Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Wednesday, December 30, 2009


• OVL, GAIL to join China project
• ‘It is time India unleashed reforms in financial services sector’
• Eco-cities around DMIC planned
• The rot beyond Rathore
• Disgrace at Ferozeshah Kotla
• Manmohan signals return to Vajpayee line on CTBT
• Two killed in BARC laboratory fire
• India-Japan finalise action plan to advance security cooperation
• Indian-origin barrister gets key post
• Cabinet announces subsidy for market intervention steps
• Confrontation persists in Iran
• Nepal bill on Jha’s oath of secrecy
• Taking cue from incredible cockroach, robots may run
• Powering a dynamic, multipolar Asia
• Sonia, Manmohan discuss Telangana
• Meet today to discuss lull in LoC trade
• Cabinet okays lifting of President’s rule in Jharkhand
• Private partners sought for Ganga heritage cruise
• Future bright for Indian economy, says Rangarajan
• Pushing the envelope on solar energy research
• False FIRs will attract punishment
• Uttarakhand readies itself for Kumbh Mela
• Blue moon event for sky gazers
• Contract worker not covered by Industrial Disputes Act, rules Delhi High Court
• It takes more than visa power to stop a terrorist
• Gaza: this is not humane. We need our dignity
• Why the golden ratio pleases the eye
• The only medicine

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Tuesday, December 29, 2009


• Call for concrete steps to raise trade with Japan
• Reliance Power’s Rosa unit on stream
• West Bengal gives major boost to solar energy
• Putin inaugurates eastern oil pipeline
• Saving the vultures
• Governance too serious to be tweeted on: Krishna(That’s what was thought about computers in general some years ago!!!!!! Evolve)
• Japan hopes India will ratify CTBT( Ritualistic noises that Japan makes. Doesn’t itself know why!)
• Eiffel Tower most favourite: Survey
• CAG questions NRHM funds’ flow management
• Gangaikondacholapuram tourist complex almost ready
• Nuclear submarine Nerpa inducted in Russian Navy
• Af-Pak policy re-drawn, says U.S.
• Awards for seven Indian-origin persons
• PETN, hard to detect substance
• South Asian agenda for Jammu & Kashmir
• West Bengal looking at alternatives to Darjeeling
• A whale of a task
• No trade today across LoC in Poonch
• Elderly feeling socially marginalised: survey
• Aam admi finds dal-roti out of reach in UPA’s second innings
• The serving serpent

Monday, December 28, 2009

Monday, December 28, 2009


• Optimism over growth must be tempered
• The wonder that is Rajarajesvaram
• Disquieting fall in collections
• Japan’s new focus on Asia is good for India
• Poverty is surely declining, but not fast enough: Manmohan Singh(Suresh Tendulkar, NC Saxena and Arjun Sengupta think otherwise!!!!!!!)
• Manmohan strongly defends role of economists
• India set to retain top spot in milk production
• Harry Potter “greatest entertainer”
• Boost to renewable energy in China
• Protests mark Gaza invasion anniversary
• Narasimhan to look after Andhra Pradesh
• Dankuni rail projects will generate 1 lakh jobs: Mamata Banerjee
• Tharoor tweets another row( living from tweet to tweet)
• RTE still remains on paper
• Former CEC advocates compulsory voting
• Elderly feeling socially marginalised: Survey
• Let the benefits of the Act reach the oppressed
• Groundwater mining: American experience
• Garuda’s readiness to serve

Saturday, December 26, 2009

• Japan unveils record $1 trillion budget
• Govt gears up for PSU divestment
• Efforts to remove anomalies in banking FDI
• How to face security challenges
• Factor in climate refugees
• Molestation cases will be fast-tracked, says Moily
• SC/ST confederation questions impeachment move
• India, Japan to firm up bilateral relations
• ‘Competition is healthy’
• Shah’s nomination as USAID chief approved
• Cyber boss faces ‘tough job’
• Dark matter holds the key to the universe
• Copenhagen, tsunami and hunger
• J&K Working Group report unilateral: BJP
• Vajpayee wept as he heard the tragic tale: Shanta Kumar
• CPI(M), CPI to take stock of political situation
• Thailand keen on closer defence ties
• PM releases book on communitisation
• Security ties to top Japanese PM agenda
• Sex workers demand legalisation of prostitution
• Ten reasons why criminals in khaki get away
• Brief yet eloquent

