-The Economic Times Two sisters, aged 17 and 13, were shot dead in Etawah in Uttar Pradesh on Monday night by a man who was stalking the elder sister for several months now. He had been booked by the police in an FIR, but got out on bail. The younger girl was shot as she was a witness to her sister’s murder. This is just a continuation of a series of crimes...
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Undo the wrong -Faizan Mustafa
-The Indian Express An ordinance to overturn the Supreme Court order on SC/ST Atrocities Act is much needed The controversial judgment on the SC/ST Atrocities Act has yet again brought to the foreground the faultlines of our democracy. A cornered government, anticipating political repercussions, has moved the apex court for a review of the judgment. In its written submissions, it has stated that the judgment has created disharmony in society and violated...
More »NREGA v minimum farm wages: How jobs Act is losing out to funds crunch -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express After the Finance Ministry rejected the recommendations of two recent government panels, MGNREGA workers in 10 states will get no raises in 2018-19. Minimum farm wages are now higher in many states. The last time the union government brought MGNREGA wages at par with minimum agricultural wages was in 2009. Two years later, in 2011, only four states — Kerala, Goa, Haryana and Mizoram — had minimum agricultural wages...
More »15 theories about why India is facing a cash crunch a year and a half after demonetisation -Rohan Venkataramakrishnan & M Rajshekhar
-Scroll.in From ATM logistics to deliberate lack of supply to Nirav Modi, there are many explanations for the shortage. One of the most unusual things about the cash crunch that is affecting a number of Indian states, which the government officially acknowledged on Tuesday, is that the causes of the shortage are unclear. In various statements, government officials have pointed the blame at an “unusual spurt” in currency demand, although they...
More »Taxmen begin raids on hoarders of cash as Centre, RBI pump in notes -Sidhartha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Tax authorities have conducted 30-35 raids in Karnataka and parts of Andhra Pradesh as part of a drive to smoke out cash hoarders, even as the government and RBI moved to pump in funds into some of the states facing a currency crunch. In Bihar, for instance, Rs 800-900 crore has been pumped in through the ATM network with initial assessments suggesting that the shortage may...
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