-Livemint.com For the people of India and their “faith” in the Sardar Sarovar dam, it’s really a matter of public finance Optics is as air for politicians. It is no different for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and what is commonly known as the Narmada Dam. But even air can sometimes get dense with rhetoric. On 17 September, Modi inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam, the largest project of the Narmada, or Sardar Sarovar Project,...
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Soli Sorabjee, Former Attorney General of India, interviewed by Anuradha Raman (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The former Attorney General about recent Landmark judgments of the Supreme Court, the credibility of the court, and the sedition law Former Attorney General of India, Soli Sorabjee, was given the Padma Vibhushan 15 years back for his defence of the freedom of expression and protection of human rights. Now, at 87, Mr. Sorabjee says he is looking forward to making his arguments in a pending case on Aadhaar. Excerpts...
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-The Hindu Business line THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A US Climate Prediction Centre forecast suggests that the moderate to heavy monsoon conditions would prevail over most parts of the country until the month-end. The latest spell, now almost a week old, is being mainly attributed to the influence of erstwhile typhoon Doksuri that rammed into the Vietnamese coast the other day. TYPHOON REMNANT Westward tracking storms or typhoons in the North-West Pacific/South China Sea have always had...
More »Narmada dam built despite attempts to stop it, says PM -Mahesh Langa
-The Hindu The construction of this dam is an engineering marvel and every engineering student should study it, the Prime Minister says Ahmedabad/ Dabhoi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated the Narmada Dam project to the nation on his Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated the Narmada dam project to the nation on his birthday, calling it Gujarat’s lifeline that has been completed despite many hurdles. Many people had “conspired”...
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-The Indian Express Thomas Piketty points to the widening income disparities that have accompanied economic growth in India, which endanger social stability The paper by Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel, ‘Indian Income Inequality 1922-2014 — From British Raj to Billionaire Raj?’, is now in the public domain. Piketty needs no introduction — his Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been one of the most influential books on economics in the past decade....
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