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A private broom: Chennai’s conservancy woes 

The appointment of retired judge V. Parthiban as the one-man commission by the Madras High Court to probe the alleged police excesses while breaking up conservancy workers’ protest in Chennai has spotlighted the persistent challenges in public-private partnership in solid waste management. Among the issues are low wages, inadequate social security, and absence of government jobs for…

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A.P. and Germany’s Lower Saxony explore ties in skilling, employment

Head of Talent Acquisition for Skilled Workforce, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Government of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany, Balasubramanian Ramani on Thursday called on Secretary, Skill Development and Training and School and Higher Education Kona Sasidhar. They discussed forging of long-term collaboration in talent mobility frameworks, German language training, institutional partnership with ITIs and diploma institutes…

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Inflation falls but not unemployment

At less than 3%, the inflation figure for May is well within the target set by the government of India. This has led to a celebration in the media of the Reserve Bank of India’s prowess in macroeconomic management, of which inflation control is an important part. What has received next to no acknowledgement, though,…

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Prakasam district celebrates 56th formation day

Social Welfare Minister Dola Sree Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy, Prakasam District Collector A. Thameem Ansaria Ongole MLA Damacherla Janardhan and Santhanuthalapadu MLA B.N. Vijay Kumar paying floral tributes to the statue of Andhra Kesari Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu at the Ongole Collectorate on Sunday. On the 56th formation day of Prakasam district, Social Welfare Minister Dola Sree…

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The Modi Government’s 25 Things-To-Do in 2025

When Julius Caesar’s Senate fixed January 1 as the ‘first day of the year’, the idea wasn’t only to ‘start afresh’. It was also when those in civil office were to set in motion their responsibilities. In that tradition, coming down from 45 BC, let the existing coalition government headed by Narendra Modi set out…

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