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By Mahua Moitra The Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Bill, 2020 is deeply problematic because it further weakens the rights and resources available to the states by taking away the statutory promises made under the new GST regime and while on the other...
Will India ever have a Ruth bader Ginsburg?
By Indira Jaising Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG as she was known, has passed on. At 84, she said that she was amazed that people wanted to take pictures with her. This coded remark probably sought to undo several stereotypes–that only young, blond woman are attractive and that age...
Opposition Views Must Be Respected In Parliament By Ruling NDA Ministers
By Harihar Swarup Before the start of the truncated Monsoon session of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said “this Parliament, particularly this session, has a special responsibility”. The PM is absolutely right, this Parliament does have a greater task – but that task and responsibility is not just...
Unemployment Rate Had Peaked Under Modi Regime Much Before Corona Struck
By Arun Srivastava Modi government’s denial to accept the survey data provided by “non-government agency about the loss of jobs of 21 million salaried jobs between April and August, weeks after suggesting that 18.9 million salaried jobs were lost between April and July, has not come as...
Covid Brings Cyber Attacks Closer To Home
By K Raveendran Covid has changed the way people shop, learn, and work. E-commerce is booming, brick-and-mortar retailers are shifting to digital platforms, and schools and offices have adopted online classes and working from home. With the use of digital platforms becoming part of daily life, hackers...
Akali Minister’s Resignation From Cabinet On Farm Bills Exposes Fissures In NDA
By Anjan Roy The political earthquake in parliament house on Thursday culminating in the resignation of the Shiromani Akali Dal’s Harsimrat Kaur Badal from union cabinet reflected the fault lines in the ruling coalition under pressure from entrenched vested interests. Siromani Akali Dal (SAD) has been a...
Uncertainty in U.S. Supreme Court After Justice Ginsburg’s Death
By Sushil Kutty To quote a TV anchor, not the one served with a privilege notice by the Maharashtra Assembly, “The future is unwritten and we’re in utterly uncharted territory.” This anchor wasn’t talking about the LAC and what would be unfolding there in the coming days. Nor...
Coup Figurehead Drops Out As Morales’s Socialists Set To Win Bolivian Presidency
By Ben Chacko Bolivia’s coup President Jeanine Añez has dropped out of next month’s presidential elections after polls showed her scraping just over 5 per cent of the vote. Añez, who was appointed by the army after it forced just re-elected president Evo Morales from power last...
Desperate Economic Situation Needs Immediate Boost To Governent Expenditure
By Prabhat Patnaik A striking aspect of the 24 per cent decline in GDP in the first quarter of 2020-21 compared to the previous year’s first quarter is the decline by 10.3 per cent in public administration, defence and other public services. This is a sector where...
Centre Showing Its Bias In Favour Of Divisive Television Channels
By Arun Srivastava The Modi government is not averse to Supreme Court laying down guidelines for the digital media but is completely opposed to apex court laying down “any further guidelines’ for rest of mainstream media on the plea that there already exists sufficient framework and judicial pronouncements...
6.6 Million White Collar Professional Jobs Lost During May-August
By Satyaki Chakraborty An estimated 6.6 million white collar professional jobs, including engineers, physicians, teachers, were lost between May and August, bringing their employment to the lowest level since 2016 and wiping out the gains made over the last four years while five million industrial workers were...
Assembly By-Polls In Uttar Pradesh Will Test Yogi Adityanath’s Leadership
By Pradeep Kapoor Chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his party on one hand and opposition parties on the other are facing acid test during forthcoming by-elections for eight assembly seats. The results of these by elections will set the mood for assembly polls in 2022. Chief Minister...
Sonia Gandhi Accomodates Dissident Congress Leaders In New Party Committees
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress President Sonia Gandhi last week left for her annual medical checkup abroad, a day after she carried out a reshuffle of the organisation. There was a strong demand from Congress leaders both old and young that the 23 members who wrote a letter to...
Why Umar Khalid And Anand Teltumbde Upset The Indian State
By Annie Domini The nature of the State is best found in the nature of those it seeks to silence. To understand the Narendra Modi-led government in the centre, one must, therefore, parse the kind of men, women and others the Union wants to say shush to, the...
Opposition Urges President To Set Up An Inquiry Committee To Probe Delhi Riots
By Satyaki Chakraborty Communist Party of India general secretary D Raja, Indian National Congress leader Ahmed Patel, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, DMK leader Kanimozhi and RJD leader Manoj Jha met President Ram Nath Kovind on September 17, 2020 and urged him to...
Economy Is Precarious – Where Is The Stimulus For 21 Million Jobless?
By Krishna Jha With GDP going down to little more than minus 23 percent, the economy in the country is almost at the bottom level, and needs fiscal stimulus. Few months back, prime minister had announced a Rs 20 lakh crore Economic Stimulus Package which soon turned out...
Corporatisation Of Farming At The Cost Of Small Peasants
By Prakash Karat Ever since the three ordinances concerning agriculture and marketing were promulgated in June, kisan organisations and farmers have been protesting against the serious assault on their rights. On the eve of the parliament session, there have been big protests in Haryana, Punjab and western...
Centre’s Apathy Is Fully Responsible For Tragic Plight Of Migrant Labour
By Gyan Pathak When state fails in protecting life, liberty, and property of a citizen, which are under constitutional guarantee of protection, it must compensate for the loss. Additionally, if the government willingly violates its own guarantee given to the citizen, it is culpable, for which the...
