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Essential Defence Services Bill Violates ILO Policy On Strikes
By Dr K R Shyam Sundar The Lok Sabha has passed the Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021, with a sunset clause, by a voice vote without any debate. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has assured the House that after parliamentary assent and presidential nod, the Act will be effective for...
RBI Licensing Policy Is Favouring Private Sector Under Modi Regime
By N Shankar The Reserve Bank of India being a regulator has been given the authority to give banking licences. It had framed its licensing policy to grant licenses for establishing new banks with due process of diligence, fit and proper criteria and with no conflict of interest, etc....
Rahul Steps Up, But Will He Lead United Opposition Against Modi?
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi drove a tractor to the Parliament and asked the government to repeal farm laws at the earliest, he led a meeting of opposition leaders on August 3 to formulate a pan-India strategy to take on the BJP in the 2024...
Remembering Hiroshima Day Seventy Six Years After U.S. Atomic Bombing
By Ben Chacko To date, the US bombings of Hiroshima on August 6 1945 and of Nagasaki three days later — war crimes that between them killed more than 200,000 civilians — remain the only occasions on which these terrible weapons, capable of destroying entire cities and of poisoning...
Govt Persists With Pegasus Intransigence In Supreme Court
By K Raveendran The take-off for the hearing on a batch of petitions in the Supreme Court is certainly a setback for the Modi government. Chief Justice N V Ramana, while asking pointed questions to the petitioners, however, made it clear that the allegations about the use of Pegasus...
Modi Govt Stand On OBC Reservation In Medical Courses Is Dubious
By Prakash Karat The announcement by the Modi government providing for 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and 10 per cent reservation for Economically Weaker Sections in the all-India quota for undergraduate and postgraduate medical and dental courses from the current academic year is being hailed...
The Struggle For Protecting Gains Of Freedom Is Of Supreme Importance Now
By Krishna Jha Independence Day is at our door step. Count down has begun. India has been a country where almost the entire people, as one, irrespective of their caste, creed and community, stood against the mighty British imperialism and came out victorious. The demand for complete independence was...
India’s Preparations For The Third Wave Lack Coordination
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A possible third wave of COVID-19 seems to be the most discussed issue in India. Common people as well as experts, political parties in opposition as well as those in the ruling establishments, governments in the states as well as at the Centre, have been...
‘Human Behaviour’ Will Determine Pace, Intensity Of Third Covid Wave
By Sushil Kutty The delta variant will gallop this month, say US scientists. The prognosis is for the US. But how much it will peak will depend on “human behaviour”. And America has humans of various variants. From the Texas variant to the Florida variant. And landlocked human behaviour...
Anganwadi And ASHA Workers Are Essential Staff And Not Volunteers
By Dr. Suchita Krishnaprasad Approximately 14 lakh women serving under as Anganwadi workers (AWW) under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme, which is the world’s largest community-based programme for child development, and another nine lakh women working as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) under the National Rural Health Mission,...
