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		<title>Myanmar junta supremo&#8217;s family leaves country</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar junta supremo&#8217;s family leaves countryShyamal Sarkar
 Myanmar&#8217;s junta supremo, Senior General Than Shwe&#8217;s family left the country in the midst of bloody turmoil. Than Shwe holds fort trying to restore order in an anarchic situation spawned by his despotic dictatorship: Our breaking news.
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		<title>Third party motor policy’s turnaround</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNTIL RECENTLY general insurers would not issue third party motor polices in respect of commercial vehicles. While the private sector players bluntly said no, their public sector counterparts did so mostly covertly. This warranted designing a new mechanism to manage third party claims arising from insuring commercial vehicles. The insurer is permitted to retain 10% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=70&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics without Borders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fujimori, two terms President of Peru who is under house arrest in Chile is contesting elections for a parliamentary seat in Japan. Borderless politics seems to have arrived in the world and maybe we Indians need to start adopting it in small doses.
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		<title>Put agriculture in concurrent list to serve farmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although placing agriculture in the State list is actually a legacy of the Government of India Act, 1935 (as is water, entry No.17), it is obvious that leaving the States to their fate in agriculture would tantamount to inviting starvation and famines.By placing agriculture in the Concurrent List, serving farmers and saving farming becomes a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=68&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Shortages: Will they be back ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt for improving the infrastructure government needs to acquire farm land. But by neglecting the reforms in the agricultural sector and focusing only on industrial reforms, are we bringing back the specter of famine and food shortages?When some members questioned the lengthy time frame, the explanation provided was that the land being purchased was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=67&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring Pension Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regulator’s job is not over with just putting in place the architecture for management of pension funds or for that matter, any fund. In the past there have been occasions when not only the regulated but also the regulator has failed miserably.THE MULISH PENSION reforms in the country seem to be gathering pace with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=66&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sky chart showing Venus and Saturn</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stargazers and young astronomers witness a rare celestial conjugation on Sunday as Venus the planet of love courted the ringed Saturn.
Venus is bright in part because it comes closer to Earth than any other planet. Saturn is the most distant world that one can easily see with the unaided eye. These two bright pinpoints in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=65&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three years after the killing, family still awaits justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE FAMILY MEMBERS of Ram Lal, who along with three other porters was allegedly killed in a fake army encounter in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir in April 2004, still cannot come out of the grief and disa sociate themselves from the cherished moments spent with Ram Lal. “The time when Ram Lal left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=64&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Visa for Dr. Amte</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 07:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am no noble human reformer but when the papers reported that Dr. Prakash Amte, the fairly well known son of the legendary Baba Amte who works with his wife in the tribal communities of rural Gadricholi continuing the work of Baba Amte had been denied a visa to go to the USA, I felt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=63&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UP Polls have a message for India</title>
		<link>http://merinews.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/up-polls-have-a-message-for-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 07:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s now a time to think beyond caste-based and vote bank-based politics, especially, at this time when people have voted for security, and law and order, which had completely deteriorated during the Samajwadi Party regime.A section of Muslims concerned about their security and with an intent to keep the BJP away from power, voted for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=merinews.wordpress.com&blog=261864&post=62&subd=merinews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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