-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday put the government in a somewhat embarrassing situation in Lok Sabha when she agreed with opposition members that the severe budget cuts that her ministry faced would adversely affect welfare of children in the country. A vociferous opposition demanded promptly demanded that finance minister Arun Jaitley respond to the issue. Maneka made the comments in relation to...

-Frontline If Budget 2015 is any indication, the Modi government is going beyond what could be called benign neglect of agriculture to policy moves that are likely to harm its viability. IT is scarcely surprising that farmers are upset with the Narendra Modi government. Indeed, the rosy dreams created by that famous campaign advertisement of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), when farmers spoke of the high crop prices and better cultivation conditions...

-PTI Employers will be liable to pay a fine of Rs 50,000 for failing to implement the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act., Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi told Rajya Sabha on Thursday. "In case of subsequent violations, the amount of fine will be double, together with penalty in the form of cancellation of his licence, withdrawal or non-renewal of the...

-The Hindu High-level meeting to assess situation may be held today. Following reports of crop damage due to unseasonal rains across North India, the Modi government is likely to announce a relief package for farmers. The details of the package are likely to be finalised at a high-level meeting to be attended by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh this week. The high-level meeting to take stock of...

-The Indian Express The political discourse over land acquisition has proceeded in binary terms - industry versus farmer, growth versus no growth - thereby obfuscating the real issue at the heart of the land acquisition debate: the fear of arbitrary exercise of state power in reshaping property relations in Indian society. Instead of tweaking the 2015 land acquisition bill with a few amendments here and there to appease political allies and...