Friday, December 25, 2009

Friday, December 25, 2009

• FDI surges 60 % in November
• Big ticket PSUs get greater autonomy
• Food inflation eases to 18.65 %(Prices have nt decined, their rate of growth has. Dr.Manmohan is happy, Mrs.Manmohan is not)
• National policy on bio-fuels gets nod
• Mobile banking limit raised
• Way out in Andhra Pradesh
• Telangana thrown into turmoil
• No question of going back on Telangana, says Moily
• Cost-push element behind rise in food prices, says Pranab
• Shiva Keshavan wins Asian silver
• U.S. Senate passes health Bill
• Lava spill triggers threat
• Kashmir insurgency, 20 years after
• PDP: Working Group has acknowledged self-rule
• A gesture to disabled children
• Emission cut shares should be variable: Pranab
• Re-entry visa norms for tourists relaxed
• Bid to strengthen bilateral ties
• Copyright Act to be amended
• Copyright amendments will reward creativity
• Hindustan Shipyard shifted to Defence Ministry
• Taking stock of Copenhagen
• After the 2004 tsunami: rebuilding lives
• A time for hope

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

• GDP slated to grow at 8 %: Mukherjee
• GST will reduce tax burden by 25-30 %
• Move to withdraw sops to exporters
• Another bout of instability
• Receding hopes(WTO Seventh Ministerial- nothing happened)
• Wide-ranging consultations needed on Telangana: Centre
• Outcome good, but not adequate: Pachauri
• We owe it to India: Bhutan King
• ‘Abrogation or continuance of Article 370 should be left to people of J&K’
• Leave it to J&K people to decide on Article 370: Working Group
• Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards
• Russia to help India build manned spaceship
• Confusion over release of fishermen
• Maoists to allow House resumption
• Colombo may move against Fonseka
• Inspiration behind Rain Man dies
• Special directorate to fight terror
• Bifurcate Home Ministry, says Chidambaram
• Bifurcating Home Ministry unavoidable: Chidambaram
• Invoke Article 355 in West Bengal: Congress
• Climate change will hit small farmers most: Pawar
• Rahul launches insurance scheme for artisans
• Indigenous heart valve makes a difference
• Why did Copenhagen fail to deliver a climate deal?
• How life has changed in ten years
• Hallmark of greatness

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

• Oil companies agree on ethanol price
• RIL strikes more gas in KG basin
• ONGC Videsh to bid for Venezuela’s oil blocks
• Impetus to power projects in North-East
• Finance Ministry hints at cash compensation for OMCs
• Panel set up to accelerate industrial investment
• ADB to extend $850 m loan for infrastructure, khadi sectors
• Breakthrough on health care
• Pandemic vaccine is safe
• Sovereignty not compromised: Jairam
• India to draw road map for low-carbon growth
• Indian ship attacked by pirates
• SAFMA, SAMC condemn attack on Peshawar press club
• India will help Bhutan’s democracy cause
• India, China agree to cooperate on climate change
• No case for invoking Article 355: Buddhadeb
• Appreciate science for what it is: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
• e-tendering to bring in transparency
• Kerala ready to introduce GST, says Thomas Isaac
• Russia to resume gas imports from Turkmenistan
• Prachanda for talks with India
• Just a form of words: Stiglitz( Naidu of Greenpeace and Hugo Chavez have also said the same.If only our planet was a bank, it could have got as many trillions as it wanted!)
• Srinivasa Ramanujan remembered
• ‘We will engage Maoists till they abjure violence’
• Opposition slams government on Copenhagen
• Rajya Sabha adjourns sine die
• 8 Indian-origin CEOs at big U.S companies: Forbes
• New system to ensure transparency in counting process
• Smart cards in higher education
• Prof. Samuelson: guru extraordinaire
• Deepest volcano caught on video
• Icons of the decade — Google
• Her role in protection

