-The Telegraph ‘Ill-timed, improper’ amendment notified by Centre a bid by ruling party to take ‘undue advantage’, says former economic affairs secretary New Delhi: Former Union economic affairs secretary E.A.S. Sarma has asked the Election Commission of India to prevent the fresh sale of electoral bonds, as allowed under an amendment notified by the Centre on Monday that he described as “ill-timed, improper” and as a bid by the ruling party to...
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The electoral bonds scheme and the challenges to it in Supreme Court -Diksha Munjal
-The Hindu So far, from March 2018 to April 2022, over 18 thousand bonds worth over ₹9.8 thousand crore have been sold by the SBI in 20 tranches The story so far: The Supreme Court is expected to hear the petition filed by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) challenging the Centre’s electoral bonds Scheme soon. . The plea has been pending since 2017. The interim petitions seeking to stay the electoral bonds...
More »Rising Farmer Suicides Leaves Families ADRift as Vidarbha Grapples With Multiple Crises -Deepanshu Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, Vanshika Mittal, Rishiraj Sen and Mohd. Rameez
-TheWire.in The crisis is well known and has been written about for decades now. Government intervention has taken place but little has changed. The Vidarbha region of Maharashtra consists of eleven districts: Akola, Amravati, Washim, Nagpur, Yavatmal, Wardha, Buldhana, Chandrapur, Bhandara, Gadchiroli and Gondia. As of 2012, 65% of the population living in this region was solely dependent on agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood and vocational needs. This is due to...
More »Uttar Pradesh election 2022: 52% Samajwadi Party candidates in third phase, 46% from BJP have criminal cases against them
-Moneycontrol.com Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022: In all, 135 (22 percent) of 623 candidates in the third phase have criminal cases filed against them, according to an analysis of affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms and Uttar Pradesh Election Watch. In Uttar Pradesh, 135 (22 percent) of 623 candidates contesting third phase elections have criminal cases filed against them, according to an analysis of affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms...
More »Why is it difficult for children from underprivileged sections of the society to get their lessons online? Read this new report to know.
Remote teaching and learning promoted by Edtech companies as an alternative to physical classrooms, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have a sizeable consumer base in our country. However, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are only a few takers of online education. In reality, class and caste-divide, which is more prominent in rural areas, affects access to digital learning. The majority of the school going...
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