South Asia poll management body moots Work Plan
- 2013-01-30 12:14New Delhi: Poll management bodies of South Asia decided to formulate an action-oriented Work Plan for 2013-14.
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India commits $260,700 aid to Syria
- 2013-01-30 02:33New Delhi: Global community has begun recognizing India’s effective role in conflict resolution and restoring peace and stability.
What is unique of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress vice president?
- 2013-01-29 17:04What is unique of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress vice president? What does he have which no one else in the Congress possesses? Why is it that politicians with a long innings of public life find him irresistible and are always ready to show or shout their respect for him? Could it be because he too decided to accept the poison of power like Nilakantha who drank the poison that came out while gods and asuras were churning the ocean in search of amrita? More about poison later but why are the Congress politicians so enamoured by the leadership of Rahul Gandhi?
RAHUL’S CORONATION SPELLS RIGHTWARD SHIFT
HAS CONGRESS MASCOT REDEFINED AAM AADMI?
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2013-01-29 17:00
Rahul Gandhi’s elevation as Congress vice-president after the party’s two-day chintan shivir in Jaipur was an organisational non-event. He was already functioning as the party’s Number Two, and there wasn’t an iota of doubt that he would succeed his mother in conformity with the dynastic principle. The true significance of his new appointment is political and twofold.
RBI TURNS TO GROWTH WITH A CUT IN REPO RATE TO 7.75 PER CENT
INFLATION AND TWIN DEFICITS LIMIT SCOPE FOR POLICY EASING
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2013-01-29 16:56
The Reserve Bank of India has after a 9-month interval, cut the key policy lending rate (repo) from 8 to 7.75 per cent, with immediate effect, nudging its monetary policy stance to arrest the loss of growth momentum in the economy, on the back of a moderation in inflation conditions in the second half of the current fiscal year. The reverse repo, marginal standing facility and bank rates would correspondingly stand reduced to 6.75, 8.75 and 8.75 per cent respectively.
FREE SPEECH UNDER THREAT AGAIN
MEDIA ILL-PREPARED TO HANDLE NANCY’S NUANCES
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2013-01-29 16:52
Social scientist and psychologist Ashis Nandy is in trouble again. By suggesting that the backward castes, Dalits and Adivasis tend to be more corrupt than other communities, he has predictably stirred a hornet’s nest with the Dalit czarina, Mayawati, calling for his arrest under the SC/ST Act.
India’s R-Day celebration concludes with musical Beating Retreat
- 2013-01-29 15:30New Delhi: After displaying its latest military prowess on Republic Day, India concluded the four-day celebrations on Tuesday with spectacular performances by 14 military bands, 6 pipes and drums bands from regimental centres, 11pipes and drums bands from batallions, buglers and trumpeters from various Army regiments, two bands from the Navy and Air Force at the historic Vijay Chowk.
Lamy urges India to soft pedal on WTO talks
- 2013-01-29 13:39New Delhi: The outgoing director general of World Trade Organisation (WTO) Pascal Lamy has urged India to be flexible in negotiations and not to be rigid in its position that trade facilitation should not be de-linked from other developmental aspects of the Doha Round.
India, Slovenia to cooperate in MSME sector
Bilateral trade mooted to rise to $500 mn
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2013-01-29 12:55
New Delhi: Slovenia has suggested to work for increasing its bilateral trade with India to the level of $500 million in the next two years.
BADAL FAILING TO MAINTAIN LAW AND ORDER
GOVERNANCE DIPS TO A NEW LOW
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2013-01-28 13:39
Times come when it is imperative for every government to introspect and take corrective steps to stem the rot in its functioning. Punjab’s Akali-BJP government which is set to complete first year of its second tenure on March 6 also needs to introspect as a number of controversies have hit its performance in both governance and political arenas sullying its image.