India’s oldest Socialist Weekly!
Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, former chairperson of Law Commission of India, expresses concerns over amendments in the RTI Act, 2005, saying they “destroy this delicate equilibrium”.
‘“Sedition” Case: Supreme Court Protects The Wire from “Coercive Action” by Assam Police’; ‘Assam Police Invoke Sedition Law in Second Case Against The Wire’; ‘Indian Journalists’ Union Hails Supreme Court’s Interim Protection of The Wire’; ‘Journalists’ Organisations Speak Against Assam Police’s Actions’.
The construction of a road to the Amarnath cave shrine in the Himalayas has triggered a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir with the opposition parties and some Kashmiri Pandits terming the move as a “catastrophe in the making”.
The optics are being built for creating an environment in which India accepts an unfavourable negotiated solution that reinforces and rewards China’s aggression on the Ladakh border.
Delivering the Smt Bansari Sheth Endowment Lecture, the judge noted that four “most disturbing” things have happened in the country this year itself. He also was severely critical of the Supreme Court’s recent judgement on the Centre’s J&K decision.
The petroleum sector received the highest number of assignments, valued at over Rs 170 crore, from the Ministry of Petroleum and four of its PSUs, while nine organisations under the power ministry outsourced assignments worth Rs 166.41 crore to multinational consultancies.
A detailed FT investigation points to Adani’s use of “offshore intermediaries” to import $5 billion worth of coal at prices that were at times more than double the market price. One of these firms is owned by a Taiwanese businessman who was named by FT as a hidden shareholder in Adani firms.
Thousands of government employees gathered at the Ram Lila Maidan of the national capital to protest the union government’s National Pension Scheme and demand full restoration of the old pension scheme on Sunday, October 1.
‘There is no change in circumstances to consider any change in Article 1 of the Constitution of India,’ it had said.
Gandhi said, “The BJP’s vision believes that power should be centralised, wealth should be concentrated and the conversation between … people of India should be suppressed. And so, this is the fight between two visions. I like to term it the fight between Mahatma Gandhi’s vision and Nathuram Godse’s vision.”
Help us increase our readership.
If you are enjoying reading Janata Weekly,
DO FORWARD THE WEEKLY MAIL to your mailing list and
invite people to subscribe for FREE!