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Another Sign of Too Much US Debt: India Trades Dollars for Gold

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:00:59 +0000

With U.S. debt at an all time high and numerous Democratic proposals on the table to raise it further, is it any wonder that countries are getting rid of their dollar stockpiles for something that won’t keep dropping in value? Gold prices yesterday surged to an all-time high after ...

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Gold extends record high on India purchase

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 04:32:53 +0000

Chart: gold Gold prices continued to rise on Wednesday extending the all-time highs which followed India’s central bank bought 200 tonnes of the precious metal, swapping dollars for bullion as the country’s finance minister warned the economies of the US and Europe had “collapsed”. India’s ...

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Gold Prices Hit Record High As India Moves Away From Dollar & Warns of Collapse of US Economy

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

Thanks Barack. India’s central bank bought 200 tons of gold yesterday after the finance minister warned the economies of the US and Europe had collapsed. The Financial Times reported: Gold prices continued to rise on Wednesday extending the all-time highs which followed India’s ...

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Indian Muslims must stop reciting Vande Mataram: fatwa

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:59:00 +0000

NEW DELHI: Darul Uloom Deoband has asked Muslims in India to stop reciting Vande Mataram. Concluding a three-day conference on Tuesday held in Deoband, the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind declared the act unislamic. Home Minister P Chidambaram was also present. The conference adopted 25 resolutions ...

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A Little More On That India Meme, Or The Not-So-Miraculous Indian Economic Miracle

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It's obvious by what I've written in the past ( here and here as well.) that I don't think highly of India's economic prowess, writ large and I don't believe any of the hype when it comes to India's economic miracle. But Quax makes a point about Kerala that deserves further comment. Quax ...

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GOLD HITS RECORD HIGH ON LOSS OF FAITH IN DOLLAR: “Gold prices on Tuesday surged to an all-time hig…

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:24:00 +0000

GOLD HITS RECORD HIGH ON LOSS OF FAITH IN DOLLAR: “Gold prices on Tuesday surged to an all-time high after India’s central bank bought 200 tonnes of the precious metal, swapping dollars for bullion as the country’s finance minister warned the economies of the US and Europe had ...

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'Love Jihad' a misinformation campaign: Kerala Muslim outfits

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Muslim outfits in Kerala said the 'love jihad', under which girls from other religious background are allegedly lured to marriage and converted to Islam, is a "malicious-and misinformation campaign" by Sangh Parivar outfits.

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Bush on bin Laden: ‘I guess he is not dead.’

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Eight years ago, President Bush asserted with great bravado that al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden would be taken “dead or alive.” “I don’t care, dead or alive — either way ,” Bush said at the time. This weekend, while attending a conference of business leaders in New ...

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Bush favours UNSC seat for India

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:16:30 +0000

NEW DELHI: Pitching for a greater role for India globally, former US President George W Bush today favoured its entry into the expanded UN Security Council, which he acknowledged had got caught into political complications over questions like size and criteria. Bush, whose tenure saw a ...

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 7 days ago on timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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EU strikes climate funding deal

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:15:48 +0000

"We can look the others in the eye," said the president of the European Commission, "we Europeans have done our job." But to critics, that job may look only half-done. EU leaders have agreed that developing nations would need $150bn a year to tackle climate change and pledged they would pay ...

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Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:07:27 +0000

Editor’s note : This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa , an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @ vwadhwa . I spent Columbus Day in ...

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Australia Now the World's Largest Per Capita Carbon Emitter

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:19:53 +0000

Australia has been the worst per capita emitter before --and it remains an epic battle between the US. Now, each Australian emits 20.58 tons of carbon every year, according to a new study from Maplecroft --from driving, and from his/her reliance on coal power (how Australia gets the vast ...

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Pakistani Embassy: We're Keeping Close Eye On India-Linked Nozette Spy Case

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:59:21 +0000

The spokesman for the Pakistani Embassy in Washington tells TPMmuckraker that it is watching the espionage case of Stewart Nozette closely following a report that the high-level U.S. government scientist traveled to India with two computer thumb drives in January. "Definitely we have ...

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AFP: Bush says Afghan war must be won to stop 'tyranny'

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:42:31 +0000

3 days ago NEW DELHI Former US president George W. Bush said Saturday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan must be won to stop a return to "brutal tyranny" in the nation. In a wide-ranging speech to a leadership conference in the Indian capital New Delhi, Bush said defeating the ...

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Smart Diplomacy Watch -- By: Mark Steyn

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 01:35:42 +0000

Two stories from The Times of India . One : NEW DELHI: Prime ministerial lunches are rarely fun affairs. People sort of get on with it, and then get on with their lives. Not on Friday. Early in the day, former US president George Bush, on a pleasure trip to India, announced cheerily, “I’m off ...

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U2 On YouTube: Here's How To Watch U2's Live Concert Online

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:49:54 +0000

U2 is streaming their concert tonight from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California live to YouTube. As the site announced earlier this week, some 16 countries will be able to view the show live: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New ...

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Clinton: We’re ‘Not Getting Through’ to Pakistanis

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:09:18 +0000

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced the unenviable task of trying to change U.S.-Pakistani relations for the better during her three-day diplomacy spree in the Middle Eastern nation. However, it was unclear as her visit drew to a close whether she’d made any headway, as she ...

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Emerging Economies Meet in Russia

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:44:18 +0000

From left, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia, President Hu Jintao of China and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India at the first BRIC summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

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