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Modi means business – India’s new prime minister is determined to live up to his reputation for smart governance by issuing clear instructions to the bureaucracy to fast-track decision-making. Typically, even as he begins to cut the red tape involved in official processes, he has decided to focus on evolving a clean, hygienic environment for the government officials.
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s first budget in the coming weeks will give some idea of the new direction Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to give the Indian economy. In all …
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The clean-up Ganga project, a long promised plan which has been mired in endless bureaucratic delays and political apathy, looks set to acquire force in days to come. India’s Prime …
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Under the new dispensation of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is necessary to put the India-China border dispute in a correct perspective. Incidentally, 2014 coincides with the centenary of the McMahon line.
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Since March 2014, Internet search giant Google has begun to run encrypted versions of the search engine in China. Currently, nearly all its users are redirected to the encrypted version …
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I remember a friend once asking me on a lazy day in a chickoo orchard, “Do you ever worry that with all the writing you do, you might write yourself …
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While there were a plethora of green pledges on the World Environment Day, India flagged off an online platform to fast-track environmental clearances for industrial and infrastructure projects. Several important …
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Everyone had talked about what the end of the world would look like but few had imagined they would live to see it happen. The speculation was now a reality. There was no sun outside and the rain poured down relentlessly. The glaciers in the Arctic Circle were melting fast and no one could predict what will happen after the rains. Was everyone going to die?
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Since President Rouhani’s election, Iran has made considerable effort towards ‘constructive engagement’ with the Gulf Cooperation Council. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif visited Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and the UAE soon after …
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Syria’s long-standing president Bashar al-Assad is poised for a victory in the just-concluded elections. The US, an arch-critic of the Syrian regime, is not impressed, and has denounced the Syrian …
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