-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The Modi government has slashed the minimum support price of seven of the 11 products covered under minor forest produce collected by tribals in remote forest areas. The decision comes three years after the previous Congress-led UPA government fixed the MSP for these products for the first time. “The decision had to be taken because MSPs had been fixed on the higher side and needed to be rationalised....
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Dialectics Of Authoritarianism: Transition From The People To The Leader -Prabhat Patnaik
-TheCitizen.in NEW DELHI: We are seeing in India at present a remarkable inversion of reason. The more the common people suffer from the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetization, the more he is lauded for the “courage” shown by him in undertaking it. An economic measure should be, and normally is, judged on the basis of how it benefits the people, and any measure that brings distress to the people is derided...
More »Pushed to the brink -Kanchi Kohli
-Deccan Herald Seriously?” one of the participants in a training session exclaimed. “You mean to say the site inspection report was prepared after an aerial visit, and there was no on ground verification?” All I did was a combination of a half nod, half smile. I have told this story several times before and each time the recipient of the news gives me a variant of the same reaction. It is...
More »Deposits scrutiny a challenge, says ex-CBDT chief -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu “We have around 45 crore bank accounts and if 1% of such accounts are picked up for scrutiny, that itself will make 45 lakh cases. Is it humanly possible? No chance”. Former Central Board of Direct Taxes chairperson Sudhir Chandra, who headed a high-level committee to tackle the black money menace back in 2011, has said that the Income Tax department will find it challenging to scrutinise all cash deposits...
More »British Library to digitise 4,000 Bengali books
-PTI ‘This exciting project will make South Asia’s rich and vibrant printed heritage accessible to everyone’ A new British Library project will digitise 4,000 early printed Bengali books, amounting to more than 800,000 pages, as part of the U.K. India Year of Culture plans for 2017. The digitisation project is part of a wider “Two Centuries of Indian Print” project, an international partnership led by the British Library with funding from the Newton...
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