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Economics Nobel shared by Americans Sims, SargentSC reserves order on Swamy's probe PC pleaSetback for Modi as HC backs Lokayukta appointmentWe have nothing to do with political parties: AnnaSC stays 26/11 Pak terrorist Kasab's executionPAC summons 2G auditor to explain loss figureTN opposes plea...
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Rediff.com's N Ganesh reports: Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has silenced his critics by successfully diffusing the indefinite autorickshaw drivers strike that was to begin from November 9. Chavan has been targetted repeatedly by his colleagues in the Congress and ally NCP on the issue of...
17:45
Egypt's ruling military council orders the setting up of a fact-finding mission to investigate Cairo clashes. Details awaited.
17:45
A five-day army commanders' conference begins in New Delhi today. It is being attended by army commanders of all the operational commands and army training command. The army chief during the opening address, emphasised on the macro level security issues, both internal and regional. He also...
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Brahma Chellaney on Twitter: The split between Western powers and BRICS over Syria wouldn't have come out in the open if the Europeans had not insisted on a UNSC vote. The vote may have been intended to expose Russia and China, yet it has ended up undermining the Western strategy...
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Blog on the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn, on Jagjit Singh's death.On hearing the news of Jagjit Singh's death, the first thing that instantly came to mind was my father and our 'Five o'clock Tea'. I enjoyed my father's insistence to listen to music during that time, only to avoid the relentless...
17:35
News flash: Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt says former IPL boss Lalit Modi has applied for a citizenship for Iceland.
17:02
From MK Bhadrakumar's blog: A deafening silence in India's immediate neighbourhood (and in what it calls its 'extended neighbourhood' of West Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia) envelops its strategic pact with Afghanistan. Silence also has its meaning in international diplomacy. The only...
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Just in: The CBI will not oppose DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi's bail plea on gender grounds, and film producer Karim Morani and RCom executive Surendra Pipara on health grounds in the 2G case. Kani has been in Tihar jail since May 20. She has been chargesheeted by the CBI for...
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Thomas John Sargent (born July 19, 1943) is an American economist specialising in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics. He is known as one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution and the author of numerous path-breaking papers. Currently...
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Bloomberg says that the award's official name is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The money, 10 million kronor ($1.48 million), a gold medal and a diploma, will be handed out to the laureates at a ceremony in Stockholm on December 10, the anniversary of...
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Sargent and Sims developed methods for identifying and qualifying the effects of changes in policy. Sims gets it for temporary and unexpected changes (changes in interest rate, government deficit), while Sargent gets it for structural changes (change in inflation target, budget rules).
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Just in: The Nobel prize for economics has been announced. It's shared by two Americans -- Christopher A Sims and Thomas J Sargent. Details in a bit.
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Just in: The Supreme Court reserves the plea seeking a probe on former finance minister P Chidambaram's role in the 2G scam. The CBI has opposed into Chidambaram's role and the formation of SIT to look into the same. The plea was filed by Janata Party leader Subramaniam Swamy.
16:34
Why were two tribals and the Essar group framed by the Chhattisgarh police? Why are Soni Sori and Linga Kodopi being systematically silenced? This chilling story of one family reveals more about India's Naxal crisis than any official document can. Read Shoma Chaudhuri's story in Tehelka.
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The Congress core group meeting scheduled for today has been postponed till tomorrow.
16:25
It's a split verdict, as Justice Sonia Gokani, the other judge on the division bench, disagrees with Justice Qureshi on the Gujarat governor's appointment of the Lokayukta.
16:21
Veteran British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, who broke the story that the Second World War had started, turned 100 in Hong Kong on Monday as a memoir of her is near completion. The centenarian was set to celebrate the occasion with journalists and friends at the Hong Kong Foreign...
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In other news:The 17 men reprieved last month from death row, where they had been sent for the killing of a man in a brawl over bootlegging, were back in a Dubai court yesterday. Two Pakistani men who claimed to have been injured in the same fight have filed a compensation claim against the...
16:14
More reports on Narendra Modi vs Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal on rediff.com. Cong trying to run parallel govt through governor's office: Modi Recall governor, writes Modi to PM Analysis: Why Narendra Modi is on the defensive
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Just in: Gujarat high court upholds the governor Kamla Beniwal's order on the appointment of the Lokayukta. The court held a hearing on the petition filed by the Narendra Modi government challenging the state Governor's decision to appoint a Lokayukta. During the last hearing on September...
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A day after Digvijay Singh described Anna Hazare as a mask of all anti-Congress parties, Team Anna today hit back at him for levelling wild and baseless allegations and asserted that their movement had nothing to do with any political party.Addressing a public gathering at Arya Nagar here, Hazare...
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Just in: Union telecom minister Union Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today announced the draft national telecom policy, 2011. Sibal said he promised a move towards 'one nation, free roaming' and 'one nation, full number portability' for subscribers soon. Sibal also said the telecom department will...
