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India for early Presidential polls in Maldives India has proposed early Presidential elections in Maldives to end the political impasse in the country following the ouster of the first democratically elected President Mohamed Nasheed. During his talks with leaders of political parties on Tuesday ni...

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Desperate times: Iran offers 80,000 barrels of oil on 3-month credit Amid pressure from the United States, Iran has offered to export 80,000 barrels of oil per day to Pakistan on three-month deferred payments which may ease pressure on energy supplies due to the circular debt. Besides oil supply on...

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A festering wound in Pakistan by Anita Joshua in The Hindu If Pakistan manages to weather the crisis it is facing with the demand for an independent Balochistan gathering steam, the nation may have to thank an American for it. An American who is presently a dartboard for the political class and opi...

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India needs ‘NonAlignment 2.0', new policy report says NonAlignment 2.0 chalks out foreign and strategic policy for India Warning that the time for India to get its act together is now because of the favourable growth prospects, demographic profile and international environment it faces — all of wh...

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Ranjan Mathai to take up NSG membership issue at Vienna meet Although several countries feel India as a NPT non-signatory should not be given membership, civil nuclear technology giants such as U.S., France and Russia have promised to back its bid as they feel its case is different from that of Pak...

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Iraq woos Indian investment Bilateral trade between the two nations has increased from $5.7 billion in 2006-07 to $9.7 billion in 2010-11. The main export items from India to Iraq include metals, electronic goods, basmati rice, meat and machinery. Imports include crude oil, fruits and nuts, sulphur...

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As Narmada water trickles in, life blooms in barren Jalore Till three years ago, people were reluctant to marry their daughters into families of villages in Jalore, a barren district in the Thar desert of Rajasthan, for people have to walk up to 8 km every day to fetch water. The rain-fed fields we...

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CVC unearths Rs 190 crore flying club fraud A large number of flying schools across India are involved in an elaborate fraud, posing as no-profit no-loss operations while raking in crores. An investigation by the Central Vigilance Commission has found that a majority of flying schools/clubs in Indi...

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Sleuths detain German national in Nagercoil Hindu is reporting Documents seized from a German national, who was detained from a private lodge here on Sunday, indicate his links with the anti-Kudunkulam Nuclear Power Project movement, according to highly placed sources. The German national's stay in...

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India to step up engagement with the Arab League Having cast its lot with the Arab League on the Syria question, India will step up its multilateral engagement with the Arab world in the coming months with a series of events that will include a visit to Cairo by External Affairs Minister S.M. Krish...

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Israel sign $1.6 billion arms deal with Azerbaijan bringing sophisticated technology at Iran's doorstep Israeli defence officials on Sunday confirmed $1.6 billion in deals to sell drones as well as anti-aircraft and missile defence systems to Azerbaijan, bringing sophisticated Israeli technology to...

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ISI-linked businessman claimed the financial backing of mystery Indian political family In his letter to BSI, Mr. Ijaz promised he had secured $50 million from a “large Indian family that has real estate investments around the world, including over 40 apartment units in Las Vegas' newest condominiu...

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Chashma N-plant gets go-ahead for operations

The Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) on Saturday granted a licence to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) for operating the second unit of Chashma Nuclear Power Plant.

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Air corridor for Nato was never closed: Gilani-was-never-closed-gilani.html Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that the air corridor for Nato supplies had never been closed, taking a plea that the cabinet had decided to suspend supplies for the US-led troops in Afghanistan through t...

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'Nepal records 28% rise in tourist flow from India’

Flow of tourists to Nepal from India posted 28 per cent growth in 2011 as compared to 2010, an official of Nepal Tourism Board said on Monday.

The tourism sector contributes 4 per cent to Nepal’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Mr Rana said.

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GoM clears new urea policy

India has urea consumption of around 28 million tonnes at present, of which 22 million tonnes is domestically produced. There has not been fresh greenfield investment in urea for over 13 years.

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Pakistan repays $399m to IMF

Pakistan on Friday paid the first installment of the loan it received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Standby Arrangement signed in 2008.

“Pakistan will pay a total 639.6 million SDR to IMF under the Standby Agreement and ECF till June,”

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PS: There is no seperate thread for India's relations with Central Asian stans, so posting it here... Ukraine to liberalise visa regime for service travellers The Ukraine government has decided to liberalise visa regime for service travellers from India. Mr. Shevchenko, who was on a visit to the cit...

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Camera trapping used for first time in tiger census Camera trapping method has been used for the first time in the ongoing tiger census in the Namdapha National Park in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. “This is the first time the camera trapping method has been used for tiger estimation in ...

