(PUNCTUATION)OVERALL

OVER ALL
It was an accident a minute on India's roads in 2011. And one Indian
died every 3.7 minutes- one of the highest rates
in the world. Delhi, which reported 7,281 mishaps, came a distant
second to Mumbai on a 21-city list. But the capital had more
blood in its roads, accounting for the highest number of
fatalities-2,066, a drop from from 2,153 in 2010 but not by much.
In comparison, 610 people dies on Mumbai roads. Overall, 4.97 lakh
road accidents were reported  from across the country last
year, according to trasport ministry's report.(source-hindustan times
tuesday, july 24, 2012)

(PUNCTUATION) ON THE CONTRARY

ON THE CONTRARY
(1)The CBI on Friday criticised the anti-graft Lokpal bill passed by
the Lok Sabha in December 2011, saying its provisions may"seriously
 comprovisions" the investigating agency's autonomy in probing cases.
"as far as the CBI is concerned, the focal point of the Lokpal
agitation
 has not materialised. On the contrary, the agency's autonomy of
investigation has been seriously compromised." the agency stated in
its
 written submission to the panel.(hindustan times, new delhi saturday,
july14, 2012)

(2)Significantly, amid alll thse issues, a very important voice, that
of indifenous Assamese Muslims, is getting llost. According to the
  2002 census, this 25 lakh-strong community has been  at pains to
explain that the issue is not communal in any way. On the contrary, it
  has warned Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, chift of AIDUF, to desist from
communalising the issue.
(source-Hindustan Times Friday August 24, 2012)

(PUNCTUATION)ON MONTH

ON MONTH
On June 30, chinese hackers broke into sensitive naval computer
systems in and around Visakhapatnam, the headquarters of the
  Eastern Naval Command(ENC), and planted a bugs that relayed
confidential data to IP addresses in China. The Naval
 computers were found infected with a virus that secretly collected
and transmitted confidential files and documents to
  Chinease IP address.(source-Hindustan Times Friday, July 13, 2012)

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(1)The fed slashed its estimates for US economic growth this year to a
range of 1.9% to 2.4%, down from an April projection
    of 2.4% to 2.9%. it cut forecasts for 2013 and 2014, as well. In
addition, officials said they expect the job market
    to make slower progress than they did just a couple month ago,
with the unemployement rate now seen hovering at 8% or
    higher for the rest of this year. It stood at 8.2% in May.(SOURCE
HINDUSTAN TIMES-friday, June 22, 2012)

(2)The US president race has grown increasing hostile and bitter, with
President Barack Obama releasing an attack ad that
  blamed Republican candidate and rival Mitt Romney for shipping
American jobs abroad. The 32-second ad, made public on
  Saturday, alleged that Romney, when head of venture capital outfit
Bain Capital, had links to companies that close to
  lay off the US-based workers and move those jobs to plants in Mexico
and China instead.(source-
    Hindustan Times Monday, July 16, 2012)

(3)How bad is the economic mess in Greece? just ask Dimitris Skidas, a
despairing Athens accountant who is struggling
   to keep his clients' finances in some kind of order in a fifth year
of recession. Most of his clients are small
   businesses worried about the prospectus for the economy, with many
on the vergy of bankruptcy.(source-
    Hindustan Times Monday, June 25, 2012)

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The painting, which depicts an androgynous creature with mouth agape
and hands covering the ears standing against a
  background of brilliant colours, will now grace the walls of one
whose deep love for the arts is in such perfect sync
  with his very deep pockets.(SOURCE HINDUSTAN TIMES-monday, may 07,2012)

The extra amount, though yet to be accepted by the government, will go
towards conducting more sophisticated
 pre-transfusion tests.(source-Hinsutan Times Monday May 07, 2012)

punctuation WHILE

(1) Mr Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party took oath as the Chief
Minister of Utter Pradesh, while in Punjab incumbent
    Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal of the Shiromani Akali dal
was back at the helm. Earlier, the results of the
    Assembly elections in these five states, which were held over
February-March 6, 2012.(source-CSR May 2012 issue)

(2)Finance Minister Mr Pranab Mukharjee has also revised the current
year's allocation to Rs30,000 crore, a tad higher
 than the release of just Rs24,722 crore till February end, while the
expenditure by the states stands at Rs 24,000 crore.
  (source-CSR May 2012 issue)

(3)It also warned that developing countries should prepare for a long
period of volatility in the global economy by
 reworking medium-term development strategies, while preparing for
tougher times. Besides any further deterioration in
 the economis situation of Europe will have cascading effects across
all countries.(source-Hinsutan Times Wednesday
June 13, 2012)

(4)For this very reason, Vajpayee was its prime minister, while
Advani, the prime mover of the chariot of communalism
  and the Ram temple campaign, was forced to play second
fiddle.(source-hindustan times Monday, June 25,2012)

(5)In the Aarushi Talwar murder case, while parents Nupur and Rajesh
are facing the law courts, the relationships among
  the Talwars and the domestic staff, the murdered Hemraj, the
compunder Krishna and others remain mysterious.
  (source-Hinsutan Times Wednesday April 11, 2012)

(6)With the help of Delhi traffic police, UTTIPEC has finalised a
traffic circulation plan to decongest the busy and
  accident-prone arterial road along the raiway station. As per the
new plan, the buses inside the station premisies will
  share the space dedicated for taxies, while taxies would be shifted
to the parking outside the station premises.
   (souce-Hindustan Times Thursday, June 28, 2012)

(7)According to reports released  on December 27,2011 Brazil has rode
on the recent boom to replace the UK as the world's
  sixth largest economy-after the US, China, Japan, Germany and
France. The resource-rich South American economy has surged
 ahed riding on its rising exports to China, while growth in the Uk
has been hurt by a financial turmoil that refuses to
 subside.(source-CSR February 2012)

(8)Already, according to Annual Status of Education Report, private
schools enrolment has sharply grown from 18.7% in
  2006 to 25.6% in 2011. Studies across the states have shown that the
per pupil expenditure in such schools is vastly
 below that of the governmnent schools, while they charge as fees,
anything between five to 12 time more.
(souce-Hindustan Times Tuessday, April 17, 2012)

(9)In April, the Netherlands-based Robobank sold about 3.4% stake in
Yes Bank for about 453 crore. Robobank sold 1.3 crore
 shares for 357a piece through a open market transaction. Of this,
Bajaj Alliance Life insurance picked up 25.2 lakh
  shares, while Citigroup Global Markets Mauritius picked up 22 lakh
shares at 357 per unit, according to the BSE data.
  (source-hindustan times Friday, june 29,2012)

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(1)The study reveals that women who discuss and negotiate before
embarking on a diet are expected to get better results,
  with less infidelity displayed by the men towards the roots, shoots.
and leaves. we, of course, could have proffered
  the same advice with much less hassle: negotiating one's way around
a sticking point is alway a bettar idea than sounding
  a bugle and a call to arms, whether on the battlefield or the family
dinning table.(hindustan times-monday, MAY 28,2012)

(2)The Shah Rukh Khan affair at the Wankhede stadium, and  the latest
and most shocking-RCB'S Australian player Luke
Pomersbash being arrested by the Delhi Police on charges of molesting
a woman and assaulting her male partner in the
team hotel are indications of the sense of entitilement that those  in
the IPL have come to have, whether it is the
players or the owners.(source-Hindustan Times Monday May 21, 2012)


(3)But Noam Chomsky reminds us, "Social security is based on the
assumption that we care about each other, that we have a
communal responsibility to take care of people who cannot take care of
themselves, whether they are children or the
elderly."(source-hindustan time Wednesday, May 23, 2012)

(4)IT is a truism that in most social systems, whether in business or
politics, a buy-in of all stakeholders is an
 essential prerequisite for any fundamental and lasting
change.lot.(source-hindustan times Monday May 07, 2012)

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There were more jobless people during the 19th century, when there was
effectively no regulation on hiring and firing.
  so, if the whole history of capitalism, and not just the experiences
of the last few years, shows that the supposed
  remedies for today's economic crisis are not going to work, what are
out political and economic leaders doing?
  (source-Hindustan Times wednesday June 06, 2012)

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1)Robert, a fiercely compititive wall street executive who hated to
lose, recognised late Monday night that he was losing.
  Until then, the American-born chief executive of the British banking
giant Barclays was convinced that he could survive
  the rising calls for his ouster after accusations from regulators in
Britainand the US that Barclays had manipulated
  important global interest rates with the knowledge of senior
management.(source-Hindustan Times Thursday, July 05, 2012)

(2)Insurance companies are shying away from designing new groiups
pensions products for company employees after the IRDA
   circulated  a new draft guideline barring fresh recruits to be put
under the existing schemes. until now, several
  companies have been offering additional benefits to their employees
by parking 15% of their basic salary in group
  pension products, which is tax-friendly.(source-Hindustan Times
Thursday, July 12, 2012)

