| Good morning! Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday underscored his government's aim to expeditiously take welfare schemes to the level of saturation with a "people-centric" approach rather than the "government-centric" model that prevailed eight years ago. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don't miss your daily dose of news. |
| THE BIG STORY Banks, rupee should be key in global trade: PM India needs to focus on making its financial system and currency a more integral part of the international trade and supply chain, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, inaugurating a series of events over the week to mark the government's "Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav" campaign. Read more. |
| STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED ED files 1st charge sheet against Mehul Choksi's wife, calls her key beneficiary In self-reliance push, India clears military purchases worth ₹76,390 crore Moosewala murder: Eight sharp shooters, who killed the singer, identified, say sources Kanpur violence: 9 more arrested, cops release pictures of 40 suspects |
| The Big Question Will the govt be able to contain the W Asia diplomatic row? India on Monday continued to deal with the diplomatic fallout of controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammed made by former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokespersons, with countries in West and South-East Asia denouncing the comments and welcoming the action taken by the ruling party against those responsible. Read more. |
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THE DAILY QUIZ QUESTION This 1994 hit won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Trailers are out for the official Indian remake, Lal Singh Chaddha. Name the American film. |
| FROM THE EDIT PAGE BJP must crack down on hate The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has a problem — and the problem is of the party's own making. Over the last eight years, the latter has appeared to legitimise anti-Muslim rhetoric as a part of its ideological outlook. It has created what could be seen as incentives for its workers and supporters to engage in this rhetoric by rewarding them. This combination of an ideology that excludes Muslims, institutions (including the media), that provide the platform articulating this worldview, and incentives where there is an abundance of leaders and workers who see this rhetoric as a route to quick upward mobility, has proved insidious. It has undermined India's national unity, communal peace, pluralistic ethos, and now foreign policy. Read more. |
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| FROM THE FIELD Violence in a classroom rocks TN district torn by caste division It's 8.30am on a breezy May afternoon, and a 17-year-old boy is being ferried to his government school in southern Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district to write his Class 12 board examinations. He is astride a motorcycle, sitting uncomfortably between two men. The discomfort is not because there is an important test ahead, but because the two men that he is squashed between are policemen in uniform. In April, the school saw the death of a boy in his class — a killing rooted in age-old divisions of caste that now threaten his life. Read more. |
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