Monday, July 19, 2010




• Takeover norms: panel for raising acquisition threshold to 25 %
• Exports up 32 % in April-June
• ‘Listing of PSEs must for unlocking true valuations'
• Terrible train of accidents
• Growth projections and caveats
• 67 killed in train smash
• Hillary: enduring commitment to Pakistan
• 8.5 % GDP growth fine by me: Pranab
• India to assist Seychelles in anti-piracy operations
• India's first RTI library named after Prakash Kardaley
• South Chief Ministers' meet today
• Media hype and the reality of “new” India
• Pre-requisites for sustainable food security
• Read the Riot Act, rein in khap panchayats: Rights Watch
• Left parties demand stoppage of iron ore export
• ‘Make child rights cells mandatory for schools'
• In a year of hectic travel, Krishna has clocked 27 countries
• African First Ladies to discuss HIV/AIDS
• Exemplary devotion


















19/06/10

• Micro finance: whether a charitable activity?
• The new symbol of rupee: a step towards globalisation
• Role of trade in economic growth
• MSMEs woes: solution lies in neo liberal policies
• Winning credibility in Kashmir
• Hooliganism pure and simple
• Babli project: Chavan rejects Rosaiah's plea
• Action plan to clear pending cases soon: Moily
• Interaction a positive step, says Malik
• Mukesh Ambani in key U.N. group
• Vayalar: steps planned against fraudulent marriages by NRIs
• India denied export of goods to Afghanistan through Wagah
• Major project to build comprehensive DNA database of birds in India
• New Constitution timeline in Nepal
• OSCE police force for Kyrgyzstan
• U.K. rules out burqa ban as “un-British”
• Indian-origin woman named economics professor at Harvard
• Key Afghan conference on Tuesday
• Equal Rights: A Matter of Pride
• ‘Don't use inherent powers to stifle legitimate prosecution'
• Health sector reforms must cover us too: paramedical staff
• Task force to design curriculum for rural heath care cadre
• Heritage Rail Museum to be set up
• How not to have a round of talks
• Aids drugs ‘can reduce spread of disease'
• Call for levy on foreign exchange
• Source of sacred wisdom

Saturday, July 17, 2010

• Kaushik Basu favours gradual exit from monetary stimulus
• China's slowing growth could hit India's exports
• Engagement must go forward
• Symbolic revaluation
• Terrorism issue first, insisted India
• “Not for selective approach”
• Bhardwaj wants ‘tainted' Ministers to go
• States will be consulted on Food Security Bill, says Sharad Pawar
• Historic Wall Street reform passed
• CCMB scientist finds two new bacteria in Arctic
• Manmohan seeks advice of Karunanidhi on Sri Lanka issue
• “De-hyphenating” Sino-Indian ties
• Final hearing today in Justice Sen removal proceedings
• Child Rights panel indicts La Martiniere for violation
• Swaminathan urges scientists to work with farmers
• The perils of ‘half-way house' diplomacy
• June 2010 was hottest recorded worldwide
• Release from bondage

Friday, July 16, 2010

• Food inflation creeps up to 12.81 %
• Polaris to offer cloud computing solutions to rural banks
• To ban or not to ban
• Europe's foreign fancies
• India, Pakistan decide to remain engaged
• Rupee joins elite club
• I hit upon representative Devanagari, says winner
• Pakistan troops target Indian posts
• NIA withdraws plea seeking NBWs against Headley, Rana
• Jones' visit fortifies strategic partnership: U.S.
• Nag's final validation trials completed
• State cannot compel minority institutions to implement quota: Supreme Court
• Food inflation creeps up to 12.81 %
• Saina is now ranked No. 2
• I have a Constitutional duty: Bhardwaj
• World's largest aircraft makes first commercial landing in India-Airbus A380
• Major projects in North, East: Colombo
• S.D. Sharma took just 6 days to act on mercy plea
• Breach of privilege motion against Ashok Chavan
• EC to hear parties on derecognition notices
• Central assistance for fast track courts extended
• No amendments to RTE Act: Ministry
• Khap panchayats conceal caste issue by bringing up gotra: Brinda
• Striving for a pure mind

Thursday, July 15, 2010
• Inflation moves up to 10.55 % in June
• India Oman fund to be set up
• Gubernatorial overreach
• Gender & urban development
• Centre proposes Unified Command to fight Naxals
• NAC for food security in one-fourth of districts, for now
• Krishna cites Headley proof
• Formula to revise petrol prices soon
• Poverty more in India than sub-Saharan Africa
• Gaza-bound ship changes course
• Leh berries to dot Himalayan deserts by 2020
• Rajapaksa holds Cabinet meet in Kilinochchi
• Worst year for Afghanistan: report
• 300 held in raids on north Italy's ‘Ndrangheta mafia
• Findings of Bhutto commission final: Ban
• India's Africa policy: can we do better?
• Manmohan: Centre and States should coordinate better
• Khap panchayats conceal caste issue by bringing up gotra, says Brinda
• RTE Act not binding on madrasas: Purandeswari
• Stage set for talks
• Approval for raising 34 IRB battalions
• Impermanence of victory

