Pictures tweeted from PM’s official handle show that Modi wasn’t wearing a skullcap while exchanging greetings with the Syedna, the head of the Dawoodi Bohras.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
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.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
Reportedly, fifty to sixty thousand migrant workers have fled Gujarat. The crime was by an individual who has been arrested. Some popular anger one can understand, not this exodus. It seems to me that it points to a deeper economic malaise. After demonetisation, several construction sites in NCR shut down thousands of workers returned to UP and Bihar, have still not got their jobs back. Consider 23 million applications being received for a chunk of low level railway jobs. The agitations by dominant castes for reservation in government jobs. Instead of job creation, jobs are actually being lost. The extent of economic pain that is being felt all over the country is not being officially acknowledged or reflected in government statistics. Each recent Diwali in recent years has been more glum than its predecessor.
Reportedly, fifty to sixty thousand migrant workers have fled Gujarat. The crime was by an individual who has been arrested. Some popular anger one can understand, not this exodus. It seems to me that it points to a deeper economic malaise. After demonetisation, several construction sites in NCR shut down thousands of workers returned to UP and Bihar, have still not got their jobs back. Consider 23 million applications being received for a chunk of low level railway jobs. The agitations by dominant castes for reservation in government jobs. Instead of job creation, jobs are actually being lost. The extent of economic pain that is being felt all over the country is not being officially acknowledged or reflected in government statistics. Each recent Diwali in recent years has been more glum than its predecessor.