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Boost growth
PM’s directive to recruit people in ‘mission mode’ will only improve governance, not generate jobs Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to recruit 10 lakh people in various Ministries and departments will go a long way in adding to State capacity. The move should be seen as an endeavour to improve governance,...
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A good turn
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Devil quotes scriptures
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Raining pollution
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Good touch
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Scot-free no more!
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Leaking lab?
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Missing the rain
11 June 2022 | Pioneer
Mere chattel?
Once again, Cong’s Rajasthan MLAs prove that elected representatives obey party managers The Rajasthan Government on Thursday evening suspended internet services in the Amer area of Jaipur district for 12 hours, till 9 am on Friday. One would be anxious to know what happened in that locality. Riots? Some major violent...
Let it go
It’s time to forget the bitterness caused by individuals and focus on rebuilding ties Even as the Nupur Sharma-Naveen Kumar Jindal saga over their controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammad refuses to fold up despite the BJP announcing their suspension-expulsion from the party, diplomatic backlash from mainly Islamic countries and organisations continues...
Beyond rate cut
The most vulnerable sections of society are bearing the brunt of high inflation The rate hike of 50 basis points, or 0.5 per cent, by the Reserve Bank of India was along expected lines. This means that now the repo rate would be 4.9 per cent. Repo rate is the rate at...
Staying alive
Revenge tourism may be an actual thing, but so are the lingering variants of COVID These days, when there’s a lot of talk about hatemongers, religious intolerance, fanaticism and taking revenge on the ‘wrongs’ perpetrated in history with regard to the mandir-masjid controversies, there’s another type of revenge that is being...
Blight on the land
In India, unfortunately, politicking trumps environmental concerns One way of viewing the recently released 2022 Environment Performance Index (EPI), which puts India at the bottom of the ranking, is by dismissing the index as alarmist. The 2022 EPI, prepared by Yale and Columbia University researchers, ranks 180 nations on 40 performance...
Guns blazing
Rahul Gandhi is again trying to carve out a place for the Congress in the Opposition space Fresh from his party’s resounding victory in the recent Kerala byelection on the Thrikkakkara seat, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi seems to have acquired a fresh lease of political bravado and unleashed a multi-layered hydra attack...
Politics of chaddis
The clash over school textbook contents has slipped to new lows in Karnataka Mahatma Gandhi laid a great deal of emphasis on the harmony between means and ends. He likened means to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between their means and the...