(3)Now as we head into the London Olympics, America joins the rest of
the world in the international areana, sort of. Until then,
    the games North Americans play can be taken as another example of
what Republican presidential wannable Mitt Romney describes as
    "American exceptionalism".(source-Hindustan Times Saturday, July 28, 2012)

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The Delhi Police have asked Team Anna to cut down the duration of its
proposal  anti-corruption fast at Jantar Mantar from
  july 25. The police said if Anna's team wanted to sit on an
indefinite fast, they must select some other venue. "we su
  -mitted an application with Delhi Police to grant us a no-objection
certificate for a 15-day protest at Jantar Mantar.
  Till now, we havenot got any reply," Neeraj Kumar, a member of India
Against Corruption(IAC), said.(source-Hindustan
  Times Tuesday, July 03, 2012)

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(1)Both are used effectively by universities across the world.
Similarly, it would be difficult to argue against any
  freedom to take courses in various institutions, the crux of Meta
University plan, though whatis particularly meta about
 it is obscure, then what is so great about replacing the three year
undergraduate degree with a four-year one.
(source-Hinsutan Times Monday May 07, 2012)

(2)The extra amount, though yet to be accepted by the government, will
go towards conducting more sophisticated
 pre-transfusion tests.(source-Hinsutan Times Monday May 07, 2012)

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But, if it works, this is a great ideal. maybe, then we could also
have courses for male politicians.(source-hinsutan times
    thursday april 12, 2012)

To think too many would have the courage or the inclination to brave
the minefield that is politics today would be a
  triumph of hope over reality. But still, this could be beginning of
a professional cadre of politicians, something
  that could one day, in the very distant future, change the face of
indian politics.(source-hinsutan times
    thursday april 12, 2012)

This year, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee wants to cap the
petroleum subsidy  at 43,850 crore. Suggestions for a coun-
tervailing tax on big diesel cars and rationed supply of cooking gas
cylinders to the well-heeled can weed out some of the
freeloaders.(source-Hindustan Times wednesday May 02, 2012)

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Parth Roy, whois working as assistant professor at the IISER AT
kalyani in Nadia, was arrested with 68 others on
 April8 for their alleged involvement ina clash with the police during
a rally on April 4.With the participation and
 guidance of some activists from the Mazdoor Kranti  Parishad, a
leftist trade union, and members of various mass
 organisation, those evicted took out a protest rally on April 4. Roy
participated in the protest.(source-Hindustan
  Times Tuesday, April 17, 2012)

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This state visit is an opportunity to make up for lost time. New delhi
needs to realize that a serious engagement with
 Myanmar will have to work at several levels. First, India's greatest
assest is its civil society, including its private
 corporate sector. Second, the constitutional issues regarding
Mynammar's ethnic patchwork are as difficult as the
 military-civilian relations. Third, there must be recognition that
the nature of upper Burma, with its similarities to
 India's North-east, law and order problems and its land-basedd
connectivity, would require a set of policies different
 from Lower Burma.(source-hindustan times Saturday, May 26,2012)

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(1)In the next two years, three districts are expected to turn the
tide. Thereafter, this approach will be widened to
   include other states, as part of national approach to eradicate
malnutrition.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, July 03, 2012)

(2)A former JNU professor has just written in the book of facilitating
contact with the Nepali rebels as far back as june 2002,
   when Dashal-Bhatarai promised in a letter to the Indian government
not to harm India's "critical intrests"-this even while they
   conducted war in Nepal. Thereafter, he writes, it became easier for
the Nepali Maoists to move about within India.
   (source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, July 25, 2012)

(6)The bank, however, must continue to pay Gupta's bills until the
final resolution of Gupta's appeal, a process that
could take a couple of years and will surely escalalte the costs of
his defence.(souce-Hindustan Times Wednesday, June 20,
 2012)

(7)The NHAI, in turn, did not have to pay the extra cash  right away,
since the cases invariably go to court, and stay
there.(source-Hindustan Times wednesday May 02, 2012)

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(1)The MHA, which could have led the reform process, has also been
slow to act. In fact, reforms have taken a wrong
 turn.(SOURCE HINDUSTAN TIMES-friday, april 28,2012)

(2)The painting, which depicts an androgynous creature with mouth
agape and hands covering the ears standing against a
  background of brilliant colours, will now grace the walls of one
whose deep love for the arts is in such perfect sync
  with his very deep pockets.(SOURCE HINDUSTAN TIMES-monday, may 07,2012)

(3)The article, written by former Panchajanya editor and Sangh
idelogue Devinder Swarup, slammed Modi for "ignoring senior
  BJP leaders and using his influence to act against political
rivals.(SOURCE HINDUSTAN TIMES-monday, june 03,2012)


(4)The devil, as they say, is in the detail. for instance, would all
cources at the designated 'meta'universities be eligible
  for transfer of credit?(hindustan times-monday, may 07,2012)

(5)The West, which is hammering home the need for greater democracy,
might also want to stand back and introspect on why
   it propped up dictatorial regims like the Mubarak one. America, for
one, was a staunch ally of Mubarak, who was seen as
  a friendly face in the Arab world.(source-hinsutan times Monday June 04, 2012)

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(1) we need to insist to our state goverments, and the central goverment, that we want more public hospitals with attached public medical colleges.(source-hindustan times monday,may 28,2012)

(2) But Noam Chomsky reminds us, "Social security is based on the assumption that we care about each other, that we have a communal responsibility to take care of people who cannot take care of
themselves, whether they are children or the elderly."(source-hindustan time Wednesday, May 23, 2012)

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(1)In Punjab, female foeticide is widely practised. In Haryana, caste
panchayats come down hard on girls who dare to choose
   their marriage partners. Jihadis in Kashmir demand that woman wear
burqas. Dowry deaths happen in middle-class urban
    house-holds. Still, when viewed from a longer historical
perspective, and taking the country as a whole, it is clear
    that the direction of changeis forward-looking, towards making
women more equal partners in social and economic life.
    (source-hindustan times Thursday, May 31,2012)

(2)In Kabul today, there are women in school and college, women at
work, women as members of parliament, women as
  journalists, enterpreneurs, singers, actors. To be sure, across the
countryside more conservative not to say reactionary,
  practices hold sway. Still, the defeat of Taliban set in motion
processess that could, in time, make women less oppressed
  more able to feel part of a democratic and plural
society.(source-hindustan times Thursday, May 31,2012)

(3)Undoubtedly, many Bangladeshis feel that the government should
maintain friendly  relations with both these two coutries
   and benefit from their growing economic might. Still, there is a
section in the country which believes that the country
   should play China as a counter-balance to India and this will
likely turn the case in their favour.(source-Hindustan Times Friday,
  July 27, 2012)

(4)But keep proving their worth they must and hence the predominance
of these surveys. Of course, those put to the test belonged to
   countries like United States, Canada, New Zealand and Argentina,
and not regions where regressive practices would put a lid on the
  very existence of women, leave alone their intelligence. Still, it
would seem that we have travelled some distance from the times when
  low IQ scores would be used by the eugenics movement in the US to
forcibly sterilise poor African American women. Cleaver women can
indeed
   be a thing of joy but those found wanting may yet find the road
ahead somewhat difficult.
(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, July 11, 2012)

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So far, India has been relying purely on imports to source souped-up
fertilisers that can deliver a majority of these nut
rients in one bag.(source-hinsutan times saturday, may 19, 2012)

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(1)Since its launch in 2009, its editorials on India are drenched in
the nationalist sentiment previously reserved for
  anti-American and anti-japanease rhetoric in china.(hindustan
times-monday,april 23,2012)

(2)Since China is vastly more populous than Britain, that's a
phenomenal number of cameras, which will erase the notion of
   privacy in public spaces. Meanwhile, India is creating a database
on its citizens anchored by the Aadhaar card, which
   will be almost as omniscient as the almighty.(hindustan
times-saturday,may 05,2012)

(3)Recently, I was travelling with my wife on the Delhi Metro. Since
the train was approaching the last station, there were
  not too many passangers. In our compartment, other than us, there
were only two women sitting on the other side
  of the aisle. (SOURCE HINDUSTAN TIMES-friday, april 13,2012)

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(1)There are three realities about India that we must remember, and it
is sometimes worth reminding the government about them.
 first, india is vibrant democracy with a constitutionally guaranteed
right to free speech and liberty. second, despite
 out problem india's democratic model is an aspirational one for many
countries of the world.(source-hindustan times
friday,april 13,2012)

(2)This state visit is an opportunity to make up for lost time. New
delhi needs to realize that a serious engagement with
 Myanmar will have to work at several levels. First, India's greatest
assest is its civil society, including its private
 corporate sector. Second, the constitutional issues regarding
Mynammar's ethnic patchwork are as difficult as the
 military-civilian relations. Third, there must be recognition that
the nature of upper Burma, with its similarities to
 India's North-east, law and order problems and its land-basedd
connectivity, would require a set of policies different
 from Lower Burma.(source-hindustan times Saturday, May 26,2012)

