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• CRR hike to absorb Rs.36,000 crore PM*
• GDP growth pegged at 6.7 % in 2008-09PM
• Mixed reaction from industryM*
• Not to impact on interest rates, industry: ChawlaM
• Moving away from easy moneyM
• Earthquakes and scienceP*
• Military Secretary faces court martialP
• RBI hikes CRR to contain inflationPM
• Brightest full moon of 2010 todayP
• Russia-India fighter makes successful maiden test flightPM
• Blair denies covert deal with BushPM
• One month after CopenhagenPM
• Court notice to Centre, UGC on deemed university statusPM
• “Evolve alternative method for removal of judges”M
• Srikrishna front-runner for Telangana panelPM
• Food prices will ease next fiscal: Pawar( Our voice from Sky, Akashvani!)
• What lies in store for Antarctica, the world’s last repository?PM
• Lasting mercy

29/1

• Nasscom worried over U.S. indirect protectionismPM
• Still it is cheaper to offshore jobsM
• The Election Commission at 60 PM
• Protecting antiquitiesM
• Obama to cut tax breaks for outsourcing U.S. firms(knee jerk and populist)
• J.D. Salinger dead PM
• India ranks 123rd in pollution controlPM
• The worst of the storm has passed, but the devastation remains: ObamaM
• Pitching for composite dialogueM
• Commercialisation of news content is a dangerous trend: Hamid AnsariM
• Food security linked to energy security: SharmaM
• U.P. to have special force for monuments, parksP
• ‘Bill should grant health care as universal entitlement’M
• National Tobacco Control Programme gets approvalPM
• ‘Compulsory voting not feasible’M
• Historian who helped inspire civil rights movement deadPM( Only name and contribution in one line)
• Unconditional love

*P: Prelims; M:Mains; PM: Prelims @ Mains. It is indicative and nothing more.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010


• 4 port expansion projects cleared
• Y. V. Reddy for closer look at quality of FDI(Yaga the Oracle!)
• Sri Lankan denouement
• Uneven recovery
• Rajapaksa re-elected, trounces Fonseka by huge margin
• Australia sets up high-level group to probe attacks
• Petitions of Mujib murderers dismissed
• A crash course on Indian economy
• Strengthen foundations of university system: experts
• Copenhagen Accord not legally binding: UNFCC
• “We should train ourselves to spend more on books”
• Compulsory voting not feasible, says Chawla
• India decries grain diversion to bio-fuels
• INTACH awards for heritage conservation
• France: attack on the veil is a huge blunder
• Pride corrupts

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

• India to invest $350 m in Nigerian oil blocks
• Guidelines for green certification of ornamental fishes
• Over 70 per cent polling in Sri Lanka presidential poll
• Scientists hold awareness meeting on neutrino observatory project
• Pakistan continues to block fissile material treaty
• ‘India-U.S. deal a major hurdle’
• ‘Mahatma Gandhi District’ in Houston
• India a partner for security: UAE
• End of two-party dominance in U.K.?
• Military Tribunal to hear Kargil war cases
• A special R-Day, says Obama
• Acharya Shastri to accept Padma award
• Uttam Yudh Sena Medal for Lt. Gen. Swamy
• 62 Air Warriors decorated with Presidential awards
• Monorail in Mumbai
• Cultural pageantry marks R-day celebrations
• A marvellous show of unity and cultural diversity
• Honouring the heroes
• IMF pegs India’s economic expansion at 7.8 per cent in 2011
• Bankers return to Davos but with a bit less swagger
• French panel recommends partial burka ban
• Ozone hole’s healing may worsen global warming
• Samskaras and Atma Gunas

