Source: http://www.thehindu.com
New Delhi,May 23, 2013

The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association has decried the tendency to recommend names of those advocates who are the sons, daughters, relatives and juniors of former Judges and Chief Justices for appointment as Judges. It appealed to the Chief Justice of India to reject the names of seven persons recommended for appointment as High Court Judges.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com

[Not content with having brought eternal ignominy to Hindu bhumi as the world's largest exporter of beef, this neo-colonialist headed UPA government has signed an MoU for more slaughter of more buffaloes - this time for export to China. If the BJP can win the next election, it must reverse this hideous meat policy - meat as revenue earner and meat as fundamental of our economy. Editor, Vigilonline]

India and China, on Monday, signed a series of memorandum of understandings (MoUs) on pharmaceuticals, buffalo meat and fisheries and an agreement on feed and feed ingredients to address the growing trade deficit.

Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com
Friday, 10 May 2013 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Supreme Court will hear in July the plea of estranged former aide of social activist Teesta Setalvad to continue with the investigation against the latter over alleged fabrication of evidence in a post-Godhra riot incident.

by Upul Joseph Fernando
May 8, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian
Source: http://www.srilankaguardian.org

It is no secret that the assurance the government received that Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will definitely be held in Sri Lanka as scheduled carried India's imprimatur. Speculation as to who in the Indian polity pulled it off for President Mahinda Rajapaksa gained considerable interest in the local political guessing game. Now, it has come to light through sources at the Ministry of External Affairs, the knight in armour, who came to the rescue was none other than Mahinda's erstwhile friend, Pranab Mukherjee, President of India.

May 6, 2013
by Prof Vaidyanathan · in Gold, niticentral.com

India is one of the largest buyers of gold in the world. More than 90 per cent of this is for jeweler purposes. Table 1 gives the purchase of gold for jewellery by different countries. Indian demand is around 25 per cent of global consumption. Recently, the attraction of smuggling has come down due to liberalised import policy. Incidentally, domestic production of gold is very negligible, running into a few tonnes. The purchases made in Saudi Arabia and Gulf states is also mostly by people of Indian origin and to that extent the demand by ‘Indians’ is much larger. What is bought in Gulf states this year by the NRIs (non-resident Indians) will reach here may be in a year or so.