-Hindustan Times The 15th Finance Commission (FC) has to submit its report in October 2019, which will be another important event in the evolution of India’s fiscal federalism framework. The tenure of the Narendra Modi government has seen important changes in India’s fiscal federalism set-up such as the abolition of the Planning Commission (PC) and the roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). The 15th Finance Commission (FC) has to submit...
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Reality of impunity, rheToRic of human rights -Maja Daruwala & Devika Prasad
-The Hindu Isolated innovations are not enough to stop cases of custodial ToRture In May 2017, addressing representatives from countries at the UN’s Human Rights Council, the then AtToRney General of India said, “The concept of ToRture is completely alien to our culture and it has no place in the governance of the nation.” Last week in Sitamarhi district, Bihar, two families received the bodies of their two sons from the police. The...
More »India's first bullet train is taking 3 acres from a flamingo sanctuary -Sanjana Bhalerao
-The Indian Express As the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet-train project gets clearance to run through the Thane creek, environmentalists and birders aren’t too happy. The Flamingo yoga pose (the forward stretch of the ToRso while balancing on one leg) might have given you sore muscles, but tear away from the pain and you can enjoy watching the yoga pose’s inspiration flocking on Mumbai’s wetlands and creeks in their signature pose, feeding and mating....
More »PM Fasal Bima Yojana is suffering from low coverage since the last 2 years
The budgetary allocation for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) as a proportion of total budgetary expenditure has been reduced marginally during the Interim Budget 2019-20. It may have happened because the coverage of gross cropped area under the scheme could not keep pace with the target that was set during the last two years. The Status of Implementation of Budget Announcements 2017-18, which was presented during the Union Budget 2018-19,...
More »The importance of being humane -Gopalkrishna Gandhi
-The Hindu Opposition parties must make a new anti-ToRture legislation part of their common programme Custodial ToRture is global, old and stubborn. Dismemberment was a method of ToRture practised with vigour in ancient India, crushing-by-elephant-foot another. The Arthashastra prescribes mental ToRture through swear-words with or without physical assaults. Death by a thousand cuts was ancient China’s speciality. The Tang Code (652 CE) describes judicial ToRture in detail. Ancient Japanese methods of ToRture...
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