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

• India Cements earns less( Remember the boss’s name)
• Strengthening Kyoto
• Russia on road to reform
• Court orders status quo on deemed varsities
• Padma Vibhushan for Prathap Reddy, Y. V. Reddy, ‘Nobel’ Ramakrishnan
• Sri Lankan presidential polls today
• President calls for second green revolution
• China elevates rank of envoy in New Delhi
• Tagore Awards presented to 8 litterateurs
• Chemical Ali executed
• No imminent threat: Brown
• Obama needs a pro-Ukrainian President
• Tandon task force draws up road map to protect students
• Curb money, muscle power in polls: Sonia
• 130 persons chosen for Padma awards 2010
• Ashok Chakra for Havildar Rajesh Kumar
• A disservice to cricket: Chidambaram
• Medals for 19 CBI officers
• ‘DRDO technologies have immense everyday applications’
• Sewa Kendras to come up with rural job scheme funds
• Real empowerment a challenge, says Ansari
• South Korea seeks collaborations in nuclear sector
• Greenpeace hails BASIC decision to continue talks
• Many more post offices to get a facelift
• Remembering the Lamp of the East
• All set for R-Day Parade
• Overhaul, don’t scrap, deemed university system
• Determination



25/1

• RBI’s dilemma over growth v inflation choice
• U.K. must back Barack Obama’s stand against the banks
• “India a safe destination for foreign investment”
• The NSA needs his own office
• Pandemic lessons to be learnt
• BASIC bloc to inform U.N. of voluntary mitigation steps
• PMO apologises for ad fiasco( Musharaf may appear as a our Prime Minister any time!!!!!!!)
• South Korean President visits Hyundai factory
• No dilution in India’s stand on fair multilateral trade regime: Sharma
• Sixth reactor at RAPS attains criticality
• Giant replica of the Constitution taken out in procession
• Wadhwa panel apprised of State’s concern
• Research centre planned for aromatic and medicinal plants
• ‘Pak players should have been chosen’
• Most powerful rocket motor successfully tested
• Venu Srinivasan honoured
• Slap exemplary costs for PIL abuse: Supreme Court
• Uganda calls for broad partnership to achieve Millennium Development Goals
• BASIC backs IPCC
• Krishna Iyer for regional apex court Benches
• President urges Governors to adopt ‘Roshini’
• Towards sustainable water management
• The pigeon’s sacrifice











23/11



• Process of issuing UIN under way
• Tough choices
• V.K. Singh is next Chief of Army Staff
• U.S., China trade barbs on Internet
• Internet running out of addresses
• Road infrastructure to get boost
• Obama signals end of Wall Street casino
• Indian forces in Haiti’s relief efforts
• Return to Glass-Steagall?
• Socialist leader Janeshwar Mishra passes away
• China, Japan added to list of non-traditional markets
• ‘U.S. arms to Pakistan must not target India’
• Gender-based discrimination cases come down
• Experts to go into workers’ problems due to meltdown
• India committed to Posco project
• ‘CECA will help achieve true potential of trade relationship’
• Constitution is my commander, says Sankaranarayanan
• Netaji currency made public by grandson of activist
• IAF worried about safety of satellites
• Additional foodgrains under TPDS to contain prices
• “Centre has right to decide on Bt brinjal”
• A special recital by Sonal Mansingh
• Divine Parents

Friday, January 22, 2010

22/1
• A step in the right direction
• Readying for the Games
• U.S. warns of threat from terror syndicate
• Ignoring Pakistani players very shocking: former Foreign Secretaries
• Clinch economic pact by year-end: Malaysia
• NIMHANS keen on researching Jyoti Basu’s brain
• NIA files FIRs in four cases
• New pension scheme introduced
• Wireless sensor system to stop jumbos
• Republicans snatch Senate seat
• Our crimes against our children
• Price rise: it’s time to act, BJP tells Manmohan
• Centre plans judicial panel on Telangana
• Further pacts only after studying benefits, Antony tells Gates
• Scrap NSA post, says Brajesh Mishra
• It’s for States to decide on milk prices: Sharad Pawar
• India most favoured by Afghans: poll
• Meet against GM crops
• India, Malaysia sign extradition agreement
• New technology for studying arterial blocks
• Pilot happy with ‘Project Arrow’
• India urges WHO to clarify on A (H1N1) pandemic
• World Spice Congress in Delhi
• Inter-State police teams to safeguard trains, passengers
• Rs.1,000 cr. allotted for mental health care
• Election Commission poised for diamond jubilee
• “Understand nature of naxal menace”
• CIC order puts External Affairs Ministry in a spot
• Erich Segal, writer and classics scholar, dead
• Unique parents




