• Pranab justifies fuel price increase
• 5-point agenda for IT sector
• China sets strongest yuan rate
• Long road ahead
• Improve the archives
• India, Canada sign civil nuclear deal
• Sonia lays foundation of Rohtang tunnel near Manali
• EC serves notices on three Bellary Ministers
• G-20 nations to focus on deficits
• Navy chief discusses cooperation in Colombo
• Children & the Commonwealth Games
• Manmohan to Obama: Pakistan must act against terrorists
• India expects credible action against LeT operatives
• Jairam Ramesh calls for carbon budgeting to ensure equity
• Centre to seek Vahanvati's opinion on curative pleas
• Call for social reform movement in Haryana
• Central Health Council to meet in July
• Japan's new civil nuclear diplomacy
• Equanimity of temper

o Deflation a bigger risk: Manmohan (ET today says he is the Sardar of reforms )
o Germany pulverizes England
o This time minor girls fall victims to ‘honour killing'
o President commutes death sentence (Art.72)
o G-8 renews ENR ban on India
o Centre plans law change to curb honour killing
o NGOs to be blamed for delay in cleaning up site: Khurshid (!!!!!!!)
o EC issues show cause notice to Reddy brothers
o G-8 welcomes resumption of India-Pakistan talks
o ‘India needs a network of biosphere reserves'
o Central Health Council meeting on July 9
o Pranab to meet Chief Ministers, PSB chiefs
o Gillard in favour of skilled immigration
o G-20 aims for deal on deficits
o Kyrgyzstan votes on Constitution
o Landmark euthanasia ruling (Discussed on Saturday)
o The Kyrgyz crisis and regional security
o ‘It was not a case, it was a tragedy': Nariman
o Growing awareness about environment
o ULIPs: insurance regulator scores a point
o Managing a sustainable future
o Asian economies set for key role in new world order
o Revised discussion paper: Will the EEE continue?
o The sway of Samsara

o Centre hikes fuel prices
o Mamata keeps off meet, but won't withdraw support
o 26/11 masterminds yet to be arrested: Chidambaram
o It will add to inflation: Alagiri
o Bid to take projects to doorsteps of tribals
o C-130J Hercules ready for flight test
o Chidambaram asks Hegde not to press resignation
o “Deregulation will push down prices in six to nine months”
o GoM to help coordinate energy security issues
o NSG discusses Pakistan deal, defers new ENR rules
o Fuel price hike a callous decision, say Left parties
o 3G service to be launched in September
o ‘Honour' killings show up lacunae in legal system: civil society
o Centre to release 5 million tonnes of wheat in open market next month
o IAF conducts exercises with French, Singapore air forces
o Differences on economy set to play out in Toronto
o U.S. financial reforms in sight
o U.K. rethinks plans to cap immigration
o Arbitration & Kishenganga project
o Accounting for success
o Of marriage and murder
o Small recompense
o Jobs created and displaced
o ‘Use food stocks to dampen inflation'
o Listen and learn

Friday, June 25, 2010

o India, Pakistan to focus on the doable
o World champion knocked out
o Make Lokayukta reconsider his decision: Bhardwaj
o Service tax
o Food inflation rises to 16.90 per cent
o Obama-Manmohan meet in Toronto
o India beats Sri Lanka
o Chidambaram to take ‘Thimphu spirit' forward
o An opportunity to talk to each other and not at each other: Nirupama Rao
o Education loan scheme becomes operational
o First lunar eclipse of the year set to take place on June 26
o New Delhi, Tokyo discuss civil nuclear cooperation
o GoM to discuss avoidance of disasters
o Medvedev a solid and reliable partner, says Obama
o National Commission for Women against use of term ‘honour killings'
o EGoM to discuss food security today
o Julia Gillard is Australia's first woman Prime Minister
o France paralysed by general strike
o Pakistan pledges support as Beijing turns the screw on Xinjiang
o CSTO team heads for Kyrgyzstan
o G20 and the real economy: what's at stake
o Crime, no punishment
o The winners and losers of the Afghan war
o Learning from tragedy
o Enforcing corporate responsibility
o Rising food inflation
o Expiation of sin

