24/08

• Exporters, industry welcome new trade policy initiatives
• Cairn strikes oil in KG basin onshore
• Zero-duty EPCG scheme extended by one year
• No winners in Australia
• New light on Stonehenge
• BJP against dilution of supplier's liability
• Centre willing to consider changes, says Chavan
• Rs.1,052-crore incentives to critical export sectors
• Murals of reclining Shiva, Nataraja with 20 arms found at Thrissur temple
• Arjun Atwal creates history
• Enumeration of families along Cooum almost over
• Skill development programme for powerloom weavers mooted
• Another buffalo calf cloned (Garima 2)
• Knowledge is power
23/08



• Why new private banks?
• ‘Withdrawing' from a wrecked country
• More space for small investors
• BJP, Left to push for nuclear bill changes in House
• Amendments meant to protect foreign suppliers, domestic players: Left
• Julia Gillard ‘leads' the race for minority government
• Wen calls for political reforms
• Centre's notice to Google Inc
• Mind is the key

• India's middle class drives consumption, growth: ADB
• Mitigating Pakistan's miseries
• Urban lessons from Brazil
• Seven killed in Xinjiang blast
• Is there an Indo-LAC trade gap?
• Cabinet meet to consider bill today
• Nitish locks horns with Sonia over Central funds
• Phosphine gas concentration on Chitra
• Caste census: GoM to write to parties
• Uneasy state of mind

• Public issues: retail investment limit proposed to be doubled to Rs. 2 lakh
• Infra funding: shortfall feared in XII Plan
• GST Council will only be recommendatory body: Pranab
• Commonwealth Express arrives at Central
• Glimpses of Japanese culture
• CII's Connect 2010 will lay road map for information technology for next 10 years
• “Cloud computing presents opportunities to all IT users”
• Signalling a transition
• Young and jobless
• Inside Kashmir's New Islamist movement
• Liability Bill will provide immediate compensation: Subbarami Reddy
• MPs up in arms against new Arms Policy
• “Parliamentarians must work to meet people's expectations”
• Work on 700 MWe nuclear reactors in Rajasthan to begin soon
• Nuclear deal: Elusive benefits, tangible costs
• Light of knowledge

• China's cautious response to economic milestone
• Export growth slows in July
• People before profits
• Tighter guidelines
• Deal paves way for nuclear liability Bill
• Mexico down-to-earth on Cancun climate summit
• Need for predictive gauge of climate change impact stressed
• Nepal poll may be postponed
• Julia Gillard favours timeline for republic
• A Peepli Live Independence Day
• Law coming to protect farmers, says Pranab
• Polluters must pay and will pay: Jairam
• Eastern India to get its first film city
• Obama and Indian industry: navigating tough waters
• At world's biggest fair, India misses an opportunity
• The Lord's teaching

• Inflation slips to 9.97 % in July
• FDI in retailing: chamber for upgrading traditional trade
• Rangachary to head CDSL
• Banking on India Post
• Five Indian doctors set to retrace Dr. Kotnis' historic journey in China
• Moderating prices pull down inflation (Idiotic caption)
• China overtakes Japan to become No. 2 economic power
• Plan to give tribals a share of mining profits
• Cabinet defers decision to hike MPs' salaries
• Government ready to say ‘no' to private nuclear operators
• Nutrition scheme for adolescent girls cleared
• Apex court to study legality of free colour TV scheme
• Shaurya Chakra for Dhonde
• ‘Bring back lapsed land acquisition Bill'
• Dhruva's severe penance

• Takeover Code: adopting best global practices
• Superbug threat
• Pragmatic rollback
• IEDs recovered in Doda, Rajouri
• Russian nuclear centre still under threat
• Phase 1 of Hambantota port opened
• Japan's Kan shuns controversial shrine
• The danger in India's Nepal policy
• Is weather chaos linked to warming? Probably
• A covert assault on terror widens in Asia and Africa
• One who controls all

• Business houses may be allowed to promote banks
• Spills & other shipping mishaps
• Promising microbiocide
• GoM approval for caste-based census
• Nuclear liability bill must be India-specific: Sushma
• Oil spill affects mangroves
• New superbug spreading from India, Pakistan
• Indian scientist proposes solution to math problem
• Oliver Twist seeks food security
• Southern States to share information on extremism
• Sins catch up

• Central Bank's steps to reduce NPAs
• For a more humane view
• Give peace a chance, Manmohan tells Kashmiris
• India, U.S. review defence cooperation
• Priyanka Chopra appointed UNICEF National Ambassador
• Now, polymer currency
• ‘Knowledge-sharing a key to global food security'
• Crafting a richer India-Myanmar partnership
• MSC Chitra ordered to pay damages
• Behind the success story of universal PDS in Tamil Nadu
• Never complete

