In a week when election dates for five assembly polls were announced, and when the G-23 within the Congress went a step further in making the internal faultlines public, Babulal Chourasia joined the Congress ahead of civic polls in Madhya Pradesh (MP). It was a …
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Finance Minister R Venkataraman won the hearts of the middle class and the industry by presenting a savings and growth-oriented Budget containing taxation measures of only Rs 271 crore. He sacrificed Rs 115 crore in revenue to free some 14-lakh people from the middle class …
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The Indian economy appears to have turned the corner. After two consecutive quarters of contraction, it grew by 0.4 per cent in the third quarter of the current financial year, according to the second advance estimates released by the National Statistical Office. While these estimates …
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Between January and May each year, India gets to see two “advance” estimates and one “provisional” estimate of GDP growth, as more data becomes available. The revision to the current fiscal year’s contraction from the 7.7 per cent forecast in January to 8 per cent …
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Written by H C Nainwal THE RECENT tragedy in Uttarakhand brought a lot of focus on Himalayan glaciers. But these glaciers have been a subject of intense discussion for the last few decades now because of global warming. Melting of glaciers is one of the …
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‘The offence of sedition cannot be invoked to minister to the wounded vanity of governments.’ The reason why I begin this piece with someone else’s words is because no poet could have said more eloquently what Justice Dharmender Rana said when he gave Disha Ravi …
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Amid the tsunami of FIRs and sedition charges, it is not easy to cherish the spirit of critical enquiry and transform our classrooms into truly dialogic spaces that encourage young minds to think and feel intensely, raise new questions, experiment with truth, and even interrogate …
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