PM spells out India’s position on China
I n a recent interview to Newsweek, the Prime Minister, discussing Indo-China relations, commented, “For India, the relationship with China is important and significant.
I n a recent interview to Newsweek, the Prime Minister, discussing Indo-China relations, commented, “For India, the relationship with China is important and significant.
Can the Congress party successfully compel the BJP to confront the daunting realities of price rise and unemployment? While the Congress endeavours to steer the conversation towards these critical issues, it faces an uphill battle against the BJP’s dominant narrative.
As the relentless march of climate change continues to reshape our world, the looming threat to residential property is becoming increasingly apparent.
The manifesto is blissfully silent about the means of financing the costs of its promises, leaving the only option of high fiscal deficits (FD) and consequent heavy borrowing, though it makes a vague promise, without any roadmap, to double the GDP growth in the next 10 years ~ the underlying assumption being that the growth will find the necessary resources.
The General Elections, slated to begin shortly, have begun to resemble a roadside circus, if not theatre of the absurd. Ignoring pressing problems facing the country like poverty, unemployment, inflation and climate change, politicians incessantly talk of issues long buried in history, and worse still, caste, creed and religion.
Prudently and prosaically, I chose to pass my days in the company of the one person I know to be free of toxic viruses or murderous intentions, myself. I will, I decided, pass my winter days by myself, with the aid of written letters, spoken words and lighted screens. If I needed added salve, I would seek comfort from a redoubtable couple, Tequila and Tom Collins. Then came the snow. The mercury had been sinking the last several days.
Why are teachers dissatisfied despite an increase of 11.96 per cent in allocation to education compared with last year’s budget? Education does see an increase in allocation but this is not being used to hire more teachers, despite around 11 lakh pending appointments of teachers to which the budget makes no reference.
Mr Biden described Qurayshi as "the driving force behind the genocide of the Yazidi people in northwestern Iraq in 2014. We all remember the gutwrenching stories of mass slaughters that wiped out entire villages, thousands of women and young girls sold into slavery, rape used as a weapon of war.” Historically, for every terrorist killed, two are born. Thursday’s death will not signify the eclipse of IS, just as Bin Laden’s killing has not meant the end of Al Qaida.
Beyond such exchanges of diplomatic courtesies, Mr Putin told Mr Xi that the China-Russia relationship had “taken on a truly unprecedented character”. The equation had been clouded by Beijing’s treatment of minorities and human rights generally and Russia’s expansionist designs.
Politicians usually prefer policies where benefits are concentrated and costs are diffused famers bills are an example of the opposite kind and in case the FM had so decided, the benefits extended to the poor were likely to fetch votes. But to her credit, she has steered clear of that wasteful trajectory, and in keeping with the governments philosophy, preferred the tougher course instead, by focussing on creating capacity in the economy through a massive boost in capital investment
