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Author-turned-activist Arundhati Roy on Friday spoke at a convention against corruption organised by Coalition of Democratic Movements in New Delhi. Here's the full text of her speech:
Not satisfied with the Centre's relief package, seven organisations championing the cause of Bhopal gas victims on Friday criticised the government for not considering their objections to some of the recommendations by the Group of Ministers looking into the issue.
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"We urge the High Commissioner to go to Oslo, attend the award ceremony, and convene a press conference that will spotlight the plight of the 1.3 billion Chinese citizens who are systematically denied the basic guarantees of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," they said in a statement.
Mexico won the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Saturday with a 4-2 victory over the United States in a hugely entertaining final played in front of 93,000 fans.
The police on Monday released a sketch of one of the four killers of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey on the basis of description given by eyewitnesses to the shootout incident.
Dr Sangam Prithviraj, who leads the students at the Osmania University in Hyderabad, says that they were foolish to trust TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao and that now all students in all the 10 districts of Telangana will take the movement forward themselves.
Manchester United overwhelmed Schalke 04 as they strolled to a 2-0 victory in their Champions League semi-final first leg on Tuesday in a one-sided match that left the home fans stunned.
Firm regains volume growth via focus on market share, market development, margins and consumers' mood
Of the total $32.5 billion engineering exports in 2009-10, EU accounted for about 30 per cent.
The recent murder of Indian student Nitin Garg in Australia has led to calls to governments worldwide to set up a cross-border agency to improve security for international students.
Four jawans have been killed after Naxals blew up a vehicle carrying Central Reserve Police Force troopers in West Midnapore, West Bengal, on Wednesday.
Dimitar Berbatov scored his third hat-trick of the season as leaders Manchester United maintained their unbeaten Premier League record with a 5-0 drubbing of Birmingham City on Saturday. Arsenal moved into second place with a 3-0 win over Wigan Athletic at the Emirates Stadium.
The government on Friday shot down a suggestion in the Lok Sabha for setting up a committee under the member of Parliament in respective constituencies for monitoring disbursement of loans by banks to priority sector like agriculture, small and medium enterprises.
The Trinamool Congress will launch a Nandigram type of movement with its rally at Lalgarh on Monday in 'Jungle Mahal' prior to the assembly elections in West Bengal next year.
The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India is understood to be planning to ramp up its output by about 10 per cent to produce over 1,10,000 units every month from October.
Among the many things that led to her success as an entrepreneur, Indu Navar confesses that just admitting that she 'did not know' has played a very important role.
When his former colleagues at the University of Utah came to know early on Wednesday that Venkatraman Ramakrishnan had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, they celebrated by dancing on the streets."We were dancing in the streets," said Jeannine Marlow, wife of Dana Carroll, professor and former chair of biochemistry at the University of Utah, where Ramakrishnan's prize-winning work began between 1995 and 1999.
In a survey conducted by Nielsen, for Telugu news channel NTV, an overwhelming 78 per cent of the electorate in Andhra Pradesh stated that they would like to see Jaganmohan Reddy succeed his father YSR Rajasekhara Reddy as the next chief minister. According to the survey, the results of which were also released by the Congress Legislature Party, caretaker Chief Minister K Rosaiah was second on the popularity chart with 13 per cent support.
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Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna, the two major rivals in the Telugu film industry and now rival election campaigners, have declared their intention to contest the forthcoming assembly elections in the state.
Five Indian metals and mining companies are in the race for acquiring mining rights for the largest iron ore deposit in war-torn Afghanistan. The government has shortlisted Vedanta group's Sesa Goa, Essar Minerals, Ispat Industries, JSW Steel and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam for a bid for the 1.8 billion tonne Hajigak iron ore deposit.
Wayne Rooney's brilliant form this season could lead England all the way to victory in the World Cup final in July, Franz Beckenbauer said on Wednesday. Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup with West Germany as both a player and coach, said that although Rooney was universally recognized as a "brilliant player" before this season, he has taken his game to new heights.
The global economic crisis could lead to a new "green industrial revolution," but developing countries will need strong support to ensure they do not miss the opportunity, the United Nations Industrial Development Organistion (UNIDO) said on Friday.
As per labour ministry, a total of 12,666,377 children were working in various sectors including agriculture.
On Thursday, scientists sent the 1,380 kg spacecraft to its next destination -- highly elliptical orbit of 300 km perigee and 1.6 lakh km apogee respectively. This will be followed by three more orbit-transfer exercises.
Unitech would launch affordable housing projects in seven cities this week. The projects would come up under 'Uni Homes' brand at an affordable price range of Rs 10-30 lakh (Rs 1-3 million). The projects would come up at Noida, Greater-Noida, Chennai, Kolkata, Rewari, Bhopal and Mohali.
The government decided to table in Parliament on Tuesday the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, a day after the leakage of the findings set off a political storm.
Prodipto Ghosh, presently additional secretary to the prime minister, has been appointed additional secretary, department of economic affairs, an official spokesman said on Friday.
About 60 per cent of the total cultivable area of 140 million hectare is rain fed, while the rest is irrigated. Southwest monsoon, which had brought cheer to the farming community due to its early onset on May 23, had stopped in its tracks over Konkan region of Maharashtra on June 7.
Automobile companies saw remarkable growth in sales in June.
IIFM offeres two year, full-time course on Forestry Management.
The BSE mid-cap Index will include shares of Allied Digital Services, Cals Refineries, Century Plyboards, Gammon Infra, Hindustan Oil Exploration, Indiabulls Securities, Jai Balaji Industries, Jet Airways, Jindal Drilling, Puravankara Projects, Rain Commodities, S Kumars Nationwide, Shriram City Union Finance, Thermax and Thomas Cook India.
"I have taken a Bhsima Pratigya (unflinching promise) not to enter politics, but have also taken a pledge to stop commercialisation, industrialisation and criminalisation of the political system of the country," Swami Ramdev told UNI in an exclusive interview.
Agarwal handed over his resignation from the state Assembly to UP Vidhan Sabha Speaker Sukhdev Rajbhar on Saturday morning. The resignation of Agarwal, who was also the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, has been accepted, the Speaker told UNI in Lucknow.
The final 52-hour countdown for the October 22 launch of the country's first moon mission, Chandrayaan-I, began early on Monday morning at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Ansari was a receipient of the President's Award for his outstanding service and posted specially at the Naxal-dominated area. DIG R K Mulklick and police spokespersons told UNI in Ranchi that the OC of Sikaripara police station and two constables were killed in the encounter that began at about 0300 hours.
