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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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Death by degrees -
R Srinivasan, HinduBusinessline
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An unhealthy step -
Business Standard
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Zero-sum diplomacy -
Sumit Ganguly, Deccan Chronicle
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Roasting for govt was long overdue -
Asian Age
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No economic recovery in sight for now -
Rajiv Kumar, Mail Today
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Have money, will waste -
Financial Express
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The great Indian corruption chronicles -
Mint
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We could be giving up too much for too little -
G Parthasarathy, Pioneer
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Scrap the collegium-system of appointing judges -
Fali S Nariman, Hindustan Times
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SC's stinging comments on CBI's conduct on Coalgate seal the fate of Ashwani Kumar -
Times of India
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CBI must be rescued from UPA’s fear to avoid a travesty of justice -
Arun Jaitley, Economic Times
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Modi, malice and misrepresentation: Congress style -
Kishore Trivedi, NitiCentral
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BJP needs to look within -
Sandhya Jain, NitiCentral
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Not Ashwani, not Bansal, it is the PM who needs to go -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
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Coal tars UPA and CBI -
HindustanTimes
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Inconvenient truths, misleading actions -
Bishwajit Bhattacharyya, Business Standard
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In season of blame, a defence -
VS Arunachalam, Asian Age
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The price of inaction -
Bharat Karnad, Asian Age
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Let’s prepare for the inevitable -
Pravin Sawhney, Pioneer
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Brazen UPA shamed -
Pioneer
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Congress and BJP have to confront their 'Kumar-isms' to regain a balance of power -
Ashok Malik, ET
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The UPA must not bring in another grandiose welfare scheme which the country can ill afford -
Times of India
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Phantom democracy -
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Indian Express
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Look at India’s economic reality -
Madhav Dhar, FinancialExpress
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Kowtowing to the Middle Kingdom -
G Parthasarathy, 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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