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Tuesday, December 22, 2009


• Rs. 21,000 cr oil bonds urged
• Optimistic assessment( The only thing that remains of the FRBMA is these reports!)
• Pradhan Committee faults Gafoor’s handling of 26/11
• ‘No political consensus on Gorkhaland’
• Copenhagen pact disappointing: Karat
• Lok Sabha elections a success: Navin Chawla(Must read)
• ‘Operation Rakshak’ throws light on competence, vulnerability
• India, Bhutan to sign four MoUs for hydel power projects
• For informed, rational debate on climate change
• Loan to Sri Lanka
• Centre to examine Polavaram project
• U.S.: we can review implementation
• The truth of what happened at Copenhagen
• Don’t pass the buck to States, Karat tells Pawar
• India needs to import two more million tonnes of sugar: ISMA
• Operationalising climate accord difficult: Ghosh
• Anti-terror drill
• Reverse osmosis plant inaugurated
• Decade of debt-fuelled boom and bust
• Climate summit: where’s the beef ?
• Peak oil, peak wood — what’s with all the peaks?
• Orangutan habitat narrows
• Always united

Monday, December 21, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009


• Capital market regulation on an even keel financial scene
• Service sector has major role in growth: expert
• Far from inspiring
• Narrow vision
• States should take price rise seriously, says Pawar
• Jairam to make statement on Copenhagen accord today
• MNCs will eat up small States, warns Karat
• Press for deep cuts by developed countries: CPI (M)
• Germany keen on closer defence, civil nuclear ties
• China slams Copenhagen critics
• Doing research with open source tools
• Head-count ratio of people below poverty line higher in State: Tendulkar committee
• Iran’s leading dissident cleric dead
• Volcano eruption feared in Philippines
• ‘Response to climate challenge faulty’
• MoUs to be signed for hydel projects during Bhutan King’s visit
• Misra report to be examined
• Maoists attack Orissa hydel project
• Chess meet put off by a day
• Elevated road project to connect East with South
• “Delhi Ratna” award for IP varsity V-C
• An act with teeth, but of no use in protecting the weak
• Fame through his daughter

Saturday, December 19, 2009

19/12/2009

• Government eyes over 7.75 % GDP growth
• Green energy concept for special economic zones mooted
• Sops for labour-intensive export units on anvil
• SBI-State Bank of Saurashtra merger gets Parliament nod(post facto)
• Containing the damage
• Europe’s far-right
• Last-ditch efforts to salvage climate talks at Copenhagen
• Income must be the lone criteria for reservation: Misra panel(Constitution does not allow economic criterion)
• 30,000 troops withdrawn from J&K since last year: Antony
• Panel recommends quota for Muslims
• Birth of BASIC signals decline of G77?
• Moving towards peace in Assam?
• Dinakaran will continue in his post: CJI
• ‘Revised poverty estimates are more realistic’
• Bhutan’s commitment to climate change unconditional
• All parties must oppose Civil Nuclear Liability Bill: Karat
• Organ Transplant Bill tabled in LS
• Five Bills, 12 minutes(Not for the first time)
• Telangana: Lok Sabha adjourned sine die
• 14 Coast Guard stations planned
• ‘Visa on Arrival Scheme’ for five countries: Chidambaram
• National Quality Awards presented
• Centre to convene meet on Mullaperiyar issue
• Tharoor appeal to India Inc.
• Demanding a separate State
• Tackling fake currency menace
• Learning from successes and failures
• ‘My biggest dream is no child goes hungry’
• Rulers should set good examples

Friday, December 18, 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009

• Food inflation soars again
• Centre to incentivise wind power generation
• A weaker Zardari
• The twilight world of ethnic minorities
• Climate talks gather momentum
• Manmohan: we can do more
• Advani likely to quit as Leader of Opposition today
• Bolivia stuns climate summit with target
• A foreign policy for our times
• Mamata, G8 ban cast shadow on Indo-Russian nuclear deal
• ‘Like China, India should protect food security’
• Nuclear liability law will protect US suppliers: CPI(M)
• Hamid Ansari admits motion against Dinakaran
• ‘Diplomatic, trade ties with China conceivable’
• NREGA will now be MGREGA (MGR.EGA- zeal for Tamils!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
• Nod for Competition (Amendment) Bill
• A prisoner of circumstances, for 36 years (The Euthanasia Debate)
• Elders pass sugarcane pricing Bill
• Parliament passes NCT of Delhi Bill
• St. Stephen’s faculty members protest chairman’s functioning
• Appointment of judges by collegium of judges (Vexed issue; you have read a lot already since October; discussed it in the class so many times. Avoid, if you must)
• A Gem made more valuable

