Wednesday, December 30, 2009


• OVL, GAIL to join China project
• ‘It is time India unleashed reforms in financial services sector’
• Eco-cities around DMIC planned
• The rot beyond Rathore
• Disgrace at Ferozeshah Kotla
• Manmohan signals return to Vajpayee line on CTBT
• Two killed in BARC laboratory fire
• India-Japan finalise action plan to advance security cooperation
• Indian-origin barrister gets key post
• Cabinet announces subsidy for market intervention steps
• Confrontation persists in Iran
• Nepal bill on Jha’s oath of secrecy
• Taking cue from incredible cockroach, robots may run
• Powering a dynamic, multipolar Asia
• Sonia, Manmohan discuss Telangana
• Meet today to discuss lull in LoC trade
• Cabinet okays lifting of President’s rule in Jharkhand
• Private partners sought for Ganga heritage cruise
• Future bright for Indian economy, says Rangarajan
• Pushing the envelope on solar energy research
• False FIRs will attract punishment
• Uttarakhand readies itself for Kumbh Mela
• Blue moon event for sky gazers
• Contract worker not covered by Industrial Disputes Act, rules Delhi High Court
• It takes more than visa power to stop a terrorist
• Gaza: this is not humane. We need our dignity
• Why the golden ratio pleases the eye
• The only medicine

Tuesday, December 29, 2009


• Call for concrete steps to raise trade with Japan
• Reliance Power’s Rosa unit on stream
• West Bengal gives major boost to solar energy
• Putin inaugurates eastern oil pipeline
• Saving the vultures
• Governance too serious to be tweeted on: Krishna(That’s what was thought about computers in general some years ago!!!!!! Evolve)
• Japan hopes India will ratify CTBT( Ritualistic noises that Japan makes. Doesn’t itself know why!)
• Eiffel Tower most favourite: Survey
• CAG questions NRHM funds’ flow management
• Gangaikondacholapuram tourist complex almost ready
• Nuclear submarine Nerpa inducted in Russian Navy
• Af-Pak policy re-drawn, says U.S.
• Awards for seven Indian-origin persons
• PETN, hard to detect substance
• South Asian agenda for Jammu & Kashmir
• West Bengal looking at alternatives to Darjeeling
• A whale of a task
• No trade today across LoC in Poonch
• Elderly feeling socially marginalised: survey
• Aam admi finds dal-roti out of reach in UPA’s second innings
• The serving serpent

Monday, December 28, 2009


• Optimism over growth must be tempered
• The wonder that is Rajarajesvaram
• Disquieting fall in collections
• Japan’s new focus on Asia is good for India
• Poverty is surely declining, but not fast enough: Manmohan Singh(Suresh Tendulkar, NC Saxena and Arjun Sengupta think otherwise!!!!!!!)
• Manmohan strongly defends role of economists
• India set to retain top spot in milk production
• Harry Potter “greatest entertainer”
• Boost to renewable energy in China
• Protests mark Gaza invasion anniversary
• Narasimhan to look after Andhra Pradesh
• Dankuni rail projects will generate 1 lakh jobs: Mamata Banerjee
• Tharoor tweets another row( living from tweet to tweet)
• RTE still remains on paper
• Former CEC advocates compulsory voting
• Elderly feeling socially marginalised: Survey
• Let the benefits of the Act reach the oppressed
• Groundwater mining: American experience
• Garuda’s readiness to serve

• Japan unveils record $1 trillion budget
• Govt gears up for PSU divestment
• Efforts to remove anomalies in banking FDI
• How to face security challenges
• Factor in climate refugees
• Molestation cases will be fast-tracked, says Moily
• SC/ST confederation questions impeachment move
• India, Japan to firm up bilateral relations
• ‘Competition is healthy’
• Shah’s nomination as USAID chief approved
• Cyber boss faces ‘tough job’
• Dark matter holds the key to the universe
• Copenhagen, tsunami and hunger
• J&K Working Group report unilateral: BJP
• Vajpayee wept as he heard the tragic tale: Shanta Kumar
• CPI(M), CPI to take stock of political situation
• Thailand keen on closer defence ties
• PM releases book on communitisation
• Security ties to top Japanese PM agenda
• Sex workers demand legalisation of prostitution
• Ten reasons why criminals in khaki get away
• Brief yet eloquent

