursue a “national consensus”
on all issues.<More>
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Corporate Military in Pakistan
Many analysts are now accusing the Pakistani military
for developing strong commercial interests to create an
oligarchy of serving and retired officers to control
banks, transport, road building, communication, and
construction businesses worth billions of dollars.<More>
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World
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7th Indo-EU Summit
Inaugurating the 7th Indo-EU summit, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh emphasized that the
“Consolidation of strategic partnership and
intensification of dialogue with the
European Union” is a key foreign policy
priority for India.<More>
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India, Britain Share Terror Concerns
Visiting Britain right after the North
Korean (NK) nuclear test, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and British Prime Minister
Tony Blair concluded their third annual
summit and discussed terrorism, energy
cooperation, and investment promotion.<More>
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Featured Analyses
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Y-on-Y Industrial Growth Higher |
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An upsurge in manufacturing took
cumulative industrial production
from April-August to 10.6 compared
to 8.7 last year and August saw a
9.7% rise compared to 7.6% but lower
than July’s growth of 12.7% but
analysts say that consumer demand
has not slacked.
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India, Britain Share Terror Concerns |
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North Korea Blasts Nuclear Regime |
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Multi-Faceted Trouble for Pakistan |
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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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Featured Edits
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India offers itself as
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U.K. troops must leave
Iraq: General |
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There goes world peace |
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Long goodbye |
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Towards an inclusive globalisation |
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Helsinki prefers
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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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