2014年8月25日 星期一

2014-08-26 India Spotlight


Interview with Dr Avinash Chander, DRDO Chief and Scientific Adviser to ...  IBNLive (blog)
The new Narendra Modi government gave the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), a major vote of confidence in its first budget by substantially hiking both the revenue and capital resources available to India's premier weapons ...


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  The Hindu   
For the love of God  The Hindu
Kusum was a child of about six when I first saw her in one of Mother Teresa's ashrams, very close to where I live. Two things struck me at once. The first was that she was crippled and the second was her lovely smile. In those days, I went quite often to that ...


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5 Truths the Fast Fashion Industry Doesn't Want You to Know  Huffington Post
The fashion industry gets a lot of flack these days. The excess, the overtly sexual advertising, the humanitarian issues, the waste, the lawsuits, the list goes on. The industry giants have dedicated millions of dollars to massive PR campaigns, going so far as to ...


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  Niticentral   
J&K Assembly poll: Rise of BJP changes political landscape of State  Niticentral
Jammu & Kashmir Assembly is going to poll later this year. This time the atmosphere of the State politics is completely changed especially after the complete decimation of Congress and ruling National Conference in the recently concluded Lok Sabha ...


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Swachh Bharat Mission: The Long Walk from Rhetoric to Implementation  IBNLive (blog)
Much has been said about the recent priority placed on sanitation, with the Prime Minister taking up the issue most recently from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day. He must be commended on this rhetoric - open defecation is a potent silent ...


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  GQ Magazine   
The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit  GQ Magazine
For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legend—or maybe a myth.

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  Entrepreneur (blog)   
Rewriting the Smartphone Keyboard at Age 28  Entrepreneur (blog)
Ever feel like you're all thumbs when typing on a smartphone? Jon Reynolds can lend a hand. The 28-year-old's London-based startup, SwiftKey, eliminates the clumsiness and frustration of inputting text into smart devices by replacing the stock on-screen ...


   

  The Hindu   
Don't close the door on NJAC as yet  The Hindu
The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha have passed the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, 2014 (NJAC Act), and the Constitution (99th Amendment) Act, to give constitutional status to the National Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) to ...


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Thomson Reuters: we'll take your articles if you don't tell us not to  MediaNama.com
Update: We've just received an email from Thomson Reuters, stating that the letter was sent to us in error. We hope that, in future, explicit permission is sought in every instance, not just in our case. Dear Nikhil. On 20 August 2014, Thomson Reuters sent you a ...


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  The Economist   
What China wants  The Economist
As China becomes, again, the world's largest economy, it wants the respect it enjoyed in centuries past. But it does not know how to achieve or deserve it. MATTHEW BOULTON, James Watt's partner in the development of the steam engine and one of the 18th ...


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