Friday, December 25, 2009

• FDI surges 60 % in November
• Big ticket PSUs get greater autonomy
• Food inflation eases to 18.65 %(Prices have nt decined, their rate of growth has. Dr.Manmohan is happy, Mrs.Manmohan is not)
• National policy on bio-fuels gets nod
• Mobile banking limit raised
• Way out in Andhra Pradesh
• Telangana thrown into turmoil
• No question of going back on Telangana, says Moily
• Cost-push element behind rise in food prices, says Pranab
• Shiva Keshavan wins Asian silver
• U.S. Senate passes health Bill
• Lava spill triggers threat
• Kashmir insurgency, 20 years after
• PDP: Working Group has acknowledged self-rule
• A gesture to disabled children
• Emission cut shares should be variable: Pranab
• Re-entry visa norms for tourists relaxed
• Bid to strengthen bilateral ties
• Copyright Act to be amended
• Copyright amendments will reward creativity
• Hindustan Shipyard shifted to Defence Ministry
• Taking stock of Copenhagen
• After the 2004 tsunami: rebuilding lives
• A time for hope

Thursday, December 24, 2009

• GDP slated to grow at 8 %: Mukherjee
• GST will reduce tax burden by 25-30 %
• Move to withdraw sops to exporters
• Another bout of instability
• Receding hopes(WTO Seventh Ministerial- nothing happened)
• Wide-ranging consultations needed on Telangana: Centre
• Outcome good, but not adequate: Pachauri
• We owe it to India: Bhutan King
• ‘Abrogation or continuance of Article 370 should be left to people of J&K’
• Leave it to J&K people to decide on Article 370: Working Group
• Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards
• Russia to help India build manned spaceship
• Confusion over release of fishermen
• Maoists to allow House resumption
• Colombo may move against Fonseka
• Inspiration behind Rain Man dies
• Special directorate to fight terror
• Bifurcate Home Ministry, says Chidambaram
• Bifurcating Home Ministry unavoidable: Chidambaram
• Invoke Article 355 in West Bengal: Congress
• Climate change will hit small farmers most: Pawar
• Rahul launches insurance scheme for artisans
• Indigenous heart valve makes a difference
• Why did Copenhagen fail to deliver a climate deal?
• How life has changed in ten years
• Hallmark of greatness

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

• Oil companies agree on ethanol price
• RIL strikes more gas in KG basin
• ONGC Videsh to bid for Venezuela’s oil blocks
• Impetus to power projects in North-East
• Finance Ministry hints at cash compensation for OMCs
• Panel set up to accelerate industrial investment
• ADB to extend $850 m loan for infrastructure, khadi sectors
• Breakthrough on health care
• Pandemic vaccine is safe
• Sovereignty not compromised: Jairam
• India to draw road map for low-carbon growth
• Indian ship attacked by pirates
• SAFMA, SAMC condemn attack on Peshawar press club
• India will help Bhutan’s democracy cause
• India, China agree to cooperate on climate change
• No case for invoking Article 355: Buddhadeb
• Appreciate science for what it is: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
• e-tendering to bring in transparency
• Kerala ready to introduce GST, says Thomas Isaac
• Russia to resume gas imports from Turkmenistan
• Prachanda for talks with India
• Just a form of words: Stiglitz( Naidu of Greenpeace and Hugo Chavez have also said the same.If only our planet was a bank, it could have got as many trillions as it wanted!)
• Srinivasa Ramanujan remembered
• ‘We will engage Maoists till they abjure violence’
• Opposition slams government on Copenhagen
• Rajya Sabha adjourns sine die
• 8 Indian-origin CEOs at big U.S companies: Forbes
• New system to ensure transparency in counting process
• Smart cards in higher education
• Prof. Samuelson: guru extraordinaire
• Deepest volcano caught on video
• Icons of the decade — Google
• Her role in protection

