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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Indian government’s plans to unbundle the railways and privatise its key parts mimic the UK privatisation model. Now the UK government has admitted to its failure. India should seriously reconsider whether it should go ahead with its privatisation plans.
The description of Nava Keralam or New Kerala Model, by Thomas Isaac, Kerala’s Finance Minister in the previous Cabinet, has at its core, an infrastructure-led approach: rapid, widespread and extensive construction. Several sane voices in Kerala are urging for a reconsideration of this model.
Despite modernisation, waste management remains one of the most underpaid and dangerous jobs in the country.
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, Meenakshi Moon and Urmila Pawar’s ‘We Also Made History’ details the history of women’s participation in the Dalit movement led by B.R. Ambedkar.
The new policy allows the Centre to claim that it has done what the states asked for, while allowing it to shift blame on the states for shortages. Plus extracts from 3 articles: The Real Cost of Vaccinating Everyone; Serum Institute’s Vaccine Costliest in Global Market; State-Owned Vaccine Manufacturers Sit Idle.
The root problem is the Modi Govt’s obsessive rivalry and one-upmanship vis-a-vis China, to display that India is shining better than China. It is a futile effort, as an original is always worth more than a copy.
The surge in India comes at a time when the world is seeing the first signs of recovery from the yearlong crisis; it has led to renewed global focus on the image-conscious Narendra Modi government.
Eight private jets – four from Mumbai, three from Delhi and one from Ahmedabad – carrying some of India’s super-rich left the country for the United Kingdom and landed at the Luton airport in London on Friday – the day travel restrictions to the UK kicked in.
In a year the GDP contracted 7.7%, as we brace for another round of ‘reverse’ migrations and as farmers wait unheeded at the gates of Delhi, Indian billionaires reached record levels of wealth.
US ships are setting a precedent for other navies to violate Indian territorial seas at will.
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