राजनीती
November 30, 2016
आज के भारत की इस नई लहर में भाजपा के खिलाफ कुछ भी लिखना मना है वरना आपको सजा हो सकती हैं। ऐसा ही कुछ हुआ वरिष्ठ पत्रकार गौरी लंकेश के साथ, गौरी लंकेश ने 23 जनवरी 2008 को भाजपा पर एक आर्टिकल लिखा था।
जिसके बाद कर्नाटक के धारवाड़ जिले के सांसद प्रह्लाद जोशी और भारतीय जनता पार्टी के नेता उमेश दुशी ने मानहानि का मामला दर्ज करा दिया था।
मानहानि के इन दोनो मामलों में गौरी को अदालत ने छ...
November 30, 2016
नई दिल्ली। नोटबंदी के फैसले के बाद बैन हो चुके 500 और 1000 रुपये के पुराने नोटों को बैंक में जमा करवाने के लिए बैंको के बाहर लोगों की जमकर भीड़ लगी हुई है। लेकिन क्या आर जानते है कि जिन पुराने नोटों को बैंक में जमा करा रहे हैं, उनका क्या होता है? अगर कोई आपसे बोले की जो नोट आप जमा करवा रहे हैं उनका प्रयोग प्लाईवुड बनाने में किया जाता है तो आपकी सोच क्या होगी?
जी हां, ईटी की खबर के...
November 30, 2016
पाठकों को भरमाने वाले मीडिया हाइप के बावजूद हाल में हुए महाराष्ट्र नगरपालिका चुनावों में भाजपा को वैसी जीत नहीं मिली, जैसी उम्मीद जताई जा रही थी। इन चुनावों के असली विजेता निर्दलीय उम्मीदवार रहे हैं।
महाराष्ट्र के नगरपालिका चुनावों में निर्दलीय उम्मीदवारों ने भाजपा उम्मीदवारों से ज्यादा वोट हासिल किए हैं। भारतीय जनता पार्टी की 851 सीटों ( कुल सीट 3,706) की तुलना में उन्होंने ज्यादा सीटें...
Rs 50,000 or Rs 75,000? Allahabad poor debate rumour that government will put cash in their accounts
November 30, 2016
Speculation, hardship and a glimmer of anger in Uttar Pradesh after demonetisation.
Imaget: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP
The bazaars and bastis of Allahabad are rife with rumours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi taking from the rich to give to the poor. Of doctors with rooms full of cash dying of shock and of bags of black money unearthed from businessmen.
The city’s businessmen,...
November 30, 2016
So many lies are being spread by the government which is currently busy wrecking the Indian economy in the manner of a bull in a china shop; so many spurious economic arguments are being trotted out by it, that one has to be extremely vigilant not to be swept away by this tide of unreason.
Image: Reuters
In the current article, and the two subsequent ones to follow, I propose to...
November 30, 2016
Gurgaon ki Awaaz is one of the radio stations arbitrarily issued a notice for carrying ‘objectionable and denigrating’ content on its radio station. The station director has issued this statement accepting the challenges of running a community radio station in a society where misogynistic language, even abuse, often creeps into discourse; this is worth a read as it has lessons...
November 30, 2016
Miscalculation by Monetization: With more than half the worth of old notes finding its way back into circulation, the Centre is likely concerned on the loss of revenue
Image: Reuters
And is this why the Centre is providing black money holders yet another opportunity by amending the I-T Act ?
Three weeks into the Centre’s de-monetization move, as many as Rs. Lakh crore of...
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...