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<title><![CDATA[Molester cop Rathore arrested, sentence enhanced to 18 months]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former Haryana police Chief S.P.S Rathore was on Tuesday sentenced to 18 months in prison by a Chandigarh court for the 1990 molestation of teenager Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide three years later. Rathore was arrested immediately.
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP withdraws support, Jharkhand government in minority]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday withdrew support to the five-month-old Shibu Soren-led government in Jharkhand, reducing it to a minority and plunging the state into political uncertainty yet again.
&quot;We have withdrawn support from ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shark inspired paint can cut down aviation costs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/shark-inspired-paint-can-cut-down-aviation-costs.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[An innovative paint, inspired by shark scales, can reduce fuel consumption in airplanes and ships by minimizing resistance in water or air. 
The scales of fast-swimming sharks have evolved in a manner that significantly diminishes drag, or their ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India to observe May 21 as Anti-Terrorism Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/india-to-observe-may-21-as-anti-terrorism-day.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India will observe Anti-Terrorism Day Friday to mark former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination on May 21, 1991.
The home ministry said in a statement Thursday: &quot;Anti-terrorism Day is observed to generate awareness among all sections ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Season's first Indian conquest of Mt Everest goes unnoticed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/seasons-first-indian-conquest-of-mt-everest-goes-unnoticed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The first Indian summiting of Mt Everest this season has gone virtually unnoticed with the western press, which dominates mountaineering news, ignoring it while Nepal's tourism and civil aviation ministry yet to issue the obligatory press ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Andhra on high alert as cyclonic storm intensifies]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/andhra-on-high-alert-as-cyclonic-storm-intensifies.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The administration in Andhra Pradesh's coastal region on Tuesday went on high alert as the cyclonic storm Laila intensified and is likely to cross the coast near Machilipatnam.
Second warning signals have been hoisted at all Andhra ports as the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maoists blow up bus in Chhattisgarh, 20-30 dead]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Maoist guerrillas blew up a bus in a forested stretch of Chhattisgarh on&nbsp;Monday, killing 20-30 civilians and special police officers (SPOs), police sources and locals said.
The bus was ripped apart by a powerful landmine as it made its way on .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan should do more to check extremists: Clinton]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/pakistan-should-do-more-to-check-extremists-Clinton.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants Pakistan to do more to check extremists and has warned of consequences if a terrorist attack is traced back to that country.
&quot;We think that there's more that has to be done,&quot; she said Thursday ..]]></description>
<pubDate>14 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cabinet approves Indian National Defence University]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/cabinet-approves-indian-national-defence-university.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The cabinet on Thursday sanctioned Rs.295 crore for establishing an Indian National Defence University (INDU) to create synergy between existing institutes of learning in the sector and address strategic security challenges.
&quot;The union cabinet ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Surender Koli gets death for Nithari killing]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/surender-koli-gets-death-for-nithari-killing.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Surender Koli, convicted for the rape and murder of seven-year-old Arti from Noida's Nithari village, was on&nbsp;Wednesday sentenced to death by a special court here.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special judge A.K. Singh said Koli was to .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US intelligence indicates Shahzad had ties to Pakistani Taliban]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/us-intelligence-indicates-shahzad-had-ties-to-pakistani-taliban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[By Arun Kumar
The US has turned up independent evidence that ties Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American suspect in the attempted bombing in New York's Times Square, to the Pakistani Taliban militant group, according to a media report.
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Goa safe haven for Maoist elements: BJP]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/goa-safe-haven-for-maoist-elements-bjp.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Goa has become a safe haven for Maoist elements, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged here on Monday after two rebels were arrested in the state last week. 
Former state BJP president Rajendra Arlekar said that the arrest of two Maoists ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now Himachal police just an SMS away]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/now-himachal-police-just-an-sms-away.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Apart from dialing 100, one can now send an SMS to the police in Himachal Pradesh for any assistance.
The SMS facility was launched on Thursday whereby one can seek help by sending a message on a designated 10-digit number - 9459100100. 
&quot;Now ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama wants to begin immigration reform this year]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/obama-wants-to-begin-immigration-reform-this-year.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[By Arun Kumar
President Barack Obama has repeated his call for &quot;common sense comprehensive immigration reform&quot; to begin this year with the support of his own Democratic and rival Republican parties.
&quot;I want to begin work this ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Times Square bomb suspect travelled often to Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/times-square-bomb-suspect-travelled-often-to-pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistan-born suspect who tried to explode a car bomb in Times Square, had lived legally in the US for 10 years and apparently often travelled to Pakistan.
Shahzad, 30, who has admitted to getting bomb making training in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[All set for 26/11 trial verdict]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/all-set-for-26-11-trial-verdict.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The fate of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone Pakistani terrorist captured after the audacious attack on India's financial and entertainment capital on 26/11, will be decided by Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani here on&nbsp;Monday. 
As per ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 May 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US must reassure Pakistan about India, says US official]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/us-must-reassure-Pakistan-about-India-says-us-official.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[By Arun Kumar
With Pakistan's traditional defence posture still geared to conventional military conflict with India and not counterinsurgency, a top Pentagon official says the US needs to reassure an Islamabad wary about growing India-US ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gilani, Manmohan begin talks in]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[By Sarwar Kashani
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani began formal talks Thursday afternoon in a bid to explore the possibilities of resuming their long-stalled dialogue and normalisation of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[If you use more power, pay more: Sheila Dikshit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hinting at a hike in power tariff, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Wednesday said if people use more power, they should pay for it.
She said the government cannot afford to subsidise power in the city.
&quot;Prices of all essential things have ]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India to examine Pakistan's Kasab request]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/india-to-examine-pakistans-kasab-request.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India on Monday said it will examine Pakistan's request seeking the testimony of Indian officials who recorded Ajmal Kasab's confessional statement after legal formalities end in the trial of the lone gunman captured alive in the 26/11 Mumbai ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SAARC to sign pacts on environment, trade]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/saarc-to-sign-pacts-on-environment-trade.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In its silver jubilee year, the eight-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) will focus on climate change and sign two pacts on environment and trade at its 16th summit to be held in Bhutan's capital Thimphu April ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US praises NREGS as innovative]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/us-praises-nregs-as-innovative.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[By Arun Kumar
India's ambitious job guarantee scheme for the rural poor, the NREGS, was praised as &quot;innovative and dynamic&quot; by US Labour Secretary- Hilda Solis who said Washington hoped to learn from it.
Praise from Solis came as labour .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians on death row in UAE allege torture]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indians-on-death-row-in-UAE-allege-torture.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Seeking justice, 17 Indian youth on the death row in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have alleged before human rights activists from India that they have been framed in the murder case of a Pakistani national after being tortured.
Representatives of ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian carriers prepare to fly to Europe]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Air India and Jet Airways prepared to fly to Europe after Heathrow airport in London opened to air traffic at 2 a.m. (IST) on Wednesday. 
The airlines have not been flying to Europe since April 15 after an ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spread ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To fight Maoism, poor need to be taken care of: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/To-fight-Maoism-poor-need-to-be-taken-care-of-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Admitting that Maoism is the result of under-development, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday advocated the need to ensure that the poor share equitably the benefits of development.
He also told a function on the Civil Services Day here that ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-origin man sells lottery ticket that won $500,000]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-origin-man-sells-lottery-ticket-that-won-500000.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[An Indian-origin store owner in New Zealand sold a lottery ticket that won $500,000 and the prize was claimed by a man with just a day to spare after the ticket was found by chance in a drawer.
The winner had bought the ticket from Ponsonby's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tharoor's ouster a blow to India's Africa surge]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tharoor-ouster-a-blow-to-India-Africa-partnership.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Shashi Tharoor visited Liberia in September last year, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf broke protocol and attended a reception organised by the Liberian foreign minister in his honour. Next day, Johnson-Sirleaf invited Tharoor for a breakfast ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tharoor makes an emotional pitch to PM, cites naivety to Indian politics]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tharoor-makes-an-emotional-pitch-to-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two days after quitting as minister over alleged links to the Kochi IPL franchise, a &quot;deeply wounded&quot; Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday that his conscience was clear and that he had asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Giving voting rights to NRIs not easy, says Chawla]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Giving-voting-rights-to-NRIs-not-easy-says-Chawla.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even though the Manmohan Singh government is keen to give voting rights to non-resident Indians (NRIs), Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla says it appears this may not be an easy task.
Interacting with reporters here, Chawla said the Election ]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India launches its first anti-submarine corvette]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-launches-its-first-anti-submarine-corvette.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India on Monday launched its first anti-submarine warfare corvette that will boost Navy's fighting capability when commissioned in 2012.According to officials, the corvette, Yard 3017, was launched by Mamatha M., wife of Minister of State of Defence ]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian Indian school students honoured]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Malaysian-Indian-school-students-honoured.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As many as 137 Malaysian Indian achievers in high school examinations received awards, certificates and gifts from an Indian NGO.
The students who received the best student awards include Prakash Pannersavan who scored 11As, Prethibha Sivadas who ..]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clouds thinning, airspaces opening, says Eurocontrol]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Clouds-thinning-airspaces-opening-says-Eurocontrol.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The cloud of volcanic ash over Europe is beginning to thin and a number of countries have been able to reopen their airspace, European air traffic control body Eurocontrol said Monday.
The cloud from an Icelandic volcano has forced the widest and ..]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India warned about growing Khalistani pockets in Canada]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-warned-about-growing-Khalistani-pockets-in-Canada.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Former Canadian health minister Ujjal Dosanjh has warned India to wake up to the danger posed by Khalistani elements in Canada after he was threatened not to attend the upcoming annual Baisakhi parade in the city of Surrey near here ..]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[$25,000 award for missing Sikh woman, family suspect]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Award-for-missing-Sikh-woman.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sikh family here is under investigation after the disappearance of its daughter-in-law in February. Her husband has meanwhile announced an award of $25,000 for clues about her whereabouts.
Poonam Litt, who worked as a receptionist with a dentist, ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IPL row stalls parliament, Tharoor denies impropriety]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IPL-row-stalls-parliament-Tharoor-denies-impropriety.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The controversy over Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's alleged involvement in the IPL franchise business stalled parliament proceedings Friday with angry opposition members demanding an explanation from the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Flights to London, Europe cancelled due to volcano ash]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Flights-to-London-Europe-cancelled-due-to-volcano-ash.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Many international airlines, including Indian carriers, have either cancelled or rescheduled their flights to north European destinations following volcanic ash clouding the flight path, a top Air India official said on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[39 diaspora youth get a glimpse of India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nearly-39-diaspora-youth-get-a-glimpse-of-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi Thursday honoured 39 young people of Indian origin from all over the world who had come on a programme to know and understand their native country.
The 14th Know India Programme (KIP) ]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iceland's volcanic ash cloud disrupts flights across Europe]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Iceland-volcanic-ash-cloud-disrupts-flights-across-Europe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS/DPA) Air traffic across northern Europe was severely affected on Thursday by ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland that forced airports including London's Heathrow airport - Europe's largest hub - to shut down.
The drifting ash from .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's cryogenic rocket programme fails to deliver]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-cryogenic-rocket-programme-fails-to-deliver.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India's space programme suffered a setback on Thursday as its indigenous cryogenic engine did not live up to expectations, developing a last-second technical snag after lift-off from the spaceport in Sriharikota (Andhra ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dantewada attack prompts repeated adjournments of Lok Sabha]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Dantewada-attack-prompts-repeated-adjournments-of-Lok-Sabha.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) There were unpleasant scenes in the Lok Sabha on Thursday with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Congress accusing each other of using Maoist guerrillas for electoral gains, prompting repeated ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Go back', attackers told Indian student in Australia]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Attackers-told-Indian-student-in-Australia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian student, who was viciously attacked and robbed in this Australian city, says the assault was racially motivated and the assailant screamed, &quot;Go back to your own country&quot;.
Neeraj Bhardwaj, 23, was waiting for a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian PM greets Tamils, Sikhs on New Year]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Malaysian-PM-greets-Tamils-Sikhs-on-New-Year.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak on Wednesday greeted Tamils and Sikhs on their New Year. 
Najib, now in Washington to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, took time off to write in his blog www.1Malaysia.com.my to extend his .]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will act against Tharoor only after checking facts: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Will-act-against-Tharoor-only-after-checking-facts-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The fresh controversy brewing around Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor reached Washington with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday saying he will decide on any action against his junior foreign minister for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I am not a proxy for Tharoor: Sunanda Pushkar]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/I-am-not-a-proxy-for-Tharoor-Sunanda-Pushkar.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Sunanda Pushkar, who has been linked to the Indian Premier League (IPL) Kochi team controversy, Wednesday blasted her critics and denied acting as a proxy for her friend and Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor.
In a .]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair set up at Columbia varsity]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Dr-BR-Ambedkar-Chair-set-up-at-Columbia-varsity.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Columbia University has instituted a Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair at its law school and two Professor Jagdish Bhagwati scholarships with support from the Indian government.
The chair, at the Columbia University Law School in honour of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton says 'Shubho Nobo Borsho' to Bengalis]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shubho-Nobo-Borsho-to-Bengalis.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Nobel Prize winning Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore has enriched humanity and made Bengalis around the world proud, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday, wishing the community &quot;Shubho Nobo Borsho&quot;.
&quot;This ..]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dhindsa meets Indians on death row in UAE, assures help]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Dhindsa-meets-Indians-on-death-row-in-UAE.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Rajya Sabha member and former union minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa has met the 17 Indians facing death sentence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a Pakistani national's murder and assured them of justice and full support of the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian community mourns death of Polish president]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-community-mourns-death-of-Polish-president.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Indian community in Poland on Saturday mourned the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in an air crash and said they had lost a &quot;steadfast friend&quot;.
&quot;It is a terrible loss for us Indians as President Kaczynski .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP demands German group apology for comment on Modi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-demands-German-group-apology-for-comment-on-Modi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday demanded an apology from Germany for the &quot;undiplomatic&quot; remarks made by a German parliamentary delegation about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi during a recent visit to the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-origin ex-MP's wife out of Canadian government]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-origin-ex-MP-wife-out-of-Canadian-government.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Indian-origin ex-MP Rahim Jaffer, who became an embarrassment for the Canadian prime minister because of alleged shady deals, saw his minister wife being sacked from the cabinet on Friday.
Helena Guergis, who is in charge of women ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Polish president, a friend of India, dies in air crash]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Polish-president-a-friend-of-India-dies-in-air-crash.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Polish President Lech Kaczynski, a great admirer of India, was killed Saturday with his wife Maria and 130 others including almost all his aides when their aircraft crashed in foggy weather while landing in Russia, officials said. 
The disaster, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-American fined $10 mn for medicare fraud]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-American-fined-10-mn-dollor-for-medicare.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian American has been sentenced to 81 months in prison and asked to pay $9.7 million in restitution along with his accomplices for his role in a wide-ranging $18 million conspiracy to defraud the Medicare programme.
US District ]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM backs Chidambaram, returns the resignation offer]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-rejects-Chidambaram-resignation-offer.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh &quot;fully backs&quot; Home Minister P. Chidambaram and had rejected his offer of resignation following the Maoist massacre of 76 security personnel in Chhattisgarh, government sources said.
&quot;PM ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India is a vital market for US companies]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-is-a-vital-market-for-US-companies.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Eyeing India's $150 billion nuclear pie, a strong US business delegation embarks on a trade mission to the country next week with a promise to keep pushing for easing rules for export of high tech items to India.
&quot;By looking to .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian PM opts for Indian party's nominee in by-poll]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/malaysian-pm-india.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) nominee will contest a key parliamentary by-election, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has announced.
The Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election will be contested by the MIC because the seat belonged .]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Goa CM Parrikar alleges that Goa advertising festival promotes drugs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Goa-advertising-festival-promotes-drugs.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Goa Fest 2010, an advertising festival of top billing being held at the picturesque Cavellosim beach, promotes drug use and attracts narcotics cartels, former state chief minister Manohar Parrikar said on Thursday. 
Speaking at a ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maoists get weapons from across the border: Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-get-weapons-from-across-the-border.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Two days after Maoist guerrillas killed 76 security personnel in Chhattisgarh, Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said the leftist insurgents were procuring arms from &quot;across the border&quot;.
&quot;There are bazaars ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NRI Sant Chatwal not happy about controversy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NRI-Sant-Chatwal-not-happy-about-controversy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) New York-based hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal, recipient of the nation's third highest civilian honour, said he is not happy about the controversy surrounding his getting the Padma Bhushan.
&quot;I am certainly not a happy man about the ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sikh kids join White House Easter Egg Roll]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sikh-kids-join-White-House-Easter-Egg-Roll.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) For the first time, a group of Sikh American children attended the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House, a tradition at the executive mansion that dates back to 1878.
The Sikh Coalition, a community advocacy group, said it ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyber espionage: Chinese hackers steal India's secret files]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chinese-hackers-steal-Indian-secret-files.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Secrets files of India's missile projects, troop deployments and military schools have been stolen by hackers of the so-called `Shadow Network', exposing unprecedented Chinese cyber offensive against India, dozens of other nations and ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grief, resolve as cops, Chidambaram pay homage to CRPF martyrs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chidambaram-pay-homage-to-CRPF-martyrs.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) There were tears and grim resolve Wednesday as policemen joined Home Minister P. Chidambaram in a 'martyrs ceremony' to pay homage to the 76 security personnel massacred by guerrillas in the worst attack since the Maoist rebellion ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian party wants to contest Malaysian by-election]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-party-wants-to-contest-Malaysian-by-election.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A party representing ethnic Indians wants to contest an upcoming parliamentary by-election in Malaysia but the dominant Malay force in the ruling alliance is also eyeing the seat.
The election in Hulu Selangor has evoked a lot of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nearly 73 killed as 700 Maoists entrap CRPF team in Chhattisgarh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nearly-73-killed-as-700-Maoists-entrap-CRPF-team-in-Chhattisgarh.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Seventy-three security personnel were killed on Tuesday when over 700 Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region ambushed a 120-member contingent of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) by first bombing and then opening ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[This monsoon, head for Kerala's healing ayurveda touch]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kerala-healing-ayurveda.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) How about a warm herbal oil massage that lulls you to peace as you lounge in a traditional thatch-roofed houseboat on a rainy day with lush green rice fields and coconut groves spreading away into the distance? Feeling rejuvenated ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carry proper documents, Indians workers in Malaysia told]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Carry-proper-documents-Indians-workers-in-Malaysia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Indian government on Monday cautioned Indian workers going to Malaysia to check if they have the right documentation and acquaint themselves with employment guidelines, rather than depending completely on &quot;unscrupulous&quot; .]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shoaib denies any wrong doings, set to marry Sania on March 15]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shoaib-denies-any-wrong-doings.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik, set to marry Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, on Monday insisted he was innocent and would not leave India until he was cleared of charges of quietly marrying Hyderabad girl Ayesha Siddiqui.
&quot;I am ]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Court rejects plea against Padma Bhushan for NRI]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Court-rejects-plea-against-Padma-Bhushan-for-Chatwal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the Padma Bhushan awarded to NRI hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal, saying no rules were flouted in his selection. 
A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pentagon for pressure on India to ease tension with Pakistan: WSJ]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pentagon-for-pressure-on-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) The Pentagon is actively lobbying for more pressure on New Delhi to ease tensions between India and Pakistan, the Wall Street Journal has reported. It has also revealed that US President Barack Obama had issued a secret directive to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Australian police tried to hush up attack on Indian']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-police-tried-to-hush-up-attack-on-Indian.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Police tried to hush up a knife attack on an Indian last month at one of the busiest train stations in Australia to prevent sparking off another racial abuse debate, a media report said Saturday.
Thirty-four-year-old Narendrakumar ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't do deals with Iran: US tells India, Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Donnot-do-deals-with-Iran.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The United States is &quot;encouraging&quot; India and Pakistan to not conduct transactions like their gas pipeline with Iran at a time when it's engaged in sensitive negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear programme.
The US ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's for India, Pakistan to work out Kashmir, water issues: US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Pakistan-to-work-out-Kashmir-water-issues.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Ruling out once again a US role in resolving either Kashmir or water issues between India and Pakistan, a senior official has said it was for the two countries to work things out.
&quot;It's like water. Kashmir always comes up in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians on death row in UAE: Badal seeks PM's help]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indians-on-death-row-in-UAE.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday sought help from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh regarding 17 Indian youth, including 16 from Punjab, sentenced to death by a court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on charges of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hong Kong compensates for death of Indian-origin lawyer]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hong-Kong-compensates-for-death-of-Indian-origin-lawyer.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The hospital authority in Hong Kong has agreed to pay compensation to an author after the death of his Indian-origin wife 10 years ago sparked off allegations of racism.
The hospital authority, which denied racism charges for the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chandigarh gets 'Netherlands Desk']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chandigarh-gets-Netherlands-Desk.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) To strengthen its ties in the region, the Netherlands embassy Tuesday launched the Netherlands Desk here in conjunction with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Punjab and Chandigarh chapter.
&quot;We are pleased on expanding the support .]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[My name is Pratibha... and president kicks off census 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/My-name-is-Pratibha.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The marathon task of counting and profiling India's estimated 120 crore (1.2 billion) people began on Thursday with President Pratibha Patil being the first citizen to be enumerated. 
Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Home Secretary G.K. ]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Apr 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Has northeast fallen off the mainstream media map?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Has-northeast-fallen-off-the-mainstream-media-map.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Lack of investment by various mainstream media networks in the northeast and a general lack of knowledge and interest of editors are the main reasons why the region is hardly represented in the national media, experts said at a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama backs closer India-US ties]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-backs-closer-India-US-ties.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Expressing satisfaction at the conclusion of an India-US agreement on reprocessing spent fuel, the White House has said President Barack Obama is glad that US is strengthening a very close bilateral relationship in an important ...]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bharti Walmart launches supply chain system in Punjab]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bharti-Walmart-launches-supply-chain-system-in-Punjab.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India's Bharti group and the world's largest retailer Walmart on Tuesday launched a direct farm produce sourcing system to streamline the supply chain between farmers and consumers. 
'We are addressing the needs of farm development ..]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India looks for options to help 17 facing death in UAE]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-looks-for-options-to-help-17-facing-death-in-UAE.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Indian consulate officials in Dubai on Tuesday got access to 17 Indians sentenced to death in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for killing a Pakistani as a shocked Indian government pledged to provide all legal aid to them.
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reprocessing deal with India reflects deep ties: US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Reprocessing-deal-with-India-reflects-deep-ties.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Applauding the successful conclusion of a nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement with India, the US has said this reflects a much broader, deeper and expanded relationship between the two countries.
&quot;I think it's a reflection of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russia hints at Pak-Afghan militants' hand in blasts]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Russia-hints-at-Pak-Afghan-militants-hand-in-blasts.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, who is in Canada to attend a foreign ministers' summit, said terrorists from the Pakistan-Afghan border region may have a hand in Monday's suicide attacks in Moscow that left 38 people ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Partial relief to Delhi residents as VAT on LPG withdrawn]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Partial-relief-to-Delhi-residents-as-VAT-on-LPG-withdrawn.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) In a partial relief to Delhiites, the Delhi government Monday withdrew Value Added Tax (VAT) on domestic cooking gas and rolled back the increase on essential items like CNG, tea and coffee. 
Finance Minister A.K. Walia, in his ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India opening excites some US varsities, others cautious]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-opening-excites-some-US-varsities.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) American universities are excited by prospects of expanding their presence in India's growing education market but some prestigious Ivy league institutions like Yale University don't expect to open a campus in the country any time ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fresh violence in Hyderabad, restrictions imposed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fresh-violence-in-Hyderabad-restrictions-imposed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The communal clashes on Sunday spread to more areas in the old city of Hyderabad as police clamped ban on gathering of five or more people and deployed additional forces to bring the situation under control.
Police fired shots in the ]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian owned college collapses in Australia]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-owned-college-collapses-in-Australia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Hundreds of international students, including many Indians, have been left clueless about their future as a college owned by an Indian collapsed in Australia. 
With Sydney-based Austech Institute for Further Studies going for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Only promoting Gujarat, not Modi, says Bachchan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Promoting-Gujarat-not-Modi-Bachchan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Brushing aside the Congress' criticism over his agreeing to become brand ambassador of the BJP-ruled Gujarat, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has said he would be working to promote the state and not any individual (Chief Minister .]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Headley confession shows close Al Qaeda, LeT ties: NYT]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Headley-confession-shows-close-Al-Qaeda-LeT-ties.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Pakistani-American terror suspect David Headley's confession about his involvement in the Mumbai terror attack reveals the close relationship between Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, according to a former CIA ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Weak states threaten India's security: Tharoor]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Weak-state-threaten-India-security-Tharoor.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) &quot;Weak and failing states&quot; in the neighborhood threaten India's security and affect New Delhi's fight against terrorism, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said on Friday.
&quot;Weak and failing states in .]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advani 'euphoric' on Dec 6, 1992, says eyewitness cop]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Advani-euphoric-on-Dec-6-1992-says-eyewitness-cop.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani &quot;looked euphoric&quot; when he declared in Ayodhya on Dec 6, 1992, shortly before the demolition of the Babri Masjid, that a Ram temple would be built on the site, police officer ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian police officers face sack over racist emails]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-police-officers-face-sack-over-racist-emails.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A veteran police officer who killed himself this week is among many officers identified during a crackdown over racist and pornographic emails, an Australian police officer said on Thursday.
Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It’s all about India now,Tarun Tahiliani returns to Indian craft, handloom]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tarun-Tahiliani-returns-to-Indian-craft-handloom.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Handloom, resham work, kantha, chikan, bandhini, block printing -- classic couturier Tarun Tahiliani is giving his signature bridal wear a backseat to promote handloom as he feels the need to save and &quot;reinvent Indian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mock drills to check alertness during terror attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mock-drills-to-check-alertness-during-terror-attacks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) To check the preparedness of Delhi Metro staff and security agencies in the event of terror attacks, mock drills will be conducted at four Metro stations on Friday.
The drills, to be supervised by officials from the Delhi Disaster ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian climate change campaigner set free in London]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-climate-change-campaigner-set-free-in-London.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[An Indian environmental campaigner who climbed on top of the British Parliament last year in a climate change protest was set free as charges against him were dropped by a London court Wednesday.
Brikesh Singh was among 55 Greenpeace campaigners ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[After Headley, Tiger Hanif to be test case for UK-India extradition]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tiger-Hanif-to-be-test-case-for-UK-India-extradition.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram left for home on Tuesday after meeting key British ministers days before a British judge is to rule on India's request to extradite Tiger Hanif, a key suspect in the 1993 Surat twin bomb blasts. ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buddhadeb visits Stephen Court]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Buddhadeb-visits-Stephen-Court.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday briefly visited the Stephen Court building, which was devastated by a fire that left 24 people dead.
Bhattacharjee entered the gutted building and spoke to city Police ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-origin taxi driver attacked in New Zealand]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-origin-taxi-driver-attacked-in-New-Zealand.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) An Indian-origin taxi driver has been assaulted by a passenger in a New Zealand city, an official said. The attack comes less than two months after an Indian taxi driver was fatally stabbed by a passenger in Auckland.
Mohinder Singh ..]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US to keep encouraging India, Pakistan to talk]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-to-keep-encouraging-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Ahead of its first strategic dialogue with Pakistan, the United States has said it was &quot;broadening and deepening&quot; its relationship with both New Delhi and Islamabad and would keep encouraging them too to increase their ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Niqab becoming a flash point in Canada]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Niqab-becoming-a-flash-point-in-Canada.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The niqab worn by Muslim women has become a flash point in Canada, with most people seeking ban on the veil in public. But liberals and the media are comparing the ban demand to a Taliban dress code.
Canada has about one million ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tamil films blamed for crime by Indians in Malaysia]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tamil-films-blamed-for-crime-by-Indians-in-Malaysia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A Malaysian Indian official has blamed Tamil cinema for young people from the community taking to crime.
N.V. Subbarow, education officer of the Consumer Association of Penang (CAP), was quoted by Malaysia Namban newspaper as saying .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tata engineering firm acquires British company]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tata-engineering-firm-acquires-British-company.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Engineering solutions firm TRF Ltd, a Tata group company, announced Monday it was acquiring UK-based firm Hewitt Robins International for approximately $4.5 million. 
&quot;The board of directors of the company at its meeting held on ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India-born doctor caused three deaths, Australian court told]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-born-doctor-caused-three-deaths.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India-born doctor Jayant Patel caused the deaths of three patients and left a man permanently impaired after he performed on him a &quot;useless&quot; and &quot;careless&quot; operation to remove his bowel, an Australian court was ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India successfully tests supersonic cruise missile]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-tests-supersonic-cruise-missile.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India Sunday successfully test fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a vertical launcher fitted on board moving warship INS Ranvir off the east coast, defence sources said.
The missile performed supersonic manoeuvring ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian American store clerk gunned down in Kansas]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-American-store-clerk-gunned-down-in-Kansas.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Gurpreet Singh, an Indian American working his final shift as a night clerk at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kansas City, Missour, was gunned down during a robbery.
The store's surveillance camera shows Gurpreet Singh, 35, who was ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Girija Prasad Koirala dead]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Girija-Prasad-Koirala-dead.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(IANS) Former Nepalese prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, the architect of the peace negotiations that ended a decade of Maoist insurgency, died Saturday after suffering from respiratory problems for nearly a fortnight. Indian Prime Minister ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US sharing information on Headley: Krishna]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-sharing-information-on-Headley-Krishna.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday said the US has been sharing information about Pakistani American terrorist David Headley, who has admitted to his role in plotting the Mumbai terror attacks.
&quot;It goes without ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World's oldest brokerage vanishes under globalising Indian umbrella]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/World-oldest-brokerage-vanishes-under-globalising-Indian-umbrella.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The world's oldest brokerage firm has faded into history after its famous name was scratched out by its Indian owners as part of ambitious plans to establish a global financial services umbrella.
Indian financial services giant ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Headley confession not a setback: Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Headley-confession-not-a-setback-Chidambaram.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said Pakistani American terror suspect David Coleman Headley's confession that he planned the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and his deal with US prosecutors was &quot;not a setback to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US intelligence chief meets Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-intelligence-chief-meets-Chidambaram.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) America's top intelligence official Dennis C. Blair met union Home Minister P. Chidambaram here Thursday, on a day suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley was slated to appear before a Chicago court to plead guilty to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Osama, deputy hiding in Pakistan: CIA chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Osama-deputy-hiding-in-Pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) believes Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are inside Pakistan though it does not know precisely where.
The agency officials believe the two are hiding, &ldquo;either in ..]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Convicted Indian-origin banker flees court, found hanged]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Convicted-Indian-origin-banker-flees-court-found-hanged.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) The bodies of a convicted Indian-origin banker and her husband have been found hanging from a footbridge at a busy traffic intersection a day after she fled a London court at the end of her trial.
Senior HSBC bank clerk Bindi Dhanji, .]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India waiting for Headley's statement: Krishna]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-waiting-for-Headley-statement.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India Thursday said it was waiting for the statement of Mumbai terror suspect David Coleman Headley in a Chicago court amid reports that he would change his plea to guilty to get a lighter sentence than the death penalty. 
&quot;We ..]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India should not have allowed it to happen: Ujjal Dosanjh on M.F. Husain leaving the country]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-should-not-have-allowed-it-to-happen.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian health minister, has called painter M.F. Husain's decision to give up his Indian citizenship &quot;a blow to the idea of India.'' The Indian government should not allow fundamentalists to dictate and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government given time to bend adoption law for German couple]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Government-given-time-to-bend-adoption-law-for-German-couple.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the Union government four more weeks to see if the country's adoption laws can be relaxed just once to help a German couple adopt its twins born to an Indian surrogate mother.
A bench of Justice ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian American Vinod Gupta to pay $7.4 mn penalty for fraud]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-American-Vinod-Gupta-to-pay-7-mn-penalty-for-fraud.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) InfoGroup Inc's Indian-American founder Vinod Gupta, without admitting or denying wrongdoing, has agreed to pay $7.4 million in penalties and a ban from positions of authority in publicly traded companies in a case of alleged ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian PM assures all help to Telugu community]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Malaysian-PM-assures-help-to-Telugu-community.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has assured all help to the Telugu community on the occasion of the Ugadi new year celebrations on Tuesday. 
&quot;We will carry on helping the Telugus so that they will be able to enjoy the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Let's learn from Hollywood, says Shah Rukh Khan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Learn-from-Hollywood-says-Shah-Rukh-Khan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Superstar Shah Rukh Khan Tuesday urged Indian filmmakers &quot;to learn from Hollywood&quot; and offered a three-point prescription which could help the globalization of Bollywood movies.
Speaking at the inaugural session of 'FICCI ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Media, entertainment seen as $24 bn industry in India by 2014]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Media-entertainment-seen-as-big-industry.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The $13 billion Indian media and entertainment industry is seen growing 13 percent annually over the next five years to net revenues of $24.25 billion by 2014, says a report released on Tuesday.
The study by the Federation of Indian .]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China says it wants good neighborly ties with India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/China-wants-good-ties-with-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) China on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to develop good-neighborly relations with India, but added that &quot;the border issue remains unsettled between the two countries&quot;.
&quot;We would like to work with India to make a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BIG Cinemas reopens New York cinema hall]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BIG-Cinemas-reopens-New-York-cinema-hall.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) BIG Cinemas, India's largest movie hall chain, has reopened ImaginAsian Theatre of Manhattan New York as Big Cinemas Manhattan, a company statement said on Monday.
Part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, the theatre will ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India will fight attempts to unseat Pachauri: Jairam Ramesh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-will-fight-attempts-to-unseat-Pachauri.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The government had full confidence in Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R.K. Pachauri and would fight &quot;any attempt to unseat him&quot;, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Monday.
&quot;We are ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nearly 5 lakh attend Mayawati's show of strength]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Five-lakh-attend-Mayawati-show-of-strength.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Nearly half a million supporters gathered to cheer Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati at the party's silver jubilee function here Monday, where she hit out at the Congress party for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nuclear liability bill not tabled in Lok Sabha]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nuclear-liability-bill-not-tabled-inLok-Sabha.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Given the fierce opposition from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left parties, the government Monday decided against moving the contentious Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill in the Lok Sabha. 
