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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Reason: Guha had written two articles alleging that the government unduly favoured the Adani Group, helping it expand and evade taxes. Also: Press Statement by the Editors Guild of India criticising Thakurta’s arrest warrant issued by a Gujarat court.
Fearing a fate worse than Maharashtra’s southern sea-coast, Dahanu fishing communities demand suspension of Vadhavan port project.
Rising inflation is forcing millions of households in India to cut back on food and dip into their savings for essentials. This could wipe out gross household savings, hampering future economic recovery because households would have no money to spend.
The law represents an attempt by the BJP to push a toe out of the constitutional ambit, to begin to build the legal infrastructure of the Hindu Rashtra.
Next year, the operator of the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant would start releasing radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Several nations are up in arms against it, but Indian authorities are silent. A discussion about what is at stake for people and the environment.
Perhaps, the rulers and administrators manning the State machinery, haven’t heard this verse of Baba Farid Shakarganj (1173-1265 AD): “Farid, the earth questioned the sky, Where are the mighty captains gone? / In their grave they rot, was the reply / And rebuked for tasks not done.”
Remembering Deshbandhu: a leader with enormous mass appeal, a pragmatic and a tactful politician, a legendary legal practitioner, a constitutionalist, a poet, an editor and an ambassador for Hindu-Muslim unity.
The culture of the farmers’ protest is an extraordinary tableau that tells us what republican values look like.
The distinguished food and trade policy analyst says that it is high time we looked at the travails of 600 million people who are involved with farming with more understanding and empathy.
Even while the real economy remains in contractionary mode, not only have stock market returns exploded, but India’s stock of foreign exchange reserves have registered record-breaking increases. Nevertheless, the economic crisis is all set to worsen.
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