Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up
Nitin Desaiwrites: Disasters such as the one in Uttarakhand are going to get worse as the average global temperature goes up by much more than what we have experienced so far Air travel is limping back to normal, but airlines are far from a take-off, says
Anjuli Bhargava An interesting feature of Indian households is that independent of their current economic conditions, they are systematically optimistic of their future.
Mahesh Vyas explains how
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Whenever roads will be blocked, and people would be prevented from going to work, or children to school, there will always be a Kapil Mishra to stop that … I will do what I did again.
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To meet its terms of reference, the 15th Finance Commission has recommended a separate mechanism for funding defence and external security but it has facilitated this by a reduction in grants to the states, which works out to Rs 1.5 trillion over five years. “As a consequence, the Commission has penalised the primary engines of development spending in India: The state governments,” the
top edit points out.
A more lasting solution would have been for the government to focus on improving tax collection as a percentage of gross domestic product to fulfill its obligations, the edit argues. Read it here. In other opinion today:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is clearly losing ground in the battle against the farmers but is not helping matters with its tactics of dividing farmers and mobilising the
bhakts against them. The third strategy of using the security apparatus and dredging up the Khalistani movement is unlikely to work either.
It may be time for Mr Modi to display some statesmanship, writes
Vir Sanghvi. Read his assessment of the serial mishandling of the farmers protests here and the
edit on how dissent and criticism are increasingly being presented as sedition here In other views: The decision to liberalise the Indian geo-spatial information sector, enabling accurate digital mapping, is an important reform measure that will enable many businesses to work more efficiently and open up new opportunities, says the
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