january 28th

  $400 m World Bank loan for Power Grid

  ‘India better placed in financial system’

  Mangalore’s immoral police

  A cautious approach ( RBI’s third quarter review of the monetary and credit policy)

  We will minimise civilian casualties: Rajapaksa

  Pranab: no sympathy for LTTE

  R. Venkataraman passes away

  Washington endorses Beijing’s move to patrol Gulf of Aden

  Venkataraman presided over the change to era of coalitions

  RBI scales down GDP growth to 7 per cent

  Chandrayaan II to be launched on GSLV

  Local bodies go slow on new tax norms

  Civilians, major concern of Army

  Sharif wants Chaudhary back

  We made mistakes, Obama tells Muslim world

  Palestinian State is possible, says Obama

  California woman makes history with octuplets

  Liberia’s pest crisis

  Hold elections, Fiji told

  Higher education needs a better deal

  Downturn, not recession: government

  $20 million aid sought to speed up LCA project

  Golden quadrilateral on a road to nowhere: BJP

  Where statehood demand raises spectre of ethnic unrest

  South Stream’s Russian gas for Europe

  God’s infinite qualities

jan 27

 

  More measures likely to pump up economy

  ‘Independent directors need a watchdog’

  New innovation strategies to beat economic slowdown

  End game in Sri Lanka

  Euro at ten

  Mahinda Rajapaksa invites Karunanidhi, Jayalalithaa

  An impressive show on R-Day

  President honours the bravehearts

  It’s for those who worked for poor: Sister Nirmala

  RBI plans more measures

  Indian Americans to meet Obama team on 26/11

  India has no better friend than U.S.: Obama

  Republic Day fervour in China, Israel

  U.S. shifting focus to Afghanistan

  Obama on emissions

  Bid to relocate detenus

  Trade your emissions, says EU

  Promise and pitfalls of Obama’s South Asia policy  

  Dominic Emmanuel, Anjuman selected for Harmony award

  Missiles steal the show at Parade

  Team to hold talks on Gorshkov price

  3 more Lok Adalats to be set up

  “Full support to Salwa Judum”

  ‘Industry-farming balance essential’

  Eclipse: Minister orders special poojas

  Child soldiers trial opens at The Hague

  Nature of the Self

january 25 and 26

  Transparency: critical role of digital signature

  World’s leading banks under severe financial stress

  Lights go out, Poles leave as recession hits U.K.

  Easing monetary policy

  Qaddafi’s non-starter

  LTTE loses Mullaithivu

  Padma Vibhushan for Kakodkar, Madhavan Nair, Nirmala

  List of Padma awardees 2009

  Terrorism: Kazakhstan stands firmly with India

  Boost to “Slumdog Millionaire”

  Stupendous project to document rock art

  Honour for Shashi Deshpande, Bannanje, Mathoor

  Financial crisis to be discussed in Davos meet

  Verma to head RAW

  Nepal could learn from India: Sood

  Pakistan deploys Army at Swat schools

  China reports sixth human bird flu case

  U.S. will hit targets inside Pakistan: Biden

  Penganga project in troubled waters

  Enact law to protect jobs, says Yechury

  We are not in recession, but only facing slowdown: Chidambaram

  Investigating agencies must enjoy immunity and independence, says Krishna Iyer

  “Solar eclipse will be partially visible”

  Eleven chosen for Ashoka Chakra, 13 for Kirti Chakra

  India does not hate Danny Boyle

  Interpreting Dharma

January 25

 

  Kazakhstan invites Indian investments

  Antony to officiate at Republic Day function

  Somali pirates release Indian sailors

  Kazakhstan signs agreement to supply uranium

  ARC for speedy police verification

  Attacks counter-productive, Pakistan tells America

  Brown’s “dream call” from Obama

  Key role for Bobby Jindal

  UNMIN to stay for six more months in Nepal

  Back in control: Hamas

 

 

January 24

  Advisory Council revises GDP growth to 7.1 %

  Sector-specific relief packages soon, says Ashwani Kumar

  Banks to tighten ‘know your customer’ norms

  Reaching the unserved (Financial inclusion)

  Kleybanova trips up fifth-seeded Ivanovic

  A milestone in stem cell research

  Govt. launches survey of trees

  U.S. approves first stem cell therapy

  Indian sailors of hijacked ship released

  Lokayukta books senior police officer

  10 die in U.S. strike in Pakistan

  Delay in delivery of a Russian n-submarine

  Efforts on to heal Palestinian rift

  Shanghai group to hold meet

  News on U.S. economy not good: Obama

  Chinese toys banned

  Chandrayaan detects X-ray signals

 