The BJP, opposing the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NRI's lawsuit seeks contempt action against Kolkata hospital]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NRI-lawsuit-seeks-contempt-action-against-Kolkata-hospital.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A US-based Indian origin medical practitioner has moved the Supreme Court seeking contempt of court proceedings against a Kolkata hospital for ignoring the court's order to pay a penalty of Rs.500,000 for causing his wife's death due .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prominent Caribbean Hindu community leader dead]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Prominent-Caribbean-Hindu-community-leader-dead.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma, a pioneer of the Hindu religion and culture in Trinidad and Tobago and Canada, has died. He had begun the practice of celebrating Diwali on the Caribbean island, apart from constructing several temples, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Negligence of people, cafe management led to blast: Pune police chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Negligence-of-people-cafe-management-led-to-blast.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A month after the Feb 13 Pune blast, city Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh Saturday charged the management of German Bakery and the people with &quot;utter negligence&quot; and said the bag with the bomb had been lying unnoticed for ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India ties among most consequential in 21st century: US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-ties-among-most-consequential-in-21st-century.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Looking at relations with India &quot;as one of the most consequential of US foreign policy in the 21st century&quot;, the US wishes to capitalise on their converging values and interests to confront global challenges, said a senior ..]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Treat women and men officers at par, says court]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Treat-women-and-men-officers-at-par.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) In a landmark ruling, the Delhi High Court on Friday asked the government to treat women and men officers in the army and air force at par while granting Permanent Commission, saying &quot;greater sensitivity was required&quot; while .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Aamir not in a mood to celebrate  his birthday]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Superstar Aamir Khan won't celebrate his 45th birthday on Sunday.&quot;I will not be celebrating my birthday this year,&quot; Aamir told IANS over e-mail from Mumbai. 
Media reports said the actor will fly to the capital Sunday to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kidnapped Indian businessman rescued in Philippines]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kidnapped-Indian-businessman-rescued-in-Philippines.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Police officers rescued an Indian businessman a day after he was kidnapped by four unidentified gunmen in the Philippines, a provincial police chief said on Friday.
Remmi Kumar Chonkria, 33, was rescued on&nbsp; Thursday during a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India, Canada expected to sign nuke deal in June]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Canada-expected-to-sign-nuke-deal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India and Canada are expected to sign a civil nuclear deal during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the country in June that will increase the prospects of bilateral trade between the two countries, a Canadian High Commission ..]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British students to volunteer for Commonwealth Games]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/British-students-to-volunteer-for-Commonwealth-Games.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Thirty students from the Sheffield Hallam University in Britain will volunteer for the Commonwealth Games here under an agreement signed Tuesday. 
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by Sheffield Hallam University Vice ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Modi summoned on riots, Congress wants him to go]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Modi-summoned-on-riots.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The 2002 Gujarat riots returned to haunt Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday when a Supreme Court-appointed investigation team summoned him for questioning March 21. The Congress immediately asked him to step down.
According to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian Hindu woman wins custody battle with Muslim husband]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Malaysian-Hindu-woman-wins-custody-battle.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Malaysia's High Court on Thursday granted a Hindu woman custody of her child after a bitter court battle with her estranged Muslim husband, who converted their children to Islam and then took possession of them.
Kindergarten teacher .]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-origin ex-MP's acquittal for cocaine sparks outrage in Canada]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-origin-ex-MP-acquittal-for-cocaine-sparks-outrage.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian-origin former MP in Canada is in the eye of a political storm after his acquittal by a court on cocaine possession and drunken driving charges.
Thirty-eight-year-old Rahim Jaffer, an Ismaili Muslim of Indian origin from ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swedish newspapers reprint Prophet cartoon]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swedish-newspapers-reprint-Prophet-cartoon.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Several Swedish newspapers on Wednesday reprinted a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, the day after an alleged plot to murder the cartoonist was disclosed.
Seven arrests were reported on Tuesday in Ireland ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Four Indians die in Malaysia shophouse fire]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Four-Indians-die-in-Malaysia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Four Indians were killed in a fire that gutted a shophouse in Malaysia on Wednesday, an official said. 
The fire broke out in the shophouse located in Jalan Pasar, Masai, near Johor Baru. 
Johor Fire and Rescue deputy director ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government will pass women's bill before March 16: Bansal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Government-will-pass-women-bill-before-March-16.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The government intends to pass the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha before the house adjourns on March 16 for a three-week break, said Parliamentary Affairs Minister P.K. Bansal in New Delhi on Wednesday. 
&quot;The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sajjan Kumar gets bail in anti-Sikh riots case]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sajjan-Kumar-gets-bail-in-anti-Sikh-riots-case.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and nine others were on Wednesday granted bail by a city court in two cases related to their alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar granted ]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India steps into history with women's Representation bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-steps-into-history.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India's politics took a decisive step towards change on Tuesday with its upper house passing a historic bill giving one-third representation to women in parliament and state legislatures, crossing the biggest hurdle in the road ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian courts can't decide NRI family disputes: high court]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-courts-can-not-decide-NRI-family-disputes.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday ruled that Indian courts have no jurisdiction to adjudicate family disputes of India-born foreign nationals.Justice S.N. Dhingra quashed the order of a lower court that allowed an Indian-American wife ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One-fifth of Australia's private colleges visa factories: Report]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-private-colleges-visa-factories.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Nearly a fifth of Australian private colleges are &quot;permanent residency factories&quot;, a new report in the education sector has revealed.
The education sector, which is the country's third largest export industry, has been ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaitley rues 'shameful incidents' in Rajya Sabha]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jaitley-rues-shameful-incidents-in-Rajya-Sabha.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The BJP &quot;unequivocally&quot; supported the women's reservation bill, party MP Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday, but added that the privilege of supporting it had been diluted by &quot;some of most shameful incidents ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yadav trinity asks PM for all-party meeting on women's bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Yadav-trinity.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Samajwadi Party's Mulayam Singh Yadav, Janata Dal-United's Sharad Yadav and Rashtriya Janata Dal's Lalu Prasad Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the women's reservation bill and asked for an all-party meeting to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rajya Sabha postpones voting on women's bill till Tuesday]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rajya-Sabha-postpones-voting-on-women-bill.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Monday postponed voting on the Women&rsquo;s Reservation Bill after supporting opposition parties insisted on a debate before it is put to vote.
After repeated disruptions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM calls all-party meeting over women's quota bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-calls-all-party-meeting.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Following continuous adjournments of the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday called an all-party meeting to work out modalities of passing a historic Women's Reservation Bill that was moved in the house earlier in the ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mayawati too has reservations on women's quota bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mayawati-too-has-reservations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday expressed strong reservations against the women's reservation bill to be introduced in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
In a letter to Prime Minister ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Much to cheer this women's day in Delhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Much-to-cheer-this-women-day.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Women in the national capital had lots to look forward to this International Women's Day. Not only were they cheering the government's efforts to clear the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, free makeovers, complimentary ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BSP and JD-S indicate reservations on Women quota bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BSP-and-JD-S-indicate-reservations-on-Women-quota-bill.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Even as Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on Sunday launched fresh attacks on the women's reservation bill in its present form, two other parties -- the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) also ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No Indian embassy staffer in Kabul wants to return: Krishna]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/No-Indian-embassy-staffer-in-Kabul.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Amid reports about the increased security threat to Indians in Afghanistan after the Feb 26 terror strike, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Saturday said no Indian embassy staffer in Kabul wanted to return, but the government ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Thirty three percent reservation for Indian women, PM assures the nation]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Thirty-three-percent-reservation-for-Indian-women.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday stressed his government's commitment to political empowerment of women and said India was moving towards 33 percent reservation for women in the parliament and state legislatures. 
&quot;We ..]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Toddler's death in Melbourne shocks India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/toddler-death-melbourne-shocks-india.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The body of a three-year-old Indian boy was found dumped by a roadside in Melbourne, Australia, triggering shock and outrage in India. New Delhi termed it a &quot;most unfortunate incident&quot; as Canberra launched a major probe to ..]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dialogue the only way, but Pakistan must control terror machine: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/dialogue-Pakistan-control-terror-machine-pm.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Asserting that dialogue was the only way forward, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said that not talking to Pakistan will not isolate it but made it clear that &quot;the terror machine has to be controlled by Pakistan, even ]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian toddler found dead, Australian police clueless]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/indian-toddler-dead-australian-police-clueless.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A team of homicide detectives are searching for clues a day after a three-year-old Indian boy was found dead near Melbourne airport following his sudden disappearance from a house 20 km away.The body of Gurshan Singh Channa was found .]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ready to talk to any group that abjures violence: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ready-talk-abjures-violence-pm.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Describing as &quot;satisfactory&quot; the overall internal security situation in 2009, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday told the Lok Sabha that the government is ready to talk to any separatist group that abjures violence ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Most Indian varsities delivering poor education: Pitroda]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/indian-varsities-poor-education-pitroda.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) At least 90 percent of Indian universities are providing below-par education and the time has come when action is required to improve it, Sam Pitroda, advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said in New Delhi on Thursday.
Speaking .]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uttar Pradesh dance troupe thrills Trinidad audience]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Uttar-Pradesh-dance-troupe-thrills-Trinidad-audience.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A scintillating performance by an Uttar Pradesh-based dance troupe has enthralled the audience at this Trinidad and Tobago capital.
Charkula Arts Academy dance troupe performed on Wednesday night to a packed audience at Divali Nagar. ]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada's first winter cricket league becomes an Indian carnival]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/First-winter-cricket-league-becomes-an-Indian-carnival.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) After getting official recognition as national sport from the Canadian government in 2008, cricket in Canada has now got its first winter league.
Launched here by the Cricket Champions League, the league has drawn a huge response ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advani accuses Manmohan Singh of breaching parliamentary propriety]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Advani-accuses-Manmohan-Singh.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A day after sparring with Manmohan Singh in the Lok Sabha, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani on Thursday told a meeting of party MPs that the prime minister breached parliamentary propriety by making a misleading .]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We need resources to meet our social obligations: Sonia]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/We-need-resources-to-meet-our-social-obligations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday indicated there would be no rollback of a hike in central taxes on petrol and diesel as the government needed resources to meet its social obligations. 
&quot;We have many essential social .]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian agency to help resolve perception issues in India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/australian-indian-issue.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A national agency to oversee standards of higher education
providers will help resolve Australia's &quot;serious perception issues&quot; in
India, an official of a universities' group said Thursday, adding &quot;we do
have a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India presses Australia for 'effective action' against attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-presses-Australia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on&nbsp; Wednesday held talks with his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith and pressed for &quot;effective steps&quot; by Canberra to ensure the security of Indians in that country.
Smith ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia admits some attacks on Indians were racist]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australia-admits-attacks-on-Indians-were-racist.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Keen to rebuild ties with India, Australia on Wednesday admitted that some of the attacks on Indian students were racist in nature that caused considerable damage to its reputation and standing among Indian people.
Australian Foreign ]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India will be one of top five aviation markets: Praful Patel]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-will-be-one-of-top-five-aviation-markets.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India would break into the top five aviation markets in the world in next five years, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Wednesday and invited international companies to be partners in this growth story.
&quot;The Indian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Heated exchange between PM and Advani]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Heated-exchange-between-PM-and-Advani.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Lok Sabha on Wednesday witnessed a heated exchange between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and opposition leader L.K. Advani over &quot;secret talks&quot; on the Kashmir issue and the implementation of the one-rank-one-pension ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two killed as naval aircraft crashes into Hyderabad building]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Two-killed-as-naval-aircraft-crashes.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian Navy trainer aircraft crashed into a two-storied building in a congested locality during an air show in Hyderabad on Wednesday, killing the pilot and his co-pilot who found no time to eject. 
Commander S.K. Maurya and Lt ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fuel price hike stalls parliament]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fuel-price-hike-stalls-parliament.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An angry opposition stalled the functioning of parliament Wednesday, forcing two adjournments of both houses as MPs demanded that the hike in fuel prices be rolled back and that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh make a statement on the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Out of White House, Obama aide denies role in gatecrash]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-aide-denies-role-in-gatecrash.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Days after quitting, White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers has claimed her office followed protocol the night an uninvited couple gate crashed President Barack Obama's state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Rogers also ]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama names Indian American on arts body]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-names-Indian-American-on-arts-body.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) President Barack Obama has picked up an Indian American to serve on the US President's Advisory Committee on the Arts for the prestigious John F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts.
Announcing the appointment of eminent Indian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chandrayaan-I finds ice near Moon's North Pole]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chandrayaan-I-finds-ice-near-Moons-North-Pole.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Using data from NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits totaling at least an estimated 600 million metric tons near the moon's North Pole.
NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hyundai sales up 42.8 percent in February]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hyundai-sales-up-42.8-percent-in-February.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India's second largest car maker Hyundai Motor reported a 42.8 percent increase in total sales last month to 54,617 units as against 38,235 units sold in February 2009.
During February, domestic sales grew 46.1 percent to 31,001 ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gujarat notifies $21.7 bn special investment region]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gujarat-notifies-special-investment.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Gujarat's Special Investment Region (SIR) that will have an investment of Rs.1 lakh crore (Rs.1 trillion/$21.7 billion) is now a reality with the state government issuing a notification for the setting up of the region, an official ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Mar 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Quake, tsunami kill at least 214 people in Chile]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Quake-tsunami-kill-at-least-214-people.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An 8.8-magnitude quake and a resulting tsunami killed at least 214 people in Chile, Chilean Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma has said.
&quot;This was a cataclysm of immense proportions, and it will be very difficult to have a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[M.F. Husain to accept Qatar citizenship, says son]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/M-F-Husain-to-accept-Qatar-citizenship.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India's most celebrated artist Maqbool Fida Husain, who has been under attack from sections of the Hindu right, has accepted Qatar's offer of an honorary citizenship as having a &quot;sense of belonging&quot; was important at this ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Budgetary boost to India's manned mission to space]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budgetary-boost-to-chandrayan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The budgetary allocation for Department of Space increased by over Rs.1,600 crore to Rs.5,778 crore with a five-fold hike in funds for the human space flight programme. 
The union budget tabled in parliament Friday allocated Rs.150 ..]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Air fares in India set to rise on service tax proposal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Air-fares-rise.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Air fares in India are set to rise more than 10%. Hidden behind Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget speech is the fine print in the voluminous papers tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday, which has brought all classes of air ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Funds for women and child development hiked 50 percent]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Funds-for-women-and-child.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India will allocate Rs.11,070 crore (Rs.110 billion/nearly $24 billion) for women and child development programmes in 2010-11, a hike of nearly 50 percent from the last fiscal, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Force India sixth quickest]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Force-India-sixth-quickest.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS)&nbsp; Force India's Vitantonio Liuzzi clocked the sixth fastest time of one minute and 24.064 seconds around the 4.655 Kms long Circuit de Catalunya on the first day of the concluding pre-season Formula One test session.
Weather ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India budgets income tax relief, more money on welfare]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-budgets-income-tax-relief.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Further relief for individual tax payers, a steep hike in allocations for welfare schemes and infrastructure were among the high points of India's budget for 2010-11 presented Friday by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who said the .]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Alarming rate of divorce among non-Malays in Malaysia]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Alarming-rate-of-divorce-among-non-Malays.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The divorce rate among non-Malays increased from 2% to 8% in the first 5 years since 2000 and was expected to reach 13% this year, said an official of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)'s women's wing. 
Wanita MIC chief P. Komala ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's security arrangements of highest level: FIH]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-security-arrangements-FIH.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) International Hockey Federation (FIH) chief Leandro Negre on Thursday said he has no complaints about security arrangements that are of the highest level.
&quot;The security arrangements made is of the highest level,&quot; Negre told ]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kashmir is the core issue, Pakistan tells India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kashmir-is-the-core-issue.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Pakistan on Thursday said the Jammu and Kashmir dispute was at the core of its issues with India and both countries must move ahead without being held hostage by the Mumbai terror attack.
Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir told ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Top Maharashtra-Goa official nabbed taking Rs.2 crore bribe]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Top-Maharashtra-Goa-official-nabbed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Chief Post Master General of Maharashtra and Goa M.S. Bali has been caught while accepting a Rs.2 crore bribe, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Thursday, describing it as the biggest such case involving a government ..]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Singapore watchdog probes Hindu temple management]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Singapore-watchdog-probes-Hindu-temple-management.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Singapore's charity watchdog launched a probe into a popular Hindu temple's governance and administration, the Straits Times reported on Thursday.
Investigations into the affairs of the Sri Siva Krishna temple were initiated in July .]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Queensland parliament to serve Indian menu]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Queensland-parliament-to-serve-Indian-menu.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Australia's Queensland parliament will serve an Indian menu, including tandoori chicken, on Wednesday as part of the Vindaloo Against Violence initiative to show solidarity with the Indian community.
Vindaloo Against Violence was ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tendulkar hits a record double ton in India's 401/3]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tendulkar-hits-a-record-double.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS)  Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar became the first ever to hit a double century in  One-Day International as India made 401 for three in 50 overs in the second  match against South Africa at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium on  ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan has failed to protect minorities: Canadian Sikhs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-has-failed-to-protect-minorities.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Condemning the beheading of a Sikh by the Pakistani Taliban as &quot;an act of barbarians,'' Sikhs in Canada on Tuesday urged tough action the killers. They also said Pakistan had failed to protect its minorities. 
&quot;By ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Somdev stuns top-100 player, meets Baghdatis next]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Somdev-stuns-top-100-player.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India's No. 1 Somdev Devvarman pulled off a stunning 6-4, 7-5 victory over a top-100 player Swiss Marco Chiudinelli and moved into the second round of the $1,619,500 Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai on Tuesday. 
Egged on by a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Parliament adjourned as opposition unites against price rise]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Parliament-adjourned-as-opposition-protests.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal notwithstanding, an angry opposition on Tuesday stalled parliament demanding a discussion on price rise under rules that entail voting but the government refused to yield. The issue forced two ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kingfisher to join Oneworld alliance of global airlines]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kingfisher-to-join-Oneworld.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Kingfisher Airlines on Tuesday said it has signed an accord to join a global alliance among 11 carriers called Oneworld and has filed an application with the civil aviation ministry for necessary approvals.
The process to bring any ..]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP takes Sikh's beheading protest to Pakistan border]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-protests-Sikh-beheading.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) After raising to the national level in New Delhi the issue of the beheading of a Sikh man by Taliban elements, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on&nbsp; Monday took the protest right up to the border with Pakistan. 
Senior Punjab BJP ]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dalai Lama joins Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/dalai-lama-joins-twitter.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Watch out for tweets from no less than the Dalai Lama. The spiritual head of the Tibetan Buddhist community has joined the social networking website Twitter to keep in touch with followers.
&quot;His Holiness the Dalai Lama has ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NRIs not safe in Melbourne says Australian opposition leader]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NRIs-not-safe-in-Melbourne-says-Australian-opposition-leader.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Streets of Melbourne were not safe for Indians and the government should spend money on policing and preventing racial attacks to improve relationship, Australia's Opposition Leader Tony Abott said on Tuesday.
The remarks came in the ]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian doctor robbed at knife point in Melbourne]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-doctor-robbed0-in-Melbourne.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian doctor working in a Melbourne hospital was robbed of money and his mobile phone at knife point, his colleague's husband said on Monday. 
Speaking to IANS from Melbourne, Thiruvallam Bhasi, who edits a student magazine ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hyundai Motor to shift part of i20 production to Turkey]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/i20-production-to-Turkey.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Korean car maker Hyundai Motor, which had earlier announced that India will be the global hub for small cars, has decided to shift part of its compact i20 car production from India to Turkey to meet the increased demand from the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India dismisses terror threat to Hockey World Cup]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Terror-threat-to-Hockey-World-Cup.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India on Monday dismissed any terror threat to the Hockey World Cup saying all precautionary measures were in place to ensure &quot;fool proof&quot; security for the international sporting event.
&quot;It is the job of terrorists to .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM urges opposition to maintain decorum in Parliament]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-urges-opposition-to-maintain-decorum-in-Parliament.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The government was ready to &quot;discuss and debate all issues on the floor of the house&quot;, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday and appealed to the opposition not to disrupt parliamentary proceedings.
&quot;The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India condemns 'barbaric' beheading of Sikh in Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-condemns-beheading-of-Sikh.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India on Monday strongly condemned the &quot;barbaric&quot; beheading of a Sikh man by suspected Taliban militants in Pakistan.
&quot;We condemn the barbaric act of Taliban,&quot; External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told reporters ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP, CPI-M lambast Patil's speech as routine]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-CPI-M-lambast-president-Patil.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) President Pratibha Patil's speech in parliament on Monday was described as a &quot;routine affair&quot; by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) criticised it for not including ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India expanding civil n-energy programme: President]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/indian-civil-nuclear-programme.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India is fast expanding its &quot;ambitious&quot; civil nuclear energy programme and has signed peaceful atomic agreements with many countries, President Pratibha Patil said on Monday in New Delhi, adding that many more such deals ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Charity match lands Indian hockey team in trouble]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/indian-hockey.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chandigarh, Feb 20 (IANS) The Indian hockey team was again in trouble with organisers of a charity match alleging that the players are demanding a huge appearance fee for a scheduled game against Bollywood stars and TV celebrities here later ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian American says he nearly drove into crashing plane]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-American-crashing-plane.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian American says he nearly drove into a crashing plane as a man harbouring a grudge against the US tax agency IRS (Internal Revenue Service) flew it into a building housing an IRS office, and lived to tell the story.
A busted .]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India agrees to set up 1,320 MW power plant in Bangladesh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-to-setup-power-plant-in-Bangladesh.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) In a joint venture with India, a power plant will be set up in Bangladesh in three years to produce 1,320 MW.
Two coal-fired units with production capacity of 660 MW each will be built in Khulna district, 180 km southwest of Dhaka. ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sehwag replaces Gambhir to become No.1 Test batsman]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sehwag-becomes-No-1.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Indian opener Virender Sehwag dislodged his batting partner Gautam Gambhir from the top of the International Cricket Council's Test rankings for batsmen to take the number one spot.
Sehwag, who struck back-to-back centuries in the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advani tells BJP not to be demoralized by poll defeat]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Advani-tells-BJP-not-to-be-demoralized.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Calling upon party workers not to get demoralized by electoral defeats, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L. K. Advani said here onThursday that the party has to widen its geographic and social base to emerge as a serious ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amit Chaudhuri and K.N. Daruwalla among four Indian nominees for CW-Writers' Prize]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Four-Indians-for-Commonwealth-Writers-Prize.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Noted authors Keki N. Daruwalla and Amit Chaudhuri are among the four Indians nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010. 
Besides Daruwalla's &quot;For Pepper and Christ&quot; and Chaudhuri's &quot;The Immortals&quot;, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India to raise 26/11 probe status with Pakistan: Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Probe-status-with-Pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India would be asking Pakistan the still unanswered questions in the probe into the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks at the forthcoming foreign secretary-level talks, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said in New Delhi on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's 38th tiger reserve opens]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-opens-38th-tiger-reserve.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India's 38th tiger reserve and Kerala's second was declared open on Friday by Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh. It would be known as the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve.
There has been a sharp decline in the number of tigers ]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China calls Obama-Dalai Lama meeting 'violation of norms']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/China-miffed-with-Obama-Dalai-Lama-meeting.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) China on Friday called the meeting between US President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama &quot;a gross violation of norms governing the international relations&quot;.
&quot;The US act grossly violated the norms governing the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amla thanks good fortune, dropped catches for his success]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Amla-thanks-good-fortune.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) South African middle-order bat Hashim Amla feels good fortune and dropped catches combined to his stupendous success in the tour, in which he piled up 490 runs and was out only once. 
Amla scored hundreds in each of the three innings ]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian CEO spreads message of insurance and Vivekananda in Nepal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-CEO-spreads-message-of-insurance.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) During his lifetime he had wished to visit Nepal and Tibet twice but failed to do so. But now, in his 148th birth anniversary year, Swami Vivekananda, one of India's most progressive monks who preached the religion of service to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Teenaged Australian attackers of Indian set free]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Teenaged-Australian-attackers.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Two teenaged brothers, detained for less than a year over a brutal attack on a group of Indians which left one of the victims in a coma, have been relieved from facing further detention.
The two brothers, aged 17 and 18, will not ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India, Denmark sign social security agreement]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Denmark-sign-social-security.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India and Denmark on Wednesday signed a bilateral social security agreement to protect their workers in either country against double payment of social security contributions, as also loss of such contributions and benefits.
The pact ]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Many BJP leaders say no to eco-friendly tents at conclave]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Many-BJP-leaders-say-no-to-eco-friendly-tents.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Many Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, who have converged here for the party conclave, late Wednesday opted not to stay in the eco-friendly tents citing &quot;health problems&quot;, party officials said. 
Sources said those who ..]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians in Australia feel safe, say studies]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indians-in-Australia-feel-safe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Three new studies released by the Australian high commission on Tuesday in New Delhi show that a majority of international students, including Indians, feel safe in that country even though there have been attacks, some racist, on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan envoy meets Nirupama Rao ahead of talks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-envoy-meets-Nirupama-Rao.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Pakistani High Commissioner Shahid Malik on Wednesday met Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao in New Delhi for preparatory discussions ahead of the talks between India and Pakistan later this month.
The envoy visited South Block and met ..]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Inflation rate to be moderate in next 2 months: Mukherjee]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Inflation-rate-to-be-moderate.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Measures taken by the government to tame inflation will take some time to have their effect but the country would have a &quot;moderate rate of inflation&quot; in the next two months, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['MNIK' becomes higgest Bollywood grosser in Britain]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/MNIK-in-Britain.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Superstar Shah Rukh Khan's new movie &quot;My Name is Khan&quot; has become the most successful Bollywood film in British box office history.
The film garnered 887,198.98 pounds (Rs.64.4 million / $1.4 million) in its opening weekend. ]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Good god! Villagers worship pumpkins in Orissa]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/pumpkins-orissa.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[God is everywhere. Why, according to farmers in an Orissa village He's present even in a pumpkin.
The villagers of Gadabadaput village in Khurdha district, about 45 km from here, started worshiping three pumpkins after one of the farmers found ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[My Name Is Khan' makes record $1.86 million in America]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/MINK-sells-in-America.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Grossing an estimated $1.86 million at the box office in its first weekend, Shah Rukh Khan starrer &quot;My Name Is Khan&quot; has broken the record for the largest opening weekend ever for a Hindi film in North America.
The Fox ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Israel condemns Pune bomb blast]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Israel-condemns-Pune-bomb-blast.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Israel on Monday condemned in the &quot;strongest possible terms&quot; the bomb blast in Pune that killed nine people and left nearly 60 injured.&quot;Israel condemns in the strongest possible terms the heinous terrorist attack in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[All eyes on Nepal president's maiden India visit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/All-eyes-on-Nepal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) With major changes sweeping through Nepal, all eyes here are on the maiden visit by Nepal's first President Ram Baran Yadav to India from Monday, an event that will further cement ties between the government of India and Nepal's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Telangana panel holds its first meeting]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Telangana-panel-holds-first-meeting.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The government-appointed Telangana panel headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna held its first meeting in New Delhi on Saturday and decided to issue a public notice inviting political parties and organisations to give their views on the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Court decries improper government action against defence]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Improper-government-action-against-defence.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Delhi High Court has pulled up the defence ministry for not following the proper course of law before blacklisting seven defence firms on corruption charges.&quot;It has been eight months but the companies who were blacklisted do .]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We are extremely proud of Olympic recognition: ICC]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Olympic-recognition-ICC.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday said it is extremely proud of the recognition given to it by the International Olympic Council (IOC).
The IOC in Vancouver on Thursday approved its executive board's decision to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Good news for Bollywood: Delhi gives thumbs up to 'My Name Is Khan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Delhi-thumbs-up-to-My-Name-Is-Khan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) The latest bollywood news making headlines is that &quot;My Name Is Khan&quot;&nbsp; has opened to packed houses in about 70 halls in the capital and its suburbs on Friday. The hype around the bollywood film, thanks to the Shiv Sena's .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two Indian brothers die in Australia after fight over money]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Two-Indian-brothers-die-in-Australia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian student was being questioned in Perth on Friday over the death of two Indian brothers after a dispute over money, media reports said.
Detective Inspector David Bryson, from the Major Crime Squad, said one of the victims ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some Mumbai multiplexes start screening 'MNIK]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-multiplexes-start-screening-MNIK.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) There was no first show of Shah Rukh Khan's much discussed &quot;My Name Is Khan&quot; here Friday as theatre owners shied away from exhibiting the film following violence by the Shiv Sena. But by noon some of the multiplexes started .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian businesses hacked over attacks on Indian students]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-businesses-hacked.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Hackers have attacked businesses in this Australian city in response to violence against Indian students, a media report said on Thursday.
Computers at five Melbourne-based businesses were attacked by a hacker who threatened to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Feb 25 'not a bad date' for talks: Pakistani foreign minister]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Feb-25-not-a-bad-date-for-talks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Pakistan's foreign minister says that Feb 25 is &quot;not a bad date&quot; for talks with India and that the stalled composite dialogue should also resume.
&quot;We do not have too many concerns regarding dates. February 25 is not a .]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Omar welcomes amnesty for Kashmiri militants, BJP angry]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Omar-welcomes-amnesty.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday welcomed the union government's willingness to grant amnesty to Kashmiri militants who want to return from Pakistan, saying it was a big gift for their families. 
But the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Spurned NRI woman found guilty of killing ex-lover with Indian poison]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NRI-woman-found-guilty.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian-origin woman faced life sentence after being found guilty of poisoning her former lover to death, using an ancient Indian herb in the first such case in Britain in 128 years.
Lakhvir Kaur Singh, a 40-year-old mother of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British court upholds ailing Hindu's plea for open air funeral]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Plea-for-open-air-funeral.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A British court on Wednesday upheld an ailing 71-year-old Hindu's plea to be allowed to be cremated on an open pyre, sparking celebrations among Hindus in Britain. 
Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger told the Appeals Court that ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scotland Yard launches Hindu forum]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Scotland-Yard-Hindu-forum.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Metropolitan Police Service, also known as Scotland Yard, has joined forces with London's Hindu community to &quot;discuss the safety concerns of Hindus in the UK&quot;.
Over 100 people representing London's Hindus joined ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Young Delhi women donating their eggs for quick bucks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Delhi-women-donating-their-eggs.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) In a trend that seems to be catching on, many Delhi college girls and single-working women are coming forward to donate their eggs at fertility clinics in order to make a quick buck even as they help childless couples in the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India says 'no' to Bt Brinjal, pending scientific tests]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-says-no-to-Bt-Brinjal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) After weeks of a vocal and divisive debate, India on Tuesday came out with a strong 'no' to the commercial release of Bt Brinjal, saying there was no clear consensus in the scientific community.
Bringing forward by a day a decision ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia says attacks on Indians have hit its reputation]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-reputation-hit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Emphasizing that Australia needs to treat its ties with India &quot;like a Test match and work with diligence and dedication&quot;, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith admitted Tuesday that attacks on Indians had &quot;considerably damaged ]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shiv Sena attacks cinemas due to screen 'My Name Is Khan']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shiv-Sena-attacks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Shiv Sena activists on Tuesday attacked several places that will screen Shah Rukh Khan's &quot;My Name Is Khan&quot;, barely an hour after Mumbai Police assured full security at the 63 cinemas and multiplexes that will showcase the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Irked at 'act poor' Australian advice, students write to PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Students-to-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Upset over the &quot;act poor&quot; advise to Indian students in Australia by the Victoria police chief, students from the community have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to intervene.
Thiruvallom Bhasi, editor of .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We have a right to wear the Kirpan, says British Sikh judge]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/British-Sikh-judge.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Britain's first Asian judge, who is due to be knighted by the Queen, Monday defended his right to wear the Kirpan and warned schools they could be guilty of discrimination if they ban Sikh pupils from wearing the ceremonial ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia to cancel 20,000 visa applications]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australia-visa-applications.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) In an overhaul of the immigration policy, Australia will cancel 20,000 visa applications from foreign nationals, including Indians, who have been staying in the country under the existing skilled migration programme.
The changes which ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India predicts economic growth at 7.2 percent for 2009-10]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-economic-growth.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India on Monday forecast its economic growth for this fiscal at 7.2 percent, as against 6.7 percent achieved in the previous fiscal, despite a 0.2 percent declined predicted in farm output.
The advance estimates of the country's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amnesty accused of campaigning with 'Taliban supporter']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Amnesty-accused.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Gita Sahgal, the head of Amnesty International's gender unit has accused the human rights group of damaging its global standing by campaigning alongside a former Guantanamo Bay inmate she described as &quot;Britain's most famous ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM says worst of food inflation over, public disagrees]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Food-inflation-over.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday said the war on prices had only met with partial success, but assured the people the worst was over on curbing India's annual food inflation that has spiralled to more than 17 percent now -- ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I don't mind meeting Bal Thackeray, says Shah Rukh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bal-Thackeray-SRK.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, under fire from the Shiv Sena for favouring Pakistani players in the Indian Premier League (IPL), said Saturday he had been misunderstood and he had nothing against meeting Shiv Sena chief Bal ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IIM-Ranchi starts classes this summer]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IIM-Ranchi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi will become operational this year with classes starting from June or July, chairperson R.C. Bhargava said on Friday.
&ldquo;The IIM-Ranchi classes will start from June or July this ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brits looking to Haryana for key to tackling Alzheimer's]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Brits-looking-to-Haryana.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The small town of Ballabgarh in Haryana has become the focus of a major international medical probe after figures this week showed more Britons than ever before are afflicted by the debilitating Alzheimer's disease. 
Ballabgarh is ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British MP seeks action over Aussie attacks on Indians]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/British-MP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A British MP representing one of the largest Indian-origin settlements in Europe has demanded to be told what actions the Australian government is taking to prevent further violent attacks on Indians living in Australia.
Keith Vaz, ..]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Attacks on Indians take toll on Australia's education revenue]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australia-education-revenue.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The series of attacks on Indians will take a toll on Australia's education revenue with the latest data on applications by overseas students suggesting negative impact on vocational colleges in the last three months.
The new data ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NRI alleges racial bias in Jersey Island]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Racial-bias-in-Jersey-Island.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An NRI businessman, fighting a 15-year legal battle against charges of money laundering in Jersey Islands, UK, has complained of 'racial discrimination' and sought the Indian government's help in moving the case to the International ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World leaders to gather for Delhi sustainable summit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Delhi-sustainable-summit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Leaders from various regions of the world will gather in Delhi for Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) beginning Friday, the first major global meeting after the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. 
The theme of the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian taxi driver held in Australia for hitting passenger]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-taxi-driver.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Indian taxi driver was arrested in Melbourne after he bashed up a passenger following a heated argument on Wednesday night, media reports said.
The 25-year-old passenger had an argument with the driver at about 10 p.m. when they ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian envoy called to discuss Australian attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-envoy-Australia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The government has called its envoy to Australia Sujatha Singh to New Delhi for detailed consultations in the wake of repeated attacks on Indian students in Australia.
