 Inflation hurts households badly, says Crisil study

 ‘Use technology to achieve financial inclusion'

 PM to review infra sector on July 6

 The CAG's mandate

 Give Palestine its due

 War of words over 2G report at PAC again

 France's Lagarde is new IMF chief

 Pace of financial reform a point of contention?

 Flare-up in Greece over austerity laws

 India one of the most business-friendly countries, says Swraj Paul

 India honours doyen of modern Sinhala music

 Goa may soon get its first tiger reserve

 Navy to add U.S. anti-submarine torpedoes to P-8I

 Mozambique, India to work together on maritime security

 Yellow-footed green pigeon to remain Maharashtra's State bird

 The oceans and the monsoon

 Unfathomable Vedas

Bring laws that protect individual privacy

Privacy has become a casualty in the present wired, some say, ‘flat’ world. Every time a person goes to an Internet café he does not realise that the café owner has to keep a register of all the websites he visited and the data he downloaded, for a whole year. For all one knows, on the way to the café, he would have been captured by several cameras, placed strategically at city squares, malls, railway stations and ATMs. Again, he is asked to share a copy of his passport or his driving licence when he makes a purchase of, say, a refrigerator using his credit card.
It is not the government alone which keeps an eye on the citizen. For instance, the direct-to-home television service provider knows exactly which channels one visits and for how long. The amount of data that a private company like Google builds up on its users is mind-boggling. Similarly, the mobile phone companies keep a huge data on their subscribers. They not only know which all numbers a person dialled in a year but they can even give a recording of the conversations. It is true that such records have helped the police to crack several criminal cases but they are also a pointer to the onslaught on privacy that a citizen has to encounter round the clock.
The government routinely collects details of all the bank transactions a person makes. Private and public insurance providers also gather details about the health conditions of their policy holders. Collecting personal information may be unavoidable but in the hands of undesirable elements, such information can be dangerous. As the national intelligence grid has been kept out of the purview of the Right to Information Act, people cannot even find out whether or which government agency has accessed their personal details. All this underscores the urgent need for a law to protect privacy which is key to civilised life.

 Foreign investors can invest up to $10 b in MFs

 EPFO-like body for small sector on anvil

 India-New Zealand FTA likely by 2012

 The NSG challenge

 Taliban's return and India's concerns

 Ranjan Mathai is new Foreign Secretary

 Hydro-diplomacy: a neglected opportunity for Nepal and India

June 27

 RBI's nuanced approach to inflation

 Paying a heavy price for ignoring the manufacturing sector

 The best CBM yet

 Impact will be harsh and wide

 Civil society won't be involved in future for drafting law: Sibal

 Social audit of RTE exposes state of school education

 Package for developing nations in top-level domain expansion

 Free or open source for students?

 Brazil's Graziano elected FAO chief

 A law that thwarts justice

 Implementation of IAP scheme in 60 districts in full swing

 Proposal to declare publishing a priority sector

 NCPCR seeks report on genitoplasty in Indore

 Committed to truth

 Manmohan to review performance of infrastructure ministries on July 1

 Mukherjee to discuss surge in capital flows at U.S. meet

 Gems and jewellery exports up 33.5 %

 India expects partners to fulfil nuclear commitments

 Congress to its CMs: reduce taxes on petro products

 Novel project may improve prospects of girl child education

 Military delegation's visit marks thaw in India-China ties

 Piracy tops legal forum agenda

 Piracy: armed guards on Indian merchant vessels soon

 India amends tax treaty with Singapore

 Resolve market access, investment concern: Kirk

 Inflation expectations

 Lessons from Japan quake

 NSG ends India's ‘clean' waiver

 India, Pakistan to take steps to reduce trust deficit

 Diesel price up by Rs. 3, LPG to cost Rs. 50 more

 India eases visa norms for Russian businessmen, tourists

 Don't succumb to civil society's pressure: CWC

 End of an ordeal

 India, Pakistan seek to create space for mending accident-prone relationship

 ENR guidelines do not detract from India waiver, says U.S.

 U.S.-India ties a “zero-sum game” for Pakistan: Hillary

 China to rebalance ties with India, Pakistan

 IAEA for action on lessons from Japan

 Bangladesh: restoring secular Constitution

 Centre distances itself from joint Lokpal draft

 U.S. circulates ‘thought paper' on Indian membership of NSG

 Lokpal can't be parallel government: Sibal

 Parties can study drafts: Hazare

 Six sailors return home from captivity

 INS Godavari damaged in PNS Babur manoeuvres

 Western Ghats to be inscribed in world heritage list next year

 Endosulfan listed under Rotterdam Convention

 LoC trade to resume next week

 The people's grief

 Food inflation at 9.13 % unacceptable: Pranab

 UIDAI targets 1 m enrolments a day

 Drop the pretence on Myanmar

 Renewing e-waste

 India-Pakistan talks focus on peace and security

 Indian crew of m.v. Suez reaching Delhi today

 Government cold to CAG's quest for new powers

 Is the enrichment debate reaching critical mass?

