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National Employment Policy Is Still Shrouded In Mystery
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government that brought the four controversial labour codes in a great hurry – one in 2019, and three in 2020 when majority of workforce was even out of job and were struggling to survive – without consulting all stakeholders according to labour conventions,...
BJP Led NDA Is Advantageously Placed In The Presidential Elections On July 18
By Harihar Swarup How the President of India is elected? The Election Commission has notified the election of India’s next President 0n July 18. A look at the voting procedure, how the votes of MLAs and MPs are weighted, and how, previous elections have played out? The President is...
Surging Costs Of Food Pose Significant Challenge In South Asia
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Surging food costs in South Asia, a region populated by more than one-third of the global poor and where one-fifth of calories come from wheat products, pose significant challenges to poverty alleviation and food security. The World Bank’s projection of downside risks to the economic...
BJP Is Out To Take Advantage Out Of Muslim Outburst Against Nupur Sharma
By Sushil Kutty Lopping off anybody’s head in the best of Islamist traditions isn’t for India. And no amount of rioting can change that. But frustration has to spill. And so it did. High up in the sky, above Bengaluru, a grotesquely strung up Nupur Sharma effigy, hanging from...
Friday Violence By Muslims Is A Gift In Disguise For The Hindutva Forces
By Arun Srivastava The spate of violence that erupted across the country, in which two persons lost their lives in Ranchi on Friday is an ugly blot on the fabric of inclusive India. It ought to not have occurred in the first place. This has provided wide space of...
Two Recent Bombay High Court Judgments Have Given A New Direction
By Nihalsing B Rathod Two judgments of great significance delivered by the Bombay High Court in the last three years indicate a trend of understanding the Code of Criminal Procedure (‘CrPC’) as per the Constitutional framework of “due process of law” in Article 21 of the Constitution. This is...
Throughout Europe, New Laws Are Criminalizing Desperate Refugees
By Tiara Sahar Ataii One Saturday morning in November 2020, Dimitris Choulis, a human rights lawyer native to the Greek island of Samos, woke to a message informing him that twenty-four asylum seekers had landed on the beach. Worried they would be forced back to Turkey by the Greek...
Surge In Covid-19 Cases Is Alarming, Special Attention Required
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The rise in cases of COVID-19 infection in India now is the sharpest this year which may be an early warning for the fourth wave. Daily infection count in the last 24 hours has touched the figure 7,584, as per the official information available in...
Anti-Gandhi Dynasty Congressmen Getting Active In States Once Again
By Sushil Kutty It starts with “Dear Congresspersons…” and doesn’t stop till the last vestiges of the Congress party’s confidence in the Gandhi family haven’t been ridden to the ground, the Gandhis painted in mud colours. Who were the people behind this exercise is still not apparent to the...
Indian Economy Under Narendra Modi Is Heading For A Stationary State
By Prabhat Patnaik Adam Smith and David Ricardo had been haunted by the idea of capitalism ending up in a “stationary state”, by which they meant a stable state of zero growth. Marx used the term “simple reproduction” to describe such a state, where there is no net addition...
