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Business and Economy
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Global Trust Deficit on China FDI
As China’s major allies in India,
the Communist Party (M) of India (CPM)
seem to have given up their campaign
to gain economic access for Beijing,
there is increasing evidence that
India has many economic reasons not
trust China yet.<More>
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Mining Policy to Attract FDI
A new mining policy is being
formalized aiming to attract more
foreign direct investment (FDI)
through joint ventures which is now
only USD 150 million and the new
target investment value is Rs.
100,000 crore (USD 22.22 billion) in
the next 2 years.<More>
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Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary
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India Lost 10 Million Girls
A senior Indian official acknowledged a “national crisis” of parents in
richer states choosing boys over girls using technology to identify and
abort female fetuses resulting in the loss of 10 million girls in the last
20 years.<More>
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Armed Forces Act Amendment
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visiting Manipur said that his government will
amend the Armed Forces Act withdrawing extraordinary provisions such as
shoot-to-kill thus complying with demands made by many politicians of the
North East (NE).<More>
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Environment, Health and Education
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Reasons for HIV Propagation
A UNAIDS and World Health Organization (WHO) study has
found that “poor knowledge of HIV” especially “among
homosexual groups,” male prostitution, and unsafe drug
abuse practices are main drivers of HIV propagation.<More>
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Forest Guard Recruitment Accelerated
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has
asked all states to urgently fill existing vacancies of
forest guard position especially in Tiger Sanctuaries
even if they have to relax recruitment norms.<More>
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Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology
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Taliban Is a Virtual Mini State in Pak
Finally, Western media has woken up to the
dangers of the
peace pact between Pakistan and the
local Taliban in the North West Frontier
Province and the New York Times (NYT) reported
about a resurgent Taliban supporting
Indian concern for this development.<More>
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BEL Weapon Locating Radars
The Army will start testing indigenously
developed weapon locating radar (WLR) for
“internal evaluation” to further the “shoot and
scoot” doctrine using self-propelled guns and
artillery to loosen up defense before an
offensive onslaught into hostile territory.<More>
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Neighbors
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Nepal Close to Deal
Nepal’s ruling coalition and Maoists guerrillas say
that they are close to an understanding on an interim
constitution and power-sharing even as a new poll showed
that the Nepalese overwhelmingly wanted the marginalized
King Gnanendra in power.<More>
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Pak Emergent Defense Player
With nuclear-test imposed sanctions being lifted and
being conferred a major non-NATO ally status Pakistan is
being viewed as a serious emergent buyer as it now has
access to weapons, aircraft, and missiles. Its export in
the USD 3 trillion arms market is only USD 200 million
but is expected to grow.<More>
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World
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Hamas Takes Over Gaza Border
After weeks of politically motivated
assassinations and murder of children, Hamas
gunmen fought fiercely with Fatah-allied
border guards to seize control of the Gaza
Strip’s EU-monitored border crossing with
Egypt.<More>
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Qualitative Jump in Indo-US Relations
In a major show of good faith, US policy
makers worked into the night to reconcile
the House and Senate versions of the
amendments to US law that would facilitate
Indo-US civilian nuclear cooperation and
will be signed into law by US President
George Bush.<More>
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Hot Topics
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Featured Analyses
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Taliban Is a Virtual Mini State in Pak
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Finally, Western media has woken up to the
dangers of the
peace pact between Pakistan and the
local Taliban in the North West Frontier
Province and the New York Times (NYT) reported
about a resurgent Taliban supporting
Indian concern
for this development.
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New Money Laundering Law |
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Qualitative Jump in Indo-US Relations |
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Citizens in Crossfire |
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LTTE Wants “Independent” Nation |
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Chávez Wins a Polarized Nation |
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Coup in Fiji |
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Featured Edits
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Diana's death was an
accident: inquiry |
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State has never
uplifted anybody |
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Flavour of the season |
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Japan-India partnership
key to bolstering stability in Asia |
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Pride versus possession |
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Problem resurfaces |
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Khairlanji: atrocity of a law
forgotten |
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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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