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December Month Articles
- Karan Singh turns down
China award
- by NDTV.com
Apparently wary of being seen as pro-China, senior Congress leader Karan
Singh on Wednesday refused to accept the China-India Friendship Award
conferred by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on nine personalities from various
fields. .....
- SC rebuffs CVC's claim
in palmolein import case
- by Abraham Thomas
In a blow to Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) PJ Thomas' claim that
no case was made out against him in the palmolein import scam, the Supreme
Court on Wednesday suspected "mala fide" behind the Kerala Government's
2005 decision giving a clean chit to all the eight accused in the scam.
.....
- All six absconding have
terror links
- by Mohamed Nazeer
The Kerala Police said here on Wednesday that all six Keralites among
the 31 absconding operatives of jehadi terror groups named in the dossiers
released by the Union Home Ministry have been involved in terror-related
cases, including the Bangalore blast case, and are likely to be staying
abroad. .....
- British universities breeding
terrorists?
- by NDTV.com
British universities have become hotbeds for breeding radicals and recruiting
grounds for terror network like Al-Qaida, an academician has claimed.
.....
- Here's how politicians
come to terrorists' aid
- by Deeptiman Tiwary and Abhijit Sathe
Suspected Varanasi blast plotter, Dr Shahnawaz Khan, was almost nabbed
after the 2008 Batla House encounter; political influence helped him evade
cop net. .....
- Pakistan must change its
policies: Merkel
- by Dawn
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday accused Pakistan of trying
to solve political issues in the guise of terrorism, and stated that Pakistan
will have to change its policies. .....
- Minister hurls a BPL barb:
Central bar too low for Gujarat
- by The Indian Express
At a time when Gujarat has been ranked sixth in Human Development Index
report, state Industry said families from Gujarat find it difficult to
meet the criteria set for Below poverty Line (BPL) by the centre. .....
- Paswan says 4 of 5-point
Geelani agenda can be met
- by The Indian Express
A delegation of MPs and civil society members, who are on a "fact-finding"
tour of Jammu and Kashmir, asked the Centre on Saturday to start a dialogue
process for the resolution ofthe Kashmir issue and include separatist
leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani in it. .....
- ISI is a rogue agency:
AQ Khan
- by Rezaul H Laskar
Branding Pakistani intelligence agencies mainly the ISI as a "rogue
agency", country's top nuclear scientist AQ Khan has said that it
takes orders from the Army chief and not the civilian Government. .....
- Apex court gives Thomas
a chance to explain
- by Krishnadas Rajagopal
The Supreme Court today sought a response from Central Vigilance Commissioner
(CVC) P J Thomas in a litigation seeking his removal from the post. .....
- Allies try to break Cong's
JPC stonewall
- by D K Singh
As the deadlock in Parliament entered its 17th day with barely a week
left in this session, the Congress was under increasing pressure from
its allies to accept the Opposition's demand for a Joint Parliamentary
Committee (JPC) to probe the 2G spectrum scam. .....
- 'Aggressive' China leaves
India, others worried
- by The Indian Express
China is "losing friends worldwide" because of its "aggressive"
posture, India's envoy to Beijing along with those from Japan, EU and
some African States, complained to the US, according to a secret cable
from the US embassy here released by WikiLeaks. .....
- Move on
- by The Indian Express
Government must take a good look at what is being lost in this legislative
limbo. .....
- 'We're entitled to intercept
such conversations'
- by The Indian Express
When the Niira Radia tapes first surfaced, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram,
during a debate in the Rajya Sabha on April 29, had justified tapping
of her phone even as he asserted that the government was not in the habit
of listening into people's conversations. .....
- US helpless, millions flow
from Mid East to terrorists
- by Eric Lichtblau & Eric Schmitt
Nine years after the US vowed to shut down the money pipeline that finances
terrorism, senior Obama administration officials say they believe that
many millions of dollars are flowing largely unimpeded to extremist groups
worldwide .....
- Want an idea, Sirji?
- by Swati Bharadwaj-Chand
Can the cycle rickshaw become a more evolved means of transport? Is an
affordable digital talking, reading device for the blind possible? .....
- Devotees offer deity footwear
at this K'taka temple
- by Mouneshwar Sonnad
The deity at the Lakkamma temple had a fight with a goldsmith, who threatened
to cut off her nose. So, the idol kneels down with its back toward the
devotee, as if to avoid him. .....
- Courage Sparks From The
White Radiance Of Eternity
- by Aneeta Chakrabarty
Tara was the mistress of a crooked cop, yet in contrast to all the morality
toting preachers, she took the witness stand and spilled the beans against
the thugs who were holding the town to ransom with their nefarious network
of drugs and prostitution. ......
- Parsi children return to
roots
- by Linah Baliga
Religion is best understood by children when it is not preached pedantically.
A testimony to this was Zochild Day organized by the Zoroastrian Children's
Foundation (ZCF) at Shanmukhananda hall in Matunga on Sunday. ....
