Editorial

 Prakash Chawla India's macro picture drawn on the canvas of leading economic indicators, including those affecting day-to-day life of a common household, looks far brighter and importantly more focussed than it was three years back when…
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The Last year's Union Budget proposal to make regional defunct small airports operative was a welcome step to boost tourism especially the high income and middle income tourists who would like to have short stint along with promoting…
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A year ago emphasising over development assistance to needy countries India pitched for deeper South-South cooperation including in Africa. Advocating for better donor-recipient relationship, seen as a subtle dig at China, India said it…
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 K V Venkatasubramanian Safe water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are indispensable for human health and progress. Lack of these can seriously impact psychological and social development of communities. The worst sufferers are…
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Dr. Banarsi Lal & Dr. P Sharma Pulses and oilseeds have emerged as the biggest challenge for successive governments in inflation management and forking out billions of dollars on imports. These two commodities disturb the kitchen budget…
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 Dr R Balashankar In three years the Narendra Modi government has secured India's position as the spring board of world economic growth. India is growing at 7.9 per cent when the world is growing at 3.1 per cent. The stock market is…
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The unchecked extraction of sand, stone and gravel from rivers in the periphery of bridges and other structures in Jammu District has today cast a shadow over the safety of such structures. The weakest such spots are the Basantar, Devak and…
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The two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan will fulfill India's long-time desire to attain full membership of the organisation. But, Pakistan's inclusion in the body poses potential difficulties in…
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 Navneet Anand Where are we on poverty? Poverty has always been a painful idea to discuss. For decades, societies and Governments across the world have dealt with this subject with lot of intensity. Policy-makers have introduced varied…
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 Ravinder Jalali The National Investigating Agency (NIA) raided some 32 locations of separatists and businessmen in Kashmir as well as in other parts of India and traced some lines between the separatists and their sponsors across border…
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