-Livemint.com Bundelkhand Expressway: Opposition parties criticized the ruling BJP government of Uttar Pradesh over potholes in the long-stretched road. A portion of the newly inaugurated 296-km-long Bundelkhand expressway has developed deep potholes due to heavy rainfall in Uttar Pradesh, within a week of Prime Minister Narendra Modi launching this long-stretched road. Durgesh Upadhyay, UP Expressway Industrial Authority spokesperson informed that the portion of Bundelkhand expressway has developed one-and-a-half-foot-deep potholes due to incessant rainfall...

-The Telegraph SC asks Centre and states to reach out to farmers and migrants who form the country’s backbone The Supreme Court on Thursday said no person should die of hunger “but that is happening, citizens are dying of hunger,” asking the Centre and the states to reach out to farmers and migrants who form the country’s backbone. “In a welfare society, in our country, two persons are most important — farmers and...

-The Telegraph Shiv Sena member Priyanka Chaturvedi places a written question about the rise in fake news online The Centre on Thursday said people creating tension in society “in the name of fact-checking” were liable for legal action, a day after efforts to keep fact-checker Mohammed Zubair imprisoned were frustrated in the Supreme Court. Rashtriya Janata Dal member Manoj Jha had asked in the Rajya Sabha why fact-checkers were being arrested while those...

-Cenfa.org In continuation of its pro-corporate and anti-poor tax policy, the Centre imposes tax on the common man battling hunger and inflation while sparing corporates making windfall gains and record profits In keeping with its anti-people and pro-corporate tax policy, the Central government withdrew the windfall tax on oil exports on July 19th – 19 days after it was imposed – with effect from July 20. This comes a day after a...

-The Hindu The inadequacy of monetary policy to address food-price-driven inflation has been recently flagged Globally, inflation is now the prime concern of governments, even as there is a speculation that a recession may not be far behind. In India, though, government agencies regularly announce that the country is growing at a much faster rate than most economies and presently assert that inflation is much lower. The growth performance is not so...