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CDS and DMA – Penny Wise Pound Foolish?
Faulty decision by CDS and DMA raises questions about ability to provide sound advice to government
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An Open Letter to Aakar Patel
Dear Mr Patel, This is in response to your piece published in today’s TOI under a presumptuously named column ‘AakaarVani’. I’m writing this to correct you on some factual and a lot of perceptual errors that seem to behind almost every sentence in the piece. I’m writing in the hope that you may correct these,…
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Penny foolish pound foolish …
The financial cost of keeping PMR out of OROP doesn’t seem to have been calculated by the govt.
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Me Too
There is a reason why our country, like others, maintains Para Military Forces (PMF) in addition to a standing army. The rationale is to have a lower cost force not required to be manned, trained and equipped with the same exacting standards as the armed forces, primarily for peace time border protection and internal security…
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OROP – Constitutionally Speaking (A guest post by Akshat Agarwal)
Guest post by Akshat Agarwal, a budding lawyer In light of the recent controversy over the issue of One Rank One Pension (OROP), it may be pertinent to turn for guidance to the supreme law of the land, the Constitution of India. This document, drafted over thousands of hours of deliberation and discussion, provides the…
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Mirza Ghalib and the veterans
What is the similarity between Ghalib and veterans of armed forces? A common protest.
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