A meeting attended by 48 members of the Parsi Community was held yesterday [September 22] at the Anjuman Hall [in Rangoon] to consider the position of the Parsee trusts. The present trustee Mr. B. Cowasjee was appointed by the court 30 years go and was a prominent figure in the …
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Food and Port Trust
A meeting of the rice, sugar and grains merchants of Madras was held at the Indian Chambers Building on Saturday, the 21st instant at 3 P.M. to protest against the Port’s Traffic Circular No. 121, when Mr. Abdul Karim Noor Mohamed of Messrs. Janoo Hussain & Co presided. The representatives …
Read More »A walk through the Koreas
Last week, many stories and pictures emerged of North and South Korean bonhomie. One picture showed South Korean President Moon Jae-in filling a plastic bottle with water from the Heaven Lake of Mount Paektu in North Korea, which he had climbed with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the end …
Read More »Governor’s discretion
The domain being traversed in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case is alien to the Constitution The discretionary powers of the Governor are once again at the centre of a fresh controversy to decide on the remission of seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. A Supreme Court Bench led …
Read More »The plane truth
The Rafale deal has been the subject of heated claims and counter-claims on two broad issues — that the contract to purchase 36 French multi-role fighter aircraft was grossly overvalued and that it was tainted by crony capitalism. Ammunition for the second charge came from an unexpected quarter with former …
Read More »On edge
Volatility is back in the Indian markets. Stock indices witnessed an extraordinary swing on Friday, with the Sensex moving 1,500 points between its high and low during the day and the Nifty almost by 370 points. The Sensex and the Nifty were down 279 and 91 points, respectively, at the …
Read More »The headline conundrum
On two headlines used last week — one of which was misleading and the other problematic When Joy reached us through Happy, we expected to feel ecstatic, but it was to find fault with our journalism. Dr. Joy, a Consultant Neurologist and Movement Disorders Specialist at Aswini Hospital in Thrissur, …
Read More »The primary anchor of a health-care road map
The key to success is to integrate prevention, detection and treatment Universal health coverage is getting prioritised as a part of political reform with the launch of two pillars of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY): Ayushman Bharat (AB), where 1.5 lakh health sub-centres are being converted into health …
Read More »Saving Cauvery’s cradle
Protecting the Kodagu watershed is essential to ensure the water security of three States We require water for everything: drinking, growing crops, producing electricity and industrial production. With the world population projected to grow to about 10 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations, and with climate change discernible, …
Read More »A pan-India Dalit assertion
The story of the Bhim Army of western U.P. is a lens to understand the Dalit challenge to the Hindu Right In a move that took many by surprise, the Uttar Pradesh government recently released Chandrasekhar Azad, the founder of the Bhim Army Bharat Ekta Mission, from jail. It was …
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