Union minister Maneka Gandhi severely criticised Avni’s killing but Maharashtra forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar defended this as an act of self-defence.
Days after fashion designers Stefano and Niccolo Ricci said they got govt nod to import crocodile skin to India, Gandhi writes seeking probe into the matter.
These were the battles we thought we’d already fought. The slow recognition that caste is a plague upon Indian society. The hard-won right to choose your own partner.
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
Perhaps this lady IAS officer is true to her name: “Aparajita” means courageous, gutsy, one who cannot be defeated. Otherwise, it is difficult to comprehend why she would join the BJP at this stage when many view it as a “sinking ship”. Or perhaps it is not sinking after all, with Sunil Arora at the top of the ship’s wheel!
Sunil Arora I think retired from regular service in 2016, and was given a new job by the Modi government which enabled him to continue. He is obviously VERY LIKELY to be “indebted” to the present regime. I am not casting aspersions on Mr Arora’s integrity, but the above somehow brings to mind the name of an earlier Chief Election Commissioner, AK Joti, who was handpicked for the job out of Gujarat (where else!). Mr Joti allowed a road show of Mr Modi or announcement of some benefits, I don’t quite remember, when they weren’t allowed immediately before the Gujarat election. Then, days before his retirement he took some decisions which looked hurried.
Perhaps this lady IAS officer is true to her name: “Aparajita” means courageous, gutsy, one who cannot be defeated. Otherwise, it is difficult to comprehend why she would join the BJP at this stage when many view it as a “sinking ship”. Or perhaps it is not sinking after all, with Sunil Arora at the top of the ship’s wheel!
Sunil Arora I think retired from regular service in 2016, and was given a new job by the Modi government which enabled him to continue. He is obviously VERY LIKELY to be “indebted” to the present regime. I am not casting aspersions on Mr Arora’s integrity, but the above somehow brings to mind the name of an earlier Chief Election Commissioner, AK Joti, who was handpicked for the job out of Gujarat (where else!). Mr Joti allowed a road show of Mr Modi or announcement of some benefits, I don’t quite remember, when they weren’t allowed immediately before the Gujarat election. Then, days before his retirement he took some decisions which looked hurried.
All this gives reason for uneasiness.