Wednesday, July 29, 2009




• Status quo on policy rates can spur investment demand: Subbarao
• Focus on growth, says Ashok Chawla
• Pranab holds meeting with Petroleum, Law Ministers
• A note of caution
• The slow road to justice
• Crime bill: Gujarat Assembly sticks to stand yet again
• Foreign policy altered: NDA
• Paddy sowing badly hit: Pawar
• “I am on Left,” says Amartya Sen
• CII to aid employee healthcare services
• Suu Kyi’s trial verdict on Friday
• RBI rates unchanged
• U.S. switches off Havana ticker
• Sri Lanka to chair Group of Fifteen
• Hu calls for greater ethnic unity
• Women’s health & need for gender justice
• Afghanistan, India to set up partnership council
• A move in right direction despite gaps: educationists
• Elders seek special law to combat honour killings
• Wildlife Act to be amended: Jairam
• Green Tribunal bill to be introduced this week
• Women MNAs: how have they performed?
• Spirit of surrender

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

 RBI revises GDP growth to 6.5 %

 Crisis in the north-east

 Marginal relief for housing sector

 Wait till Manmohan speaks, says Congress

 Climate change and the Indian stand

 Pranab offers some relief for the disabled

 Recession hits major ports

 MPs demand independent body to monitor TV content

 VS urges Manmohan to reconsider FTA decision

 Need for food security: Vandana Shiva

 India and the Baloch insurgency

 Right to Food Act: essential but inadequate

 The Lord who liberates

Monday, July 27, 2009

 A core agenda for disinvestment

 Welcome signs of gradual economic recovery

 Guarding against insidious erosion

 Configuring social transfers

 India has no aggressive designs, says Manmohan

 Nuclear-powered submarine to be fitted with ballistic missiles

 27 more districts in U.P. declared drought-affected

 Nation remembers Kargil martyrs

 India to have 3rd largest online population by 2013

 Gas from K-G basin: YSR seeks priority status for State

 ESMA invoked

 Europe fast-tracking flu vaccine

 Artificial intelligence systems may run amok

 End-use monitoring woes for India

 “A technology demonstrator”

 Request on new Tejas Mk2 engine issued

 Andolan Express between Singur, Howrah from August 1

 Blueprint on rural policing being readied

 Foreign investments sought for new roads

 “New schemes to increase purchasing power of the poor”

 Security concerns over $2t trade

 Govinda Pattabhishekam

Saturday, July 25, 2009

 Focus on terrorism

 Accessing publicly funded research

 Composite dialogue only after Pakistan’s action

 India can be model for rest of the world: Gates

 Parliament session to go on till Aug. 7

 Pakistan terms Tharoor’s remarks unwarranted

 Opposition demands clarification on ENR

 ‘End-use agreement in final stages’

 Now, your complaint will reach President at the click of a mouse

 Centre to go ahead with land Bills

 “It won’t get me even a bottle of whisky”

 Gates to team up with Bihar to eradicate polio, kala-azar

 Eco-labels on electronic goods to be mandatory

 Greatness of the Vedas

july 24

 Core sector registers 6.5 % growth in June

 Height of irresponsibility

 More transparent clinical trials

 Trial to go on despite Ajmal’s confession

 Unique ID numbers in 12-18 months

 3,000 more war displaced to be resettled: Colombo

 India, Indonesia call for better intelligence-sharing to tackle terror

 The bottom line behind India-U.S. 3.0

 Another ‘honour killing’ in Haryana

 Cobra disrupts Orissa Assembly

 ASEAN FTA will hit farmers, says Brinda

 The difference in attitude

Thursday, July 23, 2009

 Direct tax collections improve

 EUMA cannot be justified

 A relatively stable flow

 ISI chief to India: talk to us, we make policy too

 Millions in Asia watch as moon darkens the sun

 India, China vow to further trade ties

 Sri Lanka sets 6-month timeline

 House adopts Finance Bill

 Cloud-seeding: plane develops technical snag

 Longest solar eclipse in China since 1814

 Doha: Lamy for “maxi-negotiations”

