2015年1月5日 星期一

2015-01-06 India Spotlight


Double standards in reservation policy   
The Hindu
Desperate times call for desperate measures. At the receiving end of a historic drubbing in the Lok Sabha election in May 2014 and facing another daunting State election later that year, the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government in Maharashtra ...


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NDTV
   
Micromax Yu Yureka Review: It's Mi Against Yu   
NDTV
Micromax is India's top domestic smartphone vendor and has plenty of popular products on offer. Even so, it has a bit of a reputation for selling low-quality products and it knows that there are people who would simply never consider a Micromax phone over, ...


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The new commission   
Business Standard
The Union government has begun the new year by finally announcing the new name and scope of the Planning Commission, the end of which the prime minister had long ago announced, from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day. According to ...


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Lexicon of democratic literacy   
The Hindu
When the literacy drive was in full force, I happened to visit a village in Ajmer district with a friend who was a civil servant. There was bold graffiti on a prominent school wall, which said: Saksharta ki kya pehchan? Upar chaddi, niche baniyan (How do you ...


   


Deccan Chronicle
   
DC Debate: Is the court order banning cockfights justified?   
Deccan Chronicle
Cockfighters often let the birds suffer due to untreated injuries or throw the birds away like trash after a fight. Besides being cruel, cockfighting often goes hand- in- hand with gambling. Hyderabad: Cruelty for sake of entertainment: In a cockfight, two roosters ...


   


A new energy   
Business Standard
Many observers have come to a tentative conclusion that over the past few weeks, there has been a certain urgency to the government's actions on the economic policy front. Nobody can question the positivity of the atmosphere that had been built up by Prime ...


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The Hindu
   
The essential reader   
The Hindu
One of the defining elements of journalism is its ability to balance continuity and change. Media historian Mitchell Stephens in his book, A History of News, observed: “Humans have exchanged a similar mix of news … throughout history and across cultures.

   


How the Mumbai police managed to block Vimeo and Github in India   
Quartz
The Indian government's decision to ban 32 websites—including Github and Vimeo—has been in the works for over a month, according to documents reviewed by Quartz. On Nov. 11, 2014, Mumbai's additional chief metropolitan magistrate ordered the Indian ...


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ESPNcricinfo.com
   
Sood takes 10 as Delhi thump Gujarat   
ESPNcricinfo.com
Left-arm spinner Varun Sood took his match haul to 10 wickets as Delhi completed an innings-and-109-run win over Gujarat on the fourth day. This was Delhi's third outright win in as many games and their second with a bonus point. Sood and offspinner ...


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Business Standard
   
Currency headwinds to affect IT firms' Dec quarter show   
Business Standard
The October-December quarter, generally a soft one for India's information technology (IT) sector due to holidays and furloughs in certain sectors, is expected to be further affected this year because of currency volatility. According to analysts, the top four ...


   

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