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Avoidable sacrifices
8 Jan 2016 2:45 AM ISTIt is difficult to comprehend that one of India’s most important forward area Air Force stations, hosting several squadrons of battle-ready aircraft,...
Pending infrastructure projects
6 Jan 2016 2:57 AM ISTWithin six months of the NDA government’s coming to power in May 2014, the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) was moved from the Cabinet Secretariat to be...
Why 2016 may not be any different
2 Jan 2016 2:36 AM ISTThe year 2015 has been challenging for crisis managers across the world trying to tackle terror attacks and disasters – natural as well as man-made –...
Draining dollars abroad
30 Dec 2015 3:16 AM ISTThis is not the first time that foreign education-seeking Indians have been either barred from entering the United States, or locked up there because...
Little comfort here
23 Dec 2015 3:33 AM ISTThere is little to draw comfort for India, the world’s fourth-largest oil importer, from the continuing fall in oil prices. The world crude oil price...
India-Japan economic cooperation
16 Dec 2015 2:54 AM ISTTrust is the key. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems to have finally recognised that India can be fully trusted with technology transfer and...
Towards more government, less governance
3 Dec 2015 3:10 AM ISTDespite promising less government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Central dispensation is only expanding. Departments have increased. With...
Swachh Bharat cess raises big concern
26 Nov 2015 3:28 AM ISTIt seems that a 14 percent Service Tax is not enough for the government to provide a minimum service to keep the country clean. Hence, is the new...
High time to invest in infrastructure
18 Nov 2015 3:10 AM ISTIndia, without the public sector companies like SAIL, BHEL, GAIL, CIL, NPCL, PGCL, NTPC, ONGC, IOC, NHPC, NMDC, HAL, and HSL among other 200-odd...
Modi government in a ‘jam’
11 Nov 2015 4:56 AM ISTFinancial inclusion of the neglected section is alright. So are Swatchh Bharat (Clean India), Clean Ganga, Beti Bachao, Beti Padao (save the girl...
Fair trade?
9 Nov 2015 12:58 AM ISTThe Russian offer to India for resumption of the bilateral barter trade could not come at a more appropriate time than now when India’s exports are...
Winning the real race with China, are we?
2 Nov 2015 1:40 AM ISTHow many years does it take for the government of India to, first, decide on and, then, implement a nuclear power project? The subject is relevant...