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Understanding Article 370 -Amitabh Mattoo

-The Hindu Article 370 was and is about providing space, in matters of governance, to the people of a State who felt deeply vulnerable about their identity and insecure about the future. At the Bharatiya Janata Party's recent Lalkar rally in Jammu, its prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, called for a debate on Article 370. This is encouraging and suggests that the BJP may be willing to review its absolutist stance on...

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Ahead of polls, limits to political funding by corporates removed -Amitav Ranjan

-The Indian Express Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the UPA government has made it free for business houses to donate without limit to parties or persons for political purposes. All that a corporate now has to do is float a company with a name that has the words "electoral trust" in it. A different reading of the law, ratified by the department of legal affairs in the law ministry in October...

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Verma panel did a rethink on Vishakha guidelines -Manoj Mitta

-The Times of India The outrage over the Delhi gang rape spurred the enactment of two laws relating to gender reforms. The one widening the definition of rape and enhancing penalties for a range of sexual crimes was largely based on the recommendations of the Justice J S Verma Committee, which had been appointed post Nirbhaya. But when it came to the other law, which deals with sexual harassment at the...

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India Inc backs government stance on food subsidy at WTO

-PTI   NEW DELHI: Backing the government's stance on food subsidy at the WTO, India Inc today said it is important to ensure legal entitlement of low-cost ration to the poor in order to achieve all-round development. "For us in India, we have to ring-fence the interest of subsistence farmers and poor by procuring grains at minimum support price (MSP) and ensuring legal entitlement of low-cost ration to the poor," Assocham President Rana...

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