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India lifts ban on long-grain rice (Pusa 1121) exports
Mumbai: India the world`s second-largest producer has allowed exports of the aromatic, long-grained rice Pusa -1121 with immediate effect. The Government had recently partially lifted a six-month old ban on exports of some premium quality rice, due to...
Power v Poverty
By Duncan Green Privatisation, free trade and market forces . . . the rich world insists poor states play by our rules. But they don’t work. Time to let countries determine their own destinies? The global food price crisis is exposing frightening...
Playwright Vijay Tendulkar is no more
Born on January 6, 1928, he was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marathi. Pune: Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar (80) died in a hospital here on Monday...
Marxist leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet serious
New Delhi, May 18: The condition of ailing CPI-M leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet is “very serious”, according to a PTI report. On Sunday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited the Noida hospital where the 92-year-old-leader is admitted. “The...
The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions
By Fred Magdoff An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening...
US secretly helping Pakistan guard it’s Nuclear weapons
November 18, 2007 A report in the New York Times (Nov.18, 2007) “U.S. Secretly Aids Pakistan in Guarding Nuclear Arms” by By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD, reveals that the United States has been secretly funding Pakistan to guard...
Pak fast bowler Shoaib Akthar at Delhi Nightclub with a ‘high flier’ female friend (TOI Exclusive)
Click on the photos for a larger view A view of the Delhi Times (TOI, Nov.5 2007) pages carrying the following story of Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib at a New Delhi nightclub with a female friend (‘a high flier in Delhi’s party circle’). Pakistani...
Thousands attend AIII-Diwali Fair 2007 in Melbourne
By our correspondent Melbourne: Thousands of people from all walks of life attended the AIII-NAM Diwali Fair 2007 at the Sandown Racecourse, Nobel Park on 28th October (Sunday). This was the fifth year of the fair and it had record attendance. The fair...