 Manual scavenging: Centre told to take action in 2 months

 Obama announces Afghan troop withdrawal

 A good step for Afghanistan: Karzai

 Swraj Paul calls for Lords' reforms

 World Food Prize for Brazil's da Silva, Ghana's Kufuor

 Measured response greets Ai Weiwei release

 Creating enabling environments

 Rs. 1 crore to popularise SSI technology

 Centre for seafarers in three months

 Reforms could see disposal of cases in three years

 Civil society's comments outrageous: Left parties

 India for accord on listing asbestos under Rotterdam Convention

 Europe's democracy itself is at stake

 Afghanistan pullout signals new power struggle

 On human conduct

· Move to make FDI policy user-friendly

· The ethanol imperative

· 12-member Chicago jury begins deliberations on Rana

· Death for 10 in Etah ‘honour killing' case

· CIC directs Rajya Sabha to disclose MPs' commercial interests

· Yet another panel on black money

· Liability law no longer an obstacle to Russian reactor deal

· Fast Attack Craft INS Kabra commissioned

· Russia's Rosatom to join hands with Indian firms

· An exercise in undercounting the poor

· Transparency revolution to go on: Antony

· India-Africa summit: from agreement to action

· Swiss lawmakers in favour of phasing out nuclear power

· Greatness of Truth

 Panel suggests 4 per cent interest on Post Office savings deposits

 Greening India

 Inconclusive exit in Yemen

 ‘Superbug' still a global concern: WHO

 Dhaka-Delhi talks end on positive note

 Declare assets, Manmohan reminds Ministers

 C-17 deal will strengthen strategic ties: Roemer

 Free and compulsory education to be extended up to class X

 No assurance to Lagarde: Pranab

 Legislative Council revival blocked again

 Germany urged to track down E. coli source

 The nation state and its territory

 Law Commission proposes legislation to curb ‘honour killings'

 Pact signed for new body in Darjeeling hill areas

 Kuchipudi legend Nataraja Ramakrishna passes away

 Punjab clears Right to Services Act

 Sudan's leaders are not looking for a fight

 Radiation's unknowns weigh on Japan

 Natural gas is no climate change ‘panacea,' warns IEA

 Power of sacred hymns

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

· RBI closely monitoring liquidity situation: Shyamala Gopinath

· Net direct tax collection slumps on heavy refunds

· The Emperor of Clay

· Sound policy shift

· Court takes suo motu notice of crackdown

· Menon, Nirupama to hold talks with Sri Lankan officials

· India-Bangladesh talks begin today

· Azad blames technology, unscrupulous doctors for declining sex ratio

· World heritage site tag sought for Wikipedia

· India to buy C-17 heavy-lift transport aircraft from U.S.

· Hyderabad to host global biodiversity meet next year

· China's high-speed trains among the safest

· Pakistan: shakier than ever before

· Cabinet panel clears national intelligence grid

· Bill on ‘right to privacy' in monsoon session: Moily

· Moily meets Quraishi on electoral reforms

· On human conduct

6^th June

· Innovations in on-line learning

· Ridding the world of a terrible virus

· ‘Development agenda of Doha round central'

· Political vacuum as Saleh leaves for Saudi Arabia

· No naval build up, says China's Defence Minister

· WikiLeaks has caused no harm: Assange

· A weakness born of bad intent

· U.N. report favours more investment in forestry sector

· Prescribe only generic drugs, A.P. doctors told

· A warming planet struggles to feed itself

· Call for recognition of Earth's ‘human epoch'

· Stories of sages

· India allows duty free market access to Afghanistan

· Is there a brain cancer risk?

· Hands off Libya

· Indian-American teen wins U.S. Spelling Bee crown

· Nadal storms into the men's final defeating Murray in straight sets

· Eco-tourism guidelines empower local communities

· India to test-fire Agni-V by year-end

· Freedom of press and journalistic ethics – II

· Antony: Indian help to Afghanistan is not directed against any country

· India, Pakistan to discuss visa issue in August

· Centre planning to revisit collegium system of judicial appointments: Moily

· Time for a new era of growth with social justice

· U.S. calls antibiotics a wrong step on E.coli

· Hybrid E.coli ‘resistant to antibiotics'

· Vasistha's advice

· Centre on track in fiscal prudence: Pranab

· The FIFA family

· A journalist is silenced

· What Baba Ramdev wants

· Yeddyurappa wins fourth trust vote

· Food inflation eases marginally to 8.06%

· No need to panic over WHO report on mobiles: ICMR

· WHO findings not conclusive: COAI(what else will they say?!)

· Li thwarts Sharapova's career Slam hopes

· A stack of records at stake

· A billion dollar credit from World Bank to clean up the Ganga

· Women writers no good: Naipaul

· U.P. announces new Land Acquisition Policy

· U.S. not trying to hold China down: Gates

· Freedom of the press and journalistic ethics

· ‘Huge skill deficit in country'

· Food crisis? We've enough on our plates

· E.coli outbreak: Spain to seek compensation

· God's plans

· Exports grow 34.4 % in April

· Nuclear exit

· Shanti Bhushan invites Pranab for public debate

· Li Na notches up a Chinese first

· Blatter re-elected FIFA chief; vows clean up

· GSAT-12 to be launched in July second week

· Radiation from cellphones possibly cancerous: WHO

· Endeavour returns home

· UID for all in a year: Chandy

· Disaster response preparedness reviewed

· Neighbours' concern prompts debate in China on overseas bases

· NATO extends Libya air war

· India committed to building the capabilities of Afghan security forces

· Yeddyurappa to seek trust vote today

· Centre to States: adhere to phone tapping norms strictly

· Supreme Court reserves verdict on Dinakaran's plea

· Centre launches mother-child health care scheme

· Nation's first bio-culture park to come up in Bhubaneswar

· New law proposed to prevent unlawful practices in schools

· Cell phone radiation possibly cancerous: WHO

· Reputation intact