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Facts, No fiction: Moving towards education vouchers for India’s public schooling system

Karan - 5 January, 2019

The critical role of education not only makes it desirable for education to be affordable, especially in India, but also requires a decent quality of the education being provided to students.

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‘Farmers are considered as a mere vote bank by Congress’: PM Modi in Jharkhand

OpIndia Staff - 5 January, 2019

PM Modi alleged that Congress policy of granting loan waiver hides their years of inefficiency which compelled a farmer to borrow loans

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Punjab: Days after Congress leaders boasted of clearing farm loans, farmer commits suicide in Bathinda

OpIndia Staff - 5 January, 2019

Nachhatar was reportedly under severe mental stress over his outstanding loan and hence consumed poison in his fields.

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Government hints at stopping Rs 2000 note printing as of now, sufficient notes in circulation

OpIndia Staff - 4 January, 2019

The Rs 2000 note continues to be a legal banknote

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WHO Director General lauds visionary leadership of PM Modi as first 100 days of Ayushman Bharat benefits 7 lakh people

OpIndia Staff - 4 January, 2019

WHO Direct-General praised PM Modi and Health Minister J P Nadda for their visionary leadership which helped seven lakh people avail benefits from Ayushman Bharat in the first 100 days of its launch

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Who uses a library? Trump mocks India’s investments in Afghanistan, faces flak

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Trump also went ahead to state that Russia used to be the Soviet Union, Afghanistan made it Russia because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan.

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Congress alienated the people of Jammu and Kashmir by subverting democracy to stay in power: Arun Jaitley

OpIndia Staff - 3 January, 2019

Congress created barriers between the people of Jammu and Kashmir and great leaders like Shyama Prasad Mukherjee even laid his life to prevent it, said Jaitley with reference to provisions like Article 370.

The Narendra Modi government: A government that delivers

sumeetbhasin - 3 January, 2019

The year 2019 has started with Prime Minister Modi setting the record straight; this government is a government that delivers- and it delivered a lot over the last 4 years

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