21/1


• India to remain a key market
• India, China look to address growing trade gap
• Currency futures permitted in euro, pound, yen
• The Afghan quandary
• Oldest four-legged animals
• Tearful farewell to Jyoti Basu
• Bond and Pollard, biggest buys
• China for “constructive measures” to ease tensions
• ‘Food prices may decline after rabi’
• Rahman again in the running for Oscar
• Murthy first cinematographer to win Phalke award
• ‘I never expected this award’
• India to emerge as global renewable energy powerhouse
• Rajapaksa, Fonseka vow to curb secessionism
• Paid news, a deep-seated malaise
• CIC order puts External Affairs Ministry in a spot
• AWACS to be showcased on Republic Day
• Junior Ministers take complaint to Manmohan(!!!!)
• Pratibha to inaugurate EC diamond jubilee
• Renewable energy certificate norms announced
• Understand true nature of naxal menace: Chidambaram
• Delhi High Court gets second e-court
• President meets brave children
• Centre mulls direct inclusion of SCs and STs in BPL list
• My speech made no reference to NSA’s office: Chidambaram
• D-Cs made nodal officers for social schemes
• CIC order puts Foreign Office in a spot
• EC poised for diamond jubilee
• More effective externally than internally
• Malaysia and the growing importance of India
• Atonement of sins






19/1

• Bids to be invited for UMPP in Chhattisgarh
• ‘Timely measures ensured recovery’
• No interim relief for Dadri plant
• The truth about Mumbai matters
• There goes the sun!
• Taliban attacks Kabul
• 44 institutions to lose deemed varsity status
• We have no agenda in Afghanistan: India
• Minorities’ quota: Centre to await court order
• Tendulkar notches up 44th Test hundred
• Ukraine vote leads to runoff
• Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award for Scorsese
• A debate that threatens France’s social fabric
• Basu and Mother Teresa: a special association
• Robert Gates coming today
• SCs, STs in BPL list under study
• Court declines to entertain plea against Statehood for Puducherry
• My speech made no reference to NSA’s office: Chidambaram
• Basu’s land reforms unmatched: AIDWA
• ‘Norms flouted, no quality research in deemed varsities’
• 44 institutions to lose deemed university status
• Not taking any chances
• Government contention vindicated: Jairam Ramesh
• Thai envoy to lead delegation to Guwahati trade fair
• Fisherfolk join the fight against nuclear plant in Jaitapur
• Wooing youth
• Wholesale sugar prices have dipped: Pawar
• ‘Take micro-level steps to prevent farmers’ suicides’
• ‘My speech made no reference to NSA’s office’
• “Take micro-level steps to prevent farmers’ suicides”
• Showcasing Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces for art lovers
• Commerce and the Constitution
• Crying for the Lord

Monday, January 18, 2010

· Rising rupee not an unmixed blessing

· Inflation measuring poses challenge

· Universal PDS is key to food security, says Vandana Shiva

· Waste recovery project for Kochi

· A great life (1914-2010)

· Maintaining the momentum

· Jyoti Basu, 95, passes away

· Bodies of businessmen found in Fiji

· Fisherfolk join the fight against nuclear plant in Jaitapur

· Activists form RTI council to safeguard information, whistleblowers

· President faced with defeat in Ukraine polls

· U.S. to protect Pakistan’s nuclear facilities

· The Left Front has provided an alternative model of government: Jyoti Basu

· Al-Qaeda spreads its tentacles in Yemen

· India to push for pharma, IT access as trade talks resume in China

· His ideas will be missed: Amartya Sen

· India disappointed at Nepal Maoists’ stance: Krishna

· ‘Urdu, Sufism and madrasas enriched Indian culture’

· No, UPSC……

· Superior to Paramapada
17/1

· Pratibha warns against unbridled credit growth

· India poised for strong recovery — ADB

· Justice Sirpurkar heads 3-member Dinakaran impeachment panel

· Centre considering functional autonomy for national institutions: Manmohan

· Protests mark consultation on Bt brinjal

· Print media should devote more space to classical fine arts: N. Murali

· For China’s Netizens, Google’s exit raises hard questions

· Can Wikipedia fuel growth of vernacular content online?

