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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Recent reports say that the government scheme of giving dry ration to 800 million Indians is set to continue for another three months. In the absence of any official estimate, this is the closest official estimate for the numbers of those who are living below the poverty line.
Though her assassins and their backers succeeded in killing her, they have failed to silence her.
For Muslims to ‘prove’ their loyalty to the state, they have to find ‘outsiders’ from among themselves and hand them over to the state.
Though there are several constitutional infirmities in the proposed NRC exercise itself, when it combines with the CAA, it directly and inevitably puts mainly the Muslim citizens of India at the risk of losing citizenship. Hence, the same is discriminatory and falls foul of both Article 14 and the basic feature of secularism enshrined in the Constitution of India.
So-called electricity markets were created to help private capital, not people. It is time we wound up these bogus markets and returned public services to people, to run cooperatively for their benefit.
A bizarre drama is unfolding in front of our eyes. The Modi government which has been giving away hundreds of thousands of crores of rupees as tax concessions to the monopolists, has expressed its opposition to what it calls “freebies”, that is, subsidies to other segments of the population.
A scientific vision of development for all Indians informed the quest for independence. The present regime deploys superstition and politics based on fear to aid just a select few.
Open letter to Chief Ministers calling upon them to form a federal front of the States to persuade the Centre not to proliferate Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs), and instead transfer existing CSSs with the associated fund allocations to the States.
Much like Adolf Hitler, Narendra Modi’s eyes are set on the complete dominance of the BJP in Indian politics. To this effect, his government will continue to use its carrot-and-stick policy to destroy the opposition.
In the backdrop of the grave financial crisis that state governments are facing currently, Kerala finance minister K.N. Balagopal said his state’s net borrowing limits have reduced by Rs 4,000 crore.
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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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