India’s private sector banks are busy drawing up plans to attack pubLIC sector banks in their backyard—rural India—by opening hundreds of new branches. They don’t need to seek the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) nod any more to open branches in smaller towns and large villages, the so-called tier III to VI centres with population below 50,000. The Indian central bank has also permitted private and pubLIC sector banks to...
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Every Breath We Take by Madhu Purnima Kishwar
Why is the government aggressively attacking and destroying inexpensive eco-friendly technologies and promoting pollution-friendly ones? Are we obliged to repeat all the mistakes that the West committed in its pursuit of economic growth? While it makes sense to corner First World countries into investing in eco- friendly technologies to control carbon emissions, as was attempted at Copenhagen, the stand of the Indian government that India cannot afford to enforce better...
More »After judges, babus' assets come under RTI by Viju B
After politicians and judges of Supreme Court, now the assets of babus have been prised open to pubLIC scrutiny. In a landmark order, the Central Information Commission has said that disclosure of information such as assets of a pubLIC servant, routinely collected by the pubLIC authority, should be made available to the pubLIC under the Right to Information Act. Passing the order in a case involving an officer with the...
More »Largest number of premature babies born in Asia and Africa
A new study has shown that a compound extracted from LICorice root, commonly used in candies, can help fight rare, but deadly infections. Eat candies to ward off rare, but deadly infections. A team of scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children have revealed that a compound called glycyrrhizin might be an effective tool in battling life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections resulting from severe burns. The...
More »Kashmir's houseboats in decline by David Loyn
The houseboat industry in Indian-administered Kashmir, one of the jewels in India's tourist crown, is threatened with closure. If it does not clean up its act the courts have threatened to close down the houseboats, which have entertained visitors since British times. The boats are intricately carved and often very spacious, but 20 years of low investment during the insurgency against Indian control of the Kashmir Valley have taken their toll....
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