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Business and Economy
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Cabinet OKs IT Law Amendment
Heeding demands by Indian and
foreign customers of Information
Technology Enabled Services (ITES),
alias Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
to address data security and privacy
protection issues, the Federal
Cabinet approved amendments to
relevant laws.<More>
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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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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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NE S&T Developments
In a sign that India recognizes the lack of
development t in the North Eastern sates, it
announced a slew of new projects for the region
to ensure that the economic and social
development happening in the rest of the nation
reaches these remote areas.<More>
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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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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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India, Ethiopia Plan Agri Cooperation
Following a request by the Ethiopian
Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry ,
India is considering a proposal by the
Department of Agricultural Research and
Education to send a 4-member team to
salinity and give technical advice to boost
production.<More>
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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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Featured Analyses
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Softened North Korean Sanctions |
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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.”
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7th Indo-EU Summit |
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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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Featured Edits
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'Gandhi
not getting the Nobel was the biggest
omission' |
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An
Eye-Wash |
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If secular India speaks like
terrorists, it’s counselling! |
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Race-based spying in
U.K.? |
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Another rogue state |
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China oils its war
machine |
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Tigers Strike Back |
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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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