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-M.Y.Siddiqui India witnessed 703 communal riots during the calendar year 2016 in which 86 persons lost their lives and 2321 people injured compared to 752 communal incidents in 2015, 644 communal strife in 2014, 694 in 2013 and 668…
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India is almost ready to implement a unified indirect tax, GST. The businesses are likely to benefit but it needs many more steps to create one market. The growth will spur as many other taxes and tolls need to be re-jigged. The nation has…
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In a decisive move to accomplish twin objective of safeguarding climate and tapping renewable energy resources to meet growing demands for power supply, the Narendra Modi Government, during its first three years of governance, has carried…
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Cashless society is not a new found phenomenon. Decades back, India craved for it with plastic cards. The worldwide trend is to relegate cash transaction and India is not an island. Indian government has been facilitating this trend with a…
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Sometimes a small event turns the course of History.Like a slap on lawyer Gandhi transformed him into a Mahatma and finally to India's freedom from the British rule.Though the peeved Britishers poisoned the process by partition of Pakistan.…
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Demonetisation, stricter Indian government rules and positive US economic figures have led to a fall in gold demand and world prices. But gold remains the most sought after metal across the globe despite losing its sheen since October,…
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ECI unequivocally reiterate that given effective technical and administrative safeguards, EVMs are not temperable and integrity of electoral process is preserved. Since 2000, EVMs have been used in 107 General Elections to State Legislative…
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Indian politico-socio system is complex. The recent five state assembly elections make it more obvious. People have voted for a clean polity and fast economic growth. They have voted for Narendra Modi and they have also voted against those…
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The RBI change in monetary stance has been termed hawkish shocking the stock market and pounding the banks stocks heavily. The industry was expecting an interest cut to come out of the difficult situation of non-payment of their large…
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India is making an attempt to transition to a digital payment, less cash economy. Given that only a meagre percentage of our population pays taxes, the nation’s economy also grows as more and more transactions come under banking and…
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The Padma Awardees List for 2017 has come as a whiff of fresh air. The ‘unsung heroes’ have captured the imagination of the people. They include a) Meenakshi Amma (76), India’s oldest women exponent of Kalaripayttu b) Girish Bharadwaj…
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The note-ban is to change the course of economy and politics in 2017. It has raised aspirations further and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to deliver at a more feverish pitch. The hype on demonetisation has also overshadowed many…
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Good Samaritan initiatives from the governments especially in the context of North East India are often not publicized well in the national media. Generally, the debate ends up either about violence in the north east or about certain…
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Maniyamma, an octogenarian tribal woman of Palakkayam colony in Chaliyargrama panchayat used to struggle with books and slates in her endeavour to become a neo-literate. But a ‘talking pen’ which reproduces the sound of a written text made…
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Mercurial Narendra Modi mitigates water-dry in Saurashtra via SAUNI (Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation), an ambitious plan to fill 115 reservoirs in water-scarce Saurashtra with waters of overflowing Narmada thereby evincing…
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Even prior to Gandhiji’s Champaran Satyagraha, VOC led a movement by working class in Tamil Nadu and thus he is a forerunner to Gandhiji in this respect. The role played by Vallinayagam Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai,…
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In the most revealing elucidating bare-for-the-first-time-fact from Union Minister Arun Jaitley headed Corporate Affairs till now, TATA is incharge of India Inc Ministry, its out that since 1951 carrying on.  leaving other…
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The recent stress by prime minister Narendra Modi on agriculture for creation of jobs is welcome as NITI Ayog deputy chairman Aravind Panagariya only a few days back said there was under-employment in the farm sector. The…
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The goods and services tax (GST) is projected to set a new dimension in taxes through a supposed uniform rate across the country – something any country would have. Ideally it should be treating all states as equals and usher in a…
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My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. Unrest - the whole valley is crying since independence. After the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani Kasmir caught fire again. The dispute is…
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(New)Delhi’s Pride (he being an out-n-out Delhiite) , Gujarat’s MP, Bureucrats-of-all-hues loving Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says $ 1.5 Trillion is required for the ongoing infrastructure in India. “India needs over $1.5…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomacy is paying. He has declared not only to “work shoulder to shoulder” with the US but also brought Switzeraland, Mexico, Qatar and Afghanistan closer to his fight against terrorism and bid to…
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The recently concluded one month long Simhasta Kumbh,  traditional assembling of millions of religiously charged devotees in Ujjain to fulfil the long cherished desire of getting Moksha i.e. getting rid of trapping in the endless…
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*PM Modi highlighted his government's key achievements over last two years *PM accused the opposition of creating "false atmosphere of despondency" 2019, before pronouncement of Parliament Elections…1825 days or 5 years over…
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The results of the five State Assemblies which went to poll in the last two months are on expected lines. The most important political analysis emerging from the results is a significant setback to the Congress party.  It lost…
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