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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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NHAI Plan to Tackle Highway HIV
Migrant population living along highways suffer higher
rates of HIV infection because of poor family support,
lack of healthcare, unsafe sex, easy access to brothels,
and lack of awareness but a new plan is being created to
specifically target this population.<More>
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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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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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Softened North Korean Sanctions
Facing severe opposition from China, the UN
Security Council led by the US whittle down the
sanctions targeted at North Korea (NK) as
punishment for its nuclear test even as NK and
Iran rejected the sanctions as discriminatory
and “gangster-like.”<More>
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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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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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Darfur Refugees Live in Fear
Belying expectations that African Union (AU)
peacekeepers would bring peace to the
ethnically torn Darfur region of Sudan ,
refugees in camps say that the peacekeeping
mission is escalating the conflict and the
resultant violence is driving away aid.<More>
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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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Hot Topics
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Softened North Korean Sanctions
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Featured Analyses
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7th Indo-EU Summit |
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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.
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Y-on-Y Industrial Growth Higher |
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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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Featured Edits
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Veil triggers row in
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A new era of media
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Declaration of
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Reduce Army, expand Air
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A magical land too |
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Customer is a joker in
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Foreign policy lacks
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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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