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

• Centre keen to contain fiscal deficit
• NSSF structure, interest rates to be reviewed
• Checking child sexual abuse
• Behind Vostok-2010
• Bhardwaj wants action against two Ministers
• Make disputed areas Union Territory: Chavan
• Manmohan to preside over meeting of Naxal-affected States today
• Communal violence bill: activists, government at loggerheads
• China hopes India will keep its word on Tibet-related issues
• Cartosat-2B to become operational in a week
• At 22, Tulsi becomes assistant professor at IIT
• India, Brazil, Germany, Japan must get permanent U.N. seats: France
• Srinivas reprimanded by EC
• U.S. cautions India against “business as usual” with Iran
• Nepal to elect new Prime Minister
• Women to be ordained as bishops
• Pakistan looking for sign of accommodation from India
• French Lower House votes ban on veil
• Beyond prescriptive targets
• APL can be roped into food security scheme by limiting BPL quota: Rangarajan
• We want 865 villages: Chavan
• Substantive dialogue is still some distance away
• In diplomatic chess, prisoners are the pawns
• Like her mother

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
• Industrial growth dips to 11.5% in May
• Fed chief Bernanke keen to boost credit for small businesses
• Sunset clause for base rate migration likely
• Viva Espana & South Africa
• Early humans in a colder climate
• PSLV launches 5 satellites
• Plan to send two Indians into space
• The speech that inspired Studsat project
• Hearing today on validity of Tamil Nadu quota law
• Uganda twin blasts kill 74
• Polanski declared a free man
• Muslim community split on RTE Act
• Petition against term “socialist” in Constitution rejected
• Mani Shankar Aiyar for boom in northeast-Bangladesh trade
• Soulless firms hurting environment
• Uganda bombs: rise of al-Shabab extremism
• IMF highlights Asia's role
• A fatal mistake

Monday, July 12, 2010


• Lofty ambitions rekindle interest in retailing
• Summits have their uses
• China, India, and Pakistan
• Protectionism amidst recovery
• SPAIN CROWNED WORLD CHAMPION
• U.K. to review aid to India
• Call for China-India initiative for Pakistan stability
• Rajapaksa to hold talks with UNP on statute amendments today
• Aid ship heads for Gaza
• S. Africa holds education summit
• Asteroid fly by successful: ESA
• Ending the zero-sum game
• ‘Give subsidy to schools, hospitals, not oil firms'
• Maharashtra panel to check printing of book on Shivaji
• Transnational terror needs cross-border cooperation
• Mongolia celebrates biggest national festival
• Ensuring justice to the victims of injustice
• Search for salvation

• CECA with India will be an ‘icing on the cake'
• World Bank approves two loans
• Nuclear talks with Japan
• NIA moves court for NBW against Headley
• China signs $525-million deal to help Pakistan highway projects in PoK
• Pakistan going ahead with Iran gas deal (Cant be serious!)
• Focus on innovative research, Ansari tells academia
• Minor planets to be named after Kolkata school students
• Schools to be set up in public-private partnership mode
• Biggest defaulters on mortgages are the rich (general interest, not for the examination!)
• Corrections and Clarifications
• Knowledge of the Self

Soleckshaw

Shri Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology launched an environment-friendly postal delivery vehicle ‘Soleckshaw’ today. Minister said that it is the endeavour of the Ministry to use green technology for delivering services in efficient and eco-friendly manner. He said that this effort is a under Project Arrow. Availability of this vehicle will add to the efficiency of postal agents and will also give them a sense of pride.

As a Pilot Project, Soleckshaw will be introduced soon in the Project Arrow post offices in a city of Rajasthan. Soleckshaw is a solar-power assisted, pedal-operated cycle rickshaw developed by CSIR. It reduces the rickshaw puller’s effort by providing battery assistance. It is still a zero carbon emission vehicle. The batteries are charged by solar power at charging stations. Technology has been transferred to multiple entrepreneurs and Soleckshaws are currently plying at Delhi (Chandni Chowk), Chandigarh, Jaipur, Durgapur, Ranchi, Kolkata and Ahmadabad.