Tuesday, December 22, 2009


• Rs. 21,000 cr oil bonds urged
• Optimistic assessment( The only thing that remains of the FRBMA is these reports!)
• Pradhan Committee faults Gafoor’s handling of 26/11
• ‘No political consensus on Gorkhaland’
• Copenhagen pact disappointing: Karat
• Lok Sabha elections a success: Navin Chawla(Must read)
• ‘Operation Rakshak’ throws light on competence, vulnerability
• India, Bhutan to sign four MoUs for hydel power projects
• For informed, rational debate on climate change
• Loan to Sri Lanka
• Centre to examine Polavaram project
• U.S.: we can review implementation
• The truth of what happened at Copenhagen
• Don’t pass the buck to States, Karat tells Pawar
• India needs to import two more million tonnes of sugar: ISMA
• Operationalising climate accord difficult: Ghosh
• Anti-terror drill
• Reverse osmosis plant inaugurated
• Decade of debt-fuelled boom and bust
• Climate summit: where’s the beef ?
• Peak oil, peak wood — what’s with all the peaks?
• Orangutan habitat narrows
• Always united

Monday, December 21, 2009


• Capital market regulation on an even keel financial scene
• Service sector has major role in growth: expert
• Far from inspiring
• Narrow vision
• States should take price rise seriously, says Pawar
• Jairam to make statement on Copenhagen accord today
• MNCs will eat up small States, warns Karat
• Press for deep cuts by developed countries: CPI (M)
• Germany keen on closer defence, civil nuclear ties
• China slams Copenhagen critics
• Doing research with open source tools
• Head-count ratio of people below poverty line higher in State: Tendulkar committee
• Iran’s leading dissident cleric dead
• Volcano eruption feared in Philippines
• ‘Response to climate challenge faulty’
• MoUs to be signed for hydel projects during Bhutan King’s visit
• Misra report to be examined
• Maoists attack Orissa hydel project
• Chess meet put off by a day
• Elevated road project to connect East with South
• “Delhi Ratna” award for IP varsity V-C
• An act with teeth, but of no use in protecting the weak
• Fame through his daughter

19/12/2009

• Government eyes over 7.75 % GDP growth
• Green energy concept for special economic zones mooted
• Sops for labour-intensive export units on anvil
• SBI-State Bank of Saurashtra merger gets Parliament nod(post facto)
• Containing the damage
• Europe’s far-right
• Last-ditch efforts to salvage climate talks at Copenhagen
• Income must be the lone criteria for reservation: Misra panel(Constitution does not allow economic criterion)
• 30,000 troops withdrawn from J&K since last year: Antony
• Panel recommends quota for Muslims
• Birth of BASIC signals decline of G77?
• Moving towards peace in Assam?
• Dinakaran will continue in his post: CJI
• ‘Revised poverty estimates are more realistic’
• Bhutan’s commitment to climate change unconditional
• All parties must oppose Civil Nuclear Liability Bill: Karat
• Organ Transplant Bill tabled in LS
• Five Bills, 12 minutes(Not for the first time)
• Telangana: Lok Sabha adjourned sine die
• 14 Coast Guard stations planned
• ‘Visa on Arrival Scheme’ for five countries: Chidambaram
• National Quality Awards presented
• Centre to convene meet on Mullaperiyar issue
• Tharoor appeal to India Inc.
• Demanding a separate State
• Tackling fake currency menace
• Learning from successes and failures
• ‘My biggest dream is no child goes hungry’
• Rulers should set good examples

Friday, December 18, 2009

• Food inflation soars again
• Centre to incentivise wind power generation
• A weaker Zardari
• The twilight world of ethnic minorities
• Climate talks gather momentum
• Manmohan: we can do more
• Advani likely to quit as Leader of Opposition today
• Bolivia stuns climate summit with target
• A foreign policy for our times
• Mamata, G8 ban cast shadow on Indo-Russian nuclear deal
• ‘Like China, India should protect food security’
• Nuclear liability law will protect US suppliers: CPI(M)
• Hamid Ansari admits motion against Dinakaran
• ‘Diplomatic, trade ties with China conceivable’
• NREGA will now be MGREGA (MGR.EGA- zeal for Tamils!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
• Nod for Competition (Amendment) Bill
• A prisoner of circumstances, for 36 years (The Euthanasia Debate)
• Elders pass sugarcane pricing Bill
• Parliament passes NCT of Delhi Bill
• St. Stephen’s faculty members protest chairman’s functioning
• Appointment of judges by collegium of judges (Vexed issue; you have read a lot already since October; discussed it in the class so many times. Avoid, if you must)
• A Gem made more valuable

