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Many of today’s aspiring political scientists use the course as a tool to crack the civil services code, thereby losing the loftier goals at the heart of the discipline.
In the name of spurring ‘growth’ and ‘employment’ the Modi government has decisively reduced taxes levied on big business while increasing the burden on common people through direct and indirect taxation.
While agricultural output is said to be doing well, that does not mean those who work in agriculture, i.e., peasants and agricultural labourers, are doing well. As a larger number of people desperately looked for ways to earn a living, the income per person working in agriculture actually declined.
Separating electricity from the wires that transmit is a crazy dream of a few market fundamentalists. The Modi government is attempting this failed policy again, and state-owned distribution companies and consumers will suffer.
The Central government continues to squeeze millions of Indians by relentlessly raising the prices of essential fuels, such as cooking gas and petrol/diesel. The real reason for this price rise: the Modi government has been relentlessly increasing excise duty on petroleum products.
The Tatas’ acquisition of Air India threatens to create an oligopoly in the Indian aviation market. The sale is being ostensibly justified by Air India’s bleeding losses that were, in fact, caused by deliberate and egregious neglect of India’s oldest airline under liberalisation.
The real daily earnings of rural self-employed decreased from Rs 21.1 to Rs 19.9, and did not increase much in urban areas (a negligible rise from Rs 139.9 to Rs 141.3) during 2017-2020.
The entire exercise seems to be motivated by the desire to clean up the balance sheets of public sector banks so that these are dressed up for sale to private entities
The Pandora Papers show how several rich and powerful Indians form offshore trusts and companies by exploiting loopholes in our tax laws, park their money and buy assets in tax sanctuaries while the ordinary citizen shudders at the prospect of missing the deadline for filing tax returns.
Chhattisgarh-based lawyer Sudiep Shrivastava says that the stories about massive coal shortage in power plants are false, and are deliberately being floated to set narrative to amend Coal Bearing Area (Acquisition and Development) Act 1957, in favour of private coal miners in next session.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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