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By Dr Ranjith Reddy ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ reverberated through the country in yesteryears and since then successive governments have been formulating policies and programmes around this slogan. India is an agrarian country and the government of the day has the constitutional mandate to protect and preserve the boundaries of the nation. Whichever government tried […]
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By Lt Gen P R Shankar (retd) The ‘Agnipath’ is going through a severe ‘Agni Pariksha’. The acid test of any military transformation of such nature must be the effect on the operational ability of our cutting-edge fighting units. If the transformation enables and empowers the frontline units and enhances the security of the nation, […]
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By Pendyala Mangala Devi In States ruled by opposition parties, the Governors there often say the Constitution has given them powers to serve the public directly, and no one can stop them from doing so. Constitutional experts view this statement as unconstitutional. Constituent Assembly The Constituent Assembly discussed in detail the role and functions of […]
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By B Sambamurthy India has been striving hard to accelerate the growth of the manufacturing sector. There has been no surfeit of initiatives by governments over the last two decades. But the results are suboptimal. The share of manufacturing, which was about 15% of the GDP during 2000, crawled over the next two decades to […]
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By M Krishnan, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan Agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture startups are no more a preserve of entrepreneurs with an academic background in these core disciplines. They are well populated by cross-discipline incubates that include computer engineers and business graduates with skills in disruptive technologies. These positive blips were seen while evaluating startup project proposals […]
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By B Yerram Raju The history of economics of nations reminds us that every nation on its growth trajectory found corruption, frauds, scams and unethical practices. Those that crossed these barriers through smart surveillance grew fast and big. However, in democracies like India, where people did not find the money for two-and-a-half centuries of British […]
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By Dr Sonal Mobar Roy Catering to the needs of millions of people in the country, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme (MGNREGS) is one of India’s flagship social protection programmes. It is the largest labour guarantee scheme in the world, offering 100 days of paid labour to every rural household. The origin […]
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By Arun Sinha The Kashmir Files, the film centred on the exodus of Hindus from Jammu & Kashmir at the height of the separatist militancy in the 1990s, drew a picture of the then prevailing environment, which can be encapsulated as follows: one, the Central government was totally indifferent to the slaughter and sufferings of […]
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By Sarah Schiffling, Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos Twenty million tonnes of grain are currently stuck in Ukrainian silos, exacerbating the global food crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of the country. Aside from the need to get the grain onto world markets, freeing up storage space will be crucial to make room ahead of the country’s next […]
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By Tej Singh Kardam In one of the United Nations water conferences, the United Nations Organization passed a resolution, which says; “All the people, whatever their stage of development and their social and economic conditions, have the right to have access to drinking water in quantum and of quality equal to their basic needs”. The […]
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By Amitava Mukherjee Imran Khan knows it very well that the coalition government in Pakistan led by Shahbaz Sharif is now walking on thin ice. Although the present government has expressed its intention to complete the full term of the National Assembly, it will always remain open to inner contradictions. At this juncture, any astute […]
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By Seela Subba Rao Prior to 2003, banks were not allowed to take up ‘insurance’ as a permissible form of business. Subsequently, they were permitted to undertake referral activities such as insurance business. Consequent to the announcement by the then Finance Minister in the Budget speech 2013-14 to permit banks as insurance brokers, the Reserve […]
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In this changing world order, a strong united South Asia can make a difference and give weight to developing countries’ voices
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By Dr Vanishree Joseph, Dr NV Madhuri Anaemia is one of the major dietary deficiencies in India, with preschool children and teenage girls, as well as pregnant and lactating mothers, being the most vulnerable groups. The primary cause of anaemia is the inadequate intake of iron-rich food. Household size, education level and other infectious diseases […]
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Hyderabad: Two days before he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin in his long-winded, unhinged and bizarre speech while expressing his grievances against the West for its eastward expansion of NATO allegedly threatening Russia’s security, dismissed Ukraine’s existence as a state, stating it was a fiction and created by Lenin in 1922. […]
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By JR Janumpalli June 2, 2022, marks the eighth anniversary of Telangana State’s formation. In these 8 years, the State’s forward march was very eventful and inspiring. For a region which was denied its statehood for six decades, forced to be in the company of a majority region and was fighting with its back to […]
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By Krishank Manne After a visit to Hyderabad and Chennai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28 landed in Gujarat to inaugurate the world’s first Nano Urea Liquid plant. Last April, Modi visited Gujarat to launch projects worth Rs 20,000 crore, including the laying of a foundation stone for the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine, […]
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By Dr Ranjith Reddy The process of formulating one-nation-one-tax started long ago but reached its logical conclusion by bringing the entire country under a unified indirect taxation system and, at the stroke of midnight of June 30/July 1st, GST, the biggest and landmark indirect tax reform in Independent India, became a reality. Prime Minister Narendra […]
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By Arun Sinha There is a clear pattern in the way governors have been behaving with the governments in States. The governors in the BJP-ruled States have a warm, lovey-dovey relationship with their governments. In States where opposition parties friendly to the Modi government are ruling — such as Odisha and Andhra Pradesh — the […]
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By Ranabir Samaddar Former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere once said: “When the elephants fight, the grasshoppers die; when the elephants make love the grasshoppers die.” It’s through this lens that many in the global South are watching the war in Ukraine, a European war that while distant, is driving a rethink of what it means […]
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By Pramod K Nayar Girish Karnad, one of our most significant playwrights, pondered on the intricacies of transposed heads in Hayavadana. From a different context, Thomas Mann’s ‘The Transposed Heads’ (1940), set in India, was a precursor text. Mann and Karnad’s exploration of identity and belonging are not simply myth reworked, at least not since […]
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By Adrianus Harsawaskita If the ancient Greeks are to be believed, the rivalry between the current great powers, America and China, will lead to war. American political scientist, Graham Allison popularised the situation as ‘Thucydides’s Trap’. In a 2013 article for the New York Times, he lamented the “dynamic inherent when a rising power becomes […]
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The Chinese are far more able to prosecute an ideological conflict than a military one
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By Siddiq Wahid The world is at an inflection point. The war in Ukraine shows no signs of abating, and the principals in the ‘new’ cold war, are asking other states to choose a side. The challenges for India are daunting. How can it contribute to world events in proportion to its demographic bulk, its […]
