A recent study shows that though the number of Indians, mostly women, employed in the beedi industry has increased nationally, southern states registered a healthy fall.
Four southern states — Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu — have been gripped by drought, and people blame politicians for ignoring them.
Since the 1990s, groups such as Al-Ummah, PFI & Indian Mujahideen have emerged in southern India and been accused and convicted of radicalisation and terror.
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.
Aaya Rams and Gaya Rams is a reality of the Indian politics and it cannot be wished away. The skill lies in putting them through the Party’s washing machine so the party does not get polluted.
If our country has to SURVIVE as the country we have known it as, then it should become Modi-Shah BJP mukt. If it has to progress even at a 9% GROWTH , which it has demonstrated in the past it can, then the the Congress should become RG-AS-PM – DREAM mukt.
Mr Chari has been balanced in his assessment of what the BJP is attempting now.
It is actually becoming an Aaya Ram party very fast. Chari could have mentioned the glaring and shameful cases of the Saradha scam suspects Mukul Roy, Adhikari and some Assam leaders in his examples .. Does their Eastern origin absolve the BJP ?
Aaya Rams and Gaya Rams is a reality of the Indian politics and it cannot be wished away. The skill lies in putting them through the Party’s washing machine so the party does not get polluted.
If our country has to SURVIVE as the country we have known it as, then it should become Modi-Shah BJP mukt. If it has to progress even at a 9% GROWTH , which it has demonstrated in the past it can, then the the Congress should become RG-AS-PM – DREAM mukt.
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Mr Chari has been balanced in his assessment of what the BJP is attempting now.
It is actually becoming an Aaya Ram party very fast. Chari could have mentioned the glaring and shameful cases of the Saradha scam suspects Mukul Roy, Adhikari and some Assam leaders in his examples .. Does their Eastern origin absolve the BJP ?