• BSNL profit down 20%
  State-owned telephone company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced that its profit margin dropped by 20% due to lower access deficit charge (ADC) from private operators and lower reimbursement of licensing fee. BSNL earned USD 1.8 billion.<More>

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• Salman Khan Jailed—Long Live Justice
  Justice in India is delayed, lumpy, and selective but it works—Salman Khan the actor accused of shooting endangered animals to please girlfriends and killing roadside dwellers in inebriated state has been sentenced to 5 years by a trial court in Rajasthan.<More>

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• Natwar’s kin Detained
  Vipin Khanna, a kin of disgraced former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh was detained by officials and refused permission to travel abroad although his son and suspect in the oil-for-food scam, Aditya Khanna has escaped to London.<More>

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• Sea Level to Rise 
  Increased use of fossil fuels leading to more greenhouse gases, reduction in forest cover, high development activity will eventually cause intense rain in the North East, drought and desertification in the North West, and inundation of coastal areas.<More>

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• India Refuses to Define “Credible Minimum Deterrence”
  India refused to accede to visiting US Undersecretary of State Richard Boucher’s request to define “credible minimum deterrence” and repeated in essence what his boss said during the Congressional briefings that it is self-explanatory and is relative.<More>

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• Karzai Visits India 
  Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is visiting India for the first time after his country was proposed by India to join the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and both countries promised to fight terrorism together. <More>  

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