Shailesh Gandhi Prashant Reddy T. DECEMBER 01, 2020 Only information bearing a nexus to public activity should be available to the public Recently, in a case involving activist Saket Gokhale, the Bombay High Court ordered the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to remove Mr. […]
The third and fourth quarter numbers are likely to spring a positive surprise, though conditional on the absence of another wave of infections. Written by Soumya Kanti Ghosh | November 30, 2020 The narrative has changed for the better since the first quarter (financial […]
0-The farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western UP who have massed up at Delhi’s borders demanding that a minimum support price guarantee be written into the statute books and rollback of the farm law weakening the APMC mandis convey a stark message: they trust MSPs […]
Landmark judicial decisions have long deprecated the practice of courts demanding excessive surety or local sureties The speed with which Arnab Goswami was recently granted bail has thrown into sharp relief the multitudes for whom such quick access to justice will never exist. According to […]
The charter proposes a regulatory regime for self-financing unaided institutions that curtails institutional autonomy underlined in Supreme Court judgments. Written by Sunil Gupta | school fee, school shutdown, primary school students and online classes, education news,school fee, school shutdown, primary school students and online classes, […]
India’s economy needs a robust demand stimulus to avoid a protracted slump The fact that India’s economy entered a technical recession in the July-September period has now been confirmed by National Statistical Office data. Provisional estimates of gross domestic product for the second quarter of […]
For 61 years, the Tibetan diaspora has been a community in waiting. As those from outside Tibet prepare to elect their government-in-exile at a time everything has moved online, disruptions have become easier. Cybersecurity researcher Tenzin Dalha, who works with the Tibet Policy Institute (TPI), […]
The GDP data for the second quarter of 2020-21 conveys a mixed picture. GDP shrank 7.5% to Rs 33.14 lakh crore. This is the first recession, or two successive quarters of contraction, since quarterly data became available. But the decline is lower than the 9.8% […]
The fallout of Fakhrizadeh’s killing, while benefiting Israel, will add to the instability in West Asia Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian scientist who led Iran’s nuclear weapons programme until it was disbanded, was assassinated last week. Suspicion immediately fell on Israel, which has been widely held […]
The government should not make the farmers’ protest venue a factor in engaging with them, as farmers from Punjab and Haryana in large numbers crowd the outskirts of Delhi, to protest against the three recent farm laws that promise to change the contours of farming […]