-The Hindu It is only part of mismanagement of financial institutions under BJP government watch, says ex-Finance Minister The government and the RBI didn’t bother to read the balance sheet of the Yes Bank, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said pointing out to the unusual growth in the loan book at the rate of 35% a year between March 2014 to March 2019. The loan book registered registered a spike especially in 2016-17...

-Newsclick.in Directly or indirectly, the government seems uninterested in creating jobs. At a time of widespread and intense concern about the worst unemployment situation in 45 years and all the distress and discontent that accompanies it, one would have expected the Union government to put job-creation at the top of its priority-list. One of the most obvious and direct ways to do this would be to expand its own schemes and programmes...

-Newsclick.in Reviving the economy requires, apart from social peace, a powerful fiscal intervention going well beyond what neo-liberalism allows. Changes in estimation methods have of late made statistics on the Indian economy increasingly bewildering; besides, whenever the statistics show the performance of the economy in a poor light, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government simply suppresses them. Nothing, however, can suppress the fact that the Indian economy is sliding into a serious...

-The Hindu It says the query can be directed to the Election Commission Chandigarh: The Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Haryana does not have records pertaining to proof of citizenship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, his Cabinet colleagues and the Governor. A Panipat-based activist last month sought information on the proof of citizenship of the Chief Minister, all the Ministers in the State Cabinet and the Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya under the Right...

As body count due to Delhi riots (some call it pogrom) rise above 45, it is essential to look at the official data related to communal incidents in the country. It is from the annual report of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), one gets information about the number of communal incidents in different years, apart from the number of persons injured and killed in those incidents. There is one...