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China has been assisting and arming Pakistan, which is like a red flag to India and that already makes it a second class enemy according to the Tata group chief. However he said he would prefer to use China as a very strong ally New Delhi: China's assisting and arming Pakistan has made...

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The plane coming from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi was landed in Nawabshah in Pakistan after detecting a problem with its hydraulic system. All 122 passengers and crew members on board the plane are safe Lahore: A New Delhi-bound Air India airplane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah in...

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Providing underground Metro in Mumbai makes sense. However, the government should seriously consider introducing BRTS if it is worried about nearly 4,000 fatalities every year on the railway system Though the Government of Maharashtra (GoMah) through the Mumbai Metropolitan Region...

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The Wadhwa Committee pointed out that some Rs28,000 crore subsidy annually spent by the government was pocketed by vested interests. Nothing much has been done, except to let the foodgrain rot in the poorly built warehouses! Everyone is looking up the sky to seek the help of rain gods...

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Manish Desai (PIB) 05 July 2012
The World Heritage status could have implications on development in and around the 39 sites from the Western Ghat as UNESCO prescribes creation of additional buffer zones around the natural world heritage sites UNESCO's World Heritage Committee inscribed the Western Ghats of India as a...

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MDT/PTI 05 July 2012
According to Shailesh Gandhi, who is retiring tomorrow, rising pendency of cases with Information Commissions would leave the citizens disenchanted with the transparency law   New Delhi: As he prepares to demit office tomorrow after a nearly four-year stint at the Central Information...

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Rajan Alexander 05 July 2012
Present ‘climate science’ has no clue of ‘monsoon behaviour’ because uncertainties are so huge that makes its prediction highly challenging. If this being the case how agricultural solutions from NGOs would be climate smart?   "Understanding how the South Asian monsoon will change in...

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Students of IITs are bright no doubt, but it is the IIT experience that brings out the best out of the one who entered the institute. The admission process should be such that the ‘best’ get a fair chance More than 50 years back, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) were formed to...

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The CBI alleged that records were manipulated and fabricated to get the land allotted in favour of the housing society in an illegal manner and also got various clearances Mumbai: Maharashtra's former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan was among 13 people chargesheeted by Central Bureau of...

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The railway ministry is helpless about the discomfort of railway passengers in reserved compartments who are outnumbered by passengers without tickets or with tickets meant for unreserved compartments   Last month, my friend’s daughter went on a trip to Corbett Park, which was...

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MDT/PTI 04 July 2012
Maharashtra government and Adarsh Society are questioning CBI's authority to probe the case nearly a year-and-half after agency started its investigation   Mumbai: Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed its charge sheet in the Adarsh scam, the Bombay High...

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MDT/PTI 04 July 2012
CERN scientists on Wednesday claimed to have spotted a sub-atomic particle 'consistent' with the Higgs boson or 'God particle', believed to be a crucial building block that led to the formation of the universe   Geneva: As all eyes today focus on the European Organisation for Nuclear...

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Rajan Alexander 04 July 2012
For all practical forecast purposes, even as critical indices cross El Nino thresholds values and intensifies further, as far as its impact on the monsoon is concerned, it is fairly negligible   If all goes well and rains pickup by 5th or 6th July, where there are optimistic...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 July 2012
Out of the government-sanctioned built-up area for development of Powai land, Hiranandani utilised only a part, while the rest was converted into luxury apartments and sold at a premium price A special court has asked the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to inquire into a...

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Dr SD Israni 04 July 2012
The revamped Bill offers artistes different rights for different media Not very long ago, issues like patents, trademarks, copyright, etc, collectively called intellectual property rights (IPRs), were sort of alien subjects relating mainly to foreign companies and some large Indian...

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Lena Groeger (ProPublica) 04 July 2012
The government has fined drug companies billions of dollars for illegally promoting drugs for unapproved uses. Here's a closer look at six of the most recent major fraud fines On Monday, the Department of Justice announced that drug company GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay a $3 billion...

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GlaxoSmithKline has pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and agreed to pay $3 billion in fines for various sins. Well, GSK is not alone. GSK has been caught doing what all pharma companies  do most of the time, as I have been warning for decades  “Power corrupts. Knowledge is power....

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Important thing is to prevent accidents from happening. Laws must be in place but the focus should be physical features that prevent cars moving at high speeds in by lanes and road junctions There is a report that the driver of a Bollywood actor, while rushing in a Toyota Lexus in Bandra...

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Rajan Alexander 03 July 2012
While a 29% rainfall deficiency for June per se may look rather depressing, it is less than 5% of the average rainfall of 887mm in the monsoon and could be possibly made up for in the remaining season The media has apparently gone totally berserk declaring the monsoon dead even as it has...

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MDT/PTI 03 July 2012
A hawker filed petition in the HC alleging abduction of another hawker by GRP and an activist, which the Court found absolutely fake case   Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has fined a hawker Rs5,000 for filing a petition in which he alleged abduction of another hawker by the Government...

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