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"It is generally believed that all Andamanese languages might be the last representatives of those languages which go back to pre-Neolithic times," Professor Abbi said.
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Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in India
Posted by balaji 4 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)Meghalaya, the state with 4 chief ministers
Posted by balaji 7 days ago (http://www.indianexpress.com)
Meghalaya has a reputation for installing and removing chief ministers faster than in any other state. But this time it has created a new record: the state now has four ‘chief ministers’, one sworn in by the Governor, two already holding the rank and status of chief minister, and a fourth “upgraded” to the same status a couple of days ago.
COAS Deepak Kapoor's Military Secretary faces court martial
Posted by balaji 9 days ago (http://www.hindu.com)
The Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor, on Friday accepted the advice of Defence Minister A. K. Antony by ordering court martial proceedings against Military Secretary Lieutenant General Avadesh Prakash for his alleged involvement in a land scam in the Darjeeling area of West Bengal. He would be the first three-star general to face such action.
JMM-BJP govt in Jharkhand calls off anti-Naxal ops, has cops livid
Posted by balaji 18 days ago (http://www.indianexpress.com)
Shibu Soren-led government in Jharkhand, one of the states worst affected by Naxal violence, has quietly halted operations, including long range patrols and raids directed at the extremists. And in one of the first fallouts, eight policemen were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Naxals in Gumla last Friday.
Charles G. Cogan: Hands Off Kashmir! | worldpolicy.org
Posted by balaji 26 days ago (http://worldpolicy.org)
The new U.S.-Indian relationship risks being diluted—or worse, damaged—by an American intervention on the Kashmir issue which, almost by definition, would call into question the permanence of the Line of Control. India is too important to Washington to be left with a threat to its status quo, which has been in place for 60-plus years.
Swapan Dasgupta: Of cooks, barbers and Australians
Posted by balaji 28 days ago (http://swapan-dasgupta.blogspot.com)
In the past weeks, the MEA has, unfortunately, acquired an image of frivolity with its junior Minister constantly getting into scrapes over his Twitter-ing ways and the senior Minister being mocked for being more preoccupied with his appearance than his charge.
India caves-in to China's bullying on ADB loan to Arunachal
Posted by balaji 31 days ago (http://www.livemint.com)
India has quietly reduced its borrowing under a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for projects in 2010. One of the “victims” of this reduction will be Arunachal Pradesh, the state whose inclusion in the loan programme had riled China.
Nitin Pai: Why India Is No Villain | Foreign Policy
Posted by balaji 32 days ago (http://www.foreignpolicy.com)
India has been involved in U.N. peacekeeping from the very beginning and remains one of the biggest troop contributors to this day, often putting its soldiers in danger in conflicts that have nothing to do with national interests. For those worried about rising elephants, make room if you don't want to be squeezed.
Ashok Malik: Jharkhand's resource curse
Posted by balaji 45 days ago (http://dailypioneer.com)
What is so profoundly disquieting is that, unlike Arab or African or Latin American samples of this phenomenon — countries that are monarchies, dictatorships or only notional democracies — in Jharkhand kleptocrats and plain thugs are actually elected. The resource curse is sort of legitimised by a popular mandate.
Let India help Afghanistan
Posted by balaji 45 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Amir Taheri, writing in The Times, suggests that a military commitment is "surprisingly popular in India". One former diplomat argues that "influential sections of Indian opinion are stridently calling for an outright Indian intervention in Afghanistan without awaiting the niceties of an American invitation letter".
India stinking! | Deccan Chronicle
Posted by srinath 45 days ago (http://www.deccanchronicle.com)
When Queen Elizabeth II visited Delhi twelve years, she was so “disgusted” with “dirty Delhi” that she complained to the then Prime Minister, Mr Inder Kumar Gujral, at a state banquet that India’s capital was one of the dirtiest cities she had visited.
Guha: Maoists - Social Bandits
Posted by balaji 46 days ago (http://www.indiatogether.org)
Maoists hope that, in time, they will prevail by the force of arms over the Indian State, thus to capture power in New Delhi much as their revered hero, Mao Zedong, had captured power in Beijing 60 years ago.
Editors Guild of India on ‘The Paid News of India’ « churumuri
Posted by balaji 46 days ago (http://churumuri.wordpress.com)
This links to the full text of the statement issued by the Editors’ Guild of India on Wednesday, 23 December 2009, on the issue of “paid-for news”.
Maharashtra's Package Journalism aka Paid News
Posted by balaji 46 days ago (http://www.hindu.com)
If you struck the right deal, the same “news” could appear in print, on television, and online. This was “package journalism” at its most advanced, that was truly multi-media. The shift to this kind of “news” was so large that real advertising at election time — when it should have been highest — actually fell in some influential newspapers.
Babulal Marandi: The Quiet Gambler
Posted by balaji 47 days ago (http://www.tehelka.com)
“My role in the RSS was confined to doing social service,” says Marandi a decade later. “The RSS does do some work for the nation’s welfare. But they also do other things I don’t agree with. Those who talk of Hindutva aren’t practicing what they preach.”
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