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Only Centrist
Democracy Suits India: Sonia
Congress president Sonia Gandhi says India can "flourish only as
a centrist democracy", even as she unveiled her journey "from the
placid backwaters of a contented domestic life to the maelstrom of
public life", saying she had found both "fulfillment and a larger
sense of purpose". Read On
Indian Cinema
Inching Closer to Finding Global Script by Priyanka Khanna
Even as the who's who of Hindi film industry basked under the
glare of global media in Yorkshire at the International Indian Film
Academy (IIFA) awards ceremony, back home a couple of low-budget
films, "Swami" and "Dharm" that can raise the profile of Indian
films internationally, released without fanfare.
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Meghalaya in Turmoil Over Uranium Mining by Syed Zarir Hussain
The mountainous northeastern state of Meghalaya is in turmoil
over a government plan to allow uranium mining with several groups,
including student unions, rights bodies, and environmental
organisations, opposed to the move. Read
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Fall of
Bush Bill: Is it Good News or Bad News for Indians? by Arun
Kumar
It was hailed as a "grand bargain", a please all panacea, before it
came unstuck at the first hurdle. But what hit President George W.
Bush's wonder immigration bill wasn't the amnesty bugaboo, but a new
animal called 'cloture'.
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Reprocessing Absolutely Necessary for India: Pranab
Amid concerns about the course of the
India-US nuclear deal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee
has said he is "hopeful" the deal will go through. But he added it
was "absolutely necessary" for the US to give India the right to
reprocess spent fuel before they seal a bilateral pact.
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Government Will Last Five Years with Left Support: Mukherjee
Terming criticism from its Left allies as "general impressions",
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee says that the United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will complete its five-year
tenure with communist support. Read On
Experts
Check Damage as Atlantis Closes In to Fetch Sunita
As US space shuttle Atlantis hurtled up to bring Indian American
astronaut Sunita Williams back home after a six month sojourn in
space, NASA experts studied a damaged thermal blanket at its rear.
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India-Brazil Ties Transformed after Lula's Visit: Envoy by
Manish Chand
India and Brazil have emerged
as "major voice of moderation" in the international scene with the
two-trillion dollar economies transforming their strategic ties
across diverse areas, says India's Ambassador to Brazil Hardeep
Singh Puri. Read On
LEDs
Can Help India Conserve Energy: Expert by Vishnu Makhijani
LEDs (light-emitting diodes), semiconductors that convert
electricity into light, can help India conserve energy and
considerably reduce its electricity bills.
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NASA to
Repair Hubble Telescope
The Hubble space telescope, which has glimpsed billions of years
back in time to the early days of galaxies, got a new lease of life
in October with NASA deciding to include a service mission in its
hectic schedule. NASA officials said the mission date would be
Sep 11, 2008. Read On
Kolkata
Homoeopaths Offer Medicines for US Lunar Mission
A father-son homoeopath duo from Kolkata impressed Western
scientists with their paper on homoeopathic medicines for health
problems during lunar missions. Read
On
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Save the
Dolphin: Join the Battle in Assam
by Sanjoy Hazarika
All of us are familiar with its superb leap out of the water,
immortalized in paintings and photographs, on film and digitized
media, on banners, glass and stone sculptures and room decorations.
Down the ages, the 'sishu' or 'xixu' or simply the fresh water
Gangetic Dolphin, which travels the waters of the Brahmaputra and
the Ganges in eastern South Asia, has been at the heart of the
history, geography, culture and legends of the region.
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Village
Health Centres to the Rescue of Infants
In Bhudurubania village in Orissa's Mayurbhanj district, the divide
between life and death for a nascent baby is as narrow as the road
that separates the habitation and the childcare center. Padmavati
Behera realized this recently. Read On
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'Rang De' Steals the show
with Best Film, 'Munnabhai' a Close Second at IIFA
Dharmendra-Amitabh Relive Jai-Veeru Magic at IIFA
Surprises Galore as
Shilpa Turned 32
Deepa Mehta to be
Honoured at IIFA
Naseer to Star with
Brazilian Superstar
40 Bollywood Films Shot in London In A Year
Leaving Karan was a Painful Decision: Soham Shah
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Human Life
on Mars May Come True
in 75 Years, says Kalam
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has
suggested that an industrial complex on the moon and human
habitation on mars could become a reality within 50-75 years. He
said space missions beyond earth were vital for sustaining the
spirit of deep exploration. Read On |
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