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Dhoni is right, Virat Kohli should be team’s role model
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's media conference at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, after India beat Pakistan for the 11th time in the ICC tournaments, appeared more like he was addressing his own team-mates. Like a teacher telling his students which…
How 52,911 profitable Indian companies pay nil tax
"Why is it that subsidies going to the well-off are portrayed in a positive manner? Let me give you an example. The total revenue loss from incentives to corporate tax payers was over Rs.62,000 crore. I must confess I am surprised by the…
India-Pakistan relations unlikely to improve: Pakistani politician Syeda Abida Hussain
New Delhi, March 18: Veteran Pakistani politician and former minister Syeda Abida Hussain, who has also served as her country's ambassador to the US, feels that India-Pakistan relations are unlikely to improve any time soon as Modi "would…
Indian government’s health, education spend declines over 2 years
The money allocated for key centrally sponsored social schemes — Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA or universal education programme) and National Health Mission — has declined 10 percent, 7.5 percent…
Online start-ups helping foreign patients get best deals in India
New Delhi, March 10: The surge in foreign patients seeking Indian health facilities for specialised and cost-effective medical care has resulted in the mushrooming of online start-ups that help foreign nationals find the best treatment in…
Five key lessons about women and work in India
While marginally more women work in India than in Pakistan (27 percent and 25 percent, respectively), Pakistan’s female labour-force participation rate is growing and India’s is declining. The percentage of women working in Bangladesh is…
CPI and CPM battle it out to claim Kanhaiya Kumar
By Saeed Naqvi: Kanhaiya Kumar’s genius as a public speaker is self evident from his first speech in JNU on February 11 and the one he made on the campus after returning from Tihar Jail on March 3. The CPI feels it has a legitimate right to…
52 mn Indians may have to depend on rural job plan for 20 years
With a 14-percent rise in funding for the programme run under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the 2016-17 Budget, the world’s largest state-run jobs plan, after a decade of operation, continues to be…
Young tribal woman inspires farming community to better livelihoods in Odisha
Koraput (Odisha), Feb 26: Raimati Ghiuria, a young tribal woman, not only proved to be a leader in conserving local traditional varieties of rice and millet seeds in her own land but also showed the path of development to the farming…
The Daunting Task: Eliminating Poverty from Odisha
By Prasanna Mishra: I have been thinking about why poverty and Odisha seem to be made for each other. The long uninterrupted governance of the present political set up has not improved matters. The state still maintains its second position…