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In the Pakistani newspaper Dawn: The arrest of US-radio journalist David Barsamian at the New Delhi airport in late September 2011 had a chilling effect on me. Like Barsamian, I reported -- though for a brief period -- on Kashmir. My stories included war widows, mourning mothers, and political...
15:15
In other news, forty women were wounded in Yemen's second largest city when regime supporters attacked an all-female street celebration of the Nobel Peace prize win of Tawakkul Karman. The women were attacked yesterday evening in the city of Taez as they marched in support of Karman, the...
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While the Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Maharashtra government on Kasab's plea, the death sentence has been stayed till amicus curae Raju Ramchandran's report is heard. The SC began the hearing on Kasab's plea to stay the death sentence today, but the trial will be heard...
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Just in: The Supreme Court stays the execution of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab. Kasab is the lone surviving terrorist arrested for the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people on November 26, 2008. His application for stay of execution of the death sentence was put before the the apex court...
14:56
With the Central Bureau of Investigation filing a first information report against former Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran, the stage is set for his formal arrest shortly. Maran will be the second former cabinet minister to face arrest after A Raja, who succeeded Maran as communications...
14:50
In the Tribune, the banned conglomerate of militant groups, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, will seek mediation by countries like Saudi Arabia, if the government offers them peace talks -- a top militant leader of the banned outfit said in a 'cautious' response to Pakistan's earlier decision to...
14:45
Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said today that clashes hours earlier between army forces and pro-Coptic Christian protesters had brought us back to the tense, violent period at the onset of the recent revolution. Read the story in the bbc.co.uk
14:27
The Election Commission today instructed candidates contesting in the Hisar bypoll to refrain from attending community kitchens, which distribute free food to electors, and issued guidelines for organisation of such events.
14:22
Tiny mutt Gracie is up for the title of the world's smallest dog. The pug is just 6in long and weighs one pound six ounces -- four ounces less than the Guinness World Record holder, Brandy the chihuahua. See the story in the sun.co.uk.
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Tragedy has been a constant companion of Chitra Singh, who with her husband Jagjit pulled the ghazal genre out of the drawing room of the elite and brought it to the masses. I can imagine her plight and how lonely she must be feeling, singer Asha Bhosle said, reacting to Jagjit Singh's death...
13:56
Hate gruel, euphemistically called porridge...? Apparently, there's competition for the best porridge and a Gaelic singer from Edinburgh has won what is known as the coveted Golden Spurtle Award at the World Porridge Making Championships. Read
13:51
Where is India's Steve Jobs? The New York Times story in the aftermath of Apple man's death last week. Read it on the India blogs.
13:42
Just in: 2G auditor Vinod Rai and his deputy Rekha Gupta has been summoned to explain how they arrived at the Rs 2,645 crore loss figure. Rai had written to the PAC saying they could explain the figure.
13:36
The Tamil Nadu government today opposed in the Supreme Court a plea to shift out of the Madras High Court the appeals of three Rajiv Gandhi assassins,challenging their death penalty on account of an 11-year delay in deciding their mercy petition by the President.
13:31
SRK on Jagjit Singh: Uff so sad to hear of the demise of jagjit singhji. May Allah bless his soul
13:28
The Jagjit Singh obituary on the bbc.co.uk
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However, here's the rider. The list of economics laureates has in recent years been dominated by American men -- since 2000 there have been only two exceptions. Read more
13:02
Our colleague Arthur J Pais in New York alerts us to this: According to the Swedish financial daily Dagens Industri, possible winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics include Indian-American micro-economist Avinash Dixit. Also the read the blog Mostly Economics for other probables
12:56
The Dawn, Pakistan, pays tribute to Jagjit Singh. And in The News, Pakistan.
12:45
Ahead of his rath yatra tomorrow, LK Advani said the yatra will press for good and clean governance and highlight issues of corruption in government, black money stashed away in tax havens. The senior BJP leader said a lack of leadership in the UPA is main reason behind people's anger...
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Reactions to Jagjit Singh's death. Lata Mangeshkar: I knew him well. I hoped he would come out of the coma. But the God willed otherwise. Listening to him, people got intoxicated. Asha Bhosale: I feel sad for his wife Chitra. She lost a son earlier, and now husband. She is very lonely...
12:24
And another story on the Nano. Instead of conquering India's roads, the much-hyped Tata Nano -- the world's cheapest car -- is struggling to find buyers. Read the story in Foreign Policy.
12:06
Tributes for Jagjit Singh who passed away at 8.10 am today. Akshay Kumar: Saddened to know 'The Ghazal King', Jagjit Singh is no more. Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho, this song makes me misty-e... Karan Johar: I grew up listening to the brilliance of Jagjit Singh..my mother was...
12:04
And while on nano particles, a relook at the Tata car, Nano. Read the piece by Greg Lindsay in the World Policy Institute.
