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Business and Economy
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Russia-EU Energy Disagreement
Depending on over 25% of energy from
Russia, the 25 EU nations are
unable to agree on how to demand
“predictability” in energy supply
while balancing values and economic
interests.<More>
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Action to Increase Wheat Production
India has formulated an Action Plan
to increase production and
productivity of wheat by targeting
50% of wheat cultivation areas in
138 districts of Bihar, Uttar
Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, and West Bengal .<More>
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Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary
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SC Verdicts Cuts Up Political Plans
In far-reaching verdicts, the Supreme Court (SC) asked the Government for
“compelling reasons” for including particular castes that are entitled for
reservations and “quantifiable” data to retain those castes in the list has
created churn in the caste-politics.<More>
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Environment, Health and Education
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WHO Wants TB Program Sustainability
Wanting a more effective management of the tuberculosis
(TB) programs, the World Health Organization (WHO) said
that “financial sustainability and manageability” was
required in addition to mere funding.<More>
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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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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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Barak Controversy & DRDO Projects
Amid rumors of kickbacks over the procurement of
Naval Barak anti-missile defense system from
Israel, there is increasing evidence that most
projects undertaken by the Defense Research &
Development Organization (DRDO) are behind
schedule.<More>
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Pak to Get 6 Chinese Nuclear Plant
Reports indicate ahead of Chinese President Hu
Jintao’s visit to Pakistan next month, it has
decided to grant 6300 megawatt (MW) nuclear
power projects in sites to be chosen by
Islamabad and with the approval of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).<More>
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Strategic Naval Conference
Recently, the Naval Senior Officers’ Conference
concluded and looked at three dominant themes
engrossing Navy strategists—safety and
consciousness, building stronger intellectual
and theoretical foundation, and accelerating the
process-of change.<More>
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Neighbors
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Pak Disputes Baglihar Dam Report
Pakistan disputed a report in the Indian media citing
independent Swiss experts arbitrating the Baglihar Dam
issue conclusion that upheld Indian position as
“misleading” and accused that the “honour code of
confidentiality” has been broken.<More>
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India Upbeat about Hu’s Visit
Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt sounded upbeat ahead of
Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to India saying that
defense relationship between the two nations “normal”
while the communist parties wanted China to initiate
confidence-building measures.<More>
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UNP Will Support Constitutional Amendment
The Sri Lankan United National Party (UNP) promised to
support any legislation that could be introduced by the
President to restore the status quo of the merger of
North and East struck down by the Supreme Court (SC) as
“null and void.” <More>
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World
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China Surprises on NK
In a sign of successful visit to Beijing by
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the
US and China presented a united face by
demanding that North Korea (NK) return
unconditionally to the 6-party talks.<More>
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Another Test by North Korea?
Even as it saw its closest ally China
building walls along the border and
inspecting shipments, North Korea (NK) said
that the UN sanctions amounted to
declaration of war and Japan said another
nuclear test is in the offing.<More>
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Pak Disputes Baglihar Dam Report
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China Surprises on NK
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SC Verdicts Cuts Up Political Plans
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Russia-EU Energy Disagreement
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Action to Increase Wheat Production
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Featured Analyses
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Barak Controversy & DRDO Projects |
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Amid rumors of kickbacks over the procurement of
Naval Barak anti-missile defense system from
Israel, there is increasing evidence that most
projects undertaken by the Defense Research &
Development Organization (DRDO) are behind
schedule.
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Justice Vs Judiciary Vs Legislation |
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NE S&T Developments |
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Softened North Korean Sanctions |
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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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Featured Edits
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The search for the
puppet-masters |
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Integrity campaign must specify, not
sermonise |
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Farmers
deserve much better than govt talk of
GDP rates |
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Using taxpayers as
guinea pigs |
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The
Hidden Sea Tigers |
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Tatas acquire Corus
Group |
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Return to six-party
talks, U.S., China tell N. Korea |
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A new partner for
India in Europe |
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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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