-AFP The world's young increasingly fear a future without jobs, according to a UN report released Monday which highlighted how the 15-30 age group risks becoming the biggest victims of austerity programs. The young doubt the education they receive will fully arm them for professional life, said the World Youth Report which questioned about 1,000 people for its study. "Young people questioned the quality of education they and their peers receive, whether or...
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Guardians of faith by Purnima S Tripathi
In Chhattisgarh, Hindutva manifests itself in the form of attacks on Christians; in Uttarakhand it does so in the form of promoting Sanskrit. IN Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand, States ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindutva agenda may not be strident, but the Sangh Parivar orientation is unmistakable in various government policies and programmes. While in Uttarakhand the party places much emphasis on gau mata (bovine goddess) and the teaching of...
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Central pension plan NPS finally gets a boost The ‘New’ NPS Measure: Improve incentives for distributors. Has been recently implemented. Impact: Was required. But won’t be enough, need consumer education to build volumes. Proposal: Increase fund management fees with an option to lower later. Impact: Under consideration. But finance ministry unhappy with increase in costs. Proposal: Relax the norms to appoint more fund managers to increase distribution. Impact: Unlikely. At...
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Like many board games that were developed in India, of which chess is perhaps the most important and famous, the game of “snakes and ladders” too emerged in this country a long time ago. With its balancing of snakes that pull you down and ladders that take you up, this game has been used again and again as a metaphor for life, telling us about our fortunes and misfortunes, and...
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Is the majority of India veg or non-veg? Well, contrary to impression, the land of Gandhi and Buddha is predominantly non-veg. It may well have been majority vegetarian country at some point of time but the new trend is that more and more people are taking to non-vegetarian diets. A new policy paper, “Veg or Non-Veg? India at the Crossroads,” published by Brighter Green, a New York-based public policy action...
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