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Bad debt and NPA: making sense of banking mess -Governance Now
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Bad debt and NPA: making sense of banking mess. FM asked banks to go after loan-defaulting promoters. But the public fund siphoning will continue unless deeper, systemic solutions are put in place. September 7, 2013. Banks: From NPAs to CDRs. RBI: Policy sops to defaulters. Policy makers: Crony banking. This article first appeared on this website and in the magazine in April. Not much, of course, has changed sinced. Surge in chikungunya cases in India. SP has slight edge over BJP in UP, shows survey.
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We are trying to institutionalise injustice: Arundhati Roy -Governance Now
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We are trying to institutionalise injustice: Arundhati Roy. Pankaj Srivastava April 15, 2015. Arundhati roy gandhi comment. Stirred another controversy when she called Mahatma Gandhi the “first corporate-sponsored NGO of the country”. She made this remark at the 10th annual Cinema of Resistance film festival in Gorakhpur. Despite protests across the city for her statement, Roy stayed on and participated in the festival. Between screenings and on the sidelines,. Discussed several issues with her. I was ha...
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China ranks higher than India because of its investment in education, infrastructure. The recently released ninth edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) co-published by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Cornell University and INSEAD, shows that India ranks 66th out of 128 countries in terms of its innovative capabilities while Switzerland remains the world’s most innovative country for the sixth consecutive year. Soumi. Charlie Chaplin through the Chaplins. When a group of u...
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Can grass be greener on both sides? -Governance Now
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Can grass be greener on both sides? A collection of eight seminal papers that make compelling statements of the diversity and complexity of nature and its conservation. August 3, 2015. The fact that wildlife knows no barriers was evident on our way in, when the car ground to a halt to give way to a herd of blackbucks crossing over to a field; and a little ahead, we stopped to check on an inert jungle cat – the victim of a speeding vehicle. The papers are preceded by a lucid, if lengthy, introduction whic...
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How witch-hunting grips Chhattisgarh tribal villages -Governance Now
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How witch-hunting grips Chhattisgarh tribal villages. Some women in Chhattisgarhs tribal areas are branded witches and suffer humiliation. An awareness campaign seeks to stop the practice. August 8, 2015. She keeps spitting every few minutes but the taste of urine still seems to linger in Bisahin Bai’s mouth. The humiliation of having been forced to drink urine and paraded naked continues to haunt her. That was 14 years back but the memory is fresh. Assault on women for ‘practising witchcraft&rsquo...
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Prabhu goes personal to boost rail staff spirit -Governance Now
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Prabhu goes personal to boost rail staff spirit. Every railway employee to receive personal birthday greetings and message from the minister. GN Bureau August 7, 2015. With the kind of attacks it is facing, the railway ministry needs to keep up the morale of its staff. A personal birth greeting would be one such booster. Railway minister Suresh Prabhu has decided to send personalized birthday greetings to the employees of the beleaguered organization that has few fatal accidents in the recent past. Meanw...
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Bloodsuckers, known as banks -Governance Now
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Bloodsuckers, known as banks. Why should our businesses have to pay such high interest? August 8, 2015. This is what the Reserve Bank’s press note of 30 June on the international investment position tells us. On the same day, it issued another press note on the international debt position. What is the difference? I guess the difference is that the items in the first set of tables are marketable, and those in the second one are not. How clear is this difference? What does worry me, however, is the substan...
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Fee structures of private medical schools: Another Vyapam? -Governance Now
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Fee structures of private medical schools: Another Vyapam? The MP scam is not the only example of regulatory bodies at fault. Consider fee structures of private medical colleges. August 8, 2015. With the admission season already underway, private medical colleges in the country are openly flouting rules when it comes to deciding their fee structures. Amid all this, the two agencies responsible for keeping a tab on private medical colleges only pass the buck. Mukesh Yadav, a forensic doctor, has, under th...
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Air India chief empanelled as secretary. Air India chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani has been empanelled to hold secretary-level posts in the central government. According to an order issued by the department of personnel and training (DoPT). GAIL to tie up with US firm for new gas power generation technology. WAPCOS pays over Rs 25 crore dividend to government. BSNLs officers urge centre to desist from disinvestment. Modis statement on PSU show preference for revival. NBCC (formerly National...
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Interview | GovernanceNow.com
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China ranks higher than India because of its investment in education, infrastructure. The recently released ninth edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) co-published by the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Cornell University and INSEAD, shows that India ranks 66th out of 128 countries in terms of its innovative capabilities while Switzerland remains the world’s most innovative country for the sixth consecutive year. Soumi. Jignesh Mevani on why the dalit movement cannot fail.
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