  Inflation inches up to 5.6 %

  ONGC committed to investment in Nigeria

  Groping in the dark

  CID: Raju inflated employee numbers

  3 Oscar nominations for Rahman

  We have been waiting for this for 80 years: A.R. Rahman

  India hands over strategic highway to Afghanistan

  Modalities for health insurance scheme under discussion

  Indian boys down Korea, make it to the final

  Prince Claus Award for Indian ace

  Obama orders closure of Guantanamo camp

  Takes oath again

  Draft road policy proposes fuel cess, levies

  Parliament session to begin from Feb.12

  Food safety regulatory authority soon

  Possible use of phosphorus: Israel

  China’s GDP records seven-year low

  UN’s appeal to LTTE

  Aid to Pakistan linked to anti-terror performance: Obama

  Colombo slams claim on U.S. bases

  Imperatives before the judiciary

  Ashoka Chakra for police officers killed in Mumbai

  Goldman Sachs, investment banker?

  Karunanidhi’s ‘final request’ to Centre

  Boyle: Oscar nominations unbelievable

  Navy chief calls for enhanced preparedness

  Memorial house for Teresa in Macedonia

  $630 million more pledged in global anti-polio efforts

  Parts of India to witness partial solar eclipse

  Researcher gets U.S. patent

  Full Court meet on making declared assets public

  Struggling to understand the financial crisis

  FAO launches international year of natural fibres

  Pact of friendship

 

  SEBI asks promoters to disclose pledged shares

  BHP Billiton to cut 6,000 jobs

  President Obama’s promises

  Federer and Djokovic go through; Lu Yen-Hsun upsets Nalbandian

  Will never seek hegemony, says China

  Colombo widens safe zone

  Arab world takes note of Obama’s offer

  Satyam not an isolated instance

  Canada offers reactors, uranium

  “Better for Speaker to quit party”

  MPLADS does not override State’s powers: Centre

  States seek grant of Rs.20,000 crore

  The pounding of Gaza and after

  Work of devotion

january 21 and 20

  No more tax sops this fiscal: Montek

  Report on future workforce released

  Incentives to power companies

  HISTORIC INAUGURATION ON THE CAPITOL

  A nation of diverse faiths: Obama

  Indian-Americans in key posts

  Obama reaches out to Muslims

  Ombudsman directive to panchayat

  New version of BrahMos test-fired

  On Pennsylvania Avenue, a bit of magic

  Fierce clashes in Mullathivu

  Russia resumes gas supplies to Europe

  A brief awkward moment

  Swat: lessons from a militant takeover  

  Punjab village shows way to counter economic problems

  House panel takes views on exit poll curbs

  Army conducts flight trial of BrahMos

  ‘Kinnars’ seek to contest elections

  ‘Project Snow Leopard’ launched

  “MPLADS doesn’t flout federal structure”

  Looks like Prabakaran’s last battle

  Oil price fall hits green energy

  Spirit of service

 

January 20^th

 

  SIDBI floats ARC for MSMEs

  A dream gone sour

  Miracle on the Hudson

  Obama calls for a new spirit of national sacrifice

  No bailout: Kamal Nath

  ‘Asia Literary Review glories in eclecticism’

  Jharkhand under President’s rule

  Rwanda: joint struggle needed by India, Africa to get U.N. seat

  Indicate when Pranab will go to Sri Lanka: Karunanidhi

  Federer starts pursuit of 14th Grand Slam

  Fortune favours Surya Shekhar Ganguly

  Bird flu in Sikkim

  Israeli forces begin withdrawal from Gaza

  Depleted uranium used?

  U.K. to lose status?

