-Financial Express The overall value of Rs 2,000 notes significantly fell to Rs 5.4 lakh crore in the fiscal year 2019-20, from Rs 6.5 lakh crore in the previous fiscal year 2018-19. Rs 1.1 lakh crore worth of high denomination notes of Rs 2,000 vanished from the system in just one year. The overall value of Rs 2,000 notes significantly fell to Rs 5.4 lakh crore in the fiscal year 2019-20, from...
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Reject this inequitable climate proposal -T Jayaraman and Tejal Kanitkar
-The Hindu The UN SECretary General’s recent advice to India amounts to asking for its virtual de-industrialisation and stagnation The UN SECretary General António Guterres’s call for India to give up coal immediately and reduce emissions by 45% by 2030 is a call to de-industrialise the country and abandon the population to a permanent low-development trap. Piling on the pressure In an extraordinary move in climate diplomacy, Mr. Guterres, delivering the Darbari Seth Memorial...
More »NHRC orders Assam govt to pay ₹1 lakh to man thrashed by mob for selling beef
-The Hindu Rights panel acts on the basis of complaint by Congress MLA Debabrata Saikia GUWAHATI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered the Assam government to pay ₹1 lakh to a 48-year-old man who was thrashed more than a year ago in Biswanath district for selling cooked beef at his tea stall at a weekly market. The order was issued on the basis of a complaint filed by Congress MLA Debabrata...
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-The Hindu India must return to its democratic values to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak effectively India is justly proud of its position as the world’s largest democracy. It is less proud of the fact that it has become a hotbed for the spread of COVID-19, with an estimated 90,000 daily infections, and over 5 million cases overall, SECond only to the United States. Can India find a way to combat the virus...
More »Union minister Harsimrat Badal resigns over Centre’s new farm bills
-Hindustan Times Harsimrat is the only SAD representative in the Modi government. Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday quit the Modi government opposing the farm bills that seek to liberalise the agriculture SECtor. The move came shortly after Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal announced in the Lok Sabha that the minister will quit protesting the Centre’s anti-farmer move. Harsimrat Badal is the only SAD representative in the Modi government. The...
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