High Commissioner Sujatha Singh will be in New Delhi from Feb 10 .]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian state premier criticises Indian media, officials]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-state-premier.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Victoria premier John Brumby Wednesday criticised the Indian media and officials and said there had to be &quot;some balance to the reporting&quot; after it emerged that an Indian man who claimed to have been set alight by assailants .]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Attacks on Indians take toll on Australia's education revenue]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-education.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) The series of attacks on Indians will take a toll on Australia's education revenue with the latest data on applications by overseas students suggesting negative impact on vocational colleges in the last three months.
The new data ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tracing the shattered dreams of many Dubai Indians]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Dubai-Indians.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) It's a novel that looks at the hard lives of poor Indian migrants in search of their pot of gold in Dubai - a work that gains significance in the backdrop of the current credit crunch. &quot;Dubai Dreams: The Rough Road to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CBSE opens helpline for Gulf students]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CBSE-helpline.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) In order to help students of Classes 10 and 12 in Gulf countries overcome exam stress, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday started three helplines in Kuwait, Dubai and Qatar.
The first phase of CBSE counselling ]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UK caterer to pay 415,000 pounds over egg allergy death]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Egg-allergy-death.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A caterer who supplied ras malai dessert containing eggs at a Sikh wedding has been ordered to pay 415,000 pounds to the widow of a man who died from an allergic reaction.
Scientist Kuldip Singh Bhamra, 49, who was allergic to egg, ..]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol ring NASDAQ opening bell]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NASDAQ-opening-bell.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol have become the first Indian actors to ring the opening bell of the world's biggest stock exchange, NASDAQ, an honour usually reserved for CEOs of major corporations.
The actors who are in the ]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britain to review student visa suspension by month-end]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/British-student-visa.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The British high commission would decide by the end this month whether to start re-issuing student visas at its three applications centres in the northern India, an official said on Monday.
&quot;We will again review the situation by ]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No fuel price hike till committee submits report: Deora]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fuel-price-hike.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Petroleum Minister Murli Deora on Monday indicated that transport fuel prices will not increase till the Kirat Parikh committee submits its report.
The Kirat Parikh committee was constituted for making recommendations to the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India, New Zealand begin talks for free trade agreement]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-New-Zealand.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India and New Zealand have begun negotiations for a free trade agreement, a minister said in Hamilton on Monday.
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said the negotiations started in Switzerland where he met Indian Commerce Minister ]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimism in India has also made people impatient for results']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Optimism-in-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The high level of optimism among the Indian people has made them impatient for results, with no room for complacency within all the pillars of democracy, including the judiciary and the media, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Feb 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[London mugging hero declared Sikh martyr]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sikh-martyr.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A man who became a hero in London earlier this month for chasing and confronting muggers and being fatally stabbed has been declared a martyr of the Sikh community.
The announcement declaring Sukhwinder Singh of Dholanwal village ...]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farmers should get Padma awards:M.S. Swaminathan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Padma-for-farmers.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A few days after the Padma awards were announced, renowned agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan Saturday rued the absence of farmers in the list. He said cricketers, dancers and film actors are certainly important but &ldquo;let us .]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Muslim, Sikh, South Asian leaders demand end to racial profiling]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/End-to-racial.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian American community leaders have raised the issue of racial, ethnic and religious profiling at airports and the border with the Obama administration.
The issue was raised during a meeting Thursday ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoid Australia for now, follow advisory: India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Avoid-Australia-now.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Indian students are advised against visiting Australia for the moment; Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said on Friday as the body of Ranjodh Singh, an Indian killed in New South Wales was flown into Delhi.
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I am old fashioned : PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Old-faishoned-Nooyi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Her company's products target the youth, she loves chips and cereals and is a relatively young professional at the helm of one of the larger US corporations. But PepsiCo chairman Indra Nooyi says she remains an ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Red tape delays pacts during German president's visit?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/German-president.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) India and Germany were planning to sign four pacts, including one on security and counter-terror cooperation, during German President Horst Koehler's weeklong visit beginning Monday but these will not happen now due to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't visit Australia for now: Preneet Kaur]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australia-advisory.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur Friday cautioned Indian students against visiting Australia for the moment following the string of attacks on Indian nationals.
&quot;We are doing all that we can. An advisory has ..]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indra Nooyi seeks women's quota at Davos]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indra-Nooyi-at-Davos.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Indra Nooyi, the first Indian-born chief executive at PepsiCo, wants a quota system to get more women at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Nooyi ranked No. 3 on Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women list last year ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lalu, Rabri held; shutdown evokes total response]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lalu-Rabri.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi were arrested along with dozens of party leaders in Bihar capital Patna Thursday during a dawn-to-dusk state-wide shutdown to protest ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now access 100,000 books with Pi, India’s first e-reading device]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Access-books.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Indian readers are in for a whole new experience with the launch Thursday of infibeam.com Pi, the country&rsquo;s first indigenous e-reading device that offers access to over 100,000 books and a host of newspapers and magazines, its ..]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Growth is coming back, say global CEOs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Growth-is-cominga.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) With their worst fears of a prolonged recession over, CEOs worldwide are now confident about growth bouncing back, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said in its annual global survey here in Canada.
The survey found that 81 percent of CEOs ]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soren in Delhi, to discuss Maoist issue with Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Soren-in-Delhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren Wednesday left for New Delhi along with his two deputy chief ministers to discuss the Maoist problem in the state with union Home Minister P. Chidambaram.
Soren and Deputy Chief Ministers Raghubar ]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Italian medico's R-Day gift - 10 low-cost heart surgeries]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Italian-medicos.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A world-renowned Italian medico gave a Republic Day gift to 10 Indian heart patients by performing low-cost angioplasty surgeries on them at a private hospital here.
The surgeries were performed by Imad Sheiban, 58, director of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian Airlines hijacker deported from Canada]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-Airlines-hijacker.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Canada on Tuesday deported the mastermind of the 1984 Indian Airline hijacker to India.
Parminder Singh Saini, 46, who took refuge here 15 years ago and faced deportation to India, was put on the plane back to India earlier Tuesday, .]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Mile sur' video back with younger feel]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/United-colours-of-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Mile sur mera tumhara&quot;, that vibrant, lilting music video of the 1980s showcasing the colours, sights and sounds of India, was back in a younger and dynamic avatar across television screens on Republic Day Tuesday.
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[President Patil awards Ashok Chakras on R-Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/R-Day.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday awarded three Ashok Chakras, the country's highest gallantry award in peacetime, ahead of the 61st Republic Day parade that started amid swirling clouds of mist.
Two of the awards were posthumous - ]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese couples may now have two children]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chinese-couple.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) In a major shift in policy, China, the world's most populous nation, may allow couples to have a second child.
This will be permitted even if the couples' parents have more than one child, softening its current norm of giving such ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ramakrishnan, Zakaria, Chatwal amongst NRI Padma awardees]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NRI-Padma-awardees.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Thirteen foreigners, non-resident Indians (NRIs) and people of Indian origin (PIOs), including Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Indian American journalist Fareed Zakaria and New York-based hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal, have ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[South Korean firms keen to ride India's infrastructure growth wave]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/South-Korean-firms.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) After a firm foothold in India's consumer durables market, with LG, Samsung and Hyundai becoming household names, South Korean companies are prospecting keenly in the country's infrastructure space but dread red tape and procedural ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian bishop urges repentance for attacks on Indians]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-bishop.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) An Australian bishop has urged parishioners at one of Melbourne's most famous churches to listen to the concerns of the Indian community, whom he described as &quot;oppressed in this land&quot;, a media report said on Monday. 
Bishop ]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tharoor visits Haiti, meets president and Indian peacekeepers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tharoor-visits-Haiti.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor visited quake devastated Haiti and met President Rene Garcia Preval at his temporary home as well as Indian peacekeepers aiding the survivors in the Caribbean nation. 
Tharoor ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahul Gandhi in university visit row, Jamia trip rescheduled]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-Gandhi-in-university.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) With controversy dogging his visits to universities, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's proposed visit Saturday to Jamia Millia Islamia here has been &quot;rescheduled&quot; for the time being.
Gandhi's Jamia visit &quot;will .]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gurgaon taxi, auto drivers learn English for foreign guests]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gurgaon-taxi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Gurgaon administration is teaching English to its taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers so that they can easily converse with the sportsmen and other foreign tourists expected at the Commonwealth Games this October.
Thousands of foreign ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FBI searches Indian-American doctor's weight-loss clinics]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-American-doctor.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents executed search warrants at five Illinois clinics associated with an Indian American weight-loss specialist, Dr. Gautum Gupta, including one in Chicago and two in its suburbs.
Federal ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[LeT para-gliders may target India, security on alert]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/LeT-para-gliders.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Pakistan-based Islamist militants were planning major strikes in India after acquiring para-gliding equipments, and were also plotting to target an Indian flight, especially one bound for or returning from another South Asian country, ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two more Indians assaulted in Australia]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Assult-on-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Two Indians, including a taxi driver, have been assaulted in two separate incidents in this Australian city.
Following the attacks late Thursday and early Friday, Queensland's Acting Premier Andrew Fraser assured that they have a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-origin researcher named for Australian honour]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-honour.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Indian-origin researcher of Alzheimer's disease, Ralph Martins, has been named Australian of the Year 2010 by the government of Western Australia. Born to parents who were from India, Martins, a professor, moved to Perth at 16 years ..]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US to engage India, China, Russia to stabilize Af-Pak region]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-Engages-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The US proposes to engage Russia, China and India this year as it tries to bring stability to Afghanistan and Pakistan while it continues its mission to &quot;disrupt, dismantle, and defeat Al Qaeda and its safe havens in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reliance Industries net profit rises by 14.48 percent]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Reliance-Industries.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) posted a net profit of Rs.4,008 crore (Rs.40.08 billion/$868 million) in the quarter that ended Dec 31, on the back of higher revenues from its refining and gas business, to register a 14.48 percent rise .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kashmir ban on pre-paid mobiles lifted, Omar welcomes step]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pre-paid-ban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) More than two months after it banned pre-paid mobile connections in Jammu and Kashmir citing security concerns, the government revoked the ban, but with stringent terms for identity verification. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday .]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sonam Kapoor nominated for fourth Asian Film Awards]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sonam-Kapoor.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Bollywood actresses Sonam Kapoor is the only Indian to have been nominated for the fourth Asian Film Awards.
The 24-year-old has been nominated in the best newcomer category for her role in &quot;Delhi-6&quot;, said a statement after ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[See Indian attacks in context: Australian PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Thursday said attacks on Indians should be seen in context of &quot;the broader incidences of violence to students of other ethnic backgrounds, acts of violence against Australian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Telangana again on boil with suicides, shutdown]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Telangana-on-boil.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region was again on the boil Wednesday with four suicides triggering fresh protests for a separate state and a shutdown called by a student group taking a violent turn and paralysing normal life.
Violence ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shelter all Delhi's homeless by evening, orders apex court]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shelter-to-homeless.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Delhi government to provide night shelters to all the homeless in the capital by the evening.
Taking note of the plight of the homeless during the ongoing cold wave, the apex court ordered ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Over 100,000 bathe in Ganga on Basant Panchami]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Basant-Panchami.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Over 100,000 people bathed in the holy river Ganga on the morning of Basant Panchami - the official onset of spring in the country. On this day, Saraswati, the goddess of learning, is venerated across the country.
&quot;One lakh ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prices will come down soon, PM tells Rahul Gandhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-meets-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday that he had discussed the &quot;serious issue&quot; of prices with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who assured him that the government's efforts would &quot;soon bear fruit&quot; ..]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Junior ministers complain of no work, PM promises action]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-promises-action.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) There was a litany of complaints as many ministers of state voiced dissatisfaction saying they were starved of work or ignored in policy decisions in their respective ministries in their first meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saudi prince to Pandit: Restore Citi's status]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Restore-Citi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, who is a major investor in Citigroup, says he has told the banking giant's Indian American CEO Vikram Pandit that it's time for him to restore the bank's stature.
&quot;I met Vikram [Pandit]. I told .]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hockey India at last pays players Rs 1 crore]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/hockey-india.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(IANS) The national hockey players and the support staff were Monday given a cheque of Rs.1 crore as match fees and incentive bonus for their performance last year.
The players, who have been in training here for the World Cup, had last week ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Basu was a great patriot, Manmohan tells comrades]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Naval-officer.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) A naval officer bidding to become the first Indian to sail solo around the world has reached the half-way point - a remote British colony in the south Atlantic - to receive a warm welcome by locals and officers of the Royal ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian on solo sailing trip reaches Falkland Islands]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Falkland-Islands.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) &quot;Now I can wear a ring on my left ear,&quot; said Donde, referring to an old folklore that pirates who had sailed around the Cape were fit for the ornament, as he was received by Thicknesse and the Indian naval attache in London, ]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Avatar' declared best film at the Golden Globe awards]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Golden-Globe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sci-fi epic &quot;Avatar&quot; was the winner of the best motion picture (drama) at the 63rd Golden Globe awards on Sunday.
&quot;Avatar&quot; beat other nomiees &quot;Up in the Air&quot;, &quot;The Hurt Locker&quot;, &quot;Inglourious ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[West Bengal mourns Jyoti Basu]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jyoti-Basu-dead.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) West Bengal Sunday mourned the death of one of its most accomplished leaders Jyoti Basu, who ruled the state for a record 23 years. Communists wept inconsolably and thousands gathered before the hospital where the 95-year-old Marxist .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India to provide 30 MW power to Nepal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Power-to-Nepal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India has agreed to provide an additional 30 MW of electricity to Nepal, which is currently reeling under an acute power shortage.
India gave its nod to supplying additional power when External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna called on Prime Minister ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Governors names finalised, Narayanan for West Bengal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/westbengal-governors.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(IANS) The government has finalised the list of governors for seven states with National Security Advisor (NSA) M.K. Narayanan being named for West Bengal and former home minister Shivraj Patil for Punjab, government sources said.
The Congress core ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Distinguished panel to oversee Tagore's 150th anniversary event: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tagore-anniversary.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A national committee of distinguished experts will be set up to oversee the 150th birth anniversary celebrations in 2011 of Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, an event which will be celebrated jointly with Bangladesh, Prime Minister Manmohan ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India faces real threat of another Mumbai-type attack]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-type-attack.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Citing the very real threat of a new Pakistan-based terror attack on India, a noted South Asia expert says that unlike in 2008 Indian military restraint &quot;cannot be taken for granted if terrorists strike again&quot;.
&quot;India .]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mamata offers to facilitate Maoist-government talks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoist-government-talks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday urged the Maoists to shun violence and join the mainstream of society, offering to take up the responsibility to facilitate talks between the rebels and the government. 
&quot;I asked the rebels ]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mayawati paints Lucknow BSP blue on her birthday]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mayawati-paints-Lucknow.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Uttar Pradesh capital was literally covered under a blue blanket - from blue lights to blue buntings - to mark the 54th birthday Friday of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and state Chief Minister Mayawati.
Long strings of tiny blue lights ..]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rana indicted with Headley for Mumbai terror attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rana-indicted.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) A federal grand jury has added Pakistan born Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana to charges filed against David Coleman Headley, accusing them of laying the groundwork for the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress rebuts Thackeray's Australia bashing]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-rebuts-Thackeray.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The Congress has rejected Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's criticism of India maintaining cricketing ties with Australia in the aftermath of attacks on Indians there, saying that linking sports with the attacks would reduce the gravity ]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jyoti Basu's condition deteriorates, oxygen requirement up]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/jyoti-basu.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) The condition of critically ill Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu deteriorated on Thursday. While the 95-year-old's respiratory problems increased, his heart and kidney functioning worsened, hospital authorities said.
&quot;Basu is still ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pongal celebrated with traditional fervour]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pongal-celebrations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) The Tamil harvest festival Pongal was celebrated with traditional fervour onThursday.
The four-day Hindu festival thanking rain, sun and farm animals is a mini Diwali in Tamil Nadu - minus the crackers. 
People across the state got ..]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BSP sweeps Uttar Pradesh council polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/UP-council-polls.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) made a clean sweep in the Uttar Pradesh legislative council polls, winning 31 of the 33 seats, counting for which was held on Wednesday.
While the Election Commission is yet to declare the results ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Food prices will come down in 8-10 days: Pawar]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Food-prices-rise.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) The soaring prices of essential commodities will start coming down in 8-10 days, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said Wednesday, adding that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had called a meeting of the chief ministers in New Delhi on ..]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama backs senator who used racist language against him]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Racist-llanguage.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) President Barack Obama has come to the rescue of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying, &ldquo;This is a good man who has always been on the right side of history.&rdquo;
Reid, who has been embroiled in a controversy for .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India to set up five nuclear parks across the country]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nuclear-parks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) The union government has set an ambitious target to generate 35,000 MW nuclear energy by 2020 and 59,500 MW by 2032, a top government official said on Monday.
&quot;Altogether five nuclear parks, each having generation capacity of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Watching TV is cutting short your life]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/tv-watching.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(IANS) Beware, couch time is shortening your life!

For every hour of TV viewing, your risk of dying early from heart disease rises by 18 per cent, says a new comprehensive study of sedentary lifestyle.

The study by Australian researchers shows ]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Consider 3-year MBBS course for rural healthcare: HC]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rural-healthcare.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Voicing concern over the poor state of rural health services, the Delhi High Court has asked the health ministry to consider launching a special medical course of three years to bring out doctors to man primary healthcare centres in ..]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP workers across Karnataka protest Gowda's foul language]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-protests.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit: IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers across Karnataka hit the streets on Monday to protest Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) chief H.D. Deve Gowda's use of invectives against Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa. Protesters garlanded the former ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ahmedabad sky dotted with colorful kites set to provide feast to your eyes]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Ahmedabad-sky.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:IANS) Varied colors symbolic of 34 countries, including Britain, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Singapore and Malaysia, dotted the clear blue skies in Ahmedabad as the 20th International Kite festival 'Uttarayan' was formally inaugurated by ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maoists violence sees killings of two businessmen in Orissa]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-violence.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The killings were reported from Katulpeta -450 km from Bhubaneswar, under the jurisdiction of Bandhugaon police station area.
Talking to IANS Deputy Inspector General of Police Sanjeeb Panda stated, &ldquo;Two local traders were killed by suspected ]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NRI investors in Kerala to push for state's development]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/nri-investors.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[(IANS) Investors in Kerala including those based outside the country have decided to form a non-political grouping to push for economic development in the state, a NRI originally from Kerala said Saturday.

Noted NRI industrialist P.N.C. Menon ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NCP does not rule out Amar Singh joining the party]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ncp-amar-singh.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Friday did not rule out the possibility of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh joining its ranks, but said it was not the occasion to talk politics.

&quot;We believe in keeping human relations above ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soren sails through trust vote amid RJD boycott]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/shibu-soren-win.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chief Minister Shibu Soren, heading a new coalition government in Jharkhand, Thursday comfortably won the trust vote in the assembly 45-26 with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) deciding to keep away.

Five RJD legislators boycotted the trust vote ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amar Singh resigns from Samajwadi Party posts]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/amar-singh-resigns.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh Wednesday resigned as general secretary of the party as well as from its parliamentary board and as its spokesperson. Saying he was quitting the posts on health grounds, the high-profile politician denied any ..]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CBI gets court nod for Aarushi parents' narco tests]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/aarushi-cbi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A local court Tuesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct narco tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of teenager Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in their house in 2008, after it found &quot;no reason for not ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stop the agitations, maintain peace: Chidambaram to Andhra leaders]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/chidambaram-telengana.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday appealed to political parties in Andhra Pradesh to halt agitations and ensure law and order as they deliberated a mechanism to break the logjam on the issue of statehood to Telangana.

He also denied that the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Help me, I'm dying, cried fatally-stabbed Indian youth]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/indian-youth-australia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[&quot;Please help me, I'm dying,&quot; pleaded Nitin Garg, who was viciously stabbed in this Australian city, before he turned blue and passed out. He died in hospital, said his shocked housemate.

Garg, 21, lurched into Hungry Jack's Saturday ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rathore stripped of medal, Hooda writes to Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/rathore-medal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The union home ministry Monday decided to strip former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore, convicted for molesting 15-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, of the police medal he was given for meritorious service in 1985.

The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rathore case fallout: Court seeks details of VIP cases]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/sps-rathore.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As a fallout of teenager Ruchika Girhotra's molestation by former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, the high court here has asked administration in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to submit details of all pending criminal cases against ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CBI to court: Allow narco-tests on Aarushi's parents]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/aarushi-marder.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday sought permission of a local court to conduct narco-tests on Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, parents of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar who was found murdered in her Noida house on May 16, 2008.

CBI counsel ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gujarat kickstarts golden jubilee celebrations]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gujarat-kickstarts-golden.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gujarat kicked off the golden jubilee celebrations of its formation at a grand function here Friday with state lawmakers vowing to work to take the state to greater heights of glory.&nbsp;

The MLAs converged at the flower-decorated Sardar ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ruchika case: Hooda assures early SIT probe]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/hooda-assures-SIT-probe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A special police team tasked to probe fresh charges against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra, will complete its work 'as early as possible', Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jan 2010</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't drink and drive on New Year's Eve, warns Delhi Police]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/New-Year-Eve.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Delhi Police on Wednesday warned of strict action against people driving dangerously and under the influence of alcohol in the national capital on New Year's Eve. 
&quot;Police teams - static and mobile - will be present across the capital to check ]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hang Rathore, says Ruchika's father]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hang-Rathore.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With support for teenaged molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra coming from all quarters, her family and friends are now seeking the death penalty for former Haryana top cop S.P.S. Rathore, who molested her and allegedly hounded her till she killed ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shibu Soren oath-taking rescheduled at astrologers' behest]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shibu-Soren-oath-taking.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Shibu Soren will take oath as Jharkhand's chief minister on Wednesday three and a half hours before the original schedule, because that's what his astrologers want. 
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief was earlier scheduled to take oath at 2 ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chandigarh administration initiates probe against Ruchika's school]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Ruchika-school.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Chandigarh administration has initiated a magisterial inquiry into the role of a leading all girls school, Sacred Heart here for expelling teenage molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra in September 1990.
Ruchika was expelled from the school for ..]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tiwari goes underground after resignation]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tiwari-goes-underground.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Andhra Pradesh governor Narayan Dutt Tiwari, who was forced to resign after allegations of his involvement in a sex romp in Raj Bhawan, has made a quiet exit from Hyderabad, but his final destination was still unknown.
&quot;He left for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Narasimhan takes over as Andhra governor]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Andhra-governor.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chhattisgarh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan on Monday took additional charge as the governor of Andhra Pradesh following the resignation of N.D. Tiwari.
Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court A.R. Dave administered the oath of office to Narasimhan .]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sonia to kickstart Congress' 125th anniversary celebrations]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-125th-anniversary.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Congress is set to launch its yearlong 125th anniversary celebrations on Monday and leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi will address a rally in the national capital.
Sonia Gandhi will hoist the party ]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soren stakes claim to form Jharkhand government]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jharkhand-government.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Shibu Soren on Saturday staked claim to form the government in Jharkhand with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). The Janata Dal-United also said it would ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress remains mum on Tiwari]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ND-Tiwari-scandal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after the country was shocked by reports that dragged Andhra Pradesh Governor Narayan Dutt Tiwari's name into a sordid sex scandal, the Congress Saturday refused to officially comment but party leaders privately said the octogenarian leader ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Osmania University students attack TDP leaders]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Osmania-University.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Students of Osmania University here Thursday attacked Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislators on the campus, protesting the party's stand on the Telangana statehood issue.
TDP's senior leader N. Janardhan Reddy fell down and sustained minor injuries ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shibu Soren open to supporting NDA or UPA for Jharkhand]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shibu-Soren.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day ahead of the assembly election vote counting, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren on Tuesday asserted he was the &quot;key&quot; to formation of the next state government and was open to supporting either the National Democratic ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nepal pledges better safety in wake of IA hijack trauma]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Better-safety.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Recovering from the trauma of the sensational hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft 10 years ago, Nepal's civil aviation authorities say they have learnt from the past experience and strengthened security measures at the country's only international ]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Food prices set to fall in January, says Montek]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Food-prices.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Admitting that food prices have soared &quot;excessively&quot;, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Tuesday said that they would decline in January 2010.
&quot;In January, you will see a decline in food prices,&quot; ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians are head-and-shoulders above other immigrants in US: Forbes]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indians-in-US.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pepsico chief executive Indira Nooyi inevitably tops the list of what Forbes calls &quot;Eight Indian-Flavoured CEOs&quot; who lead US corporations with revenues of at least $2 billion as the premier business magazine chronicles the rise of Indians .]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kasab continues to flip-flop over his 26/11 role]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kasab-flip-flop.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistani terror accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab on Monday continued to deny his involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks before the Special Court in Mumbai.
He denied having opened fire inside Cama Hospital or killing three top ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[264,000 South Asians lose jobs in Gulf: Survey]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/South-Asians.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[About 264,000 people from South Asia have lost jobs in the Middle-East on account of the global meltdown, city-based think tank Centre for Development Studies (CDS) has found.
Presenting the study in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday, S. Irudayarajan ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian foreign minister to visit Nepal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Foreign-minister-to-visit-Nepal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Against a backdrop of deepening political crisis in Nepal, New Delhi is sending its External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna to Kathmandu next month for consultations with the country's major political players.
The Indian minister will be arriving ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fasting Andhra MP disappears from hospital]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fasting-Andhra-MP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The MP from Vijayawada was arrested by the police and shifted to the hospital early Saturday from the hunger strike camp. 
Police said as the hospital staff were making arrangements to shift him to a private hospital, he walked out with a friend ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gadkari replaces Rajnath as BJP president]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gadkari-BJP-president.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nitin Gadkari Saturday took over as president of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), replacing Rajnath Singh.
The announcement to hand over the baton to Gadkari, 52, the party's Maharashtra unit chief, was formally made after a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Over 38 lakh claimants sought income tax refund]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Income-tax-refund.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[There were 38.17 lakh claimants for income tax refund as on April 1 this year, a minister said Friday.
The central government paid Rs.1,983 crore as income tax refund during financial year 2008-09, while it was Rs.1,308 crore in 2007-08 and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Khaleda Zia stresses political goodwill between Dhaka, Delhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Khaleda-Zia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As Bangladesh prepares for summit level talks with India, opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has called for &quot;political goodwill&quot; to resolve issues between the South Asian neighbors.
&quot;We want good relations with ..]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaria epidemic tracked with cell phones]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Malaria-epidemic.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have for the first time tracked how malaria spreads by using only cell phone records. 
University of Florida (UF) scientists analysed more than 21 million calls to determine how often residents of Zanzibar travel and where they go to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sensex flat in morning trade]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sensex-flat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets was ruling flat Thursday having managed to recoup its early losses.
At 10.51 a.m., the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) -- which opened at 16,912.25 points -- was ruling at ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bank employees across India go on strike]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bank-employees-strike.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Around 450,000 bank employees of both public sector and private sector banks across the country went on a strike Wednesday, paralyzing banking services. They were opposing the merger and consolidation of public sector banks.
&quot;We are striking ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama to make case for cutting emissions to India, China]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Cutting-emissions.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will make an attempt to convince India and China that it's in their interest to curb emissions as he goes to attend the climate summit in Copenhagen where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other global leaders would be in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Smaller states: Mayawati should first do her work, says Digvijay]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Smaller-states.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Slamming Chief Minister Mayawati for playing politics by demanding that smaller states be carved out of Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh Tuesday said she should first complete the work she has to do before demanding their ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rana knew well in advance about Mumbai attacks: FBI]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-attacks-FBI.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana &quot;knew well in advance&quot; about the deadly Mumbai terror attacks, blamed on Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT), and offered congratulations to the killers, according to &quot;fresh ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM's accountability project to eliminate red-tapism in government offices]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Accountability-project.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Delhi will be the first city to implement the ambitious plan of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) relating to service level agreements (SLAs) that mandates prompt assistance by officials in issuance of ration cards, driving licenses and other ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India needs  to interrogate Headley: CPI-M MP]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Interrogate-Headley.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India has every right to interrogate American-born terror suspect David Headley in relation to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and the government should strongly take up the matter with the US, said a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP in the Lok ]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Evidence links Pakistani major to Headley: India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Evidence-links-Pakistani.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is &quot;some evidence&quot; to link a retired Pakistan major to David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American accused of conducting reconnaissance missions for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said in Delhi on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Telangana erupts in joy over nod to separate statehood]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Separate-statehood.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hyderabad and nine other districts of Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region erupted in jubilation late Wednesday night after the central government announced that the process for formation of a separate state of Telangana will be initiated.
Students of ]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guwahati jail turns into meeting point for ULFA leaders]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ULFA-leaders.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Guwahati central jail has become the meeting point for four top separatist leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to set the wheels of the deadlocked peace process moving, a step facilitated by the government. 
ULFA vice ]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How David Headley was caught]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/David-Headley.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Deceptive answers about his travels abroad to an airport inspector proved to be the undoing of Pakistani American terror suspect David Headley, charged with helping to plan the Mumbai terror attacks, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Federal ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India gets $128.5 mn grant for AIDS, TB, malaria eradication]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Grant-for-AIDS.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[International aid agency Global Fund on Tuesday announced a $128.5 million grant for India to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Of the newly approved grants, $69.4 million will be provided for expanding care and treatment services for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Railways' revenue up 8.74 percent]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Railway-revenue-up.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian Railways' earnings jumped 8.74 percent in the first eight months this fiscal to Rs.55,586.69 crore ($12 billion) as compared with Rs.51,117.55 crore in the like period last year. 
The total goods earnings during April-November this year went ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India to charge Headley in 26/11 case, seek extradition]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Charge-Headley.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will charge American national and Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley for allegedly plotting the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and seek to bring him to India for trial, home ministry officials said ..]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I want to change politics in Uttar Pradesh: Rahul]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Politics-in-UP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said that he wanted to give a new vision to politics in Uttar Pradesh by roping in more youth. 
&quot;I want to change the way politics is done in Uttar Pradesh. Politics in the state is in the past ..]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UN climate summit opens amid warning and hope]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/UN-climate-summit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The UN climate summit, on whose decisions the future of the planet Earth and the well-being of succeeding generations depends in many ways, opened in the Danish capital Monday with a call by a leading expert that there will be hundreds of millions ..]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FBI team arrives in India with Headley information]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/FBI-in-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team arrived in India on Monday on a two-day visit with information on Pakistan-born suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana presently in US ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jharkhand Maoist held in Uttar Pradesh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jharkhand-Maoist.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Maoist wanted for carrying out landmine blasts and attacks on security personnel has been nabbed in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, police said Monday.
Vishundev, wanted by the police of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, was arrested in Sonbhadra, ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cowardly assault' will not derail Kashmir peace process: Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kashmir-peace-process.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The murderous attack on moderate Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi will not be allowed to derail the peace process in Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Saturday while condemning the &quot;cowardly&quot; assault on one of the known ]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Over 30 killed as suicide bombers target Rawalpindi mosque]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rawalpindi-mosque.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Over 30 people, mostly army officers, were killed when suicide attackers hurled grenades and opened fire before blowing themselves up in a mosque where hundreds of people, including army personnel, had gathered for Friday prayers in this Pakistan ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Al Qaeda helping LeT plot terror attacks in India: US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/A-Qaeda-attacks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has accused Al Qaeda of helping Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan based terrorist outfit blamed for the Mumbai terror attacks last year, to plot attacks in India to provoke a conflict between India and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rajkhowa, deputy and families surrender in Meghalaya]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rajkhowa-surrenders.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chief Arabinda Rajkhowa, his deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah and eight others, including their families, surrendered before Indian authorities at a border outpost in Meghalaya early Friday.
The surrender ]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pamphlet calling Ayodhya 'Ramjanmabhoomi' to be withdrawn]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pamphlet-calling.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to withdraw a pamphlet of its tourism department because it describes the disputed Ayodhya site as 'Ramjanmabhoomi' (Lord Ram's birthplace). The description has kicked up a big row.
&quot;This inadvertent ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One dead, several injured in Mumbai protests for water]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-protests.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[One person lost his life and at least five others were injured here after police caned a 5,000-strong group protesting against an additional 15 percent cut in Mumbai's water supply on Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The protesters, led by ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Samajwadi Party to observe Babri anniversary as black day]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Babri-anniversary.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Thursday said it would observe the anniversary of the Babri Mosque demolition on Dec 6 as a &quot;black day&quot;, and accused the Congress-led central government of giving a clean chit to former Prime Minister P.V. ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Israeli defense delegation to visit India next week]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Israeli-delegation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[An Israeli defense delegation led by chief of defense staff Lt Gen Gabi Ashkenazi will visit India next week to not just boost bilateral military ties but also strengthen the counter-terrorism network between the two countries, officials said. The ..]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central govt may give safe passage to ULFA Chairman]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ULFA-Chairman.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a move aimed at buying peace in restive Assam, the Indian government might consider giving safe passage to Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), instead of describing him as arrested.
&quot;Rajkhowa .]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ISRO earns Rs.1 bn by launching foreign satellites]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ISRO-launches.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has earned over Rs.1 billion in the last three years by launching foreign satellites. And much of this has come from Israel and Italy.&quot;Twelve satellites were launched for other countries during the .]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ULFA's Rajkhowa arrested in Bangladesh, say sources]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rajkhowa-arrested.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), and its publicity secretary Apurba Baruah have been arrested in Bangladesh, informed sources said on Wednesday. 
Both are expected to be in India's custody soon, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Most Wanted Terrorist of India!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/most-wanted-terrorist.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of India's most wanted terrorists has played truant for close to three decades by not attending office, although he continues to be a central government employee in Assam.

Self-styled commander-in-chief of the outlawed United Liberation Front ]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AIDS has a new name in Nepal: Mumbaiya]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/AIDS-in-Nepal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Equal Access, an NGO, started a radio programme for Nepalis and Nepali migrants working in India, it broadcast the heart-breaking story of a teen from eastern Nepal.
The 13-year-old's father sold her to two men who in turn dumped her at a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeast pledges to step up fight against HIV/AIDS]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Northeast-HIV.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people in India's northeast, whose large number of drug users have sparked fears of a worsening AIDS epidemic, pledged Tuesday to step up the fight against HIV by spreading awareness about it. 
Schoolchildren, health workers, people ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Koda, ex-cabinet colleagues in jail on corruption charges]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Ex-cabinet-colleagues.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Close on the heels of the two leaders' meeting in Washington last week, US President Barack Obama called Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday morning to discuss his new Afghanistan-Pakistan policy.