(3)The brouhhaha spawned by the revelation that the army cheift
General VK signh was offfered 14 crore as a quid pro quo
   for sanctioning substandard equipment brings to the fore a fatal
flaw that continues to dog our cognitive thought process;
  a debilitating defect that blurs out logical acuity and thwarts out
ability to arrive at a fruitful decesion. Analyse the
  trajectory of thee debate in the wake of hte briberty controvery:
first, the congress spokesman skirts the mam issue and responds
   with a countercharge in an attempt to deflect on the general
himself by questioning his inertia in pursuing  the matter. Second,
   the General's integrity is questioned by emphasising the timing of
his allegation and its temporal relationship to his birth date
    controversy.(source-hindustan times Saturday, April 02,2012)

(4)As India fulminates after a 16-year-old student was slapped,
dragged, groped and stripped on Guwahati street last week, it is clear
this
  abdomination is not about one woman against a mob of opportunistic,
brutel men. This is a story of a dangerous decline in Indians and
India
  itself, of not just failing morality but disintegrating public
governance when it comes to women. First, the moral failures of
emerging India.
  The girl fails every test of the hypocrisy that governs public
logic, she goes to a bar, she gets into an argument with some men,
possibly
   shaming a man trying to film her, she walks out alone. The mob
outside passes every test of public immortality: on the shamed man's
urging,
   men-seemingly normal men with jobs and no criminal records-drag the
girl by her hair onto the street; many watch, no one intervenes,
except
   for an older man, 20men join assault. A journalist at the scene,
perhaps the same man who bickered with her, instead of calling the
police,
   calls in a camera crew. The girl is barely home before her trauma
is broadcast on television.
            Second, the governance failure. The first calls to a local
police station go unanswered, and the station house officer is
suspended
   for dereliction of duty but only after national attention. The
search for suspects does not get underway after the broadcast of the
assault

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It was an accident a minute on India's roads in 2011. And one Indian
died every 3.7 minutes- one of the highest rates
in the world. Delhi, which reported 7,281 mishaps, came a distant
second to Mumbai on a 21-city list. But the capital had more
blood in its roads, accounting for the highest number of
fatalities-2,066, a drop from from 2,153 in 2010 but not by much.
In comparison, 610 people dies on Mumbai roads. Overall, 4.97 lakh
road accidents were reported  from across the country last
year, according to trasport ministry's report.(source-hindustan times
tuesday, july 24, 2012)

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(2) However, Narayanan chose to place an extraordinary and unusual
precondition: Vajpayee was asked to furnish written
   affidavits to prove the NDA's majority prior to the extension of an
invitation. Again, when the Vajpayee government
   was felled by a single controversial vote Narayanan's subsequent
actions raise eyebrows.(source-Hindustan Times Friday,
  April 13,2012)

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Karan Hohar has clarified that all is good in the hood with Priyanka
Chopra after their alleged tiff. And now, PC says
that she does not have any issues with the filmmaker, who had taken
indirect potshots at her on Twitter two months ago.
(source- Hindustan Times Thursday June 21, 2012)

This then seemed to have led to rumours of an unscheduled troop
movement, all of which raised, we now learn, needless
   suspicious about the army. Most of all, the disservice that the
general did was to go public each time he had to say
   something either about his age or the motives of people out to do
him in. And now, ironicallyhe say that certain
  convtroversies can be ascribed to "my dear media friends who have
great imagination to see a ghost behind every bush."
   (source-Hindustan Times Thursday May 31,2012)

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(1) The fate of Lambert-ST-Louis International Airport may be a
portent for other airports serving smaller cities around the
  US. Already, airports in Pittsburgh ( former hub for US airways),
Cincinnati and Oakland, California, have lost a
  significant amount of their business as airlines concetrate more of
their flights on bigger-city airports.
 (source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, July 11, 2012)

(2)Uklike Kashmir's summer of discontent, this summer, by far, has
been calm and economically productive for the state.
 Already, 140,000 tourists have visited the famous tulip gardens of
Srinagar and reports say that hotels and houseboats
 are booked till july.(source-hinsutan times Monday 28, 2012)

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(1)In this case, when the parents appealeed, the CWS was ordered to
return the children on the finding that there was no
   emergency. The CWS immidiately got a stay pending further appeal.
Again, this was extraordinary for interim orders.
    In any modern legal system, interim orders have to be justified on
grounds of emergency and it had just been
   abjudicated that there was none.(source-hindustan times friday,april 13,2012)

(2) However, Narayanan chose to place an extraordinary and unusual
precondition: Vajpayee was asked to furnish written
   affidavits to prove the NDA's majority prior to the extension of an
invitation. Again, when the Vajpayee government
   was felled by a single controversial vote Narayanan's subsequent
actions raise eyebrows.(source-Hindustan Times Friday,
  April 13,2012)

(3)All these fear, again, proved unfounded, with most of the  trouble
coming from visiting fans. The Russian and Croatian
   fans were the chieft trouble makers. The host countries, on the
other hand, were on their best behaviour.
    (source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, July 03, 2012)

(4)Three parables from modern India. A man writes a book that offends
some people enough to ban it and, for good measure,
    demand his head. salman rushdie goes underground, in time the
fatwa is forgotten, he emerges from hiding and continues
     writing and travelling. Then, a curious thing happens. he is
invited, again, to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival.
    his name appears on the programme, again.(source-Hindustan Times
Saturday, January 21,2012)

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The Planning Commission will put the monitoring reports of over 432 PPP projects in the public domain. The cabinet on Thursday approved an institutional mechanism for monitoring these
projects. The Plan panel had to seek the cabinet's approval for the monitoring mechanism after several ministeries failed to implement its 2009 guidelines. After approval, the new mechanism would be put in place within a month.(source-Hindustan Times FRIday, July 13, 2012)

The is a sucker born every minute. which explains why a charlatan was able to convince a jaipur-based trader that soil from Kargil can be converted into gold. The gullible victim handed
over 5 lakh to convert five kilos of soil into gold, after, which, of course, the potential alchemist vanished into thin air.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, June 26, 2012)

Madhya Pradesh industries minister Kailash Vijayvargiya has close ties
with mining baron Sudhir Sharma and Bhopal-based
builder Dilip Suryavanshi, according to documents in possession of HT.
A chain of e-mails detected during the raids confirm
 the ties. Sharma's secretary Sandeep Bhatnagar and his aides  sent
regular reports on mining operations to Vijayvargiya's
 son Akash. passports of Akash and his wife Sonam, including a US visa
stamp, had also been mailed to Sharma.
             On june 21, 2012, the second day of raids, sharma sent an
e-mail to his associates, which was also marked to Akash.
  After the raids, Vijayvargiya defended Suryavanshi and Sharma,
saying they had worked together in Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
  Parishad.(source-Hindustan Times Thursday, July 05, 2012)

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(1)The markets add depth in terms of number of long-term players and the volume of business.                                            Above all, this is aimed at the financial well-being of the end consumer.(source-Hindustan Times Friday, June 29, 2012)

(2)wages are rising by more than 10% a year as blue-collar workers' pay is used to drive up consumption, which plays much too small role in a driving the economy. Cheap credit produces
dangerous liquidity bubbles. Foreign demand has fallen sharply as rich countries run into problems of their own. Above all, chinease leaders know that they need to steer the country away from the volatility of the past five years-big boom in 2007, slump in late 2008, revival in 2011, and now a slowing down again.(source-Hindustan Times Monday, June 16, 2012)

(3)What should be done? First, the obvious: prosecute and imprison those involved, as high up in the organisations as necessary. Second, force cheif and other senior executives to resign. Third, impose serious fines,billions ot tens of billions of dollars, particularly for the worst violations, such
as aiding Iran's nuclear programme. Finally, tighten oversight. But, above all, we need to recognise that over the past 30years, banking has become criminalised in a way that threatens global stability. the time has come to use the same law enforcement tools that are used in fighting large-scale, organised crime.(source-Hindustan Times Monday, July 23, 2012)

(4)Most large-scale corporate corruption cases usually involve  the use of legal entities to conceal ownership and control of corrupt proceeds. Nor will it mean more tax compliance, better quality
products and services for consumers, or better human resources practices.
                                                    Above all, it will not meet the ends of social justice through more
equitable distribution of corporate incomes, both within companies and externally.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, July 10, 2012)

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Instead of taking ample time to make this crucial decision, often, marriage are fixed after just one meeting.
(source-Hindustan Times wednesday May 02, 2012

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(1)of late, the lady who rules the state like it is some kind of a
medieval fiefdom has been displaying a penchant for target
 -ting those who refuse to obey her diktats.(source-hinsutan times
friday april 27, 2012)