· Joint venture company to tap non-conventional energy

· Shinde suggests gas-based power plants

· Obama pitches bank tax

· India ready to address our problems: Prachanda

· Ukraine polls today

· Atlantis, Endeavour up for grabs

· U.S. Navy's new high-speed trimaran warship

· Hong Kong approves $8.6-billion rail link to China

· Critics’ choose The Hurt Locker as best picture

· Centre to conduct ‘vulnerability line mapping’ of coast: Ramesh

· India, France operationalise civil nuclear trade

· Speaker to head team to Mauritius

· Nuclear power plant in Konkan opposed

· Inter-caste marriage: denial of quota upheld

· Area sown under rabi wheat picks up

· Arjun tanks to be tested against Russian T-90s

· Women’s groups seek changes in law against sexual abuse

· Migratory birds are giving Delhi the go-by

· Reunify India and Pakistan: Govindacharya(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hilarious Dinosaur)

· US Ambassador hails Sulabh’s techniques

· Self-help groups thriving in Rashtrapati Bhavan

· India, Iceland to cooperate in geothermal energy development

· Revised DTAA inked with Finland

· Richard Holbrooke arriving in India tomorrow

16/1

· Economists caution FM on stimulus roll-back

· Loss making oil PSUs to get Rs. 12,000-cr compensation

· Book on Uruguay-India trade and links released

· Cabinet nod for ONGC Videsh investment in Nigerian venture

· Haiti devastated

· Inclusive heritage cities

· Ten rockets fired to study solar eclipse

· India ready to review the 1950 Treaty, says Krishna

· India to give aid of $5 million for Haiti

· China looking to coordinate Copenhagen response with India

· India, UK sign education MoUs

· ‘Referendum’ violates Constitution, says Beijing

· Russia ratifies European rights convention

· Japan calls off refuelling mission

· A billion acts of green for Earth Day

· Financing healthcare in India

· Centre’s policies helping speculators: CPI(M)

