Scrutators 17/05/2016 6:50 pm Urja Patel India is truly a paradox. The behavior of some of the country’s legislators in Parliament is what the public normally associates with hooligans on the march. Much the same can be said of quite a number of its politicians. Those who witnessed the election campaign in West Bengal saw or read Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s more incendiary speeches were put in mid of an untamed shrew. Contrast these images with that of President Pranab Mukherjee bowing in obeisance to the widow and mother of a humble jawan, Constable Gautam Koch, who made the supreme sacrifice in answer to the call of duty: he died protecting his country from those who would destroy it, and the values and freedoms which have been its lodestars.
Remittances to India drop by $1.5 bn 18/05/2016 6:13 am K.K. Joseph Fresh data released by the World Bank shows that the global economic slowdown and turmoil has led to a decline in remittances.
