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Nyoma incident: Have Maoists infiltrated the Indian Army?

Posted on May 22, 2012 | No Comments
The involvement of inimical powers, organizations and agencies is more often than not implicit in such incidents. The place of the incident, Nyoma, has the recently constructed strategic airfield.
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Change text books to charm Dalit vote bank

Posted on May 20, 2012 | No Comments
The surprise is not at Dalit unease, but at UPA stalwarts vying with each other to drop cartoons from NCERT text books. This is attributable to one fact: a state of funk after the recent election results.
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Appointment of CICs and Sushma Swaraj

Posted on May 18, 2012 | No Comments
Documents procured under RTI indicate that the latest batch of Central Information Commissioners (Rajiv Mathur, Vijai Sharma and Basant Seth) were selected by a more transparent process than earlier.
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Questions on GoI-Vodafone tax dispute

Posted on May 10, 2012 | No Comments
Is there a saving clause in the Vodafone-Hutch agreement that states that if Vodafone is made to pay the income tax on the Rs 45,000 crores gain made by Hutch, then Hutch will indemnify Vodafone for it?
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KGB activities in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan

Posted on May 10, 2012 | No Comments
Vasiliy Mitrokhin states that some of the KGB activities in the region were aimed at impeding the improvement of India-Pakistan relations.
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Maoists are now ready for final assault to overawe India

Posted on May 4, 2012 | 3 Comments
Maoist terrorism has entered a critical phase wherein a final assault is being made on the political fabric – Indian democracy. Crucial to this assault are the international benefactors of the Maoists and their over-ground elements in the cloak of intellectuals and social-activists.
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Will the dead be cremated as part of Europe’s austerity?

Posted on May 3, 2012 | No Comments
In the Czech Republic this is a serious debate. In Prague, the capital of the most representative of what Ronald Rumsfeld called “new Europe”, burial is turning out to be expensive.
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