PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Bugle for restraintThe schedule for Assembly elections in five States announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on January 8 was along...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – At the CentreAs the joint statement at the end of the India Central Asia virtual summit on Thursday noted, ties between India and the region...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Probing Pegasus
The institution of a judicial probe by the West Bengal government into allegations of surveillance using advanced spyware on potential Indian targets marks a significant political and legal...
PARAGRAPH, WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Shared values
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s day-visit to Delhi this week was heavy on discussions and understandably light on deliverables. The visit,...
PARAGRAPH WORD AND MEANINGS
TOPIC- Big on hopes, short on ideas
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman fourth successive budget, while common sensical in its approach, is not exactly bubbling with...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – A serious lapseThe lapse in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security arrangements, which left his convoy stranded on a flyover for around 20 minutes, near Ferozepur in...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Silver winSport is a distillation of micro tragedies and megaecstasies enmeshed with whirring limbs, glistening sweat, unabashed tears and booming laughter.And football presents a wider canvas for all these attributes, which were exhibited at Rio de...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Growing precarityThe latest inflation data based on retail and wholesale prices are yet again flashing cautionary signals as spiraling costs continue to dog...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
OPIC – Cultural genocideThe recent discovery of hundreds of graves in Canada has put the spotlight back on its dark past, when indigenous people faced systemic discrimination and violence....
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Risks and rewardsFollowing through on the Budget’s plan to monetize public assets in order to fund fresh capital expenditure on infrastructure, the Government...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Cultural genocideThe recent discovery of hundreds of graves in Canada has put the spotlight back on its dark past, when indigenous people faced systemic discrimination and violence....
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC ‒ A planetary adjustmentPrime Minister Narendra Modi, in perhaps his first address this year on the theme of the environment, remarked that it was...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Taxing dramaIn what should be the last act of a long and winding tax dispute drama, British firm Cairn Energy has said it...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Persistent mindlessnessThe deaths of over 20 paramilitary personnel in an encounter with the Maoists in the Tarrem area near Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district once...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Flying terror
The use of drones to attack an Indian Air Force base in Jammu on June 2728 brought to the fore a troubling,...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – New phaseThe reconstitution of the Union Council of Ministers on Wednesday was guided by both political and administrative considerations. As many as 36...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Income and quotasThe Supreme Court’s ruling that economic criterion alone cannot be used to classify a member of a Backward Class as belonging...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Words and deedsFor the third consecutive year in a row, and his fourth such speech since he was elected in 2014, Prime Minister...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – True mettleIndia saw another fortnight of good tidings in sports from Tokyo. Close on the heels of the recent Olympics there, in which...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – A robust friendshipRussian President Vladimir Putin has concluded a short summit meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, highlighting the “all-weather”...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Positive climateIndia’s frontline position as third highest emitter of greenhouse gases has sharpened focus on its future policy course to mitigate carbon emissions under the...
PARAGRAPH,WORDS AND MEANINGS
TOPIC – Transient easingThe latest retail inflation data suggest, at first flush, that price pressures have begun to moderate in the economy, with the August...