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" Prasad told reporters after a meeting of RJD legislators in evening. the advertisement of which has been shot by Sahil. It was a tough shoot,we won’t keep making sequel after sequel just for the heck of it, says he was very clear that he wanted fresh faces in his film. they reaffirmed that terrorism and violent extremism as and when conducive to terrorism cannot and should not be associated with any religion,do no harm? At the same timethere is little sign that inflation will come down soon Month-on-month seasonally adjusted inflation based on the consumer price index is showing that inflation for the next five months is likely to be high Even after that there is no indication that price rise will slow down What might be the best way for the government to stabilise the economy Considering the multiple problems facing the economythere is clearly no single magic bullet The government will have to adopt a multi-pronged approach For examplethere needs to be one set of strategies to address the question of investment plans and the implementation of existing projects that will work towards pushing growth Interest rate policy should not be used to push growth It should be used only to fight inflation In the next few daysthe government must swing into action to free up blocked investment projects It must work with the relevant ministriesand courtsto find out ways to move ahead faster If norms have been violated and this implies that fines will need to be imposedor other action is requiredor if additional environmental standards need to be metthe government must get that process under way as soon as possible Long delays lock up financesget companies and banks into troubleand slow down the economy In the longer termimproving the investment climate will require an array of reforms Reducing uncertainty in investment and project implementation is an important element of economic policy While on one handunearthing corruption is good for the countryon the otherit implies a change in the way people do business The old ways of using political influence or money power and being helped by a politician or bureaucrat who would assist in removing the various hurdles in the way of a project are no longer going to be as easy under a more transparent system and a more cautious bureaucracy Moving away from the present ad hoc system towards one where there are well-defined rules and standards for environmentland rights and forest rights is now needed For this purposethe prime minister should set up task forces to review rules and laws proposed for land acquisitionenvironmentforest rights to ensure that while there is no violation of peoples fundamental rights or undue destruction of our countrys natural resourceswe do not make it impossible for honest entrepreneurs and investors to do business In additionthere is the usual laundry list of economic reforms that have been much debated and can help ease the current economic difficulties The problem of inflation is the other big issue that has been mishandled by the present regime If bad news on the economy comes inthe pressure on the government to ease monetary policy could also increase It will be a mistake to ease monetary policy at this stagewhen inflationary expectations are high In order to avoid taking the blame for raising interest ratesthe politicians of many countries have redefined the role of central banks as one where their primary objective is price stability Tightening monetary policy is the hardest during stagflation as industry lobbying for easing increases The best policy at this time would be to change the institutional arrangement for inflation control and to give the RBI a clear mandate to focus on price stability Not only is it important for the government to implement this strategyit should communicate it adequately to the public In the last few yearsformer finance minister Pranab Mukherjee often made statements that amounted to suggesting that the instrument to address economic growth was the interest rateand that the RBI is not an independent central bank whose objective is price stabilityimplying that interest rate policy in India can be used to push growth at the cost of inflation The government needs to change this perception The mismanagement of the economy is translating into lower job growth and higher prices that hit the voter The government must act urgently The writer is a professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and [email protected] For all the latest Opinion News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Garima Mishra | Pune | Published: September 14 2017 10:50 am Kaas Plateau is home to around 350 flowering plants Top News Tourists at the famous Kaas Plateau in Satara are returning disappointed claiming that they didn’t get to see as many flowers as they had expected Vishnu Kirdat head of Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC) said “Every year the Kaas Plateau opens for the public by the end of July This year however we opened it for the visitors on September 1 as only 20 per cent of the total flowers had bloomed on the plateau However people are being misguided on the social media with old photos of flowers in full bloom and thus there has been a rush of visitors The flowers will bloom completely by Dussehra but by that time the grass will be longer So flowers spotting will be difficult” Kirdat added that even the official website of the Kaas Plateau run by JFMC mentions that the full bloom is still away Despite this visitors have been thronging the site especially during weekends Entry fee is Rs 100 per person on all days and only 3000 visitors are allowed to visit in a day While the total revenue collection on Saturday was Rs 35 lakh it was Rs 5 lakh on Sunday The UNESCO World Heritage Committee had recognised Kaas Plateau as a heritage site in 2012 Since then thousands of tourists nature enthusiasts researchers and wild flower lovers from around the world have visited it Kaas Plateau is home to around 350 flowering plants including species listed as ‘rare endemic and threatened’ by the Botanical Survey of India and the International Union for Conservation of Nature City-based Kalpesh Mali who had visited the plateau with friends last weekend said “Someone had posted a photo of Kaas on Facebook in which the plateau looked breathtakingly beautiful So we planned a trip However upon reaching there we discovered that there were hardly any flowers” Hemant Thite who runs a restaurant in Pune was planning to take his family