2014年10月29日 星期三

2014-10-30 India Spotlight

  Times of India   
Canada cancels ceremony to honour Pak Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai  Times of India
Canadian officials on Wednesday cancelled a ceremony to honour Pakistani teenager and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai after the shootout at Canadian parliament. Malala, who won this year's Nobel peace prize, was supposed to receive honorary ...


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Old repressions, new tyrannies  The Hindu
Sometimes after a day's work is over, when the TV is switched off and newspapers lie forgotten, one sits quietly and rethinks, reviewing the day in the mind's eye. This ritual is a very powerful form of editorialising. One is no longer a spectator because one is ...


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Jayalalithaa should punish forms of sycophancy  Hindustan Times
Taking one's own life because of the misfortune suffered by a political leader or a public personage is nothing new in Tamil Nadu, or even Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. So it came as no surprise when, according to the AIADMK, 193 people committed ...


   

  Deccan Chronicle   
India in deep waters  Deccan Chronicle
Delhi is in particularly dire straits, with nearly 500,000 illegal borewells sucking up the city's groundwater. Representational picture (Photo: PTI). India burrows deep for its water. Groundwater extraction in most northern states including Delhi, Haryana, Punjab ...


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Interpreting the Indonesian mandate  The Hindu
The inauguration last week, on October 20, 2014, of the third directly elected President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, marks a watershed development in the political landscape of Indonesia. The event saw for the first time in decades ...


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  Business Standard   
The next big market shock can come from 'Save Swiss gold' movement  Business Standard
Love for gold was supposed to be an Indian affair but that was before the Chinese came in and overtook Indian annual purchases. Even this will now change from November 30, 2014 if the Swiss have their way. November 30, 2014 can be a game changing ...


   

  NDTV   
Samsung Galaxy Core Max With 4.8-inch Super Amoled Display Unveiled  NDTV
Samsung has quietly announced a new smartphone by listing it on its China website, the Galaxy Core Max. The handset comes with model number SM-G5108, and as the name suggests, is larger than any other Galaxy Core handset in the family. For now, no ...


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Account-holders' list  The Hindu
The topmost temple of justice in the country has rekindled the hope of retrieving the much-talked-about stash of black money (“SC orders govt. to submit all black money names today,” Oct 29). The court has rightly pulled up the government over its vacillation.

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  Deccan Chronicle   
A question for intellectuals  Deccan Chronicle
Increasingly of late, Prof. Romila Thapar is required to assume the nearly impossible role of Emperor Akbar, who, according to the official plaque at his tomb near Agra, had “created a nation out of a mob”. To her credit (and sorrow), the ageless historian ...


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9 Apps That Make Certain Nobody Ever Again Loses Your Paper Business Card  Entrepreneur
Business cards have long been a way to make a lasting impression on people while you network. But in today's technology-focused world, paper business cards often end up in the bottom of a briefcase, only to be discarded a few months later. Whether you're ...


   

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