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1.Skill games (www.skill-games-with-prizes.com)
The skill games sites we feature include Paddy Power Games, Bluesquare Games, William Hill Games, VC Games, Ladbroke Games plus Coral Games, Jackpot Joy games, Game account, bet365 games and Skill Ground Games
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2.career planning (www.completecareermanagement.com.au)
We provide career counselling in Melbourne. Our highly experienced career advisors will help you discover your potential and achieve your dream career. Call us!
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3.Indian Elections 2009 (www.indian-elections.com)
Know about the ELECTION Schedule, constituencies, candidates standing for elections.
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4.Chandrayaan - 1 (www.hindu.com)
This link is as good as it gets to understand/appreciate/critique the Indian mission to the moon. The link is a collection of links that you can go to. The links range from: Preparation to Countdown to Journey to Features. There are also interviews, press releases and graphics. A very good collection.
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5.The Great Job Loss III - ‘Skewed policy’ (www.flonnet.com)
The impact of the current economic slowdown is not going to be equal for all sections in society. With agrarian distress already having reached high levels and the government remaining unwilling to push public investment aggressively, trade union representatives are worried about the future. M.K. Pandhe, president of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), expresses his views on the United Progressive Alliance government (UPA) and how it lacks a holistic vision and the political commitment to deal with the economic crisis.
You may not agree with what a card carrying Left winger has to say about job losses but that should not stop you from picking up some points that could be of use in a GD/PI -
6.The Great Job Loss II - Losing ground (www.flonnet.com)
Job losses mount in the ‘old’ export sectors – textiles and gems & jewellery.
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7.The Great Job Loss I - Down and out (www.flonnet.com)
THE message from reports on the ground is clear. Unemployment in India’s industrial and services sectors is on the rise. If earlier growth was being described as “jobless”, the problem now is that growth that is lower comes with job losses. The recessionary impact that the global financial and economic crisis has had is resulting in huge job losses in various segments of the labour market.
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8.The Nuclear Saga V - Nuclear power programme monitored ‘informally’ (www.hindustantimes.com)
The honchos of India's atomic energy establishment sat in a November 2006 closed-door meeting, and the head of the nuclear programme said the unspeakable.
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9.The Nuclear Saga IV - Atomic energy could have lit 40 million homes (www.hindustantimes.com)
Even without the Indo-US nuclear deal, at least 40 million more homes could have been lit up for an entire year in power-starved India if the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) had mined and used the extensive uranium reserves lying untapped for years.
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10.World Military Spending (www.globalissues.org)
A comprehensive look at world military spending and it impact. While the entire article may not be of great use in the GD/PI preparation, I have included it because it would be valuable aid in understanding war situations in the world currently... I would recommend reading of this article but Selective Reading.
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11.Restoring order at Nirvachan Sadan (www.hindu.com)
In the next few days, the countdown to the world’s largest electoral exercise will begin. Later this week, the 14th Lok Sabha will hold its last sitting. And, the Election Commission is scheduled to announce the poll timetable. Also this week, the United Progressive Alliance government is expected to respond formally to Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami’s recommendation to the President for the removal of Election Commissioner Navin Chawla.
The Gopalaswami activism needs to be defeated. Otherwise, it will set a disastrous precedent. -
12.India protects remedies from foreign patents (www.hindu.com)
India’s battle to protect its traditional treatments is rooted in the belief that the developing world’s rich biodiversity is a potential treasure trove of starting material for new drugs and crops.
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13.The Nuclear Saga III - America's nuclear deal with India | Time to decide (www.economist.com)
In a dangerous and unstable world, isn’t cementing friendship with an up-and-coming power such as India worth breaking a few rules for?
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14.The Nuclear Saga I - Highlights of Indo-US nuclear deal (www.financialexpress.com)
Bullet points of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal
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15.The Nuclear Saga II - What does Indo-US nuclear deal mean? (www.expressindia.com)
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16.India Wimping (www.equitymaster.com)
We have had India Shining; Resurgent India; and India Incredible.
And we were the "I" in the greatest growth story in economic history that this generation was all set to witness.... A cynical article but a couple of good points that can be made -
17.Retail Therapy - I (www.flonnet.com)
Big Business is taking control of the supply chain in India, and there is growing unease among people who depend on retailing for livelihoods.
This is a July 2007 article but I would strongly recommend a read because it looks at the Retail Industry from a different perspective. Not the usual rose tinted ones of the Pink papers. Of course now with the Subhiksha episode the coverage will turn once again. -
18.Retail Therapy - II .... Retail chain flames out in key shareholders’ spat (www.livemint.com)
R. Subramanian and ICICI Venture slug it out, often in the press, as stores close and workers remain unpaid
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19.Hard times in the big league (content-ind.cricinfo.com)
The deepening global recession seems to have finally caught up with the IPL. With just six weeks to go for the league's second season, franchises are scrambling to sign up sponsors and question marks have been raised - though IPL commissioner Lalit Modi emphatically denied them on Friday - within the industry about some of the league's long-term sponsorship deals.
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20.Struggling to learn (www.hindu.com)
There have been changes for the better in the schooling system over the last decade. But the quality of education remains abysmally low for a vast majority of Indian children and we must stop tolerating this.
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21.Economic downturn and sports (www.economist.com)
Nothing can entirely escape the economic downturn. But leading sports come close
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22.Singed but not burnt, India must learn from others’ mistakes (www.livemint.com)
Voicing his concern over India’s growth at Mint’s Clarity Through Debate event, Lord Meghnad Desai said in 40 years, India grew at one of the slowest paces humanly possible with 1% growth rate annually
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Bill Gates Wants to Help the Third World With Cellphone Banking (www.crunchgear.com)The GSMA, a worldwide consortium of mobile industries, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (owned by the guy who used to run Microsoft and his lady wife) have teamed up to found the the Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) initiative, allowing ...
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24.The meltdown: whose crisis is it, anyway? (www.hindu.com)
Very interesting article by P.Sainath on the Economic Crisis.
Through January the United States saw, on average, the loss of over 800 jobs every hour. Or 17,000 every day since the meltdown began in September. Here in India, too, things are slipping but the lessons remain unlearnt.
Remember The Crisis that struck India in 1991? The then Finance Minister, a Dr. M. Singh, told us that our balance of payments problem and shrinking forex reserves were truly a crisis. These, he said, called for reforms on a war footing. Oddly, 400 million human beings going to bed hungry every night was never thought of as a crisis. Certainly not one to be dealt with on a war footing. -
25.Country Briefings: Pakistan (www.economist.com)
Data about our friendly neighbour Pakistan.
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