-The Indian Express Union Minister of State for Home Kishan Reddy said security forces have identified a large number of "troublemakers, instigators and mob mobilisers" and various preventive measures taken against them, including detention under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) and preventive arrests. New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that 765 people were arrested for their involvement in stonepelting incidents...

-The Hindu Education is a right, not a privilege reserved for the select elite Even though Jawaharlal Nehru University, where I teach, is in turmoil because of an incompetent administration incapable of communicating with the students and teachers, the larger crisis confronting the idea of a public university needs to be understood. From Jamia Millia Islamia to Jadavpur University, from Visva-Bharati University to Aligarh Muslim University, and from the University of Hyderabad...

-PTI India’s economy grew at 5 per cent in the first quarter of 2019-20 New Delhi: Economic think-tank, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), said that India’s GDP growth is likely to decline to 4.9 per cent in the second quarter of this fiscal due to sustained slowdown in virtually all the sectors. India’s economy grew at 5 per cent in the first quarter of 2019-20 -- the slowest pace in over...

-The Economic Times Indian farmer's plight has changed little even under GST that aims to revolutionise all kinds of businesses. NEW Delhi: That the farmer has historically had one of the most unrewarding and thankless jobs in India is fairly common knowledge. Data sets after data sets show how Indian farmers have remained hopelessly caught between ineffective policy and equally ineffective implementation — through the Five-Year-Plans era, through successive governments, and through...

-The Indian Express Till his last, Krishnan, who died in Delhi Sunday aged 87, remained partial to the depressed classes and worked towards the destruction of the caste order, relentlessly exposing its institutional manifestations. New Delhi: EARLY IN his career in the civil services, P S Krishnan received an entry in his confidential report that he would read out as the perfect summation of his career. It read: “Undue partiality to depressed...