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Ten years of Moneycontrol.com may seem to have swept by in haste, but a decade at times can feel like an eternity. Rewind to 1999. It was the year of the Kargil conflict , India's first televised war that changed the rules of the media game.  

Pakistan sponsored terrorism will be high on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's agenda when he sits down for talks with President Obama in Washington early next week. The PM leaves on Saturday for what is the Obama administration's first state visit. Washington is readying itself for the visit and authorities say this is a reflection of the close natural ties between the world's two largest democracies.

As this will be the first substantive bilateral meeting between PM Singh and President Obama, it will be instrumental in setting out our vision for the future of this relationship and a framework within which these ties will develop within the coming years   -Meera Shankar

 

The lineup of thousands holding umbrellas and multi-coloured scarves to shelter themselves from the cold rain outside the Princess Margaret School in Surrey, B.C., last Sunday marked a conspicuous beginning of what some are calling a new era for Sikhs in the province. It was there that more than 21,000 members of the city's Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, the second-largest Sikh temple in North America, waited patiently under heavy police presence to cast their ballots in the election for the temple's ...  

On Friday, goons of the Shiv Sena attacked IBN Network offices in Mumbai and Pune. Around 20-25 Sena activists barged into the office at Vikhroli carrying iron rods and baseball bats, slapped the receptionist and started beating up journalists, including women. IBN Lokmat's Editor-in-Chief Nikhil Wagle was also assaulted.  

The Opposition parties on Friday compelled the Centre to modify its decision on sugarcane pricing. The government will bring a new bill in Parliament, expected on Monday, that will shift the burden of certain payments to farmers on sugarcane purchases from state governments to sugar mills. Deputy leader of the BJP in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and RLD leader Ajit Singh, who had spearheaded the farmers' stir, welcomed the government's decision.

This is a victory for farmers’ rights and strengthens the democratic process   -Sushma Swaraj

 

When President Barack Obama and Prime minister meet next week to talk about climate change the leaders will focus on green technologies rather than narrowing the global divide on greenhouse gas emissions goals, the chairman of the U.N.'s climate science panel said. Rajendra Pachauri said the gap between the United States and India on how to battle climate change has grown over the last six months in the lead up to the U.N. climate meeting in Copenhagen in December. "I doubt if there would be ...

I doubt if there would be much of a productive dialogue on what the two countries will do at Copenhagen   -Rajendra Pachauri

 

Congressional Democrats could be careening toward a head-on collision with the White House over $200 billion in leftover bailout money — money that Republicans think should simply be returned to taxpayers (hat tip: Black & Right ). The Treasury Department wants to use the money to pay down the deficit and keep a small rainy-day fund in case of economic catastrophe. But Democrats are salivating over the possibility of $200 billion in unspent money.

He is perhaps the kind of immigrant you want if you are going to have them.   -Rajinder Singh

 

1. By the terms of the Leave, it is to be determined from the evidence and materials on record whether the instant case is a case of mutiny leading to murder of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members or the instant case is a case of murder simpliciter. Upon the determination of the above question would depend whether it was proper on the part of the prosecution to have the appellant convicted by a normal criminal court vitiating the trial.  

Maize flour is selling at Rs 20 a kilo, which is almost double of what it was last year. And Amar Kaur is finding it tough these days to give her family the flavour of the season. Despite winter setting in, she is unable to make Makki ki Roti and Sarson da Saag .

In the last 20 years I couldn't buy chicken and eat. Now even Maize flour is getting expensive. What will we eat? How can farmers afford this   -Balbir Singh