A report in ThePrint showed underutilised facilities, declining job prospects at the Institute of Archaeology. The culture ministry responded with data on the institute’s sanctioned strength.
The sprawling new Noida campus of ASI’s storied Institute of Archaeology was supposed to be a monument to new India. Seven years on, there's barely anyone to use it.
India's adoration of the armed forces has a curious strain of moral puritanism that elevates military personnel into national icons and then resents them for behaving like ordinary people.
Carriers joining the fuel stabilisation scheme will buy ATF at predetermined rates backed by a Rs 10,000-crore fund approved by Union Cabinet, says civil aviation ministry.
An oil shock, monsoon fears, rampant unemployment, and the seeming inevitability of inflation are common to both eras. Indira Gandhi’s self-destructive responses are instructive today.
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