| Kelkar calls for strong divestment process | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Vijay Kelkar, chairman of the thirteenth finance commission, has called for a “much stronger” disinvestment process of public sector companies, saying the money raised should be used to take care of environment degradation. |
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| Prez laments poor skill certification among workforce | 19-NOV-09 |
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| President Pratibha Patil today lamented that large chunk of workforce in India did not have skill certification contrary to the developed countries as she pushed for imparting skills to them through distance education. |
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| Prez meets Indian diaspora, asks them to join in eco growth | 27-OCT-09 |
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| President Pratibha Patil began her first State visit to the UK by meeting prominent Indian- origin people, including Nobel Laureate V Ramakrishnan, and asked them to join in the economic growth that the country has witnessed over the last decade. |
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| Petty Congressmen | 14-OCT-09 |
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| When President Pratibha Patil was in Ahmedabad, Dinshaw Patel, the Union minister for small and medium enterprises, refused to let Narendra Modi sit next to Patil at a function organised by the Sardar Patel Memorial Trust that is funded by taxpayers’ money. According to the usual protocol, Governor SC Jamir was to sit to Patil’s right and Modi to her left. Within days of this, Defence Minister A K Antony was to inaugurate the new command office of the Coast Guard in Gandhinagar on October 3. Modi was invited since it is obligatory for the chief minister to be present at all such functions, but his office was surprised to get an invitation card which did not have his name printed as one of the dignitaries who would be present. His aides told senior Coast Guard officials that he would not attend the function. |
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| Centre's policy is to strengthen PSUs: Pranab | 11-OCT-09 |
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| Describing reports that government was trying to privatise the public sector as a “malicious propaganda”, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the Centre’s policy was to strengthen PSUs and not weaken them. |
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| No bets on Patil's son | 11-OCT-09 |
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| Not many Congress leaders are hoping that Rajendra Shekhawat, President Pratibha Patil’s son, will win from Amravati. According to top Congress sources, he was advised by some leaders not to contest. He was also assured of a Legislative Council seat. “We told him that we will give him a Legislative Council seat and he can work for the development of Amaravati for the next five years and contest the next elections. But he didn’t listen,” said a leader. |
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| Shift villages prone to floods, CM to officials | 08-OCT-09 |
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| Addressing a meeting of elected representatives and officials at Hubli on Tuesday after visiting Gadag, Savadatti and Karwar, Karnataka chief minister Yeddyurappa instructed the officials to complete the process of shifting the villages prone to flooding, within one year, to ensure permanent relief to such villages. |
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| Moving forward from the mistake of Columbus | 08-OCT-09 |
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| Christopher Columbus discovered the wrong India more then 500 years ago, a mistake with implications that persist to this day. Even in the 21st century, Spain, Columbus’ financier, remains firmly oriented towards the Americas in the west and largely ignorant of the real India in the east. |
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| Amravati faces the mother of all battles | 03-OCT-09 |
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| President Pratibha Patil’s son is fighting on a Congress ticket against the powerful two-term sitting MLA and Maharashtra finance minister Sunil Deshmukh, who has quit the party to contest as an independent. |
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