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Given India’s association with Persian, the BJP’s renaming spree, taken to its logical conclusion, will end up wiping away substantial portions of what Indians find familiar.
The Centre’s flagship rural employment scheme has run out of funds halfway through the financial year. Also: Around 5 Crore MGNREGA Workers and Their Families Will have to Spend Their Diwali Without Food & Sweets Due to Pending Wages.
The BJP claims that demonetisation showed the resolve of the government to fight black money and corruption, and the travails faced by the people due to it were a small sacrifice for the gains of demonetisation. An examination of these claims made by the BJP, and the real impact of demonetisation on the economy.
The first prime minister’s legacy isn’t easy to wipe out, but the BJP-RSS will keep trying to erase it unless there is pushback.
With the massive depression of demand that has taken place due to the lockdowns and the Government’s refusal to spend, many rural households that were earlier struggling to keep from falling would have been pushed over the edge.
Rammanohar Lohia embodied some noble aspirations for his country and represented an important strand of opinion in Indian political life. And in the socialist movement, his was the decisive influence at many critical turning points.
If the Union government thinks that the Global Hunger Index’s methodology is ‘unscientific’, here is another Index that shows a troubling picture for the state of ‘Access Inequality in Basic Amenities’ across India.
Sections that give the police the power to disperse a crowd with force have been abused, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
The absolute number of persons ‘employed’ in agriculture in 2019-20 rose a massive 17.3 per cent over the figure for 2018-19. But this is not a sign of prosperity but hardship.
From Love Songs to Kurta Ads, Urdu Is Popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva Backers Hate it So Much?; Who Says Urdu Is a Muslim Language?
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