-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The upcoming Budget poses a big challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There are too many demands on the Budget while the Government is expected to stick to its fiscal deficit targets. Traditionally, Modi's Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has been seen to rely on middle-class voters—urban workers and small traders. But Modi's rise to power was fuelled equally by rural voters. Budget 2018-19 being the last full...
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'Plastic is poor man's friend': Padma Shri winner Rajagopalan Vasudevan uses waste to build roads -Vinita Govindarajan
-Scroll.in The ‘Plastic Man of India’ has found a way to reuse plastic waste and to make durable roads. A 73-year-old retired chemistry professor from the Thiagarajar Engineering College in Madurai was on Thursday named as one of the 73 recipients of the Padma Shri, the Government’s fourth highest civilian honour. Rajagopalan Vasudevan is known as the “Plastic Man of India” for devising an innovative way of disposing of plastic waste...
More »2017 witnessed a 38% rise in social media URL blocking -Yuthika Bhargava
-The Hindu Twitter, Facebook and YouTube content was covered by official action A total of 1,329 social media URLs were blocked or removed on the recommendation of a Government committee to deal with “objectionable content” last year till November 2017. This is an increase of nearly 38% from 964 social media URLs blocked or removed for the whole of 2016. URLs that were blocked or removed on account of court orders during the same...
More »Raghuram Rajan opens up on what's working and what's not working for India
-The Economic Times Just after Prime Minister Narendra Modi showcased a democratic and developing India to the global leaders at the annual meet of World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, India's former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan punctured Modi's India pitch. Modi said,"In India, 'Democracy, Demography and Dynamism' together are shaping the country's destiny and leading it towards the path of Devepolment." He also said, "Our Mantra is 'Reform, Perform And Transform." However,...
More »Kashmir's information warriors -Vidya Venkat
-The Hindu Where the citizen-Government gap is bridged by using the RTI Act for administrative reforms April 18, 2014 is a day the shepherds around Budgam town near Srinagar will not forget. This was the day when Tosa Maidan — a vast pasture that shepherds from seven districts traditionally grazed their livestock in — was reclaimed from the Indian Army. Leased out to the Army in 1964, Tosa Maidan or ‘the king of...
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