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Thursday, July 04, 2013

Thursday, 20th june, 2012

HEADLINES
  • India concerned at the funds mentioned in pakistani budget for JuD
  • Afganistan suspends security talks with America
  • NASA's cassini space craft to photograph earth from saturn
NATIONAL NEWS
  • India pakistan granted more time to file submissions to kishanganga
    • India and Pakistan have been granted a two-day extension for filing their submissions on the additional information sought by the Court of Arbitration in The Hague on the dispute between them over the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project, which is under construction in Baramullah district North Kashmir.
  • Study favours citizenship for Srilankan refugees
    • An academic study undertaken in refugee camps for Sri Lankan Tamils in the State makes a case for granting them Indian citizenship as a human obligation
    • Although the State government has been providing them with temporary housing, free medical care, and education up to secondary level, cash doles, subsidised rice, clothing material and utensils, for their survival, employability remains a problem in the absence of social integration and they face an uncertain future without citizenship
    • Unlike in Canada, European countries, and Australia, India was reluctant to integrate the refugees into society
  • Sports plus initiative.
    • The aim of the ‘Sports Plus Initiative’ is to train talented children from the President’s Estate in different games using the sports facilities at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
OPINION/EDITORIALS

  • Article on the art of managing the differences
  • Nithish kumar article on the idea of India
  • Another article on the appointment of juges
  • Editorial on the scheduled Taliban Afganistan talks
  • Important article on defeating terror and enforcing peace by french ambassador to Mali

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