- Come back, Prime Minister
- by Tavleen Singh
While us hawk-eyed political pundits have spent the past weeks preoccupied
by scams and tapes, something very bad has happened to the government
of Dr Manmohan Singh. ....
- Varanasi blast has Azamgarh
link
- by Preetam Srivastava
Preliminary findings in the Tuesday's Varanasi blast that claimed the
life of a baby girl and left 35 seriously injured .....
- The Rediscovery of India
- by Sandeepweb.com
How are you sir? Do you recall the letter I wrote to you on July 27, 2008?
Your first term as Prime Minister was almost drawing to a close. .....
- In US, China compared to
Nazis for Nobel controversy
- by NDTV.com
US lawmakers have compared China to Nazi Germany as the State Department
urged Beijing to free Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, set to receive
the honour for his campaign for democratic reforms. .....
- Thousands to chant Shlokas
- by The New Indian Express
Vedanta Bharati, a spiritual organisation, has organised a mass chanting
of Dashashloki, a composition of three stotras by Adi Shankaracharya,
on December 5 at Bangalore Palace Grounds. .....
- 6 Pakistanis held in Spain
for 26/11 links
- by Ashish Ray, Mateen Hafeez &
S Ahmed Ali
An international anti-terror operation netted seven people in Spain and
three in Thailand between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. .....
- Green fundamentalism as
state oppression
- by Swapan Dasgupta
Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar is, arguably, one of the most
resourceful figures of contemporary India with interests that range from
politics and business to cricket. .....
- Pandavas' last stop
- by Arun ganapathy
Arun ganapathy checks out Mana, the last village on the Indian border
with Tibet, where the Pandava brothers from the Mahabharata are believed
to have passed through before their final ascent to Heaven. .....
- Monitoring CBI Probe:
- by Rajinder Puri
In order to avoid a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe of the 2G
Spectrum scam the government has proposed a CBI probe monitored by the
Supreme Court .....
- Cornered Govt somersaults
on CVC
- by The Pioneer
Just when it seemed it was a matter of time before CVC PJ Thomas would
get out of the hot seat following severe stricture from the Supreme Court
and all-round clamour for his removal by the Opposition .....
- Shame on the UPA!
- by Editorial
It is truly shameful that the UPA Government should be so desperate to
retain a tainted bureaucrat who did not lift his little finger in protest
while Mr A Raja plotted and schemed to sell precious 2G Spectrum to fly-by-night
.....
- Profile of the Great Indian
Lobbyist
- by Pradeep Thakur
The lobbyist has a superior sense of smell, good at sniffing out opportunities
to trap people. Almost any occasion can become an excuse to proffer gifts.
.....
- Lobbying charge by Arun
Shourie stirs row
- by Lodha Casa Rio
Former telecom minister Arun Shourie on Sunday stirred a controversy by
claiming in a TV interview that he was replaced by senior party leader
Venkaiah Naidu in Parliament as the BJP's lead speaker in a debate on
the 2009 .....
- J&K envoys named in
sept, but still sans brif
- by Times of India
Evading a query on the dual charge held by M M Ansari as information commissioner
in the Central Information Commission and a member of the government-appointed
panel of interlocutors for J&K, the home ministry has forwarded the
query to the CIC. .....
- High Life
- by Pritha Chatterjee
She is the second Indian woman and the first from Maharashtra to have
scaled the Everest base camp. After leading expeditions to six peaks in
the Himalayas, she has been conducting trekking camps across the globe,
the most recent in New Zealand two years ago. .....
- Despite stroke,train driver
takes loco home
- by Times of India
A motorman of a Kolkata local, who felt a cardiac attack coming, ignored
his pain and continued to guide the train to its destination where he
collapsed and died. .....
- Day discotheques in Patna
- by Chinki Sinha
That year, Ali wanted to change many things about Patna. He wanted boys
and girls to dance to the music he would mix on the decks in a restaurant
with revolving neon lights, and a dance floor. .....
- High income CM has low income
flat
- by Kiran Tare
Prithviraj Chavan was allotted a Mumbai flat meant for the poor. He is
only one among many have got it through a discretionary quota .....
- Boggledygook
- by M.J. Akbar
A less complacent lot might have seen the approaching firestorm from some
distance. Someone somewhere was bound to turn up with a matchstick. .....
- Cross Connections
- by Rama Bijapurkar
In the markets of touristy Jaisalmer, you find, not economic trickle-down,
but the global culture trickling down. .....
- Hang down your head, Mungeri
Lal!
- by Mythili Bhusnurma
If impeccable integrity is a criterion, then every judicial appointment
will be subjected to scrutiny and every constitutional appointment will
come under challenge .....
- All roads lead to the future
- by Manisha Priyam
Not just the Nitish Kumar-led coalition, but almost all political parties
in the recently-concluded elections pitched their positions around the
question of "vikaas." Nitish Kumar said he was putting his achievements
.....
- Indian technology
catches Harvard eye
- by NDTV.com
An award winning drip irrigation technology developed by an Indian company
that has caught the attention of the Harvard Business School holds out
hope for poor farmers from earthquake-hit Haiti to Africa. .....
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