Sanyog - Instablogs
Nov 6 2009
Pakistan has been accused of economic sabotage after a surge in the amount of counterfeit currency being discovered in the vaults of India’s central bank. The Reserve Bank of India discovered 400,000 counterfeit notes in its coffers in the year to...
Nov 6 2009
Sachin Tendulkar, two weeks short of completing his two decades in international cricket, scored a brilliant 175 as he crossed his personal milestone of 17,000 ODI runs in the fourth One-Day International against Australia here Thursday.
Sep 23 2009
The President of the Maldives, the Indian Ocean islands threatened with extinction by rising sea levels, told the United Nations climate-change summit yesterday that the country’s appeals for help had fallen on deaf ears for 20 years. “Once or...
Sep 17 2009
As the morning commuter train rattled down the track, Chinu Sharma, an office worker, enjoyed the absence of men. Some of them pinch and grope women on trains, or shout insults and catcalls, she said. Her friend Vandana Rohile agreed and widened her...
Sep 4 2009
Pakistan on Thursday said it was “disturbed” by reports that India could be preparing for additional nuclear tests and hoped a unilateral moratorium on testing would remain in place in the region. “We are disturbed by media reports...
Aug 7 2009
A probe has been launched into the death of an Indian man after photographs were published appearing to show that he had been executed by police. Police claimed they shot hospital attendant Chongkham Sanjit, 27, after he fired on them during a chase...
Aug 5 2009
I think India’s status as a democracy - irrespective of size - is firstly undermined by a political class that thinks it is above the law, by an administrative machinery that thinks it is above the law, and - going by how upset they are at being...
Jul 15 2009
Etymology aside, I have always been convinced that the word indigenous arose from India. To make something out of limited resources is India’s genius and, therefore, indigenous. After centuries of foreign attacks, changing cultures and...
Jul 6 2009
The Sri Lankan Government is trying to siphon off millions of pounds of humanitarian aid by imposing a 0.9 per cent tax on all funding for aid groups, including the British charities Oxfam and Save the Children Fund, The Times has learnt. Aid workers...
Jul 3 2009
Lalgarh is a small area where a section of the Indian tribal people lives. Lalgarh is in the Indian state of West Bengal and is in the district of West Medinipur. The area has been occupying the front page of all the dailies in India in recent times due...