Dadabhai Naoroji was part of the 'Young Bombay' reformist clique group, which had progressive views on women’s education and rationalisation of religious practices.
Two tiny villages in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur district have taken a giant leap in engineering social change by banning widowhood practices. Plans are now afoot for widow remarriage.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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