• President hails role of Tamil ethos in Indian identity and progress
• Plachimada report
• Karnataka Lokayukta quits post “in disgust”
• Home Ministry yet to decide on Afzal Guru plea
• With new Bill, Bar Council will lose academic role
• Policy to prevent neglect of cases
• Obama removes McChrystal
• Monsoon session likely from July 26
• Nirupama Rao arrives in Pakistan to finalise agenda
• ‘Paid news': EC asks Chavan to appear before it on July 9
• EU keen on closer security ties
• India likely to halve poverty rate by 2015: U.N. report
• SC moved for introducing regional languages as court language
• U.N. panel unwarranted, says Sri Lanka
• Brazil and Turkey prepare for next round of mediation on Iran
• China, Pakistan and the NSG
• Behind Rigi's hanging
• Deft move
• World Bank aid to India to touch $9.3 billion
• Anand Sharma invites U.S. investments in India
• Jnana and Bhakti
• One man's initiative ensures water-security in drought regions
• Wi-Fi all set to compete with 3G
• Liquid crystals for better data storage
• Coral conservation efforts off the mark?

• Need to formulate R&D policy for textile industry, says FICCI study
• Indian exporters to gain from yuan rise
• Call for RBI action on the inflation front
• Don't lose sleep over Chashma
• Financial inclusion and regulation
• Coimbatore all decked up for grand Tamil meet
• Rise in fuel prices seems imminent
• Oil prices, fiscal deficit major challenges: Pranab
• Australia told of concerns over students issue
• High Court lawyers argue cases in Tamil
• Criteria for classical language status(Kannada, Telugu, Sanskrit and Tamil are the four classical languages of India)
• Afghanistan looking for Indian, Chinese help to tap mineral bonanza
• EU offers to extend GSP+
• “China could also mount pressure on Pakistan”
• Making of the Constitution in Nepal
• Cambridge honour for Ratan Tata
• R.K. Laxman's condition stable
• Government released UCC from civil liability: Dow
• Government yet to fill vacancies in Vigilance Commission
• Building trust, one step at a time
• Disability and Census of 2011
• Steps to attain salvation

Tuesday, June 22, 2010
• FDI in services sector drops 34 %
• Double standards
• A late call yet again
• Rs. 1,500-crore package for Bhopal victims recommended
• Right to education: Indian gets key U.N. post
• Mass starvation warned in West Africa
• Reduce sales tax, value added tax on fuel, Murli Deora tells States
• ‘Raise PDS grain price for APL population'
• ‘Amend Child Labour Act to execute RTE Act'
• R.K. Laxman hospitalised
• 1,000 Genomes Project releases first phase data
• The Jivatma's challenge

• Inflation in double digits queers the pitch for policy makers
• Exports under severe strain: FICCI survey
• Direct Taxes Code: revised discussion paper is more an apologia for the earlier proposals
• Monsoon drama
• What future for Jarawas?
• India wary of NSG double blow
• Centre to pay Rs. 250 crore to clean up toxic waste in Bhopal
• Rainfall impacts of climate warming to persist
• No one-off moves on yuan, says China
• Uneasy calm in Kyrgyzstan
• Missiles do not threaten Europe, says Iran
• Pipeline project: U.S. warns Pakistan about sanctions on Iran
• Russia and the Kyrgyzstan crisis
• India lobbying hard with nuclear partners on ENR issue
• Dow liable for clean-up, damage payment: activists
• Question hour disruption a blow to accountability: Meira Kumar
• Exporters worried by uncertainty in Euro zone: survey
• Tiger bones, pangolin scales seized in Assam
• India ready to discuss all issues Pakistan may raise
• Civil Liability for Nuclear Claims Bill, 2010: is life cheap in India?
• Indestructible atma