· It’s for Supreme Court to decide on RTI applicability to CJI: Attorney-General

· Reduce use of animals in experiments: Jairam Ramesh

· Sethu project: NIO to carry out study for new alignment

· India, Nigeria to strengthen relationship

· President Lee to be Chief Guest

· IMD to launch Monsoon Mission

· Telangana: inevitable and desirable

· Moksha for all


15/1 : there was no issue on account of holiday the previous day

14/1

· Collaborative effort must to tackle food inflation: FM

· India, Bangladesh to establish power transmission link

· Boston Consulting to restructure NABARD

· Global IT spending to jump 8.1 % to $1.6 trillion

· Seizing the moment

· On a strong wicket

· Slew of new measures to check sugar price

· Archaeological Survey of India yet to give its approval

· Full Court to decide on RTI Act appeal

· Arrested Indians seek help of law firm in Shenzhen

· Google threatens to quit China

· India wary of military role in Afghanistan

· Choices before the Afghan conference

· No change in LAC: Antony

· Germany keen on civil nuclear cooperation

· Depository of academic qualifications planned

· Take to climate-resilient farming: Swaminathan

· Panel to implement Right to Education in Delhi schools

· Euro IV fuel for 13 cities from April 1

· Water project: Centre to call Karnataka-Goa meet

· Looking past the facade of Rosarno after riots

· Wisdom of the ancients
13/1

· Rs. 500-crore sops for exporters announced

· Solar energy: Russia sees huge potential for joint ventures

· Not exempt from public scrutiny

· Crisis of Indian hockey

· CJI comes under RTI Act: Delhi High Court

· Legal experts hail verdict

· Industrial production at two-year high

· Call to resume India-Pakistan talks

· Centre issues alert to seven States

· 21 Indians arrested in China on diamond smuggling charge

· An epic blockbuster that took China by storm

· Russia to be first to build nuclear-powered spacecraft

· UAE meet discusses Afghanistan

· India and Pakistan: deadlines for dialogue

· $1 billion credit line announced for Bangladesh

· Unesco asks India to get Auroville inscribed on World Heritage List

· Land for permanent exhibition of Hampi’s grandeur

· Euro IV fuel for 13 cities from April 1

· India, China to share anti-piracy information

· LoC trade resumes after two weeks

· Yuva Express flagged off

· Upanishadic statements


12/1

· Israel pushing for a free trade agreement with India

· $185 m India credit for rail line in Sri Lanka

· Interest rates may go up

· The life of cities

· Showcasing the auto industry

· We won’t allow our soil to be used against India: Hasina

· Speed up investigations, Krishna tells Canberra

· Two Astra missiles flight-tested successfully

· Weather-based crop insurance to be introduced

· Need for “credible elections” in Zimbabwe: India, Botswana

· Malaysia for enhanced ties with India

· Maoists allege encroachment by India

· Changing the rules of the energy game

· Manmohan Singh launches ‘Solar India’

· Preparations on to study effects of annular solar eclipse

· 20 m. solar lights planned by 2022

· Taking to the skies

· Commercial activity around Corbett Park posing a threat to eco-fragile zone

· BASIC countries to meet on January 24

· Decongestion of laboratories, a priority: AEC chief

· Showcasing world’s monumental legacy

· Panel on low-carbon economy constituted

· Facing crunch, Delhi Police seek more IPS officers

· Delhi seeks Centre’s help to settle water dispute with Haryana

· ASHA workers to be trained for tuberculosis eradication

· INTACH, Mongolia sign MoU

· For successful marriages

January 11, 2010

• From Navratnas to Maharatnas
• A novel way to tackle food inflation
• Voting without borders
• Don’t Pakistanise Yemen
• India storm into final
• Rajapaksa promises reasonable solution to ethnic conflict
• The alphabet soup of internal security
• Australia has taken a number of steps: envoy
• 25-member panel on low-carbon economy constituted
• Purpose of Saranagati

Saturday, January 09, 2010


• Mukherjee asks taxmen to achieve revised mop-up target
• China set to overtake India as world’s biggest gold consumer
• ONGC Dahej unit to be anchor tenant
• Put waterways to use: ICCI
• Decision on GST by month-end
• Image and reality in Kashmir
• Autonomy for Maharatnas
• NRIs may vote in next general elections, says Manmohan
• IIT-Madras team wins New York competition
• Rukhsana Kosser to receive medal
• User fee on NH 7 to be collected from today
• Election Commission upsets Mayawati
• Panel to push Nepal peace process
• Colombo, U.N. in fresh spat
• Anti-whaling ship sinks off Antarctica
• Future of India-Bangladesh relations
• Bill soon to check tainted persons from holding higher judicial posts
• Judge: law needed to protect NRIs
• Concern over persecution of Baha’is in Iran
• Munde appointed PAC Chairman
• Panel to review sexual harassment bill
• High time to address loopholes in the system
• More tigers fall prey to poachers in 2009
• ‘Posco cannot go ahead without consent of tribals’
• New network for disaster management
• Conduct worthy of a police state
• Coral reefs give birth to rich sea life
• Lord Siva’s qualities

Friday, January 08, 2010


• GST launch set to be delayed
• Insensitive and in denial(Australian racism)
• Defending the whales
• Sibal expresses concern at burden on students
• Take urgent steps to end attacks, New Delhi tells Canberra
• New Delhi, Beijing hold defence dialogue
• West to pursue tough U.N. sanctions on Iran
• Nepal discharges child soldiers
• Small step for tetrapods, giant leap for palaeontology
• Row over melamine in milk products
• Ties with China on an even keel, says Krishna
• Don’t strip Rathore of his medals: K.P.S. Gill(Then strip him of what!)
• Property-related issues dominate Day 1 of Pravasi Divas
• Business across LoC remains suspended
• Ancient India had both cyclic and linear time concepts, says Romila Thapar
• Indigenous swine flu vaccine’s human trials begin
• Final shape to nuclear deal by June: Canada
• Kaunda enunciates route of Indian investment
• Thorium reactors more secure: Kakodkar
• Indian Medical Association opposes rural MBBS course
• Panel calls for revisiting land reforms
• Many ex-Guantanamo detenus return to terror
• Who are we?

