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Pranab Invokes Netaji's Dream of Free India 
The spirit of legendary freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose shone here again Monday evening at the launch of the Volume 12 of Netaji's Collected Works entitled "Chalo Delhi" - the inspiring slogan of the Indian National Army he founded to liberate India. Read On >>>

Unshackle the Mind, Show Toughness, Say Leaders of Tomorrow 
Young parliamentarians and entrepreneurs Monday came together in a rare interaction to call for "unshackling the mind" and show guts and toughness in decision-making at a brainstorming session organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Considering that huge swathes of India still live in villages, farmers have to be factored in India rising. Emphasis must not be on just the manufacturing and service sectors," Read On >>>

Let us Think Beyond Next Poll,
Next Quarter: PM 
Politicians have to think of the next election and business leaders of the next quarter, but together they can think of the next generation and transform economy and society, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday.  Read On >>>

Breaking News

Poll Violence Injure 150 in Bangladesh 
Gas Smell in New York, Mayor says no danger 
India Reaches Out to Women
        Deserted by NRI Husbands
   
Unite Against Terror: Urges Shekhawat  
ADP to Setup Facility in Pune 
Government Rushes 2,000 Troopers to Assam 
Narmada Power Plant to be Dedicated
to Nation this Month
 

Rehabilitation Policy for Industrialization Soon: PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday virtually gave a sneak peak into some upcoming economic policies, including one for rehabilitation of people displaced by industrialization and a new institutional mechanism for facilitation of large-scale industrial projects. In an obvious reference to the controversy over allotment of land for special economic zones (SEZ), mainly in respect of displacement of people from their lands, Manmohan Singh said there was no reason for industrialization to be a contentious issue. Read On >>>

North India Shivers: Delhi has coldest day of the season
Northern India shivered Monday as icy winds from the Himalayas sent the mercury plummeting, with Amritsar recording the minimum temperature below the freezing point and Delhi experiencing the coldest day of the season.  On Jan 8, 2006, Delhi had recorded a minimum of 0.2 degrees, a record low in a half century. Read On >>>

Gurgaon Emerging as New Corporate Capital: Hooda
Gurgaon is fast emerging the new corporate capital of India and can boast of having the highest number of call centers, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda claimed here Monday. Gurgaon has the highest number of call centers in India. It stands third, after Bangalore and Chennai, in software exports. Read On >>>

Manmohan's dream: Breakfast in Amritsar, Lunch in Lahore 
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday unveiled his vision of regional integration where one can have "breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul" as he reiterated his call for a treaty of peace, friendship and security between India and Pakistan. Read On >>>

Nepal's Everest Hero Joins Brawn Drain
In the 1950s, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the first man to summit the Mt Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, left Nepal to take up residence in neighboring India. Five decades later, Apa Sherpa, who created a world record by scaling the world's highest peak 16 times, has joined the exodus from the Himalayan kingdom in search of greener pastures. Read On >>>

India Should Consider Pak Proposal on Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Monday urged the Centre not to reject Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's proposals on Kashmir. "We should consider the proposals seriously and formulate our response after discussing all the issues, including self-governance," he told the media in Jammu. Read On >>>

Assam Makes for Furious Internet Debate by Simantik Dowerah
The latest killings in Assam by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) have only intensified a furious debate already raging in Orkut, a free internet-based discussion forum, with its 'members' equally divided between supporting the militant group and opposing their terror actions vehemently. Created on April 28, 2006 by "|†äñMäy| .." (as the creator of the community writes his name in Orkut), the ULFA supporters in this Internet community ... Read On >>>

Deepak Chopra's Kama Sutra Images Now on Canvas By Prasun Sonwalkar
For the first time, a West Yorkshire-based graphics company has made it possible for lovers of Kama Sutra, the ancient Indian art of love-making, to spice up their walls by putting up large portraits of its images. ID-Wall, the large-format picture and graphics company based in Huddersfield, has secured the rights to produce images from US-based spiritual guru Deepak Chopra's best-selling book, "Kama Sutra: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Love". Read On >>>

After Dengue, India to start
Specialization in Infectious Diseases 

With the outbreak of infectious diseases like dengue and chikungunya claiming many lives and affecting thousands across the country in 2006, the government is planning to train doctors to specialize in such diseases. The National Board of Examinations (NBE), an autonomous body under the health ministry, is planning to start fellowship courses in infectious diseases. There is a growing realization of the need to have more specialists for handling different infectious diseases in the wake of the recent epidemics of dengue and chikungunya. Read On >>>