Thursday, December 17, 2009


• GST: panel to meet FM on Jan 7
• CII urges Centre to correct fiscal deficit
• Award for Ratan Tata
• Bharti Airtel eyeing SAARC region
• Curbs on financial excess
• Moratorium on executions
• Consensus eludes climate talks
• “COP-15 chair working towards political agreement”
• Novel initiative to check bogus voting
• No ATR on Ranganath report
• Scheme for rehabilitation of Endosulfan victims
• U.S. bill on gasoline curbs irrelevant: Iran
• No proof of Indian role: Baloch leader
• Qatar ready to consider India’s fresh gas demand
• Judicial appointments: agenda for reform
• India guarded in response to nuclear report
• India won’t buckle under pressure on NPT: Krishna
• Jaswant Singh resigns as PAC Chairman
• We will not sit quiet on social audit issue in NREGS, Aruna Roy tells Gehlot government
• Nuclear deal will be finalised at the earliest
• Lok Sabha passes 3 Bills in 15 minutes
• Talks on alternative to Gorkha Council likely
• Elders pass sugarcane pricing Bill after government’s assurance
• Probe on into Kaiga incident
• How relevant is Darwin today
• National mission for women soon
• Three new Parliamentary Secretaries to CM sworn in
• The system strikes back
• Obama is not saviour of the world. He’s still a U.S. president
• Closing Guantanamo: an assessment
• Greatness of Thiruvachagam

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009


• Rs. 15,000 cr earmarked for revival of 36 CPSEs
• Lanco Solar’s PV SEZ cleared
• Lal Bahadur Shastri award for Sunil Mittal
• Crude terminal at Paradip refinery
• Justifying the unjustifiable
• Worrying trend
• Time for consensus has arrived: U.N. chief
• Strike for new States hits North-East
• Ghost of Tarapur haunts reprocessing agreement with U.S.
• ‘Put engineering in the service of ocean study’
• ‘Centre has opened a Pandora’s box’
• No more unanswered queries in Upper House
• National mission for women soon
• Post offices to distribute New Pension System
• Violence and threats bring a government to its knees
• Wind energy is attracting investors, and corruption
• Avoiding the Singular

Hindu Today- 14/12

• Will new system offer clarity on inflation?
• Tax cuts might accomplish what spending has not
• Toppling the Boligarchy
• A fragile recovery
• India will not compromise on key principles: Jairam
• Mayawati bats for Poorvanchal
• Karunanidhi rejects suggestion for bifurcation of Tamil Nadu
• Telugu Ganga water supply disrupted again
• Dhanush missile test fired successfully
• Implementation of Akrama-Sakrama scheme likely to be delayed
• Economist Paul Samuelson passes away
• China-Kazakhstan gas pipeline inaugurated
• Capping nuclear liability is a non-starter
• Congress ‘no’ to States Reorganisation Commission
• Veteran photojournalist T.S. Satyan passes away
• Jairam seeks review of MP river-linking project
• Ecological concerns over n-power plant
• Year of Astronomy to close on a cosmic quirk
• Seize the moment
• The grand challenges of Indian science
• In familiar books, a battle over electronic rights
• Goddess Mahalakshmi mediates


Economist Paul Samuelson passes away :Economist Paul A. Samuelson, Nobel laureate has died. He was 94.In 1974, he said America was suffering from “stagflation,” which he described as a toxic mix of high unemployment and high inflation over long periods of time.

