Indian Army sources said there was no opposition to the proposals made by the chief at the ongoing commanders’ conference, just differences of opinion.
The ranking vindicates the reformist measures undertaken by the Modi government. But further improvement requires vanguard action from states and local governments.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
Very superficial analysis of the problem. When a large chunk of defence budget is used to pay the civilian babus (leeches) in MOD and accounted unjustly to the defence forces the discussion is lopsided as it is? This could and should be used for defence procurement. The large chunk of defence budget is used to pay the civilian babus (leeches) in MOD should be debited to the budgets from where the civilian babus are paid from instead.
Guess how much FDI India received in defence manufacturing in the last five years. 1.26 crores. When I first saw the figure, thought it must be a misprint, it should read 1.26 trillion. 2. Seventy years of modern Indian history has taught us – especially since the Congress hegemony broke down around 1967 – that there is no concept of “ political capital “ which is required to get big things done. It is a cliche’ now to refer to PM PVNR and the reforms of 1991. Or take the other alibi : We don’t have the numbers in the Rajya Sabha. The simple fact is that GoI has enormous powers. Also control over what I feel is too large a proportion of the country’s financial resources, by way of taxes and borrowings. All that the column urges for the second term was entirely feasible during the first. There are probably fewer than a dozen MPs who are deeply knowledgeable about matters of defence. Not many debates of a very high standard in Parliament. Pakistan has proved to be politically prolific, else this is not a matter of priority the political class.
Very superficial analysis of the problem. When a large chunk of defence budget is used to pay the civilian babus (leeches) in MOD and accounted unjustly to the defence forces the discussion is lopsided as it is? This could and should be used for defence procurement. The large chunk of defence budget is used to pay the civilian babus (leeches) in MOD should be debited to the budgets from where the civilian babus are paid from instead.
Guess how much FDI India received in defence manufacturing in the last five years. 1.26 crores. When I first saw the figure, thought it must be a misprint, it should read 1.26 trillion. 2. Seventy years of modern Indian history has taught us – especially since the Congress hegemony broke down around 1967 – that there is no concept of “ political capital “ which is required to get big things done. It is a cliche’ now to refer to PM PVNR and the reforms of 1991. Or take the other alibi : We don’t have the numbers in the Rajya Sabha. The simple fact is that GoI has enormous powers. Also control over what I feel is too large a proportion of the country’s financial resources, by way of taxes and borrowings. All that the column urges for the second term was entirely feasible during the first. There are probably fewer than a dozen MPs who are deeply knowledgeable about matters of defence. Not many debates of a very high standard in Parliament. Pakistan has proved to be politically prolific, else this is not a matter of priority the political class.