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Creamy layer
Once again creamy layer is in controversy as far as reservation is concerned and if one takes into account the statutory stipulation of annual income criteria, the policy to exclude OBCs should have been revised from time to time and…
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Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojna
Parul Kalra
The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) is one of the several ambitious social security programmes initiated by Narendra Modi. It is basically a term life insurance policy that can be renewed either on a yearly…
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Ask these Babus what they’ve done to India
Joginder Singh
Bureaucracy is the art of making possible the impossible. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an informal meeting with all Secretaries to the Union Government on April 1, 2015, the agenda on the table was to 'speed up the…
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Wastage or welfarism?
Prasenjit Chowdhury
Across the class divide that is India, the grumbling against the UPA had been that its overemphasis on social welfare and security has led to inflated welfare expenditures at the cost of growth. Because, it is an…
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Black money
The government secured passage of the Black Money Bill in Parliament last week to show that it is serious about fulfilling its promises of toughness on the parallel economy and cover its flanks against allegations of inaction by Opposition.…
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Only Govt to blame
S N Chary
India is a country of many mind-boggling contradictions. It is a nation where 15,000 farmers commit suicide every year; this would be quite a conservative figure as the social stigma and the sense of shame associated with it for…
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Over burdened, oppressed Indian women
Sunaina malik
It is a well known fact that man and woman are two significant wheels of a blissful home. The societal and conjugal life show stunted boom, if either of wheels show deformity. Both the parties are shouldered with equal…
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Endangering ecology
Though Supreme Court has ruled against using politicians photographs in Govt advertisements except President and Prime Minister but on a drive along the highway one can still see the politicians adorning the hoardings claiming their…
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Directionless?
Just one year ago Narendra Modi rode to the Office of Prime Minister on the slogan of 'Minimum government, maximum governance' and today the policies envisaged by the BJP-led NDA Government stand in a static mode with unidirectional pulls.…
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Phutkal River catastrophe
Gurmath Lotos
The Phuktal River blockage finally burst out at morning around 8:00 A.M on 7th Thursday, May 2015. According to eyewitness the power of water flow was so strong and dreadful it washed away chunk of agriculture land, dozens…
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