• PSEs exempt from 25 % public holding norm
• The right to food must be for all
• Tactful decision (Kosovo)
• Oil leak stops as sinking ship stabilises off Mumbai
• Spill may trigger long-term environmental problems
• Oil spill contained, but cleaning will take time
• Bill to protect whistle-blowers
• Iran: the politics of sanctions
• Previous oil spills in Mumbai
• Farmers' support vital for food security: Swaminathan
• World Tribal Day
• Jairam on U.N. panel for global sustainability
• Cabinet nod for ‘Swavalamban' for unorganised workers
• India to have forest satellite in 2013: Jairam
• Panipat to Paris: Muslim women and the veil
• Born to bear the burden

09/08/2010

• A major tinkering without justification
• Controversial ordinance set to become law
• Nature's fury in Leh
• A timely effort
• “Let not grains rot in godowns while millions cry for food”
• Right to Health, Right to Food next on agenda: Pranab
• Transit facilities to India will benefit Bangladesh, says Foreign Minister
• Test range in Chitradurga coming up
• China hits out at U.S. “double standards”
• Sri Lankan panel to start work
• Oil spill will impact Gulf for years to come
• Afghan problem: for a regional approach
• “Fruits of progress have eluded the rural poor”
• Rajiv Gandhi Plan: a valuable solution
• Renewed diplomatic overtures to Iran
• Compassion as Bhakti

Saturday, August 07, 2010


• Centre plans to divest stake in ONGC, IOC
• 45 % drop in FDI
• State gearing up for White Revolution
• U.S. puts down roots in Iraq
• Major roadblocks (GST)
• 115 killed in Leh flash floods
• Nepal fails to elect a Prime Minister again
• Biggest-ever disaster: Pakistan
• Overcoming the Malthusian scourge
• India, Iran discuss ‘regional solution' in Afghanistan
• GPS to track kerosene tankers
• Arrogance hides Truth

• Subbarao: no magic formula to contain inflation
• Marginal fall in food prices
• Skill development scheme for textile workers announced
• A code for the times
• New rights and old divisions
• Leelavathi Award for Simon Lehna Singh
• Shyam Saran meets Nepal leaders
• Pakistan's inaction froze ties with India: U.S.
• Water through Pakistani eyes
• No Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark; no GST without States: Pranab
• We've reined in food inflation: Pranab
• Nariman: action against deemed varsities irrational
• “Madrasas will be kept out of RTE Act”
• Zero Hour attendance abysmally low
• Panel probing charges against Justice Sen gets extension
• Agni II – testing in September
• Centre promises law on ‘honour' killings
• BP spill leaves Obama worried
• Futility of desire

Wednesday, August 04, 2010



• Centre to acquire RBI's stake in Nabard and National Housing Bank
• Foreign investment in retail can help reduce vegetable, fruit prices: Crisil
• Kashmir's crisis of authority
• Long-acting insulin
• Shyam Saran being sent as special envoy to Nepal
• Nalanda University will take time to materialise, says Amartya Sen
• India, Russia to step up cooperation in Afghanistan
• China holds major air exercises
• Prevent jobs of the future going to India: Obama(Back handed compliment)
• Bhopal disaster and the BP oil spill
• The fine art of giving

Tuesday, August 03, 2010


• Pranab: no move to create super regulator
• SKS Microfinance public offering oversubscribed 13.6 times
• Back to founding principles
• Behind Facebook's success
• Deadlock over prices issue ends
• Jaipur's Jantar Mantar inscribed in the World Heritage List
• Babli: Chief Ministers to abide by Supreme Court interim order
• Deadlock continues in Nepal
• Fears of violence in West Asia
• General Kayani's quiet coup
• Houses to pass resolution on prices issue
• Manmohan releases stamp on Thangal
• CBI files curative petition in Bhopal gas leak case
• No problem with India, says IAEA chief
• Bharata's vairagya

2/8/10

• Inflation a major worry for policy makers
• Plan progress should not suffer for want of funds
• Transferring the problem
• Stronger state to state ties
• Centre to expand PDS cover
• “Official to visit Sri Lanka to assess rehabilitation work”
• Government appears closer to ending impasse in Parliament
• Madhesi parties mulling over options
• War prospects in West Asia: Syria
• Taliban does not possess Stinger missiles: U.S. (Shut Up)
• Restoring Bangladesh's core values
• Lokamanya Tilak award for Sheila Dikshit
• Death penalty has deterrent effect: NHRC chairperson
• Rehabilitation policy for Maoists initiated
• Khap panchayats seek legal sanction
• Pattnaik wins Sand Sculpture Championship for 5th time
• World Bank to the aid of world's largest mangrove forest
• A true representative