• India to Export Sugar
  Expecting a large increase in sugar production, Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar told the Parliament that the Government is considering allowing its export but said that a review is required in October based on actual output. <More>

• Meghalaya Coal Mining Excesses
  The Supreme Court (SC) accepted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) requesting intervention to stop rampant coal mining and limestone quarrying off natural caves in Meghalaya claiming that the Federal Government has not responded to their pleas.<More>

• Who Supports Right to Education Bill?
  Several state governments are angry at the Federal Government’s plan to pass on financial responsibility of implementing the Fundamental Right to Education for children in the six-to-14 age group out of State Budgets.<More>

• LeT Targeting Sensitive Spots
  Senior Indian officials took umbrage to US comments absolving Pakistan on the 7/11 Mumbai blasts and said they have actionable intelligence that the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was behind the terrorist attack and of plans to attack sensitive spots. <More>

Maoist Terrorists Hunt Indians
With increased Indian insistence on the disarming of Maoist terrorist groups in Nepal, hospitality sector employees and businessmen of Indian origin have become prime targets for extortion and death threats causing a large exodus back to their homeland. <More>

• SLMM Collapses, Ceasefire Dead as Civil War Looms
  Sri Lanka moved ground troops following air force raids on a “humanitarian operation” to take control of a water reservoir in an ill-defined area but controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sparking the Tamils to declare the ceasefire dead. <More >

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