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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Tributes to Singh as a person are well-deserved, but the focus needs to be on his contributions to the nation’s journey. As an economist, he knew of the adverse impact of the paradigm shift he set in motion in 1991. It is an important reason why the Right has become such a dominant force in Indian politics and society.
The FM has made a huge increase in the Centre’s capital expenditure (capex) for four successive years. To compensate for the increase in capex, the FM needs to reduce the budget spending on some other heads. The axe has fallen on welfare spending on the poor.
One of the biggest announcements made by FM Nirmala Sitharaman in her 2024 budget speech relates to employment generation. We analyse the PM’s employment package in this article.
According to a CSSS report, 49 out of 59 cases of communal riots took place in states where the BJP is ruling either on its own, or in coalition with other parties. Also: What kind of country is it where only Christians have to worry about attacks on Christians, and the rest of society remains deaf to their concerns?
160 artists and scholars have issued an open letter seeking the release of Umar Khalid, a student activist and former research scholar at the JNU. Also: Adivasi and Dalit communities of Kashipur and Thuamal Rampur blocks in Odisha protest against the proposed bauxite mining project of Vedanta Ltd.
A new set of draft regulations put out by the University Grants Commission for the appointment of Vice Chancellors as well as for filling up academic and non-academic posts threaten federalism and higher education.
“Will Maharashtra Government be Held Accountable for Negligence in Prevention of Atrocities of SC/STs?”; and: “’Take Action Against Cops Who Brutalised Dalit People’: Hundreds Begin Foot March from Parbhani to Mumbai”.
In Assam, thousands who depend on the cattle economy—including farmers, cow herders, meat merchants and restaurants—have plunged into economic distress after the CM on 4 December 2024 expanded a ban on slaughtering cattle and selling it around religious places to eating and serving beef in public.
Colombia’s government on January 26 refused to allow two U.S. military planes to land. They were returning Colombian deportees from the United States to their homeland. In taking action, Petro insisted that the deportees traveling handcuffed in a military plane were not criminals and ought to be treated with dignity.
From its inception with the election of Huge Chávez in 1998, the US has interfered in and attempted to overthrow by extra-legal means Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.
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