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December 22, 2016
Is the Modi Govt's Panic on Legit Deposits of Old Notes Connected to Furthering Its Own Narrative on Black Money?
This narrative comes into question since almost all Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 rupee notes been already deposited and this leave little scope to fool the people further
There appears to be panic within the government on people returning the demonetised Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes...
December 22, 2016
Demonetisation is an ill-thought out strike against the real economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Demonetisation is not merely an ill-thought out strike against the real economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his troupe of sycophants and followers.
The traditional obscurantism of Hindutva, in the glorification of mythology as science, has had serious consequences for education in...
December 22, 2016
[Iraqi Kudistan. Image via edmaps.com]
[In early 2016 Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, proclaimed that a referendum on Kurdish independence would be conducted before this year’s US presidential elections. More recently its prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, has pledged the referendum will be held after the campaign to oust the Islamic State...
December 22, 2016
The union government, despite the hype, spent only Rs 326 crore for cleaning Ganga, leaving more than Rs 1,700 crore unspent.
IANS report: It is not just the opposition which is out to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emotive connect with the river Ganga. Statistics show that very little has been done in the past two years of BJP rule - in spite of spending Rs 2,958 crore of...
December 22, 2016
We Oppose you here in Kashi, says the Pamphlet that has gone Viral on Social Media
Abhinav Tripathi has alleged “harassment of poor residents of Kashi at the hands of bank officials, lack of action against criminals controlling temples, mosques, churches and gurudwaras, appointment of people with dubious character to key posts by the Vice Chancellor of Benares Hindu University and...
December 22, 2016
A city under siege: never again? Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters
The siege of Aleppo is a mass atrocity with unprecedented levels of visibility. Confronted with the horrific images of a destroyed city, and the testimonies of wounded survivors using social media to reach out to the world, many have argued that a complete meltdown of humanity is unfolding.
Some have lamented that the...
December 22, 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed on December 19, 2016, while addressing a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rally in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, that his government has not changed “even a comma or a full stop” on laws that regulate funding of political parties.
The claim is false because Modi’s minister of state, Kiren Rijju, admitted in May 2016 that his...
December 22, 2016
नई दिल्ली। बैंक अधिकारियों व कालाधन रखने वालों की मिलीभगत से जनधन खातों का खूब दुरुपयोग किया जा रहा है। जानकारी के मुताबिक जनधन खातों में पहले कालाधन जमा किए गया और फिर निकाल भी लिए गया। यही नहीं बैंक अधिकारियों ने पहले ही खाताधारकों से विदड्रॉल फॉर्म भी साइन करा लिए थे। इनकम टैक्स की इन्वेस्टिगेशन विंग ने ऐसे कई मामले सामने आने के बाद जनधन खातों की जांच शुरू कर दी है।
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December 22, 2016
The Union government has finally woken up to the dangerous situation in Manipur and has sent 4000 central paramilitary troops to control ethnic tension which has been building over weeks and are now threatening to spiral out of control. It should have done this at least a month ago when as a consequence of an indefinite blockade on the lifelines of Manipur by a Naga civil organisation, United...
December 22, 2016
12 dead and 48 injured on the eve of Christmas, and a Tunisian is a suspect
Analysts are still amazed that a truck, used to carry goods, can be transformed into a weapon by Islamic terrorists. As the Berlin truck attack shows, perhaps anything can be turned into an agent of destruction. But this is not the first incident involving such an unconventional weapon. The Nice attack in France...