  New capital for quake-hit Beichuan

  Bringing Cuba back into the fold

  NIA chief takes charge

  For the sake of girl child

  CIC order on disclosure of judges’ assets stayed

  Parties’ support sought to impeach HC judge

  Bird flu in Sikkim

  Court: Election Commission can issue fresh guidelines on exit poll

  Cr.PC Amendment Bill gets President’s assent

  70 scientists to review Chandrayaan-1 data

  Universal wisdom

 

january 19th

  Corporate governance at its nadir

  Accounting firm’s failed responsibility

  Class action may stall Satyam takeover

  Back to basics: boosting public expenditure

  State mulls partnership with international energy agency

  Ill-conceived foray

  Protect the wetlands

  Hamas announces ceasefire

  Pakistan law allows transfer of fugitives

  Heart disease gene variant widespread in South Asians

  Centre approves plan to study Toto tribe in north Bengal

  Rajya Sabha seat: Mani not to give in

  Egypt meet sans Hamas, Israel

  Gas flow to resume after Moscow meet

  How to develop India’s northeast

  Modi targets anti-terror laws

  From action to knowledge

january 18th

·  Atomic Energy Commission to approve NPCIL-NTPC venture

·  ISRO planning to bring out atlas on the moon

·  Military action in Sri Lanka will lead to nowhere, says Ahamed

·  NRI University

·  National bravery awards for 20

·  “Ties with Colombo have never been so warm”

·  Obama: I’ll reclaim America’s spirit

·  Israeli ceasefire soon

·  Andrew Wyeth, realist and lightning-rod, dies at 91

·  Mortimer, a “man for all seasons”

·  Russia to open naval bases in Libya, Syria and Yemen

·  Centre proposes changes in environment notification

·  Reconsider varsities’ Bill, Centre urged

·  40 p.c. child marriages in India: UNICEF

·  Work on Chandrayaan-II has begun: Annadurai

·  Advanced radiotherapy technology comes to India

·  Rangarajan could be next Finance Minister: Aiyar

·  Supreme Court registry challenges CIC order

·  3,000 village courts to function soon

 

January 17 and 16

  Citi posts loss, splits company

  Foundation laid for tea park

  Reducing risks of surgery

  The issues cannot be shelved

  Airbus ditches onto New York river

  Reducing inequality, inequity a challenge: Manmohan Singh

  4 killed in ‘jallikattu,’ many injured

  Assad’s call to severe ties with Israel

  World Bank ranks Karnataka first, Kerala second

  Nod for religious institutions Bill

  Three Indians among hostages

  Menon in Sri Lanka

  Colombo’s stress on 1987 accord with India

  British writer John Mortimer dead at 85

  Governor recommends President’s rule in Jharkhand

  Crop insurance premium to be considered for MSP

  Supreme Court admits SLPs of Natwar Singh, son

  Reconsider universities’ Bill, Centre urged

  UAE set to be first nuclear Arab country

  Removal of ignorance

 

 

 

 

 

·  Plan to deregulate retail fuel prices

·  EU favours dumping duty on Chinese steel

·  Pogrom in Gaza

·  Encouraging voluntary testing

 

·  Five training camps shut down: Pakistan

·  SFIO team meets CID brass

·  Surprise over Miliband remarks on extradition

·  No objection to fair trial in Pakistan: Pranab

·  China, world’s 3rd largest economy

·  Check infiltration of Bangladeshis, Centre told

·  Confession tribunal opens up after 830 years

·  IPS officer appointed NIA chief

·  Inflation eases

·  Centre to set up anomaly panel

·  Jaffna peninsula liberated: Army

·  Russia to host summit to resolve gas row

·  Chidambaram writes to CMs

·  Pranab to visit Dhaka early next month

·  Bush lays stress on historic partnership with India

·  Film director Tapan Sinha passes away

·  Omar moots Truth Commission

·  Cord blood bank facility in Kolkata

·  Fund to help overseas Indian workers in distress becomes operational

·  Keep the mind pure

  FDI in airlines may be allowed

  Tea exports set to cross 205 million kg in 2008

  Obama and Kashmir

  Importing vulnerability

  Serious fraud office to probe Satyam scam

  Independent directors put tough questions, but gave blank cheque

  Growing concern over civilians’ fate in Sri Lanka

  Matthew Hayden calls it a day

  NIO draws flak for ocean fertilization

  Menon on two-day visit to Sri Lanka

  Severe damage in Rafah

  NATO supply route blocked

  Madoff avoids jail

  We will build on ties with India: Hillary

  Ukraine blocking flow of gas, says Russia

  States to report on welfare of construction workers

  ICAI panel to examine Satyam audit

  ‘Flows in Indus basin likely to decrease’

  MP takes up cause of nomadic tribes

  Cambridge university announces scholarships

  Adopt water harvesting as national mission: Soz

  Remembering Baba Saheb

  Measles still a threat in Europe, eradication goal unlikely

  True devotion kills ego

January 13th

  Deora asks energy sector to maintain growth

  Industrial growth recovers

  Time of the underdog (Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire, KBK!)

