There is usually some romanticism and development associated with Indian Railways and every child particularly in rural India is filled with joy and emotion on seeing a train or engine.
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Farming Community Cheers Arrival of Monsoon
The arrival of monsoon along India’s southern shores, with a meteorological forecast for rainfall that would almost match the normal average, has brought cheers to the farming community, more so with fears of the impact of El Nino receding. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is now less apprehensive about the […]
Succumbing to the Dreaded C
Almost everywhere in the world today, people are living to advanced old age, thanks to phenomenal progress made by medical science. Naturally, the list of centenarians all over the world is now growing apace. In the light of these facts, one thinks that it was a little too early for […]
Contractual liability of state during the period of east india company
The year of 1600 is significant for the history of India, for in that year far away from this land a small body of the merchants of London secured from Elizabeth the Great, Queen of England, a Royal charter whereby was constituted the East India Company then named “The […]
GST: A Win-Win Situation
Major hurdle for the implementation of the much-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) was cleared when the GST Council finalised tax rates for most of the goods and services at its recent meeting. The all-powerful GST Council headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising state finance ministers as members […]
India’s Space Odyssey: The Giant GSAT-19
India achieved another milestone on June 5 when it successfully launched its most powerful and heaviest geostationary rocket carrying advanced communication satellite GSAT-19 from the spaceport in Sriharikota. With the launch, India has joined an elite group of a few countries that possess the complex and high performance cryogenic technology. […]
India – EU FTA Negotiations Get New Lease of Life
By Narendra Modi – Shri Narendra Modi with the President European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk and the President European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, at EU-INDIA Summit, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48077016 The negotiations on the much-touted India-EU Free Trade Agreement had reached a dead end in 2013 after hard bargaining by […]
City of Temples turning to be ‘Udta Punjab’
An era where the Global problem of drug addiction is taking the lives of many, the unfortunate appropriate inaction on the part of custodians of welfare State today has given birth to few organizations in the State to take the responsibility of liberating youth form the yoke of this menace. […]
Now No Sad Songs on the Poor
There was a time when sad, tearful film songs on the plight of the poor were quite popular. But now it is very rare to hear such songs in the present-day films. May be it i sbecause of the changes that have been taking place in our socioeconomic life over […]
Getting Passport Made Easy
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