(2)of late, the government is bestirring itself, taking up aviatioin
reforms piecemeal.(source-hinsutan times wednesday may 02, 2012)

(3)He successfully shepherded the Indian economy through the crisis.
of late, however, critics have been unsparing about some
 of his policy pronouncements, like budget provision to empower taxmen
to scrutinise older corporate deals.
 (source-hinsutan times friday april 27, 2012)

(4)Mukherjee took over as the finance minister when the world economy
was going through the worst crisis in eight decades.
   He successfully shepherded the economy through the crisis, but many
experts felt a lot of reforms are still all work in
   progress tax simplification, easier entry for foreign capital,
improving welfare delivery. Of late, critics have been
    unsparing about some of his policy
pronouncements.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, June 26, 2012)

(5)As we approach the centenary of Dadasaheb Phalke's 1913 silent
film, it is only natural that many actors
 who had played their part have departed from the scene. Of late, even
those with whom my post-independent
 India generation grew up have begun to leave us, the latest being the
universally recognised first super-
  star of Hindi-cinema, Rajesh Khanna.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday,
July 31, 2012)

(6) Of late, there has been flurry of international criticism of
India's deteriorating investment environment and dismal trace
 record on reform. the latest instance in US president's candid
observations that American businessman find it hard to invest
  in the country, that there are too many sectors, such as retail,
that limit or prohibit foreign investment; that it is indeed
the best time for another wave of reforms.(source-Hindustan Times
Saturday, July 21, 2012)

(7)In India, Muslims have been given the right to follow thier own
personal law, the Muslim Personal Law(MPL). A false campaign
 was launched by the orthodox section withiin the community which
stated that preserving Muslim culture was as good as  preserving
  the MPL. the MPL, thus, in need of protection from the majority
culture, Because of this politics of cultural preservation,
 Muslim law has remained unchanged since independence. Of late, there
has been a debate over the registration of marriages inthe
  Muslim community. Riled by the decision to make the registration of
marriages mandatory.
(source-Hindustan Times tuesday, june 12, 2012)

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No one should be surprised that the international nose is tightening
around Iran. the sanctions are really
about getting Iran to make a credible effort at negotiations. New
Delhi accepts the danders of Iran's
 nuclearisation but is sceptical of the sanctions' ability to do much
to bend Tehran's will. India also
has other common interests with Iran including the future of
afghanistan after the US withdraws and, to
 an extent, access to Central Asia.
      Nonethless, while there is much exaggerated sentiment regarding
relations with Iran, New Delhi should
consider pressing diplomatic buttons in Tehran about holding credible
talks, and press hard. The pursian
 Gulf is one region whose isolation from the world would bring India
to its kness.Tehran  and the West should
 be urged to find a middle ground.(source-Hindustan Times Monday,
January 30, 2012)

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(1)The talks between the foreign secretaries of India and Bangladesh,
held on July 24, have gone on expected  lines.
   on the one hand, bangladesh expects a lot from india. on the other,
for india, the window of opportunity that it had in
   bangladesh is slowly closing and there is need for the speeding up
the initiative to find ways that would have a lasting
   impact on bilateral relations. Neverthless, frequent interactions
between leaders and high level officials of the two countries
 have helped them exchange and voice each other's concerns. At the
same time, china is there to offer India competition in reaching
  out to the Bangladeshi. The recent offer of chinease companies to
the bangladesh government to finance the 2.9 billion Padma Multi-
   purpose Bridge within jujst a few days after the World Bank
cancelled its loan exemplifies the promptness of he chinease
diplomatic
   machinery in identifying the right trigger in expanding its
influence over India's eastern neighbour.(source-Hindustan Times
Friday,
  July 27, 2012)

(2)As flanking states in the eastern Indian Ocean, India and Australia
are critical to this emerging arena of geopolitics. Fellow democracies
     with shared values, concerns and interests, they should have
strong synergies. Yet, somehow the strategic outcomes have been
sub-optimal.
     Likewise, the street violence against Indian students in
Melbourne and other cities in 2009-10 was deplorable but it cannot
take away from
     the fact that Australia remains a welcoming home for thousands of
Indian imigrants. Authorities in Australia have responded by cracking
down
     on dubious educational institutions, and facilitating those
students genuinly seeking education.
                 Nevertheless, the Taskforce recognises the troubling
legacy of the period. It has recommended that"an an act of goodwill..
     visas of Indian students who were in Australia on February 8,2012
and whose pathways towards permanent residency in Australia were
affected
     by changes to immigration regulation in that year" extended "for
at least 12 months from December 31,2012".

(3)The Arab League's dynamism is Syria is welcome but it's also
perplexing. I am not sure why most Arab
   countries vote for such sharp intervention in a member state when
they know well that this precedent
   could be used against them on day. It's strange to see calls for
national unity governmentss and demo-
   cratic elections by Arab countries that are mostly non-democratic
and non-representative of their people.
                 Neverthless, the Arab League's actions are important
in several areas. the fact that
   Arab counties are taking more responsibilities for developments in
their region should reduce the
   incidents of forign armies coming in to re-order us, and provide
political ligitimacy for other actors-
   including individual Arab and foreign states, opposition movements
in Syria, the UN Secutiry Council and
 other multinational bodies- to play a role in ending the bloodshed in
Syria and helping that country find
  its way to a humance and effective governance
system.(source-Hindustan Times Monday, January 30, 2012)

(4)A sport can exist in multiple formats. there are two types  of
rubgy. Real tennis and lawn tennis are close together
 and yet far apart. clay court tennis and grass court tennis are often
likened to not two formats but two differents
but two different sports together. T20 cricket is in-your-face and
sledgehammer, Test Cricket is a tribute to languid subtelties
. Long term cricket is a classic and traditionallly English pasttime,
T20 and IPL borrow from an American sporting idiom.
  Nevertheless, both represent sport-not one more than the
other.(source-Hindustan Times Monday, Tuesday, May 29, 2012)

(5)India is a society in the grip of rapid economic and social
trasformation. Urbanisation , unprecedented economic growth and
 a widening Indian presence on the world stage are profoundly
reshaping Indian life. Indian embrace modernisation, but they also
  worry about its impact on theri traditional way of life.  Sceptical
about the state after decades of socialism, Indians are now
 solidly committed to capitalism. About there-in-five think most
people are better off in a free market conomy, even though some are
rich
 and some are poor. Those with an college degree and high-income
individuals are most likely to hold such views.
     Neverthless, Indian do not think that the consequences of the
current economic order are good for the country. About eigiht-in-ten,
  including 57% who agreed completely, believe that it is reallly true
today that  the rich just get richer while the poor get poorer.
(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday September 11, 2012)

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1)Most of all, the urban Indian employer must undergo a rapid mental
transformation domestic help is not born into servitude
 by karma, they are equal human beings without other
opportunities.(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday April 30,2012)

(2)This then seemed to have led to rumours of an unscheduled troop
movement, all of which raised, we now learn, needless
   suspicious about the army. Most of all, the disservice that the
general did was to go public each time he had to say
   something either about his age or the motives of people out to do
him in. And now, ironicallyhe say that certain
  convtroversies can be ascribed to "my dear media friends who have
great imagination to see a ghost behind every bush."
   (source-Hindustan Times Thursday May 31,2012)

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(1)As flanking states in the eastern Indian Ocean, India and Australia are critical to this emerging arena of geopolitics. Fellow democracies with shared values, concerns and interests, they should have
strong synergies. Yet, somehow the strategic outcomes have been sub-optimal. Likewise, the street violence against Indian students in Melbourne and other cities in 2009-10 was deplorable but it cannot take away from the fact that Australia remains a welcoming home for thousands of
Indian imigrants. Authorities in Australia have responded by cracking
down on dubious educational institutions, and facilitating those
students genuinly seeking education.
                 Nevertheless, the Taskforce recognises the troubling
legacy of the period. It has recommended that"an an act of goodwill..
     visas of Indian students who were in Australia on February 8,2012
and whose pathways towards permanent residency in Australia were
affected
     by changes to immigration regulation in that year" extended "for
at least 12 months from December 31,2012".

