Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Wednesday, November 24, 2010


• Foreign investors hold 30 % in BSE
• Coal output target may have to be pruned further
• Virtualisation, cloud computing to drive IT services in future
• No reason to fear JPC
• NATO: fit for what purpose?
• North Korea shells South Korean island
• Another golden day for Devvarman
• Cambodian festival stampede leaves 380 dead
• Centre returns admissions Bill
• Artillery exchange alarms world
• Putin offers Russia's tigers to revive species
• The spotlight is on the media now
• Stamp on Ashok Kumar to be released
• Package for Endosulfan victims
• China's role in West Asia for peace: expert
• Kerala to host global meet on public sector
• PAC looking at CAG report
• U.N. seat: Germany for unity among G-4 nations
• Krishna to visit Sri Lanka
• 4 disqualified Karnataka MLAs move Supreme Court
• New rules for CO2 storage
• Evolved souls












• Kyl stops START
• A preventable crisis
• Court: how can Thomas be CVC?
• Parliament standoff continues
• Navi Mumbai airport gets the green signal
• Walesa to accept Nobel for Liu Xiaobo
• India, UAE to sign security cooperation agreement soon
• Bailout sinks Ireland into crisis
• China plans S-E Asia rail links
• ‘Help us bring the communities together'
• Indian scientific team reaches South Pole
• Government not doing enough to promote cinema, says Yash Chopra
• NAC likely to discuss land acquisition
• Manmohan for changing varsity curriculum
• Tigers could be extinct in 12 years
• Valmiki and Narada

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Saturday, November 20, 2010

• Banks asked to reach out to weaker sections
• Trade curbs will only lead to protectionism — Lamy
• ‘WTO can survive if Doha gets done'
• Flawed process, failed outcome
• Iranian envoy summoned to protest Khamenei's remark
• Rajapaksa sworn in for second term
• Bajrang Lal wins India's second gold
• NCW favours law to control television programmes
• Centre urged to defer Coastal Regulation Zone notification
• State imposes ban on Endosulfan use
• World Bank response system slow: report
• Peerages for Indian origin businessmen
• Kashmir interlocutors create sceptical buzz in the Valley
• Pranab appeals to Opposition to accept PAC investigation
• It's up to Manmohan to decide on MNREGS wage hike: Joshi
• Brinda opposes injectable contraceptives plan
• Judge asked to file reply by December 9
• President for key role for women in development
• A toss-up between S.C. Sinha and A.P. Singh for CBI chief?
• Jethmalani: Ask newspapers to file affidavits on paid news
• Supreme Court: three-member panel will manage Prasar Bharati's affairs
• Indira Gandhi peace prize for Lula
• Tejas makes successful flight, to be inducted into IAF soon
• Interest in TAPI pipeline project revives
• Stuxnet worm was perfect for sabotaging centrifuges
• Power ship to supply electricity-starved Pakistan
• Removing the poison

Thursday, November 18, 2010

• Augment exports to Latin America: Scindia
• Mukesh Ambani bags Global Vision Award
• A role for the RIC trilateral
• Innovative outreach efforts
• Setback to New START treaty
• Saina Nehwal gets past Lydia Cheah
• A programme that enriches lives of Indian students in U.S.
• Krishna to visit Sri Lanka
• Testimony to a friendship
• Kidnap, murder of children are crimes against society: Supreme Court
• Resettlement not satisfactory, says Ranil
• Whither Copenhagen promise of funding developing countries?
• Dependence on borrowed research has cost us: Jairam Ramesh
• In Rajasthan, MNREGS workers score a victory
• Meeting to prepare for Manmohan-Medvedev summit
• Illegal financial flows: the great drain robbery
• Digital keys for unlocking the humanities' riches
• Know yourself



• Stock markets crumble on global economic woes
• Kaushik Basu pitches for regulator to monitor teaser loans
• Maharatna status for IOC, ONGC and NTPC
• Reality check on Myanmar
• Assessing development
• CAG may look into PPP books also, hints Manmohan
• Japanese women humble India
• Khade ends India's 24-year medal drought
• Ela Bhatt doing path-breaking work for women: Hillary
• Three Indian art forms on UNESCO's heritage list
• “Long process” ahead for India: Blake
• India raises concern over Brahmaputra dam
• Antony sees continuance of low-intensity conflicts
• Supreme Court grants interim protection to Amar Singh, Jayaprada
• The U.S. is walking the walk

Monday, November 15, 2010

• G-20 summit: not fully meeting the expectations
• A return to the gold standard?
• Changing dynamics in world economic order
• India's fundamental role in global gold market
• Post-dated cheque from Seoul
• Good detection, serious challenges
• Jammu and Kashmir out of U.N. list of disputes
• Economy will revert to 9% growth: Pranab
• Gandhian L.C. Jain passes away
• India tells China: Kashmir is to us what Tibet, Taiwan are to you
• Indian women bag silver
• A raw deal for children in budgets: child rights body
• U.S. incentives for Israel to freeze construction
• The Obama visit: how successful?
• Crimes against women deserve the death penalty: Supreme Court
• 88% women subjected to sexual harassment at workplace in IT sector: survey
• Mauritius President on two-day visit to Orissa
• National litigation policy planned: Moily (It is already there)
• Complete avataras










