-ThePrint.in Starting with Vijay Kumar Bandhu’s initiative, demand for OPS has now become a key issue in UP, MP, Himachal, Andhra Pradesh & Jharkhand and features in the SP’s poll manifesto. New Delhi: Amongst the various poll promises covering all the party manifestos for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, the entry of one new item in the Samajwadi Party’s programme is testament to a longstanding demand. It is the widespread call to reinstate...
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Kaushik Basu, currently teaching at Cornell University in the US, interviewed by Abhinav Singh (TheWeek.in)
-TheWeek.in Well-off are doing fine; stagflation confined to middle and lower-middle classes Kaushik Basu, former chief economic adviser to the government and former chief economist of the World Bank, is currently teaching at Cornell University in the US. In an exclusive interaction, he talks about the current challenges before the Indian economy and its future growth prospects. Excerpts: Q/ Is the Indian economy moving in the right direction? A/ The performance of the Indian...
More »'India Among Top 10 Autocratising Nations; Democratic Slide to Continue': V-Dem Institute
-TheWire.in After being classified as 'electoral autocracy' last year by Sweden's V-Dem Institute, India continues to hold on to its dubious honour even this year. New Delhi: India has figured in the top 10 autocratising countries of the world along with El Salvador, Turkey and Hungary, with projections ominously indicating that there will be a further decline in democracy in the country, according to the latest report of the V-Dem Institute on...
More »Deocha Coal Project: ‘Vigil’ by Police, TMC Cadres Creating ‘Fear Psychosis’ Among Adivasis -Rabindra Nath Sinha
-Newsclick.in CM Mamata Banerjee has started handing over compensation packages, but SKM and other outfits have accused it of bypassing holding of gram sabhas. Kolkata: The Deocha-Pachami-Dewanganj-Harisingha (DPDH) coal block under Mohammed Bazar Development Block in Birbhum district is fast becoming a “symbol of the West Bengal government’s high-handedness”. So much so that local residents, a large number of whom are adivasis/santhals, are being cautious in airing their concerns about the proposed...
More »Why Judges Should Not Interpret Religion -Arvind Kurian Abraham
-TheWire.in One of the oddities of the ongoing hijab Ban case, is how a secular court has to decide whether wearing a hijab is mandated by Islam. One cannot fault the Karnataka high court beyond a point, as it is merely following ‘Essential Religious Practices Test’ laid down by the Supreme Court of India. Courts use this test to determine whether a practice is essential to the religion, in order to decide...
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