'80% of the rural and urban population don't have enough purchasing power.'
'Nirmalaji must consider herself a very lucky finance minister, partly because of the government's response to covid and partly because we as a nation have done very well as an economy, post pandemic.'
'The prime minister in a way defeated the ill-designs of separatist forces.'
'It will be important strategically and geographically because there is no port in India which is as close to the international shipping route as Vizhinjam.'
'The finance minister said, the MSME is the backbone of the economy. My question is, what have you done for the sector?'
'Everybody thought I was crazy to quit my job and jump into entrepreneurship.'
'She won the first prize in the state for chanting shlokas from the Gita.'
'Revanth Reddy mounted a spirited campaign in Telangana which turned around the fortunes of the Congress in six months.'
'The government or the ruling party has indicated indirectly that you are not supposed to publish anything critical of the government or the senior functionaries of the government.'
'You declare a date, time and place for the landing two months in advance and exactly at that moment, it touched on the moon.'
The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Thursday confirmed they have suspended the IPL title sponsorship deal with Chinese mobile giant VIVO for this year's Indian Premier League amid widespread anti-China sentiment in India.
'If we get a hearing soon, I am hundred percent sure he would be a free man as they do not have any evidence against him.'
'What do they gain from making the lives of three children miserable?' 'What do they gain from making a wife cry day and night?'
'India's output contraction in the previous year was among the worst in the world!'
'I am the senior most Congress party leader from Kerala, and I don't know why I am sidelined.'
'When I was toying with 10 different ideas, my father was diagnosed with lung fibrosis and his condition deteriorated so badly that we lost him in six months. He was very unsatisfied with the lack of proper diagnosis.' 'It made me think will anyone do a biopsy if there is no symptom? Why is it that we do not have any non-invasive diagnostic method?' 'This idea was the strongest out of the ten, and with Snahlata Singh with her cancer biology background joining me, the idea got a real boost.'
'It's a clear case of political patronage helping an individual grow.'
Renowned saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath remembers the 10-year-old he first met at his guru's place.
'Maybe the State wants to be watching people all the time. But when they are watching, others too may be watching!' 'The State is becoming more and more secretive while throwing people to the wolves.'
'They have brought out a provision whereby the medium of education in the Hindi speaking states will be Hindi even in higher education institutions like IIT, IIM, etc.' 'Think about the students from the south who get admission in the IITs in Kanpur or Delhi or the IIMs in various places.'
'Just think of this innocent man who had to suffer so much.' 'Who will compensate for the physical and mental torture Kappan had to go through in the last two years though he has not done any crime?'
'Whatever is left of all institutions will also go away.'
'In India, the establishment not only endorses, but many a times instigates anti-Muslim hatred.'
'They are also sitting on huge public sector assets without many returns.'
'I have saved your name on my phone, but I cannot read or pronounce it.' 'I am able to recognise my wife's name today because after seeing it for so long, it has been imprinted in my mind as a picture and not the letters.'
'I started looking at the raw images put out by NASA 10-12 years ago.'
'This plan is basically to allow some of the government assets for rent, and surely not for sale.' 'There is a difference between selling a house and renting out a house.'
'His last journey was like putting out the lamps one by one in a temple at night.' 'It was like the soul slowly walking away from the body; it was so pure and peaceful...'
'One thing about ISRO is that all the people who work there are passionate about their work.' 'They did not mind spending day and night over there.' 'Even today it is like that.'
'What the RBI is doing is trying to catch the mouse when they have to catch the tiger.'
'They have come here to protect people, but the allegation is that they help the armed organisations attack and burn down the houses of the Meiteis.' 'Many people have lost faith in the central forces as they believe these forces are involved in the escalation of the problem.'
'Imagine what will happen when a train running at 128 kmph moves onto a track that is meant to have only a speed less than 30 kmph!' 'Naturally, it will derail, and the coaches will go for a tailspin.'
'One of the advantages is that students need not take many entrance examinations.'
'Has the Supreme Court ever said that the Preamble is the basic structure of the Constitution?'
'The idea of aligning with different political parties -- parties that are relevant at a particular period -- is opportunistic and unacceptable.'
'The administration will come to a standstill because the governor will not cooperate with the finance minister.'
'I am not in favour of the hijab myself.' 'I personally think it wrong to make women shut themselves out of the world, where there is so much to see.' 'But I can't dictate to others about what they should wear.'
'Ajit Pawar and some other people felt it was better to be supporting the BJP and have a coalition with the BJP than support the Congress.' 'But Sharad Pawar did not want to be a party to this kind of an opportunistic alliance.'
'The police just stood there watching our people being attacked.'
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