The Indus Litmus
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India Buys Gandhi’s Letters for $1.3 Million to Halt Auction - Scene Asia - WSJ
blogs.wsj.com - A book released last year stirred an unusual controversy on whether Mahatma Gandhi had a gay lover. “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India,” written by Pulitzer-Prize winning autho...
Hindu Temples Listed As World Heritage Sites By UNESCO (PHOTOS)
huffingtonpost.com - Click through the slideshow to view beautiful temples that are World Heritage Sites: Angkor Wat is the principle temple of Angkor, which served as the seat of the Khmer Empire and was enlisted as a...
Consumer goods in India: Seducing shoppers in Sticksville
economist.com - GROWTH in India is slowing. The economy expanded at an annualised rate of 5.3% between January and March, the slowest for seven years. Shoppers are scrimping. Sales of consumer durables fell by 10-...
BBC News - Hobson-Jobson: The words English owes to India
bbc.co.uk - In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India. Since its publication the 1,000-page dictionary has never been out of print and a new edition is due o...
Purulia case: India downgrades ties with Denmark for Kim Davy rebuff - The Times of India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: Stepping up its protest against Denmark for its refusal to extradite Purulia arms drop accused Kim Davy, India has decided to further scale down bilateral ties. The government has instru...
Internet content blocking travels downstream, affects unwary users
arstechnica.com - A team of Canadian researchers have uncovered an unusual new example of “upstream filtering,” where online content in one country is blocked in another country due to filtering that happens in tran...
India's Simmtronics Debuts $81 XPad Tablet
fastcompany.com - The world's cheapest tablet is now commercially available... and only costs $81. On Wednesday, Indian firm Simmtronics announced the launch of their new XPad tablet in Dubai. Retailing for approxim...
Manisha Girotra to lead Moelis’s India foray - The Times of India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - The author has posted comments on this articleTNN | Jul 13, 2012, 02.52AM IST MUMBAI: Manisha Girotra will spearhead global independent investment bank Moelis & Company's India foray as its chief e...
Projects monitoring gets nod - The Times of India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: With the number of public private partnership (PPP) projects on the rise, the government has decided to set up institutional monitoring mechanism to ensure speedy completion of project a...
Pimp My Rickshaw: India's Drivers Pump Up The Glam : NPR
npr.org - You know you want one: rickshaw seat covers emblazoned with Bollywood stars. It's just one way New Delhi rickshaw drivers are trying to outdo each other in the battle for passengers. Dashboard stat...
Plans afoot to take NCTC out of IB's ambit - The Times of India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry will approach the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) after July 19 presidential poll for approval of the revised draft for NCTC that will be taken out of the amb... 
Kissa kursi ka: AK Antony takes Pranab Mukherjee's seat next to PM
ndtv.com - New Delhi: Ever since Pranab Mukherjee left the government to contest the Presidential elections, the question has been who will take his place as the number two in the government. There's nothing ...
ICC news: Mithali Raj tops batting rankings | Women's Cricket Cricket News
espncricinfo.com - Mithali Raj, the India Women's captain, has reclaimed the top spot in the one-day batting rankings, displacing West Indies' Stafanie Taylor. Raj top scored in the recent five-match series against E...
Summer of Discontent - Hindustan Times
hindustantimes.com - The report states that while just a year ago, 51% people were satisfied with the way things were going in the country (and 47% dissatisfied), today, the proportions have reversed – 59% are dissatis...
China and India producing larger share of global college graduates
insidehighered.com - China and India are expanding their influence in the higher education arena -- according to a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, about 40 percent of young po...
Pakistan recall cleared Kamran Akmal for World Twenty20 - NY Daily News
india.nydailynews.com - Pakistan on Wednesday named Kamran Akmal in their provisional 30-man squad for this year's World Twenty20, after the wicketkeeper-batsman was cleared of suspicions of spot-fixing. A Pakistan Cricke...
India's trade deficit narrows to $10.30 billion in June
New Delhi: India's exports contracted by 5.45 percent, year-on-year basis, to USD 25.07 billion in June due to the persisting global economic slowdown.
Imports also declined by 13.46 percent to USD 35.37 billion, leaving a trade deficit of USD 10.30 billion, according to the Director General of Foreign Trade A Pujari.
Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary S R Rao told reporters here, "Exports have contracted but trade deficit is also coming down."
During the April-June quarter of this fiscal exports have shrunk 1.7 percent to USD 75.2 billion over the first quarter of 2011-12. Imports have also dipped by 6.1 percent during the first quarter of 2012-13 to USD 115.26 billion.
Trade deficit in Q1 has declined to USD 40.06 billion, from USD 46.30 billion in April-June last fiscal.
PTI
Imports also declined by 13.46 percent to USD 35.37 billion, leaving a trade deficit of USD 10.30 billion, according to the Director General of Foreign Trade A Pujari.
Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary S R Rao told reporters here, "Exports have contracted but trade deficit is also coming down."
During the April-June quarter of this fiscal exports have shrunk 1.7 percent to USD 75.2 billion over the first quarter of 2011-12. Imports have also dipped by 6.1 percent during the first quarter of 2012-13 to USD 115.26 billion.
Trade deficit in Q1 has declined to USD 40.06 billion, from USD 46.30 billion in April-June last fiscal.
PTI
First Published: Friday, July 13, 2012, 13:43
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