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Ajayan 12:18 AM | November 10,2009
The peoples’ crusade against the Silent Valley 120MW hydroelectric project led to the promulgation of Forest Conservation Act in 1980 restricting the use of forest land for any non-forest reason
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09:58 PM | September 30,2009
Political interference often becomes a cog in the wheels of justice, a thought that comes to mind as the government withdraws the case against Quattrocchi in the Bofors saga
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Bloomberg 11:24 PM | September 23,2009
Nalini Sriharan, who is serving life imprisonment for helping to plan the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, ended her hunger strike after authorities agreed to consider a parole bid
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Samanth Subramanian 12:30 AM | September 01,2009
In a matter of decades, the pollution of the Ganga has acquired the same status that Varanasi’s holy men and funeral pyres took centuries to achieve--that of a literary cliché
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Ruhi Tewari and Liz Mathew 09:51 PM | August 17,2009
Minister for rural development and panchayati raj C.P. Joshi speaks about the need to bring in greater transparency and accountability into the employee guarantee scheme, and the controversial land acquisition Bill
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 09:38 PM | August 04,2009
The previous three censuses in 1992, 1997 and 2002 resulted in large errors of exclusion (many deserving poor were left out of the beneficiary list) and inclusion (many non-poor were included in the list)
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Harsh Gupta 09:21 PM | June 07,2009
Anti-defection laws are why India gets either an inflexible national party or fragmented regional ones
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03:38 PM | June 07,2009
The ongoing economic crisis is sure to increase demands on the government. But without reforming its civil services, India can neither provide necessary welfare, nor allow stable growth
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PTI 12:10 PM | May 21,2009
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on 21 May 1991 by a LTTE suicide bomber during a public meeting at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu
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Liz Mathew 11:52 PM | May 16,2009
The Gandhi scion, whose contribution was central to the UPA’s triumph, has emerged the real winner in the elections
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Liz Mathew 01:04 AM | May 06,2009
He said the NDA’s partners were looking for the alliance because “it exists only in the mind of the BJP. NDA does not exist on the ground. It is gone”
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High Windows | Mukul Kesavan 09:43 PM | April 30,2009
If television can do reality with a plausibility that print cannot hope to equal, there are effects that a print journalist can achieve with a throwaway line that gigabytes of footage cannot match
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PTI 07:09 PM | April 22,2009
The party said it was “deeply pained” at the deteriorating humanitarian situation with thousands of innocent Tamil men, women and children stranded and caught in a cross-fire
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Satish John 06:39 PM | April 21,2009
This couple battled failed promises, and found business opportunity in Rajiv Gandhi’s new India
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John Elliot 12:30 AM | April 04,2009
But the flaws run deep, leaving India vulnerable to dynasties and satraps who care little for democracy
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