Now, a green fund
The Finance Commission must be lauded for including forest cover in the mix for allocation of tax resources. States must respect this and do their bit in conserving it One of the keys to improving Centre-State relations and ensuring development is even-handed and judicious distribution of tax revenue and other forms...
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Don’t write the Congress off yet
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What lies ahead for social sector
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Use AI to fight pandemics
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Pay taxes for a developed nation
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A win-win for Modi and Trump
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Make your choice
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Smashing heads
18 February 2020 | Pioneer
Lead from the front
SC allows women officers to get command positions in the Army and quashes use of gender stereotypes as an argument Thanks to the Supreme Court, women officers in the Army can now get command positions at par with male officers and break the glass ceiling in the forces. In non-combat roles...
Pseudo-Caliphate and India
By throwing his weight behind Islamabad on the Kashmir issue, Erdogan unambiguously signalled his intention to emerge as the imam of the new Caliphate he hopes to lead Even if we overlook the facts about which nation is “occupying” Kashmir, by stating that there is “no difference between Gallipoli and...
Re-engineering solutions
AICTE report on 50 per cent vacancies in engineering colleges shows why we need job-ready courses Who would have imagined that engineering, the most sought after discipline in India, would lose traction? Or so it seems going by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) report, which says that almost...
Vodagone?
The telecom industry needs a level-playing field to take a giant leap towards exploring newer technologies The telecom industry has undergone a fundamental change in recent times. Easy and ubiquitous access to voice and data services has transformed several industries, including the media. Yet, the controversy surrounding the Adjusted Gross Revenue...
People’s nationalism
If AAP uses its power and manages to make neo-socialist logic visceral and granular to concerns of everyday life, it could transfer the ownership of nationalism to the citizens instead of politicians Has the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), with its comprehensive home run at the Delhi Assembly elections, managed to carve...
Are we proud of ourselves now?
Dr Khan was voicing the feelings of many Indian Muslims who have the impression that the Government is anti-minority. No doubt his speech was strongly emotional but surely in a democracy people should be allowed to vent some steam Dr Kafeel Khan is a medical practitioner who did his MBBS and...
Revisiting the fundamentals
The world has progressed exponentially but the way forward is to select carefully from the creative method that applies to one’s context The world progresses because it has pioneers. To be deemed a pioneer, a person must be able to do something which was never quite done before. It may be...
