tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post877052375919214595..comments2024-03-24T12:52:31.153+05:30Comments on Shadow Warrior: border issue - Let's talk, says China, with feet in ArunachalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-78721386914216444002007-06-01T15:28:00.000+05:302007-06-01T15:28:00.000+05:30I have a better title:border issue - Let's talk, s...I have a better title:<BR/>border issue - Let's talk, says China, with one foot on your arseramanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01201426649625122325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-56212636034975413672007-06-01T11:01:00.000+05:302007-06-01T11:01:00.000+05:30The most ridiculous thing I have read in the past ...The most ridiculous thing I have read in the past one year<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/How_Meenas_got_ST_status/articleshow/2087874.cms" REL="nofollow">How Meenas got ST status</A><BR/><BR/><B>A simple comma changing the entire profile of a community! It may sound unbelievable, but this is what happened in the report of the National SC/ST Commission, set up in 1954</B>, which saw the Meenas, a rich land-owning community mainly inhabiting the western districts of Rajasthan, being conferred the ST status.<BR/><BR/> The commission <B>wanted to recommend ST status to ‘Bhil Meenas’,</B> a community dotting the south-eastern parts of Rajasthan and adjoining areas in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. However, the printed version of the report, <B>by mistake</B> advocated granting ST status to <B>“Bhil, Meenas”.</B> Thus Meenas were also inducted into the ST list.<BR/><BR/>Truly Kafkaesque<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/TOIonline/India/Rajasthan_corners_chunk_of_ST_quota/articleshow/2087943.cms" REL="nofollow">Rajasthan corners chunk of ST quota</A>habchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234410242846200850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-39820351177488357782007-06-01T10:53:00.000+05:302007-06-01T10:53:00.000+05:30OT,Cairn in for crude shock Discussions on evacuat...OT,<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Business/India_Business/Cairn_in_for_crude_shock/articleshow/2087960.cms" REL="nofollow">Cairn in for crude shock</A><BR/> Discussions on evacuation plans have been on for over a year. Initially, Cairn's 30% partner in the field — state-owned ONGC — pushed for a refinery to process the crude in the state. <B>This was scrapped on ground of unviability after UPA gained power at the Centre as it did not want to allow political mileage to the state government.</B><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?autono=286209&leftnm=3&subLeft=0&chkFlg=" REL="nofollow">Refinery plans may delay Cairn`s Rajasthan output</A><BR/>Even as the Rs 8,000-crore refinery will take at least four years to build, the ministry has withheld approval to a pipeline for taking the crude to the refiners in Gujarat. In all, total revenue of the government is projected to decline to $6.27 billion from $11.16 billion — a loss of nearly $5 billion.habchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234410242846200850noreply@blogger.com