The terrorist attack in Anantnag district, South Kashmir is a wake-up call. It blots the government’s narrative that terrorism is under check in the Union Territory (UT) and casts a shadow over its plans to restore grassroots democracy. Official data suggests a decline in terrorist attacks – 30 incidents till July 31 this year compared […]
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Government’s big announcement before assembly elections | महिला पॉलिटेक्निक कॉलेज में निफ्ट की तर्ज पर शुरू हुए डिग्री कोर्स, 11 तक करें एप्लाई
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Sep
Sep
जयपुर4 दिन पहले कॉपी लिंक स्टूडेंट जिस भी कॉलेज में एडमिशन लेना चाहते हैं, वहां उपस्थित होकर फॉर्म जमा करवा सकेंगे। राजस्थान सरकार ने प्रदेश के महिला पॉलिटेक्निक कॉलेज में निफ्ट की तर्ज पर डिजाइनिंग और फाइन आर्ट सब्जेक्ट पर पाठ्यक्रम शुरू करने का फैसला किया है। इनमें इसी साल से स्टूडेंट्स एडमिशन ले सकेंगे। […]
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Sep
Sep
There is much that remains unknown about the government’s recent move to explore the possibility of simultaneous polls to state assemblies and the Lok Sabha. How will it happen? The experts who have looked into the issue before (a parliamentary panel, a Niti Aayog report, and the Law Commission) differ on the mechanics of its […]
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Aug
Aug
After tomatoes, the government appears to have shifted its attention to onion prices. With reports of onion arrivals declining in wholesale markets and prices inching up, there is reason to believe that onions might offset some of the cooling in tomato prices in the coming weeks. This is a concerning development against the backdrop of […]
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Aug
Aug
An August 17 report in this newspaper said the government might extend the provision of free food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and continue to give ₹200 per LPG cylinder to beneficiaries of the Ujjwala scheme. Both were initially announced for a period of one year. Another report on August 18 noted […]
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Aug
Aug
The Union government’s surprise decision to introduce three proposed codes to overhaul the colonial-era statutes that governed India’s criminal justice system must rank among the most ambitious pieces of reforms attempted in India’s legal architecture in the past few decades. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, […]
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Jul
Jul
The government’s push for a uniform civil code (UCC) appears to have run into resistance from many of India’s tribespeople — from central India to the northeastern states. The protests from a number of community groups, and even some chief ministers, has been so prompt that the head of the parliamentary panel on public grievances […]
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Jun
Jun
Our dislike of alphabet soups apart, there are several good reasons for the government to now simply junk the proposed 20% tax collected at source (TCS) on several categories of foreign remittances through the liberalised remittance scheme (LRS). This newspaper has consistently maintained that this seems a roundabout way of reducing the LRS limit from […]
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Apr
Apr
Last week, the government proposed to tweak rules regarding Aadhaar to allow entities other than the government for identity verification, a report in this newspaper noted. It also added “ease of living” services as a purpose for which a citizen’s 12-digit unique identification number can be sought. If formalised, the rules will reopen Aadhaar to […]
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Apr
Apr
The decision of the Supreme Court collegium late on Wednesday to recall the name of justice S Muralidhar after the government sat on the recommendation to appoint him as the chief justice of the Madras high court for nearly seven months underlines a disquieting trend of breakdown of communication between two pillars of India’s democracy. […]