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Jun 19, 2011

[Book Review] Whiteout by Ken Follet

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="138"] [/caption] Author: Ken Follett First Published: 2004 Genres: Thriller, Fic...

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Jun 18, 2011

Sadhu dies after 115-day fast to save Ganga

# Cross-posted from my blog on blogspot as part of clean-up Baba Ramdev's deluxe ward at Dehradun's Himalayan Hospital was not far from t...

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Jun 03, 2011

Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURT)

 GURT, also called terminator technology, is a biotech-based strategy that prevents seeds from germinating in the next growing season unl...

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Jun 03, 2011

National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC)

India has announced a National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in June, 2008 which incorporates its vision of sustainable developme...

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May 26, 2011

Employment and Unemployment Measurements in India

I am copying this from Annual Report to People on Employment (2010) published by Ministry of  Labour and Employment, Government of India....

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May 23, 2011

'Don't stop traffic for me': Mamata Banerjee

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, I read a news with the same headline. Mamata Banerjee was on its way to Writers' Buildings from her...

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May 22, 2011

Wholesale Price Index and Inflation

Wholesale Price Index WPI is the index that is used to measure the change in the average price level of goods traded in wholesale market....

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May 18, 2011

Minting and Issue of Coins

Hammered Coins (Image by Wikipedia)  # Taken from RBI website and Wikipedia The responsibility for coinage vests with the Governme...

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May 13, 2011

Government and Its ever-increasing Organisations

Recently there was news that a high-level meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to set up an autonomous Nuclear Autho...

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May 09, 2011

Government of India and Its Websites

I am just fed-up with how government functions. All the Pub Ad stuff is weird specially when it comes to implementation in India and by t...

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