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By Dr. Gyan Pathak G20 has made a history to agree on working together to ensure ultra-rich are taxed effectively, even after the United States dismissed the need for an international accord on the matter for now. The agreement was reached on July 25 at a meeting of G20...
Budget 2024-25 Proposals Still Inadequate To Boost Medium And Small Industries
By Subrata Majumder For the first time, the Indian annual budget for 024-5 focused on the aim of manufacturing from the perspective of job creation, rather than boosting GDP. Manufacturing has been a failure in the earlier years to drive the GDP growth. The , BJP led NDA government,...
Defection-Hit Ajit Pawar Is In Sticky Wicket In Maharashtra Politics
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is still to recover from defections of NCP (Ajit Pawar) leaders to the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) faction of Ajit Pawar’s uncle Sharad Pawar. Four Pune-based NCP (Ajit Pawar) leaders resigned and rejoined Sharad Pawar’s NCP and a week later the...
Author Pankaj Mishra Wins Coveted $75K Weston International Award
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Early this week, Indian writer Pankaj Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award. The $75,000 award is given to an international non-fiction writer based outside Canada by The Writer’s Trust of Canada. “Through a compelling and essential body of work that braids memoir, philosophy, history,...
Under Neoliberalism, Permanent Employment Is Being Replaced By Flexible Work Regime
By Sanjay Roy The radical shift in labour relations from regimes of standard employment to fragmented and flexibilised labour force under neoliberalism is signified by a radical shift of responsibilities of their production of labour force from the capitalist employer to the State through the denial of indirect wage...
Narendra Modi’s Budget ‘Bonanza’ To Bihar Is Of No Use To Poor And Dalits
By Arun Srivastava The 2024-25 budget proposals of Narendra Modi government simply endorse the common perception that instead of being a tool for ameliorating the economic condition of poor, planning and allocating financial resources to meet the needs of common people and organisations it has become a device to...
Congress High Command Set To Rejig State PCC In Himachal Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra The All-India Congress Committee has dissolved the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee following the party’s dismal performance in the State and general elections, Now the next prominent change is to take place in Himachal Pradesh as Congress high command is looking to change the state organization...
President Maduro Advances Fast In The Fag End Of Prez Elections In Venezuela
By Francisco Dominguez Venezuela’s Presidential election on July 28 takes place in a context dominated by Venezuela’s robust economic recovery, which, considering the calamitous situation the country found itself as late as the end of 2020, the 1 per cent rate of inflation June this year and an expected...
Pro-Corporate Fraudulent Employment Schemes Mark 2024-25 Budget
By P. Sudhir The Indian economy is at a critical cross-road, where the GDP growth is in no way boosting the employment generation capacity. Even within the jobs created, 57.3 per cent are self-employed, 18.3 per cent are unpaid household workers and more than 45 per cent are employed...
Union Budget 2024-25 Further Strengthens Grip Keeping States Fund Starved
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s Budget 2024-25 once again strengthens the Centre’s grip over the states by keeping them fund starved. They now seem to be on complete mercy of the PM Narendra Modi led government for funds. Despite the 15th Finance Commission’s recommendation for 41 per cent of...
Supreme Court’s Interim Order May Not Be Implemented By Two BJP State Govt’s On Ground
By Krishna Jha Supreme Court stays the Kanwar Yatra row. In its interim orders to Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh governments, it said, “Do Not force the owners of eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route to display their names outside shops.” According to legal news website “Live Law,” The court...
India Emerging As The Most Attractive Destination For Global Cement Manufacturers
By Kunal Bose China has cement capacity of around 3.5bn tonnes (source China Cement Big Data Research Institute) in which the industry leader China National Building Material (CNBM) Group alone has a share of 515m tonnes while the second largest player Anhui Conch has capacity of around 370m tonnes....
President Maduro Fighting A Grim Battle To Retain Power In July 28 Prez Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Venezuela is at cross road as the country with 31 million population is going to elect the next President in the Presidential polls scheduled on Sunday, July 28. President Nicholas Maduro who is ruling the South American nation since 2013 is being challenged by the national...
Sudden Demand By Bengal BJP Chief For Merging North Bengal With North East Is Baffling
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal unit of BJP seems to have developed a penchant of shooting itself on the foot. This time it is Balurghat MP and Union minister of state for education Sukanta Majumdar who is holding the smoking gun after he has urged Prime Minister Narendra...
Will Kamala Harris Consider Bernie Sanders As Her Running Mate For Prez Polls?
By Ben Burgis NEW YORK: Vice President Kamala Harris has reminded all of a key insight into social and political analysis. In what has become a signature catchphrase, none of us just “fell out of a coconut tree.” We “exist in the context of everything that has come before...
The Enlarged NDA Government’s New Budget Has Little For The Common Man
By Nantoo Banerjee The annual government budget is all about the expenditure and its direction. Income is generated generally through tax and non-tax revenues and borrowing to take care of the expenditure. Normally, the expenditure part comprises seven main aspects – the government’s own maintenance cost, defence, healthcare, social...
Decoding The Secret Formula Employed By Nirmala Sitharaman In Her Budget
By K Raveendran Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has provided a theoretical framework, explained in the acronym EMPLOYMENT, for her budget formulation: E for Employment and Education, M for MSMEs, P for Productivity, L for Land, O for Opportunity, Y for Youth, M for Middle Class, E for Energy Security,...
Indian Railways Budget 2024-25 Shifts Focus From Poor To Aspirational Class
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian Railways Budget 2024-25 has clearly shifted its priority from addressing the needs of the poor and common people as a means of mass transport system at affordable travel cost to fulfilling the demands of the aspirational class of the country who can afford the...
