-Hindustan Times We live in a social regime where women are seen as an embodiment of men’s izzat (honour). Attacking ‘their women’ then becomes the undoing of the whole community. Bilkis Bano. The name and the face have been haunting me since the judgment was announced on her case by the Bombay High Court on May 4. In March 2002, our group of six women arrived in Ahmedabad to document what had...
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After 6 months, RBI still in dark on junked notes -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Business Line Central bank says specified bank notes yet to be reconciled with the physical cash balances &NBSp; New Delhi: Even six months after the demonetisation exercise, the Reserve Bank of India is yet to complete the accounting of the withdrawn Rs. 1,000 and Rs. 500 notes. The RBI has admitted as much in a 15-page response late in April to questions from the Standing Committee on Finance, headed by veteran Congress...
More »Govt sets up task force to look into jobs data discrepancies
-PTI The government attaches the highest priority to job creation, says Arvind Panagariya The government has set up a task force headed by Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya to recommend ways to deal with employment data discrepancies and come up with reliable solutions to promote job creation. &NBSp; “A task force has been created under the chairmanship of the vice-chairman, NITI Aayog&NBSp; Arvind Panagariya with Labour Secretary M Sathiyavathy, Secretary Statistics&NBSp; T C A...
More »No plan to tax agri income; rich farmer very rare, says Arun Jaitley
-PTI Stating that the agriculture sector is under distress, he said farm holdings are very small in size Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the government has no plans to tax agricultural income, including that of prosperous farmers, saying a rich farmer is “a very rare institution” and not the norm. &NBSp; In an interview to PTI, he said the farm sector is in distress and there was no question of taxing agricultural income. NITI...
More »The never ending tale of farming crisis -Kiran Tare
-India Today While politicians are busy earning brownie points through waving off farmer loans, the farmers in Maharashtra's Pune and Ahmednagar districts have a different story to tell. I had decided to check whether the farmers in Maharashtra are really in favour of the loan waiver after the opposition members were screaming in the legislature almost every day, during the budget session which began on March 9 and concluded on April 17....
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