Saturday, June 19, 2010


• RBI keeping a close watch on inflation
• Exports register 35 % growth in May
• The evolving tax code
• Let the ban stay
• Nirupama Rao to hold talks in Islamabad
• Prithvi-II test-fired successfully
• Final view on new tax slabs only after inputs from stakeholders
• Sibal proposes merger of entrance tests
• More sanctions on Iran
• Bhopal gas leak case: all is not lost
• New Delhi, Seoul to begin talks on civil nuclear cooperation
• Africa's angst – and nirvana
• Finishing the task

Friday, June 18, 2010


• Farm sector crucial for overall growth: Montek
• Government takes up lead in industrial innovation
• Food inflation hovers around 16 %
• Five lakh new jobs in first half of current fiscal: survey
• Hope in Manipur
• The power of cash incentives
• Ottawa could have averted Kanishka tragedy: probe panel
• Nod for amending Central Educational Institutions Act
• Israel eases land blockade on Gaza
• Iran warns EU on sanctions
• S.Korea to tap India's space launch capabilities
• Higher education quota must continue, says survey
• Employment policy soon, says Kharge
• India turns to China for grain storage expertise
• The past is not prologue
• Putting victims at the centre of liability law
• At the urging of Mantara

Thursday, June 17, 2010


• Coalitions and contradictions
• A new challenge in Central Asia
• Chief Electoral Officers told to check ‘paid news'
• Bill meant to safeguard U.S. firms, says Karat
• India, South Korea to discuss nuclear deal
• Human safaris threaten good old Jarawas in the Andamans
• Obama outlines oil spill “battle plan”
• BP agrees to $20 billion oil spill fund
• Kyrgyzstan violence subsides
• U.S. concerned over China-Pakistan deal
• Towards protecting women
• India among worst countries in human trafficking
• Monsoon favouring, 8.5% growth rate possible: Pranab
• Food inflation may rise further, but no cause for alarm: Montek(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
• Woman Chief Justice for Patna High Court
• Two doctrines for greater synergy among tri-services
• Deora discusses fuel price hike issue with Pranab
• Parpola and the Indus script
• The burden of malaria in India
• Green Revolution's diet of big carbon savings
• Duties of rulers and ruled

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

• CIL, HCL get cabinet nod for share sale
• Double-digit inflation
• Schengen at 25
• Siege lifted, but little relief for Manipur
• Government backtracks on nuclear liability change
• No tax on retirement benefits under new draft code
• Swiss, Slovak experts to represent India in Kishanganga dispute
• Stranded Indians evacuated to Bishkek
• “Dow sought to pre-empt judicial outcome”
• Turn the nuclear bill from liability to asset(Varadarajan)
• Reserve Bank will take steps to check inflation: Pranab
• P.C. Thomas, ex-MP, gets 3-year poll ban
• An auspicious beginning

Monday, June 14, 2010

• Kaushik Basu favours decontrol of fuel prices
• Of wedlock and deadlock
• Asia's global responsibility
• Inflation touches double digits
• Centre to send forces to break Manipur blockade
• India draws contours of its approach in engaging Pakistan
• Oil spill: Indian-origin scientist offers a solution
• Manmohan briefs Karunanidhi on talks with Rajapaksa
• Kanishka report to be released on Thursday
• Violence unabated in Kyrgyzstan
• Iran, Pakistan finalise gas pipeline deal
• India can still join : Pakistan
• Obama pressures BP on compensation
• $1-trillion mineral wealth in Afghanistan
• Games big corporations play(Sainath)
• Rising food inflation a worry: Pranab
• Activists to Obama: Show same sensitivity to gas victims as on oil spill issue
• Stop playing politics on new States: Amar Singh
• ‘Nirmalgram Puraskar' to 1,720 villages in Maharashtra
• Grappling with core concerns of higher education
• The battle is won but the war isn't over
• Gulfs remain after U.N. climate change talks in Bonn
• A role reversal