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Thursday, December 17, 2009


• GST: panel to meet FM on Jan 7
• CII urges Centre to correct fiscal deficit
• Award for Ratan Tata
• Bharti Airtel eyeing SAARC region
• Curbs on financial excess
• Moratorium on executions
• Consensus eludes climate talks
• “COP-15 chair working towards political agreement”
• Novel initiative to check bogus voting
• No ATR on Ranganath report
• Scheme for rehabilitation of Endosulfan victims
• U.S. bill on gasoline curbs irrelevant: Iran
• No proof of Indian role: Baloch leader
• Qatar ready to consider India’s fresh gas demand
• Judicial appointments: agenda for reform
• India guarded in response to nuclear report
• India won’t buckle under pressure on NPT: Krishna
• Jaswant Singh resigns as PAC Chairman
• We will not sit quiet on social audit issue in NREGS, Aruna Roy tells Gehlot government
• Nuclear deal will be finalised at the earliest
• Lok Sabha passes 3 Bills in 15 minutes
• Talks on alternative to Gorkha Council likely
• Elders pass sugarcane pricing Bill after government’s assurance
• Probe on into Kaiga incident
• How relevant is Darwin today
• National mission for women soon
• Three new Parliamentary Secretaries to CM sworn in
• The system strikes back
• Obama is not saviour of the world. He’s still a U.S. president
• Closing Guantanamo: an assessment
• Greatness of Thiruvachagam

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009


• Rs. 15,000 cr earmarked for revival of 36 CPSEs
• Lanco Solar’s PV SEZ cleared
• Lal Bahadur Shastri award for Sunil Mittal
• Crude terminal at Paradip refinery
• Justifying the unjustifiable
• Worrying trend
• Time for consensus has arrived: U.N. chief
• Strike for new States hits North-East
• Ghost of Tarapur haunts reprocessing agreement with U.S.
• ‘Put engineering in the service of ocean study’
• ‘Centre has opened a Pandora’s box’
• No more unanswered queries in Upper House
• National mission for women soon
• Post offices to distribute New Pension System
• Violence and threats bring a government to its knees
• Wind energy is attracting investors, and corruption
• Avoiding the Singular

Monday, December 14, 2009

Hindu Today- 14/12

• Will new system offer clarity on inflation?
• Tax cuts might accomplish what spending has not
• Toppling the Boligarchy
• A fragile recovery
• India will not compromise on key principles: Jairam
• Mayawati bats for Poorvanchal
• Karunanidhi rejects suggestion for bifurcation of Tamil Nadu
• Telugu Ganga water supply disrupted again
• Dhanush missile test fired successfully
• Implementation of Akrama-Sakrama scheme likely to be delayed
• Economist Paul Samuelson passes away
• China-Kazakhstan gas pipeline inaugurated
• Capping nuclear liability is a non-starter
• Congress ‘no’ to States Reorganisation Commission
• Veteran photojournalist T.S. Satyan passes away
• Jairam seeks review of MP river-linking project
• Ecological concerns over n-power plant
• Year of Astronomy to close on a cosmic quirk
• Seize the moment
• The grand challenges of Indian science
• In familiar books, a battle over electronic rights
• Goddess Mahalakshmi mediates


Economist Paul Samuelson passes away :Economist Paul A. Samuelson, Nobel laureate has died. He was 94.In 1974, he said America was suffering from “stagflation,” which he described as a toxic mix of high unemployment and high inflation over long periods of time.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Saturday 12th December

