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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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In 2009, I travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, to follow up on the mysterious case of the Pune-based stud farm owner, Hasan Ali Khan. Khan was accused of stashing a mindboggling $8 billion or Rs 50,000 crore in the Swiss bank, UBS.…
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In what is being widely, boisterously termed in all-level Governmental Bureaucracy as First World’s decades-due assertion on Second World --- precisely, bureaucracy (supercilious, obstinate, self-centred, recalcitrant…
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This time of year, we often find ourselves thinking about the origins of some of our favorite writers:  how they found themselves on the writing path, how they learned. And we’ve been surprised to realize how many successful and…
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At the time when politics in India is subjected to religion, in particular, “ Dalit Politics”, Buddhism is the fastest growing religion among the schedules  castes in  India. Thanks to the untouchability factor and vote bank politics.…
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All too predictable — we seem to have gone through this countless times in recent years. No sooner had the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) issued a circular to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) encouraging them…
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Former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who had lost his ground after being accused of corruption, is now back in a prominent role as the BJP's Karnataka unit president. Is this not double standard? Are we lacking value based…
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Once bitten (kicked instead of bitten, to be precise), twice shy (flagrantly opposite to it, actually) specialising Mukul Roy’s swashbuckling revenge (he was humilatedly kicked out of the party he made/popularized/promoted ; later he was…
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Rape is not 'a romp'. This is something we shouldn't need to say in 2016. And yet recent news coverage makes it clear that we still have a long way to go in reporting on cases of sexual violence without blaming the victim or perpetuating…
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We face the worst humanitarian crisis since WW II and the largest funding crisis More people desperately need humanitarian assistance than at any time since the founding of the United Nations. More warring parties are brazenly violating…
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In the most revealing “exposure” from the Raisina Hill based South Block based all powerful PMO (Prime Minister’s Office), it is now fully clear that despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s crucial all clearance to them, Rs 12,75,877-Cr…
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In what is globally complacently being termed as “all round positive upward looking” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unvanquishable coup de grace, his worldly hit Stand Up India, Start Up India is veritably wooing entire globe…
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