-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With just 10 days for the deadline to submit the registration forms for admission to nursery classes, the parents are a worried lot, fretful about whether their children's Aadhaar cards will be delivered in time for the process. While the Directorate of Education has said the Aadhaar cards of the parents are sufficient to prove identity, several schools are demanding the child's card too. It was...
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It's 2018 and into the bin the Aadhaar must go -Mitali Saran
-Business Standard It's hurting the people, violating their fundamental rights, including the right to PRIvacy and the right to life, and it's absurd Happy new year! The new year is traditionally our chance to reflect soberly on what a big pile of doo-doo the previous year was. It’s a chance to admit that we stepped in poo, and there’s nothing to do but to hose off our shoes, and resolve to step...
More »Why farmers don't have electoral clout -Avik Saha and Yogendra Yadav
-Down to Earth Although farmers vote at least as much, if not more than industrial workers or urban middle classes, elections are not fought around farmers' issues Elections are about numbers. Democratic politics is about stitching together a majority. So, the larger a group, the bigger is its “vote bank”, and greater is its electoral clout. A social group that constitutes a majority can therefore dictate its terms in an electoral democracy....
More »Congress puts govt on mat for refusal to cut fuel tax as PRIces soar -Sanjay Dutta
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: At a time when fuel PRIces are shooting through the roof due to increasing global oil PRIces, the Congress on Thursday put the government on the mat for not providing relief by passing on the benefit of money it has mopped up by raising excise duty on petrol and diesel. Raising the issue of increasing pump PRIces in Parliament, the leader of the Congress in the...
More »A law for the farmer -Ajay Vir Jakhar
-The Indian Express Pesticide Management Bill should address the anomalies that prevent state governments from booking large pesticide companies. “Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,” goes an old African proverb, which is also apt to describe the state of the world’s farmers. Farmers are like the hunted lions who need their side of the story told and their sacrifices, agony, courage and fears...
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