Feb 19, 2015
News Bits - 19 Feb 2015
- Faced with the unenviable task of persuading recalcitrant Opposition leaders to help the government convert six ordinances into Acts of Parliament, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu has called an all-party meeting on Sunday , Bills have to be passed within six weeks of the opening of the session.
- India-Israel ties out in the open, says Ya’alon.
- Stressing on the need for domestic manufacture of defence equipment to equip the country for the future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon foreign defence manufacturers to become strategic partners as he
The Hindu News - 19 Feb 2015
Another tussle on the cards over ordinances
Faced with the unenviable task of persuading recalcitrant Opposition leaders to help the government convert six ordinances into Acts of Parliament, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu has called an all-party meeting on Sunday. This will be followed by a dinner hosted by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to drive home the same message.
Time is of the essence as the ordinances must be converted into law in the first half of the session ending March 20 as they have to be passed within six weeks of
[Ed] Pharma needs the right prescription
The existing three-tier review system for obtaining product patents should be simplified as in US and Europe
The NDA Government’s hallmark ‘Make in India’ programme can potentially be a game-changer in fulfilling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of transforming the currently anaemic $2 trillion economy into a $20 trillion power house.
Achieving this vision would necessitate a sustained, year-on-year growth of 9 per cent going forward. The pharmaceuticals and biotechnology sectors can play a significant role in
[Ed] In the beginning, there was the world
A new gospel?
Well, sort of. It’s about a new theory in physics which says the Big Bang never happened.
I knew this! And God said, Let there be light...
Hold on. This new theory only says the Big Bang may not have occurred the way we thought it did. In fact, the new theory says the universe always existed.
Mea Culpa! But who says this?
Physicists Ahmed Farag Ali from Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and
[Ed] Politics of rape in Kashmir
The ‘high-profile’ cases of sexual violence in the Kashmir Valley show a pattern of intimidation and threats that have been deployed by the government, the police and the military so that the cases do not reach the trial stage
Last year at a seminar in Srinagar, women from Kunan-Poshpora, twin villages in Kupwara district of Kashmir, publicly recounted the night of February 23, 1991, when soldiers of the Indian Army invaded their lives, privacy and dignity. Masquerading as a “cordon and search operation to
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