Every 12 hours‚ one farmer commits suicide in India 1 of 3 http://www.indiatribune.com/index.php?view=article&catid=106:magaz... Every 12 hours‚ one farmer commits suicide in India In the 1990s India woke up to a spate of farmers suicides. The first state where suicides were reported was Maharashtra. Soon newspapers began to report similar occurrences from Andhra Pradesh. The government appointed a number of inquiries to look into the causes of farmers’ suicide and farm-related distress in general
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deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In addition‚ the IMF required India to undertake a series of structural economic reforms.[2] As a result of this requirement‚ the government of P. V. Narasimha Rao and his finance minister Manmohan Singh (currently the Prime Minister of India) started breakthrough reforms‚ although they did not implement many of the reforms the IMF wanted.[3][4] The new neo-liberal policies included opening for international trade and investment‚ deregulation‚ initiation
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List of Prime Ministers of India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The complete list of Prime Ministers of India includes the persons sworn into the office as Prime Minister of India following the proclamation of the independence of India in 1947. Key: No.: Incumbent No. CM: Council of Ministers Congress: Indian National Congress‚ Indian National Congress (Indira)‚ United Progressive Alliance Bharatiya Janata Party: Bharatiya Janata Party‚ National
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Kashmir will have the second link when the route passing through Chakan da Bagh will open on 31 March‚ officials said on 30 January. 30 January 2006 Opposition leader in Indian Rajiya Sabha and India’s former minister for external affairs Jaswant Singh is arriving in Pakistan on 30 January by train through Khokhropar-Munabao border along with an 80-member delegation for a week long visit to Pakistan. 29 January 2006 Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on 28 January expressed his country’s willingness
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India’s Economics reforms from 1991-2010: Introduction India’s economics reform that started after 1991 ‚ when under the P.V Narshimaha rao government ‚ Manmohan singh was the finance minister at that time ‚ and he was also appointed as the “ finance advisor “. At that time india’s GDP grouth was 3% . after the IMF bail out the bankrupt state. The government P.V narshimha rao and the finance minister started the reform. Rajeev Gandhi started the light reform . by the end of 1990 india
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Twenty years ago this weekend‚ three top Indian officials burned the midnight oil tearing up old import controls and preparing a package of economic reforms that would slowly lead to the booming India that is widely admired today‚ with growth of 8-9%‚ 300-350m people enjoying the benefits of a consumer economy‚ and businessmen operating internationally.But India seems to be in no mood to celebrate that momentous event‚ just as it wasn’t at India’s 50th anniversary of independence in 1997 when the
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Pakistan‚ originally published in 1956‚ is not a very good book‚ but quite enjoyable much of the time. Khushwant Singh‚ less than ten years after Partition‚ in 1947‚ wrote a novel of less than 200 pages and still managed to create what’s probably best described as an uneven mess. Ideas‚ allusions‚ characters and bits and pieces of story float all over the book. There’s no denying that Singh‚ who has since become a famous public figure and intellectual in India‚ prefers to lecture rather than write a
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against it is that the movement could damage the democratic fabric of the country. How a democratically sanctioned form of protest could damage the democratic fabric is beyond me. Not to mention the personal character attacks that even the Manmohan Singh government could not resist launching. For many cautious supporters-cum-critics the movement is a massive display of hypocrisy. The very people who are party to corruption (mostly as bribe givers) are today out on the streets supporting Anna Hazare
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press conference during his visit to the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology here today‚ the Union Minister outlined the various initiatives taken by the Government of India to make India a "global major science power.""Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is committed to science in a big way. So‚ he has announced that the decade from 2010 to 2020 will be the Decade of Innovation. We are looking at science to create wealth and employment for the country‚" Chavan‚ who is also a Minister of State in the
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Colgate Scam is the recent coal scandal that happened in the country due to poor allocation of coal blocks. This scam is also called the “Mother of all scams’. CAG report shows that private companies had gain around Rs 1.86 lakh crore from coal blocks that were allocated to them on nomination basis instead of competitive bidding‚ which amounted to the loss to national exchequer.194 coal blocks were not auctioned between 2004 and 2011 which causes these huge losses. The losses occurred in a way that
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