The telecom companies are unable to pay salaries, and a turnaround seems impossible. A bail-out for employees would be cheaper than what the govt pumps in.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Quite some time back, PM Modi had said that policy decisions must not be influenced by electoral politics. Now, by regularising squatters and gifting them the land, he has ensured that NCR Delhi will have a permanent supply of slum dwellers. Very bad politics.
I still don’t know what a Smart City connotes. Probably one in which – basic civic amenities and housing having been taken care of decades ago – a lot of technology goes into making the urban agglomerations energy efficient, highly networked in both a physical and a virtual sense. Bombay and Delhi could think in these terms fifty years from now. Sixty, if the Shiv Sena is running the BMC …
One would require an electron microscope to discover any reformist impulses. Merge failing banks, now this proposal, dead on arrival. A “ strong “ government would act differently, taking care only to space out the pain of adjustment. When I used to see images of Greece a few years ago, would think, We should not go down this road, for we are not part of a rich man’s club that will pay our bills. At this rate, don’t be surprised by a ratings downgrade.
Quite some time back, PM Modi had said that policy decisions must not be influenced by electoral politics. Now, by regularising squatters and gifting them the land, he has ensured that NCR Delhi will have a permanent supply of slum dwellers. Very bad politics.
I still don’t know what a Smart City connotes. Probably one in which – basic civic amenities and housing having been taken care of decades ago – a lot of technology goes into making the urban agglomerations energy efficient, highly networked in both a physical and a virtual sense. Bombay and Delhi could think in these terms fifty years from now. Sixty, if the Shiv Sena is running the BMC …
One would require an electron microscope to discover any reformist impulses. Merge failing banks, now this proposal, dead on arrival. A “ strong “ government would act differently, taking care only to space out the pain of adjustment. When I used to see images of Greece a few years ago, would think, We should not go down this road, for we are not part of a rich man’s club that will pay our bills. At this rate, don’t be surprised by a ratings downgrade.