Four US lawmakers step into Indian political turd

03/31/13
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Indian Budget 2013-14: How realistic are Chidambaram’s numbers?

By Gyanendra Kumar Keshri

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram proposes to contain the fiscal deficit at 4.8 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during 2013-14 despite an aggressive 30 percent surge in plan expenditure and nearly 12 percent increase in overall spending. Experts, however, are sceptical.

03/03/13
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I’ve never met any of my best friends

Nury Vittachi

A man with no internet connection secretly hooked up his computer into an unsecured Wi-Fi signal from elsewhere in his apartment block. 

03/01/13
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Holy tree at Gita’s birthplace awaits healing touch

By Rahul Chhabra

Kurukshetra -- There is relief in sight for a decaying 'holy tree' at a spot in Haryana's Kurukshetra town where Lord Krishna is believed to have given the message of the Gita to Arjuna, with forestry experts exploring ways of reviving the nearly century-old banyan tree.

02/28/13
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Muslim voices of sanity need to be loudly heard

Lack of political will, weak intelligence, inadequate laws, poor enforcements and political mud slinging, result again and again in tragedies of the kind at now Hyderabad and at umpteen places elsewhere.

02/24/13
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Politics, not religion brings world leaders to Amritsar

Chandigarh, Feb 22 -- When world leaders visit the Sikh holy city of Amritsar or Punjab, it is not religion but politics at the back of their minds. 

02/23/13
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India’s universities crying for better leadership

JNU, Delhi

India's higher and professional education system is passing through a phase that is turbulent, non-directional and unsustainable.

02/13/13
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India’s K-15 launch: Defence scientists make India proud

By Arun Prakash

The reason why nations place a significant part of their nuclear arsenals on board nuclear-propelled ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) is because of their invulnerability, in comparison with static airforce bases and missile sites or even mobile launchers. 

01/29/13
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Does Rajnath Singh have a magic potion for BJP?

By Mohit Dubey

Lucknow, Jan 23 -- Does Rajnath Singh, a physics lecturer-turned-politician now in his second innings as the BJP president, carry the magical potion for his party ahead of the Lok Sabha polls?

01/23/13
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Winds of change are blowing in India, but mindsets need a changing

01/16/13
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