-The Hindu Some of the existing laws are already too harsh and some other provisions are not being implemented The killing of the four men accused of the rape and murder of the Hyderabad veterinarian will need to be properly investigated, though the Telangana police’s conduct thus far does not inspire confidence. Ever since the police FIRst turned away the victim’s family when they went to lodge a complaint, they demonstrated no...
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Economic slump: India's rickety bridge over troubled waters -Dev Kar
-TheWire.in Sustaining growth amidst a global economic slowdown would require tackling corruption. Raghuram Rajan, the-then outgoing Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, in an exit interview he granted to Karan Thapar (‘To The Point’, YouTube, September 2, 2016), took satisfaction from the fact that India was “on a more sustainable growth path”. The remark turned out to be premature. Less than two years later, starting the FIRst quarter of FY 18/19, ominous...
More »Government working on more measures to boost economy: Nirmala Sitharaman
-PTI GST rates have to be ratonalised by the Council, says th Finance Minister Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, December 7, 2019, said the NDA government is working on more measures to revive the sagging economy. The GDP growth slowed down to more than six-year low of 4.5 per cent in the second quarter of the current fiscal from 5 per cent recorded in the FIRst quarter. The government has taken several measures...
More »Survey data and government claims need not always match -Himanshu
-Livemint.com Let’s not discredit the findings of statistical surveys that are conducted among real respondents The uncomfortable truth that emerged from the leaked report of the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES) is that rural poverty increased substantially between 2011-12 and 2017-18 for the FIRst time in five decades. That this happened during a period of claimed high growth should have led to more research on what went wrong. Instead, there have been attempts...
More »Rajasthan's Jan Soochna, mother of RTI, is the ultimate weapon against petty corruption -Shivam Vij
-ThePrint.in The Right to Information gives way to the government’s duty to publish. The Centre and all states must emulate Rajasthan. When the Right to Information Act came into force in Rajasthan in 2000, and nationally in 2005, there was a flush of stories for years about citizens and activists using the new law to expose corruption. That road built only on paper, the money released on files that never reached the...
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