राजनीती
November 30, 2016
A Dalit woman brought small yet significant change to Wagholi village of Osmanabad district in Maharashtra – with little gain to herself
The table was meant for the sarpanch. But just a few weeks after Shalubai Kasbe, then 44, was elected to the five-year post in 2011, the young men of Wagholi village lugged a huge bust of Chhatrapati Shivaji into the panchayat office....
November 30, 2016
All black money is not held as hoarded cash and at best constitutes 6% of the black money.
After the revolutionary decision taken by Prime Minister Modi to demonetize 86% of India’s total currency, the country is going on a downward spiral. But this seems to be only a “small inconvenience” as all of India’s black money is supposedly being flushed out....
November 30, 2016
In the season of demonetisation and polls, the new hype of jobs could clinch it for BJP if the opposition does not explode the myth of the Gujarat Model and how it epitomises ‘jobless growth’
Gujarat Loan Mela Hype: Instead of 65,000 beneficiaries, the number of jobs provided based on information given by the authorities in 23 districts, totals only to 51,587. Out of that 11,172...
November 29, 2016
It reported an income of Rs 977 crore from unknown sources in two years 2013-14 and 2014-15
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the main partner of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), reported an income of Rs 977 crore from unknown sources in two years 2013-14 and 2014-15, Factly.in, a data-journalism portal, reported on November 22, 2016.
The main opposition party –...
November 29, 2016
नई दिल्ली। जहां एक तरफ केंद्र की सरकार ने कालाधन और भ्रष्टाचार की बात कहकर एकाएक देश से 500 और 1000 के नोट बंद कर दिए। जहां एक तरफ सरकार ई-वॉलेट के जरिए लोगों के खर्चों में लगाम लगाना चाहती है। वहीं केंद्र सरकार के खर्चे का एक नया खुलासा हुआ है। आरटीआई से पता चला है कि केंद्र सरकार ने पिछले ढाई साल में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी पर केंद्रित विज्ञापनों पर 1100 करोड़ रूपए खर्च कर दिए। ...
November 29, 2016
PTI reports that in the ongoing vote counting to the local body polls in prime minister, Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, the ruling BJP has recorded decisive wins. According to the final result declared by the Gujarat State Election Commission (SEC), the BJP has registered victory in Vapi municipality of Valsad district by capturing 41 out of total 44 seats. Reports also indicate...
November 29, 2016
Independents with 864 have garnered many more votes than the BJP’s 851 (out of 3,706 seats) and the Congress-NCP tally, if seen together is 84 seats behind the BJP and Shiv Sena’s
Despite the uncritical media hype that gives the reader a blinkered view of the poll outcome in the recently conducted local Nagarpalika elections in the Maharashtra, it is not the BJP that is...
November 29, 2016
Yoga guru Ramdev has landed in a controversy in Nepal after a media report claimed that Patanjali Ayurved group invested more than Rs 150 crore in the country without official approval.
Photo: Hindustan Times
The Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act requires any foreign investor to get permission from the Investment Board Nepal or the Department of Industries before investing in...
November 29, 2016
Fitch Ratings today lowered India’s GDP growth forecast for this fiscal to 6.9 percent from 7.4 percent, saying there will be “temporary disruptions” to economic activity post demonetisation.
It said economic activity will be hit in the October- December quarter because of the cash crunch created by withdrawal and replacement of 500 and 1000 rupee notes that accounted for 86...
November 29, 2016
Distress brought about by demonetisation is most for those who struggle each day to find poorly-paid work.
“We have to dig wells every day in order to quench our thirst”. This popular Hindi saying recurred in conversations when I walked Delhi’s streets to understand how the abrupt withdrawal of old currency notes had impacted Delhi’s poorest, homeless and casual...