Archive Detail
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Improving India's export competitiveness | Indian exports have fallen for the eighth consecutive month - 10.3 percent from the July 2014 level of $25.793 billion to $23.137 billion in July 2015. The fall, if taken out of context, would call for a worrying picture. However, given that imports have also fallen 10.28 percent from $40.068 billion in July 2014 to $35.950 billion in July 2015 calls for an interesting read. | 29-Aug-2015 |
Patels bust Modi's favourite Gujarat mod | Nothing shows more starkly the distortions that have vitiated the policy of reservations as the agitation by the financially and politically influential Patel community in Gujarat for inclusion in the backward-caste category to avail of the quota system in the allocation of government jobs and educational opportunities. | 29-Aug-2015 |
Lalitgate: Congress' tactical mistakes | By allowing parliament to function on the penultimate day of the monsoon session and participating for a while in a debate on the Lalit Modi affair, the Congress' mother-and-son leadership has shown it is something of a novice where tactics are concerned. | 19-Aug-2015 |
Goan model for Tripura IT | The recently concluded Tripura Conclave that focused on the prospects of IT and ITES industry in the state has created ripples. Several IT majors are showing interest in Tripura , which will soon emerge as the third Internet Gateway for India after the submarine cable is extended from Cox's Bazar to Agartala via Brahmanbaria. | 17-Aug-2015 |
Netaji plane crash: An enigma that conti | Did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose die of third-degree burns on August 18, 1945, after his plane crashed in Formosa (now Taiwan) or did he survive and escape to Siberia? Or was the "'crash"'a mere hoax to help him flee to safety? The questions have been haunting, agitating and engaging Indians, in particular Bengalis, for 70 years, but the mystery endures even today. | 17-Aug-2015 |