Imagine if mayors gave city-specific daily briefings on coronavirus, and not a joint secretary sitting in New Delhi. India needs to give more powers to its mayors.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
As a resident of Bengaluru, I can tell you that traffic density and garbage accumulation continue to pull down the city’s quality of life. If Bengaluru, with its problems, can rank as the most livable city, I shudder to think what life will be like in other cities. This rank should have gone to Mysuru, which is smaller, and a far better city than Bengaluru.
The sun does not bother about its image. Converting four million tons of matter into energy each second. It is the moon, glowing with borrowed light, which seems to wax and wane all the time. Particularly distasteful was the suggestion, reportedly made by the gentleman who Manohar Parrikar said looked more like an LTTE cadre than a Poona Brahmin, to colour code journalists, based on their obsequiousness.
More than the Shiv Sena, SP or RJD, which are purely regional parties, it is the Congress which should have a national perspective on politics. For Didi to win a third term nourishes federalism, keeps the Opposition alive. Tamil Nadu since 1967 and Bengal since 1977 are lost to the party. Sochiye, what would have been the vibrant state of this emaciated party if ten mass leaders of the caliber of CM Mamata Banerjee were still part of it.
As a resident of Bengaluru, I can tell you that traffic density and garbage accumulation continue to pull down the city’s quality of life. If Bengaluru, with its problems, can rank as the most livable city, I shudder to think what life will be like in other cities. This rank should have gone to Mysuru, which is smaller, and a far better city than Bengaluru.
The sun does not bother about its image. Converting four million tons of matter into energy each second. It is the moon, glowing with borrowed light, which seems to wax and wane all the time. Particularly distasteful was the suggestion, reportedly made by the gentleman who Manohar Parrikar said looked more like an LTTE cadre than a Poona Brahmin, to colour code journalists, based on their obsequiousness.
More than the Shiv Sena, SP or RJD, which are purely regional parties, it is the Congress which should have a national perspective on politics. For Didi to win a third term nourishes federalism, keeps the Opposition alive. Tamil Nadu since 1967 and Bengal since 1977 are lost to the party. Sochiye, what would have been the vibrant state of this emaciated party if ten mass leaders of the caliber of CM Mamata Banerjee were still part of it.