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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Milosevic Modi has again demonstrated that his capacity for setting new lows in politics remains undiminished. His government has banned Great Soul, a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi by former New York Times India bureau chief and editor Joseph Lelyveld. The ground for the ban, passed after a unanimous vote by the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, is based on hearsay—a review by Andrew Roberts, a British practitioner of canned imperialist history and vulgar celebration of royalty, in The Wall Street Journal, one of the world’s most wretchedly Right-wing papers.

Anna Hazare’s announcement that he will accept parliament’s rejection of the Lokpal bill shows that he has mellowed over the past few days. Such a statement would have been unlikely at the time when he was sitting on fast at Jantar Mantar surrounded by his acolytes. But his latest stance is an acknowledgement that the process of the bill becoming law can be more complicated than he may have presumed.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide up to $150 million in credit guarantees to help India scale up its use of solar power as a major renewable energy source.

New York: It is important to ensure that security measures do not hamper the movement of mail or undermine the growth of the postal sector, says the head of the United Nations Universal Postal Union (UPU) after a group of experts met to discuss safety standards in the industry.

New York: Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is expected to decline slightly this year despite the prevailing high prices of opium, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported today, saying that Government effort to discourage production could yield further reduction.

New York: The lack of earthquake risk reduction is a major gap in Haiti’s development efforts, considering its vulnerability to major seismic events, a leading quake expert working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Caribbean country to help build its preparedness capacity said today.

It was like a whiff of fresh air to hear about increase in endangered tiger population in India. The latest Census figures put the number at 1,706 against 1411 in the previous census undertaken in 2006- a clean increase of 295. The increase looks more impressive when we take into consideration the fact that this growth has been registered after consistent fall in tiger population. The report suggests that the Tiger population in India is stabilizing and in fact thriving in some areas.

New Delhi: The third meeting of the Indo German Working Group on Automotive Sector was inaugurated today by the Minister for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Shri Praful Patel along with his German counterpart Dr. Peter Ramsauer, Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Federal Republic of Germany. Shri A. Sai Prathap, Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Mr. Thomas Matussek, the Ambassador of Germany to India, Shri B.S. Meena, Secretary, Heavy Industry were also present .

New Delhi: Government of India have announced the sale (re-issue) of (i) “7.83 percent Government Stock 2018” for a notified amount of Rs.3,000 crore (nominal), (ii) “7.80 percent Government Stock 2021” for a notified amount of Rs.6,000 crore (nominal) and (iii) “8.30 percent Government Stock 2040” for a notified amount of Rs.3,000 crore (nominal) through price based auctions.

In the final meeting of the full membership before he prepares the agriculture negotiations’ “contribution” to the “Easter process”, chairperson David Walker told members on 15 April 2011 that the last two weeks have produced no constructive, bridge-building solutions to the deadlocked issues.