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Rs.2300 crore approved to meet the demands of Ex-servicemen pensionersThe Union Cabinet has approved the recommendations of the Committee headed by Cabinet Secretary for benefits to ex-servicemen on four issues. The financial implications of the improvements made as per the Cabinet decision on the four items are broadly estimated at…

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam is busier than before. Some of the incidents which have occured involving Sri Lankan citizens specially in Tamil Nadu have created new tensions between Colombo and New Delhi.  The relationship is robust but certainly this has introduced a new element of…

Sitting by my father’s bedside in a Pune hospital last week, watching him struggling to recover from a stroke, I was suddenly hit by helplessness. And nostalgia. Helplessness because I couldn’t do anything but wait for the doctors to treat him. Nostalgia because now in his 81st year, father (can…