For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Politics and governance are both in Ashwamedha mode. Unrelenting, unceasing. Power the ultimate aphrodisiac. The pandemic is an especially grim challenge, true, but there are so many other domains where this model is hurting. The poor most of all. There are in fact many fine people in the bureaucracy who can deliver far superior outcomes.
I am praying for CM Vijayan … 2. Science is the answer to our prayers. Those comforting words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi have stayed with me over the last year. The vaccines, medical care for those who have been infected, everything valuable has come from science and technology. Only placebos from the god men. 3. India shedding its scientific temper, religion becoming an intrusive presence in the public sphere as well, not taking us to the First World. Give me the spiritual Sikhs, any day, setting up langars, offering sanctuary and respite to those in distress.
Politics and governance are both in Ashwamedha mode. Unrelenting, unceasing. Power the ultimate aphrodisiac. The pandemic is an especially grim challenge, true, but there are so many other domains where this model is hurting. The poor most of all. There are in fact many fine people in the bureaucracy who can deliver far superior outcomes.
I am praying for CM Vijayan … 2. Science is the answer to our prayers. Those comforting words of Speaker Nancy Pelosi have stayed with me over the last year. The vaccines, medical care for those who have been infected, everything valuable has come from science and technology. Only placebos from the god men. 3. India shedding its scientific temper, religion becoming an intrusive presence in the public sphere as well, not taking us to the First World. Give me the spiritual Sikhs, any day, setting up langars, offering sanctuary and respite to those in distress.