• Task Force recommends National Electronics Mission
• Factory output surges by 10.3 % in October
• Big push to R&D in renewable energy
• ONGC loses bid for oil field in Iraq
• NMDC scouts for lead managers
• Lashkar-e-Taiba’s long arm
• Discard the cloak, Tiger( The problem has been that he discards it all too often and in wrong places!)
• Nothing will be done in haste, Manmohan assures MPs
• 30 more MLAs quit in protest
• GJM: we are not piggybacking on Telangana
• Rehabilitation package for IDPs in Assam
• Mayawati for splitting U.P. into smaller States
• 3G auction as scheduled
• Myanmar won’t be haven for insurgents, Krishna told
• Too premature to talk about Headley’s extradition: U.S.
• International Film Festival of Kerala begins
• State unhappy with decision to set up Mahadayi tribunal
• Manjunath murder case death sentence commuted
• Rosaiah worried over developments
• No mediation on Kashmir: U.S.
• $1.5-billion aid approved
• Hu Jintao in Central Asia as China taps into gas reserves
• Ties that bind: Lashkar and the global jihad
• Not in favour of division, says Gogoi
• Speaker to seek legal opinion
• RS rules to be amended
• ‘Equip women with entrepreneurial skills’
• Lok Sabha approves Jharkhand supplementary demands for grants
• No whip, say AP MPs
• Climate: Nepal is a victim
• Bending to a bhakta religion

Friday, December 11, 2009

A time-tested friend • Evaluating support prices • Obama says nations have to fight just wars • Ramakrishnan receives Chemistry Nobel • Is Vidarbha next in line? • India, New Zealand to begin free trade agreement talks next year • Resettlement of IDPs by January-end: Colombo • Portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva Raya found at Kancheepuram temple • Food parks may get SEZ benefits • Air show in Tiruchi next month • India will seek Headley’s extradition • Food inflation up again • Pact with India eased tensions: Sri Lanka • Ill-thought announcement & backlash • Resolution on Telangana must get majority support: Rosaiah • Statehood not a solution: CPI (M) • Move to ban alcohol in Vidarbha districts draws flak • Independent report raises many questions on the Shopian incident • Limiting nuclear liability is a violation of rights: Sorabjee • Gorkhaland demand gets a boost • Telangana echo in Assam • Wen calls up Manmohan on Copenhagen • Poet Dilip Chitre passes away • Pakistan situation has direct impact on Kashmir: Omar • Amendments to Energy Act cleared • Tasks for a Prime Minister • Ocean acidification rates accelerating • Lesson from life

11/12 Friday

• A time-tested friend
• Evaluating support prices
• Obama says nations have to fight just wars
• Ramakrishnan receives Chemistry Nobel
• Is Vidarbha next in line?
• India, New Zealand to begin free trade agreement talks next year
• Resettlement of IDPs by January-end: Colombo
• Portrait sculpture of Krishnadeva Raya found at Kancheepuram temple
• Food parks may get SEZ benefits
• Air show in Tiruchi next month
• India will seek Headley’s extradition
• Food inflation up again
• Pact with India eased tensions: Sri Lanka
• Ill-thought announcement & backlash
• Resolution on Telangana must get majority support: Rosaiah
• Statehood not a solution: CPI (M)
• Move to ban alcohol in Vidarbha districts draws flak
• Independent report raises many questions on the Shopian incident
• Limiting nuclear liability is a violation of rights: Sorabjee
• Gorkhaland demand gets a boost
• Telangana echo in Assam
• Wen calls up Manmohan on Copenhagen
• Poet Dilip Chitre passes away
• Pakistan situation has direct impact on Kashmir: Omar
• Amendments to Energy Act cleared
• Tasks for a Prime Minister
• Ocean acidification rates accelerating
• Lesson from life

Thursday, December 10, 2009

10/12 Thursday

• India can surpass china as hub for consumer durables — study
• Exports to pick up next fiscal
• The ethanol challenge
• Centre: process of forming Telangana to be initiated(Whatever that means!)
• India against uncooked papers: Saran
• India key partner in civil nuclear field: Russia
• Developing countries slam Danish text
• China sets terms for resumption of Tibet talks
• Get serious about Palestine
• Government open to private investment in nuclear power
• Centre admits domestic uranium shortfall
• Fragments of Catalan amphorae found at Pattanam
• Adivasis to fight for tribal State(Telangana ripples)
• Child undernutrition in India is a human rights issue
• Significance of His feet

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Tuesday 8th Dec



Saturday, December 5, 2009

5th December, 2009


  GM to offer commercial vehicles, new products( In association with China’s Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC))

Thursday, December 3, 2009