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Assam NRC deadline not to be extended beyond 31stJuly – The Supreme Court refused to extend the deadline for the publication of the final National Register of Citizens for Assam beyond 31 July. The State Co-ordinator informed the Court that due to the impending general elections, the finalisation of...
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a keenly watched matter, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’) last week in its entirety. The IBC was enacted in 2016 with the intention to amend the laws relating to reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate...
By Arun Srivastava Ever since Nitish took charge as Bihar chief minister he has been claiming that he succeeded to reach education to the door steps of the poor and empower them. In the initial years of his rule he had provided some incentives, books, dress and cycle to...
By Aditya Aamir Congress MP of Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor is a naughty Malayali. He took to microblogging site Twitter to taunt Yogi Adityanath. At the Yogi taking a holy dip at the Kumbh. Encircled by his Cabinet. Water splashing, the camera catching the splashes in the light of the...
By Sushil Kutty The Modi government should have taken the decision in 2014 and not waited till January 2019 election-eve: Use Ram Mandir as propeller to catapult BJP-led NDA to another term in office. Blame it on Rahul Gandhi and Congress. If Rahul Gandhi had not announced ‘basic minimum...
By Nilanjan Banik As India heads for election, issues relating to jobless growth and farm distress are haunting the NDA government. The common perception is both these factors are responsible for widening income inequality in India. Oxfam International Report 2019, however, argues this worsening income distribution is a global...
By Sagarneel Sinha Since the induction of Priyanka Gandhi, who resembles her grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, into the battle of Uttar Pradesh officially as the Congress general secretary, the grand old party has been in a jubilant mood. Priyanka’s entry to the party was never doubted;...
Uttar Pradesh is set to get two new expressways and one is to be counted as the longest in the world, about 600-km long. Known as the Ganga Expressway, the longest expressway is to connect Prayagraj with western districts of UP. It will touch Pratapgarh, Rae Bareli, Unnao, Kannauj,...
By Subrata Majumder West Bengal has so far organized four Bengal Global Summits and the fifth one is on the way in February. Sarcastically, each summit raised big hopes for investment, but all those hopes were belied. In the previous summit, big houses queued up and they were...
By Arun Srivastava Ever since the 2017 UP assembly election, BJP has been trying to counter Ambedkar’s influence by projecting some lesser known dalit leaders and trying to exploit the differences amongst dalit sub castes. The party probably feels that playing up the sub caste icons will...