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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Continental ties - India's outreach to Africa"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Maharajah of debt: On Air India’s revival"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Continental ties - India's outreach to Africa"
- Continental - relating to or belonging to any of the Earth’s continents
- Outreach - the practice of providing help and advice to people in a community before they have to ask for it
- Heavy-lifting - difficult work that needs a lot of effort
- Transform - to make someone or something completely different
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal
- Forum - an organized event or meeting at which people discuss something
- Minimal - extremely small in amount or degree
- Token - token actions are done to show that you are doing something, even if the results are limited in their effect
- Foothold - a position from which you can improve your status or become more successful
- Generic - a generic drug or other product does not have a trademark and is sold without a company’s name on it
- Dependable - if someone or something is dependable, you can have confidence in him, her, or it
- Donor - someone who gives things such as money or goods to an organization, especially one that helps people
- Aid - money, food, or other help that an organization or government gives to a country or area where people need it, for example because of a war or flood
- Strings attached - if something such as an agreement has strings attached, it involves special demands or limits
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Credentials - personal qualities, achievements, or experiences that make someone suitable for something
- To begin with - used for introducing the first thing in a list of things you are going to say
- Maritime - involving ships or the business of moving people and goods in ships
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- On the sidelines of something - not actively involved in something
- Delegation - a group of people who represent a country, government, or organization
- Peacekeeping - military efforts to prevent war, especially between groups who have been fighting
- Consultation - discussion between people or groups before they make a decision
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Initiative - an important action that is intended to solve a problem
- Bolstering - to make something stronger or more effective
- Coalition - a temporary union of different groups who agree to work together to achieve a shared aim
- Like-minded - like-minded people, groups etc have similar tastes, interests, and opinions
- Equitable - fair and reasonable because everyone is treated in the same way
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Maharajah of debt: On Air India’s revival"
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- Aviation - connected with making or flying planes
- Carrier - a vehicle or ship used for moving goods or people
- The likes of - a person, thing, or group similar in character or quality to the one mentioned
- Corporate - relating to large companies
- Beset - to cause someone difficulty or danger over a period of time
- Bear fruit - to have a successful result
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Owing to - because of something
- A slew of something - a large number of things
- Bloated - not effective because it is too large or has too many workers
- Workforce - the total number of people who work in a particular company, industry, or area
- Adequately - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Subservient - considered less important than something else
- Holding the short end of the stick - to suffer the bad effects of a situation
- Consortium - a group of companies or people with similar interests or aims who have agreed to work together
- Bailout - money that someone gives or lends to a person or organization with financial problems
- Bureaucratic - involving a lot of complicated rules, details, and processes
- Mismanagement - the process of managing something badly
- Sinful - morally wrong or bad
- Fill vacuum - replace something
- Come forward - to offer help
- Either way - used for saying that it does not matter which of two things happens or is true, because the result will be the same
- Incur - to lose money, owe money, or have to pay money as a result of doing something
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