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What India needs: 500 new cities! "India needs to build a minimum of 500 new cities urgently. However, it has to be done from scratch to accommodate people who are on the move and to provide them better quality life," he said....
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Headley reveals ISI link, Rahul an eyewash David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani has kicked up quite a storm for the Indian security agencies following his arrest and subsequent interrogation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States....
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Security upped at Woodstock, Doon schools Following inputs from the Home Ministry about terror threats, security has been stepped up at the campuses of Doon School in Dehra Dun and Woodstock school in Mussoorie, officials said....
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Why Shobha could be Yeddyurappa"s nemesis Yeddyurappa will have to take one of the hardest decisions of his political career when he drops Shobha from the ministry in order to save his chair....
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Revealed: Blackwater"s hiring spree in Pakistan According to The Nation, the US firm has offered some of the retired Pakistani officials a whopping salary package of $60,000 (nearly Rs 28 lakh) per month. But what is more noticeable is that it has hired former CIA officer Steven Cash to operate as commander-in-charge of its operations in Peshawar....
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Take on folks in Bangalore, says Obama United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a $4 billion federal educational aid to encourage schools to develop globally competitive standards to help their students take on folks in Beijing and Bangalore....
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Advani must go, says RSS chief
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Remittances: India is world number 1 India continues to be the top recipient of global remittance flow at $52 billion in 2009, the World Bank has said in a report. Check out the other top receivers of remittances....
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Scientist vs establishment battle simmers in CSIR All it took was a letter from Ayyadurai addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for sparks to fly. In the letter, he cried foul over the manner in which he had been asked to pack his bag for taking on the CSIR leadership. Though the CSIR cites a high pay package demand from Ayyadurai as reason for his termination, the Indian-American scientist and entrepreneur believes he has been victimised. It is illegal and irrelevant, he claims....
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Patriotism is reduced to singing Vande Mata? Indias pluralist character, vibrant democracy, assertive intelligentsia and all attendant principles/institutions are the best assurance to allay the misgivings of the minorities....
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Why is the Dalai Lama going to Tawang? His presence in Tawang is a silent reiteration that the McMahon Line was and is the border between Tibet and India, says Claude Arpi....
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"Why can"t Muslim women also lead the community" Zakia Nizami Soman, one of the founder members of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, speaks of her organisation and and reflects on the daunting challenges facing Muslim women in India today....
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Special: How Rahul Gandhi"s clout is growing Sheela Bhatt explores and explains the Rahul Gandhi phenomenon and what it means for the Congress party and the nations politics....
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The Karnataka crisis explained There appears to be no solution in sight to the ongoing crisis in the Karnataka unit of Bharatiya Janata Party....
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26/11: "Local angle needed greater attention" I do feel even today that the local angle has not received the attention it deserved. I find it difficult to accept that only two Indians were involved. There has been very strong evidence of their involvement, but the possible involvement of others should be looked into, says B Raman....
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