  Golden Globes for Slumdog Millionaire

  Truckers call off agitation

  ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ just one shot away from the Oscars

  Israeli troops surround Gaza city

  Safina eases past Cirstea

  Cambridge announces Manmohan scholarships

  A double for Kate Winslet

  America’s regional strategy takes off

  India-Russia naval exercise by month-end

  Akademi Ratnas for Sitara Devi, Bhupen Hazarika

  R.Venkataraman hospitalised

  Value of human birth

January 12th

 

  Absence of direct fiscal measure in package

  Marin Cilic claims Chennai Open

  Bid to boost women’s share in NREGS

  All set for an absorbing Ranji final

  Handloom Export Zone in Chennimalai

  ‘Gulabi Talkies’ is first best film

  Pirates release vessel, Indians safe

  Kerala retains overall title

  “Israel used white phosphorous explosives”

  Mullathivu jungle being cleared: Army

  Madhav Nepal to head Constitutional Committee

  Gas supplies to be resumed

  The fiscal stimulus challenge (Treat)

  Convert crisis into opportunity: Yechury

  Bangladeshis have no business to stay back: Chidambaram

  Uranium deal likely with Kazakhstan

  Air Force places order with BEL for Akash missile

  Singular grace

January 11

  MPEDA to focus on tuna export

  Pranab rules out Israeli-type action against Pakistan

  Where’s the bailout for the hungry?

  Gilani equates Mumbai attacks with Gaza

  Devvarman in final as Schuettler pulls out

  Some jobs cannot be outsourced: Obama

  PM asks scientists to combine expansion with excellence

  Social networking sites are vulnerable

  Cabinet nod for plan on Central universities

  ‘Genetically modified brinjal unsafe’

  Cabinet nod for Arunachal roads

January 10

 

  Inflation drops sharply to 5.91 per cent

  Kirby Adams to succeed Varin at Corus

  Respecting State sentiments

  A mammoth task  

  “People still have very high confidence in the judiciary”

  LTTE loses Elephant Pass

  World on the brink of food shortages, says report

  Israel, Hamas reject U.N. ceasefire plan

  Rock art finds excite aficionados

  Inflation below 6 p.c.

  Salaries of judges: Ordinance issued

  End-game for LTTE, says Army

  Ban recommends UNMIN extension

  Turkey: Army, government at odds

  U.S. economic model challenged

  Impeachment “certain”

  Blagojevich to be impeached

  “People still have very high confidence in the judiciary”

  Increasing challenges to stability in Asia

  Pratibha sees need to reform IMF, World Bank

  Nature of the mind

January 9

  Test cricket’s changing balance

  Merkel challenges U.S. economic model

  Road development should be inclusive, holistic: Manmohan

  Wild card Devvarman takes out Moya

  Strike: five States invoke ESMA

  Committed to political solution: Sri Lanka

  Dhaka to fight terrorism

  Durrani’s ouster points to Gilani-Zardari struggle

  Replacement for Obama in Illinois Senate seat

  Why the caste system is on its last legs

  OIC card-holders can practise in India

  Maldives looks to India for support

  Smart cards from June 1, says Vayalar Ravi

  Fiscal stimulus is far more than spending packages, says Montek

  Guantanamo Bay: whose mess is it anyway? out of london

  Gaza: medics find ‘unbelievable’ horror

  Need for vigilance

January 8

 

·  ‘Satyam is India’s Enron’

·  ICAI for severe punishment

·  Aluminium major Alcoa to cut 13,500 jobs

·  A gigantic fraud

·  Brutal and senseless

·  Ajmal is Pakistani, admits Islamabad after media report

·  A conversation with President Pratibha Patil

·  Chief Justice of India is not exempt from RTI: Information Commission

·  Engaging the diaspora on the path to progress

·  Prachanda requests Indian priests to continue

·  Sanjay Gupta, Obama’s choice for Surgeon-General

·  Russia halts gas supply via Ukraine

·  Strict controls after bird flu death

·  Singapore to ‘explore’ India’s soft power

·  Looking back on the caste system

·  Different venues, but single theme

·  States for joint anti-naxal operations

·  Amartya, Mittal in PM’s Global Advisory Council

·  Overcome ego

January 7

 

  Job loss feared in export sector

  BHEL to enter nuclear area

  IFC launches crisis response initiatives

  Science education for tomorrow (Science Congress, Gauhati)

  Corporate support for biodiversity

  Chief Ministers back anti-terror initiatives

  We cannot choose our neighbours: Manmohan

  Intimations of a galactic disaster loom ahead

  Kashmir: “Obama’s comment a mistake”

  Hasina sworn in Premier

  Russia hardens stand in gas row

  Bush to protect ocean tracts

  The thunder of the third Intifada

  Singapore to ‘explore’ India’s soft power

  “Explore federal set-up for Sri Lanka”

  India signs naval reconnaissance deal with U.S.