(2)Rather than working towards reversing our economic slowdown, UPA 2
seems to be concentrating on the revival of larger profits
 to India Inc and international finance capital. This has found
expression with the calls for Gennext reforms from the recent
congress working committee meeting. The privatisation, with sizable
foreign financial participation, of pension funds is in
 the offing. Likewise, reforms seeking to increase foreign financial
particiapation in the insurance sector granting foreign
banks the right to take over private Indian banks appear to be in the
pipeline. These reforms were onthe agenda of the neo-
liberal trajectory since 2004. however they were prevented by the Left
parties during UPA. This resulted in the relative insula-
tion of the Indian economy from the devastating impact of the global
financial meltdown of 2008. This shield, so to speak, is now
sought tobe ripped apart.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, June 12, 2012)

(3)Today is the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US that
claimed 3,000 lives. The strike was heralded by a series of
   25 strikes in Iraq that killed more than 58 people and wounded over
250. Ironically, it was US president Barack Obama who onse
stated:"Al-qaeda in Iraq didnot exist before out invasion." According
to Rand, in the year before the Iraq war, there were only 13
  terror attacks in Iraq. In the year after the US invasion, there
were 224 terrorist attacks and 1,074 deaths.
  During this period. Rand data shows, there was over 650% increase in
terrrorism-related deaths in Pakistan. Likewise between
 2000 and 2006, the number of terrorist attacks in alll of west and
South asia rose from 404 to 5,638.
(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday September 11, 2012)

(4)In Assam, the violence of indigenous Assamese against the Bengali
Muslim community is described by the leaders of the BJP, All
  Assam Students Union and the Sangh organisations as righteous anger
against 'outsiders'. Economic refugees are emotively described
   as 'infiltrators' from Bangladesh, and although scholalrs estimate
that only around 10% of the Bengali Muslim in Assam are legal
  residents, by implication the attacks and ethnic cleansing of the
entire community is rationalised. Likewise, radicalised Islamist
  leaders use persecution of Muslims to provoke and justify mindless
violence of the kind witnessed in Mumbai.
  (source-Hindustan Times Tuessday, August 21, 2012)

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(1)This will lead to a paradoxical situation where poor muslim or christian students. the most deserving among the minorities, will be able to access RTE quotes in the schools run by
Hindus but not by their own community. indeed, the vast, vast majority of students in minority schools could be fee paying non-minorities.(source-hinsutan times monday
   april 16, 2012)

(2)Fear of and loathing for nuclear power is shared by millions worldwide. Their number have grown exponentially after Fukushima. Indeed, it couldnot have been otherwise.(source-hindustan times Tuesday, june 05,2012)

(3)The informal dinner in Brussels recently showed that many European leader are convinced a political compromise has to be found to stimulate growth and save Greece, the eurozone markets
and, indeed, the whole sigle market, so crucial to our economies.(source-hindustan times Saturday, May 26,2012)

(4)No intelligence organisation in the  world is blameless or has not had it share of errors of judgement. Indeed, there is no organisation in the world of any kind that has not made worse
mistake but in our country the principle of negativity is so strong, especially at present.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday May 22, 2012)

(5)It is not uncommon for those protesting against the sins of
omission or commission by governments  to make themselves head
  in prominent places. Indeed, we have witnesssed many such
demonstrations across the world, be it by students protesting hikes in
   fee as in England or excesses of profligate stockbrokers and
banker4s as in the Occupy Wall Street one.
   (source-Hindustan Times Tuesday August 28, 2012)

(6)In an emotionally surcharged and polarised polity, even riot
politics can become a zero-sum game. Son any television debate on
Gujrat
  2002 must necessarily draw an analogy to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Failure to do so opens one to the charge of bias and worse. Indeed,
  what unites every riots is the constant search for the 'enemy'. In
1984, the  assasination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards led
  to the labelling of every Sikh as an anti-nationnal. In 2002, the
killing of kar sevaks in the Sabarmati Express created a desire to
seek
  revenge for the act by singling oout every Muslim in Gujrat as a 'terrorist'.
  (source-Hindustan Times Friday, August 10, 2012)

(7)Those of you who have been saying that the post of  the governer is
ornamental and should be done way with should be ashamed of
   yourselves. Every now and again, these stalwarts come up with gems
on how to make us and our politicians better people. Karnataka's
  governer HR Bhardwaj has come up with a plan of ensuring that our
politics become good leaders. It is simple, you donot read up on the
  Constitution or work tirelessly for the downtrodden. No, you should
simply give up drinking. Indeed, Mr Bhardwaj had reached these heights
  after his wife read him the riot act on drinking.(source-Hindustan
Times Wednesday, September 12, 2012)

(8)The judgement of the special court in Ahmedabad convicting 32
people for their role in the Naroda-Patiya massacre should help heal
the
   wounds of the Muslim Community. It should also bolster their
resolve to secure justice through methods neither illegal nor
destructive.
  yet the verdict is not likely to diminish the fear the community has
about majority communalism, not persuade them to believe that the
  horror of Gujrat will never revisit them. Indeed, the very nature of
restorative justice makes it imperative that the impulse for it
 should emanate from society.(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday,
September 12, 2012)

(9)Mulayam singh yadav's double game-bullying the government for its
controversial economic meausres but at the same time allowing it
 to survive on the plea of fighting communal forces-may come a
cropper. Unfortunately for Mayawati, although she did give the UPA
1 regime a real scare, her plan misfired. The government's
wheeler-dealer armed with vast financial resouces managed to buy up
  stragglers mostly in the BJP and NDA to make up the numbers in the
Lok Sabha and sailed through confidence vote.
   She never recovered from this setback. Indeed, her thwarted
obsesssion to be the PM led her to neglect the more vital task of
   governing UP and she paid for this dearly with her party's
disappointing performance in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. This, in turn,
  affected her political stature in the state and a few years later
Mayawati crashed to an ignominious defeat in the assembly polls.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday October 04, 2012)

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(1 )In the last decade, the gujarat administration, led by chief minister Narendra Modi, has made strenous efforts to reinvent its image.(source-hinsutan times wednesday  april 11, 2012)

(2 ) In many cases, the bone of contention is the mother-in-law who is loath to her son escape her cluthes and go into those of another woman. (source-hinsutan times wednesday  april 11, 2012)

(3 )In the US, NGOs, philanthropies and goverment work tirelesssly to create the sort of communities that are produced in Mumbai's slums without much intervention at all. With a few exceptions, they have not succeeded. As a consequence, the poor in american cities and slums are often heavily dependent on the goverment for survival, have few skills with which to build communities, and have few economically marketable skills, assuming they could get to distant jobs at all.(source-hinsutan times monday april 23, 2012)  

(4) In his last days, been bin Laden worried that al-queda's name and
standing had been fatally compromised by  the indiscrimi
nate nature of violence.(source-hindustan times wednesday,may 02,2012)

( In other compartment, other than us, there were only two women
sitting on the other side of the aisle.(SOURCE HINDUSTAN
TIMES-friday, april 13,2012)

In most cases, private medical colleges are springing up as
businesses. Many of them donot even have proper running
 hospitals attached to them, which is mandatory.(source-hindustan
times monday,may 82,2012)

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(1)As we approach the centenary of Dadasaheb Phalke's 1913 silent
film, it is only natural that many actors
 who had played their part have departed from the scene. Of late, even
those with whom my post-independent
 India generation grew up have begun to leave us, the latest being the
universally recognised first super-
  star of Hindi-cinema, Rajesh Khanna. Super star created by their
times. Films that give expression
  to these times are product of a wide range of creative talents that
go into making a superhit.
  As times change, superstars fade away. A new generation creates its
own superstars.
        In this context recollect what the inimitatble Johnny walker
has once said when asked how he
 reconciled to being a 'nobody' later in life having ruled the
cinematic roost at one time.
 He said the Tenzing Norgay once climbed Mount Everest and stood at
the top of the world. He could not
 have continued to live there. Hence, he came down. the same is true
for everybody. Alas, this truth is
 seldom gracefully accepted by superstars.(source-Hindustan Times
Tuesday, July 31, 2012)


(2)here's another warning that the Indian economy is headed for a
sharp slowdown inflation is expected to stay high and the job
scene bleak. The PM's economy advisory council, headed by C
Rangarajan, on friday lowered its growth projection for 2012-13 to
6.7% from 7.5%. economic growth crashed to 6.5% in 2011-12 and by 5.3%
in January-March- a nine year low. Costly borrowing and
inputs have dampened investment activity as firms defer capacity
expansion plans, hurting job prospects. Companies have pruned
wage bills and offered lower salary skills. In this scenario, the
panel, in its economic outlook, underlined the need for bold
reforms, such as FDI in multi-brand retail and raising diesel
prices.(source-Hindustan Times Saturday, August 18, 2012)

(3)In today's inter-connected economy, where managerial actions have global implications, firms have a moral imperative to enhance societal welfare. Organisations must re-cast their business goals and objectives from a primary focus on enhancing shareholder value to enhanced corporate citizenship.
                    In this environment, managers must learn to preserve the human and natural  resources that nurture entrepreneurial opportunities.(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, August 22, 2012)


(4)BRICS represents the first important non-western global initiative
in the post-cold War World. But despite the forward movement
   achieved at the New Delhi summit, Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa  remain in serch of a common ground that can help
   turn BRICS into a weighty geopolitical alliance. without clearly
defined objectives and an agreed plan of action. In this light, BRICS,
   with its members' collective weight, can exercise significant
global financial clout if it gets its acts together. BRICS indeed can
be
   called the R-5, after the names of its members's currencies-the
real, rouble, rupee, renmibiti and rand.
  (source-Hindustan Times Friday, March 30, 2012)