• Industrial production growth slows to 4.4 %
• ‘Special role for reserve currency countries' (Dr.Singh’s speech in Seoul)
• Forex reserves cross $300 billion
• Gestational diabetes - a rising threat
• Bariatric surgery emerging as viable option for obese patients
• Impeaching Justice Sen
• Challenging times
• G20 meet agrees to curb trade imbalances
• G20: norms to identify imbalances by mid-2011
• Hopes of Suu Kyi's release rise
• India on U.N. women panel
• War on terror: the way forward
• Sonia writes to Manmohan on MNREGS wages
• Asma Jahangir: it's time women's quota bill was passed
• ICAR to brand agri products
• 8 more tiger reserves likely
• Indian language technology centre launched
• Forgiveness for all

Saturday, November 13, 2010

• Banks asked to improve asset quality to support 9% growth
• Food inflation eases to 12.30 %
• India Economic Summit to focus on infrastructure
• Iran helps Iraqi governance
• Off-mark on India's UNSC dream
• Centre to decide on sugar exports by month-end
• Difference of opinion at G-20 summit over what ails the global economy
• Environment award for Indian
• Endosulfan: VS calls officials' meet
• Will pursue currency reform, says Hu
• Zardari in China, to discuss nuclear deal
• Trading one hyphen for another
• Need to regulate microfinance institutions: AIDWA
• Food Security law soon: Centre
• In budget, a raw deal for children
• Celebrating 60 years of ICCR
• 88% women subjected to sexual harassment at workplace in IT sector, reveals survey
• Kids demand extension of Right to Education Act to many more
• Thanks to competition, tele-density is up: DoT
• Uganda seen as a front line in the bioterrorism fight
• Between India and the U.S., a defining partnership
• Not so beautiful from this angle
• Transcending the human state

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

• India-U.S. CECA next logical step, says Sharma
• India, Japan to sign CEPA soon
• Obama visit will spur growth
• A significant visit
• Developing heritage cities
• China for “patient consultations” on UNSC reforms
• U.S. sounds out UNSC members on India's bid
• Report on Justice Sen to be tabled in Lok Sabha today
• Manmohan to attend G-20 meet in Seoul
• Tatas titanium project: Rosaiah writes to Ratan
• U.S. media hails Obama's move on Security Council
• Act today to boost rice supply: experts
• Re-elected to Interpol
• ‘India should be more open to FDI'
• Seeds Bill to be opposed in Rajya Sabha
• Amid clash, House passes Bills to rename Orissa, its language
• PM leaves for Seoul today
• Obama tours Asia as U.S. influence wanes
• Myanmar refugees return
• Essential knowledge

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

• U.S. remains a prime source of investment
• $10-b infra debt fund to be created
• Pranab seeks U.S. investments to improve infrastructure
• U.S. to help in shale gas technology
• $175-m worth deals on clean energy signed
• Power Grid follow-on offer opens today
• Disinvestment in IOC, SAIL, ONGC early next fiscal
• Obama backs India on terror, U.N. reform
• India now a world power: Obama
• “Bring to justice perpetrators of Mumbai attack”
• Obama's UNSC statement a boost but India to be on probation
• In a first, India, U.S. for dialogue of all nuclear weapon states
• Violence rocks Myanmar
• Scientists create “mini Big Bang”
• “India's bid for seat will complicate UNSC reforms”
• Reconciliation panel's term extended
• Community policing initiatives in Kerala
• Obama conveys concern to Sonia over liability Act
• Lifting of export curbs enhances India-U.S. relations
• Produce file on Thomas appointment: Supreme Court
• U.S., India sign MoU for global diseases detection
• Petrol price raised by 32 paise
• Obama: Why is India mum on Myanmar?
• India to hold higher education summit
• India, U.S. sign pact on clean technologies
• Historic agreement on the High North
• U.S. poll casts its shadow over New START
• With Japan as host, no ‘silly shirts' for APEC
• Pharaonic relic found
• To seek relief

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

• Reserve Bank hints at monetary action to contain inflation
• Price rise a matter of concern: Pranab
• Iran sets deadline for ONGC-Hinduja consortium to decide on gas field project
• Exports up 23 % in September
• A strategic corrective
• Origins of plant life
• Manu Joseph bags The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010
• India wants level playing field for its companies in China
• Indigenous AWACS to be flight-tested by 2011
• Aadhaar software locked in with ‘Windows'
• First Indian scientific expedition to South Pole takes off
• Global meeting on community policing
• Medvedev's Kuril islands visit angers Japan
• Brazil fetes woman President-elect
• Time for reset of India-U.S. ties
• Delay in submarine project worries Navy
• Oil firms being encouraged to secure assets abroad: Manmohan
• Krishna Iyer turns 95
• Kolkata Film Festival to mark Tagore birth anniversary
• Story with many lessons
• Microfinance under severe stress
• Economy poised for new growth trajectory
• Taking economic ties with U.S. to higher levels
• Divorce in a trice
• Microfinance, macro challenges
• Government to step up oil and gas exploration
• Mobile tower radiation: action planned against firms
• Mars' volcanic deposit tells of life
• Terrorism: Yemen not for foreign forces role
• Expertly constructed, unusually sophisticated: experts
• Brazil votes in run-off
• The great subcontinental green game
• Dowry killings deserve death penalty: Supreme Court
• Strive for a pure mind