Recently, M/s Kinetic Motors in association with CMERI (CSIR) has re-designed and developed a modified version of Soleckshaw specifically suitable as a light delivery vehicle, particularly useful for delivery of post, parcels and other postal services both in urban and rural areas. This is expected to improve speed and efficiency of postal delivery, increase ability to carry more load; distribute other value-added products in rural areas and provide charging facilities for mobile phones in remote areas etc.

Friday, July 09, 2010


• IMF raises global growth forecast
• Food inflation down
• Last two standing
• Vultures cling on
• GoM to look into ‘honour killings'
• “Army's stay in Kashmir is not for too long”
• Monsoon session begins on July 26
• Zardari makes out case for continued Chinese nuclear support
• U.S. charges reveal Pakistani origins of global terror
• Welcome verdict but questionable rider
• Use power to bring welfare, not to dominate people: Somnath
• Do away with court vacations, Moily urged
• One year after riots, tensions linger in China's far west
• European Parliament's nod for blueprint for new diplomatic service
• Mist of ignorance

Thursday, July 08, 2010


• Telecom committees formed
• Imperatives for Cancun
• No surprise this
• Enhanced FDI in retail will transform rural economy
• GANDHI project for Dandi
• China, Pakistan reaffirm ties during Zardari visit
• Tarapur atomic power plants are safe: NPCIL
• U.S., Israel shift focus to peace process
• U.N. objects to Colombo protest
• Deadline for government formation in Nepal extended
• The task of making the PDS work
• No arbitrary transfer of areas to Karnataka: Centre
• Government pushes for development in Naxal areas
• ‘Appoint visually handicapped person who cleared IAS exam'
• CMs to discuss expanding green revolution to eastern region
• Army plans exercises with U.S., Russia, China
• India sends relief material to Kyrgyzstan
• India could be showcased globally for HIV reforms
• Protect fiscal autonomy of States in GST: Rosaiah
• Climate data not held back
• Essence of surrender

Wednesday, July 07, 2010


• Centre opens up debate on FDI in retailing
• Sharma to hold talks on FTA with Malaysia
• Common cause
• Mark of the Taliban
• Army may be deployed as violence escalates in Kashmir
• Relations with China not externally driven: India
• Souhrida Vedi award for N. Ram
• CMs of Naxal-hit States to meet on July 14
• India, Japan revive bid for Security Council reforms
• We'll monitor poll expenditure more closely: Navin Chawla
• Naval version of LCA rolled out
• First night trial of ‘Astra' conducted
• Probe into torture charges against MI5
• Disarmament panel concerned at exemption for India
• W.S. Merwin is America's new poet laureate
• Money laundering, literally
• MPs' panel visits Tarapur, Bhabha facilities
• How green is my tribunal
• Path to God realisation

PMAGY

Pmagy is a centrally sponsored scheme: “Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana” (PMAGY). The implementation of the Pilot Scheme was approved in March this year for integrated development of 1,000 villages in the country, each with more than 50% Scheduled Castes (SC) population.PMAGY aims to achieve all-round, integrated development of selected villages primarily, through convergent implementation of all relevant Central and State schemes in them, and by meeting needs through provision of “gap-filling” funds for which central assistance will be provided @ Rs. 10 lakh per village, with State Government also expected to make a suitable, preferably matching, contribution.

• Chawla: food inflation will decline, but may take time (hilarious)
• SEZs unlikely to get tax sops under DTC
• A blow for gender parity
• Last four standing
• We'll intervene if prices become volatile: Deora
• Komorowski wins Polish presidential election
• Image of entire universe released
• ‘Food inflation to fall to 5-6 per cent soon'
• CACP chief for more investments in agriculture
• Major shake-up of U.K. voting system planned
• EU cuts GSP+ concessions for Sri Lanka
• Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus launch customs union
• Food security — of APL, BPL & IPL ( IPL: International Prosperity Line!)
• PIL for CAG scrutiny of BCCI accounts rejected
• “People's welfare is Krishnadevaraya's legacy”
• Unilateral sanctions on Iran will hurt India: Nirupama Rao
• Solar ring observed
• Special Bench for subordinate judiciary
• Judges and judgments: a correctional inquest
• Nobody has a clue to what “enhanced relationship” means
• Attitude of renunciation

Monday, July 05, 2010

• New base rate: old wine in new bottle
• A new era in the lending space
• Centre in a quandary
• Managing litigation sensibly
• Menon's focus on expanding economic ties with China
• Nadal reclaims Wimbledon crown in style
• We are in this to win: Petraeus
• Bill to deal with sexual offences against children soon, says Moily
• EC gearing for Assembly polls in five States
• Golden jubilee fete of Sea Harrier squadron today
• President to inaugurate Congress of Mathematicians
• Food processing: farmers, women, SHGs to get priority in aid
• U.N. forum for women: problem with finding a good name
• Acting in tandem