(1)In this case, when the parents appealeed, the CWS was ordered to
return the children on the finding that there was no
   emergency. The CWS immidiately got a stay pending further appeal.
Again, this was extraordinary for interim orders.
    In any modern legal system, interim orders have to be justified on
grounds of emergency and it had just been
   abjudicated that there was none.(source-hindustan times friday,april 13,2012)

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The 15th Lok Sabha, formed after the UPA returned to power with a
healthier majority, is likely to go down as the most disrupted
since 1952, the year of the first general election. The data analysed
by PRS, a research body on the parliamentary system, show
the present term of Lok Sabha has already been disrupted more than any
other before, with a 27% shortfall in working hours- a
performance worse than 2004-2009 or 1999-2004 of the NDA regime. In
the moonsoon session , the Lok Sabha sat for about 23 hours
 against tghe scheduled 60 hours and the Rajya Sabha for 25 against
the planned 50 hours, till Friday.
(source- hindustan times Tuesday, August 28, 2012

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(1)Three persons were killed-all by relatives-over minor issues in
three different incidents in the Capital in the past 48 hours.
 In the first incident, a 25-year-old man was stabbed to death,
allegedly by his elder brother, after the victim verbally abused their
 mother who had disowned him because of his bad
habits.(source-Hindustan Times Fridday, November 06, 2012)

(2)A 27 year old student was killed and six persons were injured in
three seprate accidents reported from different parts of the capital,
 police said on Monday. In the first accident, four men suffered
injuries when an unknown vehicle crashed into their car on Phirni Road
 around 9 pm.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesdday, November 25, 2012)

(3)Three persons were killed adn four injured in two separate
accidents that took place in north and ease Delhi within minutes of
each other on
  Tuesday night, police said. In the first accident, a truck carrying
fruits and vegetables fell off a flyover near the Indira Gandhi Indoor
stadium
 around 3am, killing three persons. In another accident, a collision
between an Innova car and an unidentified hatchback near the
Akshardham temple
  left three persons injured.(source-Hindustan Times Thursday,
November 01, 2012)

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(1)Speaking on the virtual classroom facility, which has been hailed
by many as a solution to the country's education-
   related issues, IIM-RANCHI director MJ xavier said: " our hostel is
nearly 20 km from the campus. There are occasions
   when students find themselves unable to attend classes because of
medical reasons. Also, there could be some urgent
 matter back home, for which the student may have to go away. In such
cases, he can opt for attending classes from his
  laptop after registering his login credentials.(source-Hindustan
Times wednesday July 04, 2012)

(2)With this perception in mind, Delhi Police have tied up with
private companies that will provide professional training to girls
from
   economically weaker sections and later help them get jobs.
Currently, 15 girls from janakpuri and nearby areas are being trained
for
   two hours every day. the police said the idea behind to young girls
is to make them feel confident. "Most of these girls are uneducated
  and a number of them were forced into marriage at young age. With
only one earning member, they find it difficult to meet ends. In such
  cases, husbands started harassing them. If they earn on their own,
they can avoid harassment," a senior  police officer said.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday August 09, 2012)

(3)PA Sangma not only comprehensively lose the race for Rashtrapati
Bhawan to Pranab Mukherjee, but also appeared to have scored a
self-goal
due to the over enthusiasm shown by his team in attacking his rival
for holding several offices of profit. In such case, Sangma team has
got
its facts wrong. The Birbhumi Institute in West Bengal has denied that
Mukharjee ever held any post at the institute.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday, August 23, 2012)

(4)To meet the October 31 deadline for the switch-over from cable TV
to digital mode in four metro cities, the entertainment tax department
is
   planning a drive against local cable operators who have not
installed set-top boxes despite requests from customers. The move
follows complaints
   that some cable operators are not installing the devices even as
the digitisation deadline draws closer, officials said. " Cable
operators claim that
   70% connections have already gone digital and set-top boxes
installed. But we are getting complaints that the operators have kept
the devices with themselves,"
   said an entertainment tax department official. "In such cases, the
consumers should report the matter tot he sub-divisional magistrate or
our offices'" said
   officials.(source-Hindustan Times Saturday, October 13, 2012)

(5)You may think they are the future, but the future doesnot interest
them. One in five school students says that life is not worth living,
according to the Fortis
    Healthcare's teen suicide survey, conducted among 2,364 school
students aged between 13 and 19. "The survey underscrores the
lonelinesss in the Facebook and
   smartphone era and yet isolated because of the superficiality of
status updates," says Dr Samir Parikha.
         Often, emotional turmoil among teens is dismissed as
moodswings." In such cases, status updates are cry for help." says Dr
Rajesh Sagar, additional
   professor, department of psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical
sciences.(source-Hindustan Times Sunday, September 16, 2012)

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(1)In fact, in some cases, the cash incentive scheme for the girl
child has not found many takers.(hindustan times-tuesday
     ,may 01,2012)

(2)Compensation for the corporate and security takeover is meant to be
a lasting legacy of trickle-down regeneration,jobs,
   housing, tourism and greater participation in sport. But the
evidence show that, with the exception of Barcelona in
   1992, it never happens. In some cases, the economic impact has
actually been negative. The early signs that are that
   London is unlikely to buck the trend.(hindustan times-Thursday,
July 12, 2012)

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(1)Stung by a spate of fatal crashes on the newly opened Yamuna
Expressway, officials of the Greater Noida authority. Noida police and
Jaypee on Wednesday decided to ask the Central Road Research
Institue(CRRI) to suggest ways to avoid accidents and check if there
was
any need for a change in design. "We decided to install high speed
cameras on the expressway. In most cases(accidents), the vehicles
remain
unidentified. Cameras will help to identify the cause of accidents and
at what speed the vehicle move," explained officer.
(source hindustan times Thursday, September 6, 2012)

(2)In what being viewed as one of the biggest crackdowns on residents
at their houses, Delhi Police have identified 45 such households
  across the city where minors are working . The employers will be
arrested from employing minors. According to the Delhi Police
officials,
  the raids come following an extensive research carried out by Child
Welfare Committee, Dilshad Garden.
   According to srouces, the list of these houses was obtained from a
placement agency owner, who was arrested in February this year after
  minor girl was rescued from east delhi. "In most of the  cases, the
investigatiing agencies arrest only those who are involved in
  trafficking the child." said police officer.(source hindustan times
Saturday, September 01, 2012)

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(1)Parliament on Friday stood up for the right of people from
northeastern states to live anywhere in the country in a move aimed
at reassulring them that the government would ensure their safety and
take action against the miscreants. Rajya Sabha-which
suspended the Question Hour ended the discussion with a resolutoin
committing to the rights of people to live anywhere
in the country. In the Lok Sabha, speaker Meira Kumar invoked her
discretion to allow the discussion on the "sensitive issue".
 In its resolution, the Rajya Sabha demanded a thorough investigation
into the spread of rumours of impending attacks against
Northeast citizens in the wake of Assam violence.(source-Hindustan
Times Saturday, August 18, 2012)

(2)Google India on Monday approached the city cyber crime cell to file
a complain against Noida-based company for forgery and trademark
   violation, police said. According to the complaint, Royal E-Kutir
has duped several investors through its Sector 10-based unit named
  'Google Enterprise prive limited', which also bears the Google logo.
In its complaint, Google said the company had lured investors,
saying they were an upcoming Knowledge processing outsourcing
centre(KPO) affiliated to Google and Tata.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday, August 09, 2012)

(3)A man who had parked his car in a Metro station's parking lot was
awarded 50,000 as compensation by a district consumer forum after
someone had tried to break into it. A Private contractor, who was
managing the parking lot, was asked to pay damages and alos pay for
the
  theft. The damage was done to the car when it was in custody of
Opposite party No 2. The court studied the question of propriety and
  analysed the contract between the DMRC and the private contractor.
The DMRC, in its reply, agreed that according to the terms of
contract,
  the private contractor was liable for any damage to or theft to the
property. The amount can be recovered from its security deposit.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday, September 04, 2012)

(4)The CBI, which is probing alleged irregulation in the coal block
allocations, is likely to question the directors of Nagpur-based JLD
    Yavatmal Energy Limited-one of the nine accused firms-soon. The
agency had filed a case against the firm in September for allegedly
    misrepresenting and concealing facts in its application form to
get the Fatehpur captive coal block in Chattisgarh in 2008.
     In its FIR, the probe agency had also named six of its then
directors, including congress's Rajya Sabha member Vijay Darda,
    his brother and Maharashtra school education minister Rajendra and
his son Devendra, who have strongly rejected the CBI's charges.
    (source-Hindustan Times Friday, november 16, 2012)

