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Given the huge shortage of healthcare professionals and hospital beds, lack of pre and post hospitalization medical facilities at affordable costs, inadequate funding, and non-release of promised budgeted funds even under the…
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Railway accidents not only cause significant loss of lives and severe financial setbacks, but also undermine public confidence in the system. A recent incident near New Jalpaiguri, where a train collided with another, resulting in eleven…
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UNICEF Child Food poverty report 2024 has brought forward startling figures on child malnutrition in India. As per the report 40% of the country’s children suffer from severe food poverty and 36% with moderate to severe food poverty. Our…
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The massive blaze in Kuwait which claimed the lives of 50 people, including 46 Indians, underlines the paramount need to ensure better living and working conditions for them in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Reports have it…
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India’s latest GDP figures could not have come at a better time for the ruling party BJP.. As the final phase of parliamentary voting draws to an end, the GDP figures for 2023-24 at 8.2 per cent show a hefty growth rate of the Indian…
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In response to Israel’s genocidal siege of Gaza, a new progressive effort, the “Reject AIPAC” coalition, is calling on federal candidates to refuse endorsements and contributions from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),…
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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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