-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Money power seems to have emerged the winner again in this round of Haryana assembly elections with an overwhelming 83% of the winning candidates part of the crorepati club. About 75 of the 90 newly elected MLAs in Haryana are crorepatis with BJP leading the pack. Forty of its legislators boast of assets in excess of Rs 1 crore. Though the total number of criminal netas...
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Round-the-clock veterinary services -EM Manoj
-The Hindu Kalpetta (Kerala): The Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) is preparing to execute an innovative project, ‘e-Vet connect,' for the farming community in the State. The project envisages providing 24-hour veterinary service to the farming community across the State at just a phone call, says B. Ashok, Vice Chancellor, KVASU. In the first phase, the project will be launched in the Kalpetta, Ollur, and the Thrissur Assembly constituencies by...
More »India home to 1 in 3 of the world's poor in 2011
-The Business Standard World Bank-IMF study, however, says pace of reduction in absolute poverty has been substantial; report stresses skills training for youth India was home to about a third of the world's poor in 2011, according to a progress report on various social indicators from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued on Wednesday. In other words, the highest number of the poor lived in India in...
More »The barefoot government -Bunker Roy
-The Indian Express A government shorn of Western educated ministers could change the status quo. Since 1947, Indians have not spoken out so strongly and clearly for a completely new brand of people running government. Mercifully, there are no ministers educated abroad. Thankfully, none of them has been brainwashed at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, the World Bank or the IMF, subtly forcing expensive Western solutions on typically Indian problems at the cost of...
More »Corruption in Indian Medicine Or ‘Overenthusiasm of the Marketing Department -Sanjay Nagral
-Economic and Political Weekly Corruption in Indian medicine is back on the front pages. One would think that there has been an abrupt spurt in corrupt practices or a major scandal. Nothing of that sort has happened. However, there have been some interesting developments for the focus to shift back to what is really a very old affliction. This is an update on recent happenings as the entrepreneurial spirit of the...
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