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| Bengal Reclaims Itself | | | | Hardeep Singh Puri
Howrah was once called the Sheffield of Asia. The jute mills along the Hooghly were the largest concentration of organised industry on the subcontinent. Kolkata was India’s commercial capital, head office to the Birlas and the Tatas, to ITC, Britannia, Coal India, Hindustan Motors, Garden Reach Shipbuilders. IISCO at Burnpur dates to 1918, Durgapur Steel Plant to the Second Plan. In 1950-51, Bengal produced roughly 27 per cent of the country’s manufacturing output. I knew that Calcutta. Before I joined the Foreign Service, one of my first jobs was at Hindustan Lever in the city, and Calcutta then was still a place where a young man arriving with his trunks could be sur | |
| | | | The Alarming Surge of Crime and the Challenge of a Safe Society | | | | Lalit Gargg
The latest figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) are not merely statistical records; they expose the dark and disturbing reality of our society that is often concealed beneath the glitter of development, modernization, and political achievements. The crime data for 2024 clearly indicate that while India may be progressing economically, technologically, and globally, it continues to face grave social and moral challenges. When a country witnesses a murder every 17 minutes, a kidnapping every five minutes, a rape every 18 minutes, and an economic offence or fraud almost every two minutes, the issue ceases to remain merely one of law and order. It becomes | |
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