According to the Prime Minister's Office ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Dec 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No state is completely free of clashes: West Bengal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/West-Bengal-clash.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Asserting that no state was free of clashes, the West Bengal government on Monday said that it always took prompt action to defuse political violence, even as a central team arrived on a fact-finding mission regarding the recurrent political clashes ]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Koda, ex-minister of Jharkhand arrested in assets case]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Koda-arrested.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who is at the centre of a Rs.2,500-crore money laundering scam, and a former state minister were arrested Monday by the vigilance bureau for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to their known ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wives pray for poll officials in Jharkhand]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Wives-pray.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Fearing attacks by Maoists, wives of officials who will oversee the second phase of Jharkhand's assembly polls Wednesday are praying for their safety.
Although authorities have promised a violence free election, everyone has their fingers crossed ..]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kasab's lawyer Kazmi sacked by Special Court]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kasab-lawyer.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[S.G. Abbas Kazmi, the lawyer for 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, was sacked by Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani Monday. The sudden move comes three days after Kazmi submitted an unconditional apology for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British MP marches to Bangladesh-India border to protest dam]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/British-MP-protest.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stating that the proposed dam by India over the Barak river would flood large areas and act as a &quot;weapon of mass destruction&quot;, a British delegation led by MP George Galloway marched to the India-Bangladesh border before he was stopped by ..]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Manmohan Singh returns after US, CHOGM visit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Manmohan-Singh-returns.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returned to the capital oinSunday night after his state visit to the US and Trinidad and Tobago, where he participated in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). 
Manmohan Singh's four-day State visit to .]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India-US relationship to focus on five Es]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Five-Es.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Economy, energy, environment, education and empowerment -- the India-US relationship will accord new emphasis to these areas, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, adding that ties in defence, security and counter-terrorism will be ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani court indicts seven LeT operatives for 26/11 attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/LeT-operatives.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A court here Wednesday indicted seven operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, including its commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, for their alleged role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
The Anti-Terrorism Court of Muhammad Akram Awan, who is ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New campaign to spread awareness against dowry]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Awareness-against-dowry.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Concerned over continuing cases of harassment of women, the women and child development ministry Wednesday launched a new campaign to rope in school girls and sensitize them against the custom of dowry.
Under the campaign 'Daughters against Dowry', ]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama, Manmohan vow to implement nuclear deal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nuclear-deal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Reaffirming the &quot;global strategic partnership between India and the United States&quot;, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama have vowed to implement their landmark nuclear deal to realize its full potential.
&quot;The two .]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[President Patil makes history by flying in a Sukhoi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/President-Patil.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Pratibha Patil created history by becoming the first woman president to fly in a fighter jet, the Sukhoi-30MKI of the Indian Air Force (IAF), in Pune on Wednesday morning.
The aircraft commanded by Wing Commander S. Sajan took off ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama recognizes India as 'nuclear power' for the first time]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/manmohan-obama.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In what is seen as the first public recognition of India as a &quot;nuclear power&quot;, US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said it can be a full partner of the US in preventing the spread of atomic weapons and pursuing the shared vision of a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Politicians in office shouldn't hold posts in religious bodies: Liberhan ATR]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Liberhan-report.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In its Action Taken Report (ATR) submitted in parliament on Tuesday along with the Liberhan Commission report on the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid, the government stated that political leaders holding office should not simultaneously hold ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India puzzled by Chinese assertiveness over border: Manmohan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chinese-assertiveness.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was unable to &quot;fully understand&quot; the reasons behind China's assertiveness over the border dispute with India.&quot;We have tried to engage China in the last five years. We have a longstanding border ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Catastrophe if Taliban, Al Qaeda succeed in Afghanistan: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Taliban-in-Afghanistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The success of Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan would have catastrophic results, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said while urging the global community to provide sustained support to Afghanistan to return to peace.
&quot;History ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Liberhan report tabled in Lok Sabha]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Liberhan-report-tabled.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Home Minister P. Chidambaram tabled the report at 12 noon. 
The decision to table the report was taken following an emergency meeting of the cabinet earlier in the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Manmohan Singh asks Pakistan to shun terrorism to talk peace]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shun-terrorism.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has offered to resume the peace dialogue with Pakistan, including on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, provided it abjures terrorism and comes to the table with good faith and sincerity.
&lsquo;My government has invested ]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Babri Masjid back in spotlight, Liberhan report to be tabled]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Babri-Masjid-back.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Seventeen years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry will be tabled in parliament, Home Minister P. Chidambaram promised Monday as a political storm engulfed both houses following reports that the probe had ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I don't know who to deal with in Pakistan: Manmohan Singh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Deaing-with-Pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With power virtually resting with the army in Pakistan even in a democratic regime, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wonders &quot;who to deal with&quot; or negotiate with in Islamabad.
&quot;I think the most important force in Pakistan is the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP wants Liberhan probe into Babri demolition in parliament]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Liberhan-probe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Liberhan Commission of Inquiry into the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid should be tabled in parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded Monday following a media report that its leaders, including veterans Atal Bihari Vajpayee and ..]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India and China are not in competition: Manmohan Singh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-and-China.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated that India and China are not in competition as there is enough economic space for the two Asian giants to realise the growth ambitions of their countries.
&quot;I think the rise of China has contributed .]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan has not done enough on Mumbai attacks: Manmohan Singh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-attacks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed India'sconcern over Pakistan's continued inaction in bringing the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to justice contrary to its assurances.
&quot;No they haven't done enough,&quot; he told CNN ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government playing sugarcane politics: Mayawati]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sugarcane-politics.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has accused the central government of &quot;deliberately delaying&quot; the decision to withdraw the ordinance on sugarcane pricing in order to gain political mileage.
In ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Four Pakistanis arrested in Italy for Mumbai attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Four-Pakistanis.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Four Pakistani men, including apparently a father-son duo, have been arrested in Italy in connection with last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Italian police said on Saturday.
CNN TV said the men were arrested in the northern Italian city of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India working well on child issues, but too slow: Unicef]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Child-issues.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Progress on child issues is slow even though India has accomplished a great deal in ensuring the rights of children almost two decades after it ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Unicef India representative Karin Holshof said .]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tribals will benefit from Congress government in Jharkhand: Sonia Congress]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-in-Jharkhand.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday asked the people of Jharkhand to vote for her party in the coming assembly elections so that the state could have a stable and corruption free government that would ensure development for the tribals. ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lok Sabha adjourned after bedlam]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lok-Sabha-adjourned.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Lok Sabha was adjourned until noon Friday after opposition members disrupted the proceedings demanding a better deal for sugarcane farmers.
As soon as the house assembled, opposition MPs mainly of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) walked towards ]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ULFA admits it is using China as a base]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ULFA-China.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has set up bases in China and other foreign countries with the help of money extorted in the state, two senior ULFA leaders have told police interrogators.
This is the first time the ULFA, which ..]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[After bad publicity, government removes cops from Gateway of India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gateway-of-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Embarrassed after the criticism from various quarters, the Maharashtra government Thursday evening shifted a platoon of police - entrusted with guarding the Hotel Taj Mahal Palace &amp; Tower - from the Gateway of India where they were living since .]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Headley's father was a Pakistani diplomat, mother ran a pub in US: report]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Headley-father.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley's father was a prominent Pakistani diplomat while his mother belonged to Philadelphia. Born Daood Gilani, Headley changed his name in 2006 taking on the surname of his mother Serrill ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sugar prices lead to bitter start for parliament]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sugar-prices.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The winter session of parliament got off to a chaotic start Thursday with the Lok Sabha being adjourned for the day as the entire opposition united to stage noisy protests against the new sugarcane pricing policy of the United Progressive Alliance ..]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM holds emergency meeting on sugarcane pricing]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Meeting-on-sugarcane.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Faced with a protest by farmers and almost all opposition parties over sugarcane pricing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday held an emergency meeting on the issue with senior cabinet colleagues.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Law Minister .]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Winter chill brings on increase in swine flu cases]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Winter-chill.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With the winter chill now in the air, swine flu cases in the national capital have recorded a sudden jump in the past two days. Doctors Thursday warned that H1N1 infections could see a rise as the virus spreads faster during winter.
The capital ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia's ban on uranium sales to India makes no sense]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Uranium-sales.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Australia's ban on uranium sales to India made no sense at a time when that country was trying to develop its economy, deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop has said.
Bishop said that Canada's decision to resume uranium sales to India signals a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't consider me future PM, says Rahul Gandhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Future-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday urged people not to consider him as the future prime minister, and said nobody could predict the future.
&quot;Please don't consider me as the future prime minister. Nobody can predict the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[S.M.Krishna reaches Kabul for Karzai inauguration]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Karzai-inauguration.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna reached Kabul on Wednesday, a day ahead of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai for a second term.
India had earlier send its congratulations to President Karzai for winning the second presidential ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Long jail terms for 3 Australians who attacked India-born doctor]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Long-jail-terms.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday three Australian youths were awarded jail terms of up to 18 years for viciously attacking India-born doctor and former head of the Australian Medical Association Mukesh Haikerwal in 2008. The doctor said he drew &quot;no comfort&quot; ..]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sixteen countries to commemorate Bhopal gas tragedy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bhopal-gas-tragedy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[On Dec 3 it will be 25 years since the Bhopal gas disaster took place, killing 3,500 people instantly. While a number of public meetings, film screenings and marches are being planned in the week leading up to the D-day in Bhopal and across India, ..]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canada promises India help over Rana]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-Canada-relations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hoping to conclude a civil nuclear agreement soon, India and Canada on Tuesday decided to expand their counter-terror cooperation by exchanging information about Tahawuur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin who along with David ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gas leakage in Samsung's Noida plant affects 50 workers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gas-leakage.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Over 50 employees of leading multinational Samsung's washing machine assembly plant in Noida were taken to hospital after being affected by a gas leakage in the plant Tuesday evening, officials said. 
The employees were taken to the local Kailash ..]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India gives seventh dossier to Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Seventh-dossier.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Days before the foreign ministers of the two countries are expected to meet in Trinidad on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), India on Tuesday gave to Pakistan a seventh dossier that contains additional evidence ..]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists being trained in Pakistan: British PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Al-Qaeda-terrorists.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists remain in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, continuing to receive explosives and weapons training in camps in that country, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.
&quot;There are ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama urges China to discuss Tibet with the Dalai Lama]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/China-Tibet.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged his Chinese counterpart to hold talks with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader who is denounced as a separatist by China's ruling Communist Party.&quot;We did note that while we recognise ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Policeman arrested for okaying passport for Pakistan spy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-spy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three people were arrested here Tuesday for their alleged involvement with suspected Pakistani spy Sayeed Amir Ali, and one of them is believed to be a policeman.
While police officials were unwilling to divulge details of those arrested, informed .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amitabh Bachchan not invited to IFFI, co-host upset]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Amitabh-Bachchan-to-IFFI.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The entertainment society of Goa (ESG), co-host of the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has held its central government partner Directorate of film festivals (DFF) responsible for not inviting legendary actor Amitabh .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India sends most students to US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-students-in-US.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The maximum number of foreign students in the US come from India, according to a new report showing a record number of foreign students at US universities and colleges.
Asia dominated the foreign student population, with India leading the way again ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Press Council forms panel to study 'paid news syndrome']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Paid-news-syndrome.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Press Council of India (PCI) has set up a committee to study the &quot;paid news syndrome&quot;, or entering into monetary deals with politicians to pass off their views as news items, in the recent elections, its chairman Justice (retd) G.N. ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BSF officer killed, three hurt in blast near Jammu]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BSF-officer-killed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Border Security Force (BSF) Deputy Inspector General (DIG) O.P. Tanwar was killed and two of his security guards and a driver were injured Monday in a blast close to an India-Pakistan border post in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Tanwar had ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We're not interested in staying in Afghanistan: Hillary Clinton]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-troops-Afghanistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Saying that the US was not interested in a long-term presence in Afghanistan to rebuild the country and have a functioning democracy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the primary American mission there was defeating Al Qaeda.
&quot;We're ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's swine flu toll touches 524]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swine-flu-tol.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three more deaths due to swine flu were reported Sunday taking India's toll due to Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 524, health department officials said here.
A total of 161 new cases were also reported in the country, pushing the total number of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I am being falsely implicated: Koda]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Koda-case.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former chief minister Madhu Koda said on Saturday that people jealous of him were conspiring to keep him away from the Jharkhand assembly polls by implicating him in the Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam. 
&quot;I fear I could be killed by ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government to infuse Rs.800 crore into Air India soon]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Air-India-gets-money.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government will infuse Rs.800 crore of equity into the cash-strapped national carrier Air India in two months, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said in Belgaum.
&quot;We are looking at equity infusion into Air India in two months,&quot; he .]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cultural shows, trips, campaigns mark Children's Day celebrations]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Children-Day-celebrations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cultural programmes were held in several schools, NGOs took street children on a trip to the zoo and distributed warm clothes to brave the winter chill - Children's Day was celebrated in a variety of ways in the capital Saturday to commemorate the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mumbai Police response mechanism improved greatly: police chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-police-response.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maharashtra Director General of Police A.N. Roy said that although Mumbai remained on the terrorists' hit list, the security apparatus in the city was more alert and prepared now, nearly a year after the 26/11 terror attacks.
&quot;Mumbai is still .]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[About 96 percent women feel unsafe in Delhi, says survey]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Women-safety.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly 96 percent women do not feel safe in the national capital, especially so in the popular markets of Chandni Chowk, Connaught Place and Karol Bagh and in the buses, according to a survey.The survey was conducted by the Centre for Equity and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't be 'under confident' with respect to China: IAF chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-under-confident.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik on Friday downplayed China's sale of fighter jets to Pakistan and said there was no need to be &quot;under confident&quot; with respect to China.
&quot;When two sovereign countries (in this case ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US preparing a 'substantive' visit for Manmohan Singh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Manmohan-US-trip.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Preparations are well underway to ensure a &quot;good, substantive&quot; schedule for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when he comes here later this month on the first state visit hosted by President Barack Obama.
&quot;Of course, we all look ..]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bullish on India, Australia assures no tolerance for student attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Attacks-against-Indians.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Australia on Thursday again assured India that &quot;full force of law&quot; would be used to protect Indian students in that country, and sought to move ties beyond the students' controversy and uranium sale to a wide-ranging strategic and economic ]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bihar economy to grow by 8% over the next decade]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bihar-economy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bihar, one of the poorest states in the country, will soon be on a high economic growth trajectory, says premier industry lobby Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India).
An Assocham report titled &quot;The Bihar Vision 2020, ]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India registers case against American LeT suspect Headley]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/LeT-suspect-Headley.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's National Investigative Agency (NIA) has registered a case against David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan born American national who is in custody in the US for allegedly plotting terror attacks against India, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said ..]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yechury has close links with Maoists: Mamata]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Yechury-linked-with-Maoists.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[All leaders of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), particularly its politburo member Sitaram Yechury, have a close association with Maoists, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged. 
It was because of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia proposes anti-violence laws]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australiannti-violence-laws.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New laws providing more teeth to the police to tackle street violence have been introduced in the Australian state of Victoria following a string of attacks, including on Indian students.
Police and Emergency Services Minister Bob Cameron said the .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britain issues a travel advisory to its nationals travelling to India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/British-travel-advisory.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Britain has warned its nationals that they should be careful while visiting Goa and the four major Indian metropolitan cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, which could be terror attack targets.
&quot;Future attacks may target public places ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Six former Maoists to fight Jharkhand assembly polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-to-fight-assembly-polls.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Six former Maoist rebels have decided to shun violence and join the political mainstream by contesting the coming Jharkhand assembly elections. 
Four rebels have been given ticket by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and one each by Rashtriya Janata ]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Next cyclone to hit northen Indian Ocean will be Ward]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Cyclone-Ward.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[You might not know when the next cyclone will hit northern Indian Ocean, but you can be sure it will be called Ward and after that it will be Laila.
Cyclones derive their names through a systematic procedure laid down by the World Meteorological ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Attacks on Indians high on agenda during Australian PM's visit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-PM-visit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Amid the shadow of repeated attacks on Indian students in his country, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will hold talks with Indian leaders on Thursday aimed at boosting economic and strategic ties between the two countries. 
Rudd will begin ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[West Bengal too votes for kith and kin of politicians]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/West-Bengal-politicians.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[West Bengal appears to be embracing dynastic politics. The results of the assembly by-elections show popular support for the kith and kin of prominent political figures. 
Four of the five candidates related to dead or living politicians were among .]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama names Indian American Rajiv Shah as USAID chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/USAID-chief.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has named Rajiv Shah, an Indian American official at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to head USAID, an agency charged with spurring development around the world.
&quot;The mission of USAID is to advance America's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cyclone Phyan threatens India's west coast]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/cyclone-threat-india.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The cyclone over the Arabian Sea on Wednesday was &quot;likely to intensify further&quot; and cross the Indian coast between north Maharashtra and south Gujarat in the early hours of Thursday, says the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Now ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India should react militarily to Pakistan terror: FICCI]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Pakistan-confrontatoin.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hard military and economic counter actions should be the answer to Pakistan's cross border terror, says India's top business forum, regretting that New Delhi's response has so far been only &quot;reactive and defensive&quot;.
&quot;India has a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India most important future market for PepsiCo, says Nooy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-market-PepsiCo.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[PepsiCo will hold its global board meeting in India this year as it sees the country as its &quot;most important future market&quot;, according to company chairman and chief executive Indra Nooyi.
&quot;India is going to be the most important ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Manmohan, Obama to take India-US ties to new level: Envoy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Manmohan-US-visit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the US this month, he and President Barack Obama will create a framework to take their already &quot;comprehensive partnership of mutual trust and confidence&quot; to &quot;a new level&quot;, according to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress, BJP bag one seat each in Himachal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Himachal-by-polls.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Himachal Pradesh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday bagged one seat and the opposition Congress one in the assembly by-elections held last week.
Congress candidate Sujan Singh Pathania won the Jawali seat by 5,249 votes, whereas the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Opposition leads in nine West Bengal seats, Left trails]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Opposition-leads.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The opposition Trinamool Congress-Congress combine was ahead in nine&nbsp; and the Left Front trailing behind as votes cast in Saturday's by-elections in 10 assembly constituencies of West Bengal were counted on Tuesday.
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The Gorkha ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP leads in Chhattisgarh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-leads.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chhattisgarh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday established an early lead over the Congress in the Vaishali Nagar assembly seat as officials counted votes cast in Saturday's by-election.
Jageshwar Sahu was leading by some 600 votes ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[After meeting ex-RSS chief, Shia cleric approves 'Vande Mataram']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Vande-Mataram.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A leading Shia cleric has taken on India's largest Islamic seminary and said that there was &quot;nothing wrong&quot; if a Muslim sings the national anthem 'Vande Mataram'.
&quot;I see nothing wrong for a Muslim to recite Vande Mataram as long as ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Four MNS legislators suspended for four years for attacking Abu Azmi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Suspended-for-four-years.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Four legislators of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were Monday suspended for four years by the Maharashtra assembly for assaulting Samajwadi Party lawmaker Abu Asim Azmi for taking the oath as legislator in Hindi.
Besides the stringent ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Azmi insulted Maharashtrians by taking oath in Hindi: MNS legislator]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Azmi-insulted.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislator Ram Kadam, who was seen slapping and hitting Samajwadi Party lawmaker Abu Asim Azmi inside the Maharashtra assembly on Monday, claimed that Azmi had insulted the &quot;11 crore Maharashtrians&quot; by ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Abu Azmi hit by MNS MLAs for taking oath in Hindi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Azmi-hit-by-MNS.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[There was pandemonium on the first day of the new Maharashtra assembly on Monday when Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislators roughed up Samajwadi Party member Abu Asim Azmi for taking the oath of office in Hindi.
As Azmi started to take his ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan under Indian influence, ISI ingress in terror groups: Musharraf]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Afghanistan-under-Indian-influence.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has alleged that Afghanistan is under influence of Indian intelligence agencies even as he admitted that there is &quot;an ingress of the (Pakistani spy agency) ISI in every terrorist ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China can get hostile any time, says RSS chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/China-can-get-hostile.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat Sunday said the peace gestures from China were a camouflage to gain time and it could &quot;turn hostile&quot; any time.
&quot;China can turn hostile at any convenient time... we should not be ..]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dalai Lama gets a rousing welcome at Tawang]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Welcome-at-Tawang.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Dalai Lama arrived in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday to a rousing reception by hundreds of monks and the resonating sound of gongs and cymbals. The spiritual leader of the Tibetans who has thousands of followers around ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Four Uttar Pradesh officials declare their assets]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/UP-officials-declare-assets.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In highly ill-reputed Uttar Pradesh, four senior officials have voluntarily declared their assets.
Spearheading the campaign was additional cabinet secretary Vijay Shankar Pandey, better known as the crusader who initiated a secret ballot to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Minor incidents of violence mar West Bengal elections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Violence-mar-WB-elections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sporadic incidents of violence marred voting on Saturday for the 10 assembly seats in West Bengal whose outcome will have long-term consequences for the ruling Left Front. About 35 percent voters had exercised their franchise till 1 p.m., an ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Polling begins in Uttar Pradesh on 11 assembly seats]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Polling-in-UP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Voting for the by-polls to 11 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh began Saturday amid tight security, an official said.
A total of 177 candidates, including 12 women, are in the fray. Among the prominent ones are ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Polling commences in Kerala]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Polling-in-Kerala.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Polling Saturday began in the three assembly constituencies of Kannur, Ernakulam and Alappuzha in Kerala, official said.The voters were seen queuing up in large numbers much before the polling began. The voting began at 8 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Polling begins in West Bengal amid tight security]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Polling-in-Bengal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Polling began peacefully for by-elections to 10 West Bengal assembly seats Saturday amid heightened security, an official said.Long queues were seen in front of various polling booths as enthusiastic voters, including women, lined up to cast their ..]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Price rise of food items hits common man]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Price-rise.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Forget the season's exotic vegetables, even the common potato, tomato and onion are now beyond the common man's reach. According to official data on select commodities, prices of food articles have gone up by more than 13 percent in the last one ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yeddyurappa shunts out senior official, dissidents unimpressed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Karnataka-BJP-crisis.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Friday shunted out his principal secretary to buy peace with dissident ministers and legislators but they remained firm on the demand for his removal.V.P. Baligar, a 1980-batch Karnataka cadre Indian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Himachal all set for polls amid tight security]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Himachal-polls.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Himachal Pradesh is all set to go to the polls on Saturday amid tight security. A total of 143,483 voters are expected to decide the fate of eight candidates, including four independents, for the by-polls at Rohru in Shimla district and Jawali in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Manmohan Singh as first state visitor of Obama presidency no accident: US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Manmohan-singh-visit-US.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's decision to have Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the very first state visitor of his administration was no accident, according to a senior US official.
&quot;I think it's no accident that President Obama decided that the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress-NCP combine finally agrees to form govt on Saturday]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-NCP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) finally broke their deadlock over power sharing in Maharashtra on Thursday, paving the way for swearing-in of the new government by the weekend - more than a fortnigt after the assembly poll ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lalu blames Congress for  sidelining smaller outfits]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lalu-blames-Congress.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In an obvious attack on former ally the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has accused national level parties of trying to marginalise regional outfits to deny power to the deprived.
&quot;Delhi listens only to people with ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[One Lok Sabha, 31 assembly seats go to polls on Nov 10]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Polls-in-november.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Voters in 31 assembly constituencies in seven states and one Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh will cast their votes on Nov 10 to elect new representatives. The assembly by-polls will be held for 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in West Bengal, three in .]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's annual food price inflation increases by 13 percent]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Annual-food-price.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Based on the new guidelines on disclosing the official wholesale price index, India's annual rate of inflation based for primary articles and fuels stood unaltered at minus 6.2 percent for the week ended Oct 24, official data showed on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farooq asks Chidambaram to rethink over Kashmir prepaid mobile ban]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Prepaid-mobile-ban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah asked Home Minister P. Chidambaram to reconsider the continuation of the ban on prepaid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir when Chidambaram concluded his day-long visit to the state ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Take on folks in Beijing and Bangalore, Obama tells students]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-in-Beijing-Bangalore.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has hit the road to push a new $4.35 billion grant programme to encourage American schools to develop internationally competitive standards to let its students take on &quot;folks in Beijing and Bangalore.&quot;
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We want more autonomy: Dalai Lama]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/More-autonomy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has once again refuted China's claims that he wants independence for Tibet and clarified that he is only seeking greater autonomy.
&quot;I am not demanding independence for Tibet. I am only seeking genuine ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM regrets the death of man at PGIMER]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Death-at-PGIMER.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday wrote to the family of a man who died at the PGIMER hospital in Chandigarh for want of timely treatment during his visit to the hospital and expressed his regrets.
&quot;The prime minister wrote to his ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan needs to show some commitment: India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-show-commitment.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Any meaningful dialogue with Pakistan was &quot;realistically possible&quot; only after it dismantled the infrastructure of terrorism on its soil, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said on Wednesday while refuting allegations that India was fomenting ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sino-Indo relationship to grow in coming days: Govt]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sino-Indo-relationship.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Denying any strain in bilateral ties due to the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, India on Wednesday said Sino-Indian ties were set to acquire &quot;more substance and relevance&quot; in the coming days. 
&quot;There is no strain in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's National Defence College was on the terror hit list]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/National-Defence-College.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two Pakistan-born Chicago men charged with plotting to launch terrorist attacks in India and Denmark in association with Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were targeting India's National Defence College (NDC), a US court was ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's exports decline for 12th consecutive month to $13.6 bn]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Decline-in-exports.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's merchandise exports fell for the 12th straight month this September, dipping 13.8 percent to $13.6 billion, compared to the corresponding month last fiscal, a government statement said on Tuesday.
India exported $15.8 billion worth of goods ]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swami Ramdev promotes yoga at Deoband gathering]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swami-Ramdev-yoga.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Renowned yoga guru Swami Ramdev on Tuesday sought to promote his method of keeping fit and dispel misconceptions about it at the gathering of clerics and followers at the historic Islamic seminary in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh.
Ramdev was the first ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man dies during PM's PGIMER visit, PMO asks for report]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Man-dies-at-PGIMER.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Tuesday sought a report from Chandigarh's Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) on the death of a kidney patient, who could not enter the hospital because of security measures in place ..]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP leadership decision awaited on CM Yeddyurappa’s fate]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Yeddyurappa-fate.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dissident Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers of Karnataka on Tuesday asserted that the central leadership had not taken any decision on the chief minister's fate, a day after party president Rajnath Singh said B.S. Yeddyurappa would remain in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We want a stable Pakistan: Army Chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Stable-Pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India needs to be on guard against the spillover of terrorism from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor said on Tuesday.
&quot;The whole region (Afghanistan-Pakistan) is affected by terrorists. We need to be on ..]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two hundred tonnes of gold from IMF]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gold-from-IMF.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sold $6.7-billion worth of gold to India, the crisis-lender said Monday, completing about half of a sale that was authorized in September.
The IMF said it sold 200 tonnes of gold to India's central bank ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Goa blast a result of intelligence failure: Home minister]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Goa-blasts.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik has admitted that the Diwali eve blast in the state, in which two associates of the rightwing Hindu outfit Sanatan Sanstha (SS) were killed when the bomb they were ferrying exploded, was a result of intelligence failure. .]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Delhi reports 391 dengue cases so far]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Dengue-in-delhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[At least 16 new cases of dengue were reported on Monday, taking the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in the national capital to 391, a health department official said.
&quot;There were 16 new, confirmed cases of dengue today ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeast will continue pre-paid mobile connections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pre-paid-mobile-in-NE.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pre-paid mobile telephone services will continue in northeast India though the union home ministry has banned it in Jammu and Kashmir over &quot;serious security concerns&quot;, officials said here Monday. Like Kashmir, many areas of the northeast ..]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trade pact, climate change, terror to top India-EU summit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-EU-summit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[An associate professor of the University of Kashmir was stopped from flying to China by immigration authorities in New Delhi after the Chinese visa was granted to him on a separate document and not on his passport.
Shakil A. Romshoo of Srinagar's ..]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan needs to be serious in tackling terrorists: Antony]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tackling-terrorists.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Monday warned that relations with Pakistan can improve only if it takes serious steps against terrorists waging war against India.
&quot;In relations with Pakistan, the main impediment is that there is still large ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Searches against Koda, associates continue second day]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Searches-against-Koda.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Income Tax department (IT) and enforcement directorate continued searches in cities across the country for the second day Saturday to gather evidence of corruption against former chief minister and Lok Sabha member Madhu Koda, officials ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Punjab, India celebrate Gurparab]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gurparab-celebrations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Millions of devotees lined up at gurdwaras across Punjab and elsewhere in the country early Monday morning to celebrate Gurparab -- the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism.
A heavy rush of devotees was seen outside the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Five state-run firms to get higher Maharatna status]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maharatna-status.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The centre has decided to confer within a month the status of &quot;Maharatna&quot; - a newly rolled-out grade for public sector enterprises - on at least five companies, giving them more leeway in financial and policymaking matters.
&quot;Our ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Nov 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush high on India, backs common fight against extremism]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fight-against-extremism.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Backing a place for India in the UN Security Council, former US president George W. Bush Saturday said he was &quot;incredibly optimistic&quot; about the future of bilateral ties and stressed that the two countries would together fight &quot;an ...]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government may pullout forces from Kashmir: Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pullout-forces-from-Kashmir.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered peace talks to separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday said the government was mulling withdrawal of paramilitary forces from the valley as well as the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Punjab police book Canadian couple in immigration scam]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Immigration-scam.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Punjab Police have booked an Indian-origin Canadian couple along with eight local people for running an illegal immigration racket from Punjab, police said Friday evening.
According to police, Anita Hans and her husband Rinku Hans, a Toronto-based .]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India will get a non-permanent Security Council seat: Tharoor]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Non-permanent-Security-Counci-seat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Friday exuded confidence that India would bag a non-permanent member's seat in the UN Security Council from the Asian quota for 2011-12.
&quot;We have confirmed our candidature. We are ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Over half of Mumbaikars are migrants, Uttar Pradesh tops list]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Migrants-in-mumbai.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Over 50 percent of those ,living in Mumbai are migrants, the largest numbers coming from Uttar Pradesh, according to a report released by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) on Friday.The report says that between 1991-2001, Mumbai's ..]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deora sets up Committee to probe Indian Oil fire]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-Oil-fire-probe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[While the fire raged on some 20 hours after it broke out at an Indian Oil depot at Jaipur, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora on Friday announced a five-member inquiry committee and compensation for the victims.
The blaze broke out in the depot in the .]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Narendra Modi has swine flu, isolated for a week]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Narendra-Modi-swine-flu.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is suffering from swine flu, doctors said on Friday, two days after his return from Russia. He has been quarantined for a week and officials, businessmen and others who have interacted with him recently have been ]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM hosts lunch for Bush, thanks him for nuclear deal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lunch-for-Bush.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[It was nostalgia time on Friday when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday hosted a lunch for former US president George W. Bush and lauded him for bringing the landmark India-US nuclear deal to fruition. 
Manmohan Singh held wide-ranging talks with ]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India rushes team to Ecuador to probe Dhruv chopper crash]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Dhruv-chopper-crash.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Defence public sector undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Friday said it has rushed a three-member team to Ecuador to probe the crash of a Dhruv advanced light helicopter, India's flagship defence export, this week.
Without specifying ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Caution required in interlinking rivers: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Interlinking-rivers.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[While interlinking river systems could help expand the area under irrigation, there was need to exercise caution due to the danger of causing irreparable environmental damage, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.
&quot;The interlinking of .]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US alerts travellers to India to Mumbai-type terror attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-alerts-travellers.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the run up to the first anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the US has issued a travel alert on India saying Washington &quot;continues to receive information that terrorist groups may be planning attacks in India.&quot; The alert comes ..]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian Oil fire: Deora says no option but to let fuel burn]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-Oil-fire.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said there is no option but to let all the fuel burn at the Indian Oil Corp depot here where containers and tankers went up in flames Thursday evening and claimed over 10 lives.
&quot;This is unprecedented in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Patil receives Queen's Baton from Elizabeth II]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Baton-from-Elizabeth.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Queen's Baton was handed over to India's President Pratibha Patil by Queen Elizabeth II in a glittering ceremony at the Buckingham Palace in London on Thursday.
Patil then passed on the Baton to India's sports minister M.S. Gill, who handed it .]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeast students find supporter in Rahul Gandhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-northeast-students.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said he will fully cooperate with the students' union in its efforts to check the rising instances of crime against women and men from the northeastern states.
Pali Gongo, co-convener of the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jammu and Kashmir scribe visited LeT headquarters: Police]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/LeT-headquarters.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Jammu and Kashmir journalist, who was arrested Oct 25 on charges of working as a spy for Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), had visited the Lashkar-e-Taiba headquarters during his visit to Pakistan in 2006, according to police.
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<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India not satisfied with Pakistan's action on 26/11: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-action.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after extending a hand of friendship to Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made it clear on Thursday that he was not satisfied with the action taken by Islamabad against those who organised the Mumbai terror attack.
&quot;We are not ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US set to pay Taliban members to switch sides]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-pays-Taliban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama has signed a $680 billion defense appropriations bill with one provision giving commanders the ability to pay Taliban members to switch sides, but some experts feel the programme may buy only temporary loyalty.
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Engage India on terrorism, Kashmir: US expert]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Engage-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The US and India must agree on three vital security issues to ensure that their relations continue to deepen - terrorism, Kashmir, and the balance of power in Asia - a leading US South Asia expert has suggested.
&quot;Prime Minister Manmohan ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Economic reforms accepted across India's political spectrum: President]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Economic-reforms.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Pratibha Patil told a gathering of top British figures from the world of business and finance Wednesday that economic reforms unleashed in 1991 have been accepted by all political parties in India.
&quot;Our economic policies have ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Armed forces last resort against Maoists: Antony]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Armed-forces-Maoists.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Defense Minister A.K. Antony on Wednesday urged Maoist guerrillas to abjure violence and said that involving armed forces in the &quot;anti-naxal&quot; operations would be as a last resort.
