-The Indian Express India’s employment crisis calls for more government expenditure in education, adequate training. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his recent Independence Day speech, said, “We need to worry about population explosion”. These words stand in stark contrast to his previous references to India’s demographic dividend where the country’s population was seen as an asset. This shift reflects a new awareness, according to which demography brings a dividend only if...
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Public sector banks merger: Modi govt to announce big bang plan soon -Arup Roychoudhury & Somesh Jha
-Business Standard Finance ministry has called a meeting with chief Executives of ten public sector banks, on Friday The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has readied its mega plan for merging multiple set of public sector banks (PSB) and is set to make an announcement anytime soon, according to multiple sources. The department of financial services in the finance ministry has called a meeting with chief Executives of ten public sector banks, which...
More »The darkest hour: ADM Jabalpur was a test for SC. Only the dissenter passed it -Seema Chishti
-The Indian Express As legal scholar Gautam Bhatia put it in Transformative Constitution, Justice Khanna’s dissent would constitute a “contrapuntal” or something that appears as a counterpoint, often solitary, against the tide at the time, but something that conceals the kernel of the future and the way ahead, which lives on to speak forcefully, another day. Costa Gavras’ 1982 film Missing is a haunting story of what a military dictatorship does...
More »Press Council criticises media curbs
-The Hindu In a letter to all PCI members, PCI secretary Anupama Bhatnagar said Ms. Bhasin’s petition was expected to come up in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. New Delhi: Facing criticism over its stand in the Supreme Court that reasonable restrictions on free speech were acceptable when national interest was at stake, the Press Council of India (PCI) on Tuesday decided to tell the court that it opposes any restrictions on...
More »The business of politics, the necessity of values -Mukulika Banerjee
-The Indian Express Elections are short term contests, but the political project of democracy is a long game. Democracy is not just a set of institutions but also a set of values. The institutions are, minimally speaking, free and fair elections, an elected Parliament containing an Executive and an Opposition to hold it accountable, an independent judiciary, a nonpartisan bureaucracy, a free media, and security of existence for all citizens. Democratic values...
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