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Bolstering the ‘Clean India’ initiative, the World Bank has approved a USD 1.5 billion to support the government in its efforts to ensure all citizens in rural areas have access to improved sanitation and end …
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Heavy torrential rains in the past few days in southern India’s largest metropolitan city Chennai have brought the vibrant city to a standstill. The rains are said to be the heaviest in the last century. The Indian Army has been deployed for round-the-clock rescue and relief operations. As the Indian Meteorological Department forecast more rains over the next three days, leading Indian environment experts attending the Paris climate change summit have speculated that the crisis is the ‘full-blown impact’ of global warming.
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‘Rising Intolerance’ is the much-trumpeted buzzword these days. One can scarcely switch on a private TV channel and not find it engaged in vigorous and passionate discussions, debates and arguments on this contentious issue.
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With his critics and political detractors trying to corner him on account of rising incidents of intolerance in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stressed on freedom of religion and underlined that ““India first” was the government’s only religion and the Constitution was its scripture
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The World Bank’s $1 billion support for skill training to over 5 million people in India is a boost for the country’s ongoing drive to train more people and make …
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It was a question he may have expected while preparing for his trip to India as the leader of the world’s largest democracy, and not surprisingly his answer was well-rehearsed.
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At first knock, the temptation for all stake-holders, particularly the non-Hindutva sections of the ruling BJP, would be to blame it all on the recent streak of ‘intolerance’ that has been sneaked into the nation’s body-politic and media discourse all over again.
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It was a Sad Sunday for the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as what was touted as a photo-finish electoral contest turned into a clear victory for the Grand Alliance led by incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the Hindi heartland state of Bihar.
As the counting began early Sunday morning, initial leads suggested the BJP-led NDA leading in more seats than its rivals, but the premature euphoria and celebrations turned into gloom and doom for the ruling party at the Centre, with the final phase of the counting showing the Grand Alliance leading in more than 150 seats. The alliance look set to get nearly double the seats secured by the BJP-led alliance in Bihar.
Independent of the validity of the across-the-board arguments favouring transparency and accountability in judicial appoints all-round, India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley might have over-stated his position and that of the government by publicly questioning the ‘tyranny of the unelected’ as ‘flawed’ and against the ‘basic structure’ of the Constitution.
Read MoreIn a fitting tribute to Indian soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for the country post- independence, the Union cabinet has approved construction of a ‘National War Memorial’ in New …
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