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27 April 2008
Rural Poverty Alleviation Through Infrastructure Development
This is perpetuated by the implicit assumption that the responsibility of providing basic and other services to the common citizen is entirely the State’s. To alleviate poverty in rural areas, much government expenditure had been directed to this end in the name of poor. Almost all infrastructure development activities in rural India had, over the […]
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27 April 2008
Awarded For Outstanding Services To Society
Mr Adrian Vassou, a resident of Ayanavaram, is interested in helping the poor people and is actively involved in many charitable works. Adrian was awarded the prestigious Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award in 2004 on the 8th March 2004 for his outstanding service, achievement and contribution to society. Adrian told the Chennai Plus […]
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20 April 2008
Unprecedented Price Rise Of Commodities
Finance panics, crashes and manics are nothing new, but their magnitudes and the speed at which they arrive are indeed qualitatively a different and politically more dangerous phenomenon. The sense of vulnerability or economic insecurity is arguably greater today than in the earlier periods. The central government is under criticism from its UPA allies as […]
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13 April 2008
Tormenting Water-War
Reports on Hoganakkal issue occupied more newspaper columns in the last week. Fortunately this year, we have been benefiting from more rainwater and thus escaped from water crisis for both drinking and irrigation purposes. Though we may boast of having so many rivers and tributaries, we have been regularly suffering by scanty rainfall […]
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5 April 2008
World-Class Higher Education
The scientific and technological developments happening around has brought in a sea-change in the thinking process of rulers and administrators. These developments lead towards the discovery that life has many potentials. A considerable number of students of reputed educational institutes are reported as being opted out of the placements to start their own […]
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30 March 2008
Economic Globalization Is Part Of Solution
Globalization has been blamed for everything from child labour to environment degradation, cultural homogenization and a host of other ills affecting rich and poor nations alike. It has become by now a phenomenon that is doomed to unending controversy, the focal point of always hostile passions and sometimes violent protests. Not a day […]
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15 March 2008
The Heir Of Democratic State
The past few days had been heady-days while looked through the media reports. In the world billionaires club, four Indians had made it to the top 10 positions; The juniors’ and seniors’ victories in the cricket matches had brought laurels; The Japanese Consul General had said that his country would help in […]
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2 March 2008
Praise For Lalu Prasad
Even since Lalu Prasad Yadav became the railway minister, the railway sectors have been seeing significant development in all aspects such as revenue generation, infrastructure upliftment, modernization etc., With the submission of Union Railway Budget 2008 – 2009, Lalu Prasad Yadav and his ministerial colleagues are receiving accolades from various section of people […]
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2 March 2008
Italian University Offers Scholarship To Indian Graduates
The Italian university Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, offers ten scholarships for Indian students to join its master of science course in general management, a two year course starting from Sep. 2008. Any student holding graduate degree or finishing graduation by July 2008 is eligible to apply for the scholarships. The selection will be […]
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24 February 2008
Political Mismanagement
Political system of India is of late finding itself under mounting stress and what is more, there does not appear to be any sign of pressure getting abatted in the near future. Politics has generated a deep deterioration in moral values. Political opportunism is a widespread evil debasing the country’s politics. Unprincipled […]