31
Jan
2008
by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: Awareness, Children, TOI, Women
I found this article in Times of India.
A plastic surgeon accused of sexually assaulting his patients; a doctor charged with the rape of a 10-year-old; a mob stripping two women in public; a hotel owner held for raping a tourist; a Russian doctor molested and a UK tourist raped — all this in a span [...]
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30
Jan
2008
by shishir | Tags: Budget, Chidambaram, Education, Finance Minister, Government, Healthcare, Lok Sabha, Taxes
The Annual Budget is just a month away. Whether it is the poorest of the poor or the richest Billionaires, all of them want a reduction in taxes. With this the last budget of the coalition government, will it be a dream one or will the FM play safe?
With just a month to go for [...]
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29
Jan
2008
by shishir | Tags: , engineering, IIT, Indian Students, PhD, US
When students go to the US, they do so for good education and a better lifestyle. But the recent murders of Indian students in US campuses reveal macabre ends to the dreams and ambitions of the students as well as their grief stricken families.
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28
Jan
2008
by Athreya | Tags: Bangalore, bihar, cauveri, english, immigration, kannada, Karnataka, Outsourcing, railways, tamil, Technology, USA
Part-2 : Bangalore was your quaint old south Indian city — a pensioner’s paradise and a garden city. Not anymore, thanks to outsourcing and the related boom. Only 30% of Bangaloreans are local. The article examines the cultural flux with a backdrop of economy, IT boom, failing infrastructure and globalization vis-a-vis Bangalore and it’s local population.
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27
Jan
2008
by shishir | Tags: , AIDS, Maharashtra, Mumbai, NGO, World Bank
Corruption, misappropriation and financial irregularities are some of the accusations made by the World Bank on the Maharashtra Government. Media can play a vital role in highlighting such scams to ensure that the corrupt people be punished severely.
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26
Jan
2008
by falcon | Tags: 15th August, Constituent Assembly, Flag Code, Indian Natioanl Flag
The National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, a few days before India’s independence from the British on 15 August, 1947. It has served as the national flag of the Dominion of India between 15 August 1947 [...]
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25
Jan
2008
by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: Bharat Ratna, Bismillah Khan, Gandhi, History, Lata Mangeshkar, Politcs, Rajiv Gandhi
INDIA HAS produced a legacy of brave hearts since times immemorial. Probably there is not enough space to measure their sacrifices. However, we cannot close our eyes to those people who have made our country proud by excelling in their own fields and bringing us international recognition.
There is some controversy or the other associated with [...]
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24
Jan
2008
by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: General JJ Singh, HT, Kargil, Muskoh Valley, Param Vir Chakra, Rifleman Sanjay Kumar
Kargil , the name, which was not, that heard of before the 1999 war, became a theme and a central point for national security. Not many of you remember the name “Sanjay Kumar”. He is not a youth icon, bollywood star, politician, industrialist but a soldier in Indian Army. Killing five enemy personnel, lifting [...]
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23
Jan
2008
by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: Cuttack, Gandhi, INA, Indian National Congress, Port Blair, Subhash Chandra Bose, Taiwan
Subhash Chandra Bose is one of the few heroes of history who left the deepest impression on the minds of the people of India within a short span of his charismatic life. He was born on January 23,1897 at Cuttack in Orissa. His father Janaki Nath Bose was a famous lawyer and his mother Prabhavati [...]
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23
Jan
2008
by shishir | Tags: Benazir Bhutto, blogs, Cyber Law, Military Rule, Musharraf
The concept of Freedom of speech, an abstract social phenomenon, reached the height of its definitive vagueness as the Musharraf’s regime blocked several anti establishment blogs and also passed a law that makes online crimes punishable by Death.
The General is at it again. In his efforts to curb freedom of Speech in terror stricken Pakistan, [...]
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