Delhi’s Pragati Maidan will now be defined by the new International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre and Integrated Transit Corridor, both set to be finished by end of May.
Pre-Modi India had a passive acceptance of growth, poverty, natural disasters, etc. We played catch-up. Now, the paradigm has changed to proactivity and anticipation.
Under the Modi government, dissent is seditious, protests are ‘anti-national’, activists are harassed, and free speech is censored through pressure on media owners.
The conclave, on 7 September, aims to provide interactive platform for state policy makers & industry leaders to address structural reforms in economy.
The talk show, ‘Jan Seva Samvad’, is set to feature ministers and legislators. I&B minister Smriti Irani was the first guest, and showered praise on the PM.
Iran faces a choice that is larger than the immediate conduct of war. It can continue the logic of short-term escalation, or it can think in the longer historical frame.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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