India’s commendable action of promoting environment friendly economic development provides more hope for the Copenhagen climate talks.
As the countdown to Copenhagen has begun, India is fast positioning itself as a resourceful and (...)
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November 2009
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India Steps Up Climate Change Efforts
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Remembering Gopi
28 November 2009, by K. Natwar SinghTRIBUTE
G.K. Arora, who was a Special Secretary in the PMO during Rajiv Gandhi’s stewardship of the country in the eighties, passed away in New Delhi on November 5. A brilliant product of the Allahabad University, he was the trusted lieutenant of (...) -
An Analytical Look at McChrystal’s Report
28 November 2009, by Uddipan MukherjeeIs the inexorable march of the NATO-led coalition forces, through the cobweb of insurgency in Afghanistan led by non-state actors, coming to a grinding halt? It is no longer a mere wishful thinking by the resurgent Taliban that the NATO-led (...) -
Privatisation of Judiciary!
28 November 2009, by K G Somasekharan NairThe increase in the number of civil cases in a country is its social mascot, as it symbolises the abundance of law abiding civilised citizens accepting the authority of the judiciary to get their grievances redressed. Otherwise, they would have (...) -
Mixed Signals
24 November 2009, by SCWhile Parliament’s winter session opened on a stormy note today with the entire Opposition in the Lok Sabha disrupting its proceedings by protesting against the Union Government’s new sugarcane price regime that strikes at the root of offering (...) -
CIA’s Clandestine Plans in Afghanistan
24 November 2009, by Benjamin ToddThe CIA and Democrats in the US Congress have lately come in conflict with each other on the clandestine attempts by the Agency’s officials to formulate plans for hunting down and killing, in the aftermath of 9/11, terrorists with the help of (...) -
We welcome the reports that the Government of India and the CPI (Maoist) are agreeable to the idea of talks
24 November 2009We welcome the reports that the Government of India and the CPI (Maoist) are agreeable to the idea of talks. In the present situation talks are the only way to come to a resolution of any problem, however difficult it may be.
We reiterate (...) -
The Meanness of Mean India
24 November 2009, by Kamal WadhwaEven a cursory glance at the daily newspaper reveals the economic mindset and the manipulation of that mindset into losing its sense of balance and well-being by the plethora of reports, articles and stories on the economic life of the Indian (...) -
Whither Rural India?
24 November 2009, by Kripa ShankarThe rural population is at present estimated at 85 crores. Ten per cent of the households are completely landless. Another 52 per cent have holdings of less than 0.2 hectare. The per capita agricultural land in the rural areas has come down to (...) -
West Bengal: Bye-Election Lessons
24 November 2009, by Barun Das GuptaThe result of the ten bye-elections to the West Bengal Assembly held on November 7 has made several things clear. First, that the CPI-M’s political influence over the traditionally Left-minded people of the State is fading fast, its fear-some (...)