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Chief Justice Kapadia releases restatement of law
( 12-Oct-2011 )
New Delhi, Oct 11 : Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia Tuesday released a set of Restatement of Indian Law on Legislative Privilege, Contempt of Court and Public Interest Litigation at a function held at Indian Society for International Law here.
The collection of judicial pronouncements on t .... |
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India faces climate change, hunger risks: Report
( 11-Oct-2011 )
New Delhi, Oct 10 : India has been placed seventh in the list of 21 developing countries for its vulnerability in being able to feed its people and grow food, according to a study released Monday.
India is ranked ahead of Pakistan and Nigeria in the report titled 'On the brink: Who's b .... |
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Indian Army wants night landing facilities in border airfields
( 11-Oct-2011 )
New Delhi, Oct 10 : The Indian Army has asked the defence ministry to get about a dozen airfields and advanced landing grounds (ALGs) in Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh upgraded with night landing facilities to improve the transportation of supplies and troops to the sensitive borders areas .... |
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Ministers launch "Come and Play Scheme "
( 10-Oct-2011 )
New Delhi, Oct 9 : To encourage largescale participation in sports and optimal use of its infrastructure, Union Minister for Social Justices and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik Sunday launched the nationwide .... |
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UN celebrates World Space Week
( 08-Oct-2011 )
Vienna, Oct 8 : A sculpture of late Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was presented to the UN office here Friday to celebrate "50 Years of Human Spaceflight", the theme of the World Space Week 2011.
The space week is observed every year Oct 4-10 following its declaration by the 55th UN Gen .... |
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'Some two lakh babies die of infection per year'
( 06-Oct-2011 )
New Delhi, Oct 5 : As many as 190,000 babies die in the first four weeks of birth every year in India due to a bacterial infection acquired in the hospital, a study said here Wednesday.
"Around one million Indian children die in the first four weeks of life each year. Of these deaths, 190, .... |
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What next for Bellary: Mother of all mining violations
( 21-Apr-2011 )
It is indeed significant that the Supreme Court’s Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has called the ravaging of Bellary
in Karnataka the worst-ever mining violation which it had been told to probe since the panel was created May 9, 2002.
This conclusion came after some 1,200 previous reports .... |
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Post-Obama, India may get best of US technologies
( 21-Nov-2010 )
By Gulshan Luthra
The goodwill generated by President Barack Obama's recent visit to India may lead to this country getting some of the best US defence and other technologies, says Vivek Lall, chairman of the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue in the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce.
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Sacrifice essence of life: Message of Eid-ul-Azha
( 21-Nov-2010 )
By Firoz Bakht Ahmed
Even as the country celebrates Eid-ul-Azha, the festival of sacrifice, the significance of it is often not understood.
A sacrifice, usually taken to be the slaughtering of animals, is much more than that. A mother sacrifices her sleep for her children. A father sacrifices all .... |
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'Pakistani leadership lives in self-delusion'
( 21-Nov-2010 )
By Meenakshi Iyer
Pakistan is a victim of many delusions - a country where the army and civilian leadership "live in perpetual self-delusion" and take on "jihadist overtones" that does not rule out orchestration of another Mumbai-style attack in the future, says a Europe-based, .... |
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India's political class under attack over brazen corruption
( 21-Nov-2010 )
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
A chief minister allegedly undervalues precious state land and sells it cheap to his sons. Another's mother-in-law gets a seafront flat meant for families of dead soldiers. A cabinet minister disposes spectrum to companies violating rules, causing whopping losses to the ex .... |
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Different estimates of 2G spectrum loss in auditor's report
( 21-Nov-2010 )
Even though the amount of loss in the award of 2G spectrum has been widely quoted by the media at Rs.1.76 lakh crore (nearly $40 billion), India's official auditor not only gives a set of other lower figures but says all these are at best "presumptive" without any resort to mathematica .... |
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Is there a China-India race in Africa?
( 15-Nov-2010 )
By Rajiv Bhatia
Once again Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserted recently, while answering a journalist, that the world was large enough to accommodate the growth ambitions of both India and China. In a similar vein but speaking specifically about Africa, a senior official in India's Ministry .... |
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Pakistan has never had it so bad
( 15-Nov-2010 )
By Amulya Ganguli
Pakistan is evidently passing through the worst period of its 63-year-old history. Although democracy never struck roots in the country, it at least had a semblance of stability earlier. Although this was a surface phenomenon since the long spells of military rule bred fundamental .... |
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