&quot;What we are demanding is that they should abjure ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush's India visit: Last-minute security details being fixed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bush-India-visit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former US president George Bush, who arrives in New Delhi on Thursday, may not get the same level of security as in his 2006 India visit, but Delhi Police are nevertheless working closely with the US Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Terrorism thwarted India's most dynamic phase with Pakistan: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Pakistan-dialogue-thwarted.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The most productive and fruitful association with Pakistan was during 2004-07 when &quot;militancy and violence began to decline,&quot; Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday, but lamented that the progress achieved was &quot;repeatedly ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vayalar Ravi gets notice for violating poll code]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Poll-code-violations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Election Commission said Wednesday it has issued notice to Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi for violating the moral code of conduct in Kerala's Kannur district after an assembly bypoll was announced.
&quot;The commission has issued ]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Security for trains to be upgraded]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Security-for-trains.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Concerned over the daring attack on the Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express by Maoist-backed agitators, it has been decided to upgrade security in trains and intensify vigilance around tracks in strongholds of the left rebels, officials said on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India, Britain natural partners: President Patil]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Britain.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Drawing a parallel between the traditions of diversity and democracy embraced by India and Britain, President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday described the two countries as &quot;natural partners&quot; who are set to shape the course of the 21st ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sibal in US, to seek partnership for innovation varsities]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sibal-in-US.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India&rsquo;s Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal is in the US to seek partnership with leading American universities for an initiative to set up 14 innovation universities in India to push research and development.
Sibal will meet ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fiscal stimulus will continue: Mukherjee]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fiscal-stimulus.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday ruled out any roll back of the stimulus package in a hurry and welcomed the stance taken by the central bank in its second quarterly review of the monetary policy.
&quot;Until the economy is on a firm ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Relating terrorism with Islam 'downright prejudice': Ansari]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Relating-terrorism.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[No religion condones terrorism and those attempting to attribute its origin to Islam display &quot;downright prejudice&quot;, Vice President Hamid Ansari said Tuesday.Terrorism is not of &quot;recent origin but globalization and technology have now .]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoid Pakistan, government tells pilgrims]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Avoid-pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government on Tuesday advised Indian pilgrims to avoid visiting Pakistan in view of the deteriorating security situation there. But the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) said it was awaiting clearance for Sikh devotees wanting to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No deviation in spectrum allocation: A. Raja]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Spectrum-allocation-deviation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[There was no deviation in procedures while awarding radio frequency spectrum to telecom firms and all decisions were taken after due consultation on legal and other matters, Communications Minister A. Raja said on Tuesday.
&quot;All my predecessors ]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mumbai airport will be closed for six hours every Tuesday]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-airport.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) will be closed for six hours for the next 22 Tuesdays due to repair and reconstruction work on the runways, an airport official said.
The work -- at the intersection of the main runway and ..]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pratibha Patil lauds Indian diaspora for their contribution]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-diaspora.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Pratibha Patil has urged the Indian diaspora around the world to help overcome the challenges presented by a resurgent India and help build a &quot;great and dynamic&quot; nation.
&quot;You know the challenges that a resurgent India ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian government respects religious freedom, but some states found wanting: US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/religious-freedom.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A US government report gave top rating to the Indian government for doing its best to protect religious freedom, but criticized some state and local governments for imposing limits on this freedom.
&quot;The National Government generally respected .]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Spectrum allocation is 'largest scam in India: BJP]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Spectrum-allocation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said the alleged irregularities in allotting wireless radio spectrum and licenses by the telecom ministry to nine private operators in 2007 was the &quot;largest scam in independent India&quot; ..]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rajya Sabha deputy chairman's car stolen]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rajya-Sabha-deputy-chairman.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K. Rahman Khan's car, which had a radio tag attached to it, has been stolen from his driver's residence, police said here Monday.
The Mahindra Bolero was stolen Sunday night from his driver's home in Mahipalpur in south .]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government approves nuclear power plant in Haryana]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nuclear-plant-in-Haryana.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday lashed out at those who sympathize with Maoist policies and support their acts of mindless violence against innocent people.In a strongly worded statement, Chidambaram asked, &ldquo;What is the motive behind the ]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uddhav accepts 'moral responsibility' for Sena defeat]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shiv-Sena-defeat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Accepting moral responsibility for the drubbing in the recent elections, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said Monday that the party would function as &quot;a responsible opposition&quot; in the assembly.
Breaking his silence for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maoists waiting to strike in urban areas]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-waiting.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Security in and around key installations in the Chhattisgarh capital has been intensified following intelligence reports that Maoists with access to rocket launchers are keen to strike urban areas to halt operations against them in the sprawling ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India-China ties to dominate foreign ministers' meet]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-China-talks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's up and down ties with China are likely to dominate the ninth trilateral meeting of the two Asian giants and Russia in this technology hub on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had stated at Hua Hin (Thailand) Sunday that differences ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SEBI asks markets to watch out for terror financers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Terror-financers.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), has asked all stock exchanges and securities intermediaries to inform &quot;within 24 hours&quot; the home ministry if they find any client, whose particulars match with UN-listed .]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US army accepts first Sikh recruit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-Sikh-recruit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a major step to end the exclusion of Sikhs, the US Army has accepted a Sikh recruit who had declined to either remove his 'dastaar' (turban) or cut his hair as a condition for joining the military.The Sikh Coalition, a community advocacy, group ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani forces closing in on Taliban: Army chief]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-fighting-Taliban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The security forces are closing in on the Taliban in the South Waziristan region along the border with Afghanistan, the Pakistani Army chief has said.Briefing a high level meeting in Islamabad on Friday about the operations, army chief Gen. Ashfaq ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India, China avoid Arunachal, vow to build better ties]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-China-ties.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India and China Saturday pledged not to let their differences derail bilateral relations as Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao held a much-awaited meeting here amid strained ties.
At a nearly hour-long meeting here, both leaders avoided .]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Delhi steps up measures to contain dengue]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Delhi-dengue.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after a 15-year-old boy died of dengue in the national capital, the government Saturday appealed to people and civil authorities to take measures to contain the spread of the mosquito-borne disease.
&quot;All necessary measures are in place ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Manmohan, Wen agree to build India-China trust]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-China-trust.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao met for nearly an hour here Saturday and agreed to build &quot;trust and understanding&quot; in their bilateral relationship.
The two leaders had &quot;good ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Physicians have less respect for fat patients]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Physicians-patients.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Doctors tend to have less respect for obese patients than patients of normal weight, suggests a new study. Mary Margaret Huizinga, assistant professor of general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, says the idea for the research came .]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Raje resigns as leader of opposition]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Raje-resigns.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje met senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani on Friday and submitted her resignation as leader of opposition in the state assembly.
&quot;Raje met Advani and tendered her ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reserve Bank may raise cash reserve ratio]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Cash-reserve-ratio.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's central bank is unlikely to alter the repo or reverse repo rates at its Oct 27 meeting, but may raise the cash reserve ratio by 50 basis points, says the research arm of global rating agency Moody's.
&quot;With the recovery in its early ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fractured opposition helped Congress sweep Arunachal polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-in-Arunachal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The election results of Arunachal Pradesh were along expected lines, with a fractured opposition helping the Congress party sweep the polls. The surprise though was Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress emerging as the main opposition and the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Another violent day in Pakistan, suicide attack kills 7]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Violent-Pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Seven people were killed and seven injured on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near an air force base in Pakistan's Attock district as the army continued its assault on the Taliban in the country's restive northwest region.
The suicide .]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Governor likely to invite Congress to form government in Haryana]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-govt-haryana.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia is likely to invite the Congress to form the next government in the state after the party formally stakes its claim later Friday. As the Congress has emerged as the single largest party in the assembly after the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[MNS will play a constructive opposition: Raj Thackeray]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/MNS-to-play-opposition.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thanking the people who voted Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) members to the Maharashtra assembly, Raj Thackeray on Thursday said his party will play a constructive opposition to highlight the problems of the people of the state.&quot;I don't count ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress thanks voters for showing faith]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-expresses-thanks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Congress on Thursday attributed its win in the Maharashtra assembly polls to its &quot;pro-poor policy&quot; and for delivering the benefits of its developmental programmes to the poorest of the poor.
Beaming with pride and flashing victory ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hooda wins while Congress president Mullana loses]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hooda-wins.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a major embarrassment to the ruling Congress in Haryana, the party's state president Phool Chand Mullana lost the election from the Mulana (reserved) assembly seat in Ambala district.Mullana, who was earlier a minister in the Bhupinder Singh ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prominent candidates who won in Maharashtra]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Prominent-candidates-in-Maharashtra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here's a list of important candidates who emerged victorious in the Maharashtra assembly polls as counting progressed on Thursday. Chief Minister Ashok Chavan (Bhokre) led the Congress's victory while opposition leader Ramdas Kadam of Shiv Sena was .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EVMs not responsible for Haryana defeat: BJP's Goel]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Haryana-elections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[There is no one reason or one person responsible for the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) defeat in the Haryana assembly elections, its general secretary Vijay Goel said on Thursday contradicting a senior party colleague. &quot;There is no one reason .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pawar credits Congress policies for Maharashtra win]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-policies-Maharashtra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The central government's policies have helped in the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance's good showing in the Maharashtra elections, union agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar said here Thursday. 
He added that a decision on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP concedes defeat in Maharashtra]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-concedes-defeat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday conceded defeat in Maharashtra, saying the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance needed to ponder why it lost the Oct 13 assembly elections.
State BJP secretary Vinod Tawade said the Shiv Sena and BJP would do a lot of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress says it will form government in Maharashtra]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-government-in-Maharashtra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maharashtra's ruling Congress party said on Thursday that it was confident of retaining power, with early projections indicating it could touch the half-way mark in the 288-member assembly. Election officials said the Congress and its ally ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress leading the results in Maharashtra]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-in-Maharashtra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maharashtra's ruling Congress-led alliance was ahead in the race to control the 288-member assembly as counting of votes polled in the Oct 13 elections progressed. Counting trends from 120 of the 288 constituencies showed the Congress and its ally ..]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Early gains for Congress in Haryana]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gains-for-Congress.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The ruling Congress in Haryana made early gains on Thursday as thousands of votes cast in the assembly elections were counted across the state.
More than one hour after the vote count began, the Congress led in over half of the 40 seats where early ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NSG to protect Delhi round the clock]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NSG-protection-delhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Come December, over 100 elite commandos of the country's best crack force, the National Security Guard (NSG), will be deployed for round the clock anti-terrorist and anti-hijack operations in the Indian capital and its surrounding areas.
According .]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uttar Pradesh to recruit 200,000 policemen]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Police-recruitment.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chief Minister Mayawati announced on Wednesday that the government is recruiting over 200,000 policemen to strengthen the existing police force in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populated state.
&quot;The process of recruiting 204,021 police ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Quiet diplomacy: Central officials in Kashmir to meet Mirwaiz]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Quiet-diplomacy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As part of New Delhi's &quot;quiet diplomacy&quot; to solve the problems in the troubled Jammu and Kashmir, a team of top officials is presently in the valley to do the background work for restoration of stalled talks between the central government .]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US allows Sikh security officers to wear turban and beard]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sikh-turban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In what is seen as a landmark civil rights victory for the Sikh community, the US government has allowed Sikhs to serve as federal security officers while keeping their turbans and beards. 
The reversal of a ban comes after a discrimination case ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India and China agree to fight climate change together]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fight-climate-change.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India and China on Wednesday signed an agreement to cooperate on ways to fight climate change. They will also continue to work together in international climate deal negotiations.
There is virtually no difference between Indian and Chinese ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India joins FIP to fight climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-joins-FIP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India and five other developing countries will join five contributor countries on the governing body of the Forest Investment Programme (FIP) in a unique partnership to combat climate change through forest management.
India, Brazil, the Democratic .]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[10 killed in Mathura train accident]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mathura-train-accident.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[At least 10 people were killed and over a dozen injured when two passenger trains collided early on Wednesday morning in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura city, officials said. 
The accident occurred at about 5:00 a.m. when the Goa Express rammed into the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Security situation has worsened, be prepared for all threats: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Security-situation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Emphasizing that the overall situation in India's &quot;immediate neighborhood has worsened&quot;, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday cautioned the armed forces &quot;to be equipped to deal with all threat scenarios&quot;, especially ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I wanted to walk out of Agra summit: Musharraf]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Agra-summit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has said he wanted to walk out of the failed 2001 Agra summit but was dissuaded from doing so by a senior official.
His frustration, he told reporters in New York, stemmed from the fact that then Indian ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Parliament should clear its position on climate change: CPI-M]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Climate-change-position.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Terming union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh's reported letter to the prime minister on climate change as &quot;deeply disturbing&quot;, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Tuesday demanded that the Indian parliament lay .]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rural job scheme turning wage seekers into entrepreneurs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rural-job-scheme.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[What is common between a small farmer whose son is studying medicine, a smuggler of valuable wood who gave up the illegal activity and an agricultural laborer who raised a loan to buy a buffalo? All of them are the beneficiaries of the Mahatma ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Boston museum to exhibit Indian jewels]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Boston-museum.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the first exhibition of Indian art at a major American museum in nearly 30 years, 16 finest examples of Indian art will be featured at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston next month.
The exhibition, &quot;Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani troops kill over 70 militants in Waziristan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistani-troops-kill.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Pakistani security forces have killed at least 78 militants as they continued their push into the Taliban heartland in South Waziristan on Monday, the army said.
At least nine soldiers were killed and 35 others wounded since the new operation ..]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Slated at home, Jairam Ramesh is praised by US, Britain]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jairam-Ramesh-praised.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Critics at home may rail at his reported move to soften India's stand on climate change, but the US and Britain have words of praise for Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's attempts to position New Delhi as a &quot;deal maker.&quot;
The efforts by ]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amitabh Bachchan and Amar Singh charged with money lanundering]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Money-lanundering.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bollywood mega star Amitabh Bachchan and Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh have been accused of involvement in a Rs.500 crore money laundering scam, according to a complaint lodged with Kanpur police. 
Lodged by local businessman ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India warms up to Diwali spirit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-Diwali.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The mythological victory of good over evil is once again being celebrated with Diwali, the festival of lights, illuminating homes of Indians across the country and the globe with its spirit of cheer and togetherness.
It may have had Hindu origins, .]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Delhi police offers safety tips for a safe Diwali]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Diwali-safety.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's the festival of lights and with all the Diyas lighting up your home and crackers boosting your excitement level, don't ignore the simple steps of caution which prevent the joyous occasion turning into a scarred one.
Listing out a set of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nexus between Trinamool and Maoists, alleges CPI-M]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Trinamool-Maoists.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Alleging a &quot;Maoist-Trinamool nexus&quot;, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday slammed the Trinamool Congress for &quot;negating the assessment&quot; of the prime minister that Maoist violence constitutes the greatest threat to ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's `hegemony' is a threat, says China daily]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Threat-to-china.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's &quot;hegemony&quot; poses a threat to its neighbours, says a premier Chinese daily, citing India's &quot;recent provocation on border issues with China&quot; as proof.
In an opinion piece, the People's Daily says, &quot;In recent years, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gandhi a 'man of all times and places': US Congress]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gandh-US-Congress.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The US Congress has passed a resolution congratulating the visionary leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, which enhanced the rapidly deepening friendship between the United States and India.
Unanimously passed by the US House of Representatives Thursday, .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy Diwali, says Obama at White House event]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Happy-Diwali.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama lit a traditional silver Diwali lamp at the White House and wished everyone a &quot;Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak&quot; to become the first US president to personally join an event celebrating the Indian festival of lights.
&quot;This .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-American legislator raises $400,000 for Congress bid]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-American-legislator.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Raj Goyle, an Indian American member of the Kansas House of representatives, has set a record by raising $403,083.68 during his first three months as a candidate for Congress. The amount is the highest amount of money ever raised in the first ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NREGA: Failure in non-congress ruled states]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NREGA-rahul.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Congress-led government's job guarantee programme under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) may be pro-poor but it will work only if state governments implement it well, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian farmers to get $9.7 mn from Bill Gates foundation]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bill-Gates-foundation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $9.7 million grant for poor farmers in India as part of a $120 million programme for the uplift of agriculture in endemically poor regions of the world.
&quot;Melinda and I believe that helping .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Highest voting in Haryana on Tuesday]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Haryana-Voting.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Haryana voters set a new record for the state, registering 72.71 percent balloting in Tuesday's assembly election.
The previous record was 72.65 percent in 1967. Haryana was created out of an erstwhile Punjab province on Nov 1, 1966. 
The revised .]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US respects process of Arunachal poll: envoy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Arunachal-poll.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after China renewed its claim on Arunachal Pradesh, the US envoy to India Timothy J. Roemer on Wednesday said Washington respected the process and outcome of the elections in the northeastern state while being confident that the two nations ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Diwali rush, but CCTV, metal detectors don't work in Delhi markets]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Diwali-rush.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Claims of Delhi Police to provide foolproof security in markets during Diwali festivities appear hollow as closed circuit TV cameras and metal detectors in some of the major markets in the national capital are non-functional. 
Diwali, one of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three people in a car tried to kill me: Mamata Banerjee]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-Banerjee-case.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged a conspiracy to kill her, claiming that a car with a press sticker on it tried to hit her vehicle in Kolkata's satellite township of Salt Lake in the early hours of Wednesday.
The Trinamool Congress ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahul Gandhi visits Maoist-affected districts in Jharkhand]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-visits-Jharkhand.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi started his two-day Jharkhand visit on Wednesday in the tribal-majority district of Sahebganj, amid talk that elections to the state assembly may be announced soon. Many of the areas he is visiting are under a ]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress has edge in assembly polls: projections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Assembly-poll-projections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[If the assembly elections in the three states Tuesday were seen as the first major popularity test since the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress is set to consolidate its top position, going by the early projections made by IBN-Lokmat and Star ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India for 'balanced and fair' Doha trade deal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Doha-trade-deal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian Commerce Minster Anand Sharma says while a perfect Doha deal may not be possible, he is hopeful a &quot;balanced and fair&quot; trade deal protecting the interests of the poorest countries could be reached.
&quot;We have to reassure the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suspected Maoists attack former MP, three security men killed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-attack-MP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three security men accompanying former MP and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Orissa unit president Sudam Marandi were killed by suspected Maoists in Mayurbhanj district Tuesday evening, police said.Marandi was attacked when he was going towards his ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China protests PM visit to Arunachal, India disappointed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-disappointed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India has come out strongly against protectionism in any form saying such measures would only serve to delay the global recovery from the economic crisis and would only create problems for the future.
&quot;There is widespread recognition of the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China criticises Manmohan's visit to Arunachal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/China-criticises.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[China on Tuesday expressed &quot;strong dissatisfaction&quot; over Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, a state whose ownership they dispute.
&quot;China is strongly dissatisfied with the visit to the disputed region ..]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three generations of Thackerays vote in Mumbai]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/votin-in-Mumbai.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three generations of the Thackerays - Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, his son Uddhav and grandson Aditya - came out Thursday to vote in the Maharashtra assembly elections.
The ailing Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray, who has steered the course of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nearly 18 percent voting in Haryana]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/voting-in-Haryana.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[About 18 percent of Haryana's 13 million electorate had cast their votes in the first four hours of polling for elections to the 90-member assembly on Thursday.
The Pehowa assembly seat near Kurukshetra saw the highest turnout of 25 percent till 11 ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Anil Ambani, Rahul Bose, Chavan among Maharashtra's early voters]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maharashtra-polling.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly 76 million voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in 84,136 polling stations across the state to elect 288 representatives from 3,559 contenders, including 211 women. 
In Worli, Mumbai, Poonam Mahajan, daughter of the late Bharatiya ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maoists attack railway station, blast government office in Bihar]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-attack-railways.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maoist guerrillas attacked a railway station, set ablaze a cabin room, blasted a rail track, a government office and a mobile phone tower in different parts of Bihar to enforce their strike, officials said on Tuesday.
Armed Maoists Monday night ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CBSE to grade attitude and values too]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CBSE-grading.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not interested in taking part in the school day function? You may now want to think again. Keeping in mind its aim of a holistic assessment of students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will not just grade them in their subjects, but .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani court dismisses fresh cases against 26/11 accused Hafiz Saeed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hafiz-Saeed-case.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Citing a bureaucratic lapse, the Lahore High Court Monday dismissed two cases filed under the anti-terrorism act against Hafiz Saeed who India says masterminded the 26/11 Mumbai carnage.
&quot;I argued in court that the Punjab (provincial) ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's industrial output increases by 10.4 percent in August]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Industrial-output.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Further signs of recovery in Indian industry emerged on Monday with the latest official data indicating a 10.4 percent growth in August over the same month in 2009.
Manufacturing production rose 10.2 percent in the month, as per the data on the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India tests nuclear-capable Prithvi successfully]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Prithvi-test.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India on Monday successfully test fired the nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile twice from a test range in Orissa, officials said.
The missiles were fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Balasore district, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama looks forward to host Manmohan Singh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-Manmohan-meet.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is making the first state visit of his presidency next month, that he looks forward to receiving the Indian leader in Washington.
Obama also expressed concern over last week's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's oldest long distance runner completes 96th marathon]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Long-distance-runner.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's grand old long distance runner Ashis Roy has completed his 96th marathon, chipping 11 minutes from his previous timing in the Baltimore marathon, his eighth marathon in North America in six months.
&quot;It was a good run and I felt very ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canadian parliament celebrates Diwali]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Diwali-celebrations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Canadian parliament celebrated Diwali this week with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other top leaders lighting the traditional lamps. Immigration minister Jason Kenney, finance minster Jim Flaherty, public safety minister Peter Van Loan, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why did they miss Mahatma Gandhi?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mahatma-Gandhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi tops the list of seven people who never won the Nobel Peace Prize &quot;but should have&quot; in the opinion of prestigious Foreign Policy magazine.Noting that from Henry Kissinger to Yasser Arafat, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has ..]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Daily Washington-Delhi-Kolkata flight: Air India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Washington-Delhi-Kolkata-flight.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Air India has announced the launch of a daily Washington-New York-Delhi-Kolkata flight from Dec 1 putting the US capital on its map.The daily flight would have stops in New York and New Delhi before flying on to Kolkata, saving several hours for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shashi Tharoor launches Chetan Bhagat’s new book]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chetan-Bhagat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bollywood, writing or politics? Author Chetan Bhagat, whose new book &quot;2 States: The Story of My Marriage&quot; was released on Friday, says &quot;he is 90 per cent entertainer and 10 percent reformer&quot;.His book - an autobiographical tale ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Surprised and humbled says Obama]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nobel-Obama.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A &quot;surprised and deeply humbled&quot; President Barack Obama said on Friday he would accept the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize &quot;as a call to action&quot;.&quot;I am both surprised and deeply humbled&quot; by the decision of the Norwegian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Population growith in India falls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Population-growith.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pronab Sen, chief statistician and secretary in the ministry of statistics and programme implementation, on Friday stressed the need to review the present population policy keeping in view the recent fall in population growth.
&quot;Population ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP gives Rs.1 lakh to slain cop's widow]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-helps-induwar-family.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Jharkhand unit Friday handed over a cheque of Rs.1 lakh to the widow of Induwar Francis, a police officer beheaded by Maoists, to help the family overcome financial crisis. Induwar was not paid his salary for five .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Healthcare recession-proof in the US, says Indian American doctor]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Healthcare-recession-proof.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Doctors in the cosmetic sector may have been hit and elective surgeries reduced, but doctors in the US had otherwise been insulated from the recession, said Dr Vinod Shah, president of the American Association of Physcians of Indian Origin (AAPI). ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India calls for the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT)]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-CCIT.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Calling terrorism &quot;the scourge of our times&quot;, India has asked the global community to make a firm commitment to fight terrorism by adopting a comprehensive convention on international terrorism.&quot;Terrorism is the scourge of our times. .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Principal forces students to clean toilets]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Students-clean-toilets.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The principal of a government-run school in Uttar Pradesh forced Class 5 students to clean urinals and mop the floors as punishment for not attending their classes regularly, an official said on Friday, adding that the administration had ordered a ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US condems attack on Indian embassy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Attack-on-embassy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The US has condemned Thursday's bombing near the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed at least 17 people and injured 76, saying there's no justification for this kind of senseless violence. &quot;The United States condemns the bombing today ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Terrorists can’t threaten India:Tharoor]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Terrorists-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India will not be intimidated by the criminal killers who perpetrated the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul and will take all steps to protect Indians, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor affirmed on Thursday. 
&quot;India ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britain's Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband finds a Russian relative on radio]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/EdMiliband-on-radio.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Britain's Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, has discovered a long-lost relative in Russia who identified herself on a radio interview during his recent visit to Moscow, it was reported on Thursday.
Miliband, whose brother David is Foreign ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wives hope to succeed husbands in Himachal by-elections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Himachal-by-elections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two women are hoping to make it a family affair by contesting for two Himachal Pradesh assembly seats that were vacated by their husbands who are now Lok Sabha MPs.
Pratibha Singh, wife of former Congress Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, is eyeing ..]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US donates $ 10 million for flood victims]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-donates.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The US on Thursday announced $100,000 aid for the victims of recent floods in parts of southern and western India. &quot;The heart-breaking personal loss, the destruction of homes and property, and the loss of cattle and crops have been ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suicide attack outside Indian embassy kills 7]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kabul-suicide-attack.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[At least seven people were killed and 67 injured in a suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital on Thursday. No Indians were killed but some Indian security personnel were wounded in the blast that damaged the outer wall of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's "all about money" in Arunachal elections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Arunachal-lections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[More than 40 percent of the 157 candidates for next week's assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh are millionaires, with the richest being a debutant school dropout worth more than Rs.2 billion (Rs.200 crore). According to figures compiled by the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[IIT summit set to open with much  fervour in Chicago]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IIT-summit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The seventh annual Pan-Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Global Conference is set to open with a bang in Chicago on Friday. .A high-energy laser show followed by a sight-and-sound performance will open the three-day annual summit at Schaumburg on ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian-born scientist, two others win Nobel Prize for Chemistry]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nobel-Prize.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian-born scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, it was announced in Stockholm on Wednesday.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[EC snubs Pawar for conduct violation]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/EC-Pawar.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Election Commission on Wednesday said it has issued notice to agriculture minister Sharad Pawar for violating the model code of conduct in Maharashtra. The state is scheduled to go for assembly polls on Oct 13.
The poll panel said it had ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Floods, drought derailing India's fight against poverty]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fight-against-poverty.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The massive food scarcity in India due to floods and drought is impacting hundreds of millions, derailing ongoing humanitarian work by years and adding to other serious socio-economic woes, warns the US-based non-profit World Vision.
The failure of ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I got 'positive vibes' from Indian foreign minister: Qureshi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Pakistan-dialogue.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi says he had received &quot;positive vibes&quot; from his Indian counterpart about how to take forward their relationship and peace talks stalled by the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attacks.The Sep 27 meeting .]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By-elections acid test for rival fronts in Kerala]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Elections-Kerala.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kerala's ruling and opposition fronts will face their biggest popularity test since the May Lok Sabha elections when byelections are held for three assembly seats in November. Voting will take place in Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Kannur constituencies. ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Non-stop Indian Mahautsav in Toronto]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-Mahautsav.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A heady mix of Ramlila, bhangra, dandiya, yoga and fireworks will highlight a 30-hour-long, non-stop Indian Mahautsav here at the weekend. What has been described as the longest festival ever being held at the city's famous Rogers Center Oct 9-10, ..]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gender help desks at CWG 2010: Sheila Dikshit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CWG-2010.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Keeping in mind the safety concerns of women during the Commonwealth Games in 2010, the Delhi government on Tuesday announced a plan to establish 'gender help desks' at various places across the city. 
&quot;Women, who are integral to any event, in ]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNAIDS head Michel Sidibe to visit India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/UNAIDS-head.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[On his first trip to India, the head of UNAIDS will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior ministers to emphasize India's continued support against HIV and AIDS.Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAIDS, will arrive Oct 7 in India and ..]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maoists decapitate Jharkhand police officer]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-behead.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Jharkhand police officer, who had been abducted by Maoist guerrillas and was sought to be swapped for three of their leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, was found with his throat slit on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway on Tuesday morning.
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<pubDate>06 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[President to visit LoC]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/LOC-visit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Pratibha Patil will visit forward positions of the Indian Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir Friday, an official said on Tuesday.
&quot;She is visiting (LoC) to boost the morale of the soldiers guarding the most ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More representation for women in the UN:India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/women-UN-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India has sought more representation of women in high decision-making positions at the UN saying greater participation of women in areas of conflict prevention was particularly necessary for lasting peace and security.
&quot;India attaches very ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brown university studies India's rise on global stage]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Brown-university.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's dramatic rise on the global stage has made a leading American university to launch the Year of India, an initiative to better understand the country and its growing impact around the world.
The lineup of events during the 2009-2010 academic ]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rice that requires no cooking]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rice-cooking.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian scientists claim to have developed a rice variety that requires no cooking, only soaking in water. The rice variety developed at the government-run Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) at Cuttack in Orissa is characterized by low amylase ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's black tiger shrimp to get image makeover in US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Black-tiger-shrimp.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The premium Indian black tiger shrimp has found a new agency to promote it in the US, among the largest markets for marine food products, including a new branding and campaign blitz. The state-run Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA) ]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US president postpones meeting with Dalai Lama]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-DalaiLama.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The White House has postponed a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Barack Obama until after Obama's meeting with Chinese leader Hu Jintao next month, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
The Post said it would be the first time since ..]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians wrestle `racist' youths in Australia, two hurt]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Racist-youths.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A group of skaters, who allegedly hurled racist abuses at Indian wrestlers travelling in a car, got their &quot;just desserts&quot; in this Australian city after the Indians fought back, leaving at least two people injured. The brawl between the two ]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Over 400,000 babies die within day of birth in India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Child-deaths-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[More than 400,000 children die within 24 hours of their birth in India every year - the highest anywhere in the world, a study by an international charity said.While globally this figure stands at two million babies dying within a day of their ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM, Sonia to visit Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/AP-Karnataka-visit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Home Minister P. Chidambaram will visit flood-hit Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on Monday and Tuesday to assess the havoc wreaked by heavy rains there and meet the affected ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahul Gandhi visits Dalit villagers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-Gandhi-Dalit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[He bathed in the open, drew water from a hand-pump and ate their meals. A week after his unexpected forays into Uttar Pradesh's impoverished hinterland, Dalit villagers who saw Rahul Gandhi at their doorstep are still incredulous about it and say ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World economy to grow by 3 percent in 2010: IMF]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/World-economy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the world economy comes out of a deep global recession, global activity is forecast to expand by about 3% in 2010 after contracting by about 1% in 2009, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projections.
Though well below the rates .]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Knowledge@Wharton awards  for two Indian Americans]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Knowledge-Wharton-awards.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two Indian American journalists are among the four winners of the prestigious 2009 Knowledge@Wharton Awards for Business Journalism, sponsored by the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), the Wharton School and the Knowledge@Wharton online ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Oct 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan to get $ 7.5 billion from the US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-aid.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The US Congress has passed a bill to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to $7.5 billion in the next five years, but with stringent conditions demanding action against extremist groups on its soil and prevention of attacks into neighboring ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese education ministry honors NIIT]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NIIT-awarded.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[NIIT, a leading IT training company in India, has bagged five Chinese awards including the one for the Most Influential IT Training Brand in China for its efforts to create well-trained world-class professionals in that country.&nbsp; According to ..]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ElBaradei receives Indira Gandhi Prize]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ElBaradei-awarded.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India on Wednesday lauded UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei for his role in the success of India's global civil nuclear deal as President Pratibha Patil presented the Indira Gandhi Prize to him. 
Patil presented the 2008 Indira Gandhi ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's allotment for nuclear parks hailed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-US-nuclear-deal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Eyeing India's estimated $100 billion nuclear pie, a US-India trade group has hailed reservation of two sites for US commercial nuclear technology as a &quot;significant step&quot; toward implementing the US-India civil nuclear deal.The Indian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[YSR shock deaths are bogus, says senior Congress leader]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/YSR-deaths.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A senior Congress leader in Andhra Pradesh has termed as &quot;bogus&quot; the shock deaths of 600 people following the demise of chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash early this month. Giving a bitter twist to the war of words ]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM apprised of IA strike]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IA-strike.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Civil Aviation Secretary N.M. Nambiar Tuesday briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the continuing deadlock between the Air India management and striking pilots that is now in its fourth day.A top aviation ministry official said Nambiar called ]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Govt to stop prosecution against Quattrocchi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/otavio-Quattrocchi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The central government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it has decided to stop all prosecution against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi for his alleged involvement in the Bofors payoff case.
Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam made ]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Betrayal by courier led to Kobad Ghandy's arrest: CPI-Maoist]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/KobadGhandy-arrested.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on Tuesday claimed that its London-educated leader and ideologue Kobad Ghandy was betrayed by his courier, leading to his arrest in New Delhi on Sep 17. While admitting that the arrest of the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian American activist Mallika Dutt wins Courage Award]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/MallikaDutt-wins.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian American civil rights activist Mallika Dutt will be honoured by the Asian American Justice Centre (AAJC), a leading US civil rights organisation, with the American Courage Award on Oct 1.
Dutt is the executive director of Breakthrough, an ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advani may retire from politics]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Advani-Retirement.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Monday expressed his desire to retire from politics. He made this remark during a visit to the Udupi Pejawar Math here, Swami Vishwesh Teerth, the spiritual leader of the math stated. 
But he advised .]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China turns in to a big issue in elections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/China-India-elections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two major allies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre are raking up the Chinese incursion issue in the run up to the assembly elections in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh even as Chief Minister Dorjee ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Air India cancels 12 flights]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Air-India-cancels-flights.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Twelve Air India flights, including seven on international routes, were cancelled on Sunday as striking pilots continued their agitation for the second consecutive day.&quot;The international flights from Delhi to Bangkok, Singapore and Kathmandu ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan must end use of terror as state policy: Manmohan Singh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-state-policy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said Pakistan must give up the use of terrorism as a &quot;state policy&quot; and bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to book, as it will encourage India to &quot;walk an extra mile&quot; to improve ties ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM celebrates his 77th birthday today]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-birthday.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who turns 77 on Saturday, has vowed to dedicate himself to the nation, saying people's renewal of confidence in him after five years in office was a debt he could never pay off.
&quot;I am grateful to people of India .]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australia to provide safe housing and transport for Indians]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/safe-housing-for-Indians.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[John Brumby, the premier of Australian state of Victoria, Friday proposed to give separate transportation and safe housing for Indian students studying in Australia. Union Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, after a meeting with a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chidambaram visits homes of police officials killed by Maoists]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chidambaram-vist.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday visited the homes of an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a police constable who were killed in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district.Chidambaram made an unscheduled visit to the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A US citizen arrested for a terror plot]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-terrorist.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[An American convert to Islam was on Thursday charged with a plot to blow up the court building in Springfield, Illinois and trigger mass murder.Michael Finton, who converted to Islam in jail some time ago to become Talib Islam, was arrested ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Austerity begins at home]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-Austerity.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Austerity starts here! That's the message the Indian government, perhaps, seeks to convey during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit here to attend the G20 Summit.
