कानून का बोलबाला
December 23, 2016
The Supreme Court has directed the National Legal Services Authority to formulate appropriate schemes to spread awareness and provide free legal aid to members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
It is rare that the Courts give a pronouncement that is both decisive and revealing. The moot question lies regarding implementation. On December 15, 2016, disposing of a petition filed by...
December 23, 2016
Photo Courtesy: Rob Elliot/AFP
The original inhabitants of the Konkan coast are planning an action on December 24, saying the proposed memorial in the sea will ruin their livelihoods.
As the Maharashtra government’s dream to build a Shivaji Memorial in the Arabian Sea off the coast of South Mumbai edges closer to reality, the opposition from fishing communities affected by the...
December 23, 2016
नोटबंदी के तीन दिन बाद ही अहमदाबाद डिस्ट्रिक्ट को-ऑपरेटिव बैंक में 500 करोड़ जमा करने की खबर के बाद ईडी ने इस पर छापा मारा था। बीजेपी के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष अमित शाह इस बैंक के निदेशकों में शामिल हैं।
नोटबंदी के ऐलान के चंद घंटों के बाद ही आश्रम रोड के अहमदाबाद डिस्ट्रिक्ट को-ऑपरेटिव बैंक में 500 करोड़ की बड़ी रकम जमा करने की खबर मिली। इस बैंक के डायरेक्टर बीजेपी के अध्यक्ष अमित शाह...
December 23, 2016
नोटबंदी ने बनारस साड़ी उद्योग की रीढ़ यानी उधारी पर लेन-देन पर गहरी चोट की है। यहां पूरा का पूरा कारोबार उधार पर होता है। पोस्ट डेटेड बियरर चेक से ही काम होता है। यह पोस्ट डेटेड बियरर चेक प्रॉमिसरी नोट के तौर पर सिल्क खरीदने के लिए भी बैंक में भुनाए जाने से पहले छह नहीं तो कम से ही तीन हाथों से तो गुजरता ही है।
वाराणसी में 8 से 15 नवंबर के बीच लाखों-करोड़ों रुपये के रेशम के धागे खरीदे गए। इससे...
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...