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India: Farmers Committing Suicide in Drought Like Situation

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

As per the assessment of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the average rainfall deficit across the country is about 25% as on 5th August’09. In its first rainfall analysis by IMD in the mid point of 31St July o... more

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SBI Announces Cheapest Home Loans to Improve Market Share

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

The State Bank of India- a public sector and the largest of all Indian banks- announced a home loan (Hi-Five Loan) at 8% of Rs. 5 lakhs for a period of 5 years. It also announced home loans up to Rs.50 lakhs with interest ... more

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CBI Files FIR Against Several Police Officers of Uttarakhand

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

Consequent upon the alleged killing of a 24-year-old MBA graduate Ranbir Singh, by the Uttarakhand police in a falls encounter in Dehra Dun on 3rd July’09, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR on 5t... more

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Spree of Political Killings in Bengal After Parliamentary Polls

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

After the truncation of CPM in particular and Left Front in general in the Parliamentary Elections-2009, political killings are on the rise and Mamata Banerjee of Trinomul Congress (TMC) is as usual blaming CPM for killing... more

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India: Private Airlines Proposed Strike Grounded Before Take Off

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), an association of four big and six smaller airlines, announced today (2nd Aug’09) withdrawal of ‘protest suspension of flights on 18th August’. Bowing under pressure f... more

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India: Aviation Industry on War Path with the Government

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

Private Airlines- which started operating for the first time in 1992, after the Narasimha Rao Goverment’s liberalization move led by the then finance minister Dr.Manmohan Singh- threatened to suspend operations on 18... more

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Indian Navy Receives First Nuclear Submarine

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

After becoming a nuclear power in 1974 by testing a nuclear bomb at Pokhran in Rajasthan, India became a nuclear submarine owner when Indian Navy was handed over a made-in-India nuclear submarine- manufactured at Visakhapa... more

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Left Front Poll Debacle in Bengal: An Objective Analysis

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

This year’s parliamentary election results has been extremely surprising for the Left Front (LF), which has been decimated to 3/7th of their strength of last parliamentary elections in 2004, when the LF won as much a... more

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Demolition of LTTE opens a new chapter in Indian sub-continent

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

Sri Lanka declared a total victory today (18th May’08) in the war against one of the world’s most intractable insurgents, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (which maintained 7000 strong army in full war ... more

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Indian National Congress Wins Parliamentary Elections 2009

Santosh Kumar Agarwal Region: India

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by Indian National Congress (INC) has made it, defying all predictions and assessments. The UPA is set to score around 260 seats requiring a handful of seats to reach the magic fig... more

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Name: Santosh Kumar Agarwal
Member Since: May 2008
Location: India
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Born on 6th Nov,1947 in East Pakistan (Presently Bangladesh), migrated to India along with parents at age one. Brought up in West Bengal province of India. Graduated with Physics Honors from Scottish Church College of Calcutta and later did Master of Technology from Calcutta University securing first class fifth position in electrical engineering. .









I have interest in science and technology, law, social science, politics, religion and work as a social worker also. I can fluently read, write and speak Hindi, English and Bengali apart from a couple of local dialects. .


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