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Don’t bank on the maharaja One is the banker to every Indian, the other is the maharajah in the sky. So no prizes for guessing who will be the darling of the government when North Block tosses between bailout funds for the two. It will be difficult for even a single Cabinet minister to write a sent...

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WiMax deal: BSNL officials houses raided

The CBI on Saturday registered a fresh case in connection with alleged irregularities in awarding BSNL’s WiMax franchise to a private firm, considered close to ex-Telecom Minister A. Raja, and carried out searches across four cities.

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India taken off polio endemic list by WHO India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was on Saturday taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 here in the presenc...

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Arav wrote:Railway tracks blown up in different parts of Sindh

KARACHI: More than ten blasts blew up the railway tracks in various areas of Sindh on Saturday morning, DawnNews reported.

It has now increased to 10 blasts. Sindhu desh Liberation Army is claiming the attacks.

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For oil and peace, India must stand up in the two Sudans South Sudan's oil shutdown dealt a major blow to the overseas oil ambitions of India's leading national oil company ONGC Videsh Ltd. India was the first Asian country to open a consulate in South Sudan's capital Juba in October 2007. Indian d...

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Prospects of Pakistan's Islamist resurgence Faith, Maududi insisted, was more than a “hotchpotch of beliefs, prayers and rituals.” Islam was, in fact, “a revolutionary ideology which seeks to alter the social order of the entire world and rebuild it in conformity with its own tenets and ideals.” Ev...

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Latin America, India's next big thing?

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Barter deal in the offing with Tehran

ISLAMABAD: Sitting over a huge surplus wheat stock and having increased support price to encourage more production and votes, Pakistan has found an opportunity to export one million tons of wheat to Iran, and that too under a barter trade deal....

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SCCL plans Rs.11,000-cr capex Singareni Collieries Company Limited is facing problems relating to land acquisition that has become a hindrance to the company's expansion plans. SCCL is planning a capital expenditure of close to Rs.11,000 crore during the XII Plan. Of which, Rs.7,000 crore is likely...

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http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/25/baloch-leaders-reject-maliks-offer-to-quash-cases.html Baloch leaders reject Malik’s offer to quash cases QUETTA: Baloch nationalist leaders have rejected Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s announcement about withdrawal of cases against Brahamdagh Bugti and Harbayar Marr...

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http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/25/balochistan-killings-sc-asks-isi-mi-again-to-submit-reports.html ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court repeated on Friday its earlier directive to the Inter Services Intelligence and the Military Intelligence (MI) to submit their reports on ‘senseless and indiscriminate’ killin...

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http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/25/railway-tracks-blown-up-in-different-parts-of-sindh.html Railway tracks blown up in different parts of Sindh KARACHI: Four blasts took place on Saturday morning at the up and down country tracks located near the Mirpur Mathilo, Khairpur, and Bin Qasim Town of Karachi a...

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PM revoked licenses for 3 NGOs for foreign funding of KK protest funding. ------------- PC ordered investigation across 3 states and internationally on a Kerala businessman that he is a front man for Dawood and is linked to a Kerala jeweler that has extensive shops in the Middle East (anyone can gu...

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So? if you are purportedly 'secular' why the excessive need for BO to be a christian (if he had actually been a muslim should he have been disquaified on the basis of his religion?)? Have Indian MPs or media houses ever made a case for MMS's or Sonia's inability / incapacity on the basis of their r...

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Have you been following all the 'debates' in the US about Obama not being a christian? and BO having to reassure time and again on that point? I think that particular controversy came from the fact that his putative father and his foster father were Muslims. But why has to a president elect of a co...

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Pranav ji checkout once in Interal Security Thread, a Post by Rudradev ji on White Christian Fascism.

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Chetakji the letter has been posted by Kunali ji in the previous page. Even the court judgement is somewhere there in last 3 or 4 Pages. It has got lost in this Martial race campaign...(I dont have idea how to link that one here)

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http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/19/parachinar-suicide-blast-firing-toll-soars-to-41.html PARACHINAR: The death toll from Friday’s suicide blast and subsequent firing by security forces on protesters in Parachinar rose to 41 on Saturday. They said there was no suicide attack when the town was in the cont...

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[quote]By repeatedly establishing more and more contact with the Halal Islamic Virus (HIV), we have been infected by the disease of Acquired Intelligence Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). As more and more contact with HIV increases, our immune system is collapsing[/quote]

Ajay Ji thats nice one.....

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ib4TL......

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