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Paddy procurement has always been a problem area in our state. Every year, the government receives flak for its inept handling of the programme. The Odisha State Civil Supplies Corporation (OSCSC), the key player of the state’s `12,000 crore plus paddy procurement programme, has not...

Maneka Gandhi In 1987, a street litter of a month old puppies, being fed by me, started dying at an alarming rate. The splotches of blood in their stool were diagnosed as parasitic worms. The ill-informed vet immediately gave them deworming tablets (which is a...

The two-day national strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine bank unions, to register their protest against the Centre’s proposed privatisation and disinvestment plan, entered the second day on March 16 causing widespread hardships to customers across...

The run-up to the Assembly polls in West Bengal has grabbed national headlines for the fierce fight being witnessed between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP. It is more so because of the injuries Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sustained hours after she filed her...

The Quad virtual summit, attended by the heads of states of USA, Japan, Australia and India for the first time 12 March, came up with a new tactic to stop China. The four countries of the group have pledged to deliver a billion doses of...

The BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. It is hard to see why it will not win the Assembly elections because it has so much more resource than the rest (more than 90 per cent of electoral bond money,...

Last year, Arvind Panagariya, former vice-chief of the government NITI Aayog, wrote in his book “India Unlimited – Reclaiming the Lost Glory” that Indian babus suffered from the socialist hangover, which has slowed down the pace of reforms the Modi sarkar wishes to introduce. To...

The state government is reportedly caught up with a rash of forest fires in many parts of the state. The wildfires have been hogging the headlines over last week or so. Similipal was all over the newspapers. In a span of a week between February...

I have always held that it cannot be a coincidence that India’s richest community (the Jains) and biggest business families— Ambani, Birla, Jindal, Oswal, Munjal, Hinduja, Adani are all vegetarian. The law of Karma is clearly in play: the less hurt you cause, the more...

Sometimes ignoring an issue turns out to be a good government strategy. The indifference helps the government buy time and let the issue run its course and die down sooner or later. The Centre seems to have adopted this strategy to deal with the farmers’...