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In July 2006 Mumbai was paralyzed by heavy Monsoon rains that left more than 850 people dead and millions displaced.The rains exposed those inherent loopholes in the urban planning that routinely bring miseries to the city dwellers in India. Yesterday Veeral Dholakia was beaten to death by the unruly police for protesting on the street …
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Madam Speaker, As I have said many times before, we cannot wish away the fact that Pakistan is our neighbour. We should be good neighbours. If we live in peace, as good neighbours do, both of us can focus our energies on the many problems – our abject poverty that confront millions and millions of …
When in 1994 a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by Hutu militia in Rwanda; when in mid 1970s two million Cambodians were eliminated from the face of the earth by the Pol Pot regime; the world was deafeningly silent and did nothing then and after. Rwanda lost 20% of its population within a …
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By Vinay: After the serial ‘salaam’ing of Mr. kalam for being silent on the issue of getting frisked and the serial slamming of the Continental Airlines for frisking him, it seems many netas are still not satisfied. One young neta from Orissa has come up with a solution; that not 31 but only 3+1 …
On March 3ed the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek said that the Obama would deliver “the European Speech of the Year” during his visit to Prague on April 4th. I just listened to that speech and I must admit that Topolanek’s remark was very modest – in my opinion this speech by Obama will go down …
TIME Magazine January 5, 1931 Curiously, it was in a jail that the year’s end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all. It was exactly twelve months ago that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Indian National Congress promulgated the Declaration of Indian Independence. It was in March that …
Key Features of Interim Budget 2009-2010 • The Gross Domestic Product increased by 7.5 per cent, 9.5 per cent, 9.7 percent and 9 per cent in the first four years from fiscal year 2004-05 to 2007-08 recording a sustained growth of over 9 per cent for three consecutive years for the first …
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RASHTRIYA KRISHI VIKAS YOJANA (RKVY) • Background • Declining investments in Agriculture • Declining share of agriculture in the GDP • Insufficient attention to the allied sectors • Continued high dependence of the rural people on the agriculture and allied sectors • Rapid growth in other sectors of the economy • Distress in Agriculture • …
The members of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) unequivocally supported Russia’s war against Georgia when they met last month in Dushanbe, Tajikistan for the eighth annual meeting. Saakshvili’’s folly has enhanced Russia’s image in the east and has caused slight tremors in the west. It was Russia’s first all out war against a nation since the …
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [Applause] Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of …
To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation; With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States. Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially …
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ON THE AMERICAN PROMISE Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story – of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren’t well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to. …
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On 15th of December 1953, when Potti Sriramulu succumbed to death not able to sustain 52 days of marathon fast that was undertaken to demand a separate state for Telugu speaking people, little did he realize that his death would become a launch pad for the dawn of Political Regionalism in India – that would …
The Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) and the North Western Frontier Provinces (NWFP) were always been the breeding grounds of Taliban under the ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) and Pak military supervision.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, my copartners in Government, gentlemen-and ladies: The Constitution imposes upon me the obligation to “from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union.” While this has traditionally been interpreted as an annual affair, this tradition has been broken in extraordinary times. These are extraordinary …
By Vinay G B I live in a village, a beautiful village and I am very proud of it. India lives in villages, not one or two but in six lakh villages. Their collective conscience forms the soul of India. When these villages breathe India breathes, when they wilt India wilts. Each village has a …
By Mamatha Govianu Majority of the nations and their governments strive for the Development and welfare of its people. In a democratic setup such as ours It is our politicians- the representatives- the law makers, and the people who lay foundation for the development. And it is the Election Commission which is vested under Article …
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By Vinay If, on 22nd July Mr.Manamohan Singh manages to win the vote of confidence, he will be remembered by the generations to come not because he staked his government for the deal but because he withstood the onslaught of naysayer and stuck to the conviction that the deal was good for India. If on …
§ So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. – Mark Twain (American writer) § We owe a lot to the Indians, who …
By Vinay History does not repeat for those people who have never read the history and for those people who are buried in the past. The most advanced nations of the contemporary world are still buried deep in the past, in their perceptions of the world order and disorder. They are blinded by their misconceptions …
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