#GOVT

1/n: My @CASIPenn Working Paper : Deceleration, Pandemic, Recession: Does India have a Plan? has been officially published now. You can read it here. Here is a short thread summarising
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A Performance Audit related to Indian Army covering the period 2005-06 to 2007-08 was initiated in June 2008, the draft report was issued to Ministry of Defence in January 2009,
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A threadReasons mask wearing is pointless/illogical:1) They don't work 2) They can spread the bacteria more easily3) You only wear them in certain places but not others4) You wear them
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Of a politically incorrect, firebrand, Hindutva leader from the Junglemahal. This is the story of Dilip Ghosh the MP from Medinipur & the State President of WB BJP. This is
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There seems to be a certain kind of columnist that no longer recognises any obligation to the "truth". Boris Johnson is, of course, the prime example: he always looks baffled
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"I think he [Bacha Khan] has either misunderstood the meaning of 'Swaraj' [...] or was misinterpreting it to the ignorant public of the NWFP. Perhaps he thought that Congress was
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1. Printing moneyThere is nothing wrong about @ReserveBankZIM printing money. The problem is: what's done with the printed money? Where does it go? How is it distributed?If the money is
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Actual StoryA few years back when govt medical college EKM was cooperative hospital, someone entered the women's hostel of the college & stole money from d purse of students..No one
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Lockdowns are nothing but a circuit breaker. The scientific community are in consensus that the economic & social cost of lockdowns is not worth the benefit. This debate is not
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Thread on #Tibet from @ananthkrishnan’s India's China Challenge:“That tourists–and firefighters–outnumber worshippers in the halls of #Potala today (summer 2015) is a result of China’s grand project in Tibet: a project
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It took 2yrs for Ajay Prakash & Rahul M to complete an investigation to the flourishing cattle smuggling from India to Bangladesh. Number of cattle smuggled per year is estimated
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1/ Over and over in @UCPCaucus we are seeing proof that a PoliSci BA doesn't make anyone a competent communications or PR professional.It's a great degree, but it's not the
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There are people right now practising their fall...- Priyanka has to ensure her nose will remain intact. - Shashi must get that hair flick right.- Gehlot is happy no one
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Earlier this year, the PM promised of a fully operational “world beating” track & trace app by 1 JuneIt was one of the govt's much touted 5 conditions to easing
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A thread of threads written by me in 2020.' Writing clarifies thought'- while had known this for a while,was only in 2020, that I put it in practice on a
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My views on test and trace @bmj_latest - govt wasted valuable time and tried to run everything through @DHSCgovuk @PHE_uk instead of using expertise in LAs and DsPH (1)https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/27/chris-ham-test-and-trace-strategy-m
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