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The Indian Air Force (IAF) is soon to honour master blaster Sachin Tendulkar with the rank of Honorary Group Captain. According to IAF sources, Air Headquarters has already finalized Tendulkar's name for the honour.

There was considerable debate as to what rank the great batsman should be given. Wing Commander and Squadron Leader were deemed too junior for the national icon, who has played for India for over 20 years. More...

Three Maoists were arrested for attacks on security personnel in the forest areas of Chintalwada in Orissa. This arrest follows just a day after 8 Maoists were killed in the neighbouring state of West Bengal.

The rebels, identified as Budura Padiami, Irma Kabasi and Sarat Behera were involved in several attacks on security personnel including one at Mariwada, he said. They were also involved in an attack on a power house at Balimela and violence during the general elections last year, police said More...

Impoverished parents are putting their children for sale for a few thousand rupees in Karnataka villages a short distance from Bangalore, the country's glitzy IT hub.These children, some even newborns, are being sold with the help of greedy middlemen for Rs 6,000 to Rs 8,000. Those about three and four years old have been given away in exchange for Rs 10,000.

In the last one week alone, six families in Tiptur taluk of Tumkur district sold their children to prosperous families. Expectedly, adoption procedures were not followed in these cases. But the tragic sale of children has brought the focus on another tragedy -- abject poverty. More...

The country's spending on social programmes, aimed at helping the poor, is likely to increase hugely. Problem is, can India afford it? India has appointed several socialist intellectuals and activists to a powerful government policy advisory body, officials said on Monday, signalling the possibility of higher spending on costly social programmes.

The National Advisory Council (NAC) is headed by Sonia Gandhi, powerful chief of the ruling Congress party who is seen as more inclined toward favouring the predominantly rural poor to help boost the party ahead of some key state elections. More...

In a democracy, the call on who may succeed an incumbent remains pertinent at all times. There was the question of after Nehru, who? And so it has been with all leaders. Therefore, it's almost a necessity to ask the same of Manmohan Singh. On the face of it, the answer is not difficult.

Each political party is looking for leaders who are young, who are close to the average age of the country. Leaders who are evolving with the times, are credible and can carry the party with them. In this context, if there is anyone who can fill the shoes of Manmohan Singh after he goes, it is Rahul Gandhi. The AICC general secretary carries the burden of a great legacy, that of the Nehru-Gandhi family. More...

Manmohan Singh had staked the survival of UPA-I to pursue his dream of a breakthrough in relations with the US; he is pursuing a breakthrough in relations with Pakistan in UPA-II though he knows fully well that all odds are against him. He's lonely, but he knows that's how it's meant to be at the top. Singh considered the 2009 victory equally his, as it was Sonia Gandhi's. But it is also proving to be his big challenge.

Unlike UPA-I, when expectations from the patchy alliance were low and every step forward won him a loud round of applause, the Congress-led coalition's return to Raisina Hill had set expectations a trifle too high. It doesn't help that Singh is shackled by compulsions arising out coalition with smaller parties and divergent opinions within the Congress. More...

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