Salient features of the election manifestos of three major national parties.

Performance, promises and prospects: A comparison of the election manifestos of the Congress, the BJP and the CPI(M).

Pakistan is currently spending as low as 15 dollars per capita per year on health from both domestic public and private sources and from international development assistance, says a new study published by the Asian Development Bank.

Kaushik Chakravarthy, Bangalore, DH News Service:
The notice clearly states that the Central government will withhold the funds if the 100 percent completion reports of the civil works undertaken in 2007-08 are not sent.

The Sindh government plans to open 1,000 private schools in the first phase of a project it claims is designed to provide quality education to children in marginalised parts of the province.

The head of Edinburgh University Business Schoo l is intrigued by a fundamental question: why do business school academics not spin out more businesses?

Nick Oliver raises the issue as Edinburgh reveals it has secured significant investment from Haymarket Media Group to support its ambition to become a leading centre for studying the business implications of climate change.

SALEM: Periyar University Vice-Chancellor M. Thangaraju has called upon the younger generation to remain disciplined while striving to improve their knowledge.

Former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda's constituency Hassan, which also happens to be his home district, is quite possibly one of the best nurtured electoral regions in Karnataka. His rivals in the Congress and bjp concede that if development alone were the criterion, he and his family would
win the seat for decades to come.

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