2014年8月23日 星期六

2014-08-24 India Spotlight

  IBNLive   
UR Ananthamurthy: Eternally vigilant writer, thinker and teacher  IBNLive
Bangalore: Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, known as UR Ananthamurthy, died on Friday. He was 82. Ananthamurthy was one of India's best known writers and thinkers both within India and abroad. He wore many hats. He was a celebrated English ...


   

  The Hindu   
Teesta's sorrows  The Hindu
Sikkim has been gaining importance as a destination of interest on the tourist map. The year-round cool climate is the major attraction for holiday makers from across the arid and tropical plains of India. Gangtok, the capital, with its clean and prim roads, ...


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What's the plan for India's century?  Deccan Chronicle
The Planning Commission was set up in 1950. It has evolved in the 64 years of its existence. India and the world have, however, changed much more in the same time. Thus the gap between what the country needs now and what the Planning Commission is ...


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Indian Army C4ISR trends  IBNLive (blog)
The Indian Army (IA) believes that state of the art intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems can serve to give it an advantage over even collaborating adversaries on either flank. As such investment by IA into contemporary ISR systems has ...


   


A plea for English  The Hindu
It was disheartening to learn that English has been unceremoniously forked out of the Civil Services preliminary examination, at a time when academia is moving heaven and earth to help students acquire better English language skills. It is time we realised ...


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'To say plan panel is outdated is to say India has achieved inclusive growth'  Deccan Chronicle
As talk of scrapping the Planning Commission gained momentum after PM Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech, former member of the panel, Syeda Hameed, tells Mukesh Ranjan that it is a decision taken in haste and that in the absence of the ...


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  IBNLive (blog)   
Children can't want: Will India take the 500 day challenge?  IBNLive (blog)
August 18 marks a significant marker to 500 days left to meet Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets. Today, the world is on the brink of a major breakthrough to ensure mothers, newborns and children everywhere survive. If there's one place to trace ...


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  The Hindu   
Learning from NREGA  The Hindu
One neglected aspect of the debate on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) relates to the process aspects of the programme. In the process of planning works, organising employment, paying wages or fighting corruption, many valuable ...


   


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 ...


   

  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 ...


   

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