-The Hindu Won’t implement citizenship law or NRC, declares Mamata Stung by the brutal police action in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University on Sunday, students hit the streets in Chennai, Puducherry, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Varanasi, Kolkata and Guwahati in solidarity, even as political leaders held rallies and dharnas against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) on Monday. In a rare moment for Kerala, the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) joined hands...
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Onion crisis reveals how little the Government can do when the chips are down -Siraj Hussain
-TheWire.in Even if we had enough buffer stock, which we don't, the Centre has no delivery mechanism. The only viable alternative is to create modern storage infrastructure, but who is interested in doing that? It appears that it is the humble onion which is finally teaching urban India’s middle class of the perils of climate change. The deniers may still not want to believe it, but the current crisis of high onion...
More »Guwahati unrest death toll rises
-The Telegraph Common platform comes up Guwahati: Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, continued for the fifth day in Assam on Sunday with artistes and student organisation members joining hands across the state and intellectuals, representing 45 organisations, forming a common platform. The toll in the suspected police firing on protesters rose to five during the day. Two more protesters, who were injured in alleged police firing on Thursday, succumbed to injuries...
More »GST pits angry states against Centre -Paran Balakrishnan
-The Telegraph Lower compensation beyond 2022 could be one way out A showdown is looming in Delhi over the GST, the country’s biggest tax revamp since independence that was implemented three years ago. Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac has already fired the opening shots. He will be in the capital next Wednesday for a GST Council meeting and he’s declared that he will be heading to the Supreme Court if he doesn’t...
More »Wholesale inflation tames to 0.58 per cent
-The Hindu Business Line Consumers bore brunt of more expensive onion, potato and vegetables Wholesale inflation fell to 0.58 per cent in November 2019, down from 4.47 per cent in November 2018. Sequentially, wholesale inflation reported an increase, rising from 0.16 per cent in October 2019, according to a statement by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Please click here to read more. ...
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