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India is fast emerging  as young nation, with immensely talented and energetic youth. Every other day, we read on the demographic dividend India shall reap in the forthcoming years. Thanks to the youth.

India is fast emerging  as young nation, with immensely talented and energetic youth. Every other day, we read on the demographic dividend India shall reap in the forthcoming years. Thanks to the youth.

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Agriculture

Agriculture catches CEO fancies

Agriculture has caught the fancy of the Indian chief executive officers (CEO) They are predicting growth in the industrial scenario with a good rainfall and higher farm yield and rural income.
The CEOs are buoyed by the predictions of the Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP) estimates. It says the sector will have 5.2-5 .7 per cent  growth during the 2013-14 agricultural year (July-June ). During the last financial year, farm sector growth was estimated at 1.9 per cent. In recent years, the fastest growth rate was in 2010-11 , which propelled overall economic growth to 9.3 pr cent.

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Economic Crisis

Inflation is government-stoked; if Indian growth falls it is Dark Diwali all over

One area that has escaped notice of all observers and analysts is the salt. Profits in salt are over 1000 times. Nobody has thought of checking it.


Onion is bringing tears as it touches Rs 100 a kg. Potato has joined the race and sells at Rs 30 to 50. Even internationally Indian inflation and stymied growth are matters of concern. If the perceived growth engine of the world fails, it has to be a dark Diwali beyond the Indian borders, fear international bodies.

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Gossips

Gossips

Naveen Patnaik
Best Chief Minister (according to many including Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger etc) of Orissa (or is it Odisha?) since the state's inception, impeccable, immaculate Naveen Patnaik has so much more to achieve, according to his confidantes-friends-chums-yet-non-aligned-with-his-Biju Janata Dal (BJD), in the coming days, the most important of them being to permanently seal the Congress in Orissa so that it can never ever think of coming back to power in that state. So nippy Naveen is in his mission in that direction these days that he has made friends with his most ardent political rivals including those like Tathagata Satpaty in his BJD. Till that happened, it was taken for guaranted that the likes of Tathagata, presently BJD MP, with the coming days will dissociate with Naveen Patnaik frustarted as they were with his personalized autocratic style of functioning. When Naveen told him and others that he did all that sealing the future of the Congress in Odisha, they accepted him as their unhindered, hasslefree, unilateral leader. Cherubic Naveen is now mighty thrilled with his achievements, veritably impossible. he has also shown to his Congress criotics that he is more matured in Odisha than even their best of leaders in the state who can at best be termed as sheer nincompoops, non-starters, naives, novices at least in Odisha to say the least. Even from-Odisha-hailing Lok Sabha MP, Union Minister AICC Srikant Jena, AICC big shot, former Union Minister, present Odisha MP Bhakta Charan Das are no more any relevant in front of Naveen Patnaik and his BJD.

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Politics

“Both Hindus and Muslims need to fight poverty together instead of fighting themselves.”

Amid serial boomb blast, tens of thousands of BJP supporters, waving the party's saffron flag, streamed into the city in buses and special trains.it was much awaited NAMO rally, in the den of NITISH KUMAR his arch rival. After the BJP had called the snapping of ties by Nitish as a betrayal and has been saying that the people of Bihar will give the JD(U) a suitable reply in 2014 General Elections . Both the parties fought the 2005 and 2010 Assembly elections in alliance and routed the RJD and the Congress.

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Nation

Towards a... New darkness

As the ASI officials start digging the ‘grave’ of enlightened India questions are being asked about the authenticity of the claims made Hindu seer Shobhan Sarkar and the way the government of India jumped into it and engaged ASI in it. For days, it became the favorite on our TV channels and all the bluff masters of  Hindutva were there to justify and interpret ‘dreams’ until Narendra Modi jumped and suggested that the ‘world was laughing at us’.  Word of wisdom by a communal fascist whose party is unable to come out of ‘Ram Temple’ complex and therefore making a bigger joke of itself.

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Politics

Is third front a myth or reality ?

As per the enigmatic leader Naveen Pattnaik , CM , Odisha is very uncomfortable with Modi as a prime ministerial candidate . In a earlier interview , he categorically stated that his party is equidistant from both the BJP and the Congress. “The third front will be a healthy alternative in Indian politics. It is early days and I do not want to speculate,” he said .

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Railways

Challenging task of managing bed rolls on railways!

Supply of bedrolls or linen forms an important passenger amenity in air-conditioned coaches of trains and long distance trains. Management of linen in a particular train is by the owning department of the respective train. Items provided are bed sheets, pillow covers, blankets and face towels. Bed sheets, pillow covers and face towels are washed after every use and blankets on a monthly basis. Presently, washing of linen is done through outsourcing by the Zonal Railways.

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Society

Gopichand: versatile scholar writer

Gopi Chand Narang, one of the outstanding Urdu scholars of India, occupies a prominent place among the critics and linguists of Urdu for the impressively wide range of his study and research. He was the first in India to apply stylistics and structuralism to literary criticism. Being educated and having taught at a number of esteemed institutions of learning in India and abroad, he has developed a healthy cynicism against those who use Urdu for political gains. Narang has often told to his Pakistani friends “do not politicize a language. Urdu is also one of the national languages of India, and not a natural language of even a single region of Pakistan, from Karachi to Lahore and Pesawar to Quetta”. A Professor of Urdu and a National Fellow, he is a many-sided scholar, writer and literary critic, linguist, academic, and a guardian as well as entrepreneur of culture.

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Telangana

Looking beyond Hyderabad for the growth of Telangana

Telangana is set to become the 29th state of India. After much dilly dallying the Congress Party finally approved the formation of Telangana state but before that it had a lot of heart burn among people. New ideas were floated for inclusion of Ananthpur and Kurnool into the new state against the wishes of the Telangana people.  The biggest issue was Hyderabad where a lot of conspiracy theories were working such as declaration of joint capital or union territory, however, it is good that the centre decided to give 10 years period for Andhra Pradesh government to function from Hyderabad and after that it will become the capital city of Telangana alone.

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Youth India

Understanding The Indian Youth

The 2014 assembly elections are to see a 150 million first time voters, lying within the age bracket of 18 to 23 years. These are the voters who account for almost 20% of the participants in the upcoming elections. With an access to internet and widespread communication facilities, this new breed of voters carries a huge potential to decide the fate of the nation. Thus, it seems very obvious on the parts of our leaders to capture the youth sentiments through social media such as twitter, facebook, and others. If you are one of those readers who recognizes himself as a part of the young crowd, then your facebook wall must have already been laden with posts from various political parties citing out their propagandas and demonstrating how they could have been better if they were chosen instead of the presently elected party, and by now you must have yourself twitted a post or two joking on the ongoing political hullabaloo.

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