A historic moment for India as NSG gives it the nod

In a historic moment that ended more than three decades of nuclear isolation for India, the 45-nation
Nuclear Suppliers Group Saturday rewrote their guidelines to resume global nuclear trade with New Delhi.
The NSG’s decision to grant India a clean waiver from its existing rules, which forbid nuclear trade with a country which has not
signed the Nuclear [...]

Aid agencies are warning of the threat of disease in Bihar

Apple Computer’s iPhone 3G launch in India

Apple Computer’s iPhone 3G launch in India to act as a catalyst for 3G mobile market The launch of the much-awaited iPhone 3G by Apple Computer’s has changed the face of the
Indian telecom market. Priced at US$ 700, the phone will be marketed in India by Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar.
The phone offers superior sound [...]

Supreme Court defines who’s an idiot

Idiot’ is a grossly misused word and an oversimplified epithet, if one goes by the Supreme Court’s brand
new definition of the term. It is almost impossible for a person to qualify as an idiot, says the Court and therefore, few can expect to get a reprieve for an offence.
To be legally accepted as an ‘idiot’, [...]

India set to export record quantity of basmati rice

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India looks set to export a record quantity of basmati rice in the current fiscal.
Last month, the official agency monitoring the export of basmati rice issued 658 registration-cum-allocation certificates (RCAC) to traders, enabling them to export 165,148 tonnes of basmati rice worth $252 million (Rs.10.08 billion).
In July last year, by contrast, the Agricultural and Processed [...]

Now life insurance for 40% less

MUMBAI: Life protection has become far more affordable. The cost of
life insurance has come down by up to 40%, with Insurance
Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) reducing the capital
that insurance companies need to sell term policies. For the second
time since the liberalisation of the insurance industry in 2000, there
has been a dramatic reduction in term-insurance rates, [...]

India 3rd on commercial spend list

Annual commercial spending in India clocked $2.3 trillion in 2007, an increase of 23% from
2006, according to data released by Visa, the world’s largest retail electronic payments network.
As per Visa’s Commercial Consumption Expenditure (CCE) index, India was third largest nation in terms of
the size of total business and government spend and the fourth fastest growing [...]

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In Praise of India

WHAT WORLD SAY ABOUT INDIA
In 1835, even Lord Macaulay, the British historian and politician had to admit before the British Parliament: “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India  and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, [...]