Homeopathy can Cure
many Chronic Diseases 
People are increasingly going in for homeopathic treatment in India and in many countries. And there are good reasons behind the shift, said doctors at a homeopathic conference in Agra. Contrary to general belief, more and more people are following homeopathy, even for cancer treatment at early stages. Since allopathy cannot cure all critical or chronic diseases, even after receiving chemotherapy treatment, many cancer patients now come to homeopaths, and get positive results ... Read On >>>

Cleaning Out Computer Data
Boosts PC's Speed, Security 

The start of the New Year is always a good time to consider removing old data from your PC to boost performance before installing any new software you received for Christmas. The three main advantages of removing old software are freeing up space, improving performance and erasing user history, says Hermann Apfelboeck of the magazine PC-Welt. Read On >>>

Now Vedic Mantras to Cure Diseases
by Anil Sharma

Now look forward to new age healing through mantras! Sanskrit scholars of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University have initiated a research project, said to be the first of its kind, to treat various diseases through Vedic chants. Read On >

My Brother not a Drug Addict
Slain British tourist Stephen Bennett's family has strongly denied reports from India that he was a drug addict, and has raised several questions related to his death in a village near Mumbai in December. Amanda Bennett, Stephen's sister, told IANS in an e-mailed despatch: "My brother was not a drug addict. He did not have AIDS (post mortem results confirm this). Read On >>>

NGO to treat Injured Birds
on Kite flying day

With Jaipur all set to celebrate Makar Sankranti this weekend, an NGO is quietly making preparations to treat birds that might be injured in the daylong kite flying. Read On

Nepal Judges Fear Loss of Freedom in New Set Up
As Nepal's multi-party government Monday began a key meeting with Maoist guerrillas to fix a date for implementing the new constitution, controversy about the statute grew with the country's top judges fearing loss of independence in the days to come. Read On >>>

Shutdown Hits Life in Bengal, Fresh Violence in Nandigram
A 24-hour shutdown Monday to protest killings in West Bengal's Nandigram over land acquisition for a special economic zone (SEZ) impacted life throughout the state as reports of fresh violence came in from the area where at least four bodies have been found. Read On >>>

PM's address at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 
Manmohan Singh thanks Indian Americans for Role in N-deal

Invest in India, not Just Financially: PM Tells Diaspora  
Overseas Indians to get Support for Employment, Investment 
India has Central Strategic Role in East Asia: Singapore Deputy PM
OCI Cardholders Get Respite in Domestic Airfare 
Market Access a Two-way Process: Minister 
Lord Bilimoria's Cobra Looks at Buying Indian Brewery
Labour Welfare Pacts with More Gulf Nations 

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Saddam Hussein:
Victim of Old West Justice and Vendetta
by K. Gajendra Singh

President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, overthrown after the US led illegal invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, against UN Charter and world opinion, became another victim of 'Old West Justice' exercised by European colonizers and Americans during the last few centuries. Read On >>>

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Why India's Import Pipelines have remained Pipe Dreams? By Bhamy V. Shenoy
In less than 10 years from conceptualization to start-up, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline of 1,760 km and the Shah Deniz Gas Pipeline of about 1,000 km have been built in the Caucasus. In India, for more than 20 years we have been talking about gas pipelines from Qatar, Iran, Turkmenistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh. Not one has been built. Not even one is on the drawing board. Millions of rupees have been spent on endless number of feasibility studies.  India should be able to learn from the experience of building these pipelines in the Caucasus. As the West learnt that there was billions of oil to be exploited beneath Caspian Sea, a New Great Game started. Read On >>>

Pranab Tells NRIs to be like overseas Chinese
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday called upon overseas Indians to play a role similar to the one being played by the overseas Chinese community in the growth of China. Speaking at a plenary on 'Developmental Challenges of the States: Partnership Opportunities' at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) 2007 here, he said ... Read On >>>

Hyderabad to host IndiaSoft Meet from Tuesday
IndiaSoft 2007, an international IT exhibition and conference to showcase India's cutting-edge IT capabilities and outsourcing strengths to the global IT and business community, is beginning here Tuesday. About 90 tier-II and tier-III IT and ITES companies will exhibit their products and services during the two-day event. Read On >>>

BNP Rejects Move
on Presidential Reference on Polls
 
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), deep into its campaign as head of a four-party alliance, has rejected proposals for a presidential reference to the Supreme Court to have the general elections postponed to accommodate the Awami League-led grouping. Read On >>>

Troops Patrol Violence-Torn Assam
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Troops patrolled violence-torn Assam Monday with the death toll in the weekend attacks targeting Hindi-speaking people mounting to 57 while security forces killed two separatists overnight. Seven more people, including five policemen, were killed in a landmine explosion over the weekend in a separate incident not directly related to the ongoing carnage against the Hindi-speakers by the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Read On >>>

 

  

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