The first casualty of the austerity drive has been the strength of the media ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahul dodges security cover, halts at a dalit hut]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-security.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[After taking his party colleagues and the state administration by surprise when he landed unannounced in Lucknow and drove off to an undisclosed destination, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi spent Wednesday night in a poor Dalit's hut in a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Special forces against Maoists]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Special-forces.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian government is yet to take a firm view on using special Forces against the Maoist rebels whom Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called the &quot;gravest threat&quot; to the country's internal security.
According to a top official, a major ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Government willing to bless Bharti-MTN deal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bharti-MTN.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government may support the proposed $23-billion cash-cum-equity-swap deal between Bharti Airtel and South African telecom major MTN that seems to have run into turbulent weather after new norms on takeover announced by India's capital markets ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can’t confirm water: ISRO]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ISRO-moon.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said he can't confirm the presence of water on the moon.
&quot;Mineralogy matter has given 97 percent of the moon surface coverage. I can't confirm the presence of water now. ..]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India offers assistance to Liberian police]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Liberia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two years after sending female peacekeepers to Liberia that is rebuilding itself from the ashes of a protracted civil war, India will help the west African country train its police force in coordination with the United Nations.
&quot;We have ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP snubs Congress for leniency]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-Congress.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday lambasted the Congress for pardoning Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor for his &quot;cattle class&quot; travel remark instead of sacking him. 
&quot;His political probation has been .]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM leaves for G20 summit in the US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/g20-summit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday left for the US to attend the G20 summit in Pittsburgh to be hosted by President Barack Obama. The summit will take stock of the state of the world economy following the year-long crisis and deliberate upon ]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India launches remote-sensing satellite Oceansat2]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Remote-sensing-satellite.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India successfully launched its 16th remote-sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six small Europeans satellites on board a rocket that blasted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 11.51 a.m. on Wednesday.
The 44.4-metre tall, 230-tonne Indian ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Disaster management training for teachers: Delhi govt]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Disaster-management.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Holding four school officials responsible for the stampede in an east Delhi school earlier this month, the Delhi government has recommended their suspension and has suggested disaster management training for teachers and students in government ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India wants trial against Saeed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Saeed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India has once again reiterated its stand by demanding &quot;more decisive action&quot; from Pakistan against Hafiz Saeed, alleged for his role in 26/11 Mumbai carnage.&quot;We want Saeed to be tried for his Mumbai attack,&quot; Indian External ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Govt-funded institutes would be regulated and eligibility conditions imposed: Sibal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sibal-on-IIT.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sabil on Tuesday took a firm stand against the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) faculty protesting the government-proposed pay and autonomy, and made it clear that government-funded institutes would be ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Treat poor free of cost: Delhi HC]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/free-treatment.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed Apollo Hospital to provide free treatment to poor patients and imposed a fine of Rs.200,000 on it and the Delhi government for not abiding by an earlier court order.
Giving directions to the hospital, a division ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Zardari in favour of India-Pakistan talks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Pakistan-talks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The resumption of the sub continental composite dialogue is in the best interests of the region, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has said. At a meeting with former US president Bill Clinton here on Monday, Zardari also reiterated that Pakistan .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP, JMM and JVM-P to fight alone in Jharkhand elections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jharkhand-elections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Major political parties in Jharkhand have announced that they would go it alone in the forthcoming assembly elections The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prjatantrik (JVM-P) have ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Delhiites need behavioural change before Commonwealth Games: Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Delhi-Commonwealth-Games.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday asked Delhiites to change their behaviour in rder to play good hosts during the Commonwealth Games to be held in the capital next year. &quot;The behaviour of Delhiites must be changed,&quot; Chidambaram said .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advani is like ageing pickle: Parrikar]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Advan-Parrikar.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manohar Parrikar has likened party veteran L.K. Advani to ageing pickle that had turned rancid and said his political innings were &quot;more or less over&quot;. Advani had only a couple of more years left .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Clinical audit for Swine Flu deaths in Karnataka]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Clinical-audit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With the number of swine flu deaths in Karnataka touching 80, a worried state government has initiated a clinical audit, a health official said here on Tuesday. 
&quot;The purpose behind the clinical audit is to find the actual causes behind the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian Foreign Secretary to meet his Pakistani counterpart]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Secretary-level-talk.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hoping to resume the stalled peace process and discuss &quot;the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir&quot;, Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir on Monday said that he would meet his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao in New York , on Sep 26.The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ISRO to use liquid fuel for PSLV rocket]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/ISRO-PSLV.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Filling of liquid fuel in the second stage of the Rs.70-crore Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket that would carry the Rs.130-crore Oceansat2 -- India's remote sensing satellite -- Wednesday afternoon was progressing smoothly at India's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Eid celebrations engulf Kashmir]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Eid-celebrations.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Muslims gathered at various prayer grounds and mosques across Kashmir Valley on Monday to offer Eid-ul-Fitr prayers.There were no reports of any untoward incidents and sources said Eid prayers concluded peacefully everywhere. 
The holy ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saeed should be interrogated: Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Interrogat-Saeed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan must interrogate alleged 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed as all the evidence against him was &quot;on Pakistani soil&quot;, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Monday after reports that the chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) had been .]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saeed under house arrest]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Saeed-arrested.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and chief of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, has been put under house arrest at his residence in Lahore, a media report said Monday.A posse of police personnel has been deployed ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mamata to upgrade railway hospital to medical college]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-railway-hospital.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday announced here that her ministry would take an initiative to upgrade the existing South Eastern Railway (SER) Hospital into a well-equipped medical college.&quot;The SER Hospital will be developed with all ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lalu meets Sonia Gandhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lalu-meets-Sonia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Saturday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi amid reports that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged recruitment irregularities in ]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trouble ahead for Narendra Modi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Trouble-Modi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 riots in Gujarat Saturday asked the staff of Chief Minister Narendra Modi to provide details of their phone conversations with ministers during the riots that killed over 1,000 people, most of them ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kalawati,who moved Rahul Gandhi, will contest Maharashtra polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kalawati-Rahul.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kalawati Bandurkar, the poor widow whose name Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi had mentioned in his parliament speech last year, will be contesting the Maharashtra assembly polls as a candidate of the Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti, a party ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Govt may amend the tribal forest rights act]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/amend-tribal-rights.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The central government is considering amending the tribal forest rights act to reduce the period of 75 years for granting title deed to tribals and non-tribals residing in forests, according to a Tripura minister.&quot;The central Minister of State .]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama names Arun Majumdar to key energy research post]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/obama-majumdar.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama has nominated Indian American technocrat Arun Majumdar to a key administration post dealing with energy research.Majumdar will be the Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy in the US Department of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India welcomes any police action against Saeed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Action-against-saeed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Home Minister P. Chidambaram Friday welcomed the Pakistan police's move to file complaints against suspected Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, and said even &quot;a half step is a good step&quot;.&quot;I have gathered it from the media. ..]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Action will be taken against Tharoor: Congress]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tharoor-congress.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's apology for his &quot;cattle class&quot; travel remark, the Congress on Friday said it would take &quot;appropriate action&quot; against him at a suitable time and reiterated ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[500 policemen raid rebel hideouts in Chhattisgarh]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chhattisgarh-raid.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In one of Chhattisgarh's biggest drives against Maoist insurgents, at least 10 guerrillas and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer were killed as over 500 policemen pounded rebel hideouts across Bastar region Friday.
The gunfights broke ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SC not satisfied with UP government’s reply]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/UP-govt-reply.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Friday expressed its dissatisfaction over an Uttar Pradesh government reply to its notice seeking explanation as to why contempt of court proceedings should not be launched against the state government for allegedly violating the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan continues firing along the border]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-firing.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[There was firing again on Friday morning at the Border Security Force (BSF) post on the India-Pakistan border near Jammu where two BSF troopers had been injured on Thursday evening. According to a senior BSF official, there was firing again from the ]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tharoor "tweets" sorry]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tharoor-tweets.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Reacting on the controversy over his &quot;cattle class&quot; remarks, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Thursday night said he was &quot;sorry&quot; for hurting any sentiments and that his words had been ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Goa minister booked for extorting money and threatening]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Extorting-money.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The crime branch of Goa Police Thursday booked controversial state Tourism Minister Francisco alias Mickky Pacheco for extortion and threatening a casino employee, officials said.
A police spokesman said that Mickky, a Nationalist Congress Party ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[West Bengal invites Wipro and Infosys to set shop]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bengal-invitation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The West Bengal government Thursday invited IT majors Wipro and Infosys to start new centres at Rajarhat on the northeastern fringes of this city and promised to give 45 acres of land to each of the companies.
&quot;I'm proposing today (Thursday), .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now austerity drive by Punjab govt]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Austerity-drive-Punjab.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[While Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son and deputy Sukhbhir Singh move in a fleet of bullet-proof Mitsubishi Monteros and Pajeros costing millions, the state government on Thursday decided to lower the vehicle category of its ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indian families face racial attacks in Ireland]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rracial-attacks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some Indian families living in a housing estate in Portadown, a town in Britain's Northern Ireland province, have said they want to leave the area after racist attacks last week, according to reports.
The BBC said windows were smashed at two houses ]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[JD-U wins 5 seats in  Bihar by-polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bihar-by-polls.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has taken a clear lead on five seats in the by-elections to 18 assembly constituencies in the state, counting for which was underway on Thursday.
According to early trends, the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal ]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[After 13 weeks, inflation goes in to green]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Positive-inflation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[After remaining in negative zone for 13 consecutive weeks, India's annual rate of inflation was back to positive at 0.12 percent for the week ended Sep, 5, a rise from minus 0.12 percent the week before, according to official data released on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian PM warns Indians to abidy by the law]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-PM-warning.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned Indian students studying in Australia not to take the law into their own hands after writer and activist Farrukh Dhondy reportedly urged Indians in the country for &quot;some form of retaliation&quot; .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Recycled paper to be used during Commonwealth Games]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Commonwealth-Games.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Taking a step further in their efforts to conduct a Green Commonwealth Games next year, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Wednesday announced that recycled paper and stationery will be used for official work during the event. &quot;We are all out .]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress unhappy with Tharoor's statement on austerity]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-Tharoor.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Congress Wednesday said Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's remarks that he would travel in &quot;cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows&quot; were not acceptable and the party high command may also decide if ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Assam launches a historic drive to recruit 800 doctors]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Assam-recrutiment.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a major recruitment drive of its kind, the Assam government on Wednesday appointed nearly 800 doctors to modernize the region's rural healthcare sector.
The recruitment campaign comes with a catch though, as appointed MBBS graduates doctors will ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tussle for Andhra chief minister: Jagan supporters lie low]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Andhra-Jagan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, son of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, would succeed his father if the Congress central leadership considers him suitable for the post, YSR's close confidante K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao stated on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Goa police unable to find health minister]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tracing-health-minister.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Goa police has found it quite tough to trace Goa Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane who has been accused of threatening an activist lawyer. The police in this state capital, who were asked by a trial court to serve summons to Rane, told the court ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Haryana cops to  probe attack on Rahul’s train]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-train-attack.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Police and forensic experts in Haryana were Wednesday questioning people and searching villages to identify those who pelted stones at the Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi Express in which Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was travelling. 
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We are taking steps to provide security to Indians: Australian Police]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Australian-attacks.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The police are denying that a deliberate decision was taken to minimise publicity over the brutal assault on four Indians at the weekend in this Australian city.
The Indians were attacked by a group outside a bar in Epping Saturday and the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Doordarshan turns 50]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Doordarshan-turns-50.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As Doordarshan turned 50 Tuesday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni lauded the national broadcaster for catering to remote areas neglected by private TV channels and invited eminent filmmakers like Shyam Benegal to enrich it with ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Twenty percent polling in Bihar]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bihar-polling.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Over 20 percent of electors voted in Bihar in the first six hours of polling for the second and final phase of by-elections in 11 assembly constituencies that began Tuesday morning, official sources said.
Polling was slow in the early hours but ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahul travels by a train instead of a Helicopter]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-travels.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Congress general secretary and parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi reached this industrial city of Punjab from New Delhi in an air-conditioned chair car of the Shatabdi Express Tuesday, a day after party president and his mother Sonia Gandhi travelled ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Arunachal is an integral part of India: Dorjee Khandu]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Arunachal-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh Tuesday urged New Delhi to act tough on Chinese claims over the state and snub Beijing's opposition to Dalai Lama's proposed visit to the region.
According to Arunachal Pradesh Chief ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India and Mongolia sign civil nuclear pact]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Mongolia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India Monday signed a civil nuclear pact with Mongolia and announced a soft loan of $25 million to bolster the economy of the resource-rich Central Asian country that has been hit by global recession.
With this pact, Mongolia, a former satellite ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sonia inaugurates campaign in Maharashtra]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sonia-Maharashtra-campaign.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Recalling the Congress' &quot;deep bonds&quot; with Mumbai and Maharashtra, party president Sonia Gandhi Monday urged the people of the state to return it back to power in the state in the upcoming assembly elections.
The Congress' aim had always ..]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gujarat by-poll results bring joy to the BJP camp]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gujarat-bypolls.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gujarat's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wrested four seats from the Congress and was leading in one constituency in assembly by-elections in the state as votes were counted Monday, giving party leaders here a reason to smile. 
The Congress ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Terrorism is connected to organized crime: Meira]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Terrorism-organized-crime.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Highlighting the links between crime syndicates and terrorism, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said during her visit to Rome that international cooperation is needed to fight organised crime and drug trafficking.
She said this at a Sep 12-13 meeting .]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monitor aid to Pakistan: Tharoor tells US]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Aid-to-Pakistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's confession about US aid being diverted against India, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Monday asked Washington to monitor its aid to Islamabad. 
&quot;We support ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Communists are working against the railways: Mamata]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/communits-aginst-railwys.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mamata Banerjee has alleged that West Bengal's ruling Communists are &quot;conspiring&quot; against the Indian Railways and said &quot;they will be responsible if any accident occurred&quot;.
&quot;The CPI-M is constantly conspiring against the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress retains Andhra assembly seat]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-Andhra-seat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Riding on a sympathy wave, Andhra Pradesh's ruling Congress on Monday retained the Tekkali assembly seat in the by-election held last week. K. Bharati, whose husband K. Revatipathy died in June necessitating the elections, defeated K. Atchan Naidu ..]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maoists seeking alliance with northeast insurgents]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maoists-insurgencey.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maoist guerrillas were forging ties with insurgents in the northeast to increase their sphere of influence, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Monday while underlining that Maoist violence in the country was on the rise.
In a bid to expand its ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Peace may return to Assam, a rebel group to surrender]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Assam-peace.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hopes for an end to long years of violent bush war brightened in Assam with an influential tribal separatist group deciding to surrender en masse and hold peace talks with New Delhi, officials said here Monday.
A police spokesperson said some 350 ..]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India revising tax treaties to nab defaulters]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nabbing-defaulters.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India will go for amending double taxation avoidance treaties with other countries to allow for exchange of information on tax evaders, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Friday.
With a large number of countries, I have instructed my ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistani Rangers fire rockets into Indian territory]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rocket-attack.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Border Security Force (BSF) troopers fired from machine-guns into Pakistan after rockets were fired into Indian territory in the Amritsar sector from across the border Friday night.
BSF officials Saturday morning launched an operation to find if ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US remembers 9/11 attacks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-remembers.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mourners in the US gathered on Friday to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as the anniversary was proclaimed a national day of service.
In New York, US Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Michael ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swine flu related deaths rise to 57 in Karnataka]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swineflu-karnataka.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With four new swine flu deaths reported from Karnataka, the death toll due to the H1N1 virus in the state has reached 57, a health official said here Saturday.
While three deaths were reported from Bangalore, the fourth one was registered in Kolar. ]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now Congress asks its MPs to be thrifty]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-minsters-thrifty.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[After ministers were asked to practice thrift by travelling economy on domestic flights and avoid five-star hotels as meeting venues, MPs of the ruling Congress party too have been asked to follow austerity measures.
In keeping with the party high .]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Policemen granted bail by J&K High Court in Shopian rape and murder case]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shopian-rape-bail.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Friday gave bail to four police officers, arrested for negligence of duty and destruction of vital evidence in the Shopian twin rape and murder case. Justice Sunil Hali asked the accused to deposit Rs.50,000 ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moninder Pandher acquitted in Nithari killings]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pandher-acquitted.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Allahabad High Court Friday acquitted Noida businessman Moninder Singh Pandher, a key accused in the sensational Nithari killings, of the rape and murder of a teenage girl while upholding the guilty verdict of his domestic help Surinder ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[150 Jet flights cancelled, compromise expected today]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jet-flight-cancellation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As many as 150 Jet Airways flights, including 15 international, remained cancelled Friday, the fourth day of the ongoing strike by the airline pilots. A spokesperson said early Friday that the airline has announced plans to cancel around 30 flights .]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US counter terrorism strategy impresses Chidambaram]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chidambaram-impressed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the US prepared to observe the eighth anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and elsewhere, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram said he was &quot;quite impressed&quot; by what the US has done to counter terror and some of its ]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Seven states record 55% polling in by-elections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bypolls-india.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nearly 55% polling was recorded on Thursday for by-polls to 20 assembly constituencies in seven states - an exercise seen as the first major popularity test for various parties after the Lok Sabha elections, especially the INC..
Seven of the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Non availability of gas leaves 37 power plants in lurch]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/No-gas-powerplants.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[About 37 applications for gas-based power plants with a total capacity of 35,000 MW are pending with the government, a senior power ministry official said Thursday. 
&quot;About 37 applications for gas-based power plants are pending with the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central government employees to get 5% hike in the dearness allowance]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/DA-hike.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The dearness allowance of central government employees and pensioners has been hiked by five percent retrospectively from July 1, 2009. 
According to Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, &quot;The cabinet has decided to release an ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress ministers asked to tone down their lifestyles]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Congress-minsters.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In keeping with Congress President Sonia Gandhi's call to observe austerity measures, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) ministers have been advised to travel in economy class and not hold press conferences in five-star hotels, cabinet sources said ..]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stampede in a Delhi school kills 5 children, 27 injured]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Stampede-in-delhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Five children were killed and 27 injured Thursday in a stampede in a flooded government school in the capital. Thirty-one of the victims were girls. The stampede was sparked by rumours that electric current had leaked into the water that had flooded ]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jet pilots  may be isued contempt notices]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jet-pilot-strike.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A crippling strike by Jet pilots entered the third day Thursday, as a contempt petition was filed against them for defying the Bombay High Court ruling asking them not to halt work.&nbsp; 
According to a spokesperson, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[P. Chidambaram discusses counter-terrorism measures with top US officials]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Counter-terrorism.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram met with top US officials Wednesday to deepen counter-terrorism cooperation between the countries after the Mumbai attacks last year.
Chidambaram, who was briefed on counter-terrorism and intelligence measures by ]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama wants to have dinner with Gandhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-gandhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama, whose hero is Abraham Lincoln, said Tuesday that if he had the choice to have dinner with anyone, it would be with Mahatma Gandhi. Talking to ninth-graders of Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, Obama was extolling .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jharkhand BJP legislators tender their resignations]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jharkhand-BJP-egislators.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[All 22 legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jharkhand Wednesday handed over their resignations to Governor K. Shankarnarayan demanding early elections in the state that has been under president's rule since Jan 19. 
BJP legislators ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Security beefed up along  the IB in Himachal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Security-along-IB.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Security has been strengthened along the international border in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur and Lahaul and Spiti districts following reports of Chinese incursions into the Ladakh sector of Jammu and Kashmir, police officials said Wednesday. ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dibrugarh University suspends seven students for ragging]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Dibrugarh-ragging.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Seven students from colleges in Assam's Dibrugarh town have been suspended on charges of ragging and assaulting teachers. The action has been taken against four postgraduate students of Dibrugarh University and three undergraduate students from the .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jet pilots continue their protests]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pilots-continue-strike.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jet Airways pilots will skip work for the second day Wednesday as the airlines' management has failed to bring back the agitating employees at work.The airlines cancelled at least 35 flights across the country scheduled for Wednesday, an official ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saakshar Bharat in five years: PM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Saakshar-Bharat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Over 300 million Indians are still illiterate and about half of India's women cannot read or write but that would change in five years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said while launching the Rs 65 billion literacy mission 'Saakshar Bharat' on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bomb scare creates terror in Delhi, Safdarjung Hospital evacuated]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bombscare-delhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Panic gripped Delhi on Tuesday morning with bomb scares being reported from four crowded places -- the New Delhi Railway Station, the Safdarjung Hospital as well as the high rise Palika Kendra and Vikas Minar.
The sprawling Safdarjung Hospital in ..]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Its floods in Bihar after drought]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bihar-flood.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to Bihar government officials, heavy rains have led to flash floods in nearly 100 villages in the districts of Gaya, Nalanda, Jehanabad and Nawada.&nbsp; Just over a month ago these areas were severely hit by a drought.
Commissioner ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sangli and Miraj in Maharashtra put under curfew]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Curfew-in-Maharashtra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sangli and Miraj towns in Maharashtra  remained under curfew following communal disturbances while arson and violence erupted in Ichalkaranji town ahead of the assembly elections as the opposition blamed the state government for the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Intrusions will be sorted out:S.M. Krishna]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chinese-threat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Downplaying recent Chinese incursions into the Indian territory of Ladakh, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Monday said India has one of the most peaceful boundaries with China and added that the issue was being sorted out.
&quot;Let me go on ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No Class 10 boards from 2011]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/No-exams.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[There would be no Class 10 public exams for Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) affiliated schools from 2011 and a grading system would be introduced from the current academic session, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India should help and not blame us: Pakistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-help.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan Monday reiterated its sincerity in bringing the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice, saying India should assist in the process instead of making allegations on Islamabad's intentions.
&quot;India should not doubt our ]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swine flu toll rises to 36 in Banglore]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swine-flu.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two more swine flu deaths were reported from Bangalore, taking the toll to 36 in the city and 43 in Karnataka, health officials said Monday. The two latest victims were women.
A 29-year-old pregnant woman succumbed to the influenza A (H1N1) virus ..]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CPI-M mulling over a 'rectification' campaign]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CPI-M.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The two-day politburo meeting of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) that concluded here Sunday decided to prepare a draft document for its &quot;rectification campaign&quot; to inculcate in its cadres the &quot;living culture based on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Our MAN on Facebook!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Man-Facebook.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on social networking site Facebook but is not net savvy and even does not use a cell phone.
In the course of a discussion on a pvt TV channel, Singh's former media advisor Sanjay Baru said though the Prime Minister .]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Done ragging? Now pay]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rag-pay.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two students of Allahabad University caught ragging were given an innovative punishment by the college authorities - apologise to the junior you ragged, urge him to return to the hostel and continue with his studies and also write a 1,000-word ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaswant 'thrilled' at ban lifting]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jaswant-bookban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh finally has reason to smile with the Gujarat High Court overturning the state government's ban on his book &quot;Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence&quot;.
In the book, Jaswant Singh ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[YSR shock kills 67!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/YSR-killed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Shock and grief over the death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash has claimed as many as 67 lives across the state since Thursday, media reports said.
About 60 people died of shock on hearing the news of ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shock, disbelief, condolences]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Reddy-Andhra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Political leaders across the spectrum mourned the death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy (Seen left in the photo with his arch rival Chandrababu Naidu), hailing him as a &quot;man of determination, charisma and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Andhra CM is dead]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Andhra-CM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's chopper has been found in a mangled and burnt state by the Air Force personnel, with five bodies including the chief minister's. His helicopter went missing yesterday amid bad weather in a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India foils infiltration bid]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pak-infiltration.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Five guerrillas attempting to cross over from Pakistan were killed early Wednesday when Indian Army soldiers foiled their infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir's Gurez sector, officials said.
A group of infiltrators were spotted by the alert ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I am not a scribe!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sonia-Press.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[She doesn't like being part of any kind of politics. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has surrendered her honorary membership of the Press Club of India, a day after the party stated that her accepting it had nothing to do with the internal politics .]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Give me blood and...]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/MLA-blood.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Rajasthan court has asked the state police to file a case against Congress MLA Bhagwan Sahay Saini for allegedly forcing minors to participate in a blood donation camp organised on August 21, 65th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Schools love Sibal!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sibal-consensus.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after HRD Minister Kapil Sibal announced that grading systems will be introduced in all CBSE schools from next year, heads of several institutions lauded his reform plans.
Principals of schools in Delhi like Modern School and Springdales ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oct 13 a big poll date]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Poll-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The three Congress-ruled states of Haryana, Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh will elect new assemblies on October 13 in the first popularity test after the April-May Lok Sabha elections.
The Election Commission said the results of the single-phase ]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Sep 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India shuns recession]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-growth.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's economic growth logged a notable acceleration to 6.1 percent for the first quarter of this fiscal from 5.8 percent for the quarter before due to strong showing by various services industries, official data showed.
The growth registered by ..]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women's bill still on hold]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Women-bill.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Several MPs have voiced concern that a bill for securing a third of parliamentary and state legislative assembly seats for women was a distant dream despite being on the ruling United Progressive Alliance's 100 day agenda, the deadline for which was ]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chandrayaan-I terminated]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Moon-Chandra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has been terminated abruptly after repeated attempts to restore radio contact with the spacecraft failed, a top space official said.
&quot;We had to terminate the mission as we don't have contact with the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Coming, News.05 FM!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/FM-news.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Private radio channels may be allowed to broadcast news sourced from news agencies in phase III of FM radio, expected to start towards end of the year.
&quot;The issue is under active consideration. The modalities will have to be discussed,&quot; a ]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Next show: Woh 7 IIMs!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IIT-Sibal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said that the setting up of new IIMs won't dilute the brand image of these prestigious business schools.
Speaking to reporters in Bhubaneswar, the minister said that the seven new IIMs won't ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[RSS well dries up!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/RSS-BJP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has expressed disappointment over the infighting in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but refused to draw up a road map for the party's revival unless it was asked to.
In a rare press conference that has been ..]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CBI to probe Shopian case]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CBI-Shopian.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has cleared the decks for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the Shopian rape and murder of two women that triggered public outrage across the valley.
&quot;We feel it is up to the government to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What to do now, Amar?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Cong-Amar.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Samajwadi Party has termed as &quot;historical blunder&quot; its decision to support the government at the Centre during last year's trust vote on the nuclear deal issue and said it was disenchanted with the Congress.
&quot;It was a historical ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pak 'obliged' to nab Saeed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pak-Saeed.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan was duty bound to arrest Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Hafiz Saeed after the Interpol warrant against him for allegedly masterminding the Mumbai terror attack, a CBI official said.
&quot;It is an administrative procedure and Pakistan is .]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kandahar ghost is back]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Advani-Kandhar.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faced more embarrassment with Brajesh Mishra, who was national security advisor (NSA) during the party-led NDA government, as well as senior leader Yashwant Sinha asserting that L.K. Advani was aware of the decision .]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A beginning, at last!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Quota-session.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Union Cabinet has decided to reserve 50 percent of the seats in all rural panchayats for women and a bill to this effect is expected to be introduced in the winter session of parliament.
&quot;The Cabinet has approved the amendment of Article ..]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Belated, but good step]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Judges-parties.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Political parties have welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court judges to make public their assets.
&quot;I think it is a welcome step; and more so because of the fact that rather than being imposed through legislation, it has emerged from ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We’ll get well soon]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rajnath-party.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh says &quot;all is well with the party.&quot;
Asked about the bickerings in the party, he said: &quot;Just wait and watch; and let me assure you that we will emerge even stronger.&quot;
When ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Justice delivered]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Judge-assetts.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a landmark move, the Supreme Court has decided to make public the assets of all its judges and put up the information on its website at the earliest.
The apex court took the decision at a full court meeting of its judges, under the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shivaji gets a makeover!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Siva-Maha.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Maharashtra has approved the design for a 309-foot tall statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji and an entertainment complex that would come up in the Arabian Sea south of this financial capital. The designs selected were from firms in Thailand and Mumbai, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yashwant mum, feels OK!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Yash-BJP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, a former finance and foreign minister, preferred to keep mum over the recent storm in the party following the expulsion of Jaswant Singh and Arun Shourie's diatribe against the party leadership.
&quot;Sorry. I ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three days to go!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Raje-BJP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh has asked senior Rajasthan leader Vasundhara Raje to quit as leader of opposition in the state assembly within the next three days.
Raje, who was camping in Delhi for the past few days, left for .]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Convict Saeed now]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Saeed-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With Pakistan dilly-dallying over punishing the terrorists behind the Mumbai carnage, India singled out Hafiz Saeed as the &quot;brain behind&quot; the 26/11 attacks and told Pakistan that it has given enough evidence to convict the man known for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The reel of real life!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sucitra.labour.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the wake of growing abuse of domestic servants and minors in the city, the Maharashtra government has filed cases against Bollywood actress-turned-author Suchitra Krishnamoorthi and television star Laxmi for allegedly employing child ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Strike hits Air India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/AI-hit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[About 20,000 employees of cash-strapped national carrier Air India&nbsp; began a three-day hunger strike on Tuesday across various airports to protest delayed salaries.
However, flight operations had not been impacted, said an Air India ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Too much maths here]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maths-Sibal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[While reiterating his stand on doing away with Class 10 board examinations in CBSE schools, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said school boards across the country must examine the possibility of a common curricula in mathematics and ..]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Judiciary is big, man]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Justice-allegation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Asserting his authority to speak as the head of country's judiciary, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan said the remarks of a Karnataka High Court judge, questioning his authority to speak for the fraternity, cannot cause ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swiss miss to kaali kamai!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swiss-bank.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the black money issue, Swiss banks have made it clear to India that they won&rsquo;t provide details of their account holders unless they are proved tax offenders. The matter has been made a political issue in the country now.
The Bharatiya ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tagore case: Dump CBI]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-CBI.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has opposed the CBI plea to close the probe into poet Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize medallion theft and said she would take up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
&quot;We have come to know that the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP men quitting fast]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-Kulkarni.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sudheendra Kulkarni, a key aide to senior BJP leader L.K. Advani and also to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has snapped his ties with the party over &quot;major ideological differences&quot;.
&quot;I have major ideological differences .]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[My party narrow-minded]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-jaswant.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh said he never knew the party was so &quot;narrow minded&quot; to unceremoniously sack him for writing a book.
He said the contention in his controversial book, &quot;Jinnah -- India, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gandhi in a Metro!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-Metro.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Desperate times demand for desperate measures. And Rahul Gandhi did the same, boarding a packed Metro train to skip heavy traffic when a deluge engulfed the city on Friday evening.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi took the Metro from Dwarka .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ministry to protect NTPC]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NTPC-gas.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The petroleum ministry said it will protect the interest of state power utility NTPC in its ongoing dispute over supply of gas from the Krishna-Godavari fields awarded to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries.
&quot;It has been alleged that the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Advani backstabbed me']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jaswant-advani.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[I supported LK Advani for Jinnah remark and &quot;covered up&quot; for him during the 2009 Lok Sabha campaign by concealing that the party's prime ministerial candidate knew of the terrorist-hostage swap during the 1999 plane hijacking, says ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mamata ki mamata!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-industry.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a bid to shed her anti-industry image ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections two years from now, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee met industry captains and invited them to partner the railways in commercial ventures.
Singur, Nandigram ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[LTTE punch for Rajini!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rajini-LTTE.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is one such role that the Big B of South Cinema will never accept. And neither his massive fan following. A Sri Lankan minister has stirred up a controversy by alleging that the LTTE had funded the production of Tamil movies as part of its ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kerala shows the way]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kerala-quota.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[When the politicians across the spectrum are trading barbs over Women&rsquo;s Reservation Bill, the Kerala government has decided to convene a special session of the state assembly from September 8-17 to bring in a new law reserving 50 percent seats ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Blame it on CMs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Azad-swine.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lashing out at state governments for &quot;forgetting their duty&quot; and not doing enough to combat swine flu, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad&nbsp; said the Centre was stretching itself to the maximum to contain the disease.
&quot;We (Centre) ..]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Varun-Modi bad combo']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-baithak.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has admitted that hate speeches by Varun Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's sarcastic remarks on the Congress party during the campaign were among the reasons for its humiliating defeat in the Lok ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Govt united on gas row]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gas-govt.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The government will speak in one voice on the Krishna-Godavari gas row, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said after the ministerial panel set up to coordinate the government's position on the issue met for the second consecutive day. A statement is ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now, 26/11 meets 9/11]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/FBI-probe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The FBI has filed a case in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, in which six American nationals were among those killed, and has also interrogated some Pakistani nationals, an FBI agent told a Mumbai Special Court.
The FBI's special ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We won't buy this book]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jinnah-BJP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The BJP has said the decision to expel senior leader Jaswant Singh was taken by the parliamentary board in view of the contents of his book which were contrary to the core ideology and beliefs of the party.
&quot;The issue is not your right to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Quota in IAS postings?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Quota-civil.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Dalit and backward category students competing in the civil services exams on merit should be allowed to avail quota benefits to secure higher services and better cadres, the central government said in the Supreme Court, opposing the Madras High ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['BJP made a fool of itself']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Meghnad-bjp.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lord Meghnad Desai, noted economist and professor emeritus of the London School of Economics, Wednesday hit out at the BJP for expelling Jaswant Singh, saying &quot;it was a bad move&quot; and the party had made a &quot;fool of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I'm Pawar-ful myself!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/pawar-Cong.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Difficult times are ahead for the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance in Maharashtra with the NCP chief reacting angrily to Congress leader Digvijay Singh&rsquo;s comments suggesting that the both parties should merge ahead of the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaswant got a friend!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jaswant-history.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Years before veteran politician Jaswant Singh, who was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a well-known historian was championing Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah's many admirable qualities, including his passion for a united ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['I have faith in me']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rizvi-Assam.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Assam Governor Syed Sibtey Razi said he has not been asked to quit following corruption charges against two of his former aides in Jharkhand, and asserted that he would complete his full term.
However, highly placed government officials maintained .]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Get BJP some youth]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-RSS.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) crucial brainstorming session, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said the young generation should take charge and that the party leaders should resolve their differences at the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lalu to board UPA train?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lalu-Sonia.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and dismissed reports of differences with her.
