Newspaper Must Read Articles of The Day– 21 March 2015

The Hindu

 National

• Coal, mines Bills cleared as govt. has its way – The govt. managed to pass the Coal Mines Bill on the last day before the Parliament broke for month long recess in budget session.

• Black money Bill tabled in Lok Sabha -Undisclosed income abroad will no longer be taxed under IT Act, but at a flat rate of 30%.

• Law not a panacea for poll ills: CEC – Chief Election Commissioner H S Brahma talks about Electoral reforms for clean politics.

 International

• Putin sends out message with military drills – Keep you distance and do not overplay your hand – was the message of the huge Russian Military Drill from the Pacific to the Black Sea, odered by Putin.

• 142 dead in Yemen bombings– Suicide bombings by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least 142 people Friday at mosques in the Yemeni capital, in an attack targeting Shiite worshippers including Huthi militiamen.

Business

• No intention to take away ‘significant’ power from RBI: Arun Jaitley-Government will not take away any ‘significant’ power of the RBI; its role in bond market regulation will be clarified later.

• Centre plans 10 pharma clusters-Government to set up 10 pharma clusters across the country in the next one year to make the sector globally competitive.

Opinion-Editorial

• Unlocking growth through labour reforms-By 2020, when the global economy is expected to run short of 56 million young people, India, with a youth surplus of 47 million, could fill the gap. In this context labour reforms are the way to unlock double-digit growth in India.

• National policy for Upper Houses?-There are several merits and demerits to having a Legislative Council. A national policy on having a permanent second chamber is necessary so that a subsequent government cannot abolish it at its whim.

• The polluted air we breathe -25-30 cities in the top 100 most polluted cities in the world are from India. Air pollution is most often a symptom of inadequate urban planning.

Indian Express

Editorials & Columns

• The Buddhist route – By reaffirming India’s historical leadership of the Buddhist world and projecting its Buddhist links in the Indian Ocean region, Delhi is evidently trying to counter efforts by China to extend its sphere of influence.

• Return of a spectre – Pakistan’s n-weapons could be misused during a crisis by military personnel sympathetic to the jihadi cause.

• Copy that – The roots of the mass copying problem lie in the structural flaws of an education system that continually fails students through its lopsided priorities and poor capabilities.

• Fine-tuning democracy  – Money power, inner-party democracy, defection, paid news and electoral reform are the current challenges of Indian democracy.

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