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To make India “skilled”, Modi needs to first set primary schools right -Sarojitha Arockiaraj

-Quartz India “If we have to promote the development of our country, then our mission has to be skill development and skilled India,” said prime minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech in 2014. “Millions and millions of Indian youth should acquire the skills… which could contribute towards making India a modern country.” The optimism reflected in the prime minister’s words is encouraging, but is it actually doable? After all, India’s education...

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Bengal Chief Secretary holds meeting with DMs

-The Hindu Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Secretary Basudeb Banerjee held video conferences with District Magistrates on Tuesday to iron out the glitches in the government’s distribution of digital ration cards. The meeting took place at the State Secretariat. The development comes after a number of issues cropped up regarding the implementation of the government’s related initiative including delay in the issuing of digital ration cards and confusion among beneficiaries about the...

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UP police destroyed papers on massacre -Mohammad Ali

-The Hindu Documents on PAC deployment were ‘weeded out’. Meerut (Uttar Pradesh): The Uttar Pradesh police destroyed documents that could have helped to prove the involvement of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel in the Hashimpura massacre of 1987, even while the trial is still pending, it has now emerged. Last year, a Delhi court acquitted 16 PAC men, who were among the 19 charged with abducting 42 members of the minority community...

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The case for full disclosure -Anuradha Raman

-The Hindu Now is a good time to debate the criteria which enables the government to keep secrets instead of making everything public. On January 23, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered on his promise and released 100 files on Subhas Chandra Bose in the presence of the freedom fighter’s family, which has persisted with its demand for declassifying all documents that could shed light on his mysterious disappearance and probable death in...

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‘Nominal increase in Muslims in govt. jobs during MAMata rule’ -Shiv Sahay Singh

-The Hindu Kolkata: For all the claims of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government about the development of minorities in West Bengal, statistics tell a different story. Data revealed by a query under the Right to Information Act (RTI) Act 2005 shows that the number of Muslims employed with the Kolkata Police has increased only by 0.3 per cent in the past eight years, of which the TMC had been at the helm...

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