2014年8月21日 星期四

2014-08-22 India Spotlight


Conflicts within  The Hindu
Persisting boundary disputes among the northeastern States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland, reflect multi-layered conflicts in the region that the formation over time of those States on ethno-linguistic lines failed to address or ...


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Will Modi conduct India's namkaran?  Deccan Chronicle
There is a slow but systematic attempt to change India's na-me from Bharat to Hindustan — playing up the word “Hindu” in Hindustan and trying to repackage it as the abode of the Hindus. B.R. Ambedkar and his team that drafted the Constitution of India ...


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Relics of the past  Business Standard
The government's plan to look into the relevance of commodity boards in the contemporary context makes sense. These boards were created as government or quasi-government bodies over half a century ago to promote the production, development and ...


   


Threat to personal liberty  The Hindu
The latest amendments made to the main preventive detention law in Tamil Nadu have great potential for misuse. By bringing in sexual offences and cybercrimes within the ambit of the Goondas Act, a 1982 law that provides for one year of imprisonment ...


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Untimely calls for Dhoni's head  IBNLive (blog)
You change a captain on performance grounds in two cases: (a) if he continues to fail as a skipper after his appointment or (b) when a proven leader hits a downward slide, fails to lift the team out of the hole and there's someone capable waiting in the wings to ...


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  Business Standard   
Related-party rule dilution panned as anti-investor  Business Standard
Two rounds of dilution to the rules governing related party transactions (RPTs) under the new Companies Act are loaded against small investors. And, subvert the legislature's intent to regulate such transactions, many of which often end up enriching ...


   


Behind the great firewall of China  The Hindu
Prompted by scandals, the Chinese government recently issued a set of instructions to the news media highlighting unethical media practices of bribery, fake news, sensationalism and what the government calls “rumour mongering.” The international media ...


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America, Britain need to be tough  Deccan Chronicle
This undated image shows a frame from a video released by Islamic State militants on Tuesday. (Photo: AP). Whether the United States has been right in not succumbing to ransom demands by terrorists — unlike the leading Europeans that have coughed up ...


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  Business Standard   
Diversification, new launches to give a boost to Emami's growth  Business Standard
Emami, the maker of Fair & Handsome, Navratna Cool Oil, Boroplus, Zandu, etc, has seen its share price rise almost 16 per cent in the past eight sessions, seven of which saw gains. And, if analysts are to be believed, investors can expect more gains in the ...


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  PC Advisor   
iPhone 6 release date, price, specs and new features: Convincing leaked photos ...  PC Advisor
The iPhone 6 is one of the most anticipated smartphones of 2014 and with Apple's iPhone 5s now nearing its first birthday, iPhone 6 rumours are flooding in. We've collected all of those rumours into one place, so you'll know everything there is to know about ...


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