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Administrative Reforms Commission Report on Centre-State Relationships

1969: Federation is never a friction- free form of governance. The reason for this is simple. The functions can seldom match the available resources, which leads to an imbalance between the two, resulting in a never-ending quest for resources from the other level. The mismatch is much more marked in the case of Indian federation. [...]

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Links: Agent Vinod Film Reviews

I have not seen the film, it is releasing today. I will probably not watch it in the theatre. Initial reviews suggest that this film is not going to be a very good commercial success as the film does not have what it takes to make a good thriller/spy film. The film is a remake [...]

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Yuninet group on Yahoo for practical help in Delhi

Yuninet is a closed group of about 7000 members from Delhi and outside India who share information among themselves. It started as a group for help to foreigners but has many Indian members. You can find on this group help related to rent/accommodation search in Delhi, buy sell furniture, computers other goods, buy sell practically [...]

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Photo: SBI ATMs spew out torn notes

See the photos after the text: slightly torn notes (two) as we withdrew 10000 Rupees from the SBI atm. It is not very uncommon hearing people getting spurious (nakli/fake) notes from ATM machines, torn notes, and improperly working ATMs deducting money whimsically. Be careful while using ATMs and check notes after you are done (in [...]

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Request your Hindi poem here

A lot of internet users come on this site searching for Hindi poems, hindi poems for kids, children, school hindi poems, hindi poems on nature, hindi slogans, hindi sms, Hindi posts, funny hindi poem, short hindi poem etc. Just click on the Hindi category link to find some Hindi poems. If you want some lines [...]

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Book Downloading sites like Library.nu and Gigapedia?

Sometime in mid-Feb a consortium of international publishers successfully drove library.nu to shut down operations and the website is no more there (which despite the immorality is a big loss to the international community). So are there other book downloading sites like giga pedia and library.nu? You may read some suggestions on this post though. [...]

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