| Panic room | 15-AUG-09 |
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| No, anxiety is just no fun. For no apparent reason at all your heart suddenly starts to beat at breakneck speed, bits of your stomach twist and fill with dread, your limbs begin to shake, there’s pain in your arm and you’re faint, the world starts to roar in your ears, a cold sweat breaks out on your brow. You might have these, or a thousand other petrifying sensations that you recognise quite clearly as the Four Horsemen of the Apocollapse. This is it. |
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| India commits Rs 180k cr to nuclear trade | 22-JUL-09 |
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| India is committing Rs 1,80,000 crore for the production of 30,000 Mw of nuclear power by three countries — Russia, France and the US — a significant bait that New Delhi has cast in the interests of gaining access to sensitive Enrichment and Reprocessing technologies (ENR) and stabilising its fears over energy insecurity. |
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| No carbon copies | 21-JUL-09 |
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| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the usual case for India accepting limits on its carbon emissions — the bulk of future carbon emissions, she said, would emanate from high-growth developing countries such as India and China and, therefore, the only way to avoid an environmental catastrophe was for them to follow a low-carbon development path. Despite its apparent logic, the argument has a critical flaw, which is that the rich countries have been environmental free riders all along and seek to continue to be free riders. The environment minister Jairam Ramesh did well, therefore, to make it clear that India would not accept any legally binding restrictions. If India is to move its millions from poverty to an acceptable living standard, it has to adopt industrialisation models, which are energy-intensive. |
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| US Secretary of State Mrs. Hillary Clinton's visit to 'Hansiba' | 18-JUL-09 |
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| US Secretary of State, Ms Hillary Clinton today visited the Hansiba, SEWA Trade Facilitation Center Brand’s retail shop in Mumbai during her visit to the city. Ms Clinton was showcased the ‘Hansia’ collection, an exquisite display of hand embroidery skills and also had a dialogue with the artisans - the shareholders of STFC (SEWA Trade Facilitation Center), a not for profit company jointly owned and managed by over 3200 rural artisans. |
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| No quick fix | 29-JAN-09 |
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| British Secretary of State for Business Peter Mandelson’s plea at the recent 15th CII Partnership Summit to put in place a free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU) by the end of this year, though well-intended, is unlikely to materialise. The negotiations for such a deal have been on for quite a while, but without making much headway in view of sharp differences over a large number of key issues. Mr Mandelson, being a former EU trade commissioner, cannot be unaware of the sharply divergent positions taken by the EU and the bloc of developing countries led, among others, by India on tariff cuts, subsidies, special and differential treatment and other issues at the stalled Doha round of trade talks. |
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| Hillary sworn in as Secretary of State | 22-JAN-09 |
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| Former first lady and New York Senator, Hillary R Clinton, was today sworn in as the Secretary of State within an hour of her being confirmed by the US Senate by an overwhelming majority of 94 to two votes. |
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| Steps by Pak have not ended terror threat, says US | 09-JAN-09 |
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| Voicing its determination to ensure elimination of the terror threat emanating from Pakistan, the US today said the steps taken by Islamabad so far were not sufficient and there was a “long way |
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