  Assam tables Bill to increase preventive detention period

  International law binds Pakistan to cooperate: judge

  “Stimulus package not sufficient”

  Emerging ethnic Indian communities

  More than goodwill needed to save biosphere

  Spiritual discipline

January 6

 

  New package boosts sentiment

  India to emerge as ‘manufacturing hub’

  Benefits under DEPB scheme restored

  Voices of reason

  Falling short of expectations ( Fiscal Stimulus 2.0)

  “Apprehension of tampering with EVMs baseless”

  India for political solution in Sri Lanka

  Army on the outskirts of Elephant Pass

  Gaza: a civilian catastrophe unfolds

  Obama plans huge tax cut

  Europe “floundering”

  Prachanda urged to reinstate priests

  Thai protesters threaten to blockade ASEAN summit

  Of a crisis and an opportunity  

  Future of Medvedev-Putin tandem

  Cause of creation

 January 5

  Stage set for a strong recovery in rupee

  Disappointment at WTO

  Welcome bid to define directors’ duties in Companies Bill, 2008

  Reverse mortgage loan: what is it all about?

  Kilinochchi and after

  Traumatic times (Stock market)

  We give highest priority to civilian safety: Rajapaksa

  Pakistan’s civil society urges government to come out of denial

  Chennai Open gets underway today

  Zillur Rahman to be Bangladesh President

  Kilinochchi looks like a “ghost town”

  Disunity among EU leaders

  Prachanda plays down controversy

  Hasina to take oath tomorrow

  26/11 and India’s Pakistan dilemma

  Destiny prevails

January 4

·  “Next fiscal could be more difficult”

·  Troops close in on Elephant Pass

·  We need a new generation of role models and teachers: PM

·  No let-up in Israeli strikes in Gaza

·  Oldest woman dies in Portugal at 115

·  The saga of a journal (Prabuddha Bharat, started by Swami Vivekananda)

·  Keep Pashupatinath temple above politics: Gyanendra

·  President visits Eastern Naval Command

January 3

  Banks likely to cut lending, deposit rates

  Industry welcomes stimulus package

  Moody’s forecasts sharp drop in exports

  Panipat refinery by November

  Rationalising arrest laws

  Bangladesh can do much more  

  Kilinochchi captured in devastating blow to LTTE

  Second stimulus package unveiled

  Cabinet nod for hike in judges’ salaries

  Bedi, Gavaskar and Kapil in ICC’s Hall of Fame

  Stay order defied at Nepal temple

  Global protests against Gaza attacks

  Food, medicine supplies becoming scarce in Gaza: aid agencies

  Citigroup bosses forgo bonuses

  Towards a zero-nuclear weapon world

  TNT used in blasts: experts

  “Pakistan doesn’t require treaty”

  India objects to Pakistan’s move over Basmati rice

  Ordinance to amend CISF Act

  3 million customers for bank for the poor

·  Intense seeking for truth

January 2

 

  Exports dip 10 % in dollar terms in November

  Merrill Lynch goes into history

  India identifies thrust nations to boost tea exports

  Difficult times for trade

  Russia cuts off gas supply to Ukraine

  Stay order in Nepal against new priests

  N. Korea — a new approach?

  A fulfilling year for the Supreme Court

  Extradition treaty not needed: Pranab

  India objects to Pakistan’s move over Basmati rice

  India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations

  Depression stalks the eurozone

  Distinguished emissary

 January 1

  What is in store for IT sector?

  Current account deficit balloons to $12.5 b

  External debt dips to $223 b

  Farms that save birds

  Anti-terror laws come into force

  Government identifies 3 locations for NIT in Puducherry

  Mapping the world of birds

  Premjit Lall dead

  “Bangladesh will not be used for terrorism”

  All set for ice festival

  Hu Jintao’s offer for cross-Straits ties

  Terrorism: are stronger laws the answer?

  A rare celestial conjunction

  Tatas, Oberois seek CISF cover

  Usha Krishna elected president of World Craft Council

  Theme of scriptures