Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) are being held in Pune from 12th October, 08. The work of infrastructural development was way behind schedule. Puneites were convinced that their city will have to face the embarrassment of welcoming participants with half finished works. Participants will need to walk a while for going from anywhere to anywhere. But suddenly miracle happened. Officials of Pune Municipal Corppration took it upon themselves to make impossible happen. What could not happen in four years, happened in four weeks. Officials worked day and night, work continued non-stop. This is an evidence of what our officials are capable of doing when decide to!
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India is launching its unmanned lunar mission on 22nd octber, 08. India is planning to launch its maiden manned space mission by 2015.
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India's first tribal university started at Amarkantak, M.P. Its aim is to promote higher education among Scheduled Tribes.
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TCS buys Citigroup Global Services for $305 mn
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Landowners whose land was being acquired for Reliance MahaMumbai SEZ. After an intense struggle history was made. Maharashtra government agreed to conduct a referendum. It is not improtant here to go into what results it got out, or to go into pros-and-cons of this SEZ etc. What is improtant here is that probably for the first time in independent India government went ahead and conducted a referendum to judge the opinion of people being affected by a project. It is a huge step in democratic movement and in people's right to be party into decision making of their fates, atleast in the projects affecting them.
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India is launching its unmanned lunar mission on 22nd octber, 08. India is planning to launch its maiden manned space mission by 2015.
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India's first tribal university started at Amarkantak, M.P. Its aim is to promote higher education among Scheduled Tribes.
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TCS buys Citigroup Global Services for $305 mn
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Landowners whose land was being acquired for Reliance MahaMumbai SEZ. After an intense struggle history was made. Maharashtra government agreed to conduct a referendum. It is not improtant here to go into what results it got out, or to go into pros-and-cons of this SEZ etc. What is improtant here is that probably for the first time in independent India government went ahead and conducted a referendum to judge the opinion of people being affected by a project. It is a huge step in democratic movement and in people's right to be party into decision making of their fates, atleast in the projects affecting them.
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