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Budget 2025: Joblessness and Unemployment will haunt Modi government

Written by TN ASHOK India’s finance minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented her 8th budget since 2020, and this time around announced major tax breaks — making people earning up to Rs...

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Among the first of the doyens

Written by Team AS we mark the 95th birthday of a man who made exemplary contribution during his service and subsequently to the society,...

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Black thunder, silver lightning

Written by Vivek Mukherji I was the first one in the family to join the Indian Army. Both my father and grandfather were in...

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Perennial Reformist

Written by Narendra Kaushik NARENDRA Kumar was born on July 10, 1957, in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, in a family deep into poverty. His father...

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Elon Musk launches “America Party” – Can it impact American politics under the two-party system?

Written by TN ASHOK Elon Musk launched recently the America Party after a bitter months long feud with President Donald Trump over the latter’s...

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A lame duck leader and his “langda ghodas”

Written by Renu Mittal After having lost four successive general elections and countless assemblies, Rahul is seen as a lame duck leader by most...

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Failed to deliver but Rahul Gandhi continues to have complete faith in coterie!

Written by Renu Mittal The Opposition Leader of India Rahul Gandhi’s core team consists of men and women who are vetted for their simplicity...

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Environmental Governance in India ISSUES, CONCERNS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Written by Prabhat Kumar Environmental governance is one of the emerging challenges facing the contemporary world. It is the means by which society determines...

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A Kafkaesque trial in our times

Written by Prabhat Kumar IN March 2013, a concerned group of ex-bureaucrats, including some former cabinet secretaries, met then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to...

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Unwelcome Change

Written by Prabhat Kumar Strange are the ways of the government at times. For instance, in the beginning of the twentieth century, the government...

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A tale of two handkerchiefs

Written by MK Kaw Narendra Modi is a leader of the grandiloquent gesture. Prime Ministers of the past, when they won unprecedented victories in...

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Silly Point : A new slogan on Kashmir

Written by MK Kaw IT was with a sense of déjà vu that one heard the new slogan coined by Narendra Modi to delineate...

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Silly Point : Blessed are the poor

Written by MK Kaw THE cognoscenti who keep a sharp lookout on national events must have noticed with suppressed smiles the BJP’s deliberate effort...

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Sindoor Diplomacy: After Flying Drones, Verbal Drones

Written by Alam Srinivas and Anil Tyagi Right from the beginning, the so-called war against terror, a.k.a. Pakistan was mired in mysteries and intrigues. Did Indian...

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Shankar Duo: Father-Son Diplomacy

Written by Team One of the Shankar duos, the powerful, charismatic, and diplomat father, who feels he is the originator of the idea of...

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Kingmaker needs flesh

Written by Team It is quite intriguing to observe how politicians become Cabinet Ministers and Chief Minister. They travel hazardous roads to reach this...

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Dharavi Goldmine

Written by Team Dharavi. The moment one hears the name, a picture of ghastly slums and the den of some dreaded criminals appears in...

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No Women, No Kids. That’s the rules!

Written by Alam Srinivas and Anil Tyagi This is a riddle that not more than 0.001% of those with an IQ of 160-and-plus can figure out....

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A New Newspaper in A Town Of #NewIndia

Written by Team These days the media grapevine in Lutyens’ Delhi is buzzing with the news of coming together of a certain brother-in-law of...

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‘Saffron Nirmala Sitharaman in Hindu office’

Written by Team FM Nirmala Sitharaman, who has presented a record-breaking seven consecutive full-fledged Budgets, plus an Interim one, walks into the newsroom of...

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Is NitishKumar suffering from dementia!

Written by Gfiles Team The whispers are growing into loud decibels. From the streets of Patna, Bihar’s Capital, to the fields of outermost districts...