(5)A to government panel has proposed raising the minimum jail term
from 2 to 5 yers for those found guily of causing mass deaths and
   destruction through their rash or negligent acts in man-made
disasters. In its 71-page consulation paper, seeking views of the
public
 on the issue , the commission also recalled that in the past it had
recommended enhancement of minimum jail term under this section to
  10 years.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday September 11, 2012)

(6)Pakistan's institutions are increasingly being diminished in a
series of bruising turf battles. In the latest episode of long-running
  serial, Pakistan's Supreme Court has asked new Prime Minister Raja
Pervez to appear before it yet again on September 18 for failing to
  write to the swiss authorities to reopen corruption cases against
President ashif ali zardari. In its August 8 order, a five-judge
  bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, displayed its impatience,
saying that the " restraint exercised" by the court was "not
  without any limit". The sentence is revealing- it appears  to be a
clear and present threat of Ashraf's position. The game, it appears,
   is to ensure that Ashraf's government remains as non-functional as Gilani's.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday September 06, 2012)

(7)The CBI on Monday produced the nodal officer of a private cellular
operator as its witness in the trial of the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case
    at Ghaziabad sessions court. On the basis of documents, witness
Deepak said several calles were exchanged between former UP police
officer
    KK Gautam and Dr Sushil Chaudhary. In its closure report, the CBI
hasd talked about the loop of calles between Chaudhary and Gautam on
    May 16 and May 17, 2008.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, October 23, 2012)

(8)The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to stay the September 11
Delhi government notification imposing a blanket ban on the
manufacture, sale,
   storage and display of all gutkha products. In its plea, the gutkha
manufacturer had said that the city government had issued the
notification as \
   per the Centre's August 2011 Regulations under the Food Safety and
Standards Act.(source-Hindustan Times Saturday, October 13, 2012)


(9)The inter-ministerial group(IMG) on Saturday recommended the
cancellation of two coal blocks allocated to Bhushan steel and SKS
ispat and power.
   With this, the IMG-which has reviewed around 18 coal blocks for
mining progress-has recommended de-allocation of as many as seven coal
blocks.
    The panel would meet again on September 17 to carry on with its
review process. In its review, the IMG also recommended deduction of
bank
   guarantees in four coal blocks. These blocks include Nerad Malegaon
Block, allotted to Gupta Coalfields and many more.
(source-Hindustan Times Sunday, September 16, 2012)

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(1)Slain airhostess Geetika Sharma was trying to part ways with her
employers before she killed herself, revealed an email recoverd by the
police. The email os addressed tO MDLR HR manager Aruna Chaddha, whose
police custody was extended by alocal court on Sunday. Apparently
depressed over continuous mental harassment allegedly at the hands of
Kanda, 23-year-old Sharma took the extreme step at her Ashok Vihar
residence in north-west Delhi. In her suicide note, Sharma, who quit
Kanda's company recently, accused the former Haryana minister of
mentally torturing her after she left the job.(source-Hindustan Times
Monday, August 13, 2012)

(2)A 40-year old employee of MTNL  has filed a complaint withe the
police, alleging that she was molested by her senior in office.
  the employee had brought the incident to the notice of her seniors a
month ago. but she had to approach the police after they reportedly
  failed to take any action against the senior. In her complaint, the
victim has alleged that she was harassed by her colleague with
  whom she had been working since past six years.
(source-Hindustan Times Fridday, November 04, 2012)

(3)In another incident of crime against senior citizens, a 70-year-old
woman had found killed in her Rohini Sector 8 house on Wednesday
   evening. The victim, identified as Gurjeet Kaur, used to live alone
and had retired as an assistant commissioner from the income tax
   department. It was Kaur's domestic help who discovered her body
when she arrive3d at the house around 4.15pm, and then reported the
   matter in  police. The domestic help, who discovered the body, has
also been questioned. In her statement, she said that she had
  found the main door opened  and Kaur's body was lying in the bedroom.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday, september 13, 2012)


(4)Nearly a week after the 17-year-old Ghaziabad girl alleged
physical, mental and sexual harassment by her father, some of her
family
   members, including her mother, approached the Kavi Nagar police
station in a bid to withdraw the case. In her case, the girl had asked
  for police protection. Later tow security persosnnel, including a
woman constable, were deputed for her security. Her family members
  on Saturday also demanded that the security cover be
removed.(source-Hindustan Times Sunday, October 14, 2012)


(5)A Delhi court on Thursday turned down former Haryana minister Gopal
Kanda's bail plea, saying investigation could be hampered if he was
released.
   Kanda is an accused in the Geetika Sharma murder case. Sharma, 23
year-old former airhostess with Kanda's MDLR airline, had committed
suicide at her
   residence on August5. In her suicide note,m she had accused Kanda
and MDLR official Aruna Chaddha, a co-accused, of harassing her.
   (source-Hindustan Times Friday, September 21, 2012)

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(1)Taxes on a litre of diesel in India are much higher than the
subsidy on it. In effect, the subsidy lowers the tax rate on
 diesel. it would be simpler, then, to lower the tax and dispense the
subsidy.(source-hinsutan times saturday,
 may 19, 2012)

(2)The outlines of a compromise were visible at the European summit.
Germany and other northern States would provide more
  money, in this specific case to help rescue the sinking Spanish
banking sector and ease Italy's  debt problems. In turn,
  these southern government agreed to surrender some more soverignty
to what is shaping up to be a European-wide banking
  regulator. In effect, slowly but surely, Europe is moving towards
the creation of a super-state.
  (source-Hindustan Times Monday, July 02, 2012)

(3)The centre after paying 68,000 crore to oil companies in 2011-2012,
paid an additional 38,000 crore to compensate them to
sell diesel, LPG and kerosense at below cost. This was supplemented by
an additional support of 52,000 crore from upstream oil
companies that came in the form of discounts on crude oil to these
companies. In effect, it is taxpayers' money and government
 borrowings that are keeping the oil companies profitable. in return,
the petroleum sector delivered 136,497 crore as taxes to
  the centre in 2010-2011.(source-Hindustan Times thursday, june 07, 2012)

(4)Foreign diplomats can finally study  while posted in India, with
the UPA government relaxing rules that till now
effectively barred from pursuing any academic programme at the
country's universities. The move comes after several
  foreign missions petitioned the Centre against the old regualation,
at a time when understading emerging economics like
  China and India is a key part of foreign relations for most
countries around the world. "In effect, we were told that we could
  not study while we were posted here," said a European diplomat who
wrote to the ministry of external affairs(MEA) on the regulation.
(source-Hindustan Times Friday, November 02, 2012)

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It was an accident a minute on India's roads in 2011. And one Indian
died every 3.7 minutes- one of the highest rates
in the world. Delhi, which reported 7,281 mishaps, came a distant
second to Mumbai on a 21-city list. But the capital had more
blood in its roads, accounting for the highest number of
fatalities-2,066, a drop from from 2,153 in 2010 but not by much.
In comparison, 610 people dies on Mumbai roads. Overall, 4.97 lakh
road accidents were reported  from across the country last
year, according to trasport ministry's report.(source-hindustan times
tuesday, july 24, 2012)

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(1)ONGC in partnership with other government firms plans to invest
3billion to explore oil and gas in Venezuela said
    Jyotiraditya Scindia, minister of state for commerce and industry,
on Wednesday. ONGC Videsh Ltd which has already
    invested 350million, intends to invest an additional 500 millionin
the San Cristobel oil field in South American
    country. In addition to this, OVL along with other state run oil
and gas firms like IOL and OIL INDIA proposes to
  invest 2.2 billionin the Carobodo project, taking the total proposed
investment to over 3 billion.(source-Hindustan
  Times Thursday, July 12, 2012)

(2)Mircrosoft Corp on Tuesday announced a 6.2% billion charge to write
down the value of an online advertising agency it
  bought five years ago. In addition to the write down, Microsoft said
its expectations for future growth and profitability
  at its online services unit which include the Bing serch engine and
MSN Internet portal-are" lower than previous
  estimates".(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, July 11, 2012)

(3)Government sources said that after the Samajwadi Party took over
the reins in Lucknow, the Metro expansion pland was
    changed and connectivity to Noida Extension became a priority. In
addition to Noida Extension, group housing projects
   are also  being constructed in various areas in Noida.(souce- THE
TIMES OF INDIA, Wednesday, July 09, 2012)

(4) Auto-rickshaw fares in the city are likely to increase with the
auto unions demanding a review of the existing rates.
    The Delhi transport department has  decided to meet
representatives of the unions on Thursday to hear out their demands
and
   suggestions. The auto unions  have been demanding a fare hike after
the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) was increased
   , and  the Delhi government refused to roll back the hike. In
addition to this, unions claim that even though the Supreme
     court had directed the transport department to issue 45,000 new
permits to run new auto-rickshaws in the city, Delhi govern
  ment did not act. (source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, August 07, 2012)

