Monday,
November
10,
2008, Chandigarh, India
Updated at 3:00 am (IST)
Growth
to be hit, but banks safe: PM Asks Oman to invest in Indian
infrastructure sector Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh today indicated that there might “somewhat”
be a slowdown in the economic growth next year but asserted
that fundamentals of the Indian economy were strong with the
banking system safe.
India,
Qatar sign defence, security pacts Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh arrived here this evening on the second leg of
his three-day visit to the Gulf states of Sultanate of Oman
and Emirate of Qatar, where he signed two agreements on
defence and security. The defence cooperation agreement
includes issues of maritime security, while the pact on
security and law enforcement will cover issues like common
threat perceptions and sharing of data.
Malegaon
Blasts Trail
leads to Hindutva laboratory Spotlight turns on
hardcore elements in VHP Mumbai, November 9
Investigators probing
last September’s bomb blasts in Maharashtra’s Malegaon
town have discovered the involvement of senior activists
belonging to Vishwa Hindu Parishad based in Gujarat.
Editorial India:
Bold, beautiful and the ugly By H. K. Dua In
a really
great moment of history that sometimes witnesses a dream
turning into a reality, India’s “Chandrayaan” said
goodbye to the mother earth yesterday and quietly moved
into another orbit, willing to be embraced by the moon.
India’s rendezvous with the planet it has always
looked at with a loving eye in its folklore may take
place after a few more exploratory trips around it,
possibly before the weekend.
HCS
officer’s wife, 2 kids found dead Police recovers
suicide note Samalkha (Panipat),
November 9
In a gruesome incident,
the wife and two children of a Haryana Civil Services (HCS)
officer were found dead with bullet injuries in their heads
here today.
20
die in N-sub gas leak Russian vessel was to be leased
to India Moscow, November 9
In Russia's worst naval accident in
nearly a decade, at least 20 people, including three sailors, were
killed and 21 injured in a gas leakage during a sea trial of a brand-new
nuclear-powered Nerpa submarine that was to be leased to India later
this year.
Obama
to get over 10 times the salary of Indian Prez New Delhi/New York,
November 9
Barack Obama, as the next President
of the world’s largest economy, will get an annual salary of $400,000,
an amount ten times more than the emoluments being paid to the Indian
President.
A Tribune Special Green future of Kashmir under threat India’s ‘paradise’
— Kashmir — is threatening to lose its charming picture postcard
beauty. The danger has nothing to do with the separatists’ fight for
‘azadi.’ The deafening war cries for ‘azadi’ in Kashmir has led
local players, their patrons across the border and the state authorities
to ignore a ‘time bomb’ that may, in a few decades, convert the
valley’s lush green fields and mountains into a barren desert
resembling adjoining
high-altitude Ladakh.
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Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh today indicated that there might “somewhat”
be a slowdown in the economic growth next year but asserted
that fundamentals of the Indian economy were strong with the
banking system safe.
