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Restricting movement of people from the rest of the country in some tribal-dominated States is not logical
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Filling vacancies in State govt will help, especially given the provision of 33% reservation for women in these jobs
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The Capitol raid shows that the founding principles and core democratic values of America have begun to crumble
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If the new farm laws are good for everybody, where was the need for secrecy and haste in passing them?
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Whatever the reality behind Jack Ma’s govt relations, the actions are part of steps by Beijing to increase tech regulation
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Seeing populism as a result of people feeling disconnected, disrespected will help in stemming its rise
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Both on and offline shopping need to provide a wider choice as well as ‘Trust’ and ‘Vast’ to the new generation
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This office will bring in the expertise required to scrutinise the demand for various grants objectively
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As the virus evades borders, the characteristic tropes to describe the year just done, must be motility and speed
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Creation of actuarial credit risk reserve instead of a bad bank is a more feasible option
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Any push down the Chumbi Valley and then control of the Siliguri corridor will cut off the northeastern States
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Though divided by race, nationality and political affiliation, we are all human beings, and deserve to be cared for
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This is the right to time to sift our responses to the pandemic and use the experience to move ahead
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The Modi govt has made anti-corruption Acts ineffective while its own steps are either disastrous or nonstarters
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A crisis produces its own folk devils, and currently these are Pfizer, Bill Gates and Covid vaccines
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Eleven years have elapsed since Polavaram was cleared but the Centre is yet to implement the Tribunal Award
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Government should shed its rigidity and find a middle ground accommodating farmers’ aspirations
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Now a tangible solution would be to make amendments and provide assurances to farmers, particularly on MSP and APMCs
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Under PDPS, farmers are paid the difference between MSP and the model price of the market, without actual procurement
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Chinese dams on the Brahmaputra will significantly cut water to Assam and can inundate the Northeast
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Just as ‘guna’ and ‘karma’ are not fixed by birth, caste too should not be assigned based on heredity
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Subjecting constitutional changes approved by Parliament to a mandatory public referendum should be the wayte
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Wasteland was what home was not but is creeping in now with impossible pollution levels and progressive desertification
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The power behind the throne in the republic is the appointed institutions and it must be exercised in “public interest”