Monday, June 14, 2010

• More space for publicholding in corporates
• Base Bank Rate costlier for highly rated cos: FICCI
• Need for sustaining growth momentum
• WHO and conflicts of interest
• String of quakes jolts Andaman & Nicobar
• Brinda: implement Forest Act to prevent sale of land to corporates
• Nag hits a moving target in 3.2 seconds
• Collective Arab plan to break siege?
• Russia posts Kyrgyz plea to defence bloc
• Breakthrough for Flemish separatists
• One step forward, two steps back
• ‘Simultaneous Lok Sabha, Assembly polls not feasible'
• Address problem of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, Centre urged
• Mullaperiyar panel meets today
• Draft bill on voting rights for NRIs cleared
• Doctors serve rural areas mainly due to geographical factor, says survey
• Over 12,000 take IAS academy screening test
• The coming end of China's factory model
• Some lessons from the Bhopal outcome
• Law of Dharma

Sunday, June 13, 2010


• ADB forecasts stronger growth for India, China
• Still no recognition of forest rights for tribals: activists
• Nuclear cooperation making progress
• Income support scheme from July
• Pakistan Rangers to protect Indian Sikhs
• Kyrgyzstan asks for Russian troops
• Committed to Sri Lanka's development: China
• Buddha relics enshrined at Chinese temple
• Queen Elizabeth honours NRIs
• Kanishka panel report to be released on June 17
• Exclusive climate change study centre for North-East

Saturday, June 12, 2010



• Industrial growth surges 17.6 per cent in April
• PSU consortium emerges highest bidder to acquire MAMC assets
• Productive visit
• Home Ministry gearing for greater role
• NIA's seven-day access to Headley “useful”
• Oil companies plan huge spending
• Showtime in South Africa
• Kyrgyz clashes overshadow SCO meet
• Rajapaksa returns home after India visit
• Oil spill estimate doubled
• FATA a human rights black hole: Amnesty
• China offers $200 million to Sri Lanka
• Afghanistan: the march of folly
• Industrialist Jayavarthanavelu passes away
• Exclusive climate change study centre for north-east
• Eurojet offers dual-use engine for LCA
• Petroleum Ministry to fuel tribal development
• U.K.'s policy: championing fairness, prosperity for India
• Slow-motion tragedy unfolds for marine life
• Rich countries accused of carbon ‘cheating'
• Efficacy of God's name

Friday, June 11, 2010


• Mid-term appraisal of XI Plan gets Cabinet nod
• Food inflation inches up to 16.74 %
• A needless provocation
• A new normalcy
• CCS debates ways to tackle Naxalites
• Government in damage control mode on Nuclear Liability Bill
• Croatia supports India's bid for permanent membership in UNSC
• Sri Lanka plans Constitutional reform
• Setback for Iran at SCO
• China defends backing sanctions
• Russia warns against more sanctions
• The tide turns against Israel
• Minimum support price for pulses increased
• Sanganeri hand block printing art gets GI protection
• Mission Clean Ganga approved
• EGoM defers decision on Food Security Bill
• Few realise the extent of economic crisis
• U.K.: have prime ministers ever been well paid?
• Gulf of Mannar biosphere: official clarifies

• LIC to act as registrar for UID project
• Centre to sell stake in 35 PSUs
• Maran: no blanket ban on cotton export
• Football's African odyssey
• Drowning in oil
• We'll strive for settlement acceptable to all: Rajapaksa
• GoM on Bhopal case reconstituted
• India, Sri Lanka consider energy cooperation
• U.N. imposes sanctions on Iran
• Cabinet may discuss fuel price increase today
• Universities to start community colleges for unskilled workers
• NIA team quizzes Headley
• Mini hydro-electric plants across streams
• India seeks partnership with Germany in aeronautical engineering
• European defence consortium plans long-term investment in India
• Russian offer useful, says Kakodkar
• Gaza: India for collective response
• A “zhengyou” relationship with China
• Oppose Nuclear Liability Bill: Left Front
• Food security to top agenda at first NAC meeting
• Education Council launch ahead of Obama's visit
• Non-alignment relevant in multipolar world: Ansari
• Government moots amendments to RTI Act
• Activists opposing Jaitapur project meet Jairam
• Pakistan for joint fight against terror
• Flight tests of laser-guided bombs conducted
• France and Japan propose a ‘panel for nature'

