President Inaugurates Udyam Sangam-2018 to mark UN SME Day President of India, Ram NathKovind, said that the MSME sector is leveraging the demographic dividend of the countryand promoting inclusive growth in rural and backward areas. He said that MSME sector accounts for around60% employment in India. He said that there are 6.5 crore MSME units […]
Read MoreAn old Kashmir-Jammu dilemma Sadly, this dilemma is something that successive Indian governments have struggled with for many decades. Jammu politics has always cast a long shadow over national politics and complicated the Srinagar-Delhi relationship. The demographic reality of Jammu — as a Hindu majority region within a Muslim majority State, in a Hindu majority nation — […]
Read MoreThe cost of the missing women in Indian politics What can be done to increase female political representation in India? Socio-economic disadvantages and poor female political participation create a vicious cycle that needs to be broken Earlier this month, Spain’s King Felipe VI swore in the country’s new government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. […]
Read Moreमां गंगा की इस भूमि पर, जहां चारधाम स्थित हैं, जहां आदि शंकराचार्य आए, जहां स्वामी विवेकानंद कई बार आए, वहां योग दिवस पर हम सभी का इस तरह एकत्रित होना, किसी सौभाग्य से कम नहीं। उत्तराखंड तो वैसे भी अनेक दशकों से योग का मुख्य केंद्र रहा है। यहां के ये पर्वत स्वत: ही […]
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Read MoreIndia seen leveraging Solar Alliance meeting for foreign policy The first general assembly of International Solar Alliance is expected to be attended by 65 countries that are signatories to the framework agreement The first general assembly of the International Solar Alliance will be held in India this October. The historic event is expected to coincide […]
Read MoreThe G-7 is dead, long live the G-7? It is entirely possible that an entirely new G-7 comprising Australia, Brazil, Canada, European Union, India, Japan and South Korea could emerge The Group of Seven (G-7) nations—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, once a koinonia of the Western liberal model—is dead. It […]
Read MoreSwachh Bharat Mission: A remarkable transformation The large majority of our citizens in rural India, especially the women, no longer have to suffer the indignity of having to go out into the open to defecate. It marks a sea change in the dignity of their daily life On 15 August 2014, we were holidaying in […]
Read MoreGovernment approves chairmanship of home minister for North Eastern Council Cabinet approves Union home minister Rajnath Singh as chairman of the NEC and minister of state (Independent Charge) for DoNER as the council’s vice chairman The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the nomination of the home minister as the ex-officio chairman of the North Eastern […]
Read MoreLateral entry is good, but more is needed Bringing in private sector talent can buttress the bureaucracy but far-reaching reforms are needed to revitalize it On Sunday, the Narendra Modi government took its first step towards fulfilling a goal it had set in 2014. That was when the Centre had mooted the idea of […]
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