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8 June 2008
Vandalism Of Tsunami Warning Device In Mid-Sea
Fisheries in India have developed by leaps and bounds. Their growth as an industry is a spectacular feat embracing the entire sub-continent. The history of India’s inshore marine fisheries cultivation dates long back. With its long coastline and extensive riverine and estuarine waters, India has an overwhelming wealth of fish fauna. […]
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1 June 2008
Preplanning Measures To Tackle Water Crisis
The huge and soaring subsidies rendered to the irrigation works, flood control and drainage projects causing fiscal crisis to exchequer have pressurized the govt fund allotments to regulate water management, not adequate and not duly released. Generally any organization would allow fund allotments to a project only if it could provide a reasonable rate […]
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24 May 2008
One more year ahead of 2009
The first incident befallen for coalition govt. was in 1977 and since then, coalition govt. has been a regular feature of Indian polity. In the 13th Lok Sabha elections held in 1999, the BJP headed NDA allies won power and formed ministry and created first time record of full term service. In the 14th Lok […]
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18 May 2008
Incentives to project holders in southern districts
Communalism is an extremely common phenomenon. It is generally associated with plural societies. While in the West communalism alludes to the feeling and a concern for the community, in our state the term has a negative connotation. It is used to designate the process of mobilizing a community to confront another community. […]
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11 May 2008
Let Us Wait For The Outcome Of May 28 Meeting
Generation of electricity around the world remains largely dependent on the burning of fossil fuels. For the past two decades, global warming is seen as the biggest threat to our environment. Almost every month, international conferences are being organized on the topic. Given the prospects of ever rising consumption of fossil fuels for […]
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11 May 2008
T.S. Eliot of the present century
Mr M.S.Thyagarajan, a resident of Nanganallur has a passion for writing, reading and collecting rare books. He is a native of North Arcot District, Arakonam. He completed his school education in Arakonam and did his B.A in the Government Arts College in Chennai. Later he joined the Tamilnadu Electricity Board as a […]
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4 May 2008
Declining Working Population In Agricultural Activities
The benefits of globalisation largely accrue to some areas which are well endowed in terms of resources, some crops which have comparative advantage and some sections of the population that are engaged in producing the export commodities; In other words, the benefits of globalization is not neutral to areas, crops and people. The world is […]
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27 April 2008
Rural Poverty Alleviation Through Infrastructure Development
This is perpetuated by the implicit assumption that the responsibility of providing basic and other services to the common citizen is entirely the State’s. To alleviate poverty in rural areas, much government expenditure had been directed to this end in the name of poor. Almost all infrastructure development activities in rural India had, over the […]
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27 April 2008
Awarded For Outstanding Services To Society
Mr Adrian Vassou, a resident of Ayanavaram, is interested in helping the poor people and is actively involved in many charitable works. Adrian was awarded the prestigious Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award in 2004 on the 8th March 2004 for his outstanding service, achievement and contribution to society. Adrian told the Chennai Plus […]
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20 April 2008
Unprecedented Price Rise Of Commodities
Finance panics, crashes and manics are nothing new, but their magnitudes and the speed at which they arrive are indeed qualitatively a different and politically more dangerous phenomenon. The sense of vulnerability or economic insecurity is arguably greater today than in the earlier periods. The central government is under criticism from its UPA allies as […]