12:03
If you don't believe in ageing gracefully anti-ageing creams and potions is your thing, read this.The latest weapon for women against aging is a new wonder balm that claims to hide wrinkles and pigmentations making them look younger in just 40 seconds. Nanoblur balm, which arrived in the...
11:57
In the stock market today, the Maran family-owned broadcasting firm Sun TV tumbled by as much as 16 per cent in early trade on the bourses today after CBI conducted raids on the premises of owner Kalanithi Maran and his brother, former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran.CBI today conducted raids on...
11:53
We told you, a couple of posts earlier that former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney wed for the third time yesterday. What you don't know is is that Sir Paul wept openly as he serenaded his bride after their wedding. The Beatle, 69, plugged in his guitar at the reception to sing a ballad he had...
11:49
Miore than 200 suicide bombers are living in Britain and planning attacks, it has been claimed. Ministers have been warned about the scale of the threat in the run-up to next year's Olympics. A secret Government report says the would-be bombers are among 2,000 extremists believed to be based in...
11:45
On the bbc.co.uk: One reason optimists retain a positive outlook even in the face of evidence to the contrary has been discovered, say researchers. Read
11:41
Feisty Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was chosen 'Sikh Sportsperson of the Year' at the World Sikh Awards 2011 for his contribution to the Indian cricket team's World Cup triumph. Harbhajan, however, could not receive the award personally here as he was busy leading Mumbai Indians to...
11:31
For all those waiting for a sip of Starbucks coffee, news is that Tata Coffee Ltd. and Starbucks Corp. could announce their alliance this month to open the US-based company's outlets in India. Read the report in the Wall Street Journal.
11:23
In other news: Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has married American heiress Nancy Shevell at a ceremony in London. The couple posed for pictures outside Old Marylebone Town Hall register office after being showered with confetti by wedding guests. Shevell, 51, from New York, is an heiress to a...
11:20
Singer Shreya Ghoshal: Jagjit Ji passes away. One of the saddest day for all us music lovers. The golden voice will not song anymore. Rest in peace.
11:16
PM Dr Manmohan Singh's pays tribute to Jagjit Singh: I am saddened to learn of Jagjit Singh's passing away. He was blessed with a golden voice. By making ghazal accessible to everyone he gave joy and pleasure to millions of music lovers in India and abroad. I count myself among his admirers...
11:07
And from the New York Times, read this as an exempler of the phrase dhobi ka kutta, na ghar ka, na ghat ka...At India-Bangladesh Border, Living in Both, and Neither
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Happens every other day, unfortunately, but shows how restive the region remains despite 10-years of US presence in Afghanistan and much of the region. A soldier and 15 militants were killed in a clash that erupted between security forces and Taliban fighters who carried out a cross-border...
10:56
While on Pakistan, read MK Bhadrakumar's blog. Here's an extract. Reading Peter Treston in The Guardian took me back to the early 1990s when while living and working as an Indian diplomat in Islamabad one saw the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif liberating his...
10:54
Pakistan Foreign Office has again said that drone attacks are against the sovereignty of the country, and will not be acceptable at any cost. The Dawn quoted Foreign Office spokesperson Tehmina Janjua as saying that there is no change in Pakistan's stance on drone attacks. Without directly...
10:47
Shabana Azmi pays tribute on Twitter: Kisi ki nazar lag gayi hai kala ki duniya ko... Jagjit Singh no more. His contribution to the ghazal in India is unparallelled. Big loss Jagjit Singh sang the haunting Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho, kya gam hai jisko chhupa rahe ho... for the Shabana...
10:44
Incidentally, Jagjit Singh is a Padma Bhushan recipient.
10:41
Reactions to Jagjit Singh's death: Actor Anupam Kher says it's a personal loss. The news is sad and shocking. Actress Celina Jaitly: Shocked to hear the golden voiced Jagjit Singhji passed away, we have lost our magnificent ghazal maestro & a wonderful...
10:30
Jagjit Singh was admitted to the ICU due to a brain hemorrhage and he underwent an emergency neurosurgery on admission. He is survived by wife Chitra Singh, with whom he had produced several record breaking albums. Their only son Vivek Singh had died in a road accident in 1990. Born on February...
10:21
Jagjit Singh had been in ICU on life support at the Lilavati hospital in Mumbai since earlier this month. He passed away at 8 am. He was 70. Paying tribute to him, Asha Bhonsle on CNN IBN says the voice of ghazal is no more.
10:16
Renowned Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away on Monday morning at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital.The singer was hospitalised after he suffered brain hemorrhage on September 18.
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Good Morning. Action begins early Monday morning with the CBI conducting raids at the residence and office of former communications minister Dayanidhi Maran in connnection with the Aircel-Maxis deal. The CBI raids came after a First Information Report had been filed against Maran. TA Krishnan...
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