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• Will there be a Change of Guard in Karnataka? | J P Gadkari

  3 August 2024, by J P Gadkari

  August 2, 2024
  With two Advertorials published in a week in a prominent English daily in Bangalore, the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah strongly defended himself against the charges of corruption and irregularities made by the combined BJP - JDS Opposition. It appears that Siddaramaiah is desperately trying to save his weakened position as Chief Minister of the State. He has already stoutly defended himself against the charges in the short session of the Assembly
  Out of these (…)

• Letter regarding the lifting of the six-decade-old "ban" on government employees taking part in the activities of RSS | E A S Sarma

  3 August 2024, by E A S Sarma

  E A S Sarma Former Secretary to the Government of India
  To
  Shri Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary Government of India
  I write this letter with a feeling of anguish and distress at a disturbing news report , preceded by an equally thought-provoking, earlier article by him , which should make each and every member of the civil services, as well as all right-thinking citizens of this country, to understand and feel concerned at the long-term adverse implications of such a highly objectionable (…)

• Observations on Kashmir Today | Suresh Khairnar

  3 August 2024, by Suresh Khairnar

  No one can conquer Kashmir by force, only by virtue and love, the residents here are afraid only of the afterlife, not of armed people! — Pandit Kalhan (Rajatarangini)
  On 5 August 2019, the Narendra Modi government decided to remove Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir after winning the elections for the second time! This was part of the policy of the political party Jan Sangh founded in 1950! Which is known as the Bharatiya Janata Party after 1980! Jan Sangh’s founding president Dr. Shyama (…)

• Making the People of the Kashmir Valley Second-Class Citizens | Arup Kumar Sen

  3 August 2024, by Arup Kumar Sen

  The recent notification of the Indian State is a direct assault on the rights and dignity of the people living in the Kashmir valley. The Ministry of Home Affairs notified changes on 12 July, 2024, that enhanced powers of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Lieutenant Governor (LG). The Union Home Ministry amended the rules of the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019, “giving the LG unbridled powers over the police, public order, all-India services, and the anti-corruption bureau”. To put it in the (…)

• Ambani Wedding: The Need for State-Regulation in Indian Capitalism | Gilbert Sebastian

  3 August 2024, by Gilbert Sebastian

  The wedding of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, the richest business tycoon in Asia, during July 12 through 14, 2024 and the pre-wedding ceremonies spread over six months before that, have opened a window to the glaring inequality in Indian society. The vulgar display of wealth in the gaudy extravaganza became a cruel joke in the face of the mass impoverishment of millions of people in a country that houses the largest number of poor people in the world. It became a series of (…)

• Public perception on Naveen Today | Radhakanta Barik

  3 August 2024, by Radhakanta Barik

  The general election of 2024 changed the political scenario. Each section of people of Odisha be young or old, man or woman remembers Naveen Patnaik like a hero.
  Keywords: General election, defeat, hero and public policies
  Introduction:
  Although the BJD has got one percentage of votes more than the BJP but it lost in state assembly and all parliament seats except one for Congress , In the name of Naveen Patnaik folk songs are getting created. Here a song talks of his quality as (…)

• Knowledge Without Borders: Epistemology And Inter-Disciplinary Contexts | Sunita Samal

  3 August 2024, by Sunita Samal

  Abstract: We are intrinsically curious creatures that we have a natural desire to understand world. To say that we are satisfying our goals depends on what to say that we have a practical interest in believing which track the world is. So, our interest in truth is an interest in the way things are. Interdisciplinary is one of the major changes that the relationship between science and the life world has experienced, putting it in the same level of relevance as the Enlightenment that has (…)

• Understanding New Modes of Environmental Governance | Prakash C.J.

  3 August 2024

  Introduction: Environmental governance is a concept in political ecology used to find best solutions to contentious issues affecting environmental management. ‘Governance’ signifies the act or process of governing to address collective needs, problems and challenges - a social function covering all instruments and mechanisms. More specifically, environmental governance in relation to public goods deals with problems of varying nature, their temporal and spatial effects, often transboundary, (…)

• Union Budget 2024-25 : Twists and Turns | Atul Sarma

  3 August 2024, by Atul Sarma

  Backdrops: Global and internal
  The Interim Budget was presented on February 1, 2024. The shelf life of the full budget for 2024-25 is barely six months. This budget has been presented in the backdrops of geo-political uncertainties and high policy rates in developed countries that affect the inflow of FDI at one level and global growth (3%) resilience and softening inflation at another.
  On the domestic front, the Indian economy has recorded a high growth of 8.2% in 2023-24 even if the (…)

• Energy Sector Initiatives in Union Budget 2024-25 | Hiranmoy Roy and Anil Kumar

  3 August 2024

  In the inaugural address of the Budget Session on 23rd July, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman mentioned that people have given a unique opportunity to their government to take the country on the path of strong development and all-round prosperity. In the interim budget, the government promised to present a detailed roadmap during the full budget in July for the government’s pursuit of ‘Viksit Bharat’. In line with the strategy set out in the interim budget, she mentioned that this full (…)