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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Indian economy is in deep crisis. Therefore, for the economy to have a sustained recovery, it is important that the government greatly increases its expenditure. In this article, we analyse the Modi Government’s budget outlays of the past 10 years.
Within the limited budget outlay, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a hike in capital expenditure (or capex) — of 17.1 percent. This is the fourth year in succession that she has hiked capex. An increase in capex, without increasing budget outlay, is not going to lead to economic growth and employment generation. We discuss this in this article.
The corporate hijack of agriculture, achieved by predatory commercialisation of the countryside, is India’s actual agrarian crisis.
The long-term structural weakness in India’s balance of payments cannot be the sole determinant of the rupee’s movements. This view is strengthened by the evidence that during the recent fall in the value of the rupee vis-à-vis the dollar, it has actually appreciated relative to the currencies of other trading partners.
Recently, a well-known journalist, Dileep Mandal, who has been appointed to the post of Consultant by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, has advanced the preposterous claim that Fatima Shaikh, whose name is inextricably linked with that of the iconic Savitri Bai Phule, is a figment of his own imagination.
“In DU’s Daulat Ram College, Students Witness Saffronisation of a ‘Safe Place’”; and: “A Controversial ‘Book Launch’ and Delhi University’s Descent Into Party Propaganda”: It is certainly not the job of our our academic leaders to open the gates of universities to those in power and join them in trampling the garden of knowledge.
A report on the battle to save environmental heritage and traditional livelihoods in India’s smallest state, where infrastructure for tourists and wealthy migrants is wrecking the beauty that brings them there.
Conservative attitudes, poor awareness and misconceptions are major hurdles in getting the reproductive health procedure which is perfectly legal.
The Quran offers enduring principles of justice, freedom, and equality—principles designed to challenge oppression, dismantle systemic inequalities, and inspire collective upliftment. However, fully realizing these values demands a humanist and liberation theological lens—one that reads the Quran not just as a divine text but as a manifesto for social transformation.
“That Strong Spirit of Palestinian Emancipation”; “Hamas’s Strategic Survival Drives Israel Crazy”; and: “Contrasting Reality: Treatment of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners”.
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