-TheWire.in Cooperatives are useful for political parties in two ways – they are a font of funds as well as handy for dispensing patronage. A Day before the reshuffle, Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance government created a new Ministry of Cooperation. It would provide, said its statement, a separate administrative, legal and policy framework for strengthening the cooperative movement in India. A Day later, it announced Union home minister Amit Shah would also head...
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UP law panel moots proposals to promote two-child norm -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu Bar on government jobs and welfare benefits for those who have more children. The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has prepared a proposed draft Bill for population control, under which a two-child norm will be implemented and promoted. After the law comes into force, a person with more than two children will be debarred from several benefits such as government-sponsored welfare schemes and from contesting elections to the local authority or...
More »Truant monsoon spells trouble for soyabean in Central India -Vishwanath Kulkarni and Subramani Ra Mancombu
-The Hindu Business Line Trade sees lower acreage in MP; higher area in Maharashtra, other states For farmers like Sunil Mukhati and hundreds of others near Indore in Madhya Pradesh, gazing at the skies as soon as they get up every Day, has become a sort of ritual over the past couple of weeks. “We have been looking at the sky every morning these last few Days, hoping that we will get some...
More »Santosh Gangwar oversaw mass transfers in EPFO hours before stepping down -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu Nearly 120 senior officers reshuffled just hours ahead of Cabinet expansion The Day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejigged the Union Ministerial Council, there was another major reshuffle under the administrative watch of an outgoing minister — in a statutory body tasked with managing lakhs of crores of rupees. Nearly 120 top officials in the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) that oversees the retirement savings of India’s formal workforce, were transferred...
More »Fr Stan Swamy has expired: But, his questions haven’t -EAS Sarma
-Countercurrents.org In the death of Fr Stan Swamy on July 5, 2021, who was an “under trial” detainee languishing in the custody of the authorities, India has lost a courageous campaigner for adivasi rights. The manner in which the 84-year old Jesuit priest was forced to die has shaken the conscience of the nation. What hurts the feelings of any one with a true sense of justice is that the authorities...
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