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November 16, 2016
A revaluation of our institutions is in order
Photo Credit: Rajib Dhar/Dhaka Tribune
Let’s give it to the urban elite: We have yet again survived another crisis without having to resort to a much needed debate on democratic norms and institutions.
Some houses and temples have again been burned. People have again been victimised. It’s not a very surprising routine,...
November 16, 2016
Mandya: There is only one doctor at the primary health centre (PHC) in Melkote, in southern Karnataka, to serve 20,000 people across 33 villages. On Sunday, the doctor’s weekly off, the usually crowded PHC is completely deserted.
The primary health centre at Melkote, in Mandya district, Karnataka, has only one doctor–to serve 20,000 people across 33 villages. The number of...
November 16, 2016
For the first time in a long time Dalits have mobilised en masse for issues concerning their livelihoods. The uprising in Una has shaken the political establishment in Gujarat and has spread to other parts of India as well, including saffronised Udupi in Karnataka.
The Dalit struggle in Gujarat sparked off by the public flogging of a Dalit family by the gau rakshaks has caught the...
November 16, 2016
The registration of grave charges of murder and criminal conspiracy against respected academics and human rights defenders Nandini Sundar of Delhi University and Archana Prasad of JNU, and Sanjay Parate (Chhattisgarh CPI (M) state secretary), among others, is the latest chapter in a long ignoble saga of open police bullying of journalists, rights workers and dissenters in the troubled Bastar...
November 15, 2016
Tens of millions of people around the world remember to this date, where they were and what they were doing when the twin towers fell. As they do when Mr. Barack Obama, a black man, became the most powerful man in the world. Strangers rejoiced on the streets of little towns around the world. Not because they thought that their lives would be suddenly better, or that the complex political and...
November 15, 2016
While Delhi occasionally has to grapple with the real excesses of state power, such as when the government orders a news channel to go blank, the police state is alive and thriving in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar. The district, which became infamous two decades ago for the significant presence of Maoists, has also become a symbol of Indian state abuse and has been the site of some of the most...
November 14, 2016
On November 14, 2016, Pandit Nehru’s Birth Anniversary, the Indian National Congress re-launched the National Herald under the stewardship of Neelabh Mishra, erstwhile editor of the Hindi Outlook. Mishra had been asked to leave Outlook after a series of shake-ups in the publication, widely believed in the journalist world, to be under executive pressure. Editor of the English edition of the...
November 14, 2016
Part 1: Why demonetization has nothing to do with “Black Money”
In 1985 and 2010 the Indian Government and the World Bank respectively conducted two different studies on how big the black or “Shadow Economy” of India is[i].[ii] They both came to the same conclusion- it is around 20% of the total GDP.
It is quite a surprising consistency over a quarter of a...
November 13, 2016
Fake Two Thousand Currency Notes & Bulk Notes Surface: South, North, East and West
Round Up from Different Networks, Vijay Karnataka, Dainik Savera, News X, News 24 Online
Hindi News 24 Online
अगर आपको कोई 2000 रुपये का नोट दे रहा है तो सावधान हो जाएं। क्योंकि अभी तक देश की जनता के पास पूरी तरह से भले ही यह नोट पहुंचा भी नहीं है कि इसका नकली नोट बाजार में आ गया है।...
November 13, 2016
एटीएम में कैश नहीं। घर में जो पैसा है वो अब चलता नहीं। बैंक से जल्दी मिलता नहीं। जररूत पर क्या करें लोग।
अलीगढ़
बैंकों में लंबी लंबी लाइन लगी है। एटीएम में कैश नहीं है और घर में जो पैसा है वो अब चलता नहीं है। उधारी पर लोग घर का खर्च चलाने को मजबूर हैं। 500 और 1000 रुपए के पुराने नोट बंद होने के बाद सबसे ज्यादा परेशान उन लोगों को हो रहा है जिनके घरों में शादी है। बैंकों से जररूत के मुताबिक...