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Courtesy: The Wire Staff In a surgical strike on two key elements of the Constitution that define the powers of states of the Indian Union in general, and the state of Jammu and Kashmir in particular, the Narendra Modi government has undone seven decades of official policy and taken the country into uncharted legal and…
This article was originally published by thewire.in. We are publishing it in the light of journalist Ravish Kumar winning the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award. What was once considered unacceptable and unethical in the public domain has been made entirely acceptable and ethical by the mainstream media in the last five years. Not only is the…
Rahul Pandey, Sandeep Pandey In a single stroke of decisions, the Indian government has revoked Articles 370 and 35A, bifurcated the state of Jammu and Kashmir into J&K and Ladakh, and reduced their status to Union Territories. While there are questions about the legal soundness of these decisions, their moral illegitimacy lies in the fact…
Every day is worse than the one before a killing of all that was legislated to be kind, helpful, healthy for all living creatures, prisoners of this earth. The meanness of it gets me, the hatred of who have less money and things and thus count less and should be punished or simply pushed into…
Organisers of upcoming global climate strikes hope their demands for a rapid end to business as usual and a swift start to climate justice will be too loud to ignore. The strikes, which are set for September 20th and 27th—with additional actions slated for the days in between—are planned in over 150 countries thus far,…
After appointing an ex-IMF official as Finance Minister and another ex-IMF official as State Bank of Pakistan Governor, the government of Pakistan has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of increasing electricity and gas prices and to eliminate the subsidy given to the consumers. At the same time, at the IMF demand, the government would…
The RTI (Amendment) Bill which the ruling party got passed in the Lok Sabha by its sheer brute majority and in the Rajya Sabha by winning over some of the opposition is of a piece with the Modi Government’s systematic and sustained efforts at subverting the autonomy of every constitutional and statutory body and making…
To perish or to radically transform the way we relate to one another and to nature, that is the question humanity has never had to face until now. The evidence backing the above assertion is strong and accumulating. Nevertheless, there remains a stubborn problem of awareness as many who understand the perils facing humanity fail…
As I followed the passing of Triple Talaq bill in the Indian Upper House, I was reminded of my mother, Pramila Dandavate, who was distraught with denial of justice to Shah Bano and raised a revolt against the ambivalence of her own party on matters of bringing justice to Shah Bano. “Mohd. Ahmed Khan v….
The Bharatiya Janata Party government moved two Lok Sabha bills on Tuesday to legislate the Code on Wages 2019 (WC) and the Occupational Health, Safety and Working Conditions Code 2019 (OHSC). The WC seeks to amalgamate and amend the four laws covering minimum wages, payment of wages, bonus and equal remuneration. The OHSC does the…
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