&quot;All talk of differences is wrong. When there has been no fight, where is the question of any rapprochement?&quot; .]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US overdid in SRK's case]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chidu-SRK.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Home Minister P. Chidambram said the Americans had &quot;overdone it&quot; by detaining Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for two hours at Newark airport in New Jersey, for questioning.
&quot;Had it been for ten minutes or even twenty minutes (of .]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maha CM thinks so...]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CM-Maha.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three months after the Maharashtra government-appointed probe panel identified police lapses during the 26/11 terror attacks, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan praised the force, saying that &quot;despite odds&quot; it had done a &quot;commendable ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Quota with a rider]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Quota-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a verdict of far-reaching implications for the government's reservation policy, the Supreme Court has ruled that Dalit and backward category migrants from one state to another cannot claim reservation in jobs or educational institutions in their .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swine hits Big B blog!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Big-B.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Already coping with a bad back, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's flu and friend Amar Singh's illness, the slanging matches on his blog have upset the Bollywood actor further.
&quot;A few hospital visits with my friend for routine checks and ]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brief lull in Kashmir?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kashmir-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The surge in infiltration bids from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir was &quot;disturbing&quot;, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said while expressing satisfaction over the &quot;substantial improvement&quot; in the situation in the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kerala gets more ministers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kerala-mins.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan expanded his ministry by accommodating three allies in the 20-member council of ministers.
P.J. Joseph (Kerala Congress-J), Kadannappally Ramachandran (Congress-S) and Jose Thettayil (Janata ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will she tow party line?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Raje-Rajnath.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh said he was confident Vasundhara Raje would quit as leader of opposition in the Rajasthan assembly while she softened her stance and agreed to abide by the party leadership's decision.
Rajnath ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Wipe tears of litigants']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Man-judiciary.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has exhorted the judiciary &quot;to wipe every tear of every waiting litigant&quot; by eliminating the scourge of a huge backlog of cases - the largest in the world.
Singh urged the judiciary to to become ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[My Name is Khan!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shah-US.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan was questioned for two hours at the Newark airport in the US over his surname and was freed only after Indian diplomats intervened.
The Indian government and entertainment industry reacted furiously after the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[9% growth possible]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-redfort.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed confidence that the Indian economy will rebound by the end of this year and once again enter a high growth path.
&quot;Going back to a 9 percent growth path is our greatest challenge. For this, we will ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is this end of gloom?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Recession-end.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Some good news after a long spell of gloom. France and Germany have announced returns to the growth path, which means that four of the world&rsquo;s five largest economies and six of the top 10 are now not in recession.
Both France and Germany had .]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Our MAN ready again!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Man-speech.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[When Manmohan Singh speaks from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day on Saturday, he will become the fourth prime minister to address the nation on more than five consecutive occasions.
In the process, he will match Atal Bihari ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deaths continue in Pune]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pune-deaths.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Five people, including two septuagenarian women and an AIDS patient, died of swine flu in Pune taking the death toll in the city to 14.
70-year-old Parubhai Shinde, hailing from Ganesh Nagar in Yerawada, was admitted to a hospital four days back ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahul Gandhi, a scribe?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-journo.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Here comes another initiative from Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi targeting youth -- a commercial news magazine that is expected to hit the stands this month.
Young March, a monthly, will not be a mouthpiece of the Youth Congress like ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ishrat case not dead yet]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IShrat-fake.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gujarat government has set up a three-member committee to look into the Ishrat Jahan killing case, following Gujarat HC&rsquo;s order to set had asked for setting up probe team.
The probe panel comprises ADGP Pramod Kumar, IG Mohan Jha and DIG J K .]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will GenNext curse us?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Water-future.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rocketing domestic use and farm irrigation have seriously damaged India's groundwater supply, and drinking water may become scarce, according to a new study. Rationing of water appears to be true across the country in near future. How are you going .]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No Dahi Handi please!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/swine-festival.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With seven more deaths &mdash; the highest number for a single day till now &mdash; India&rsquo;s swine flu toll rose to 18 on August 13.
India has recorded 1,193 positive cases of H1N1 infection so far. The government has advised people to stay ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Get set for single identity]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Icard-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Recognising that the lack of identity proof resulted in harassment and denial of services to the poor and marginalized, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said high priority would be given to the newly constituted Unique Identification Authority of India ]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Danger on wheels!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Metro-wheel.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Metro's dream run appears to have been over. Several accidents in the past and a plenty of cracks in the pillars on new lines, Delhi Metro is not a very safe wheel nowadays. And a thought of derailment several feet up in the sky is a scary one, very ]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We are prepared]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/china-threat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Even as Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta raised eyebrows with his comments that India cannot match China in military capability, former armed forces chiefs and defence analysts say that while Beijing was certainly more powerful, one need not .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Press freedom under threat]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Cash-scam.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Remember 2005 cash-for-questions scam? The Delhi Police have now chargesheeted the two journalists who had conducted the sting operation that led to the historic expulsion of 11 MPs.
This action against Aniruddha Bahal and Suhasini Raj of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jayalalithaa is back]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jaya-potash.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Tamil Nadu's Leader of Opposition and former chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has demanded a central probe into the alleged diversion of potash meant for farmers to two chemical industrial units for manufacturing fireworks.
In a letter to Prime ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[They're not our men]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pak-terror.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[We call it shameless. Pakistan has denied it had agreed to accept the bodies of four of the nine terrorists killed in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage as has been claimed by the Maharashtra home minister.
Foreign Office spokesperson Abdul Basit told Online ]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['We can feel drought']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pranab-drought.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The spectre of drought looms large over as many as 161 out of 626 districts in India due to deficient monsoon, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said but asked citizens not to panic.
&quot;One hundred and sixty one districts have been declared ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Karuna wakes up]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Karuna-Tamil.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The rehabilitation of Tamils displaced by fighting in Sri Lanka should be speeded up, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said.
&quot;The rehabilitation process has started and it should be speeded up. We will inform the central government if .]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Let China break India']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/China-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In an article likely to raise Indian hackles, a Chinese strategist contends that Beijing should break up India into 20-30 independent states with the help of &quot;friendly countries&quot; like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
Written in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SWINE SHUTS DOWN PUNE]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/swine-pune.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The H1N1 contagion continued its spread through India as two more people died, taking the toll to six, and concern acquired a panicky edge in many parts with several schools closed and a 200 sq km area around pandemic &quot;epicentre&quot; Pune ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Masks everywhere]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swine-mask.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A 35-year-old ayurvedic doctor in Pune and a four-year-old boy in Chennai died of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus early today, taking the toll of the viral disease to six in the country.
Baburao Mane, an ayurvedic doctor who worked in Pune's slum ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Early polls in Bengal?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-Bengal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Trinamool Cognress leader and Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee is carrying forward her twin strategy of initiating development work alongside launching sharp political assaults on her rival West Bengal's ruling Left Front.
Addressing a public ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UPA all for 'khaas aadmi']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/UPA-Brinda.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Congress-led UPA government has forgotten its electoral promise and is working hard for 'khaas aadmi' (special people) instead of 'aam aadmi' (the common man), said senior CPI-M leader Brinda Karat.
&quot;The Left parties would launch a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Panic all over, PM worried]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swine-panic.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The contagious swine flu claimed two more lives in India on Sunday, taking the national death toll in just a week to four and forcing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office to start monitoring the gradually spreading virus.
Authorities in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trust EVMs, happy voting!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/EVM-vote.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Election Commission has reasserted that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were impervious to tampering and said none of the political parties or others who had raised doubts about their reliability could prove they could be fudged.
The poll ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swine making inroads, toll 4]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swine-toll.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[By the time you read this news, swine flu has taken four lives in India, the latest victim being a 43-year-old man in Ahmedabad.
Confirming the first swine flu death in Gujarat, state health secretary Ravi Saxena said Praveen Patel, an NRI, died of ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dark clouds of despair]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Manmohan-agri.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Already reeling under skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, the road ahead for the aam aadmi is full of potholes. Agriculture had been adversely affected in several parts of the country due to the delayed and deficient monsoon this ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three cheers to education!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Baitullah-alive.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[It has been a mixed session if we count the number of bills that were passed during the budget session. The biggest achievement is the clearance of Bill that will provide free and compulsory education to children aged 6-14 years. The following bills ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Young MPs' flop show!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/MP-LS.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[First-time MPs and young parliamentarians, elected to the 15th Lok Sabha amid focus on youth, will have to do more to live up to expectations as their performance during the budget session has been below average, according to a study.
The study by .]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Take capitation out of fee!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fee-private.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a major victory for parents resisting `arbitrary' fee hikes by private unaided schools in the capital and a partial relief for the schools, the Supreme Court has allowed school managements to increase fee but only with prior approval of Delhi ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fear factor grips Indians!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swine-spread.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Are your nails turning blue? Or you have problem in breathing normally? This may be Swine flu. But not all symptoms lead to this global disease. It may be fear psychosis. Rajan Gupta returned after a business trip to the US recently and rushed to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Osama No 2 nipped in bud]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Baitullah-Mahsud.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[He masterminded Benazir Bhutto's assassination, and has been a key Al Qaeda facilitator. There have also been allegations that India paid him $25 million to mount an attack on a major Pakistani nuclear site. True or not, the Osama bin Laden's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Evil all over Omar?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kashmir-assembly.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Is the new Jammu and Kashmir legislative complex here haunted by evil spirits that have prompted the resignation of two chief ministers and ugly scenes? Sounds naive, but that is exactly what assembly officials and even some legislators who quietly .]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Donation relief for parents?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/school-donation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bad news for schools asking for donations. With the passage of the Right to Education Bill, the government is all set to tighten admission norms, means a relief to the parents who end up paying hefty donations for their children's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buta & Sons Pvt Ltd!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Buta-Singh.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Like son, like father! Already in the soup following the arrest of his son by the CBI in a Rs 1 crore bribery case, National Commission for Scheduled Castes chairman Buta Singh may face more trouble ahead.
The issue pertains to allocation of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[300 people facing death]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-death.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Hanif Sayed, his wife Fahimida and their associate Ashrat Shafique Ansari who were sentenced to death by a special court for the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts will join a list of over 300 people on death row in Indian prisons.
According to a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Akali sweeps by-polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Akali-Punjab.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former Punjab deputy chief minister and Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal was leading over his Congress rival by nearly 60,000 votes in the Jalalabad assembly seat. The ruling Akali Dal won the other two other assembly by-elections held in the ]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Swine flu panic grows]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Flu-panic.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty-three new cases of swine flu have been reported from across India, including a Malaysian student, as the infectious virus spread to small cities and took the total number of people infected with the disease to 597.
&quot;Of the 596 positive .]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will banning LeT work?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pak-ban.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan has refused to arrest 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed but on the other hand, has banned the Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD) of Saeed and 24 other religious and welfare organisations. Is this going to work in India's favour?
Also banned is the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kicking wife no crime?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Wife-SC.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Do you find this headline insensitive and cruel? Ask the Supreme Court then. A husband and his relatives cannot be prosecuted for &quot;cruelty&quot; towards wife merely because the mother-in-law or other family members had kicked her or for that ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Disabled kids get their due]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Disabled-education.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Disabled children will also benefit from a bill making education free and compulsory passed by the Lok Sabha. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said it would be for the fist time such children would be integrated in the school ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Virbhadra under scanner]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Virbhadra-graft.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Police in Himachal Pradesh have filed corruption cases against Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh. The complaint against Singh was misuse of official position and criminal misconduct when chief minister in 1989, a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lathis against Ak-47s!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Chhattisgarh-cops.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[It could well be dubbed the capital of India's Maoist country. But thousands of policemen in Chhattisgarh who take on the AK-47-carrying rebels are armed with the humble 'lathis' or bamboo staves.
It is an unenviable battle, so loaded against the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soccer bats for BCCI money!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BCCI-soccer.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The cat is out of the bag. We knew that games other than cricket are crying for financial help but this is the first time an official body has asked for money from the cricket board.
The country's cash-starved soccer body has held out a begging ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Punish this Pune hospital]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pune-hospital.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A private Pune hospital where a 14-year-old girl died of swine flu had failed to inform the state health authorities of her condition despite the public health warnings and directives, an official said.
A day after Rida Shaikh succumbed to the H1N1 ]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Newspaper by the women...]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Women-media.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A strong case for women's quota bill? A newspaper produced entirely by women in rural India is among the four winners of this year's Literacy Prizes awarded by the UNESCO.
Khabar Lahariya, the fortnightly newspaper distributed to more than 20,000 ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Judges' assets bill in limbo]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Judges-bill.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[You hardly see them unanimous. But our politicians can put a united face if they get a chance to settle scores with someone. And judges, who always asked for more transparency in the Indian political system, can&rsquo;t be treated differently.
The .]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's first swine flu death]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Swine-death.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The death of a 14-year-old girl due to swine flu in Pune has shocked health officials at how a serious H1N1 patient could remain under private treatment for over a fortnight.
They are inquiring whether the case was notified to the authorities ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reliance gas hits Lok Sabha!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/LS-gas.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Lok Sabha was disrupted twice by members who alleged that Uttar Pradesh was not being given its share of Reliance Industries' Krishna-Godavari gas even after Petroleum Minister Murli Deora sought to clarify the government's position on the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Subhas Chakraborty dead]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Begal-Subhas.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[West Bengal Sports and Transport Minister and senior CPI-M leader Subhas Chakraborty died in hospital today morning, party officials said. He was 68.
The death was announced by Biman Bose, chairman of West Bengal's ruling Left Front, in which the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Voting begins in Punjab]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Punjab-bypoll.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Polling for by-elections to the Jalalabad, Kahnuwan and Banur assembly seats in Punjab have began. Voters started arriving at several rural polling booths early in the day. About 20-25 percent voting was reported in the first couple of hours in all .]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kerala mourns Thangal's death]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kerala-Thangal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The mortal remains of Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal, the spiritual leader of a major section of Kerala Muslims and the unquestioned leader of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), were laid to rest with full state honours.
Thousands of .]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bailout threat fizzed off]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/private-airlines.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Faced with stern action by the government and all-round resentment and anguish expressed by air travellers, private airlines in India have called off their proposal to suspend domestic operations from August 18.
In a communique issued in Mumbai, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['CBI victimising my son']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CBI-Buta.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former home minister Buta Singh has accused the CBI of &quot;victimising&quot; him and his son Sarabjot alias Sweety Singh, who was arrested for allegedly accepting a Rs.1 crore bribe. He, however, said he was ready to cooperate in the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Now, Pak wants talks?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gilani-talk.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan is ready to discuss all outstanding issues, including Kashmir, with India as war is not the solution to any problem, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.
It is necessary to resolve all issues between India and Pakistan so that the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don’t kill the Taj’s skyline]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Taj-skyline.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Why do you go to Agra? You visit te Mughal city to witness the beauty of the most beautiful structure of love on earth. There is a value added to the Taj Mahal: the amazing skyline above and around the monument. Just look at the photo next to this ..]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TN prepares for by-elections]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/TN-stalin.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sixty-seven candidates are in the fray for the August 18 by-elections in five Tamil Nadu assembly constituencies, the State Election Commission said after processing the nominations filed.
It gave relief to DMDK by allowing its Bargur candidate ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[City of Joy suffers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kolkata-vehicle.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kolkata commuters have begun to feel the pinch after the Calcutta High Court banned over-15-year-old commercial vehicles to ply on the roads from August 1.
Protesting vehicle operators damaged six buses and put up road blocks at different ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Face-off on turmac!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Airlines-bailout.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel has refused to entertain the private airlines. &quot;Passengers interest would be safeguarded and DGCA would take action if needed,&quot; Patel said and advised the private carriers to withdraw their strike call .]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Noose tightens on Buta's son]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Buta-bribe.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Former home minister Buta Singh has insisted that his son, arrested on bribery charges, was innocent even as detectives seized three unlicensed pistols during a search of his son's residence.
Looking haggard at a press conference in New Delhi, Buta ]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[100-day agenda on track?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sibal-agenda.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Right to Education Bill is very much part of Kapil Sibal&rsquo;s 100-day agenda. Although his educational reforms didn&rsquo;t get much boost from this year&rsquo;s budget, but the lawyer-turned-politician is known for his fighting spirit.
Talking .]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Aug 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[‘Nothing holy about them’]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Roadside-Shrine.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[You must have bumped into a newly-constructed roadside Masjid or Mandir on way to your favourite shopping place. These structures are everywhere, often delaying the development works in that area.
Not any more. The Supreme Court has ruled that ...]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No MCOCA for Male accused]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sadhvi-Malegaon.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a major setback to the investigating authorities, a Mumbai special court has ordered dropping of charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against all the 11 accused, including Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Lt.Col. ]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Cong no inn for you']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Muralee.cong.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[K. Muraleedharan, the Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Kerala unit chief, said he would appeal to Sonia Gandhi to revoke his suspension, while his father K. Karunakaran met the Congress president in New Delhi.
&quot;I was suspended from the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[King of Bad Times!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Airlines-trouble.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Indian aviation sector is in doldrums and turbulence has hit Vijay Mallya and Naresh Goyal!&nbsp;Forget bleeding Air India, even the private carriers are now asking for a bailout package from the government. The private airlines have threatened not .]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stay off my territory]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maya-Bundelkhand.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to keep off &quot;the internal affairs of the state&quot; after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demanded a central authority for development of Bundelkhand ...]]></description>
<pubDate>31 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Not so Sweet-y news!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Buta-son.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Buta Singh is back in news after a long time. The former central home minister's son Sarabjot alias Sweety Singh is being quizzed by the CBI in a corruption case -- for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.1 crore.
&quot;We have brought Sweety Singh ..]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Work vigorously as CM, Omar!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Omar-racket.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Omar Abdullah is a happy man again. Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra has turned down the chief minister&rsquo;s resignation he had submitted after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) linked him to a 2006 sex racket.
The rejection of .]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SC spanner for Modi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Modi-SC.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Narendra Modi hasn't got away with SIT clutches yet. The Supreme Court has refused his government's plea not to extend the three-month deadline for SIT to complete the post-Godhra riots probe.
A few days back, the Gujarat High Court had cleared the ]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No end to Ambanis’ feud]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Anil-gas.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Questioning the clearance by junior oil ministry officials of the near four-fold hike in costs to Rs 45,000 crore for gas fields by Mukesh Ambani-led RIL, Anil Ambani has demanded a probe into the &quot;huge scandal.&quot;
&quot;I am deeply ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can we trust Pakistan?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Krishna-Pak.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ask your heart this question. On the one hand, Pakistan has shown its interest in cooperating with India on terrorism. On the other, it has refused to hand over 42 fugitives, including Dawood Ibrahim,&nbsp;India needs in various terror cases, ...]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bold PM wins Gilani's heart]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Man-Gilani.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has lauded his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh after positive remarks by the Indian premier in parliament on the peace process with Pakistan.
Gilani praised Manmohan Singh &quot;for his bold vision of .]]></description>
<pubDate>30 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Want land? Ask Mamata]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Didi-left.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The ruling party in West Bengal is so much threatened by Mamata Banerjee that it's telling people to take Didi's permission to buy the land. An NRI industrialist says a civic body run by West Bengal's ruling Left Front has advised him to talk to the ]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AICTE boss suspended]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/AICTE-graft.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman R.A. Yadav and two of his colleagues have been suspended for alleged corruption for which they are facing a CBI probe.
&quot;The chairman of the All India Council for Technical ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['End-use pact good for us']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-Nuclear.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The end-use monitoring pact with the US &quot;does not compromise our sovereignty&quot; and will not allow American inspectors to visit Indian military installations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has maintained.
&quot;You can be assured that our ..]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gas-struck Anil fuming now]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Anil-Mukesh.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A day after accusing the oil ministry of adopting a partisan stand in the Reliance gas dispute, Anil Ambani says his company had served a notice to the parties and will move court for an early resolution of the matter.
&quot;The honourable Supreme .]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mehbooba goads Omar woes]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mehbooba-Omar.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[High drama continued in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on July 29 with PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti shredding a CBI letter clearing Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in a sex scandal, while the ruling National Conference decided to move a breach of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Justice done, Mr Anand]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BMW-Anand.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a crucial judgment, the Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of high-profile criminal lawyer R K Anand for contempt of court in the BMW hit-and-run expose and issued notice for enhancement of punishment.
The apex court found special public ...]]></description>
<pubDate>29 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No takers for IITians?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IIT-student.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bad news for IIT/IIM aspirants this year as global slowdown has had a severe impact on campus hiring by the MNCs.&nbsp;
A written reply by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal in the Rajya Sabha shows that while in 2008, MNCs hired 3,031 IITians through campus ]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Prophet in B.Ed course?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Prophet-row.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Another row for Mayawati. Taking serious note of a picture of Prophet Mohammed published in an officially prescribed textbook, the Uttar Pradesh Minorities Commission has issued a show-cause notice to the state government.
This followed an uproar ..]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chand back from the sky]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fiza-Chand.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Enough of Fiza. This Chand has taken a U-turn and now wants to remain on earth. The much talked about Chand-Fiza love saga has taken a fresh twist with the former Haryana deputy chief minister returning to both Hinduism and his original name of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gallows for bootleggers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Guj-bootlegging.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[If you are caught preparing liquor in the land of Mahatma Gandhi, be prepared to face the gallows. The Gujarat assembly has unanimously passed the Bombay Prohibition (Gujarat Amendment Act) 2009 bill that proposes death sentence or life imprisonment ]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pray for no more cracks]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Metro-crack.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[With the probe panel finding serious fault with design of some pillars constructed in Phase II that led to a major accident killing six, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has decided to blacklist its design consultants and suspend senior ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Buy cheaper meat instead!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Meat-veggies.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Prices of potatoes, tomatoes and pulses in the national capital have risen to such an extent that some harried families even find meat a cheaper option.
Not just exotic broccoli and mushrooms but the relatively affordable tomatoes, onions and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>28 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will it be victory again?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Baloch-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[After scoring a thumping victory in general election, this is the first time that Manmohan Singh is facing the music, within the ranks. His party has made it clear that it wanted the prime minister to repair the political damage from the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mumbai attack: Timeline]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-timeline.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[A special court has held three people guilty for the 2003 Mumbai terror twin blasts that left 54 killed and 244 others injured. The following is the timeline of the 2003 twin blasts case:
Dec 2, 2002 - Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) activists place bomb in .]]></description>
<pubDate>27 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Didi's Andolan Express]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Andolan-Mamata.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kolkata, July 27: She has announced another train, with 2011 Bengal assembly elections in mind. Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee has given green signal to Andolan Express which will ply between Singur and Howrah station from August 1.
&quot;The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hindutva is very much alive]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hindutva-Rajnath.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 27: The Bharatiya Janata Party will not drop its Hindutva agenda at any cost, BJP president Rajnath Singh said, adding there was no &quot;need for making those factors public&quot; that led to the &quot;party's unsatisfactory ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kargil hilltops lit up]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kargil-Drass.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Drass, July 27: The hills of Kargil came alive in a glow of yellow lights as India marked the 10th anniversary of its military victory against Pakistan by paying homage to the over 500 soldiers killed while recapturing the treacherous peaks.
In an .]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mumbai's Judgment Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mumbai-terror.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 26: Six years after the twin blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, which left 53 people dead, a Mumbai Special Court is expected to deliver its judgement on the &quot;rarest of rare&quot; case on July 27.
A terror module of the ]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India aboard N-submarine]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/N-sub-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Visakhapatnam, July 26: &quot;Mai pandubbi ke sabhi nausainkon ke ujjawal bhavishya ki kamna karti hun.&quot; (I pray for the bright future of all the sailors onboard the submarine), said Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur as India launched its ...]]></description>
<pubDate>26 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A perfect Sunday read]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BSF-border.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hoshiarpur (Punjab), July 26: The 178 women, most of them from small towns and villages, inducted into the paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) on July 25 to guard the international borders, are starry-eyed at the thought of being the first ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AI fare: Rs 20,000 crore]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/AI-loss.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 26: The bleeding Maharaja is crying for a massive help: Rs 20,000 crore.
Air India has sought an immediate loan of about Rs 10,000 crore from the government along with an annual equity infusion of Rs 2,500-3,000 crore for the next ..]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mamata sits on land bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-land.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 26: Congress is in a quandary over introducing the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill and the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill in parliament after stiff opposition to the proposed legislations by Mamata Banerjee, who has an eye on ]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Disclose right assets]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Assets-judge.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chennai, July 25: No media, no RTI for judges please. Under a proposed law making it mandatory for high court and Supreme Court judges to disclose their assets, declaring false information will be considered misconduct, Chief Justice of India K.G. ..]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Delink row: PM will reply]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-delink.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The aam aadmi is waiting for the PM's clarification, with fingers crossed. The&nbsp;PM has been blamed for bad drafting of Indo-Pak joint statement and now he has some queries to face.
Under fire over the India-Pakistan ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['No interest in Balochistan']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Balochistan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 25: Pakistan hasn't given any proof of&nbsp; Indian involvement in Balochistan and Islamabad must produce evidence before making such allegations, said Home Minister P Chidambaram in Parliament.
&quot;We are not involved in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Relief for J&K widows?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kashmir-widow.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Srinagar, July 25: A survey is underway across Jammu and Kashmir to enlist all widows, elderly and the disabled persons who are not covered under any pension scheme, a state minister said.
All those who are not covered under any pension scheme will ]]></description>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PM 'introduced' terror delink]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Delink-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 25: It seems pretty clear who is behind the bad drafting of Indo-Pak joint statement: Manmohan Singh.
It happened after prime minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gilani in Egypt. &quot;Afterwards we called ]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Biggest defence mess-up']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/defence-scam.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 25: Are we going to have another Bofors? The Comptroller and Auditor General has rapped the defence ministry for kickbacks in acquisition of Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov and indigenous construction of six French Scorpene ]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kalam frisking OK]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/President-frisk.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Washington, July 25: Backing Continental Airlines on the controversial screening of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the US agency responsible for security of US transportation systems has made it clear that it cannot accept an Indian list ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[K for Kargil, and Kashmir too!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kargil-Kashmir.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 24: The cat is finally out of the bag. Defending his Kargil misadventure, former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf has described the 1999 Kargil conflict as a &quot;big success&quot; as it forced India to bring Kashmir onto ]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scan Modi's Godhra role]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Modi-Godhra.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 24: The Gujarat High Court has ruled that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the riots is free to call Modi on a petition filed by Zakia Jaffrey, whose husband ex-MP Ehsan Jaffrey was killed during the 2002 riots in Gulburg ]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Learn from Bhopal tragedy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bhiwandi-gas.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bhiwandi (Maharashtra), July 24: We don't want another Bhopal gas tragedy. Military experts have taken over from the local Bhiwandi administration the task to assist the civil administration probing a chlorine gas leak that left 59 people ill and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fresh twist in Sabharwal case]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sabharwal-death.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 24: A close aide of Himanshu Sabharwal, son of Ujjain professor H.S. Sabharwal who was beaten and killed in his college in August 2006, has been found stabbed to death in the Delhi University campus, police said.
The body of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>24 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CJI's assets verdict is out]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Judge-asset.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 24: Eminent jurists including Fali S Nariman, Shanti Bhushan and Justice Rajinder Sachar had recently signed a declaration demanding that the assets of Judges be made public under the proposed law.
&quot;Unless the declaration of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Control' or get 'Deleted']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Population-control.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chennai, July 24: India is sitting on a &quot;population growth volcano&quot; and that the worrying aspect is &quot;nobody is talking about family planning and birth control,&quot; says Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.
He said the country's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New EVMs for TN by-polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/TN-elections.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chennai, July 24: With major opposition parties ranged against electronic voting machines (EVM), the Election Commission has decided to buy new machines for the five Tamil Nadu by-elections slated for August 18.
Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer ..]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Obscene, vulgar, unscientific']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Brinda-CBI.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 24: Expressing outrage at the &quot;vulgar&quot; language used by the CBI to describe a woman accused in the murder of a Kerala nun, CPM leader Brinda Karat has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ask all probe agencies to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Who's behind bad drafting?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pak-draft.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 23: Even a Foreign Secretary of our country can do 'bad drafting.' The BJP has demanded that Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon quit his post if he was &quot;guilty&quot; of the &quot;bad drafting&quot; of the Indo-Pak statement in .]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An Independence shocker!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kerala-education.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thiruvananthapuram, July 23: The entire Kerala opposition walked out of the assembly protesting that the class 7 social studies textbook contains more about Communist-led agitations than the Independence struggle.
&quot;No wonder because of such ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Soni gets to hear our truth]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sach-Soni.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 23: We reported this bitter truth first (Click on http://www.engagevoter.com/news/Sach-Saamna.php). And urged Ms Ambika Soni to look into the matter. She has agreed, perhaps.
The information and broadcasting minister has called a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nilekani logs in for you]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nilekani-ID.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 23: Nandan Nilekani has begun work on a single identity proof for you, an ID card that will work everywhere - from availing government services to opening of a bank account or seeking a telephone connection. A project of this ...]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apology still in cargo?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kalam-airlines.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kochi, July 23: Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said he has not received any apology from Continental Airlines for frisking him at the Indira Gandhi international airport when he was going on a visit to the US this April.
Kalam told reporters ..]]></description>
<pubDate>23 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No criminal case? Welcome]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gandhi-youth.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 23: Determined to recruit more and more youngsters into the youth wing of the Congress, Rahul Gandhi has a clear message for aspirants. Your image should be clean and no member having criminal background is allowed to contest ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Phone bill? What is that?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bill-MP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 23: There are several politicians who are not paying house rent, telephone bills or electricity bills. The Delhi High Court has now asked various government agencies to prepare a list of MPs whose pending telephone and electricity ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[N. Maharashtra gets a boost]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maha-package.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 23: With an eye to the forthcoming assembly elections, the Maharashtra government announced a Rs.6,509-crore package for northern parts of the state, pledging development of four airports and setting up a terminal market in the temple ..]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Face this bitter Sach]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sach-Saamna.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 22: Are you watching Sach Ka Saamna, the sweltering reality show that has transmitted the bedroom talks right in your drawing room? Are you enjoying the titillation that emerges when a hold-no-bar question is popped up, in front of ..]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hang me, please]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kasab-hang.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 22: &quot;Hang me, please,&quot; terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab pleaded before the special court, two days after the lone surviving Mumbai attacker admitted he was a Pakistani and narrated the chilling details of the events that led to the .]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pak: India bombed our soil]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/RAW-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 22: Pakistan has prepared another dossier. No, not on 26/11 but on the alleged involvement of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in terrorist activities! This includes the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and on a police ]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fly with us, Mr Kalam!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kalam-flight.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 22: Realizing that it committed a grave mistake, US airline Continental Airlines has issued an apology to former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam for frisking him at the IGI Airport in New Delhi on April 21.
&ldquo;We have tendered a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>22 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metro a haunted run?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Metro-collpase.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 22: Delhi Metro's dream run appeared to have come to an abrupt halt. According to TV reports, one labourer was killed when a girder at the Punjabi Bagh Delhi Metro site in West Delhi collapsed early today.
We're awaiting an official ]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No NSG cover for Maya?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maya-NSG.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 22: Another move to invite the wrath of Mayawati. News is coming that elite NSG cover may no longer be with UP chief minister Mayawati, former railway minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We know he’s guilty but…]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Nanda-murder.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 22: Any man on the street will tell you that shoddy probe in Sanjeev Nanda case led to the &lsquo;curtailed&rsquo; justice to those six who were mowed down in Mumbai in 1999. And the court admits it too.
Even as it reduced the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pilots of Good Times?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mallya-liquer.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 21: Hic... Hic... Hurray.....! This flight is controlled by pilots who are gulping down gallons of liquor! Now this is what we call a flight to heaven!
Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines has got the dubious distinction of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Remove shoes, Mr Kalam!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kalam-shoes.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 21: Imagine this being happened to the United States President! Or any President for that matter. And you complain that aam aadmi is being harassed! Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was subjected to a full body check and even asked ..]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What did Kasab say then?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kasab-Mumbai.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 21: If not confession, then what? Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab's admissions about the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks before the Special Court over the past two days do not amount to a confession, his government appointed lawyer S.G. ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women power, without quota!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BSF-women.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Attari (Punjab), July 21: Quota or not, some women will hold the frontiers. They might not be taking on combat positions straightaway but women guards of the Border Security Force (BSF) will soon be deployed in Punjab villages along the 553-km ...]]></description>
<pubDate>21 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monsoon woes of seven sisters]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Northeast-rain.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Agartala/Shillong, July 21: In our northeast, it has rained a little, but way too little. The weatherman has no pleasant news for states in the region, saying it may be heading for drought that will affect autumn as well as winter crops. And tourism ]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will 10 crore kids get it?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sibal-edu.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 21: With the government warning of &quot;disastrous consequences&quot; if a landmark bill for providing free and compulsory education to children aged 6-14 was not passed, the Rajya Sabha gave the measure its unanimous approval -- ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No worries over N-deal’]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/N-clinton.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Delhi, July 21: We have just completed a civil nuclear deal. If it done through proper channels and safeguarded, then it is appropriate, Hillary Clinton said. The United States reaffirmed its commitment to the bilateral civil nuclear deal, with ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Pak sheltering 9/11 culprits']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pakistan-Hillary.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 21: In a pointed message to Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said &quot;a significant number&quot; of 9/11 attackers are hiding in the border areas of that country.
&quot;We firmly believe that a significant number of ]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2 yrs for mowing down 5!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BMW-Nanda.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 20: Has the judiciary failed this time? The Delhi High Court has reduced the jail term of Sanjeev Nanda from five years to two for running over six people in his BMW car 10 years ago. Two years for mowing down six lives?
Justice ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SC stamp on gay sex]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/SC-gay.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 20: Good news for the LGBT community in India. Maintaining that the recent Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising homosexuality does not permit incestuous relations or adultery, the Supreme Court has said it will wait for the ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kasab sings, finally]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kasab-terror.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 20: Coinciding with Hillary Clinton's visit, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the main accused in the Mumbai terror attacks, has confessed to his role. He admitted he was a Pakistani and narrated in chilling detail the events leading to the ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Keep talking, dear India!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hillary-Pak.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 20: Pakistan is the buzzword and Hillary Clinton is uttering this word wherever she goes, irrespective of the venue or theme. Good for us in some way! 
Describing terrorism and extremism as the &quot;number one challenge&quot;, US ..]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More talks, no results!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-Hillary.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 20: Another round of talks and Pakistan will be in focus. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will hold meetings with PM Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi today. Terrorism is going to be the main agenda but Indians ...]]></description>
<pubDate>20 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[For farmers' sake]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hilalry-farmer.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 20: Farmers need financial security to prevent them committing suicide as has been happening in India, and stop them from drifting away from agriculture, like in the US, says Hillary Clinton.
