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Eye on 2019, Modi turns focus to jobs, to hold second review meeting in 2 months

In the run-up to the 2014 elections, Modi had promised to create 2 crore jobs every year, but critics claim not even a fraction of those have been delivered.

Last Laughs: Opposition’s seat sharing headache, PM’s foreign trips this summer

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Modi govt’s proposal to change how service & cadre are allocated to civil servants – a good idea?

Experts weigh in on the PMO's proposal that services and cadres should be allocated after civil services entrants complete their three-month foundation course.

Modi govt wants to change how civil service entrants are allocated IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS

The PMO has proposed allocating the cadre and service to probationers only after they complete three-month foundation course. Govt says just a suggestion, no final decision taken.

I&B minister Rathore may not reverse ‘arbitrary transfer’ of officers by Irani in one go

Transfer orders were issued in November last year, within three months after Smriti Irani took over as I&B minister, purportedly to revamp PIB.

On his govt’s 4th anniversary, Modi set to address BJP morchas & inaugurate expressway

The celebrations are planned between 15 and 26 May, the day the govt took oath in 2014, and a BJP win in Karnataka will only add extra spark to them.

RSS/BJP-linked team of women intellectuals questions Kathua probe too, wants CBI called in

The all-woman Group of Intellectuals and Academicians sent a fact-finding team to Kathua. It returned with the same demands as the Hindu Ekta Manch.

PMO asks Women & Child ministry to examine demand for chemical castration of child rapists

Women lawyers had written to the PMO saying chemical castration of child rapists in the rarest of rare cases is the need of the hour besides death penalty.

Contact data of 15 lakh NCC cadets being sent to PMO as Modi wants to interact with them

The PMO has also asked for a special list of mobile numbers of college students among NCC cadets

Modi’s Digital India still takes two years to process his foreign travel bills

Air India is broke, but the Modi government still owes it Rs 325 crore for the PM’s foreign visits between November 2016 and February 2018.Air India is broke, but the Modi government still owes it Rs 325 crore for the PM’s foreign visits between November 2016 and February 2018.

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India doesn’t want to rely solely on HAL for fighter jets. AMCA project is the first step

India has long spoken of self-reliance, yet delays have repeatedly necessitated stopgap imports, including Jaguars, Mirages, Su-30MKIs, MiG-29Ks, and Rafales.

Vietnam & China cutting into India’s footwear exports, NITI Aayog calls for tariff cuts, R&D push

With non-leather products driving global footwear demand between 2020 and 2024, India’s global market share stood at 1.85% in 2024, says a NITI Aayog report.

ISKP & Lashkar converging under aegis of Pakistan’s ISI to take on Baloch fighters

ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.