-Newslaundry.com No meaningful purpose to serve on the committee anymore, Anant Bagaitkar wrote in a letter to the Rajya Sabha chairman. To register a protest against the curbs on media access to parliament, senior journalist Anant Bagaitkar on Tuesday resigned as the secretary of the Media Advisory Committee to the Rajya Sabha, the Press Club of India tweeted. The committee consists of representatives from media organisations accredited to the Press Gallery of the...

-The Hindu Business Line Suggests CBDT to create a foolproof IT system, internal control mechanism The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pointed out significant errors in the assessment of over 350 cases related to corporate tax. It also advised the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to put in PLAce a foolproof IT system and internal control mechanism to avoid such recurrences. In a report tabled in Parliament, the apex...

-The Hindu Redistribution measures have been ineffective and there are no policies discouraging accumulation of income and wealth The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the stark divide between the rich and the poor. At this juncture, evaluating the state of inequality serves as an eye-opener on the income/wealth divides prevailing across regions. Such divides are represented in terms of the share of income/wealth among the top 10% of the population against the bottom...

-Newsclick.in After facing severe setbacks due to demonetisation, hasty implementation of GST, and the ill-conceived COVID-19 lockdown, the MSMEs are gasping due to a steep rise in raw material prices. In a first, the entrepreneurs of the micro medium and small enterprises (MSME) went on a one-day strike across the country on Monday. Affected severely by the policies of the Union government, the ill-PLAnned lockdown in March 2020, and now by the...

-Newsclick.in The Bill and the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s recommendations are riddled with many problems, and some of them are giving rise to serious concerns over enabling the State with surveillance power. The much-awaited Joint Parliamentary Committee’s report on the country's first comprehensive data protection law has been tabled in the Parliament. After two years of intense deliberation and consultation, the report was finalised and adopted. The law, if passed, would regulate data...