Saturday 12th December

• Task Force recommends National Electronics Mission
• Factory output surges by 10.3 % in October
• Big push to R&D in renewable energy
• ONGC loses bid for oil field in Iraq
• NMDC scouts for lead managers
• Lashkar-e-Taiba’s long arm
• Discard the cloak, Tiger( The problem has been that he discards it all too often and in wrong places!)
• Nothing will be done in haste, Manmohan assures MPs
• 30 more MLAs quit in protest
• GJM: we are not piggybacking on Telangana
• Rehabilitation package for IDPs in Assam
• Mayawati for splitting U.P. into smaller States
• 3G auction as scheduled
• Myanmar won’t be haven for insurgents, Krishna told
• Too premature to talk about Headley’s extradition: U.S.
• International Film Festival of Kerala begins
• State unhappy with decision to set up Mahadayi tribunal
• Manjunath murder case death sentence commuted
• Rosaiah worried over developments
• No mediation on Kashmir: U.S.
• $1.5-billion aid approved
• Hu Jintao in Central Asia as China taps into gas reserves
• Ties that bind: Lashkar and the global jihad
• Not in favour of division, says Gogoi
• Speaker to seek legal opinion
• RS rules to be amended
• ‘Equip women with entrepreneurial skills’
• Lok Sabha approves Jharkhand supplementary demands for grants
• No whip, say AP MPs
• Climate: Nepal is a victim
• Bending to a bhakta religion

A time-tested friend • Evaluating support prices • Obama says nations have to fight just wars • Ramakrishnan receives Chemistry Nobel • Is Vidarbha next in line? • India, New Zealand to begin free trade agreement talks next year • Resettlement of IDPs by January-end: Colombo • Portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva Raya found at Kancheepuram temple • Food parks may get SEZ benefits • Air show in Tiruchi next month • India will seek Headley’s extradition • Food inflation up again • Pact with India eased tensions: Sri Lanka • Ill-thought announcement & backlash • Resolution on Telangana must get majority support: Rosaiah • Statehood not a solution: CPI (M) • Move to ban alcohol in Vidarbha districts draws flak • Independent report raises many questions on the Shopian incident • Limiting nuclear liability is a violation of rights: Sorabjee • Gorkhaland demand gets a boost • Telangana echo in Assam • Wen calls up Manmohan on Copenhagen • Poet Dilip Chitre passes away • Pakistan situation has direct impact on Kashmir: Omar • Amendments to Energy Act cleared • Tasks for a Prime Minister • Ocean acidification rates accelerating • Lesson from life

11/12 Friday

• A time-tested friend
• Evaluating support prices
• Obama says nations have to fight just wars
• Ramakrishnan receives Chemistry Nobel
• Is Vidarbha next in line?
• India, New Zealand to begin free trade agreement talks next year
• Resettlement of IDPs by January-end: Colombo
• Portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva Raya found at Kancheepuram temple
• Food parks may get SEZ benefits
• Air show in Tiruchi next month
• India will seek Headley’s extradition
• Food inflation up again
• Pact with India eased tensions: Sri Lanka
• Ill-thought announcement & backlash
• Resolution on Telangana must get majority support: Rosaiah
• Statehood not a solution: CPI (M)
• Move to ban alcohol in Vidarbha districts draws flak
• Independent report raises many questions on the Shopian incident
• Limiting nuclear liability is a violation of rights: Sorabjee
• Gorkhaland demand gets a boost
• Telangana echo in Assam
• Wen calls up Manmohan on Copenhagen
• Poet Dilip Chitre passes away
• Pakistan situation has direct impact on Kashmir: Omar
• Amendments to Energy Act cleared
• Tasks for a Prime Minister
• Ocean acidification rates accelerating
• Lesson from life

10/12 Thursday

• India can surpass china as hub for consumer durables — study
• Exports to pick up next fiscal
• The ethanol challenge
• Centre: process of forming Telangana to be initiated(Whatever that means!)
• India against uncooked papers: Saran
• India key partner in civil nuclear field: Russia
• Developing countries slam Danish text
• China sets terms for resumption of Tibet talks
• Get serious about Palestine
• Government open to private investment in nuclear power
• Centre admits domestic uranium shortfall
• Fragments of Catalan amphorae found at Pattanam
• Adivasis to fight for tribal State(Telangana ripples)
• Child undernutrition in India is a human rights issue
• Significance of His feet

9/12

  Japan unveils new $81 billion stimulus package

  NDTV to sell Imagine to Turner

  FICCI seeks more fiscal support

  WTO talks not under pressure: Sharma

  Correct diagnosis, wrong cure(Telangana)

  Limiting salt intake

  India not acting under pressure, says Saran

  India likely to access vast resources in eastern Siberia and far eastern Russia

  India eager to question Headley: Nirupama Rao

  Eco-restoration of the Cooum is on

  ‘Is there a virus?’