 End-use agreement will address all concerns: Antony

 Government studying report on Section 377

 Spurious drugs: reward for whistle blowers planned

 Jaswant set to head PAC

 Illustrated edition of Ghalib’s poetry

 ‘Izzat’ scheme from August 1

 Sheltering everyone

July 21

 Making NAM more relevant

 No room for complacency

 Ajmal admits to crime

 India, U.S. firm up 3 hi-tech pacts

 Section 377: Supreme Court declines to stay High Court judgment

 India-U.S. dialogue to cover FMCT, U.N. reforms

 No bowing to pressure on IPI pipeline project: Deora

 Solar eclipse tomorrow

 Check subsidies ‘flow’, government warned

 People above 60 released from camps: Rajapaksa

 Coping with the Honduran crisis

 The poem that touched Hillary

 Monsoon situation quite serious, says Pawar

 Move beyond cultural stereotypes: Hillary

 Trade union leaders to meet PM

 Rajya Sabha passes Education Bill

 Tools to know Truth

Monday, July 20, 2009

 Fiscal deficit, the biggest challenge

 Monetary policy assumes new significance

 Chandrayaan-1’s time of troubles

 Vaccine inequities

 Space agreement to help launch ‘India-U.S. 3.0’

 Moily hints at adequate safeguards for judges

 India unable to accept any legally binding cut in greenhouse gas emissions: Ramesh

 Kakodkar sounded warning on NPT link to ENR

 It will be $.2.9 billion for Gorshkov

 World Bank aid to be sought for setting up waste treatment plants

 Still a giant leap for mankind

 Israel rejects U.S. call on Jerusalem project

 Islamist fighters on the Silk Road

 “Consultations needed on judges’ accountability Bill”

 Section 377: Centre may seek more time to file response

 Major programme to regenerate forest cover

 Indigenous nuclear submarine to be launched on July 26

 Ways to sustain Bhakti

July 18

 Anand Sharma to head Board of Trade

 First greenfield merchant airport by 2011-12

 16 FDI proposals worth Rs. 892 crore approved

 There must be no backsliding

 Green shoots of recovery?

 No dilution of our stand: Manmohan

 Chandrayaan falters as ‘star sensors’ fail

 We will not accept delinking: BJP

 No ‘sell-out’ at Sharm-el-Sheikh; Pakistan forced to admit terror link

 Baramulla quietly revolts against Islamist cleric

 Pakistan’s queries an endless exercise: Chidambaram

 No pressure was put on India: Hillary

 France eager on ‘full’ civilian nuclear relationship with India

 Ties depend on welfare of Tamils, Manmohan tells Rajapaksa

 Coastal Management Zone draft will be allowed to lapse

 Indian American appointed to key agriculture post

 Rajapaksa’s assurance to Manmohan

 Cherie Blair has A(H1N1) flu

 U.S. sees India as global player

 “Ganga, Yamuna no cleaner than they were 20 years ago”