&quot;Yeah, it (farmers' suicides) is a .]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['You people need masala']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jairam-Hilalry.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 20: The event was on climate change, but seeing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answering queries mainly related to terrorism and on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, an irritated Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Khap' won't let you marry!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Haryana-wedding.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jhajjar (Haryana), July 20: Haryana's 'khap' (caste) councils, notorious for their vicious campaign against couples getting married within the same clan, are at it again. 
Tension prevailed in a village in Jhajjar district after villagers, acting ..]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beware of terror syndicate]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hillary-terror.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gurgaon, July 19: Warning of the threat of a global terrorist syndicate comprising Al Qaeda and the Taliban, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped Pakistan will take action against the 26/11 Mumbai attackers as she noted Islamabad's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hillary goes green]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hillary-green.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gurgaon, July 19: An eco-friendly building near the Indian capital got a big thumbs-up from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who equated it with well-known monuments like the Taj Mahal and India Gate.
&quot;We know that there are wonderful ...]]></description>
<pubDate>19 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Respect our assets, Ambanis!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Ambani-gas.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 19: Ambani brothers are in news again and this time it is the government that has created a furor by taking an unusually belligerent stand towards the two powerful industrial groups.
The government has criticised the Ambani brothers ]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maya takes on Rahul]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maya-Rahul.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 19: Continuing the verbal sparring with the Congress, Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati has hit out at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress should &quot;first set its own house in order before accusing ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nail Pakistan first: NYT]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/NYT-Pak.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New York, July 19: An influential US daily has suggested an ambitious agenda for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in India ranging from a bilateral investment treaty to climate change and Doha trade talks but with &quot;primary focus&quot; on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome to fortress Delhi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hillary-Delhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 18: Nearly 2,000 police and intelligence personnel were busy in the national capital giving final touches to security for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who arrives here Sunday afternoon.
According to Delhi Police, Clinton ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[...Teachers aasmaan par!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Aamir-Clinton.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 18: Teaching should be a &quot;high paying job&quot; to attract the best possible talent, Aamir Khan said as he, along with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visited the 140-year-old St. Xavier's College for an interactive session .]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A new, promising era is here]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Clinton-Mumbai.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 18: The US wanted &quot;new and promising relations&quot; with India, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she began a five-day visit to the country by mourning the victims of the Mumbai terror attack.
Clinton met some of the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Truth is out, is Pak listening?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pak-Hillary.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 18: She has spoken our language. Pakistan needed to &quot;root out&quot; terrorist groups directed against Indian interests, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
She told a news conference that the US had seen &quot;a much ...]]></description>
<pubDate>18 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Masjid drama in Hyderabad]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hyd-Masjid.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hyderabad, July 18: No dearth of issues in our country. Even if you don't have one, you will create one in a jiffy for sure.&nbsp;The Andhra Pradesh government gave alternate land for a mosque demolished during the construction of the international .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maken under scanner]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Makahn-fraud.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 18: Delhi High Court has sought responses from Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken and returning officer of the New Delhi parliamentary constituency on a petition stating that the election expenses of the Congress leader were much .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sidhu retired hurt?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sidhu-resign.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi/Amritsar, July 18: Speculation is rife that cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has resigned from the BJP and as MP, apparently peeved over the party promoting his rival. BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said the matter would .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hillary just a click away]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Clinton-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 18: You don't have to switch on the television or get a ticket to a high-security event to follow the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - it doesn't need more than a click of the mouse.
Clinton, who arrived in India on .]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A few queries, dear Hillary]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hillary-coming.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 17: Hillary is excited. So are we. Her plane touches the tarmac at the Mumbai airport today and the city is ready to roll the red carpet for the US Secretary of State.
Meanwhile, a change of guard has happened. We have a new US ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[BJP 'delinks' PM, finally!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-PM.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 17: The BJP has sounded the war bugle over Manmohan-Gilani meeting and its not-so-friendly outcome. The party members walked out of the Lok Sabha&nbsp;to protest Manmohan Singh's &quot;surrender&quot; to Pakistan though they agreed ..]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mom mum, son skips her too!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rita-Rahul.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 17: Rahul Gandhi has opened another front against Mayawati on power crisis in his constituency but is cautious on UP Congress chief issue. The party general secretary has blamed Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati for the poor power supply in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Chandrayaan-1 dying?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Moon-Mission.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bangalore, July 17: India''s first moon mission Chandrayaan-I is pride of the nation but this news has left the space community worried. Launched in last October with a two-year life span, Chandrayaan has lost a major sensor and may meet a premature ]]></description>
<pubDate>17 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[‘World rides on India, US’]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hillary-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 17: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive in India today but she has already kicked off a positive mood at a time when both India and the US have ushered in a new era post elections, with fresh flow of ideas and a broaden ]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lessons from Singur, Nandi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/WB-land.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kolkata, July 17: After its land acquisition for industry went wrong twice, in Nandigram and Singur, and with adverse consequences for it, the West Bengal government says henceforth the industrialists will have to directly purchase land from ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maya puts ball in Cong court]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maya-Cong.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 17: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has claimed that the monetary compensation being paid to a Dalit rape victim was strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Dalit Act and the amount had been determined by the Congress ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Coming, Tamil Nadu by-polls]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/TN-polls.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chennai, July 17: Another season of polls challenges Jayalalithaa. The Election Commission said by-elections for five Tamil Nadu assembly constituencies that are vacant would be held on August 18.
According to the Election Commission by-elections ..]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will this work, Mr PM?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-Gilani.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 16: The people of India are angry and want justice. Manmohan Singh appears to have heard their voices. After taking on Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has now asked his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf .]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Watch this movie, Mr Sibal]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Corporal-punish.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 16: Beaten mercilessly several times, Samuel Venkatesen from Tamil Nadu has made a short movie on corporal punishment which he feels will help sensitise teachers.
&quot;I want corporal punishment to stop. I have gone through it and .]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maya raj under fire]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maya-Joshi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 16: The arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the attack on her house by alleged BSP workers has ignited the passions across the ranks. All major political parties have demanded the ouster of Mayawati ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maya leaves Cong fuming]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maya-Congress.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 16: Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi was jailed for 14 days on charges of insulting Chief Minister Mayawati while parliament was paralysed over a vicious mob attack that left Joshi's Lucknow house in shambles.
The ...]]></description>
<pubDate>16 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sins of the Past]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Varun-Gandhi.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 16: Undeterred by charges filed by the Uttar Pradesh police against him for the alleged hate speeches he made in Pilibhit during the Lok Sabha poll campaign, BJP MP Varun Gandhi said he &quot;shall be vindicated&quot;.
&quot;I ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some Paparazzi lessons]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Media-diplomat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 16: Diplomats need more than diplomatic skills to tackle the media in this round-the-clock TV age. A group of 25 members of the elite Indian Foreign Service (IFS) was imparted this invaluable lesson at a unique training session that .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Connect and deliver]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Public-work.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 16: Two municipal councillors in the national capital have decided to put &quot;power back into the public's hands&quot; by choosing to hear them out before undertaking any development work in their areas.
Hari Shankar Kashyap and ..]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Name these 355 perpetrators]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/student-attack.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 15: Finally, an effort from the government to understand the plight of thousands of Indian students being treated roughly across the globe. Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi has identified 355 foreign employers who ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[L for Lok Sabha, not London]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mulayam-Jairam.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 15: This is what Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is against foreign languages being taught in the Indian classes, told union minister Jairam Ramesh when he replied to Mulayam's question in English.
Mulayam Singh had .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hope alive, and kicking?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shopian-rape.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Srinagar, July 15: Remember Shopian rape case which shook the nation and put the men in uniform under the scanner? Jammu and Kashmir High Court has now directed the team probing the alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian to arrest and ...]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Madrassas bunk Sibal's class]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Kapil-madrassa.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 15: Should the education imparted at madrassas be broad-based to include subjects like English, maths, science and computers to make it employment oriented? The proposal by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has not found favour with madrassa .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[21st century is calling]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Hillary-visit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Washington, July 15: She envisages India as one of a few key partners worldwide who will help the US shape the 21st century. In Washington last month, she called the &quot;US-India 3.0&quot; relationship representing the next stage in their evolving ]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Beware of Indian students!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Obama-education.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Washington, July 15: A few days back, Obama announced the US kids have a threat coming from India and China. He then praised Indian education system, saying his kids need to gear up to compete with Indian students. He is now building a 21st century .]]></description>
<pubDate>15 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[You can’t stop it, unless…]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Migration-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Panaji, July 15: This can&rsquo;t be stopped unless poorer states are given a development boost and a job promise to their youth. Equating the flow of migrants into Goa with Punjab, which attracts hordes of farm labourers from Bihar and eastern ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can we trust them?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Pak.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 15: Pakistan has let the Indian government down once again. It shows that trust between two nations has been hit badly. Sources say Pakistani investigators did not pursue the leads which could have taken them to the masterminds of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First-timers impress Pranab]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pranab-da.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 15: First-time MPs impressed veteran Congressman and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee with their submissions while participating in the debate on the general budget in the Lok Sabha.
He was happy that as many as 94 members spoke ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Another Kargil in line?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pak-Bunker.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 14: Hear this: As the Indian and Pak diplomats are gearing up for a fresh round of talks, the Border Security Force alleges the Pakistani army has been building fresh bunkers along the Line of Control and International Border, adding ]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Budget a step backward?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-US.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Washington, July 14: The flip side of America's stake in India is that America loses when India takes a step backward. That seems to have happened with budget which puts political gain over long-term economic progress, a US South Asia expert has ...]]></description>
<pubDate>14 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India's 10 Ravanas!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-superpower.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 14: Be content and be happy. India should not aspire to be a dominant and powerful country, but should try to be a less &quot;discontented country&quot;, says eminent author-historian-social analyst and teacher Ramachandra ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Knives out in CPM]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CPM-sword.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Alappuzha (Kerala), July 14: The CPM move to drop Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan from the politburo saw the intra-party feuding in Kerala spill on to the streets as hundreds of his angry supporters held a march to protest the party's action, only ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Babus will help Air India fly!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Babus-AI.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 14: If babus are headed for a place not connected by AI, they will now have to fly to the point closest to the destination that&rsquo;s served by the Maharaja. Thereafter, they can take any other airline, but preferably one that has .]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Donate some thoughts here…]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/political-donation.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kolkata, July 13: Pranab babu has tried to put a curb on political donations, by announcing to make political donations totally tax-free in a bid to bring in transparency.
This has evoked mixed reactions from economists. Some feel that the proposal ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Taj Mahal is nobody’s baby]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Taj-threat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Agra, July 13: After the threat from the dead (Click on&nbsp;The Dead Awakening at Taj!), the Taj Mahal has another reason to worry: crowd. Conservationists have expressed concern over the decision to allow free entry to the Taj Mahal for three days ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Andhra get its Metro?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Andhra-Metro.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hyderabad, July 13: Maytas Infra, that won the tender to provide Hyderabad people a Metro ride, took the state government for a ride instead. Promoted by kin of disgraced Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju, Maytas Infra-led consortium failed to tie up .]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trust PM’s sleep pills!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-reform.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Washington, July 13: One does not need charisma to make a leader, says Time magazine, citing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's example who has made India one of world's fastest-growing economies and changed tens of millions of lives for the better.
A ]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are we hurrying up Metro?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Metro-accident.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 13: After the bridge, it&rsquo;s time for girder to collapse! Six workers were injured on July 13 during relief operations at the Delhi Metro construction site in south Delhi where a section of the elevated track had collapsed on ...]]></description>
<pubDate>13 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A slum, a toilet, and a monument]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Monument-neglect.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 13: It is an imposing 15th century monument from the Lodhi dynasty that is being taken over by a slum, its illegal residents brazenly unconcerned about both law and heritage. 
Uncared for by authorities who are supposed to protect ..]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rajnath looks at party youth]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rajnath-BJP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 13: The BJP president Rajnath Singh has asked the party's youth wing to remain committed to the ideology of &quot;cultural nationalism&quot; and not be disappointed with the electoral reverses.
&quot;We are proud of being part of a .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pruning VIP security: a tough call]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/VIP-security.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 13: The government has been quick to decide on not upgrading Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi's security cover to the Z plus category, but is yet to take a call on whittling down or even dispensing with the bodyguards of .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Metro Man quits]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Metro-sreedharan.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 12: Taking full responsibility for the Metro bridge collapse in Delhi, in which 6 people were killed and 13 injured, E Sreedharan has resigned as nation's most admirable government servant.
&quot;Technically, someone else should ...]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Achuthanandan dumped, Vijayan a hero]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CPM-Kerala.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 12: Aiming to put an end to the squabbling in its Kerala unit, the Communist Party of India-Marxist has removed Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan from the party politburo while firmly backing his arch rival, state secretary Pinarayi .]]></description>
<pubDate>12 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Nilekani just a beginning']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/PM-Nilekani.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[On Board Air India One, July 12: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sees more room for men wearing a thinking cap to participate in the governance process.
&quot;I would like to involve more intellectuals in the governance process,&quot; PM said while ..]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scrap CBSE class 10 exams, States to continue]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sibal-exam.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 12: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says the ministry wished to abolish the Class 10 board exams of only the central and not the state boards.
&quot;State boards are not connected with CBSE. So to say that we're ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Come here, Harward!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sibal-foreign.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 12: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says foreign universities like Harvard were welcome in India.
&quot;If Stanford, Harvard or MIT want to come here, then what's the harm in it?&quot; Sibal said. 
Answering a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Who took Lalu's seat?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lalu-seat.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 11: Vanquished in the electoral arena of his home state Bihar, Lalu Prasad is jostling for space in the corridors of power here, while other leaders of his Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) regret having snapped ties with the Congress ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tim new US envoy to India]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/US-envoy.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Washington, July 11: The US Senate has confirmed President Barack Obama's nomination of former House of Representatives member Tim Roemer as the new US ambassador to India.
Lawmakers approved Roemer's nomination Friday by unanimous consent, a ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Feed your family a little now]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Veggies-prices.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 11: Congress' Aam Aadmi is crying left, right and centre. Forget about the more &quot;fancy&quot; broccoli or mushroom, even the humble potato, tomato and onion are inching away from the common man's home budget. Due to the scanty ...]]></description>
<pubDate>11 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[LEFT with no choice?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Left-loksabha.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 11: Left is a divided house. and with their Lok Sabha members' tally drastically reduced this time, the Left parties are planning to request Speaker Meira Kumar to allow them to sit as a single block. By doing this, they will be able ]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Decider on CPM warring leaders today?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/CPM-fight.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Thiruvananthapuram, July 11: The CPM begins a crucial two-day central committee meeting in New Delhi, beginning today, to put an end to the bitter factional feud in its Kerala unit.
The two warring senior Kerala leaders Chief Minister V.S. ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How did Shastri die?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shastri-death.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 11: Former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent 45 years ago but mystery continues to shroud the circumstances around his death.
Replying to a RTI query, the PMO has said it had one document relating to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Masjid gone, Babri files vanish!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Babri-Masjid.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 10: Nothing seems to be moving in Babri demolition case except fresh controversies. The Liberhan Commission has just submitted its report to the Centre on Babri Masjid demolition and another row is brewing up in the Hindi ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Big Brother won't listen]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Big-Brother.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[London, July 10: After Shilpa, this time is the turn of an Indian student to face 'racism' on the Big Brother's sets. Britain's broadcasting regulator is to investigate complaints that an Indian student appearing on the British reality television ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rahul on a talent hunt]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rahul-talent.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 10: Buoyed by the Congress' unexpected success in the Lok Sabha elections, the Youth Congress is busy talent hunting in Uttar Pradesh, a keenly-watched exercise overseen by Rahul Gandhi.
With Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi .]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No stopping Mayawati!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mayawati-statue.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 10: The Supreme Court has refused to restrain the Uttar Pradesh government from installing statues of its Chief Minister Mayawati, her political mentor late Kanshi Ram and the BSP's election symbol - the elephant.
&quot;If the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Jairam stuck in plastic bag!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Jairam-Plastic.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 10: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh has come under criticism from green activists for his remark that ban on plastic bags is not the way to clean up India's cities.
&quot;Jairam Ramesh is not worthy of being an environment ...]]></description>
<pubDate>10 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bang on target!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Zardari-terror.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 10: Congress has welcomed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's admission that terrorism was &quot;created and nurtured&quot; by Islamabad &quot;as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives&quot;.
The party demanded ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[On course correction?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/BJP-poll.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 10: The soul-searching has begun and heads have started to roll. In the first step towards an organisational shake-up after the poll debacle, the BJP has got its party chiefs in Haryana and Rajasthan to step down.
In the April-May ..]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Are you going to hear?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Public-India.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 10: Nearly 4 lakh public grievance cases in three years, not even half of them have been redressed!
&quot;The total number of cases of public grievances received in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), cabinet secretariat and the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moily on Maya path]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Moily-Maya.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 9: Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily wants to adapt Mayawati's formula to fill vacant post of judges. The government would request the top judiciary to ensure &quot;social engineering&quot; in the appointment of judges, Moily ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fraudsters of Bokaro!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bokaro-fraud.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ranchi, July 9: Prime minister Manmohan Singh visited famous Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) last year to inaugurate the expansion of BSL. Good news. But we are Indians, so found a way (obviously illegal) to make few bucks here too. 
Some steel plant ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A 'green' school for the poor]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Green-school.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Shey (Jammu and Kashmir), July 9: Sometimes, a news can inspire us that everything is not lost yet. Barely 15 km southeast of Leh, the hilly headquarters of Ladakh district in Jammu and Kashmir, lies one of India's most innovative &quot;green&quot; .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gay sex in legal war]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gay-legal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 9: We feared this and it has come true. The gay sex verdict has got into legal tangles now. The Supreme Court has issued notice to Centre over decriminalization of Section 377 of homosexuality laws.
The court was hearing a petition .]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter, a Nobel Peace prize candidate!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Twitter-Nobel.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Washington, July 9: The next time you surf the internet, you may bump into a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. A US security expert has proposed the honour for micro-blogging site Twitter, which helped protesters in Iran beat censorship and tell their ...]]></description>
<pubDate>09 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A gay beginning!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gay-wedding.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chandigarh, July 9: Whether Yoga exponent Baba Ramdev protests against Gay law verdict or not, there are some who have begun their journey of life. Enthused by the Delhi High Court verdict, at least four gay couples in this city have performed ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Leak' invites Sushma fury]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Sushma-Varun.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 9: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has questioned the manner in which Home Minister P. Chidambaram &quot;leaked&quot; to the media a confidential letter written to her about BJP MP Varun Gandhi's security.
In a letter that was given wide ..]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SC raps pvt colleges]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/SC-colleges.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 9: Every year, this is happening. We know how these tricks are played on students every year. This is what the Supreme Court has told private medical and dental colleges subverting merit by diverting state quota seats to the ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[150,000 Indian back with no jobs]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Indian-gulf.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 8: Nearly 50,000 to 150,000 Indian workers, most of them from the Gulf countries, have probably returned to the country due to the global economic slowdown, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi has informed ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The legend of Jama Masjid]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shahi-Imama.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 8: Syed Abdullah Bukhari, the grand old Shahi Imam of Delhi's historic Jama Masjid and for long one of India's most outspoken Muslim leaders, died after a long illness. He was 87.
The elderly Bukhari, who anointed his son Syed Ahmed ]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No YOGA-Y please!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Baba-gay.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 8: There are reports that Baba Ramdev is nurturing political ambitions. He doesn&rsquo;t want cola companies to stay in India and there have been allegations that pharmacy at his Haridwar-based pharmacy makes medicines having animal .]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bihar cries for teachers]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Bihar-teacher.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Patna, July 8: Bihar is always in news, for all the wrong reasons. This time, Mr Kapil Sibal should make a note of this bizarre fact. Polytechnic faculty members have been teaching in engineering colleges with the full knowledge of the Bihar ...]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Learn your lessons, boys!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Advani-party.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 8: LK Advani wants his house in order. It's better late than never! As the beleaguered BJP continues to be in a soul-searching mode, the veteran leader has come out with a list of do's and don'ts for newly-elected MPs to ensure that .]]></description>
<pubDate>08 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Attendance first!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/MPs-LS.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 8: The sky is not fallen if they don't attend Parliament and waste crucial debate hours and in turn, exchequers&rsquo; money. But they do need to learn how to present themselves in the House. 
Over 170 first-time MPs attended an ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Railway bleed, I bleed]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lalu-railway.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 8: Former railways minister Lalu Prasad is an angry man. He has told his successor Mamata Banerjee to prepare a report on his tenure within seven days and added that he was prepared to apologise to the nation if any irregularities ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Monsoon spoils Pranab's party]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Monsoon-Pranab.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 8: Monsoon is still eluding us, and may hamper finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's predictions. Monsoon is 44 percent deficient in the region that includes Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh till today.
The region had good ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A 100-DAY BOMBSHELL!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/rural-pranab.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 7: Here comes a shocker in UPA&rsquo;s flagship rural job scheme which received a massive 144 percent hike from the finance minister in this budget. The government has admitted to huge slips in its implementation with an average of ..]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Enemy Within?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pranab-defence.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 7: The 34 percent hike in the defence budget for 2009-10 is driven more by the increased salaries granted to government employees on a pay panel's recommendations than by the armed forces' need for capacity building, say ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pranab skips two paras!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-man.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 7: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was left red faced while presenting the budget for 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha when he skipped two key paragraphs relating to the allocations for the minorities.
He realised this only after a note ..]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Token hike for tourism]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tourism-budget.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 7: Tourism has not found much favour with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who gave only a token Rs.20 crore increase in allocation for the ministry, with almost a third of the Rs.1,070 crore for promotion of the &quot;Incredible ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Aam vs khaas aadmi!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pranab-budget2.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 7: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has pleased the &quot;aam aadmi&quot; (common man) but made the &quot;khaas aadmi&quot; (the elite) unhappy in his 2009-10 budget proposals. 
Constrained by the global recession and domestic ...]]></description>
<pubDate>07 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bitter pill for health sector]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Health-budget.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 7: It is not an exciting health budget at all! There is no understanding about infectious diseases that are spreading in the country at an alarming pace and not enough is being done to contain this, say health experts.
Public health ]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Software sector logs on]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-software.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bangalore/Hyderabad, July 7: India's software sector has welcomed the extension of tax holiday on export profits to 2010-11 from this fiscal, rationalisation of multiplicity of taxes on packaged software and abolition of fringe benefit tax (FBT) but ]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Save some, save again!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Tax-benefits.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 7: Now you have been given Rs 10,000 tax relief, we try to understand how it's going to ease tax woes for you. 
The young and middle-aged will save Rs 1,030 per annum in taxes and cesses. Senior citizens would save Rs 1,545 per ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nothing great, just populism]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-populist.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: Seeking to address what he described as triple challenges, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday presented a populist budget with more funds for welfare schemes and infrastructure.
But even all this couldn't help Sensex ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Have Rs 30 lakh? Pay wealth tax]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Wealth-tax.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: You know how much you need to be called a wealthy person? Rs 30 lakh. The government has doubled the threshold for calling a person or entity wealthy, saying the wealth tax would be imposed only on those having a net wealth ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pranab's flat opening]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/routine-budget.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: There is this very interesting study that says Parliamentarians seem to be turning increasingly apathetic to the general budget, if the number of hours they spent on debating its proposal is any indication. 
The members spent the ]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Higher education gets boost]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Edu-boost.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: Continuing its thrust on higher education, the union budget has proposed to allocate over Rs.21 billion for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs).
&quot;I am allocating ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bangaloreans cheer I-T rebate]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IT-rebate.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bangalore, July 6:&nbsp; At least some are happy over income tax exemption.&nbsp; Salaried residents of Bangalore have welcomed the proposed increase in income tax exemption limits for women and others by Rs 10,000 and scrapping of the fringe ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[1 billion-plus database soon]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/identity-card.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: Countrymen will start getting the sophisticated unique identity cards from within the next 18 months with the government allocating Rs 120 crore for the purpose in the general budget.
Announcing this, finance minister Pranab ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[It's breaking news!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Media-budget.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: Since the print media is still reeling under recession, the government has decided to extend the hike in advertisement rates by another six months, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.
In February, the government had hiked the ]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Corporate sector unhappy]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Corporate-budget.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: India Inc welcomed the focus on reviving economic growth to nine per cent as also the indications for bold tax reforms, but expressed regret that the Minimum Alternate Tax was raised and Security Transaction Tax was let to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Budget a letdown]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IT-relief.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 6: The budget has proved to be a letdown for the corporate sector and has not been very encouraging in view of the current economic scenario, according to noted city-based corporate tax consultant J.P. Purohit.
&quot;Even the raised ...]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sensex says no to Budget]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pranab-social.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 6: Even as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee was presenting his budget for 2009-10, Sensex dived by 512 points from its last closing figure. Similarly, the S&amp;P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was ruling 4.19 percent ..]]></description>
<pubDate>06 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rs 10 lakh cr Budget expenditure!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-today.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: Amid some good news, and many sops for the rural sector, the bad news is that total Budget expenditure has crossed Rs 10 lakh crore for first time. Fiscal deficit is estimated at 6.8% in fiscal year 2010. Sensex has shed nearly ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lawyers to pay service tax]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Biotech-budget.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 6: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has brought lawyers under the ambit of service tax in the union budget for 2009-10. &quot;I propose to bring certain legal services under the ambit of service tax,&quot; he said. Does it mean you .]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A budget for the young?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-young.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 5: The youth aren&rsquo;t asking for the moon. Concession on student loans, higher spending on education and health and fuel price cut &ndash; this is all the students and young professionals expect as Finance Minister Pranab ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will he look back with a smile, Mr Pranab?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-Day.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 5: Here comes the Big Day. Amid high expectations in a slowing economy, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present India's national budget on Monday, seeking a fine balance between the need for resources to fund welfare schemes ..]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The super-secret budget drill]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-paper.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 5: Well before sunrise on Monday, a motley crew of about 150 officers will be huddled together in a government building near Parliament House, anxiously awaiting a signal of security clearance.
Some of these officers will be in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>05 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wanted: A committed Dalit]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Maya-Dalit.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 5: Well, there is nothing new in this statement. Your party serves Dalits primarily and only lately, your 'social engineering' has attracted other segments of the society towards BSP. 
Although BSP national general secretary Satish ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trust youth, Ms Meira!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Meira-poll.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bhopal, July 5: Lok Sabha Speaker is concerned about the declining poll percentage by every election year. And she believes that politicians don&rsquo;t think about the last man sitting on the benches. 
Meira Kumar has called upon MPs and MLAs to ..]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gowda’s divided house]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gowda-party.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 5: HD Deve Gowda is in news again, apparently for not any positive reason. His Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) party appears to be on the verge of a split. Its national executive has rejected Kerala unit president M.P. Veerendrakumar's ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lalu spoils the party]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lau-gay.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 5: Politics over gay law verdict has begun. Lalu Prasad says it is a very dangerous thing while Sharad Yadav believes &quot;homosexuality is not an issue in India&quot;.
&quot;I will raise this topic in parliament and the amendment .]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sab China hai bhai!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-Chinaa.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 4: Name one country that Indians are too keen to emulate, be it infrastructure, gadgets, athletes, foreign policy, missiles&hellip;did you guess it right?
Indians are so thrilled by the Chinese model of growth that they never ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mistaken identity again?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Fake-encounter.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 4: We have witnessed several such 'fake' encounters were innocent civilians lost their lives. Who can forget the shamed Connaught Place encounter in Delhi where two businessmen were killed by men in uniform 10 years ago? ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Here come IGNOU's community colleges]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/IGNOU-College.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 4: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has started 100 community colleges to bring a &quot;learning revolution&quot; among under-privileged students across the country.
Launching the community college programme of ...]]></description>
<pubDate>04 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Give army guns, not Bofors!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Army-guns.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 4: No fresh bids to buy ultra-light howitzer that the Indian Army badly needs for frontline defence. Instead, it will await the outcome of the probe into corruption charges against the Singapore firm, whose guns it had chosen for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Pind daan' online?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gaya-Pinda.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gaya (Bihar), July 4: A man sitting in America or Europe cannot perform 'pind daan' online. This offering is only possible in Gaya, nowhere else, say Pandas of Gaya.
Priests in this Hindu holy town, where thousands of Indians go every year to ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wake up, Mumbaikars!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-Mumbai.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Mumbai, July 4: There are reports that Mumbai residents are unhappy over Mamata's budget. But facts tell a different story. She has come up with a series of proposals for Maharashtra, including non-stop point-to-point service proposed for the first .]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mamata can't forget politics!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-Left.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kolkata, July 4: Railways minister Mamata Banerjee lost no opportunity to needle West Bengal's ruling Left Front when she proposed a new rail line from Singur to Nandigram and sops for Lalgarh - areas in the state that have witnessed violent ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cheer over 'Bengali' budget]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-Bengal.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kolkata, July 4: What Lalu did for Bihar, Didi has done for her state. Mamata's budget has been dubbed as a Bengali Budget. The state managed to get the maximum share of projects in almost all the sections of the proposals.
The state would get the .]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women safety, janata khana... and much more!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/women-food.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 3: As we know Mamata - desi first, videshi never. So get ready for 'Janata Khana' on train, which will have national and regional cuisines. &quot;Priority would be given to provision of good quality food, drinking water and toilet ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Didi runs over Lalu's budget!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Lalu-Mamata.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 3: Taking a dig at her predecessor Lalu Prasad, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said the target set by him for the railways in the interim budget was &quot;unrealistically high&quot;.
&quot;Based on the reviews, it is very clear ..]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A train for India’s youth]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/youth-train.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 3: This is truly a youthful thought from our Didi. The low-cost, AC coaches will now carry India's young crowd belonging to low-income families.
A weekly service will be introduced as a pilot project within three months in ...]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A 'deficit' human touch]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Didi-budget.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 3: From day one, railway minister Mamata Banerjee had declared her priorities: hygienic food, clean toilets, passenger safety, more women into services and no extra burden on aam aadmi. She has succeeded in announcing all this, and ..]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No more stinking loos?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Rail-bug.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 3: Mamata wanted to give railways a human face. And she went exactly about it while presenting the budget. She has allocated Rs.1,102 crore towards improving passenger amenities. She has also announced one doctor to be posted on each ]]></description>
<pubDate>03 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Media to get 50% concession]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Budget-green.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 3: Ladies Special will be extended to Kolkata, Chennai and minority students in Kolkata will be provided Metro concession. Press correspondents will get get 50% concession on tickets.&nbsp; Mamata tells Lok Sabha that total working ..]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A train to somewhere?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-dream.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 2: The firebrand lady of Trinamool Congress, who has returned as Railways minister after eight years, is all set to present her dream budget.
We have been hearing about the crisis the Indian Railways is facing since Lalu Prasad era. ]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Didi's Rail, Hamari Rail]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Didi-rail.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kolkata, July 2: Will Mamata Banerjee give green signal to a series of sops for her region? Business leaders and commoners in West Bengal are expecting her to dole out freebies for the state when she presents her budget.
Trinamool Congress chief ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tell us freight plan, Didi]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-freight.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 2: Railway minister 'Didi' Mamata Banerjee should clearly spell out her plans as to how she intends to acquire over 10,000 hectares of land for construction of two freight corridors, one for Delhi to Mumbai and the other one from ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fuel hike stalls Lok Sabha]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/LS-fuel.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 2: As predicted, petrol price hike has ignited fury of the Opposition. Angry members forced the adjournment of the Lok Sabha on the first day of the month-long budget session with their protests over the hike in petrol and diesel ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't sit on reforms, please]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Survey-reform.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 2: Pre-budget showers suggest India should go for sweeping reforms. Areas like foreign direct investment, divestment, taxation and the subsidy regime should be given a serious look, says India's Economic Survey.
It has called for ...]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gay sex gets legal stamp]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Gay-sex.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 2: If you're an adult and in a consenting relationship with the person of the same sex in India, you'll no longer have any legal problem if you&rsquo;ve had sex with that person.
In plain terms, the verdict by the Delhi High Court ..]]></description>
<pubDate>02 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Take a tour of Mayaland!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/UP-memorial.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Lucknow, July 2: Have you visited Maya memorials? No! Well, she has some plans for you. Seeking to justify use of nearly Rs.3,200 crore of public funds for building grandiose memorials and statues of Dalit icons, including of herself, the UP CM now .]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is this 100-burden agenda?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Petrol-fuel.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 2: Petroleum Minister Murli Deora must have not only predicted the anger over fuel price hike well in advance but also the time-frame in which it will die down. After the pre-budget bite, common people and opposition parties have ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scrap gay law: HC]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/India-gaylaw.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 2: In a historic judgement, the Delhi High Court has decriminalised homosexuality by striking down section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). 
A bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar said that if not ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Petrol sets Budget agenda!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/petrol-hike.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 1: Now this is what we call a perfect pre-Budget politics. Parliament is resuming business on July 2 and Budget is on July 6. And Petroleum minister has announced the hike in prices of transport fuels; petrol will be dearer by Rs.4 ..]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Badal Jr quits Dy CM post]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Badal-Punjab.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chandigarh, July 1: Sukhbir Singh Badal has resigned as Punjab deputy chief minister, less than six months after being sworn in as second in command to his father Parkash Singh Badal.
Chief Minister Badal confirmed that his son had put in his ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shotgun hits BJP!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Shatrughan-BJP.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kanpur, July 1: After Yashwant Sinha and Arun Jaitley, here comes another threat to the BJP. The actor-turned-politician, who is famous for his punch lines, has just delivered his lines against the saffron party.
Shatrughan 'shot gun' Sinha says ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Meet our 'Minister Blogger']]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Manpreet-blogger.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Chandigarh, July 1: Like Shashi Tharoor, this Punjab minister is riding on Internet waves. Manpreet Singh Badal is blogging his way into cyber popularity and even inviting suggestions for the state budget that he will present next week.
Manpreet, ..]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Will Pranab pull a rabbit out of hat?]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Pranab-Huly.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 1: A veteran, astute politician, Pranab Mukherjee will have to rely on all his experience to literally pull a rabbit out of the hat this time. He has little choice as all his colleagues in the government are banking on his ability to ]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[They are kids too!]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/child-labour.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bangalore, July 1: Irreversible change is possible when children, parents, community groups and local government come together to identify, address and resolve the issues that constrain children. This is what the Karnataka chapter of CRY (Child ...]]></description>
<pubDate>01 Jul 2009</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Human touch to Didi's rail]]></title>
<link>http://www.engageindia.com/news/Mamata-train.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[New Delhi, July 1: Nominal passenger fare revision, incentives on