Tuesday, June 08, 2010



• ‘Tweak rules to tap long term debt for infra fund'
• Economy on course to accelerating growth: Pranab
• ‘Market volatility no cause for worry'
• Pitiful justice
• The curse of Okinawa
• Amid Bhopal rage, panel starts work on nuclear liability Bill
• Pranab to head group on caste census
• India to seek Rajapaksa's word on devolution
• Cyclone Phet floods Rajasthan
• Ansari: strengthen global legal regime against terrorism
• International math prize named after Leelavati
• Grand old lady of Indonesia
• Cabinet sitting on Plachimada report
• Sanctions will close door to talks: Iran
• Kan to honour U.S. base pact
• Russian probe undercuts Cheonan sinking theory
• The social question, who cares?
• Caste: Chidambaram's proposal may be accepted
• Rajapaksa has gone back on assurances: Karunanidhi
• Centre seeks help of panchayats to counter naxalism
• Liability Bill changes may open a can of worms
• A lesson for liability Bill, says Left
• Bhopalis may sue for civil damages
• No justification for firing on flotilla: Anand Sharma
• Identity enumeration and statistical systems
• The oil firms' profits ignore the real costs
• Commitment to duty

Tuesday, June 08, 2010



• 25 % public holding norm to aid disinvestment
• Gazprom keen to export LNG to India
• A colossal disaster
• Promoters & public
• Keshub Mahindra, 6 others get 2-year jail for Bhopal tragedy
• Meet on fuel price hike inconclusive
• Bhopal verdict will impact Nuclear Liability Bill: Moily
• Cameroon and Ivory Coast are Africa's best bet
• Rajapaksa to brief India on resettlement
• Long-term eco-disaster looms in Gulf of Mexico
• India wants China to open door for agro-products
• Balakrishnan takes over as NHRC chief
• IAF contingent flagged off for Indo-French exercise
• IAF fighters to practise in France
• Justice M.N. Rao takes over as BC Commission chief
• Finance Ministry sets up technology advisory group
• Pat for Faisal
• Climate council's water mission for India
• Wrong in law and reasoning
• U.N. in a delicate bind over science prize tied to dictator
• The Lord's infinite glory

Monday, June 07, 2010

• Exciting growth story but lurking dangers
• Precaution against EET Scheme
• Lessons from the Greek economic crisis
• Only way out is exit
• No end to financial volatility
• Nadal lifts his fifth French Open crown
• Army, Air Force wary of getting involved in anti-Maoist operations
• Blockade keeps prices high in Manipur
• There is no need for Brazil to panic, I will be ready: Kaka
• How Eusebio lit up the World Cup
• Verdict on Bhopal disaster today
• PPP model under study: Ahamed
• Area under precision farming to increase
• Iran must heed world community: Medvedev
• Bird rescue mission as slick hits coast
• Abu Dhabi's leaning tower beats Pisa
• Chidambaram seeks Karunanidhi's views on rehabilitation of Sri Lankan Tamils
• Ansari will seek backing for UN seat bid
• Japan ready to finance second phase of Rajasthan forestry project
• Optimum utilisation of resources sought
• Army Chief begins Bhutan visit today
• Whistleblowers at receiving end after using RTI
• Moily hints at change in judges' appointment process
• Nag hits target in three seconds after launch
• Africa: 50 bittersweet years of independence
• Latin America still divided over a coup in Honduras
• From labour-rich to talent-intensive
• The perishable body