August 5, 2009

• Changing contours of banking
• Parliament nod for Right to Education Bill
• Researchers seek to unravel Indus Valley script
• Bill Clinton meets Kim Jong-Il
• Euro 62 million for rehabilitation in Sri Lanka
• So, no more coups in Pakistan?
• Hillary visit over, U.S. says it backs ENR ban on India
• Double standards in Pakistan’s anti-terror campaign
• A tribute to R.K. Laxman, the ‘uncommon man’
• Parliament approves SC/ST reservation Bill
• UNESCO award for Hindi newspaper
• Anti-tank Nag missile test fired by army
• Forest rights & implementation issues
• Investment bankers: film stars of the financial world?
• Guantanamo: looking for the best among a series of bad options
• Controlling the mind


August 4


• Exports decline by 28 % in June
• Companies Bill reintroduced
• Assocham seeks sops for textile sector
• FTP: Sharma to meet industrialists
• A shameful paradox
• Welcome but not enough
• We will protect government’s interest over gas supply: Deora
• Cricketers should fall in line: Gill
• Pune girl dies of suspected swine flu
• Ahmadinejad gets nod
• Magsaysay Award for Deep Joshi, 5 others
• India should accept climate change flow obligations, ask for superfund: Jagdish Bhagwati
• Swine flu: Centre monitoring situation
• Now, it will be National Livelihood Mission
• Centre to aid rain-deficit States
• “Confidentiality clause must be removed”
• Lok Sabha witnesses protests by Opposition
• Navy Chief defends Gorshkov deal
• Rajya Sabha passes Bill on reservation for SCs/STs
The nature of illusion


August 3
• RBI sounds the alert on inflation
• Balancing growth and inflation
• A fine balance
• Private airlines put on hold protest action
• PWR building shows indigenous capability, says Kakodkar
• Nuclear power reactors’ capacity factor will go up, says Anil Kakodkar
• Through thick and thin, she was with Deng
• Swimsuit ban to come into effect from January 1
• Justice and the world
• INCOIS to issue Indian Ocean current forecasts
• NGO opposes Education Bill in current form
• Sting operations and ‘trial by media’
• Powerful instructor

August 1

• RBI chief pitches for rollback of monetary expansion
• Incentives for services sector likely in new FTP
• New food processing policy soon: Subodh Kant
• Retaining flexible response options
• Milestone in stem cell research
• Musharraf’s Emergency declared unconstitutional
• Infosys gets CISF cover
• Nandita Das to head Children’s Film Society
• IGCAR: no abnormal rise in radioactivity at Kalpakkam
• 1,000-crore diesel subsidy for paddy farmers
• 16 new A(H1N1) cases
• Court: why this deemed varsity status?
• Global warming threatens Lakshadweep corals
• The real issues behind land acquisition
• Action thriller!
• Importance of the Vedas



July 31

• Clearing the air
• Revisiting the death penalty
• Promise kept on recovery of black money: Manmohan
• Phelps reasserts his authority
• Use of plastics: court raps PCB
• Taliban’s call on Afghan poll
• Madoff amazed not caught sooner
• Brinda questions India’s move on Doha deadlock
• Rajya Sabha website redesigned
• A great Chinese Indologist’s death goes unnoticed in India
• Strive for detachment



July 30


• Coal India may form joint ventures
• Centre launches new scheme for MSMEs
• Trade policy: Anand Sharma to consult Pranab
• Arihant enters the water
• A confident Manmohan opens space for flexible response
• Privilege motion against Hussain Baig
• Nation’s honour pledged: Yashwant Sinha
• Pakistan Prime Minister hails Manmohan’s statement in Lok Sabha(!)
• Court rejects plea for curbs on media in sting operations
• Gayatri Devi passes away
• Budget exercise over in Parliament
• No Asian in Man Booker Prize race
• Deng’s wife dead
• No dilution of sovereignty on end-use arrangement: Manmohan
• Chandrayaan review in September
• International meet on irrigation
• Plan to add 7,000 km of highways every year
• Diego Garcia rendition victim’s court challenge
• Benefits of penance