'...to come back to power because it was not doing well.'
'This is happening regardless of the Budget.'
'What the government should do is to use the vaccine judiciously, not just to prevent a third wave alone, but to stop the number of deaths happening in the interim.'
'The entire value of LIC is created by its shareholders because after the initial invest net of Rs 5 crores in 1956, the government has not given any additional capital to the LIC.' 'If the corporation has expanded and emerged as the biggest financial institution in the country, it is only because of the policyholders.'
'The staff student ratio in Kerala medical colleges is already compromised as in the last few years, the Kerala government has taken a decision to admit maximum number of students in all the medical colleges.'
'How can I pursue my dream forgoing my identity? I want to fly as a trans man.'
'They are all the time asking people not to do this, not to do that.' 'Their version of society and Hinduism is very warped; not an inclusive one.'
'The regime -- and particularly the home ministry under Amit Shah -- have sought to suppress and destroy these struggles through intimidation, bullying, threats, through false cases, arrests, custodial torture, the use of draconian laws like the UAPA.'
'Each cyclone has its own identity and its own behaviour based on the environmental conditions in the ocean and in the atmosphere.'
'Both the Centre and the states cannot say that they have been taking good care of public health.'
India tops the world with 11% of global deaths in road accidents while we have only 1% of the world's vehicles.
'Every Congressperson is disillusioned in different degrees.'
'What a saint he was. What a godly person he was.'
''A third wave is very likely to come because infection is still around.' 'But it can be just a ripple.'
'If the government does its job of vaccinating all the population with the booster dose, and also monitoring the virus, and we do our job of wearing a mask and avoiding crowded places, we will be free of this virus in a few months.' time.'
'Simplicity was very much a hallmark of the Kerala lifestyle those days.'
'I told myself, I will be 23 next year. Why can't I be a billionaire too?'
'During the Emergency, it boiled down to two people: Mrs Gandhi and her younger son.' 'But today, the cancer is spreading all over.'
'For the UDF, it will depend on how far Rahul Gandhi will succeed with the goodwill he has.' 'That will make a difference.'
'India should start leveraging rather than banning crypto.'
'Mortality or hospitalisation has not increased in South Africa because of the new variant.' 'There is nothing to show so far that it is more infectious.' 'I am of the opinion that at the moment, there is no reason to panic.'
'We have struggled to pay the rent, we have struggled to pay the electricity bill, we have struggled to send them to school, to buy books and uniforms but there was food on the table every day!'
'That would once and for all teach all the film-makers of this country a fitting lesson!'
'It is high time that we act instead of just talking about how and why the climate is changing.'
'Vaccination is very important for an economy to start functioning properly.'
'...signatures.' 'But such signatures are missing in this virus.'
Arun Kumar is at home after his dramatic escape from violence-hit South Sudan. But he is preparing to return to his business, his life, his 'everything'.
'They must be hiding somewhere in a country where the Taliban would not even spare a 4-year-old girl.'
'There are a lot of companies that have been struggling really hard expecting to do better year after year.' 'All these people will think now, "Let me not fight any more. Let me end this".'
'No matter how much the political pressure is, I cannot say I will bring the Moon for you tomorrow!'
'When people who ignored us, when relatives who have not spoken to us for a long time, congratulated us, it was a proud moment for my mother.'
'We still need a certain number of large public sector banks for financial inclusion and stability purposes.'
'The entire bandwagon of MLAs will move to our side.'
'Where will industry have funds when they open up?'
'We behaved as if this disease is not a problem for India.' 'We acted as if it would go away. But it didn't go away; it exploded.'
'If you want to really grow, it has to be geometric progression like it happened at the Centre or Haryana or Tripura, where you made a quantum jump.' 'This is possible in Kerala provided we present a better alternative with a great leadership, but the current leadership is busy fixing each other.'
'We should start giving this vaccination immediately to doctors, nurses etc and also to the elderly.'
'The vaccine policy should be such that all people should get the vaccine free.'
'If you talk about any kind of equality, you are under attack.'
'This is an issue that is larger than the interests of any one party.'
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