Modi’s Claim on Success of Demonetisation Is a Blatant Untruth
Celebrating demonetisation as a success story that has led to formalisation indicates everything that is wrong with the government’s economic policies.
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How India Was Stripped of Its Atmanirbharta in the Edible Oil Industry
In the context of the call for ‘Atmanirbharta’, we need to reexamine our policy towards edible oil imports – it is possible for India to increase production and become self-sufficient.
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Uranium Nightmare Returns to Haunt Residents of Meghalaya
Toxic waste from effluent tanks built in South West Khasi Hills district in 1990s after exploratory mining in area, contaminates streams and rivers; causes miscarriages, deformities in new-born children and cancer.
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Labour Hours Lost During the Pandemic
Compared to the the seasonally adjusted fourth quarter figures of 2019, the labour hour losses for the first three quarters of 2020 for the South Asia region were 3.1, 27.3 and 18.2% respectively.
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Global Significance of Champaran Satyagraha
The launching of the Champaran Satyagraha by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917 marked a revolutionary landmark as much in the history of India as in the history of humanity for reconstruction of society and polity based on non-violence.
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Rajasthan Farm Bills: Here’s How They’re Different from the Central Acts
Rajasthan has become the third Congress-ruled state, after Punjab and Chhattisgarh, to counter the Central farm Bills.
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Why India’s Latest Defence Agreement with the United States May Prove a Costly Bargain
The Modi government has simply not given thought to the implications signing BECA will have on war-preparedness at a time when external threats have multiplied.
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Modi Govt’s New Land Policy for J&K Overturns 7 Decades of Land Reform
The abolition of the Big Land Estates Abolition Act 1950 clears the decks for the revival of a neo-jagirdari system in J&K, say experts, geared this time towards serving the needs of big business.
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Agriculture Laws: Farmers Plan National Road Blockade on November 5
Over 500 farmers groups plan to block roads across the country on November 5, the next step in their protests against the three farm reform laws passed by Parliament last month.
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Revisiting Dr. Rammanohar Lohia – Examining Certain Distinct Propositions in the Text and the Context
The trilogy – Marx, Gandhi and Socialism; Wheel of History; and Caste System – together constitute an alternative developed by Lohia to the Western philosophical project of socialism.
