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• JNNURM: NGO study finds deviations all along in implementing basic services
  There is a gap between what has been promised for the urban poor under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and what is being implemented, a case study of Bangalore s...
  by Special Correspondent
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 1:59am
  


• MP criticised for stalling Educational Tribunal Bill
  Difference within the Congress over the stalling of the Educational Tribunal Bill, 2010 surfaced with senior leader and Lok Sabha member K. Sambasiva Rao criticising his party colleague Keshav...
  by Aarti Dhar
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 1:40am
  


• Gadkari's Russian host is a controversial inventor
  The coming private visit of BJP national president Nitin Gadkari to Russia this week risks landing the party and its leader right smack in the middle of a scandal involving his host. by Vladimir Radyuhin
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 1:23am
  


• Moily: no question of dismissing Jagan
  Union Minister for Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily, who is in charge of the Congress affairs in Andhra Pradesh, on Saturday said there was no question of dismissing Kadapa MP Y.S. Jagan Mohan Re...
  by Special Correspondent
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 3:07am
  


• Amnesty appeals to Maoists to release hostages
  The Communist Party of India (Maoist), an armed Opposition group, must immediately stop holding as hostage the three remaining policemen it abducted in Lakhisarai district in Bihar five days...
  by J. Venkatesan
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 1:13am
  


• India, China to attend Hanoi Defence Ministers' meeting
  Both India and China, currently engaged diplomatically in dousing recent tensions, will be present at the first-ever meeting of Defence Ministers from 18 countries being held in Vietnam on October...
  by Sandeep Dikshit
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 3:05am
  


• Connectivity won't be compromised: Pilot
  Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will do its best to keep the connectivity maintained in spite of ‘naxalite attacks' on mobile towers, Minister of State for Communication and Information...
  by Amruta Byatnal
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 1:04am
  


• Bihar poll process may be over before Deepavali: EC
  The Election Commission is likely to announce the dates for the Bihar Assembly elections shortly. “We will take a view shortly,” a top official of the EC told The Hindu...
  by Special Correspondent
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 1:00am
  


• Dormant Tribal Affairs Ministry turns pro-active
  Realising it was losing the turf war with the hyperactive Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on a subject that has become a top priority for the United Progressive Alliance government...
  by Smita Gupta
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 12:57am
  


• China withdraws reference to Gilgit-Baltistan as ‘northern Pakistan'
  A day after India voiced concerns to China over its reference to the disputed Gilgit-Baltistan region as “a northern part of Pakistan,” the Chinese government withdrew its statem...
  by Ananth Krishnan
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 3:04am
  


• My teaching years were most satisfying, fulfilling: Manmohan
  He has just completed six years as Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy, but Manmohan Singh still counts his time in the teaching profession as the best years of his life. by Special Correspondent
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 2:14am
  


• BJP opposes third party intervention in Jammu & Kashmir
  Condemning the Centre's approach on the Kashmir problem, the Bharatiya Janata Party has made it clear that it was opposed to third party mediation. The BJP also reiterated its opposit...
  by Atiq Khan
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 12:16am
  


• Learning tool that enables home schooling
  myEshala a step towards free and uncontrolled learning
  by Amruta Byatnal
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 12:13am
  


• Antony calls on South Korean President
  Defence Minister A.K. Antony, currently on an official visit to South Korea, called on President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul on Friday evening. The two leaders discussed all issues relating to strength...
  by Special Correspondent
  Posted on:5 Sep 2010 at 12:05am
  


• Any ill-equipped settlement of 20 households to be slum
  A new “reliable statistical model” to enumerate people living in urban slums indicates that their population will be 93.06 million in the 2011 census, as against 75.26 million es...
  by Aarti Dhar
  Posted on:4 Sep 2010 at 11:51pm