to Kaas this weekend but later cancelled “My local contacts in the city told me that the flowers are very less currently and there won’t be much to see So I dropped the plan” he said Akshay Gaekwad who organises tours across the country through his travel firm Audacious Hikers said “We organise tours to Kaas every year Generally the flowers bloom right after the monsoon season so we plan tours to the plateau between September and November I had gone to Kaas on Tuesday and saw that the flowers haven’t fully bloomed In another 10-12 days they will reach full bloom So we will organise this year’s tour on October 1 We have already received nearly 50 inquiries” For all the latest Pune News download Indian Express App More Top News KANDAHAR AIR FIELD Afghanistan (Reuters) – A once bustling military hub at the heart of America’s war in southern Afghanistan Kandahar Air Field seemed destined to quietly shut down this year as part of a US withdrawal that had already thinned its numbers But now there appears to be growing signs that fate might be postponed if only for a bit as the United States weighs slowing the pace of the drawdown from Afghanistan New US Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the sprawling complex on Sunday but kept reporters guessing whether he thought it should remain operational longer – keeping a US toe-hold in an important region of Afghanistan "My advice needs to go first to the president" Carter told reporters during his first trip since swearing-in on Tuesday The prospect of exiting Kandahar altogether has sounded alarms in Washington where Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama’s withdrawal strategy note the region’s importance to Taliban militants and the threat they pose "Kandahar is just not a spot on the map That’s the spiritual home of the Taliban" Republican Senator Lindsey Graham declared at a Senate hearing this month The Islamic State’s rise in Iraq following the US withdrawal is stoking anxiety about potential backsliding in Afghanistan as Obama pursues plans to cut the roughly 10000 US troops by nearly half this year and then slash them further to an embassy presence at the end of 2016 Kandahar Air Field is already a shadow of its former self with just 2600 coalition forces down from a peak of 26000 Still it offers the United States important capabilities for advising Afghans and aiding counter-terrorism efforts The head of the Afghan National Army’s 205th corps in Kandahar told Carter’s delegation that America’s contributions were vital according to one US official Major General Abdullah Hamid said "I need you to be here" the official recounted paraphrasing Carter praised US forces in Kandahar during his visit "We’ve given so much to create the conditions here that you now see in front of you where the Afghan security forces stand a real shot at making success stick" Carter said "But it’s still not done and it won’t be done without what you are accomplishing here in Kandahar" (Reporting by Phil Stewart) This story has not been edited by Firstpost staff and is generated by auto-feed Tokyo: Japanese police arrested a man who admitted to landing a drone with low levels of radioactive sand on the roof of the prime minister’s office to protest the government’s nuclear energy policy officials said Saturday Tokyo metropolitan police said the man turned himself in late Friday in Fukui police in western Japan A small drone covered with cardboard is seen on the roof of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s official residence in Tokyo AP The small drone found Wednesday had traces of radiation and triggered fears of potential terrorist attacks using unmanned aerial devices police said No one was injured and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was traveling at the time Police said Yasuo Yamamoto 40 is facing charges of flying the drone and obstructing duties at the prime minister’s office Public broadcaster NHK said police quoted the unemployed man as saying he did it to protest the government’s nuclear energy policy Fukui is home to about a quarter of Japan’s 48 reactors which are currently all offline following the 2011 tsunami-triggered Fukushima plant disaster Abe’s administration wants to restart as many of the idled plants as possible The drone was carrying a small camera and a plastic bottle containing what police suspect was the source of radioactive cesium levels of which were too low to affect humans or the environment The suspect said he used the sand from an unspecified location in Fukushima where radiation levels are still high due to fallouts from the Fukushima Dai-ichi meltdowns NHK said The government has set up a taskforce to work on regulations for the use of small drones while ensuring the security of key government facilities It is not clear exactly when the drone landed because workers at the office in central Tokyo rarely go up to the roof An official taking new employees on a building tour reportedly spotted the drone In the United States in January a drone flown by an off-duty intelligence employee crashed on the White House grounds Associated PressMumbai/Aurangabad: it is claimed that Vichare’s action broke the fast, Amit Shah (centre) and his wife offer prayers at Jagannathji Temple in Ahmedabad.
He accused the BJP of making a "desperate attempt" to get different parties to endorse it. Beggars and destitute are seen on the platforms. download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express News Service | Chandigarh | Updated: July 28, Eight farmers were killed in a series of raids on farming communities on Wednesday and Thursday. The attack last evening in Ngala,I have also told them that they should not make haste in completing their work, he said Singh said he has asked the department heads to ensure the workers carry out their respective tasks strictly as per the rulebook Singhwho has cancelled the traditional New Year bashsaid he was deeply pained by the death of the worker He said such an accident has never happened in his long career He was like my child He was just 30 years old All these young employees respect me like a father figure? saw a flurry of activity. "To you your religion, and to me mine. with an able support from Upasana.
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” commented senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Twitter.” Basically Shashi is saying something that’s as plain as day to most of us: yoga gives India soft power. only it doesn’t know it yet. AP" he said. All but seven people on board the aircraft,com.