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Six Years Later, The Adverse Impact Of Demonetisation Still Haunts India
By Arun Kumar Six years back on November 8, the country suffered a policy-induced shock. The economy, which was coasting along at a good clip, suddenly stalled. The most severe impact was on the most vulnerable sections, who can barely take care of themselves. They largely belong to the...
New Chief Justice Of India D Y Chandrachud Is A Person Of Diverse Interests
By Harihar Swarup Supreme Court Justice D Y Chandrachud took over as the Chief Justice of India on November 9 following the superannuation of Chief Justice U U Lalit who was in the position for only 74 days. New CJI Chandrachud will remain in his position for two years....
Denmark Halts Right Surge In Europe By Allowing Centre-Left A Narrow Win
By Satyaki Chakraborty For the European Left, finally there was some good news last week as the voters in Denmark handed the Social Democratic Party a mandate to form a new government in a general election seen as a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s handling of...
Modi Govt Shamelessly Amends Electoral Bonds Scheme To Put Funds In BJP Kitty
By Nitya Chakraborty The Narendra Modi Government is stooping to its lowest level of propriety to channelize funds to the ruling BJP on the eve of the state assembly elections to Himachal and Gujarat. Himachal polls are due on November 12 and elections to Gujarat assembly are scheduled for...
Questions That Refuse To Go Away Even Six Years After Ill-Fated Demonetisation
By K Raveendran It is six years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the fateful night of 8 November, 2016 announced demonetisation, putting the nation to untold miseries and breaking the backbone of the country’s economy, but people are still groping in the dark as to why the draconian...
BJP Is Quite Nervous In Himachal Before The Assembly Polls On November 12
By Sushil Kutty Himachal Pradesh votes to elect a new government in a couple of days and the debate over Uniform Civil Code is all over the hills, and in the apple orchards. Only the BJP feels the need to come out with the promise of a Uniform Civil...
Demonetisation Haunts India Even After Six Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak November 8, is the sixth anniversary of Demonetisation, and yet the Indian economy is haunted by black money, counterfeit notes, and cash-economy. The decision of a five-judge bench hearing a bunch of petitions regarding Modi’s decision of Demonetisation to further examine the 2016 move has...
Hemant Soren Has Launched A Crusade Against The Modi Government
By Arun Srivastava The politics in Jharkhand has taken a curious turn with the chief minister, Hemant Soren trying to burnish his relation with the Governor and the judiciary consistently busy adopting an aggressive stance towards the BJP and Modi government. Only a couple of days back Hemant was...
Effective Centre-State Dynamics A Must To Counter Terrorism
By Aastha Malipatil Very recently the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, while addressing the two-day Chintan Shivir (brainstorming session) on various internal security issues, for the State Home Ministers, Home Secretaries and Directors-General of Police and Central Armed Police Force (CAPF), at Surajkund, Haryana, emphasised the need to formulate...
Iranian Protesters Deserve The Big Support Of The International Left
By Khosrow Golsorkhi For more than a month now, anti-government protests have been spreading throughout Iranian society — in the streets, on university campuses, at high schools and middle schools, in front of coffee shops, on the metro and other public transit, and most recently among workers in the...