Thursday, January 07, 2010

• India, Japan to develop solar city
• Textile policy will be restructured: Maran
• Too much stimulus can be injurious: Chawla
• Create congenial atmosphere(Telangana)
• Encouraging high-speed trains
• Most attacks opportunistic: Australian envoy
• Jyoti Basu’s condition critical
• India looking to re-energise links with Zambia, says Hamid Ansari
• India rejects World Bank aid for tiger conservation(Because WB will count the tigers?)
• Effluents floating in River Noyyal
• ‘Identity’ profiling soon at U.K. airports
• Obama and the Muslim world
• Court suggests cess on fuel to create fund for accident victims
• Remembering a legend
• ‘Right to free education law will be enforced in April-May’
• Bihar says no to Bt brinjal
• Dismantling of Platinum-II allowed
• Goa A-G told to pay costs for seeking adjournment
• Karandlaje fights for ban on endosulfan
• A new look at migration issues in India
• First Pravasi Film Fest comes to a close
• Centre, UGC differ on deemed varsity status to medical college
• Tales of great Amazon civilisation true
• U.S. spy failings in Afghanistan
• Dos and Don’ts

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

• Industry for continuation of stimulus package(naturally!)
• India to help Nigeria build energy projects
• Doing good for science
• Turnaround in foreign trade?(FIEO says it is due to Xmas and New Year. May not maintain)
• Advisory for Indians studying in Australia
• Dhaka, Delhi conclude water talks
• I’m not a prophet, I only know about ribosomes: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
• Experts warn of ‘climate refugees’
• Narco test
• Channel warned
• ‘Worst’ winter in 30 years in Britain
• New pipeline to boost Turkmen gas sales to Iran
• Kepler telescope finds mystery objects
• Weather forecast to feature monsoon phases
• Ansari: India set to re-engage with Africa
• Swaminathan for revolution in small farm management
• ‘Mere allegation cannot be basis for conviction for abetment to suicide’(Read the article carefully. Caption is misleading)
• Opinion divided in Congress too on Vidarbha, says Chavan
• “RTI Act can’t question judicial order”
• Women’s groups urge Moily to amend sexual violence laws
• Farooq warns oil companies
• ‘Opinion on Bt brinjal divided’
• Getting ready for Mahakumbh
• Bagram, the other Guantanamo
• The healing power of books
• Superior to the Lord

Tuesday, January 05, 2010


• ‘High savings rate will help sustain growth’
• ‘Public sector ready for lean technologies’
• Sharper focus on security
• Skewed against the States
• Centre studying proposal to seek Presidential reference to court(Misuse of Art.143)
• Australia is duty-bound to take action: Krishna
• Dhaka, New Delhi begin river water-sharing talks
• Tracing the Big Bang aftermath
• CBI seeks permission for narco tests on Talwars
• India not an overspender: Ahluwalia
• India set to lead effort for binding biodiversity treaty
• Green technology electric car
• Mujib killers may be executed in a month
• For a fresh look at climate change
• ‘Earth, Moon & Mars will form a single entity’
• “Green rating must for government buildings”
• Challenges ahead in putting 2 Indians in space
• Classical status for Telugu, Kannada: Court declines to intervene(We set a question on classical language in the Current Affairs Test)
• World’s tallest tower
• Manmohan honoured
• A new ecosystem of ties in East Asia
• Reverence for Acharyas

Monday, January 04, 2010

 Life after the global financial crisis

 Hopes on faster growth

 Emerging markets will lead recovery

 Still waiting, after 25 years

 The future of cinema?

