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Suvendrini Kakuchi
THE Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
(HLF4), starting in this port city on Tuesday,
will examine why international donor assistance
worth trillions of dollars spent over decades has
failed to eradicate poverty.
Some 2,500 delegates, including leaders from 160
countries and civil society organisations (CSOs),
are expected to carry forward the principles of
international development cooperation set out at
past forums held in Rome in 2003, Paris in 2005,
and Accra, Ghana, in 2008. More
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| ‘Rich’ MPs of poor democracy ‘have no financial
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SAP Bureau
A total 140 out of the 241 members of Rajya Sabha
claim that they have no financial interests,
despite owning assets running into crores of
rupees, said an election watchdog.
The financial interests, which have to be declared
by an MP within 90 days of his election, include
income earned as directors of companies,
controlling shares, regular salaries, paid
consultancies and professional engagements.
These have to be declared by the members before
participating in any discussion related to their
interest, and are also to be kept in mind while
appointing the members to any parliamentary
standing committees.
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| Bipasha Basu: An island of dark beauty in a sea of
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Harjap Singh Aujla
 ONCE in Bollywood, a great actress Samita
Patil revolted against the domination of white
skin over darker skinned film stars. She was proud
of her dark complexion and rightly so. She was a
firm believer in the thought that the color of
skin is immaterial, the beauty springs from within
and not from the outward appearance. She was
indeed dark in color of skin and the film
industry’s make-up staff always offered her the
option of looking fairer in color. But Smita Patil on every such
occasion spurned the offer that would have altered
her natural appearance. She always preferred to
wear minimum of make-up.
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Will Opposition play ball with Govt on Lokpal? |
Rahul slams SP, BSP; seeks 10-year Cong rule in
UP | Mullaperiyar: Kerala knocks at PM’s door
again | Rupee drops to historic low at 53.71
against US dollar | Donald named PGA Tour Player
of the Year
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With the political deadlock over the Lokpal issue
continuing and Anna Hazare threatening to resume protests
if his Jan Lokpal bill is axed, the Prime Minister would
chair an all-party meeting over the Lokpal issue on
Wednesday. The meeting comes a day after Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Mayawati refused to back the UPA government
over the issue and demanded that Prime Minister be brought
under the ambit of the Lokpal. More
Updated on December 14, 2011 at 10:00 a.m.
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Rahul slams SP, BSP; seeks 10-year Cong rule in UP More
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Mullaperiyar: Kerala knocks at PM’s door again More
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Rupee drops to historic low at 53.71 against US dollar More
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Donald named PGA Tour Player of the Year More
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THE Government of India’s has decided to increase
the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit to 51%
in multi brand retail trade. With government
approval, it can be up to 100%, when it comes to
single brand retail trade.
Though initially the new policy will not be
applicable to all the cities of the country, it
will be applicable to cities and cities with more
than 10 lakh population as per 2011 census.
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Why Kingfisher Airlines is going bankrupt
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Harjap Singh Aujla
 A flamboyant business tycoon, Vijay Mallya has
been priding in himself as the five star business
magnate of India. There are several such
businessmen in America, but India is
socio-culturally so different that we have to
profess a pro-poor outlook. Vijay Mallya is alien
to India’s culture and he is living in his own
utopian paradise.
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Asbestos: court takes notice
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THE Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a
notice of motion returnable December 1 to the
Union and Punjab governments on a Public Interest
Litigation (PIL) seeking ban on the use of
asbestos in water supply pipes, roof sheets and
other materials.
Taking a serious note of the health- and
environment-related issues besides growing
incidence of cancer caused by the indiscriminate
use of asbestos containing carcinogenic,
cancer-causing substance, a division bench of the
High Court, comprising Justice MM Kumar and
Justice RN Raina asked the counsels for the Centre
and Punjab to file replies on the petition within
a fortnight. More
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India Microcredit fights to regain credibility
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Manipadma Jena
 AS microcredit institutions - once touted as the
vital ‘last mile’ in extending credit to poor
rural women -fight a government backlash that has
encouraged honest borrowers to turn defaulters,
hopes for revival hinge on a new bill awaiting
passage in India’s parliament. Far from repaying
their debts, borrowers are now demanding that
microfinance institutions (MFIs) pay them back for
charging interest at thrice the advertised rates. More
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'Microcredit is no magic wand against poverty’
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Raquel Martinez
 WHILE microcredit remains the best tool available
to address poverty it is no magic wand and can
only be a part of the larger development process,
say experts gathered in this historic Spanish
city. What is the real potential of microcredit
for reducing poverty? Are microcredit institutions
enough to help the neediest? What works and what
does not? These were the questions being asked as
the Nov. 14 – 17 Fifth Global Microcredit Summit
kicked off on Monday.
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Unjust Laws Must Go
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Joginder Singh Toor
 “LAWS
and institutions, no matter how efficient and well
arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are
unjust.” Says John Rawls in his ‘Theory of
Justice’. Long back the Supreme Court of India
declared the Urban Tenancy Laws as unjust although
the same were just and necessary when these were
enacted. “A fast changing society cannot operate
with unchanging laws and preconceived judicial
attitude,” said the Supreme Court of India in
Parbhakaran Nair etc. Vs State of Tamil Nadu and
others AIR 1987-SC-2117. More
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Green and Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian
Environmental Politics
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THIS book examines contemporary environmental
issues and movements in independent India on the
one hand, and the development of Hindu
conservative ideology and politics on the other.
It includes the first thorough investigation of
Anna Hazare’s movement in Maharashtra. Mukul
Sharma argues that these two social
currents—environmental conservation and Hindu
politics—have forged bonds which reveal the
hijacking of environmentalism by conservative and
retrograde worldviews. This, he says, constitutes
a major aspect of hinterland political life which
neither academics nor journalists have seriously
analysed. More
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The Punjab Bloodied Partitioned and Cleansed
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Inder Malhotra
NEARLY 45 years ago — barely five weeks before the
1965 War between India and Pakistan, to be exact —
early on a Monday morning I took a bus in the
English countryside to return to London for work.
There were hardly half-a-dozen passengers in it.
One more got in at a midway stop. At first he
stood at the door and then came and sat down
across the aisle from me. More
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http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/punjab-partition-and-the-holocaust/23021
Interview with a correspondent of The Sunday
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Letter to the Editor
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SO, the Jathedar of Akal Takht, Giani Gurbachan
Singh, is going to confer a khitaab on Parkash
Singh Badal. He is henceforth to be known as Panth
Rattan, Faqr-e-Qaum.
Historically, it has been a rare thing for the
Akal Takht to confer any sort of title. Even Sher-e-Punjab,
the epithet by which Maharaja Ranjit was known was
a matter of popular acclaim with no Panthic
connotation. But then, naturally, Maharaja Ranjit
Singh hardly bears comparison with Parkash Singh
Badal. More
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