Unkept Promises
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Modi government broke 300% more promises in its first term than Manmohan Singh’s UPA-II
Up to 1,540 assurances made in the Lok Sabha from 2014 to 2019 are still pending.
Ambar Sharma, IndiaSpend.com & Sana Ali, IndiaSpend.com
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Why have the Kurds never won and kept a nation, despite their many attempts?
The recent US withdrawal from Syria is not the first time the Kurds have been promised something and then abandoned.
John Broich, The Conversation
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India makes new plans to end TB but no one knows how they will work
Health officials have so far been apathetic toward implementing TB programmes and late on delivering promised treatment.
Menaka Rao
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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In Mathura, Muslims say they were denied their vote. No complaints in Hindu areas
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In his new book, journalist Boria Majumdar addresses BCCI’s two-year ban after an online controversy
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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Union ministries have not yet kept half the promises they made to the Parliament
As the BJP-led government completes two years, an analysis shows that two-thirds of the ministries failed to keep 50% of assurances made in Lok Sabha.
Akshay Agarwal & Prateek Sibal, IndiaSpend.com
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One year after the devastating floods, Jammu and Kashmir still waits for the promised relief
The affected people are yet to receive compensation, as the state prepares for a shutdown in protest on Monday.
Fahad Shah
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Modi government has failed to fulfil 80% of its assurances to Parliament
The parliamentary affairs ministry is the biggest offender.
Rakesh Dubbudu, IndiaSpend.com
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