Daily Hindu Editorials

Singapore signs 2 MoUs with A.P. ( IR) Singapore and Andhra Pradesh have signed a MoU regarding the construction of the Andhra capital Amravati. Details Singapore Minister of Trade and Industry has expressed confidence that significant progress would be achieved in the construction of Amravati in six months, starting with the seed capital, consequent to the signing of two MoUs. The MoUs are the Concession and Development Agreement (CADA) and the Shareholder Agreement (SHA). The SHA was signed by the Amravati Development Corporation (ADC) and Singapore Amravati Investment Holdings Ltd. (SAIH) and the CADA by the AP Capital Region Development Authority, Amravati Development Partners (ADC and Ascendas Singbridge & SembCorp Industries) and SAIH. These pacts were essential to legally secure the many visions and plans and contracts worked out during the journey so far and they were part of the broader engagement between the Singapore and A.P. governments. With the sign...

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 2  from editorial  - Violence in the hills: on Shillong unrest 💥 downtown (noun) – central part, business area, commercial area (of a city). Hindu Editorial usage  :   The spark for the week-long incidents of violence in downtown Shillong was a lie spread through WhatsApp, the ubiquitous messaging platform that has increasingly become an unfiltered medium for hate and rumour-mongering ubiquitous (adjective) – omnipresent, pervasive, present everywhere. Hindu Editorial usage  :   The spark for the week-long incidents of violence in downtown Shillong was a lie spread through WhatsApp, the ubiquitous messaging platform that has increasingly become an unfiltered medium for hate and rumour-mongering hate-mongering (noun) – an act of spreading public hate intentionally on a particular topic/problem. rumour-mongering means an act of spreading rumuor intentionally. Hindu Editorial usage  :   The spark for the week-l...

💥 Daily Word Bytes - 1  from editorial  - In search of friends: on BJP's coalition politics 💥 a friend in need is the friend indeed  (phrase) – a friend who is helping at a difficult time is a true friend. Hindu Editorial usage  :   A friend in need is the friend who comes a-calling. After four years of being in a situation where it was a much sought-after ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party is now reduced to the role of a supplicant before potential electoral partners, the Shiv Sena and the Shiromani Akali Dal a- (prefix) – without (calling). Hindu Editorial usage  :   A friend in need is the friend who comes a-calling. After four years of being in a situation where it was a much sought-after ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party is now reduced to the role of a supplicant before potential electoral partners, the Shiv Sena and the Shiromani Akali Dal sought_after (adjective) – popular, in favour, in demand. Hindu Editorial usage  : ...

👍YES 👉Many  policy initiatives have shown a clear productivity enhancing supply-side thrust The Indian economy has shown a strong V-shaped recovery driven largely by domestic growth impulses. If one considers nine consecutive quarters since the fourth quarter of 2015-16, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth fell quarter after quarter from a peak of 9% to a trough of 5.6% in the first quarter of 2017-18. As is widely recognised, this was due to demonetisation and the transitory adverse effects of the goods and services tax implementation. These eventually subsided and for the last three quarters, growth steadily recovered to 6.3%, 7.0% and 7.7% in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2017-18, respectively. This sharp recovery is based entirely on domestic factors as the contribution of net export growth to GDP has been zero or negative since the third quarter of 2016-17. From the demand side, two segments which have supported growth, particularly in the fourth quarter of ...

👉They demonstrate that civil society must be an embedded part of the new knowledge society👈 The Thoothukudi firings of May 22 have been read as linear narratives, as specific reports without possessing the power of storytelling. The Thoothukudi violence needs a storyteller to capture the eloquence, the poignancy of anecdotes. One has to see the fables not as remote fragments, morsels of a marginal India, but as a microcosm of what is happening everywhere. Thoothukudi has to be treated as an early warning system for the emerging threats to Indian democracy. 👉Three tales One cannot even begin with a “once there was” because Thoothukudi is a collection of three tales. Time determines the depth and level of story. It is, first, a tale that began over 20 years ago when the Sterlite plant shifted from Maharastra to Tamil Nadu. It is also a tale that began 100 days before the firing, when housewives, children and villagers created a community of protest which found its one-lakh-s...