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  Daily Vocabulary Dose by SSCtube (15-01-2018) Start learning most frequently asked words in SSC Exams through Daily Vocabulary Dose provided by SSCtube. Article It is a great misfortune that an internal rift has moved inexorably towards a full-blown crisis. It is a development that is both momentous and unfortunate. …

  Daily Vocabulary Dose by SSCtube (14-01-2018) Start learning most frequently asked words in SSC Exams through Daily Vocabulary Dose provided by SSCtube. Turmoil: a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty.The country was in turmoil.   Inexorable: impossible to stop or prevent. The seemingly inexorable march of new technology.   Unprecedented : never done …

Improve Your Vocabulary From Newspaper(11-12-2017) Next Door Nepal: Virtues of soft power   Gaya in Bihar is a “must” destination for Hindu pilgrims from Nepal visiting India. They believe that certain rituals and prayers offered there will liberate the soul of their ancestors. A poster of a Hindu religious preacher stuck …

Improve Your Vocabulary From Newspaper(10-12-2017) Gained in Translation: On Padmavati, a Kannaki cue   I have now stopped watching TV news bulletins. There are nothing but angry faces, ferocious voices and words of chilling, murderous intent. Colourful attires, turbans, sabres, almost like in a carnival. More the TV cameras, higher the …

Improve Your Vocabulary From Newspaper(09-12-2017) The Barelvi Bandwagon   In the first week of November, an obscure Barelvi organisation called Tehreek-e-Labbaik ya Rasool Allah (TLRA) came from Lahore to Islamabad and staged a sit-in in Faizabad blocking access to Islamabad from Rawalpindi. The mob worshipfully followed a foul-mouthed wheelchair-riding leader, …

Improve Your Vocabulary From Newspaper(08-12-2017) An Oversight Problem In a piece for these columns, (‘Give accountability a chance’, IE, December 2) Surjit Bhalla suggested that the RBI governor should testify before Parliament twice a year and raised the issue of parliamentarians asking the right questions to the governor. His column, …

Improve Your Vocabulary From Newspaper(07-12-2017) The misfit hero Barring the defiant undertone of his “mere paas maa hai” dialogue, what else will our generation remember Shashi Kapoor for? He would be remembered primarily for daring to be different and retaining his identity without imitating others, spurning the rat race in favour of …

Improve Your Vocabulary From Newspaper(04-12-2017) Return to Alma Ata India’s healthcare crisis has evoked a policy debate with arguments being made in favour of and against the public and private sector. S.N. Mohanty (‘Fixing healthcare’, IE, November 11) summarises the arguments of both sides very well. He concludes that there is …

Improve Your Vocabulary From Newspaper(03-12-2017) Out of my mind: Does it matter? The Gujarat campaign has been one of the hottest in recent years. Normally, Gujarat political leaders are very much alike and ideologically quite similar. Which party they sign up with depends on which they think is likely to win. …