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• Link Whole Sale Price Index to Increase Crop MSPs | Soma Marla

  22 June 2024, by Soma S. Marla

  Union Cabinet in it’s first meeting of NDA 3.0 has announced new support (MSP) for 14 crops. The hike is very minimal and ranged between 5 to 7 percentage (except for Niger and Ragi) and does not reflect the increased cost of cultivation. Severe losses suffered by BJP in recent fortunes in northern rural heartland indicate that the ruling party is fast loosing ground among farming community due to its anti famer policies.
  For example, the MSP of paddy, the main kharif (…)

• Emergency 1975: Was it Fascism? | Ram Puniyani

  22 June 2024, by Ram Puniyani

  This will be 49th Year when the dreaded Emergency was declared by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. During this period civil rights were suspended, there was censorship on the Press and a crackdown on opposition leaders and the popular movements. This was the first dark period of Indian democracy when democratic rights were severely eroded by the administrative fiat. Hindustan Times wrote, “The Emergency is often regarded as a dark phase in independent India’s history because this period was (…)

• BJD needs to Introspect the Assembly Results | Suranjita Ray

  22 June 2024, by Suranjita Ray

  The 2024 election verdict is celebrated as a victory of democracy with the revival of a strong opposition. The message of the mandate is loud and clear. It reaffirms that pluralism, secularism, and multiculturalism are important in a democracy. But this celebration should not be short-lived. The opposition alliance will have to perform its role to meet the needs and aspirations of common people who have been bold and fearless in expressing their choice.
  The BJD finds itself in the (…)

• Rahul’s New Political Innings Marked By Shrewd Strategies! | Nilofar Suhrawardy

  22 June 2024, by Nilofar Suhrawardy

  July 3, 2024
  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has begun his new political innings as Leader of the Opposition in newly elected Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) on a fiery note sending strong messages in several directions. Of which, the most crucial is that directed at the party in power, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Rahul has definitely acted extremely shrewdly by choosing to begin with by using a “religious” card targeting BJP members. Not surprisingly, this beginning has been (…)

• From Resistance to Representation: The Journey of Women’s Reservation in Nagaland | Bomito V Kinimi and K Gireesan

  22 June 2024

  The recent passage of The Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023 in Nagaland, which provides 33% reservation for women in Urban Local Governments (ULG), signifies a substantial shift in gender perspectives in the state. By ensuring women’s representation in municipal elections, the bill addresses longstanding gender disparities and promotes inclusive governance. Women’s increased visibility and participation in leadership roles can inspire future generations, promoting a more egalitarian and (…)

• India’s First Metadata case: Why No to Bio-Political Tattooing through Aadhaar Number Online Database? Part 7 | Gopal Krishna

  22 June 2024, by Gopal Krishna

  If you think IT is the solution to your problem, then you don’t understand IT, and you don’t understand your problem either.
  — Roger Needham, a noted computer scientist
  If the constitution of a state is democratic, then every exceptional negation of democratic principles, every exercise of state power independent of the approval of the majority, can be called dictatorship.
  — Carl Schmitt, the Nazi philosopher in his essay ’On Dictatorship’ (1921)
  इंडी गठबंधन वाले जब ईवी

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  Citizen’s Statement and Appeal for Action Against Rising Hate Speeches and Violent Crimes Against Minorities (July 1, 2024)

  22 June 2024

  Issued on this the July 1, 2024.
  We, the people of India, condemn the alarming increase in Hate Crimes against minorities, which have worryingly increased post the results of the recently concluded general election!
  Although the clear verdict by the Indian electorate was against polarisation and the divisive campaign of hate, the ruling NDA refuses to learn its lessons. BJP leaders have loudly blamed the minority community for their defeat, such targeting of minority communities has (…)

• Controversy at Kolkata’s ICAI International Conference | S.G.Vombatkere

  22 June 2024, by S G Vombatkere

  If an individual wishes to avoid contact with persons of the female gender, he is at liberty to do so, in his personal, private spaces. However, such a person insisting that girls and women should be banished from his vicinity or field of vision in a public place, is to insist upon gender segregation. It would show gender discrimination, and denial of equality of status and of opportunity to women, and perhaps even misogyny. Sadly, this is what happened recently in an international space. (…)

• Modi has to learn a lot from Vajpayee and Advani | Faraz Ahmad

  22 June 2024, by Faraz Ahmad

  July 6, 2024
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is never known for according respect to institutions and institutional representatives whatever status the Constitution may accord them.
  Therefore, when he surpassed his past record in coarseness and crassness, targeting Rahul Gandhi, the first Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha after a gap of 10 years, while replying to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, it embarrassed and shamed even (…)

• Heat Wave Has Increased Awareness of the Urgency of Water Conservation Efforts | Bharat Dogra

  22 June 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  As heat waves intensified over a vast part of the country, Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh was repeatedly found to be among the more severely affected parts of the country. Amidst the increasing difficulties of the people here the only saving grace that people were increasingly discussing the urgency of the task of water conservation.
  The ravages of global warming apart, a part of the credit should also go to the water conservation and sanitation volunteers called Jal Sahelis. Linked (…)