(5)Flood with complaints regarding inflated bills, Delhi chift
Minister  Sheila Dikshit has directed the power departments to address
  the issue.  According to sources, Dikshit has asked the distribution
companies to examine their billing system as a number of people
  have complained about inflated bills. Power tariff for domestic
consumers was hiked by a steep 26 percent in June. The new tariff
  came into effect from July 1. The delhi government has also chalked
out a power plan to meet the demand for next year's summer season.
   In addition to this, Uttar Pradesh has provided land to Transco
limited to construct six towers for the Maharani bagh-Ghazipur line.
 (source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, September 04, 2012)


(6)With no signs of the economic slowdown abating, the Planning
Commission has trimmed the funding for India's socio-economic
development
   for the 12th plan. the panel now projected 27,10,840 crore funding
for the 12th plan allocation, as against the earlier estimate of
35,00,
  ,000 crore. the final allocation willl be decided at a meeting by
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday. In addition to the slowdown
, the government's inability to reduce its subsidy burden because of
political compulsions is yet another reason for the plan not being
  able to spare huge funds for the social sector.
(source-Hindustan Times Thursday, September 13, 2012)

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(1)In April, TRAI had recommneded a pan-india spectrum price of
rs4,170 crore for one MHz of spectrum in the 900 Mhz band.
(souce-Hindustan Times Wednesday, June 20, 2012)

(2)PMO on Wednesday directed the power ministry to float a fresh
proposal on slapping higher duty on imported power gear,
 a move aimed at cushioning domestic manufacturers such as BHEL AND
L&T against cheap imports, mainly from China.
 In May, the cabinet had deferred the proposal to raise the duty on
imported power gear.(souce-Hindustan Times
  Wednesday, June 20, 2012)

(3)Business leaders have been demanding a cut in interest rates to
nurse companies wounded by slumping demand, high borrowing
costs and rising commodity prices. In April, the RBI had slashed the
repo rate its key lending rate by 0.50 percentage
 points to 8%.(source-Hinsutan Times Wednesday June 13, 2012)

(4)But they donot have access to the full design. The government has
misled on Koodankulam. In september, it suspended work
 until people's safety concerns were allayed by an official "expert
group".(source-hindustan times Tuesday, june 05,2012)

(5)The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs is on Thursday expected
to allow the export of 2 million tonnes of wheat.
  "On the agenda is a proposal to allow the export of wheat stored in
Food Corporation of India godowns," a highly placed
  source said. Last week, 17 nations had expressed an interest in
importing wheat from India. In December, the police
  department had conducted a fitness test on 84 oversized men in which
25 had failed the test and were sent to non-field
  postings.(source-Hindustan Times Tuesday, July 03, 2012)

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1)As we approach the centenary of Dadasaheb Phalke's 1913 silent
film, it is only natural that many actors
 who had played their part have departed from the scene. Of late, even
those with whom my post-independent
 India generation grew up have begun to leave us, the latest being the
universally recognised first super-
  star of Hindi-cinema, Rajesh Khanna. Super star created by their
times. Films that give expression
  to these times are product of a wide range of creative talents that
go into making a superhit.
  As times change, superstars fade away. A new generation creates its
own superstars.
        In this context recollect what the inimitatble Johnny walker
has once said when asked how he
 reconciled to being a 'nobody' later in life having ruled the
cinematic roost at one time.
 He said the Tenzing Norgay once climbed Mount Everest and stood at
the top of the world. He could not
 have continued to live there. Hence, he came down. the same is true
for everybody. Alas, this truth is
 seldom gracefully accepted by superstars.(source-Hindustan Times
Tuesday, July 31, 2012)

(2)As the latest salvo in his cleansing agenda, and in the run-up to
the proposed indefinite fast of India
  Against Corruption from july 25, Mr kejriwal was in Jodhpur. While
there, he demanded the Pranab Mukherjee, the
  congress's presidential nominee, must be throughly probed regarding
graft allegations pertaining to a 2002
  Ghana rice export scam and the Scorpene submarine deal. Mr kejriwal
apparently feared that once elected
 to the August office, Mr Mukharjee would enjoy immunity from any
proceedings. Hence, his preemptive prescription.
(source-Hindustan Times Tuessday, June 19, 2012)

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(1)Bin laden's successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has tried to use the
anti-assad battle to rehabilitate the al-qaeda brand.
(source-Hinsutan Times wednesday May 02, 2012)

(2)The BCCI, which runs the league, has suspended five players caught
on camera talking about black money and spot-fixing.
 (source-Hinsutan Times Monday May 21, 2012)

(3)Indian Army chief general Vk singh's letter to prime minister
Manmohan Singh, highlighting the "critical" operational gaps in
the army's fighting capabiliites, has forced the nation to feel that
the political and bureucratic leadership of the country
 has failed to plan our defence needs.(source-Hinsutan Times Wednesday
April 11, 2012)

(4)The terror group has not been able to recover from  the US drone
strikes and the death of leadership, Ayman-Zawahiri, the
new amir of al-queda, who been able to restore the confidence and
motivation of its central command and control.
(source-Hinsutan Times Wednesday April 11, 2012)

(5)That the existing university system is incapable of taking a
massive change like the semesterisation, at the pace at which
it was introduced, has by now become to obvious to bear
repetition.(source-Hinsutan Times Monday May 07, 2012)

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The fierce and fraught ground of gender equality has got itself a shot in the arm. oxford university, among the oldest educational institutions in the world and a venerated seat of learning, has decided to ease up on the strict dress codes for formal occasion that it prescribed for male and female students. From now on, men can very well wander into a dinner skirt and stockings while there is no preventing a woman from sporting a tie and jacket at those very dos.(source-Hindustan Times
Tuesday, July 31, 2012)

we now face a complex challenge. protecting the enviroment is not enough. we need to encourage public and private decision-makers to incorporate environmental and social concerns into economic planning and growth
strategies. this will require a new thinking from policymakers,
experts, business people and project manegers.
  from now one, a three dimentional approach to development is
crucial, one that combines social, economic
and environmental concerns.(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, June 27, 2012)

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For the last two decades, we have been gratified, bamboozled and sometimes alarmed by the surprises it has sprung. (source-Hindustan Times wednesday May 02, 2012)

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(1)There are three realities about India that we must remember, and it
is sometimes worth reminding the government about them.
 first, india is vibrant democracy with a constitutionally guaranteed
right to free speech and liberty. second, despite
 out problem india's democratic model is an aspirational one for many
countries of the world.(source-hindustan times
friday,april 13,2012)

(2)This state visit is an opportunity to make up for lost time. New
delhi needs to realize that a serious engagement with
 Myanmar will have to work at several levels. First, India's greatest
assest is its civil society, including its private
 corporate sector. Second, the constitutional issues regarding
Mynammar's ethnic patchwork are as difficult as the
 military-civilian relations. Third, there must be recognition that
the nature of upper Burma, with its similarities to
 India's North-east, law and order problems and its land-basedd
connectivity, would require a set of policies different
 from Lower Burma.(source-hindustan times Saturday, May 26,2012)

(3)The brouhhaha spawned by the revelation that the army cheift
General VK signh was offfered 14 crore as a quid pro quo
   for sanctioning substandard equipment brings to the fore a fatal
flaw that continues to dog our cognitive thought process;
  a debilitating defect that blurs out logical acuity and thwarts out
ability to arrive at a fruitful decesion. Analyse the
  trajectory of thee debate in the wake of hte briberty controvery:
first, the congress spokesman skirts the mam issue and responds
   with a countercharge in an attempt to deflect on the general
himself by questioning his inertia in pursuing  the matter. Second,
   the General's integrity is questioned by emphasising the timing of
his allegation and its temporal relationship to his birth date
    controversy.(source-hindustan times Saturday, April 02,2012)

(4)As India fulminates after a 16-year-old student was slapped,
dragged, groped and stripped on Guwahati street last week, it is clear
this
  abdomination is not about one woman against a mob of opportunistic,
brutel men. This is a story of a dangerous decline in Indians and
India
  itself, of not just failing morality but disintegrating public
governance when it comes to women. First, the moral failures of
emerging India.
  The girl fails every test of the hypocrisy that governs public
logic, she goes to a bar, she gets into an argument with some men,
possibly
   shaming a man trying to film her, she walks out alone. The mob
outside passes every test of public immortality: on the shamed man's
urging,
   men-seemingly normal men with jobs and no criminal records-drag the
girl by her hair onto the street; many watch, no one intervenes,
except
   for an older man, 20men join assault. A journalist at the scene,
perhaps the same man who bickered with her, instead of calling the
police,
   calls in a camera crew. The girl is barely home before her trauma
is broadcast on television.
            Second, the governance failure. The first calls to a local
police station go unanswered, and the station house officer is
suspended
   for dereliction of duty but only after national attention. The
search for suspects does not get underway after the broadcast of the
assault.