 Parliament approves President’s rule in Jharkhand

 ISRO chief: in missions of this kind failures are not unexpected

 Vayalar Ravi to be chief guest at GOPIO meet

 Put your money down, boys

 Dialogic judicial activism in India

 Pakistan and the perils within

 Spiritual preceptor

Friday, July 17, 2009

 Centre scales up borrowing programme in first half

 The violence of words

 Safeguards against identity fraud

 India and Pakistan to ‘delink’ action on terror from dialogue

 Pattammal passes away

 In shorter declaration, NAM hopes for bigger role

 U.S. “fully committed” to nuclear deal

 Gujarat to re-adopt State bill against organised crime

 China records strong growth

 Concern over forest policy

 Bahl film to firm up Buddhist bonds with South East Asia

 Higher fuel prices push inflation up

 First Nano today

 Rajapaksa: committed to reconciliation

 Pakistani Army must do more: Brown

 First Ladies’ meet discusses challenges to women

 Imperatives on the job front

 Kamal Nath woos foreign investors

 No forcible acquisition of land: West Bengal

 Stand on climate change unchanged: Shyam Saran

 Shakti Bhatt Prize

 Nanavati reserves ruling

 Experience of Advaita

16^th July

 Centre to chalk out agenda for borrowing

 Dreams of the Moon and beyond

 Towards the GST

 India, Pakistan positive on talks

 Two-pronged approach to tackle naxalism

 India says financial crisis gives NAM new relevance

 NAM energised by new discipline, purpose

 Nilekani to use database of government, oil firms

 Nuclear fuel arrives from Russia, France

 Rs.1,000 crore to States for compensatory afforestation

 Vikas Swarup gets diplomatic assignment

 Royal Medal for C.N.R. Rao

 Bill to regulate fees in private schools soon

 Blair, U.K. candidate for EU presidency

 Volunteers endure Mars flight simulation experiment

 Lessons from the Chhattisgarh tragedy

 Opposition wants drought declared

 Gogoi flags off pre-Everest expedition

 Budget short changes States

 The remarkable rise of Twitter

 Amartya Sen on his idea of justice out of london

 A(H1N1) vaccine still months away

 Lessons from the devout

 GST introduction needs States’ help

 Nabard cuts lending rate by 50 basis points

 Uncertain monsoon and agriculture

 A calculated risk

 India, France to firm up fight against terrorism

15^th

 Indian contingents wow French crowds

 Rethink on appeals against Saeed’s release

 India, Pakistan facing ‘last chance’ for dialogue

 Pranab: economy shows signs of recovery

 Pranab: government borrowings will not starve private sector of funds

 Mithi crosses danger mark

 West Bengal, Jharkhand police discuss simultaneous operations

 Kamal Nath: expressways authority will be set up

 List of terror camps given to BDR: BSF chief

 Aso calls snap elections

 J8 calls for quality education

 No ‘virginity tests’: Chauhan

 Indian breeze in Paris

 Target Taliban

 Ban on use of plastic bags in Delhi upheld

 Stop indulging terror groups, says China

 Aso calls snap elections

 U.S. budget deficit tops $1 trillion

 Sotomayor defends record

 Russia, China to conduct war games

 Pratibha: give priority to art and its appreciation in education system

 “Centre ready to hold elections in Jharkhand”

 Bastille Day celebrated

 Feel-good paradigm in India-Japan ties

 Without Russia, Europe has no reliable source of gas

 The climate exile alarm

 A pioneer and a transformative leader

 Realising the Truth

Monday, July 13, 2009

 Budget must avoid bloated expectations financial scene

 Huge government spending plan sends jitters down the line

 Changes proposed in the Finance (No.2) Bill, 2009

 Bold admission

 Slum-free cities

 Stage set for fresh engagement with Pakistan

 Baglihar power project on terror radar

 Manmohan has changed millions of lives: Time

 Increase in Three Gorges Project’s power output

 ‘Soleckshaw,’ a boon for rickshaw-pullers

 Women to join BSF combat duties by July-end

 Indian dies in Thar Express in Pakistan

 Defence deals to be discussed during Manmohan’s Paris visit

 Pranab dispels fears about high fiscal deficit

 Expenditure stimulus is required: Montek

 Deregulation of oil prices with human face: Deora

 Innovative NRHM schemes to be reviewed

 Space-faring nations wary of India’s progress: ISRO chief

 A new challenge on the nuclear front

 Two-thirds of world species may disappear in 21st century

 World Route Development Forum to open in Beijing

 Monsoon management in era of climate change

 What really happened at Urumqi on July 5

 The Vedic karmas

Sunday, July 12, 2009

 Government borrowings will not dry up funds for private sector: Pranab

 Pakistan should take credible action against terrorists: Manmohan

 G8 ban on ENR sales shuts Russian door on India

 India to ‘study’ G8 ban on nuclear fuel cycle sales

 G8 curbs a matter of concern, says Kakodkar

 India will do its bit to control emissions: Manmohan Singh

 Manmohan to head infrastructure panel

 We must challenge the way so many faiths treat women

 Nothing justifies the coup d’etat in Honduras

 Excise, customs collections may come down: official

 Calm restored in Urumqi

 Manmohan: 8-9% growth sustainable

 Pact with France soon on 2 nuclear plants

 Tejas may skip operational clearance deadline