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By K R Sudhaman Comptroller and Auditor General has pulled up the government for doing away with revenue deficit targets from this financial year, which did not augur well for macro-economic stability and fiscal situation as it could lead to revenue expenditure like subsidies being met through debt....
Notice issued on MHA notification on snooping computers – The Supreme Court issued notice in the petitions against the notification by the Ministry of Home Affairs’ order, which allows ten agencies to gather information stored on any computer. The Chief Justice though asked why no petition had been filed...
By Amritananda Chakravorty The issue of the operation of dance bars in Maharashtra has been in the news again, wherein the Supreme Court struck down some of the conditions of license to run dance bars as arbitrary and violative of the fundamental freedom of trade guaranteed under Articles...
By B. Sivaraman The labour arena in India has suddenly become a happening place. After a successful telecom strike by 2 lakh BSNL workers on 3 December 2018 and two successive bank strikes on 21 and 26 December 2018 involving a million bank employees, 4 lakh defence sector...
By Sushil Kutty India’s electoral democracy is a spectacle. A political circus. What goes on under the big-top is quite literally a display worth the presentation: A visually striking performance, decibel-rich. Parade. Pageant, Extravaganza! Amidst all this, a five-year-long display of barely concealed hate spewed on Social Media....
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah said all the refugees in West Bengali will be considered a part of official Indian population and to be given citizenship with the passage of Citizenship Bill. The chief was addressing to the people in Malda on Tuesday and added upcoming Lok...
By Aditya Aamir The way it is made, EVM is electing victors machine, not electronic voting machine: Sit in a cave and hack into the EVM and deliver votes to elect the government of the cave-hack’s choice. The guy obviously is hacking for a party, definitely the party...
By C.J. Atkins Bernie Sanders has a sexism problem. Bernie Sanders doesn’t get black voters. Bernie Sanders is becoming unlikable. Bernie Sanders is too old. Bernie Sanders is too white. The television talk circuit, newspaper op-ed pages, and Twitter are all filled these days with analysts eagerly...
By Kalyani Shankar Can the Opposition unite and pose a challenge to the BJP in the coming months? There are so many ifs and buts. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had organised a mammoth rally in Kolkata’s Brigade grounds on Saturday. A who’s who of the opposition...
As the robotic automation continues to grow more modern robots such as the game changing collaborative robots from Universal Robots are entering the realm that was meant for humans. A ‘cobot’ is a robot, which works in harmony with a human worker hence the name collaborative. The cobot and...