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Growth busts poverty -
Times of India
Poverty estimates between 2004-05 and 2009-10 show a sharp reduction in the absolute number of the poor by 52.5 million to 354.7 million. This is encouraging for several reasons. While the new poverty line at lower than the earlier Rs 32 per day benchmark - Rs 22.43 per day for rural areas and Rs 28.65 per day for urban areas - may draw grumbles, the fact is the percen-tage of below poverty line people has declined at double the pace of that bet-ween 1993-94 and 2004-05.
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PM is accountable -
Pioneer
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Redesign dams, not rivers -
Sunita Narain, Business Standard
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MMS in the wrong chair -
Bibek Debroy, Economic Times
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India's demographic dividend will turn sour unless manufacturing takes off -
ToI
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Not Bansal or Kumar: Dear PM, you’re the real sacrificial goat -
Venky Vembu, FirstPost
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The price of ‘corrugance’ -
MJ Akbar, Times of India
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CBI not a caged parrot but a hound dog of Authority -
Madhav Nalapat, Sunday Guardian
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PM has no sense of dignity and honour -
Kanchan Gupta, Pioneer
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BJP is in denial over Karnataka -
Swapan Dasgupta, Pioneer
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Fast economic growth will save lives not the Food Security Bill -
SA Aiyar, ET
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Grey Wednesday -
Meghnad Desai, Indian Express
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Election 2013: reflections of a proud Pakistani -
Adil Zareef, Daily Times
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Double whammy strikes the UPA and negates Karnataka victory -
Sandeep Bamzai, Mail Today
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Ladakh incursion: China scores bloodless victory over India, more intrusions may come -
Brahma Chellaney, EconomicTimes
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Sonia-Manmohan jugalbandi is now sounding like a dirge -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
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Read between the LAC -
Minxin Pei, Indian Express
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Chinese aspirations and Indian interests -
Pioneer
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The last pillar of our democracy -
Sandeep Bamzai, Mail Today
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Two down, what next? -
Hindu
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Why Food Security Bill may be a terrible idea -
Bibek Debroy, Economic Times
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Insult to the nation -
Pioneer
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A climate of India-baiting: Liberals love to deride George Bush, but Barack Obama's record is much worse -
Jagdish Bhagwati, Times of India
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Fog clears a bit -
Mint
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Don’t blame just the politicians -
Sunil Jain, FinancialExpress
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Police freedom -
HinduBusinessline
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 There was for years an old "social contract" between politicians and business. This provided for complex rules and regulations that made it impossible to do business honestly in many fields. But it was possible to do business dishonestly, through pay-offs . Some called this "efficient corruption" : politicians took money and delivered clearances. However, the anti-corruption mood of the courts, and new fears of getting caught (like Pawan Bansal) have ended "efficient corruption" . Politicians may still take money but not deliver on clearances , what some call "inefficient corruption" that freezes investment and growth. The old social contract has broken down.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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