Newspaper Editorials with Hindi Vocab Dec 28 2015 :

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The Times of India: Spread The Cheer

PM Modi needs to do innovative प्रगतिशील diplomacy  राजनैतिक चातुर्य, build bridges पुल  at home too

His surprise Christmas  ठहराव  in Lahore has proved that Prime Minister Narendra Modi still commands हुक्म देना an impressive ability to take control of the narrative  वर्णन, reshape it, own it ­ this won his party a historic  ऐतिहासिक mandate  हुक्म  last year. BJP's hailing अभिवादन करना the Lahore stopover as “a transformative moment on the subcontinent  उपमहाद्वीप “. That's an overhasty उतावला claim. But it's true that Modi has delivered relief मुक्ति  from the chill of winter ­ on the foreign policy front. Now he must do the same on the domestic आंतरिक front  मुख.

A painful दर्दनाक freeze  सख्त हो जाना has just sunk बर्बाद the winter session of Parliament and fears are high that it will do the same to the budget session too.It's not just key legislations  कानून  like GST and the bankruptcy  दिवालियापन  bill that are hanging  लटकना fire but the fate तक़दीर of reforms in general. His campaign promised growth. That's stalled  कार्य को बाधित करना. Here too, some of that “innovative diplomacy“ will go a long way in getting things moving again. How about showering बरसाना that powerful charm  सौंदर्य on the opposition benches too? Taking some of that “spontaneous स्वाभाविक personal diplomacy“ to the Congress camp?
Taking stronger steps against those preaching प्रवचन intolerance and hate from within the Sangh Parivar, which is hurting the BJP brand and contributing to partisanship in the polity?
Of course, had BJP itself not been wilfully  जानबूझकर obstructionist  अवरोधक  when UPA was at the Centre, India would already be reaping  कटाई the benefits of GST. The prime minister would do well to admit as much, offer a mea culpa(an acknowledgment of your error or guilt) as an olive branch ­ thus incentivising Congress and other opposition parties to be more constructive निर्माण संबंधी.This would be a politically novel manoeuvre चालाकी  but surely not more risky than popping झटपट आना या बाहर जाना into Lahore for chai at short notice. Reaching out to the domestic opposition cannot be tougher than reaching out फैलना to Pakistan.

  Last year's historic mandate was for development and growth.This year has been disappointing on that front. India must do better next year and show some real turnaround(जहाज पर से माल उतारने और लादने की क्रिया) on the economic front.Some experts even see 2016 as Modi's last chance, after which partisanship will prevail प्रचार in the slow march towards the 2019 elections. Hence the urgency ज़रूरत  for the prime minister to reset the domestic narrative, as he has done on the foreign policy front, with personally branded warmth उत्साह  and diplomacy . For now, it's a good start that he has defanged the Hindutva jibe  ताना  that people should go to Pakistan if they don't eat or speak “right“.

The Economic Times:Pollution Control Not by Fuel Alone

As Indian cities grow ever more polluted  प्रदूषित and politicians come under pressure to take remedial  सुधारात्मक action, knee-jerk स्वभाविक has been the default response. Delhi's ban on odd-numbered cars on alternate days and stopping registration of diesel vehicles fall into this category . It is time policymakers started taking a systemic view of avoiding reducing pollution. Begin by realising that pollution in a city is a function of many things, not just traffic. In Delhi, for example, particulate matter from burnt  जला हुआ crop  फसल residue  बाक़ी in Punjab is as material a source of pollution as what Delhiites themselves do.

High thermal efficiency at power plants and their use of electrostatic precipitators अवक्षेपक and catalytic  उत्प्रेरक converters can reduce the toxicity  जहरीलापन of their emissions  उत्सर्जन. Urban plan ning, with mixed land use to enable people to walk to work, instead of wasting a major part of their life choked बंद in traffic, is another. The design of roads too is vital  अत्यावश्यक.

If the road grid  जाली of a city were, for example, to resemble  समान होना a honeycomb शहद का छत्ता , meaning devoid  स्वतंत्र of major trunk  लाइन  roads, traffic is unlikely ever to come to a complete halt ठहराव (, as would happen when a trunk road is blocked. It is imperative  अनिवार्यता to design the roads for public transport and to treat parking as a luxury . Construction of roads matters, too. Typically , contracts do not fortify सशक्त करना the maximum time stipulation  प्रतिज्ञा with stiff  भारी कीमत penalties. Contracts are awarded on financial parameters alone, without factoring in the pollution dimension of traffic-choking  घिग्घी(a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx) during the construction period.

How often lights change at traffic signals is often overlooked  अनदेखी.When lights take too long to change, long queues कतार  form that block traffic at intersections leading up to the one with dysfunctional  दुष्क्रियाशील अंग lights, especially when intersections are close to one another. Factor such things in, as well, besides fuel type.

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