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The policy paper had also suggested raising income tax rates for those who earn over Rs 1 crore a year to raise resources needed to battle the economic damage done by a national lockdown.
Government is keen to restrict spending on corona relief to placate international capital.
Eminent citizens write to the Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj demanding widespread upscaling of MGNREGA to deal with the economic crisis resulting from the countrywide lockdown.
In the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the truth of Marx’s claim, that it’s the labour of workers, and not the supposed intelligence and entrepreneurial spirit of bosses, that keeps society running, has been brought into sharp relief.
Capitalism now faces the deepest crisis in its several centuries of existence. Why is supernova–the explosion and death of a star–an apt metaphor for what could now be about to unfold?
The COVID-19 crisis has brought to the fore the fundamental contradiction underlying contemporary globalisation, namely, the contradiction between the interests of finance and those of the people.
A tax rate of 4% on the nation’s 953 richest families would give the government the equivalent of 1% of India’s GDP to spend – larger than its present package.
The inside story of how one Indian state is flattening the curve through epic levels of contact tracing and social assistance.
Over 100 million people face food insecurity if the PDS is not universalised.
On April 14, PM Modi announced that the lockdown was being extended till April 14. In his 25-minute speech, he did not talk about several things that urgently needed to be addressed by the Modi government and the urban elite.
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