By Arun Kumar Washington, (IANS) Indian scientists give high marks to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for bringing about a “sea change” in India’s scientific environment and showing grit on issues of importance to them, according to the top US “Science” magazine. “Despite challenges like India’s vaunted bureaucracy, many Indian researchers who studied abroad and opened [...]
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New Delhi/Kochi: With his deputy unable to break the impasse with India over the killing of two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast, Italy’s Foreign Minister Giulio Maria Terzi di Sant’ Agata is arriving here on a two-day visit Tuesday to push a resolution of the crisis that threatens to cast a shadow on bilateral [...]
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Washington, (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who vowed last month to more than double India’s R&D spending to $8 billion a year by 2017, has expressed concern over countries like China overtaking India in the field of science. “Over the past few decades, India’s relative position in the world of science had been declining, and [...]
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Raipur, (IANS) The outlawed group Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed two Chhattisgarh home guards at a ‘jan adalat’ people’s court in an undisclosed forested pocket in restive Bastar region for defying their diktat, a police official said Sunday. The bodies of Moriyam Mangu and Anand Jasba, who were in their 20s — were found [...]
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By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: The story of Gujarat is more about the triumph of politics of hatred, symbolised by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, than the development indicators he talks about, says social activist and National Advisory Council member Harsh Mander, who runs an NGO that helps survivors of the 2002 carnage. “The story of [...]
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Beijing, (IANS) China has asked India to cooperate with Beijing in maintaining peace and stability in the border areas, the foreign ministry said Saturday. Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks in response to a query on media reports that said Indian officials have pledged to guarantee “safety” of Arunachal Pradesh. China’s stance on [...]
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By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, (IANS) The vibrations of Barack Obama’s signature ‘Yes, We Can!’ campaign are now reverberating in Goa.In the small assembly segment of Cumbharjua, a riverine constituency near Panaji, a maverick priest is trying to recreate the positive vibe of the Obama chant. Fr Jose Bismarque Dias’ aping of the Obama call is [...]
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AMU Centre for Women’s Studies organizes three-day International Seminar
February 25, 2012 No CommentALIGARH: A three-days international seminar entitled ‘Women and the Modern Political Systems’ organized by the Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University was inaugurate today by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Sibghatullah Farooqui. Addressing the seminar, Prof. Farooqui said, “The need of the hour is to change the political scenario of the country. Women should participate [...]
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Lucknow, (IANS) Close on the heels of Friday’s simultaneous raids at 30 different locations across Uttar Pradesh in connection with the multi-billion-rupee rural health scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) swooped on 27 places in a dozen towns of the state as well as neighbouring Bihar Saturday. Two officials of the state family welfare [...]
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By S Ahmed (NVONews.Com) Patna: It needed Justice (Retd.) Markandey Katju to call spade a spade in Nitish Kumar’s regime. That too in the chief minister’s capital Patna. Press Council of India’s chairman Justice Katju was in Patna on Friday to address a seminar as chief guest organized by Journalism and Mass Media Section of [...]
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Srinagar, (IANS) The Indian Army Saturday said the fencing along the Line of Control (LoC) was severely damaged in heavy snowfall this year as it also paid tributes to its 17 soldiers killed in two avalanches in the Kashmir Valley two days ago. Lt. General K.T. Parnaik, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the army’s Northern [...]
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By Rajesh N. Singh Lucknow, (IANS) The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in Uttar Pradesh has been indicted in yet another scam, this one related to divestment of stake in 11 active sugar mills owned by the state’e sugar corporation. The deal is believed to have caused a loss of at least Rs.2,000 crore to [...]
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Raipur, (IANS) Farmers in India’s leading rice producing state of Chhattisgarh earned a record Rs.6535 crore by selling their paddy to state government through co-operative societies this year, a statement said Saturday.”It’s a record payment to farmers during the current kharif marketing season, the government paid Rs.6535 crore to farmers in all the 27 districts, [...]
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Kochi, (IANS) Two separate teams of Indian and Italian experts Saturday reached the Italian ship Enrica Lexie to examine the weapons allegedly used by its security guards to shoot dead two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast, police said.Travelling on boats, the teams reached the vessel berthed on outer sea. The first team comprised Kerala [...]
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