Micropost: The fortnight that was…

@visaraj alerted us that Justice Dinakaran started his career working under Hon Minister Sh P Chidambarm http://tiny.cc/T9M5G

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Smt Sonia Gandhi was reported as having told MPs that she took the decision to create a separate Telangana state in the “national interest”. This article explains why “National interest should be read as Rahul becoming prime minister”

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Rahul Gandhi was chosen as “Politician of the Year” because “no one toured India the way he has in the past 60 months”

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Swapan Dasgupta alerted us to how the Indian position on Climate Change was being subverted and how our future was “being negotiated by slippery politicians”

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Soli Sorabjee cautioned us on how “the government proposes to introduce a Civil Nuclear Liability Bill that will imposes a cap on liability in blatant defiance of Supreme Court judgments…”

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And I almost forgot, “Dhanush” was successfully launched from INS Subhadra off Orissa. DRDO announced that the 350-km range test met all parameters successfully.

Pic courtesy: Shiv Aroor