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...A decade ago, Tej Pal signed up for India’s Aadhaar biometric identity scheme, acquiring his first national ID card....
...the Indian Himalayas....
...“The whole effort of this government was to bring down food prices in the name of the poor, and so you have made the farmers poor,” says Ashok Gulati, an agricultural economist at the Indian Council for...
...India now has more than 3,900 of what it calls “census towns”, which are urbanised areas that are still classified as rural and governed with traditional rural arrangements, such as village councils....
...This was my first day back....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Indian experience over the past two decades demonstrates this conclusively....
...“There may not be a bank branch in every village but people will at least have a goldsmith or gold trader in every village. The liquidity of gold is very high.”...
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...In 1988 the Paris-based director Peter Brook returned to the UK after 20 years with The Mahabharata, based on the Indian epic poem....
...Prime Minister’s Council on National Skill Development has laid down the core governing principles for operating strategies for skill development....
...Others trying to open up new frontiers in low-cost Indian finance include officials such as S. Sridhar, the outgoing head of National Housing Bank....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) (v) There are about 44,000 villages in which the population of Scheduled castes is above 50 per cent....
...Shamsudheen, the UAE-based chairman of Pravasi Bandhu Welfare Trust, which looks after Indian expatriates....
...South African miners last month launched their first one-day national strike on safety grounds. Rock falls and explosions each year kill around 200 of their number....
...This World Cup will be the first to include 16 teams....
...eye had seen,” wrote Justice V.R....
...So, as places such as the North Sea and Alaska run out of traditional, easy-to-extract oil reserves, Exxon is having to move into remoter, riskier and more hostile territory to spend its war chest, now bulging...
...Suman Bery, director-general of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, says the answer lies in the fact that India is a ?just-in-time? society that acts only in extremis: ?...
...A report for the US Central Intelligence Agency by the National Intelligence Council, a think tank, forecasts that 25 million people could become infected in India over the next five years....
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