Drug-Defying Germs From India Speed Post-Antibiotic Era Jakarta Globe Lill-Karin Skaret, a 67-year-old grandmother from Namsos, Norway, was traveling to a lakeside vacation villa near India’s port city of Kochi in March 2010 when her car collided with a truck. She was rushed to the Amrita Institute of Medical Science...
Living in the New Metropolis The New York Times | “About half of humanity lives in a city, and by 2050, it’s likely that 70 percent of the world’s population will be in urban areas, according to United Nations predictions,” Martin Roemers writes in the Sunday Review of The New York...
Newswallah: Bharat Edition The New York Times | Jammu and Kashmir: In southern Kashmir’s Shopian district, two terrorism suspects disarmed police officers guarding a village with a majority Hindu population, Hindustan Times reported. This is one of the few villages in the Valley where Hindus h...
India charms neighbours Gulf News | India's Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna gushes about the close "civilisational, cultural" ties his country shares with Sri Lanka. He notes how India is the biggest trading partner and source of tourists for the island nation, plus one of th...
The Copyright Amendment Bill 2010: on the death of books and the digital environment The Hindu The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2010, approved by the Union Cabinet on December 24, 2009, and introduced in the Rajya Sabha on April 19, 2010, sparked great controversy for a number of reasons. First, in an unusual departure from the British legal tra...
Retail inflation rises to 8.65 pc in March IBN Live | New Delhi: The retail inflation for industrial workers stood at 8.65 per cent in March, higher than 7.57 per cent in February due to a spurt in food prices. | "The point to point of inflation based on CPI-IW also increased from 7.57 per cent in Feb...
Foodgrain production to grow by 0.6 per cent in 2012-13: CMIE The Times Of India Tweet MUMBAI: The country's foodgrain production is projected to grow by 0.6 per cent to 247.6 million tonnes in 2012-13 as against 246.2 million tonnes in 2011-12. | A modest growth in output of rice and wheat, alongwith a recovery in production of coarse grains and pulses will be responsible for the overall growth, Centre for Monitoring Indian Ec...
