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Growing Inequality in Wealth and Income: Threat to Nation’s Stability
30 October 2016, by Arun KumarThe new ‘World Wealth Report’ points to an increase in the number of crorepatis from 2.36 lakhs currently to 5.54 lakhs by 2025 (at the 2015 prices). But these figures are not reliable. In the Indian economy, a substantial amount of black incomes (...) -
India Changes Tack on RCEP Negotiations
30 October 2016, by Kavaljit SinghRecently India abruptly changed tack by expressing its willingness to drop the three-tiered approach on tariff liberalisation under the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. This was communicated to trading (...) -
JNU Row and the Forgotten ‘Right to Reply’
30 October 2016by Surbhi Karwa and Shivam Yadav
“Let people know the facts and the country will be safe.” —Abraham Lincoln
The media is the fourth pillar of democracy— we have been taught this since our early lessons in social studies in school. The role of the (...) -
Adivasis in the Indian Republic
30 October 2016, by Ashok CellyPerhaps the greatest sin that independent India’s ruling class committed was that it relent-lessly engaged in the most brutal exploitation of India’s original inhabitants commonly known as the Adivasis. It has done to the Adivasis what the White (...) -
Judicial Decisions relating to Minority Educational Institutions: An Overview
30 October 2016by Nilima Chandiramani
‘Protection of minorities is the hallmark of a civilisation,’ said the Father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. The framers of the Indian Constitution showed utmost sensitivity to the needs and aspirations of minorities by (...) -
Remembering October-November 1984
30 October 2016, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
Early next week, on October 31, the country would be observing the tenth death anniversary of Indira Gandhi who had been cruelly shot down on this very day by her own security guards right inside her residence.
By all (...) -
Goa Summit Strengthens Indo-Russian Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership
30 October 2016, by Arun MohantyNo Indo-Russian summit was held in such an anti-Russian media hysteria stemming from the Russia-Pak military exercise, yet no other summit in recent years has been so successful as the 17th Indo-Russian Summit taking place on October 15 at Goa. (...) -
A Centennial Remembrance: Recruiting ‘Terrorism’ during World War I - A Case Study of Punjab
30 October 2016by K.C. Yadav
Much is found in print on the First World War, 1914-1918. Recruitment in Punjab during the global conflict, our present concern, is also not a barren field; there are several studies relating to it as well. A solicitous perusal of (...) -
Goa Meetings in Perspective
23 October 2016, by SCEDITORIAL
Several major developments have taken place in the last few days. But none of these can possibly minimise the importance of the recent meetings in Goa: the Indo-Russian summit punctuated by the Modi-Putin meeting on October 15; the (...) -
Uniform Civil Code: Why and How?
23 October 2016by Ram Puniyani
What is called a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) deals with the personal laws (marriage, divorce, maintenance, custody and inheritance). Our criminal and civil laws are the same for all the religious communities but our personal laws (...)
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