 Very limited progress at Copenhagen: Manmohan

 DRDO builds technology blocks to kill enemy satellites

 China: Dalai Lama is a political monk

 ICMR to form expert group to study chikungunya-type fever

 China calls for BASIC meet as climate talks resume

 U.S, U.K. shut down embassies in Yemen

 25-year sentence for Fujimori upheld

 Invention and reinvention of ethnicity

 Liberate science from shackles of bureaucratism: Manmohan

 Think big about our future: Prime Minister

 IMD evolving a model for accurate climate forecast

 Kill vehicle, a critical aspect: Saraswat

 C.R. Rao bags Indian Science Award

 ‘Autonomy, accountability vital for growth of higher education sector’

 ISRO plans to use semi-cryogenic engines

 India’s food security challenge

 Silicon Valley seeks innovative immigrants

 Giving generosity its place

Saturday, January 02, 2010

• Export growth turns positive in November( Due to X’Mas and New Year. May not be sustainable)
• Bankers do not see any interest rate spike
• ONGC loses Algeria oilfield to Chinese consortium
• SBI revises FCNR (B) deposit rates
• Corporates weather economic downturn with vigour
• Anodyne blueprint
• Looking back on the pandemic
• Cr.PC amendments come into effect
• Gen. Kapoor’s remarks betray hostile intent, says Pakistan
• The unsettled debate on Indian poverty( Not the best that one has read)
• Tagore’s family made an art of draping sari
• India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear facilities
• India objects to Pakistan actions in Gilgit-Baltistan
• Pune International Film Festival from January 7
• Rajya Sabha prorogued
• Bridging the gap between NRIs and their motherland
• Raising a toast to plural culture of India
• Plea to PM to withdraw report on Bt brinjal
• Efficacy of PIL cases questioned
• Initiatives in higher education
• Vamana avatara

Jan 1

• Sensex enters Silver Jubilee year
• A tough year for exporters
• Food inflation close to 20%
• Open trade with ASEAN, Korea to begin today
• Three-fold rise in net capital inflows
• Fear of decline in agriculture growth a cause for concern
• Addressing the vulnerability
• Inevitable delay
• President invited to World Tamil meet
• Delhiite is first Indian woman to ski to South Pole
• Knighthood for Sikh judge
• U.K. Indians in New Year’s honours
• France: carbon tax ruled unconstitutional(Field Carla Bruni to change the climate)
• Russia to push asteroid away
• The dragon of inflation( by Amar Singh. Since it is a good article, it must be ghost written!)
• GSLV, PSLV flights put off
• GoM to consider 2 bills on educational reforms
• 2009 saw Water Resources Ministry change tack
• Literary award for Imran Shah
• Bt brinjal: plea to Manmohan to withdraw report
• A controversial year for oil and gas sector
• Right to water, compensation to riot victims and more
• New ICAR chief to take charge today(S. Ayyappan)
• Home Ministry to write to States to comply
• Programmes to sensitise police on human rights
• Once in a blue moon
• The year ahead — the world stage
• The ANC is failing poor Africans
• Traditional medicine threat to vultures
• The virtual economy is set to make billions
• Skanda Purana reference

Dec 31

• Vijay Kelkar draws up five-year roadmap for fiscal consolidation
• Trade talks with Japan and China in January
• No hasty exit of stimulus packages
• Developing the western corridor
• A worthwhile programme
• Shibu Soren to seek floor test on January 7
• Lokmanya Tilak award for N. Ram
• Kaveri project: DRDO gets nod for tie-up with French firm
• Founder Hume forgotten as Congress celebrates 125 years
• Finance Commission submits report
• Work soon on Nemmeli desalination plant
• India and the Central Asian dawn
• Many determinants of health lie outside traditional health sector: Srinath Reddy
• Demise of pioneer woman diplomat condoled
• Eventful year for Supreme Court
• National Consumer Policy coming for uniform standards
• FIRs: Home Ministry to write to States to comply
• Discussing plight of the elderly
• Loss of nuclear reactor contract, a major blow to France
• A decade of global crimes, crucial advances
• Greatness of Thiruppavai