-The Indian Express There is deliberate ambiguity regarding citizenship laws and policies, their implementation. These threaten to undermine the basic values of the Indian Constitution. Rattled by the widespread agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which, coupled with the National Register of Citizens, is rightly seen as the first concrete step to establish a Hindu Rashtra. Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed at Ramlila Maidan that there is no move by the government...
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After fertilisers, Centre wants food subsidy to directly benefit farmers -Harikishan Sharma & Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express In Odisha, procurement of paddy during the ongoing 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) is, for the first time, being done from registered farmers only after Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. FIRST IT was fertilisers, where the NDA government made disbursal of subsidy conditional upon actual sales to farmers getting registered on PoS (Point of Sale) machines in retail outlets. That reform measure — to ensure that the benefit of minimum support...
More »Won't back fiscal tightening currently: Abhijit Banerjee -Ajeet Mahale
-The Hindu Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee says the deficit numbers are a bit imaginary, not a big deal if breached Mumbai: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has said that he would not back fiscal tightening in the current economic environment. Prof. Banerjee added that the real constraint to the state of education in the country in the current climate of economic slowdown was not lack of money, but the lack of attention paid to...
More »Private property is a fundamental right: Supreme Court -Krishnadas Rajagopal
-The Hindu 'Grabbing private land and claiming it as its own makes the State an encroacher’ A citizen’s right to own private property is a fundamental right. The state cannot take possession of it without following due procedure and authority of law, the Supreme Court has held in a judgment. The state cannot trespass into the private property of a citizen and then claim ownership of the land in the name of ‘adverse...
More »Crime records of 2018 show 98.4% of rapes in Kerala were by men who knew the victims
-TheNewsMinute.com Among the 1972 victims of sexual assault in Kerala in 2018, 1156 are minors, below the age of 18. The total number of crimes against women recorded in Kerala in 2018 is 10461, which is 496 less than the statistics in 2017 but 427 more than in 2016. The data, released by the National Crime Records Bureau, says that Kerala accords for 2.8 per cent of the total number of crimes...
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