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By B Yerram Raju The lockdown in China, and the fresh virus outbreak in Hong Kong, Australia, the UK, Germany etc, pose a severe threat and demand extreme caution. Ukraine war remains a global concern. The ripple effects of the war are seen in the central banks raising their policy rates in the US, UK […]
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By Arun Sinha The BJP’s claim that its victory in Uttar Pradesh was a victory against casteism does not have any legs to stand on. It was definitely a tempestuous victory against the Samajwadi Party, which while relying predominantly upon the Yadav vote, tried to mobilise Other Backward Classes, but that victory was not a […]
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By Surajit Das The National Statistical Office (NSO) of the Government of India released a press statement on March 14 on the unemployment rate. According to the periodic labour force survey (PLFS) data, the unemployment rate stood at 13.4% in urban areas in the financial year 2020-21. Female unemployment rate was over 15% and for […]
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By Jaspreet Kaur The results of the Punjab Assembly elections this time were astonishing as well as historic. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) not only won 92 seats with a 42% vote share, it also defeated many veterans, including SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and former Congress chief minister Amarinder Singh, who has now floated […]
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By Amitabh Mattoo The war in Ukraine may reverse non-proliferation measures including the fragile détente between India and Pakistan. When the ‘father’ of the atomic bomb, scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, witnessed the first nuclear test in New Mexico in July 1945, he was reminded of Hinduism’s most important text, the Bhagvat Gita. “Now I am […]
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By J R Janumpalli The Ministry of Jal Shakti issued a gazette notification on July 15, which gives complete control of all projects in the basins of Godavari and Krishna in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) and the Godavari River Management Board (GRMB). The notification usurping all the rights […]
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By Seela Subba Rao Despite the enactment of The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, the practice of using direct human labour in cleaning sewage and septic tanks prevails. The Safai Mitra Suraksha Challenge, launched in 2020, was aimed at mechanising the cleaning operation of septic and sewage tank in […]
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By Srinivas Rao Mahankali Even as the Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the world and ravaged global economies, it ushered in winds of positive change for India’s startup ecosystem. According to recent reports, 43 startups were identified as unicorns in 2020, and 42 others in 2021, making it a bumper period for homegrown startups. The […]
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Women make up the majority of the world’s poor and are more reliant on natural resources
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By Amy Myers Jaffe Russia produces close to 11 million barrels per day of crude oil. It uses roughly half of this output for its own internal demand, which presumably has increased due to higher military fuel requirements, and it exports 5 million to 6 million barrels per day. Today, Russia is the second largest […]
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By PV Ramana Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) [CPI (Maoist)], Maoists in short, commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8. They also observe a few other commemorative days/weeks –– International Lenin Day (April 22; Lenin’s birthday); Martyr’s Memorial Week (July 28-August 3, marking the death of Charu Mazumdar); Formation Day (September 21) […]
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By Ratan Mani Lal In more than a month of campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, marked by charges, counter-allegations, promises and rhetoric, political parties put in everything at their disposal into the contest. The major election issues included price rise, cases of violence against women, Covid-19, unemployment, unresponsive government machinery, polarisation, favouritism and stray cattle menace. […]
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By Prof GB Reddy, G Rishichandra Reddy March 8th every year is celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate the event when in 1910, Clara Zetkin, the leader of the ‘Women’s Office’ for the Social Democratic Party in Germany, tabled the idea of an international women’s day to assert women’s demands. It has been observed […]
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By Arun Sinha One of the strongest pitches of the BJP marketing in recent years has been that the Modi government has given to the poor many times more than any government ever before did. Free rations, a gas connection, a pucca house, drinking water, electricity, a toilet, medical insurance and more — a long […]
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By VJM Divakar When the Telangana government decided to commence the 2022 Budget session of the State Assembly without the so-called customary Governor’s address to the joint session of the legislature, eyebrows were raised in certain sections criticising Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The criticism is mainly based on political intentions and these are the same […]
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By Mariola Urrea The plenary session of the European Parliament held on March 1 has left testimonies that make it possible to anticipate far-reaching political advances for the process of European construction. It is enough to review the speeches of the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Layen, and, particularly, that of the […]
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By Balsher Singh Sidhu More than half the world’s population faces water scarcity for at least one month every year. Meanwhile, some people have to deal with too much water, while others have access to only poor water quality. That’s billions of people living with drought in Africa and India, facing flood risks in Bangladesh […]
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BY MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR Does the Governor have a right or authority to address the Assembly session? As the formal head of Legislature, can s/he summon the session and decide to address the Assembly and Council jointly? MP Jain’s ‘Indian Constitutional Law’ (P 328) says, “the Governor’s address to the first session of the Legislature has […]
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By Tanya Ogilvie-White Russian President Vladimir Putin overnight ordered the defence minister and the chief of the military to put nuclear deterrent forces in a “special regime of combat duty”, possibly referring to readying tactical nuclear forces. This could of course be a bluff, but Putin has demonstrated on numerous occasions he has a cavalier […]
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By Franz Krüger For more than a century, journalism education prepared young people for the role of full-time professionals employed by sizeable news organisations. But the advertising-based business model that sustained journalism is collapsing because of new technology, and jobs of the old kind are becoming scarce. The educational model, too, must change to accommodate […]
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By Juliette McIntyre, Douglas Guilfoyle The world was treated to a grotesque spectacle this week. Russia, the current president of the UN Security Council, launched an invasion of Ukraine while the Security Council was holding an urgent meeting to try to resolve the crisis. This has many people asking whether there is any point to […]
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By Dhananjay Tripathi A couple of weeks ago, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar was in Australia to attend the fourth foreign ministers’ meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad). This meeting was viewed by experts as significant because, in the joint statement, there was an indirect reference to Pakistan’s support for terrorism against India. The […]
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By Dr Vanishree Joseph, Dr N V Madhuri Several measures have been taken in India for the deprived to recover from the impact created by the Covid-19 pandemic. As per the IMF staff estimates, these measures sum to about 0.6% of the GDP. This estimated amount is being used to spend in providing insurance coverage […]
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By B Yerram Raju Institutional reforms are least spoken of in the Draft National MSME Policy. The policy has missed the labour-intensive sectors to address the inclusivity issue. When the policy mentions demographic dividend, full advantage can be derived only when the small enterprises in manufacturing are encouraged and a strong link between the micro […]