Politics at its most tasteless -
Manoj Joshi, Mail Today
The real problem was the initial response. Mr Sibal could have said: ‘We have seen the cartoon, and understood what it is trying to say - that the Constitution making process needs to be speeded up. There is absolutely nothing derogatory to Babasaheb Ambedkar there, and so there is no need for any action on our part.’ After all what does the cartoon depict - Babasaheb and Pandit Nehru trying to get the constitutional process to move faster.
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Politician families in business: What aided their meteoric rise -
John Samuel Raja D, Economic Times
Companies run by family members of some politicians are like every other company. And they are not, as these four practices that run through their businesses and have aided their meteoric rise show. Talk about business growth and opportunity. In the last five years, Theon Pharmaceuticals, controlled by the immediate family of former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, has increased in size from Rs 15 crore to Rs 152 crore.
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After nine years in power, UPA faces crisis of credibility -
Aditi Phadnis, Business Standard
Around August 15, 2012, a proposal emanating from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) caused consternation among half a dozen secretaries to the government of India who were asked for comments on it. The suggestion was that from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would announce a scheme for free cell phones to all Below Poverty Line citizens. If mobile phone companies were roped in to provide subsidised service to the poor and the handsets were free, the appeal - to the poor - would be on a par with schemes...
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The making of Rotavac -
Jacob P Koshy, Mint
About 30 years ago, an American and an Indian, both scientists, weary after a day-long conference on diarrhoeal diseases, slipped out from the Kolkata convent they had been billeted in for a drink. Roger Glass and M.K. Bhan got back with a glimmer of a road map for an affordable vaccine made in the country that could cut in half the 100,000-odd infant, diarrhoeal deaths in India. The work would stretch out over the rest of their careers and involve at least 10 research institutions across the world.
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'We have killed the economy, not just oil firms' -
Sidhartha, Times of India
Renowned economist Kirit Parikh, a former Planning Commission member, has been asked to review the oil pricing policy — a task he has already performed once. This time, however, he says that the job is tougher as policy reversals have hurt the broader economy and not just the oil companies. Excerpts: What is the mandate given to you and how much time do you have? It is essentially over the question of petroleum product pricing — whether it...
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ABP-Neilsen survey: If polls held today, NDA may erase UPA -
Business Standard
If polls were held today, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will get a mere 136 Lok Sabha seats, according to a survey done by ABP News-Nielsen. The main opposition, National Democratic Alliance, is likely to get 206 seats, while others parties will get 167 seats. Neither the UPA nor the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA will get the magic number 272 in the general elections if they were to take place today.
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That 66% number -
Sunil Jain, Financial Express
Just how stupid and economically illiterate Indians are, and how wise and benevolent the political class is can best be captured by a single figure, the number 66. A little over 66% of Indians, the latest Census tells us, have access to electricity; a little under 66% (63.2% actually) are able to find enough money to pay for a mobile phone each month—this figure is up from just 9.1% a decade ago; yet 66% of Indians remain so dirt poor, they need to be given 5 kg of wheat and rice...
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With China, keep it real -
C. Raja Mohan, Indian Express
The Chinese premier Li Keqiang's visit to India this week is a good moment to inject much-needed realism into Delhi's China policy. Through the second term of the UPA government, Delhi has allowed ideological romanticism and political timidity to overwhelm common sense in dealing with China. Worse still is the relentless mystification of Chinese policies. Consider the recent psycho-babble in Delhi about the logic behind China's Depsang intrusion.
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Congress govt, Janata cabinet: What a ‘clean’ sweep! -
Neena Gopal, Deccan Chronicle
In the sea of khadi-clad politicians at the Raj Bhavan’s glass house on Saturday, where a handful of the faithful had gathered to witness a Congress government take charge of Karnataka after a gap of nine long years, instead of the mad euphoria that marked the unexpectedly huge victory for the Congress party only days before, there was a palpable sense of unease, a sense of missed opportunities. You couldn’t put your finger on it. But there it was.
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Dirty medicine -
Katherine Eban, Fortune CNN
On the morning of Aug. 18, 2004, Dinesh Thakur hurried to a hastily arranged meeting with his boss at the gleaming offices of Ranbaxy Laboratories in Gurgaon, India, 20 miles south of New Delhi. It was so early that he passed gardeners watering impeccable shrubs and cleaners still polishing the lobby's tile floors. As always, Thakur was punctual and organized. He had a round face and low-key demeanor, with deep-set eyes that gave him a doleful appearance. His boss, Dr. Rajinder Kumar, Ranbaxy's head of research and development...
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The third coming: Peace in the air -
Neena Gopal, Deccan Chronicle
Weeks before the May 11 elections were announced in Pakistan, the $400 m Ittefaq Group of Industries was preparing to dispatch a top official to distant Torangallu, Karnataka, to tie up a deal with the Naveen Jindal-run iron and steel factory there. A Pakistani business associate of Nawaz Sharif in mine-rich Bellary? Once elections were announced, of course, plans to travel to India were scrapped. All hands were needed on deck. But long before the landslide that swept aside the deeply unpopular Asif Ali Zardari...
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