  Absenteeism in RS

  Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship

  Opposition moves privilege motion against Chavan government

  CSIR sequences human genome

  Historic case, fresh uncertainties

  Nitrous oxide concerns cloud future of biofuels

  Paradox explained

Tuesday 8th Dec

  Kashmir’s bloody road to peace

  India scales Test summit

  Nuclear pact signed with Russia

  Headley charged in U.S. court

  Not accepting legally binding cuts: Jairam

  India, Russia sign six agreements, emphasise importance of intelligence sharing

  Parliament approves Bill to split J&K Central varsity

  Navy foils attack on tanker off Gulf of Aden

  India, Russia ink accord on Gorshkov price

  India, Russia to step up joint fight against terrorism

  Remembering the legacy of an Indian pioneer in China

  Changing cultures within medicine

  Termination of proposed social audit of NREGS shocks activists

  NIA to take over Margao blast probe

  Put agriculture high on agenda

  Bulgaria to host NATO simulation exercise

  Serving even when poor

7th December

  Indian economy shows resilience

  Peace prospects in Assam

  Tackling a jobless recovery

  Copenhagen: seize the chance

  On top of the world

  India-Russia civil nuclear agreement practically sealed

  Hopes raised over climate summit

  Delay in forming SHGs of bullock-cart owners

  Martial law in a Philippine province (It was there in the  Current Events Exam we had)

  “Bangladesh won’t allow terrorism”

  Bolivia goes to the polls

  Trouble in the Sa’ada mountains( It was there in the  Current Events Exam we had)

  Jairam irons out differences with negotiators

  Admiral Gorshkov likely to arrive by 2014

  Dubai debt crisis will not affect India: Zoellick

  No ban on Endosulfan

  Food for thought at Copenhagen

  A non-profit now, with for-profit dreams

  Justified pride

5th December, 2009

  Return to 9 % growth remains a big challenge: Mukherjee

  Reliance Power’s Dadri project hits road block

  World Bank chief projects 8-9 % growth

  EADS opens research facility

  Ecopetrol, RIL to explore deepwater blocks in Colombia

  Deepak Parekh to step down as CEO of HDFC

  GM to offer commercial vehicles, new products( In association with China’s Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC))

  BSE kicks off MF platform

  CHOGM misses key opportunities

  Commemorating Krishnadeva Raya

  Rs.100-crore corpus for universities mooted

  U.S., Russia miss START deadline

  Cabinet meets on Everest

  70% of displaced resettled: Colombo

  U.S. allies pledge 7,000 troops

  Award for Obama’s Indian-born adviser

  Richard Branson joins the space race

  BASIC draft calls for technology transfer mechanism

  Supreme Court stays CIC order to reveal Union Minister’s name

  India, France discuss Afghan situation

  “Ramesh has rubbished consistent position on climate change”

  Trial begins for cattle vaccine

  The Ramayana parallel

  IT professionals asked to move up the value chain

  WB to look at increased funding for highways

  World Bank lending to India hiked to $7 billion this fiscal

  Limits of the Afghan surge

  Counting the tigers

  Troops withdrawal in J&K planned

  Obama unveils new Afghan strategy

  India welcomes U.S. move

  ULFA chairman held in Dhaka?

  Is European Union on the decline?

  Dhaka hands over LeT suspects

  India, Bangladesh finalise drafts of 3 pacts

  NLFT chief also held in Bangladesh?

  A mission to help women smile

  Nod for Bill to give higher compensation for workers in case of injury or death

  Strengthen RTI movement at all levels: Hamid Ansari

  Karmaveer awards conferred

  World Bank fund for Ganga River Authority

  Special areas scientific research: advancing the cause in India

  Superior to pearls