Saturday, July 03, 2010

• Industry upset over hike in repo, reverse repo rates
• Disinvestment in more public sector undertakings under consideration
• Deora asks States to streamline ST on fuels
• Not out of the woods yet
• A new benchmark?
• Julia Gillard backs Howard
• RBI hikes short-term rates to tame inflation
• Menon's mission will transcend border issue
• Toughest U.S. sanctions on Iran
• Another Indian-American in Team Obama
• China, Russia support Sri Lanka
• Now, it's ‘ahimsa' in college laboratories
• More services to attract 10 per cent tax
• Monetary burden of mob fury
• Consultation on climate change impact on Indus Basin
• Inexplicable wickedness

Friday, July 02, 2010

• Sanction of projects under TUFS suspended
• Exports jump 35 per cent to $16 billion in May
• Water on Mars
• Sharp divisions within GoM on caste census
• Menon to visit China as Manmohan's Special Envoy
• It can be a trap by Maoists, say police
• Food entitlements likely to be a contentious issue
• High base effect pulls down food inflation to 12.92 %
• Met department predicts an improvement in rains
• Fuel price hike will hurt food security: Left convention
• We'll keep targeting security forces: Maoists
• Corporal punishment in schools must stop: Buddhadeb
• Ghana ready to fulfil its destiny and put rest of Africa to shame
• Centre unveils code of conduct for tourism industry
• Pawar takes charge as ICC President
• U.S. House passes financial reform bill
• Mullen's praise for Pakistan
• Will Indians face a backlash in the U.S.?
• Amethi to be part of new district in Uttar Pradesh
• Phase out dissection of animals: UGC panel
• Nepal moves on
• The deadly ‘end game' for leaded petrol
• Music as offering

• Current account deficit up at 2.9 % of GDP
• U.S. claims victory in WTO Airbus ruling
• Ineffective consensus(Good)
• CoBRA squad joins combing operations in Chhattisgarh
• ‘Mango diplomacy' wins hearts
• Japan, India hold talks on nuclear pact
• Nepal Prime Minister resigns
• Iran to go ahead with swap talks
• A push for U.S.-Pakistan nuke deal( how naïve)
• India's interest legitimate: Petraeus
• NAC looking for expanded mandate
• India, Mongolia vow to enhance ties
• World Bank approves $430 million to MUTP
• Delhi takes first step on UID project
• Sins destroyed
30/06.2010
• SBI fixes Base Rate at 7.5 %
• Brinkmanship politics
• Australia's change of guard
• 26 CRPF men killed in Chhattisgarh
• Navy launches two water jet-propelled fast attack craft
• Diesel pricing freedom next on agenda, says Manmohan
• Gulf of Mannar faces ‘marine litter'
• With nuclear deal in focus, Zardari heads to China
• China, Taiwan sign trade pact
• Mercy petitions: inhumane procrastination
• Trust but verify, says Manmohan on ties with Pakistan
• With fingers crossed, Agriculture Ministry awaiting monsoon revival
• Chandrayaan-2 launch as scheduled: ISRO chief
• India joins select club to counter financial frauds
• Pulses farming to become mechanised from kharif season
• ‘Mahalanobis, Tagore shared ideals'
• Migration in progress: from print to the web
• Give cash to the poor to solve world poverty
• Friendship with monkeys

• 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

Abhijeet Agrawal , IAS Topper at AIR 24 from Sriram's, Delhi. Congratulations to Abhijeet.

Anay Dwivedi from Sriram's IAS, New Delhi

Tops the IAS Exam at 5th Rank All India. Congratulations to the engineer boy from Sriram's.

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• RBI pitches for recovery with price stabilityM
• Shortages heighten food inflationM
• Unrepentant BlairM
• Roger Federer extends record to 16 Grand Slam titlesPM
• India working for Tamils’ resettlement: Menon M
• Ceasefire offer in YemenP
• Nominated to Canadian SenatePM
• Challenge of climate change, post-CopenhagenM( To be covered in the class A2Z next week)
• Don’t hasten introduction of Bt brinjal: M.S. Swaminathan(Don has spoken)PM
• 4 ‘Chief Ministers’ for Meghalaya!!!!
• Telangana: terms of reference for panel under preparationM
• Moily hints at RTI Act amendments on judiciaryM
• Bio-Metric ID cards by March: MakenM
• Special train to cover Buddhist circuitPM
• It’s PTI’s Diamond JubileeP( Too many Jubilees! All Important)PM
• Another round of intensive engagement with RussiaM
• Vedas in capsules


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

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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