International travel guide Lonely Planet has just released its list of top ten cities to visit next year. And Chennai made the cut!
Modi government has to come up with a robust economic agenda to impress the masses.
A relatively dry spell in Chennai and its neighbourhood brought relief to the flood affected residents and rescue agencies, as hopes of water receding fast went up.
High fiscal deficits raise inflation which hits the lowest income and salaried classes.
The larger virtue of maintaining fiscal credibility should not be unduly diluted by quibbles on the fiscal math, says Sajjid Chinoy.
'On the tax front, most of the Budget proposals are sensible'.
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Ayurvedic expert Dr G G Gangadharan on how the ancient Indian medical practice needs to be propagated in the country of its origin
Ministers in the Narendra Modi government have been busy making presentations on their 100 days of work. But what these presentations do not mention is that decisions by ministers have been few, with plenty of papers and files moving to the Prime Minister's Office, which is increasingly emerging as a centralised clearance point, even for routine and ordinary issues. Though policy paralysis was a term used freely for the United Progressive Alliance regime, questions are now being raised about pending decisions across ministries and whether at least some ministers have turned redundant.
FIXES BY THE GOVERNMENT: Energy price fixed, tax issues linger.
AAdhar cannot be successful unless there is proper coordination at the helm.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's opinion piece in Canada's The Globe and Mail focuses on commercial cooperation in the civil nuclear energy sector.
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