-Livemint.com The prime minister is partly right in the sense that the most authoritative data on employment-unemployment from the periodic NSSO were not available after 2011-12 In an interview given to Swarajya magazine earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lamented the lack of data on jobs in the country. This was in response to a question on why the economy is not creating jobs. The prime minister is partly right...
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Untangling the knot of citizenship -Sanjoy Hazarika
-The Tribune Assam is tense; internet services have been suspended and security forces on standby with the final draft list of the controversial NRC out. Sanjoy Hazarika, a specialist on the north-east, explains why it is SITting on a powder keg I’M not getting into the numbers game for Assam and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) process which is a draft in progress. The first draft, published last December had 19...
More »As the milk glut intensifies, farmer protests are likely to spill over -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Together with large stocks of sugar and higher planting of sugar cane, the surplus SITuation in Indian agriculture is set to worsen, fuelling another round of farmer protests as states like Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Rajasthan goes to polls Pune/ New Delhi: Karan Ramdas Atole’s dairy farm is a neat brown square of cleared ground surrounded by lush green sugarcane fields. A mechanical engineer by training, 25-year-old Atole took a loan...
More »Rs. 5 lakh-a-day fine warning to Net firms -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday censured search engines and social networking SITes as "irresponsible" for allowing content that provoked lynchings, threatening a Rs 5 lakh-a-day fine till they developed a fool-proof mechanism to weed out such material. Eventually, the bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and U.U. Lalit granted 30 days to Yahoo, Facebook Ireland, Facebook India, Google India, Google Inc, Microsoft and WhatsApp to install such a...
More »The path to reforms: Ensure enforcement, bring clarity - Devesh Kapur, E Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav
-Hindustan Times Election Commission of India (ECI) is outgunned when it comes to confronting those who circumvent existing campaign finance rules and lacks power to sanction candidates. It is a truism to note that political finance SITs at the heart of corruption in modern India. While politicians publicly lament the status quo, they privately profit from the current system. Therefore, the fact that the Narendra Modi government has made reforming political finance...
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