DESPITE WHAT our reel-life heroes have shown us, perhaps it’s only possible to fight one villain at a time. Still, in his last few days on the job, Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde tried to battle two evils, with two reports that presented damning evidence of corruption in the BJP government. The first report, on illegal mining, had enough firepower to systematically dig holes in the state government. The second report,...
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Monsoon worries bothering PMEAC
-The Economic Times The latest forecast of the Met office suggesting a weakening of the south-west monsoon during the second half of the monsoon season is not cause for panic. It is the Distribution of rainfall across space and time rather than the aggregate percentages that matter for the farm sector. The good news is that both the spatial and temporal Distribution of rainfall has been satisfactory so far. A good reservoir...
More »Supreme Court reserves verdict on Samacheer Kalvi by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court while reserving verdict on Thursday on the validity of the Uniform System of School Education has extended till August 10 the time limit for Distribution of textbooks printed under the USSE to enable teachers to commence classes. A three-judge Bench of Justice J.M. Panchal, Justice Deepak Verma and Justice B.S. Chauhan, hearing the State's appeal against the Madras High Court judgment quashing the amendment Act, reserved verdict at...
More »Deconstructing The NAC by Ruchi Gupta
The past couple of months have seen a renewed attack on the National Advisory Council (NAC). The NAC has been decried as an unconstitutional, undemocratic, “super-cabinet” where unaccountable “jholawalas” hatch harebrained schemes guaranteed to run the government aground. Another line of criticism has focused on the process of the formation of the NAC, its space within the Indian Constitution, and its capacity to influence policy. The two criticisms merge with...
More »BPL salt does a double take
-The Telegraph It’s a move that will unwittingly rub salt on the wounds of around 36 lakh families in Jharkhand living below poverty line. With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently withdrawing 25 paise coins from circulation, the state government has been forced to shed its friendly face and revise its decision to sell salt at 25 paise per kg to BPL families, commonly known as the lal-card holders. The Arjun Munda...
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