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By Sushil Kutty The gut has feelings. The 10 per cent EWS Quota (124 Amendment) Bill was bound to happen. The Ayodhya title suit hearing was bound to see further delay. Jobs or the lack of jobs are an election issue. Ram Mandir butts in and is pushed...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Supreme Court dismisses petition for day-to-day hearing in Ayodhya case – The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking speedy hearing in the Ayodhya land dispute. The petition cited the delay that had already happened and the feelings surrounding the issue prevailing in the nation as the reason for...
Reinstatement Of CBI Director Is A Big Indictment Of Modi Govt
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 8th January, 2019, after much anticipation, the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the removal of Alok Verma as CBI Director, wherein the three judge bench headed by the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi quashed the order dated 23.10.2019 passed by the Central Vigilance Commission...
Modi Govt Amends Trade Unions Act In A Hurry
By Raman Swamy It was one of those surreal moments in Parliament. Outside more than two crore workers of the country were on an all-India strike. Inside the Lok Sabha, a bizarre Bill to amend the Trade Unions Act was being discussed to determine the criteria for recognition...
Successful General Strike Will Impact Lok Sabha Polls
By B. Sivaraman Will the impact of General Strike of 8-9 January reverberate in general elections? A general strike barely three months before general elections, that too stretching for two days, is bound to assume special significance no matter whether it is a total success or not in...
American Capitalists Are Split On Trump
By Rick Nagin The resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in late December represents a qualitatively new stage in the split in the U.S. monopoly capitalist ruling class. There now are two distinct groups, differing in fundamental ways in their foreign and domestic policies. First, there are...
MP Speaker’s Election Marred By Bitterness
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Billed To Woo Voters For BJP
By Aditya Aamir Tuesday the 10% EWS quota amendment bill got the Lok Sabha nod despite adding to the laughing stock piled against the Narendra Modi government outside Parliament. Likely headlines ranged from ‘A Steal’ to ‘Finally.’ Every party when in power attempted to give economically weaker sections...
Modi’s New India Mission Has Lost Path Midway
By Mriganka M Bhowmick With every passing year India evolves to a new collective consciousness of its people and it moves from strength to strength. It’s a process of evolution where the collective consciousness of people abandons the bad and gradually adopts the good with focus for better...
Flash Go Hartal And Verma Removal
By Sushil Kutty Bandh is closure of village, town, city and state – country. Nothing should be moving. But that’s not how it happens. Rail roko, buses attacked and vandalized, markets forcibly closed, strikers marching through the streets, protesting against this or that issue and the top court...
With 7.3 Per Cent Growth OECD Paints Rosy Picture For India
By Gyan Pathak The Indian economy is forecast to grow by 7.3 per cent in the medium term during 2019-23, says the OECD Economic Outlook for Southeast Asia, China and India 2019. Labour market conditions point to solid growth in private consumption, although rising inflation and interest rates...
Azadi Restricted To Non-Sunni Muslim Sects And Christians
By Sankar Ray Twenty-seven year-old Sonia Riasat is the lone Christian employee in any government office along with a dozen sanitation workers in municipalities in the whole of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, which in India is known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. She has a postgraduate degree in English literature...
BJP’s masterstroke before election – 10% quota for EWS
Quota for economically weaker sections (EWS) could work like a masterstroke for Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. It is one of the several big moves and good leap for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in unfurling significant schemes. BJP is seeking to offer a quota of...
Making money with software shares in 2019
MI have gone gaga on software shares since 2013, when Satya Nadella redefined Microsoft – and tripled the valuation of the Evil Empire of Redmond in the next five years. True, Microsoft was the best Big Tech performer of 2018, an annus horribilis for the best and brightest of...
Bihar Caste Battle To Take Control Of Economy
By Arun Srivastava Bihar is one of the most complicated states in the country, where caste is presumed to define the character of the politics. But in reality that is not the case. It is class that dictates state politics. The Lok Sabha elections for 2019 in Bihar...
SP-BSP Arithmatic In Uttar Pradesh Is A Winning Deal
By Kalyani Shankar It is often said ‘Uttar Pradesh is India and India is Uttar Pradesh’. A win in India’s most populous state, can be a game-changer in national elections for any party, as it accounts for 80 out of 545 parliamentary seats. Also UP has gifted many...
Socialism More Popular Now Among Russians
By Gavin Mendel-Gleason Two decades of polling by the Levada Centre, a Russian NGO, show that the majority of people in Russia regret the downfall of the USSR. It is mainly economic and social reasons that fuel this regret. This year, positive sentiment towards the Soviet Union has...
New Climate Deal Can Create Huge Green Jobs
By Norah Vawter Lately, there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2040. The day after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration tried to bury the...
