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That mushroom cloud Gopalkrishna Gandhi Published 23.07.2 https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/that-mushroom-cloud-some-thoughts-on-the-25th-anniversary-of-pokhran-ii/cid/1953898
Today, one does not hear voices from civil society talking of the nuclear threat or, for that matter, of biological and chemical threats to the world. Disarmament is a piety in conference agendas

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Election Commissioners' Appointment Bill: Impact on independence of Election Commission of India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA6bpln-XAQ
चुनाव आयुक्तों की नियुक्ति विधेयक- चुनाव आयोग की स्वतंत्रता पर प्रभाव

Justice Madan Lokur, Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Prashant Bhushan, advocate, Supreme Court of India
SY Quraishi, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India
Sanjay Kumar, Professor, CSDS Delhi
MG Devasahayam, former IAS officer
Anjali Bhardwaj, Satark Nagrik Sangathan

Being the 5th largest economy 'impressive,' but per capita income must also rise, says ex-RBI Governor  https://www.deccanherald.com/business/being-the-5th-largest-economy-impressive-but-per-capita-income-must-also-rise-says-ex-rbi-governor-2689078  16 September 2023 Rangarajan said post Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war, there is a need to lay down a clear roadmap for India’s future development and the first and foremost task is to raise the growth rate.... In 2020, India’s rank with respect to per capita income was 142 out of 197 countries.  According to calculations, he said, if the country achieves a seven per cent rate of growth continuously over the next two decades and more, it will make a substantial change to the level of the economy and India may almost touch the status of a developed economy. India needs to absorb the new technologies.. though the new technologies may lower the employment elasticity with respect to output