In a season marked by rampant allegations about the qualifications and degree certificates of even the highest office holders and political leaders both at the centre as well as at the state, it is highly imperative that we review our perspectives about the Indian Democratic system and its efficacy, in terms of how we should devise an almost fool-proof process which ensures that the most able and deserving men and women come to occupy our elected public offices. How do we perfect a filtering process, whereby the very best can only enter the electoral fray? Can we structure an ideal mechanism which does that?
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The All India Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee is all set to retain power in West Bengal that is due to go to polls this year – despite the fact that the party is not too popular in the state’s urban areas. The reason behind this foregone result of the ensuing Assembly election is the hovering sinister presence of the decades-old misrule of the CPM dispensation in the State and the substantial development in the rural areas by the present dispensation of Mamata Banerjee. If the opposition has reasons to malign the image of the TMC in the State for its failure to ensure industrialization and establish semblance of law and order, the people in general stand by Mamata Didi – as the Chief Minister is referred to -- firmly to ward off the possible return of the CPM misrule.
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Never before has a ruling political party risked its own existence and contemplated its dissolution to achieve a bigger goal. But with the beginning of the new fiscal, the stage has been set to witness this development. Political intrigue is afoot in Bihar to set the target for 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the country and that too, by dissolving the ruling Janta Dal United in the State.
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Corporate social responsibility spends in sports can ignite sports development in India, if incentivised with marketing and strategic business driven benefits, towards a common goal by the administrators
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Chennai-based publishing house Tulika, popular for translations, bilingual titles and fabulous illustrations is working on books about an unhappy moon, a lion who wants to get a haircut, a maharaja who loses his royal elephant and more this year
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The NDA government has decided to open a one-time, four-month compliance window for domestic black money-holders
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The RBI’s quarterly numbers on corporate performance show that industry sales declined by over 10 per cent from the previous year in the second quarter of 2015-16.
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Amidst all this action, recently, the Centre liberalised the FDI regime wherein the companies engaged in manufacturing and single brand retail have been allowed to undertake e-commerce activity. This change is expected to further increase the breadth of this sector.
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