-The Telegraph Mamata Banerjee today sprayed a cocktail of petrol price and other grievances on the Centre, warning that the Trinamul Congress could pull out of the UPA government if it “did not think about the masses” and listen to her party. Oil firms said they had little option but to roll back the price increase if the Centre issued such a directive. However, till late this evening, the Prime Minister appeared...
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Arrested with arms dealer, I-T officer back at work, promoted by Ajmer Singh
Three years after he was arrested by CBI from a Mumbai hotel along with an arms dealer, Indian Revenue Service officer Ashutosh Verma was reinstated by the Income Tax Department. Last month, he was promoted as Joint Commissioner, Income Tax. In March 2008, Verma was arrested together with arms dealer Suresh Nanda, his son Sanjeev and Nanda’s chartered accountant Bipin Shah. The arrests were made after a surveillance unit of the CBI...
More »Why our Media is anti-people by Markandey Katju
To understand the role which the Media should be playing in India we have to first understand the historical context. India is presently passing through a transitional period in its history: a transition from a feudal agricultural society to a modern industrial society. This is a very painful and agonising period. The old feudal society is being uprooted and torn apart; but the new, modern, industrial society has not yet been...
More »Journalists' association criticises Markandey Katju's comment on scribes
-PTI The Indian Journalists' Association Wednesday criticised Press Council chairman Markandey Katju for his comments on the intellectual capacity of journalists and urged the Centre to ignore such "ill-conceived" views. In a statement in Kolkata, IJA general secretary Mrinal Biswas and former Press Council member Mihir Ganguly said that Katju's recent observations on the scribes "had crossed the limit of the jurisdiction set in the Act". Demanding that Katju express regret for "casting...
More »Not BPL but Basic Income by Meghnad Desai
The fracas over R32 per day was amusing and sad. Obviously, none of the journalists and politicians had known that the level used to be even lower in previous years. In 2004-05, the level was R552 per person per month for an urban person and R363 for rural. So, that is about R17.5 (R12) per day. The stylised anger only revealed that India’s elite may protest about poverty but they...
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